Such we find to be actually the case.

The Hemings, for instance, are met with in six counties--York, Lincoln, Huntingdon, Suffolk, Northampton, and Somerset; the Mannings occur in English Norfolk and in Saxon Dorset; the Billings, and many other clans, have left their names over the whole land, from north to south and from east to west alike.

It has often been assumed that these facts prove the intimate intermixture of the invading tribes; but the supposition of the former existence of exogamy, and consequent appearance of similar clan-names in all the tribes, seems far more probable than such an extreme mingling of different tribesmen over the whole conquered territory.[1] Part of the early English ceremony of marriage consisted in the bridegroom touching the head of the bride with a shoe, a relic, doubtless, of the original mode of capture, when the captor placed his foot on the neck of his prisoner or slave.

After marriage, the wife's hair was cut short, which is a universal mark of slavery.
[1] I owe this ingenious explanation to a note in Mr.Andrew Lang's essays prefixed to Mr.Holland's translation of Aristotle's _Politics_.

He has there also suggested the analysis of the clan names for traces of Totemism, whose results I have given above in part.
Thus we may divide the early English religion into four elements.