names of rivers, countries, seas, mountains, and men; Camillus,
Caesar, and Pompey, being come to Edmund, Richard, and Geoffrey.

To open the groundwork or balance of these new politicians:
"Feudum," says Calvin the lawyer, "is a Gothic word of divers
significations; for it is taken either for war, or for a
possession of conquered lands, distributed by the victor to such
of his captains and soldiers as had merited in his wars, upon
condition to acknowledge him to be their perpetual lord, and
themselves to be his subjects."

Of these there were three kinds or orders: the first of
nobility distinguished by the titles of dukes, marquises, earls,
and these being gratified with the cities, castles, and villages
of the conquered Italians, their feuds participated of royal
dignity, and were called regalia, by which they had right to coin
money, create magistrates, take toll, customs, confiscations, and
the like.

Feuds of the second order were such as, with the consent of
the King, were bestowed by these feudatory princes upon men of
inferior quality, called their barons, on condition that next to
the King they should defend the dignities and fortunes of their
lords in arms.

The lowest order of feuds were such, as being conferred by
those of the second order upon private men, whether noble not
noble, obliged them in the like duty to their superiors; the were
called vavasors. And this is the Gothic balance, by which all the
kingdoms this day in Christendom were at first erected; for which