tons 26

3. The Conquest of Kent. 449? 27

4. The South Saxons. 477 27

5. The West Saxons and the East Saxons 28

6. The Anglian Settlements 28

7. Nature of the Conquest 28

8. The Cultivators of the Soil 29

9. Eorls, Ceorls, Gesiths 29

10. The Gesiths and the Villagers 30

11. English and Welsh 31

12. The Township and the Hundred 31

13. Weregild 32

14. Compurgation and Ordeal 32

15. Punishments 32

16. The Folk-moot 33

17. The Kingship 33

18. The Legend of Arthur 33

19. The West Saxon Advance 34

20. Repulse of the West Saxons 35

21. The Advance of the Angles 36

22. The Kymry 36

23. Britain at the End of the Sixth Century 37

CHAPTER III.

THE STRIFE OF THE ENGLISH KINGDOMS.

1. England and the Continent 37

2. AEthelberht's Supremacy 38

3. Gregory and the English 38

4. Augustine's Mission. 597 39

5. Monastic Christianity 39

6. The Archbishopric of Canterbury 40

7. Death of AEthelberht. 616 41

8. The Three Kingdoms opposed to the Welsh 41

9. AEthelfrith and the Kymry 41

10. AEthelfrith's Victories 42

11. The Greatness of Eadwine 43

12. Eadwine's Supremacy 44

13. Character of the later Conquests 44

14. Political Changes