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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. ( Howe'er that be, it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be good; True hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. Alfred Tennyson. The period from which the English aristocracy dates its origin is that of the Norman Conquest. Aristocracy, indeed, there was in the country before, but that was annihilated by the Normans; and this epoch is the vaunted birth-day of our nobility. There is nothing of which we hear so much as of the pride of a descent from these first Norman nobles; of the pure and immaculate blood derived from this long descent. To say nothing of the wretched fallacy of blood and descent, ?for the most wretched and mischievous fallacy it is which ever cursed the human race, ?being the pretext for every insolence, and every species of tyranny amongst men, and being besides, the most hollow bubble that ever was blown by pride, for, there is no beggar who, if he could trace his pedigree, would not find himself descended from kings, and no king who is not descended from beggars, ?we will take the trouble to refer to the histories of the time, and show what these Norman conquerors really were. We shall then find that, so far from being a set of men to be proud of as ancestors, there cannot be a more scandalously disgraceful origin. They were, in fact, a swarm of the most desperate and needy adventurers; a rascal rabble of vagabond thieves and plunderers. They were not, in fact, one half of them, what they are pretended to be, ?Normans; but collected by proclamation, and by lavish promises of sharing in the plunder of conquered England, ?vultures from every wind of heaven rushing to the field of British carnage. We shall find that, allowing the claims of such families as now can trace a clear descent from these men?and these a..