AN ENGLISH SHIRE. 



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valley of the Lowes Ouso. In the first-named district 

 \VG find a large group of English Clan villages, includ- 

 ing Patching, Poling, Angniering, Goring, Worthing, 

 Tarring, Washington, Lullington, Blatchingden, Oving- 

 dean, Rottingdean, and many otliers. Amongst them is 

 one which has clearly given rise to the name of iEUe's 

 third son, and that is Lancing. Unfortunately for the 

 legend, we must decide that this was really the settle- 

 ment of an English clan of Lancingas, as Washington 

 was the inn or enclosure of the Weasingas, and Bedding- 

 ham was the ham or home of the Beddingas. Around 

 Lewes, in like manner, we find Tarring, Mailing, 

 Piddinghoe, Bletchington, and others ; while in the 

 valley just to the east we have ten or eleven such names 

 as Lullington, Wilmington, Folkington, and Littlington. 

 These districts, I imagine, represent the second advance 

 of the English conquerors. 



Finally, fourteen years after the first landing, the 

 South Saxons crossed the Downs and attacked Anderida. 

 The Eoman walls of the great fortress were thick and 

 strong, as their remains, built over by the Norman 

 Castle, still show; but they were defended by half- 

 trained Welsh, who could not withstand the English 

 onset. With the fall of Anderida, the native power was 

 broken for ever, 'nor was there after one Welshman 

 left.' The English tribe of the Hastingas settled at 

 Hastings ; and the South Saxons were now supreme 

 from marsh to marsh. 



But did they really exterminate the native Celt- 

 Euskarian population ? I venture to say, no. Some 

 uo doubt, especially the men, they slew ; but the women 



