This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 edition. Excerpt: ...length remonstrated strongly with the king on the danger to which he was exposing the country, by admitting these foreigners in such vast numbers to reside in the land; for that soon they would be able to overpower the inhabitants. Vortigern paid little attention to these complaints; and, being aware ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 edition. Excerpt: ...length remonstrated strongly with the king on the danger to which he was exposing the country, by admitting these foreigners in such vast numbers to reside in the land; for that soon they would be able to overpower the inhabitants. Vortigern paid little attention to these complaints; and, being aware of the disaffection of the nobles, he continued to support the Saxons, regarding them as a powerful guard against the discontents of his subjects, or the attempts of a rival. His infatuated connexion with Rowena, the daughter of Hengist, strengthened the Saxon interest; while, at the same time, it served to render him completely odious to his subjects. It was now, therefore, resolved upon by the Britons to depose Vortigern, and to invest his son Vortimer with the administration of the kingdom. This the Saxons could not fail to consider as a rupture between the two nations. The British chiefs, now, roused to fury, with Vortimer at their head, prepared for war with the Saxons, who had already commenced hostilities. In the mean time, the clergy, seeing Vortigern's dissolute and incorrigible life, as well as being moved with his treachery to his country, solemnly excommunicated him, in a public synod convened for that purpose. The first engagement between the Britons and the Saxons is said to have been fought at Darwent, in the sixth year after the coming over of Hengist and Horsa. The second was fought at Ailsford, according to the British chronicle; but the Saxon writers make this to be the first. Horsa, the brother of Hengist, and Cattigern, the son of Vortigern, fell in this action by mutual wounds. The chronicle gives the name of Episford to the place where this battle was fought; but that can be considered only as another name for Ailsford....
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