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provinces of the Jutes and the Saxons, are 

 descended the East- Angles, the Midland- Angles," 

 and so on, while John Richard Green, who might 

 almost be said to have lived in this part of 

 history, writes thus 1 



" It was the slowness of their advance, the 

 small numbers of each separate band in its 

 descent upon the coast, that made it possible for 

 the invaders to bring with them, when the work 

 was done, the wives and children, the laet and 

 the slave, even the cattle they had left behind 

 them. The wave of conquest was thus but a 

 prelude to the gradual migration of the whole 

 people. For the settlement of the conquerors 

 was nothing less than a transfer of English 

 society to the shores of Britain. It was England 

 that settled down on English soil." 



But these quotations may not be sufficiently 

 convincing that nearly the whole of the English part 

 of England was wholly populated with English 

 cattle, more especially as the cattle of North- 

 umbria, which was one of the parts occupied by 

 the Angles who, according to Bede, made the 

 most complete migration, were still of the old 

 black Celtic colour down to the beginning of the 

 eighteenth century. But that is the only 

 discrepancy, and it is not inexplicable ; for in 

 the days of the English invasion it was a far way 

 to carry cattle from Schleswig to Yorkshire, 



1 " The Making of England," p. 153. 



