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marry with the Scl ^ vonians , lost their language , and were absorbed by the Sclavonians . In Britain the case is otherwise . "pi ghteenth—It is , therefore , a vulgar error to assume , as is done by many historians and public writers , that the English of the early centuries , or of this day , have a mixture of Roman blood or Welsh blood ; for there is no evidence in favour of such assumption , and all evidence against it .
Nineteenth—It may be mentioned that it is a favourite petitio frincipii of those who assume that the English settlement in Britain took place before the Roman downfall , and Avas supported by Celtic intermarriage , that it would be impossible for the limited number of invaders , in the period assumed by the Saxon chronicle , to people such a country . At the conquest of Canada by Wolfe , the French
population was about thirty thousand ; a century later it was three quarters of a million . In Britain the distribution of the population shoAvs that the country was occupied by English . Twentieth—The wars between the Welsh and the English invaders were continual . In such circumstances it was not safe to keep Welsh
within the English borders as allies or slaves , for fear of treachery . Any slaves made in war could only safely be shipped to Scotland and worked there , or disposed of in the Baltic pr Black Sea . The Saxon chronicle records that the English invaders slaughtered the Welsh in the towns . If the English brought their own wives , they would not be allowed by them to keep Welsh women as wives or concubines , but as household slaves . Thus all political considerations favoured
the extinction of the Welsh race within the English bounds . Twenty-first—The dispersion of the population of invaders confirms the views supported by Kemble and others , that the invading English occupied the country with scattered homesteads , deriving their subsistence chiefly from the pasturage of cattle and hogs , in the open grounds and in the woods . Twenty-second—The names of the distinct habitations are comflhonly expressive of the settlement of an individual , and consist
either of family or individual names , with a termination , as ton , ham , thorp , stead , ( fee , or of the names of natural features of the country , so conrpounde ^ l , or of names indicating Roman settlement . Twenty-third—The proportion of Romanised names is much larger than is supposed ; some of those believed by Kemble and myself at one time to be clan names , being only inflexions of Romanised designations , as Holling , Ridding , & c . \
TAventy-fourth—The population consisted ot tribes or iamilies speaking various dialects ; and notably the distinction established between ch and k , as in the commonly known example of church , and kirk The latter is now known as the northern English dialect , and the former as the southern , and the distinctive term may be conveniently used . Twenty-fifth—The south was not wholly occupied by the southern spoken dialects , nor the north by the riorthem spoken dialects ; but
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marry with the Scl ^ vonians , lost their language , and were absorbed by the Sclavonians . In Britain the case is otherwise . "pi ghteenth—It is , therefore , a vulgar error to assume , as is done by many historians and public writers , that the English of the early centuries , or of this day , have a mixture of Roman blood or Welsh blood ; for there is no evidence in favour of such assumption , and all evidence against it .
Nineteenth—It may be mentioned that it is a favourite petitio frincipii of those who assume that the English settlement in Britain took place before the Roman downfall , and Avas supported by Celtic intermarriage , that it would be impossible for the limited number of invaders , in the period assumed by the Saxon chronicle , to people such a country . At the conquest of Canada by Wolfe , the French
population was about thirty thousand ; a century later it was three quarters of a million . In Britain the distribution of the population shoAvs that the country was occupied by English . Twentieth—The wars between the Welsh and the English invaders were continual . In such circumstances it was not safe to keep Welsh
within the English borders as allies or slaves , for fear of treachery . Any slaves made in war could only safely be shipped to Scotland and worked there , or disposed of in the Baltic pr Black Sea . The Saxon chronicle records that the English invaders slaughtered the Welsh in the towns . If the English brought their own wives , they would not be allowed by them to keep Welsh women as wives or concubines , but as household slaves . Thus all political considerations favoured
the extinction of the Welsh race within the English bounds . Twenty-first—The dispersion of the population of invaders confirms the views supported by Kemble and others , that the invading English occupied the country with scattered homesteads , deriving their subsistence chiefly from the pasturage of cattle and hogs , in the open grounds and in the woods . Twenty-second—The names of the distinct habitations are comflhonly expressive of the settlement of an individual , and consist
either of family or individual names , with a termination , as ton , ham , thorp , stead , ( fee , or of the names of natural features of the country , so conrpounde ^ l , or of names indicating Roman settlement . Twenty-third—The proportion of Romanised names is much larger than is supposed ; some of those believed by Kemble and myself at one time to be clan names , being only inflexions of Romanised designations , as Holling , Ridding , & c . \
TAventy-fourth—The population consisted ot tribes or iamilies speaking various dialects ; and notably the distinction established between ch and k , as in the commonly known example of church , and kirk The latter is now known as the northern English dialect , and the former as the southern , and the distinctive term may be conveniently used . Twenty-fifth—The south was not wholly occupied by the southern spoken dialects , nor the north by the riorthem spoken dialects ; but