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Shore -Was Placed Thereto Resist The Sax...
shore -was placed thereto resist the Saxons * On the extinction of office of Count of th ^ Saxon shore , the Saxon occupants would still have had to contend wfth the y ^ ild Welsh . It may be observed , the topographies does not support the assumptions on which the antedating of ^ t ^^ settlement is founded j on the contrary , it is altogether opposed to them . Among the East English , the East Saxons , the Middle Saxons in Kent , and among the South Saxons , the examination of fhe topographical names shows
that the Romans were not in presence at the period of me settlement ; and the whole grouping of the names , more particularly among the Middle Saxons and in the south Rick , and among the Northfolk and the Southfolk , confirms the statements of the chronicle and the conclusions which are naturally to be drawn from the names of the regions and commonwealths . East England was , indeed , occupied by a iSTorthfolk and a Southfolk , constituting separate settlements or conquests of the same clans , at a post-Roman period .
There is no evidence , therefore * to affect the statements of the chronicle that the occupation took place after the manner therein laid down .
Reviews Of Hew Books,
REVIEWS OF HEW BOOKS ,
Personal Adventures , during the Indian Rebellion , in llohilcund ^ Fidtehglmr , and Oude , by William Edwards , Esq ., b . c . s ., Judge of Benares , ancl late Magistrate and Collector of Budaon in Rohilcimd . London : Smith , Elder and Co . —Amongst the numerous works which have lately been laid before the public , detailing personal trials and adventures in India during the stirring times of the present rebellion , few are worthy of greater attention and merit greater praise than that of Mr . Edwards , This gentleman held the important and responsible situation of collector and magistrate at Budaon in Rohilcund—a station at which the number of European residents
was very small . Here the intelligence of the first outbreak reached mm , a solitary British officer , surrounded on all sides by a dense population ol more than a million natives , who received the tidings which gave him such just cause for apprehension with joy and gladness , and secretly prepared themselves to join in the rebellion which shortly afterwards made the provinces of Oude and Ilohilcund the scene of bloodshed and desolation . Having removed his wife and child to a place of safety , Mr . Edwards determined to remain at his post to the last , and do all in his power to keep the
natives quiet . This last task he was unable to perform , for the natives determined to rise on the clay of the Eed festival . Noon was the time fixed . Mr . Edwards , however , very cleverly frustrated this scheme . Boldly summoning all the chief native inhabitants of the town to his house , lie , with groat ; tact , taking advantage of their personal animosities , managed to set them by the Oars . So well did his plan succeed , that the time appointed for the rising still found them in the presence of the worthy magistrate , abusing each
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Shore -Was Placed Thereto Resist The Sax...
shore -was placed thereto resist the Saxons * On the extinction of office of Count of th ^ Saxon shore , the Saxon occupants would still have had to contend wfth the y ^ ild Welsh . It may be observed , the topographies does not support the assumptions on which the antedating of ^ t ^^ settlement is founded j on the contrary , it is altogether opposed to them . Among the East English , the East Saxons , the Middle Saxons in Kent , and among the South Saxons , the examination of fhe topographical names shows
that the Romans were not in presence at the period of me settlement ; and the whole grouping of the names , more particularly among the Middle Saxons and in the south Rick , and among the Northfolk and the Southfolk , confirms the statements of the chronicle and the conclusions which are naturally to be drawn from the names of the regions and commonwealths . East England was , indeed , occupied by a iSTorthfolk and a Southfolk , constituting separate settlements or conquests of the same clans , at a post-Roman period .
There is no evidence , therefore * to affect the statements of the chronicle that the occupation took place after the manner therein laid down .
Reviews Of Hew Books,
REVIEWS OF HEW BOOKS ,
Personal Adventures , during the Indian Rebellion , in llohilcund ^ Fidtehglmr , and Oude , by William Edwards , Esq ., b . c . s ., Judge of Benares , ancl late Magistrate and Collector of Budaon in Rohilcimd . London : Smith , Elder and Co . —Amongst the numerous works which have lately been laid before the public , detailing personal trials and adventures in India during the stirring times of the present rebellion , few are worthy of greater attention and merit greater praise than that of Mr . Edwards , This gentleman held the important and responsible situation of collector and magistrate at Budaon in Rohilcund—a station at which the number of European residents
was very small . Here the intelligence of the first outbreak reached mm , a solitary British officer , surrounded on all sides by a dense population ol more than a million natives , who received the tidings which gave him such just cause for apprehension with joy and gladness , and secretly prepared themselves to join in the rebellion which shortly afterwards made the provinces of Oude and Ilohilcund the scene of bloodshed and desolation . Having removed his wife and child to a place of safety , Mr . Edwards determined to remain at his post to the last , and do all in his power to keep the
natives quiet . This last task he was unable to perform , for the natives determined to rise on the clay of the Eed festival . Noon was the time fixed . Mr . Edwards , however , very cleverly frustrated this scheme . Boldly summoning all the chief native inhabitants of the town to his house , lie , with groat ; tact , taking advantage of their personal animosities , managed to set them by the Oars . So well did his plan succeed , that the time appointed for the rising still found them in the presence of the worthy magistrate , abusing each