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in the busy mart, or on oiar higliways, or by the quiet fireside, or as we 

 have it enshrined for generations yet to come of English-speaking men and 

 "women in the grand old Version of our authorised Bible, or as we read it 

 in the pages of Chaucer and Wyclrffe, in the dramas of Shakespere or the 

 pages of Bunyan, or in the works of Dickens and Tennyson. All this is 

 familiar to every student of English History and therefore I need not 

 dwell upon it here, yet, — though, somewhat foreign to my immediate 

 subject — I cannot resist reading to you the words of an eloquent modern 

 writer upon this conflict between the two languages " Thus we see," 

 he says, " that Conquests cannot exterminate a language, nor drive it 

 from its native soil. The Normans with all their power and strength, 

 lords of the land, masters of the people and with every advantage on their 

 side, could not destroy a highly cultivated ancient and national tongue like 

 the Saxon. * * It rose against them and conquered them in its turn. * * 

 They could as Conquerors seat their Norman French upon the throne and 

 judge's bench — at the dais of the noble and in the refectory of the monk, 

 but they found the door of the manor house and the cottage jealously 

 guarded. * * The Norman French was neither carried to all parts of the 

 Kingdom, because of the comparatively small number of invaders, nor 

 supported by the aid of superiority. The Anglo-Saxon on the other hand 

 had been carefully guai-ded and preserved by the people, it had never lost 

 its hold upon their affections. Persecution and the neccessity of conceal- 

 ment had made it all the dearer to the suffering race. It now made its 

 way, slowly and imperceptibly, but with unerring and unceasing perseve- 

 rance, from rank to rank, until it finally reached the very court from which 

 it had been so ignominiously driven, and seated itself once more i;pon the 

 throne of England. " 



Amongst the personal names due to the Norman Conquest the most 

 prominent are William, Robert, Henry, Richard, Roger, Hugh, Reginald, 

 Roland, Oliver, ]\Iiles and John. And from these were afterwards formed a 

 vast number of patronymic surnames. But in addition to the patronymics 

 formed by prefixing Fitz, the Normans introduced another class of names 

 which soon began to assume an hereditary character viz., Local Names, 

 or names derived from place of residence. No sooner did the Conqueror 



