Note 72
From Chapter 59 of the Decline & Fall

Rex Angliæ, præstrenuus . . . . rege Gallorum minor apud eos censebatur ratione regni atque dignitatis; sed tum divitiis florentior, tum bellica virtute multo erat celebrior (Bohadin, p. 161).

A stranger might admire those riches; the national historians will tell with what lawless and wasteful oppression they were collected.