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28. I dare say you did not know before how Britain came to be called England; and you would be very much amused to hear how many of the places in it, came by their present names.

29. We will take for example Norfolk and Suffolk, which, with Cambridge, formed the kingdom of East Anglia, and was conquered by the Angles. Now these Angles consisted of two tribes, who divided their conquest between them, one tribe settling in the north part, the other in the south; so that they were called North folk, and South folk, and thus came the names of the two counties.

QUESTIONS.

1. Who were the Caledonians?

4. How did they molest the Britons?

6. What was the state of the country at this time?

7. What was the Roman party?

8. What was the British party?

10. Who was Vortigern, and what did he do?

11. Tell me something about the Saxons.

16. Who were Hengist and Horsa, and how did they assist the Britons?

23. What did the Saxons do after this?

24. What was the Heptarchy?

25. How was the country changed by the wars?