Capitolo 30
People and the Southern People of which names survive in the modern counties
Norfolk and Suffolk. But in Anglia Est, as in Yorkshire, we will see,
you reason in expectancy to conclude that the lowest orders of the Welsh were greatly
saved, and that their descendants still form partly to work
classes of the two counties. Also, here the farmers English probably
gathered more often along the coast as Danish in later days; and
the great swampy expanse of the Fens, then a mere waste of marshy ground
tenanted from beavers and wild bird, formed the border of hinterland or mark of
their almost insular kingdom.
The the southern half of the coast was peopled from English of the Saxon one
and the tribes of Jutish. Before the country of the Saxons Est or Essex it came,
the flat earth that extends from the confinements of Anglia Est to the estuary
of the Thames. This had been one of the thickly-most populated Roman
regions, containing her important stations of Camalodunum, London and
Verulam. But we don't know anything, also from relationship, of his/her conquest. Over
it, and it separated from the fenland of the Lea, placed the little outside
principality of Middlesex. The superior courses of the Thames he/she anchors they were
in the hands of the Welsh natives, for the great city merchant of London
the way made for the pirates impracticable to the head-waters of the river.
On the southern side of the estuary the principalities of Jutish placed of East
and Kent Di the west, included the Roman and strong places of Rhutupiae Dover,
Rochester and Canterbury. The great forest of the Weald and the Romney
Swamps separated them from Sussex; and the insular positions of Thanet
and Sheppey always had the special attractions for the northern pirates.
Over the swamps, again the strip of southern beach, among the
feathers and the sea, as far as Island of Hayling they fell in the hands of the
Southern Saxons whose border to the east was formed from Swamp of Romney, and
to the west from the apartments next to Chichester, where the forest works down to