Identifier: shorthistoryofen00chey (find matches)
Title: A short history of England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Cheyney, Edward Potts, 1861-1947
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nal capital at Winchester. In warswaged sometimes with the natives on the north and west andsometimes with the Angles of Mercia, the South and East Saxons,and the Kentishmen, they kept up their fighting habits and suc-cessfully resisted conquest by the Northumbrians and Mercians.Descendants of Cerdic, the first king, always ruled in Wessex,but there were many contests within the family for the crown.In one of these disputes Egbert,1 a prince of the royal family,was exiled, and, according to the custom of the time, took refugeat the court of Charles the Great, king of the Franks. Afterremaining there for thirteen years and doubtless seeing muchof Charless warlike and statesmanlike policy, he was recalled tobe king of the West Saxons in 802. Within the next few yearshe had completed the conquest of the natives of the west, addingwhat are now Devonshire and Cornwall to his dominions. He1 The Ansrlo-Saxon form of this name is Ec<rberht. from Greenwich 0 ENGLAND divided into Bishoprics.
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EARLY SAXON ENGLAND 57 then entered into a contest with Mercia and the states dependentupon it, defeating them and making them all acknowledge hissupremacy. Finally, in 830, he took an army to the borders ofNorthumbria, where the king of that country came to meet himand agreed to accept Egberts overlordship. In the same year heforced submission upon the chieftains of Wales. Thus for the firsttime since the fall of the Roman Empire all Britain acknowledged,in name at least and for the time, the supremacy of one ruler. 42. Summary of the Early Saxon Period.-—The year 449, thetraditional date of the arrival of the first Teutonic settlers, mythi-cal as in all probability that date is, represents the most importantevent in the history of the English nation, the entrance of itsfounders into Britain. The new race, although barbarous, hadin it elements which the old Roman civilization had lacked : itwas vigorous, independent, and self-reliant; families of this racewere larger, and therefore

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