He had asked Mr Millin to be his personal piper: not a feudal but a military arrangement.
Admittedly, it would leave the top titles as exclusively a feudal relic rather than sometimes a badge of actual distinction.
They will have to excavate it, before trying to puzzle out why a Feudal Japanese warrior is standing next to what appears to be an American cheerleader dressed as a Rhinemaiden, who is nonetheless in some way a Greek warrior woman.
"The ruling bodies of the gilds wielded an actual jurisdiction over their members, punishing them with the same punishments that a feudal lord imposed upon his serf, " writes historian Tom Girtin.
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At that time, the old barons still dominated the government, the Prime Minister a huge feudal landowner.
Similarly, a third of all the female candidates, mostly retainers of powerful feudal families or party-political activists, were elected unopposed and a third of the seats remained uncontested, highlighting the continued dominant influence of tribal and semi-feudal conservative traditions.
Three centuries ago, when Peter the Great was trying to turn feudal, agrarian Russia into a modern state, he encountered a major source of friction inside the system.
Historically, the samurai serving a daimyo, or feudal lord, would all wear similar armor, while here the mannequins sport different styles.
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For the poor Filipinos who support Mr Estrada, he represents a vote against this traditional and feudal order.
This makes them a threat in the eyes of feudal landlords and rural moneylenders who prey on illiterate low-caste villagers.
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This is a place wrapped in legends of feudal chivalry and romance, one that packs more history into every square metre than many better-known places, including Agra and Udaipur.
Badama and nearby villages are peopled by Kols, tribal folk who migrated a few generations ago from Madhya Pradesh, a neighbouring state, to escape bondage to feudal lords.
Romantically minded historians say they were a freespirited people, eager to shake off feudal rule, but they could simply have been producing too many babies for the upper Valais to support.
"If I saw this screen in 17th-century Japan, " he says, "I'd see it as a statement of resistance against the Shogunate, " the feudal military leaders who were eroding the power of the emperor.
That was the famous Meiji emperor, and in his case the visiting American was Commodore Matthew Perry , who steamed into Tokyo Bay in 1853 with a powerful squadron and "suggested" that Japan abandon its feudal isolation and open relations with the outside world.
The principle has a name which sounds as though it was invented in pre-feudal times - which it probably was.
So Mr Dewar thinks it is time to abolish quasi-feudal rights and to give tenants of large estates the right to buy the land at a price fixed by the government when the landlord decides to sell.
The feudal nobles tried to suppress it, but precisely because there was no stable government in control of a huge territory, they failed.
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