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exception. Also she had her freedom from thenorth. Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Normans, all suchnew-comers were clearly varieties of one stock. TheAnglo-Saxons appear to have had very mild laws,if mildness he few or no capital punishments. Thenative aboriginal Britons, who had become Chris-tians long before in the night of ages, had been allextinguished, or driven away, or reduced to slavery;but those who replaced them followed the Europeanstream, and assumed the profession of Christianityas soon as they fixed their residence in SouthernEurope. Though Alfred had saved the Anglo-Saxons, he never rooted out the Danes, a namepeculiar to England for those earlier Normans; butin France and every other country they are allcalled Normans. So both members of the Hep-tarchy thought it best to recur to their commonorigin, and quietly unite, which was an easy fusion,and a Dane shortly became king, and had a regularstanding army, as preferable for discipline andseparation from the people. The pay was in all suchcases enormous, incredibly beyond what is paid atpresent. What we should call Colonels got ninety-six shillings a-day, and common troopers fourteenshillings, and a foot soldier one shilling and four-pence. To be sure they had to furnish themselveswith arms, equipments, and horses; the cavalry at