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nostalgia. The perceived abuses of William II were to be abolished. The corruption and larceny of reliefs, wardships, marriages, murder fines and so forth, was to end. Debts and past offences were to be forgiven. The demesne lands and military tenants were to be freed from the danegeld of Danelaw. Above all, the "laga Eadwardii" Law of Edward the Confessor, as amended by William I, would be restored. The proclamation was made with the assumption that the barons

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