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Title: The making of England
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Green, John Richard, 1837-1883
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Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
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g with their king.^ The blow dissolvedthe confederacy which had threatened North-umbria. The Scot power, indeed, was utterlybroken; from that day to this, Baeda cries inaccents of unwonted triumph more than a hundredyears later, no Scot-king has dared to come intoBritain to battle with the English folk. Andwhile the Scots withdrew to their far-off fastnesses,the Welsh themselves lay at the conquerorsmercy. No effort indeed was made to seize theirland for English settlement; ^ but we cannot doubt 1 Skene, Celtic Scotland, i. 162. 2 Bseda, H. E. i. c. 34. •^ This comes vividly out in the sites of the royal vills.*In Bsedas day, says Mr. Hodgson Hinde (Transac. Hist.Soc. of Lane, and Cheshire, viii. 11), among the numerousvillas maintained for the migratory residence of the royalhousehold, not one occurs beyond the chain of hills whichseparated the eastern district of the Northumbrian kingdomfrom the west. The reason is obvious, that even then noattempt was made to colonize the latter.
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