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“A significant minority of Sinn Fein’s supporters would view this as an act of feudality to the monarchy.”

Of this new empire, feudality and chivalry were the opposite elements.

Feudality was the principle of division, chivalry that of fraternity; and these remodelled society.

There is a kind of patron and client feeling about this—feudality some may be disposed to call it—which a lover of Old England is pleased to contemplate.

These ideas were the first to shake the stern despotism of feudality, by opposing to it the generous principles of chivalry which sprang all armed from the Crusades.