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None became rich unless he was a moneychanger, none a clerk unless he was a lawyer, none a priest unless he was—to use a somewhat foreign word—a rentier.

— William of Malmesbury Gesta Regum Anglorum (1125)

Nullus diues nisi nummularius, nullus clericus nisi causidicus, nullus presbiter nisi, ut uerbo parum Latino utar, firmarius.

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That fatal day for England, the sad destruction of our dear country [dulcis patrie].

This Arthur is the hero of many wild tales among the Britons even in our own day, but assuredly deserves to be the object of reliable history rather than of false and dreaming fable.

Gesta Regum Anglorum (1125)

We have experienced the truth of this prophecy, for England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today, no Englishman is earl, bishop, or abbott, and newcomers gnaw away at the riches and very innards of England; nor is there any hope for an end of this misery.

Gesta Regum Anglorum (1125)

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