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Excerpt from Heraldic Anomalies, Vol. 2 of 2
Below the rank of Nobility, and titles personal or qficial, it has ever been difficult to assign the proper steps and degrees of worth and pre'ce dence. The times are past for adjusting such matters by a Were or Weregel which was the name given to the fine paid by our ancestors, for causing the death of any person, and which was supposed to express the co'mpa rative value of the fife lost,' and to be paid accord ing'ly to the relations of the deceased, for the ia jury they had sustained. There were for instance.
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