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lish society saw the beginnings of the change which
transformed the noble into a lord, and the free ceorl
into a dependent or a serf; an age in which new
moral conceptions told on the fabric of our early
jurisprudence, and in which custom began to harden
into written law. Without, the new England again
became a member of the European commonwealth;
while within, the very springs of national life were
touched by the mingling of new blood with the blood
of the nation itself.

The ethnological character of the country had, in
fact, changed since the close of the age of conquest.
The area of the ground subject to English rule was
far greater than in the days of Ceawlin or Æthel-
frith, but in the character of its population the por-
tion added was very different from the earlier area;
for while the Britons had been wholly driven off
from the eastern half of the island, in the western
part they remained as subjects of the conquerors.
It was thus that in Ecgberht's day Britain had come
to consist of three long belts of country, two of which
stretched side by side from the utmost north to the
utmost south, and the population of each of which
was absolutely diverse. Between the eastern coast
and a line which we may draw along the Selkirk
and Yorkshire moorlands to the Cotswolds and Sel-
wood, lay a people of wholly English blood. West-
ward again of the Tamar, of the western hills of
Herefordshire, and of Offa's Dyke, lay a people
whose blood was wholly Celtic. Between them,
from the Lune to the coast of Dorset and Devon,
ran the lands of the Wealhcyn -- of folks, that is, in
whose veins British and English blood were already

Character
of its
population.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Conquest of England. Contributors: John Richard Green - author, Alice Stopford Green - author. Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1884. Page Number: 2.
    
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