Gents Mag 1812 part 2 p.231

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1812 part 2 p.231
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	Preliminary Observations on the Population Abstract, 1811 The following very interesting Extracts are taken from Mr. RICKMAN'S 'Preliminary Observations on the Population Abstract, 1811.' 'THE leading division of England into Shires or Counties appears to have been established by our Saxon ancestors about a thousand years since; many of the Counties being mentioned in history before the extinction of the Saxon Heptarchy. In the Population Abstract the Counties are placed in alphabetical order, and in England each distinctly; but in Scotland it has been found necessary to join the shires of Cromarty and Ross, the former being as it were scattered in about fifteen separate fragments throughout the latter, and being indeed usually considered in modern laws as forming part of it. Much inconvenience is experienced by the inhabitants of these shires of Ross and Cromarty from these numerous 'Annexations' which were made by authority of two Acts of the Parliament of Scotalnd in 1685 and 1686. The further division of the Southern parts of England into Hundreds is also unquestionably of Saxon origin, and probably in imitation of similar districts which existed in their parent coun-
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