PREFACE. THIS book, which is the outcome of many years of close research and careful study, was practically complete at the time of the authors death, and he had intended its early publication. Some portions of the manuscript had been revised for printing, some of the chapters had received numerous additions and alterations in arrangement even until within a few days of his death, and others still needed their final revision. From time to time portions of the subject-matter of this work had formed the text for papers read before various archzeological societies, notably the series of three papers on Anglo-Saxon London and its neighbourhood, published by the London and Middlesex Archzeological Society. The editors task has been that of revising and editing the manuscript, and seeing the work through the press. The order of the chapters and the general scope and plan of the book are as the author left them. In discharging their task, the editors have made as few alterations as possible, and only such as they felt sure the author would have himself carried out but the work necessarily suffers v v i Preface - p—from the lack of that final revision which the author alone could have given it. Every endeavour has been made to see that the information is as exact as possible, and most of the references have been verified. The index of placenames and the general index have been made by Blanche Shore, the authors daughter. T. W. SHORE, M. D., L. E. SHORE, M. D., Kingswood Road, St. Johns College, Ujjer Norwood. C Z b D ri Z d ge. C O N T E N T S CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION - 11. THE SAXONS AND THEIR TKIBES 111. THE ANGLES AND THEIR ALLIES IV. THE JUTES, GOTHS, AND NORTHMEN - V. FRISIANS THEIRTRIBES AND ALLIES - VI. RUGIANS, WENDS, AND TRIBAL SLAVONIC SETTLERS - VII. OUR DARKER FOREFATHERS - VIII. DANES, AND OTHER TRIBAL IMMIGRANTS FROhl THE BALTIC COASTS - IX. CUSTOMS OF INHERITANCE X. FAMILY SETTLEMENTS AND EARLY ORGANIZATION - XI. THE JUTISH SETTLERS IN KENT XII. SETTLERS IN SUSSEX AND PART OF SURREY - XIII. THE GEWISSAS AND OTHER SETTLERS IN WESSEX - XIV. WESSEX C n t h e r t W, ILTS, AND DORSET - XV. THE SETTLEMENT A R O U N LONDON - XVI. SETTLEMENTS IN THE THAMES VALLEY XVII. SETTLERS IN ESSEX AND EAST ANGLIA - XVIII. TRIBAL PEOPLE IN LINCOLNSHIRE - XIX. SETTLERS IN NORTHUMBRIA - XX. SETTLERS IN NORTHUMBRIA continued XXI. SETTLEMENTS IN MERCIA XXII. SETTLEMENTS IN THE SOUTH-WESTERN COUXTIES - XXIII. SETTLEMENTS ON THE WELSH BORDERXXIV. CONCLUSION PAGE i I 8 34 49 66 54 vii ORIGIN OF THE ANGLO-SAXON RACE. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. F we had no contemporary information of the settlement, for instance, of the State of Massachusetts, and nothing but traditions, more or less probable. concerning it until the middle of the nineteenth century, when an account of that settlement was first written, we should scarcely be warranted in regarding such a narrative as veritable history. Its traditionary value would be considerable, and there its value would end. This supposed case is parallel with that of the early account of the Anglo-Saxons and the settlement of England as it went on from the middle of the fifth to the middle of the seventh century…