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at Avignon, and from other caufes, made its way into 
Italy before it was polilhed into the Provencal. 
As to Naples and Sicily, the expulfion of the Saracens 
by the Normans, under Robert guiscard in 1059, 
mull have produced in that country nearly the fame ef- 
fect, a fimilar event foon after brought about in England, 
And in fa£t we have the authority of william of Apu- 
lia (*>) to prove, that the conquerors ufed all their efforts 
to propagate their language and manners among the na- 
tives, that they might ever after be confidered only as 
one people. And hugo falclandov relates, that in the 
year 1150, Count henry refufed to take upon him the 
management of public affairs, under pretence of not 
knowing the language of the French; which, he adds, 
was abfolutely neceffary at court. 
That the language of the Romans penetrated very 
early into Spain, appears moft evidently from a paffage 
in strabo fL>, who afferts, that the Turditani inha- 
biting the banks of the Boetis, now the Guadalquivir, 
forgot their original tongue, and adopted that of the 
conquerors. That the Romance was ufed there in the 
fourteenth century appears from a correfpondence be- 
tween st. vincent of Ferrieres and Don martin, fon 
of peter the IVth of Arragon 0 ) ; and that this language 
muff once have been common in that kingdom appears 
manifeftly from the prefent name of the Spanifh, which 
(h) murat. Script. Ital. tom. v. p. 255. (i) Ibid. tom. vii. p, 322. 
(k) Lib. iii. (1) mabill. an. 1 . 64. n. 124. 
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