1 6 Life and Times of " The Druid." 



those singularly able addresses which he de- 

 livered sporadically in English cities for the 

 Archaeological Institute, whose journeyings 

 through many parts of this island he accom- 

 panied. I can imagine nothing which would 

 have afforded "The Druid" more pleasure 

 than to listen to Professor Freeman's exhaus- 

 tive unravelling of the early history of Carlisle, 

 and among many other passages which 1 have 

 marked for citation, none would have been 

 more appreciated by him than the following : 

 " I have defined Carlisle as being that one 

 among the cities of England which, having 

 once become English, became British again. 

 The unbroken English life of Carlisle begins 

 with the coming of William Rufus and the 

 settlement of his southern colony. For two 

 hundred years before he came it had been 

 British or nothing. For at least two hundred 

 years before that it had been part of an Eng- 

 lish kingdom, that of the Angles of Northum- 

 berland. For at least two hundred years 

 before that it had shared the independence of 

 those parts of Britain from which the Romans 

 had gone, and into which the Angles or the 

 Saxons had not yet come. Of the Roman 



