arranged to form a pattern, like mosaic work.

~Diana~: the Roman Goddess of Hunting; also of the Moon.

~Apollo~: the Roman God of Poetry, Music, and Prophecy.

~Guildhall~: the hall of the Guild or Corporation of the City of London,
near Cheapside.

~usurper~: one who by force seizes and holds a position which does not
belong to him.

~Picts~: wild savages from the country which we call Scotland; ~Scots~,
also savage men, who, though they afterwards gave their name to
Scotland, at that time came from Ireland.

~Hong Kong~: an island off the coast of China; ~Singapore~, a large
British seaport on an island of the same name off the south end of the
Malay Peninsula; ~West Indies~, a number of islands to the east of
Central America in the Atlantic: of those belonging to Great Britain
Jamaica is the largest.

5. AFTER THE ROMANS. PART I.

~East Saxons~ were those who dwelt in Essex, the county named after
them.

~Crayford~: on the river Cray in north Kent. Here the Saxons under
Hengist totally defeated the Britons under Vortimer in 457 A.D.

~Canterbury~ is the burgh, borough, or fortified place of the men of
Kent.

~Pulborough~, in Sussex, gives us another form of the suffix.

~chronicler~: a historian, particularly one living in early times.

~Saxons~: German tribes from the district by the mouth of the Elbe;
~Jutes~, from a part of Denmark which still preserves their name,
Jutland; ~Angles~, from what is now Schleswig and Holstein.

~Count of the Saxon Shore~: the Roman admiral set to defend the southern
parts of the English coast, which were called 'Saxon Shore,' because
most liable to attack from the Saxons.

~mercenaries~: soldiers who do not fight for the safety and glory of
their own country, but for hire.

6. AFTER THE ROMANS. PART II.

~Blackfriars~, at the eastern end of the Thames Embankment, derives its
name from a monastery or house of Black Friars which stood there.

~Watling Street~, ~Ermyn Street~, ~Vicinal Way~: made by the Romans, who
were famous makers of high roads, many of which are still in use. (See
map on p. 15.)

~Newgate~ was a gate on the west of the walls which enclosed the City;
~Bishopsgate~, on the north-east.

~victualling~: providing food for.

~emergencies~: times of difficulty and danger.

~Isle of Thanet~: it must be remembered that the Stour, at the back of
Thanet, was once much wider and deeper than it is now. In fact, it was
the general route for ves