ANGLO-SAXON ROOTS. 419 
present, as to the history of words, every man 
with the suffix of “ric” to his name, among the 
early Anglo-Saxons, and other allied nations, 
must have had at that time, a “rica” under him; 
king, earl, or thane, he may have been, but 
not one of the bondmen and serfs of the soil. 
“‘ Frederics,” in these days, were rich at least, if 
not powerful; so were Henries, and Richards, 
&c.—but alas! the names have survived among 
us, without the titles, and many with such names, 
it may be, descended from the rich and powerful 
of our ancestry, are all but bondmen at present, 
—paupers—living upon the alms of the nation, 
and perchance, fixed for life in a poorhouse, 
within a land which boasts that the very air 
which wafts over it, if inhaled within its limits, 
must make the respirer free. 
