Excerpt from The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1767 It may now appear late to look back to the l'ubverlion or change of the feudal fyfiem, and from thence to derive realons for prog nofiicating the approach of a lefs martial age. This change was not indeed immediately produelive of (0 happy an effect. Many, how ever, of the caufes of ancient quar rels were certainly removed, by the different modifications which that Iyltem underwent in molt Degreesof the countries of Eumpe. The two lalt centuries were (partly throu'gh ac eident, and partly from tho e epi demic paflions, which have been ohferved at particulareras to poll'efs the minds of great bodies of man kind) (0 peculiarly fertile in pro ducing new entries of difl'enfion, that the confequences naturally to be expected from the decline of the feudal government could net be perceived amidlt the continual din offrelh difputes. It may be unne cefl'ary to recapitulate thofe caufes of difi'enfion many of them are generally known. Reli Degreeson, or the pretence to it, had its all that among them. The uncertainrights of fuccefiion in molt countries, to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.