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Identifier: shorthistoryofen00chey (find matches)
Title: A short history of England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Cheyney, Edward Potts, 1861-1947
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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nto the northward and westward, with Roman roads extending inall directions into the heart of the country. But the native popu-lation was probably more numerous and wealthy here than in anyOther part o( Britain, and the Saxons had to fight their way stepby step. In twenty years they had brought under control thedistrict which now makes up the county of Hampshire. Undersuccessive rulers in the remainder of the century they madefurther advances, capturing a number of old cities and conquer-ing the country across the Thames and some distance up the 1 The name Kent is from the Celtic word Caint. an open place.The Jutish inhabitants called themselves Caintwara, or dwellers in theCaint. Canterbury, or Caintwarabyrig. means the town of the Caintwara. •i ^nglfi^ ^.»t/ i from Greenwich \\ \ ^^> I SETTLEMENTS / ..i Hi. ANGLES, SAXONS and JUTES Scale of Milen.Explanations. Angles Saxons Jutes Native Britons N 0\ R T H ,S1 E A *&r \^ ^,\/ vx * \\\ fY ** I . \ > v \ Sumter u.
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EARLY SAXON ENGLAND 39 valley of the Severn. This difficult military conquest resulted inmaking the West Saxons the strongest and most compact race ofthe Anglo-Saxon invaders. The seven kingdoms formed by theNorthumbrians, Mercians, East Anglians, East Saxons, Kentish-men, South Saxons, and West Saxons are often spoken of as theHeptarchy, though there was no fixed and permanent groupinginto this number. Sometimes conquest reduced two or moreunder one ruler; at other timeslocal rebellions or other causes ofseparation made the number ofindependent kingdoms greater. 25. The New Race. — It is im-possible to tell how far the peopleof these petty kingdoms were pureTeutonic settlers from Germany,and how far they were a mixed raceincluding descendants of the oldinhabitants of Britain. It is in-credible that the earlier populationshould have been actually exter-minated, yet what proportion sur-vived we have no means of knowing.It is especially unfortunate thatcontemporary records are almost

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