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formed the objecl of the war. The influence he muft have ac- 

 quired in the courfe of the conqueft, and a general fenfe that 

 the fecurity of the new acquifitions depended on preferving the 

 union which had gained them, would neceflarily perpetuate 

 his office, and render it regal. The confederated tribes, again, 

 in accommodating themfelves to their new fituation, woxild 

 adhere as much as poffible to their ancient habits. The con- 

 quered country would like their old domains be parcelled out, 

 gentibus cognationibufque hominum ; and thefe tribes would, of 

 courfe, give their names to their new fettlements, and would 

 arrange themfelves into thofe divifions and fubdivifions, pagi or 

 ihires, hundreds and tithings, by means of which alone their 

 civil, political, and military affairs had formerly been tranfact- 

 ed. The old afTemblies would flill be celebrated, the old mili- 

 tary parade exhibited, and the old religious rites folemnized. 



As the conquerors were generally much inferior in numbers 

 to thofe they had fubdued, and as their habits of independence, 

 and their contempt for the mercenary troops which they had 

 been accuftomed to vanquilh, muft have rendered it impracti- 

 cable to keep on foot a ftanding army, the importance of 

 preferving military fubordination and arrangement among 

 themfelves was, without doubt, univerfally perceived, and the 

 rncafures that appeared eflential for this purpofe muft,. there- 

 fore, have been adopted, whatever might be the inconveni- 

 ences with which they were attended. On this account, not 

 only the military exercifes and evolutions, formerly praclifed at 

 the aflemblies of each pagus and its fubdivifions muft have 

 been continued, but it would be univerfally found neceflary to 

 have once a-year at leaft a general mufter of the whole confede- 

 racy, and to attribute to their general or king the right of 

 calling forth the nation in arms when he faw caufe, and of en- 

 forcing the obfervance every where- of thofe regulations which 

 had been made at their general meetings, by common confent. 



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