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CHAPTER VII.
Other Disagreeable Claimants: Foreign Foibles introduced, only to be expunged with characteristic Pugnacity 68
CHAPTER VIII.
The Norman Conquest: Complex Commingling of Facetious Accord and Implacable Discord 80
CHAPTER IX.
The Feudal System: Successful Inauguration of Homogeneal Methods for restricting Incompatible Demagogues 91
CHAPTER X.
The Age of Chivalry: Light Dissertation on the Knights-Errant, Maids, Fools, Prelates, and other Notorious Characters of that Period 99
CHAPTER XI.
Conquest of Ireland: Uncomfortable Effects following the Cultivation of an Acquisitorial Propensity 113
CHAPTER XII.
Magna Charta introduced: Slight Difficulties encountered in overcoming an Unpopular and Unreasonable Prejudice 123
CHAPTER XIII.
Further Disagreements recorded: Illustrating the Amiability of the Jew and the Perversity of the Scot 133