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If the kings of England after John had been content to acquiesce in / his giving up of practically all that were of value of his / possessions on the Continent, it is likely that they would have saved / much fighting and misery, both for the people of England and of the / Continent also.
It was not to be thought for a moment that they would so acquiesce, / however. It took the almost continual fighting of some 300 years to / effect that useful separation of England from the rest of Europe.