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Tenth—The Romans must have settled the . country as thickly as it was settled by the English , because the names attest abundantly the existence of Roman towns , villages , military stations , roads , and other vestiges of occupation .
Eleventh—The topography of the Roman roads and settlements iu Britain is to be traced by the evidences of " name" as safely as by the evidence of coins and foundations ; anl that the " Roman " names are more numerous than has been supposed , and extend far beyond Chester and those usually recognized . Twelfth—That no communication took place in these islands between the Romans and the English invaders , and that to assume that English
municipal institutions are derived from the Roman , is an assertion with no evidence to support it , and with this evidence against it . Thirteenth—Where a Celtic population has existed in vigour , the evidences of its occupation are decidedly marked . In Wales the names are wholly Welsh , unless where an English or Flemish population penetrated . On the Welsh borders English and Welsh populations are found interlocking , and similar circumstances of nomenclature are to be recorded . In Cornwall are to be found
copious Cornish names , copious English names , and some Flemish . Fourteenth—( First and third repeated ) . In w hat maybe called the English regions of the island , Celtic names are wanting . Fifteenth—During the period of the conquest of the commonwealths of Kent , Sussex , Surrey , Middlesex , Essex , Norfolk , Suffolk , Northumberland , Lindsay , the middle English and the West Saxons ,
the Welsh population did not remain among them as allies ; or the names of places would have been communicated by the Welsh to the invaders , as by the Roman Gauls to the Franks—which was not the case in Britain . Even in North and South America , and Australia , aboriginal names are extensively preserved by the colonizers . The
Welsh population could not have remained within the English marks , gans , or townships as allies or brother settlers , either generally , throughout the country , or in any district , as is commonly assumed by one section of historians and public writers . Sixteenth—The Welsh did not exist within the borders of the English commonwealths as free men . They might have remained as
serfs , the English becoming lords of the soil , as other Germanic tribes did in remaining portions of the Roman empire . The evidence is , as Kemble shows , that the lands belonged to the communities , and did not come under lords of manors till after-centuries . Had the Welsh remained as serfs , then the local names would have been communicated bv them : so would thev . had the Welsh been made slaves :
V ' «/ f 1 the names are English . Seventeenth—Had the invaders intermarried with Welsh women , as assumed , and had not brought their own wives with them , the population would have preserved the Welsh local names ; even if , under such strong influence they did not become a Welsh-speaking population . The English or Germanic population of the Warings iu Russia did int < TM 2
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Tenth—The Romans must have settled the . country as thickly as it was settled by the English , because the names attest abundantly the existence of Roman towns , villages , military stations , roads , and other vestiges of occupation .
Eleventh—The topography of the Roman roads and settlements iu Britain is to be traced by the evidences of " name" as safely as by the evidence of coins and foundations ; anl that the " Roman " names are more numerous than has been supposed , and extend far beyond Chester and those usually recognized . Twelfth—That no communication took place in these islands between the Romans and the English invaders , and that to assume that English
municipal institutions are derived from the Roman , is an assertion with no evidence to support it , and with this evidence against it . Thirteenth—Where a Celtic population has existed in vigour , the evidences of its occupation are decidedly marked . In Wales the names are wholly Welsh , unless where an English or Flemish population penetrated . On the Welsh borders English and Welsh populations are found interlocking , and similar circumstances of nomenclature are to be recorded . In Cornwall are to be found
copious Cornish names , copious English names , and some Flemish . Fourteenth—( First and third repeated ) . In w hat maybe called the English regions of the island , Celtic names are wanting . Fifteenth—During the period of the conquest of the commonwealths of Kent , Sussex , Surrey , Middlesex , Essex , Norfolk , Suffolk , Northumberland , Lindsay , the middle English and the West Saxons ,
the Welsh population did not remain among them as allies ; or the names of places would have been communicated by the Welsh to the invaders , as by the Roman Gauls to the Franks—which was not the case in Britain . Even in North and South America , and Australia , aboriginal names are extensively preserved by the colonizers . The
Welsh population could not have remained within the English marks , gans , or townships as allies or brother settlers , either generally , throughout the country , or in any district , as is commonly assumed by one section of historians and public writers . Sixteenth—The Welsh did not exist within the borders of the English commonwealths as free men . They might have remained as
serfs , the English becoming lords of the soil , as other Germanic tribes did in remaining portions of the Roman empire . The evidence is , as Kemble shows , that the lands belonged to the communities , and did not come under lords of manors till after-centuries . Had the Welsh remained as serfs , then the local names would have been communicated bv them : so would thev . had the Welsh been made slaves :
V ' «/ f 1 the names are English . Seventeenth—Had the invaders intermarried with Welsh women , as assumed , and had not brought their own wives with them , the population would have preserved the Welsh local names ; even if , under such strong influence they did not become a Welsh-speaking population . The English or Germanic population of the Warings iu Russia did int < TM 2