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ENGLAND TO THE YEAR 1066 



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William the Conqueror 



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GREAT MEN 



St. Augustine A D 354 430 

 Caedmon ? 620 



TheVerverableBede 673-735 

 E-gbert ? 839 



Alfred the Great 849-901 

 StDunstan 925-9*8 



Canute 9941035 



Edward lOOtlOtt 



Harold 1022-lOtt 



Battle of Hastings 1066 

 from the Bayeux. Tapestry 



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din; but the Romans could not catch the 

 curious pronunciation and called it London, 

 the name which it bears to-day. Christianity 

 also crept into the island, much to the disgust 

 of the Roman conquerors, and martyrs to the 

 new faith became numerous in Britain. 



The Romans Withdraw. The Romans had 

 made no effort to win the respect and the trust 

 of the conquered Britons; they ruled by force, 

 and made slaves of most of the natives. Op- 

 pressed and downtrodden for centuries, the 

 Britons had lost the strength which once was 

 theirs, and when in A. D. 410 the Roman troops 

 were withdrawn from Britain to guard Italy 

 against barbarian invasions, the Romanized 

 part of the island was at the mercy of all 

 invaders. The Scots and Picts came down from 



the north and spread such terror that the 

 Britons called upon the Jutes to aid them. 

 These sea-pirates needed no second invitation, 

 but came, with the related Angles and Saxons, 

 and overran the island. Their ravages were to 

 the full as bad as those of the Scots and 

 Picts, whom they drove back, for they slaugh- 

 tered the Britons by thousands and reduced 

 most of those who remained to slavery. Only 

 by escaping into the mountain -fastnesses of 

 Wales did any of the Britons preserve their 

 lives and their liberty. Strongest of these 

 invading hordes were the Angles, and it was 

 from them that the island finally got its name 

 of Angl.e-land, or England. 



These invaders were pagans, and it was for 

 his battles against them that the famous Ar- 



