Hence the whole government and social organisation of England is purely Teutonic, and the country even lost its old name of Britain for its new one of England.
In England, as of old in Sleswick, the village community formed the unit of English society.

Each such township was still bounded by its mark of forest, mere, or fen, which divided it from its nearest neighbours.

In each lived a single clan, supposed to be of kindred blood and bearing a common name.

The marksmen and their serfs, the latter being conquered Welshmen, cultivated the soil under cereals for bread, and also for an unnecessarily large supply of beer, as we learn at a later date from numerous charters.

Cattle and horses grazed in the pastures, while large herds of pigs were kept in the forest which formed the mark.