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Essays and addresses"The Empire" was as far removed in ite inconceivability as it was in point of time and it was not yet even in the making. The Roman left ; and the Saxon and Angle, the Englishman, came in in ever-increasing numbers he saw the land that it was good : and the semi- Romanised Celt and the Roman who cast in his lot with him were ruthless- ly swept out of the way. Some few in- deed escaping to their kinsmen in the remote parts of the land in Wales and Cornwall, and some went to Scot- land. Some, too, escaped across the Channel to their friends in Gaul. Warring sept and clan filled the land with strife and blood, till at length one strong man made himself King of all Engand. prev next |