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When the Saxons had been settled some years, and had gained the prosperity and repose which they now enjoy, they have become in some sort the fathers of the English nation; and the English history, before the Norman Conquest, is in substance a history of Saxon times. By this conquest, many of the Saxons are said to have been preserved; at least so far as they could with safety adopt the new religion, and become converts to the English manners and language. [The Saxon people, it seems, soon after the conquest, retired to their respective nations; those of England to the western parts of the island; those of Northumberland and Yorkshire to the north; and those of Essex and Northumberland to the east; and thus the Saxons are divided into four independent nations, as they now are. The Saxon history, however, is not written by Saxons, but by the English; and, in consequence, they have been obliged to take an Anglican, or Saxon, for their standard, and to use a Saxon dialect. The Saxon history, which is the history of the nation, and not that of the Church, begins about the time of Edward the Confessor, who was king of England from 1042 to 1066. To these times is usually assigned the love of liberty, and the first establishment of the English constitution; by which Liberty was bestowed, and the government was established on that simple and unexceptionable model which is now received amongst us. The Saxon history, however, does not contain many events of this character; for, if we except the reigns of Edward the Confessor, Harold, and Ethelred, the barons having forced this king into a most disgraceful captivity, and Edward the First, in whose time were reigned the men of the Conquest, all the Saxon history is occupied with internal commotions; the principal events of which occurred within the compass of about eight-and-forty years from the Conquest. The English history, on the contrary, of the Norman Conquest, begins with the reign of William the Conqueror, and ends with the death of Henry the Third. The Norman Conquest, however, is the conquest of the aristocracy; whose ambition led them first to break with their country, and afterwards to introduce laws and manners so repugnant to the customs of their ancestors.

But it is not in their conquests alone that we are to look for the misery of the Britons. Even in their subjection, it was impossible for the conquerors to restrain their fury, where they could not enslave. The Britons, who were of a much more gentle and soft disposition, and whom the Saxons in general hated, could not escape the effects of this cruelty. For, when the Saxons were in possession of the country, if they had not the power of destroying the Britons, they had the power of destroying their liberties and lives. They were little better than slaves, who were kept in perpetual fear of a cruelty, which they did not themselves witness. Besides, from the Saxons, as well as the conquerors, there was a bounty on the heads of the captives taken in war. This made them willing and ready to lay the axe to their own families, and to massacre their unhappy brethren. When the Saxons in the following reigns established themselves in such plenty and security, they became the slaves of their own vices: And, what was worse, they brought their vices with them; so that, as Polydore Virgil well observes, 'they could not so much as read their prayers in the same language they had learned before.' 827ec27edc