[Early Britain by Grant Allen]@TWC D-Link bookEarly Britain CHAPTER VII 18/20
Altogether, the historical evidence regarding the western slopes of England bears out Professor Huxley's dictum as to the thoroughly Celtic character of their population. On the other hand, it is impossible to deny that Mr.Freeman and Canon Stubbs have proved their point as to the thorough Teutonisation of Southern Britain by the English invaders.
Though it may be true that much Welsh blood survived in England, especially amongst the servile class, yet it is none the less true that the nation which rose upon the ruins of Roman Britain was, in form and organisation, almost purely English.
The language spoken by the whole country was the same which had been spoken in Sleswick.
Only a few words of Welsh origin relating to agriculture, household service, and smithcraft, were introduced by the serfs into the tongue of their masters.
The dialects of the Yorkshire moors, of the Lake District, and of Dorset or Devon, spoken only by wild herdsmen in the least cultivated tracts, retained a few more evident traces of the Welsh vocabulary: but in York, in London, in Winchester, and in all the large towns, the pure Anglo-Saxon of the old England by the shores of the Baltic was alone spoken.
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