They were numerous in London: in the precincts of which they had their own burial-place, to the chief municipal court of which they gave their own appellation--the Hustings [20].

Their power in the national assembly of the Witan had decided the choice of kings.

Thus, with some differences of law and dialect, these once turbulent invaders had amalgamated amicably with the native race [21].

And to this day, the gentry, traders, and farmers of more than one-third of England, and in those counties most confessed to be in the van of improvement, descend from Saxon mothers indeed, but from Viking fathers.

There was in reality little difference in race between the Norman knight of the time of Henry I.and the Saxon franklin of Norfolk and York.