The Saxon colony.
Supposed connexion with the making of the New Forest. But this was not all. Not only was the restored city to be a bulwark of England, but the conquered land was to become a colony of Englishmen. Many churlish folk were sent thither with wives and cattle, to dwell in the land and to till it.[1] We thus see, what seems always to be forgotten in discussions of Cumbrian ethnology, that, at least in the immediate district of Carlisle, the last element in its mixed population was distinctly Saxon.[2] Ingenious writers have guessed that the men who were now settled at Carlisle were the very men who had been deprived of their homes and lands at the making of the New Forest. There is no evidence for this guess, and every likelihood is against it. Though I hold that the dispossessed land-owners and occupiers of Hampshire are not an imaginary class,[3] yet I cannot think that they can have formed so large a class as to have gone any way towards colonizing even so small a district as the old diocese of Carlisle. But it is plain that the land needed inhabitants, and that the new inhabitants were sought for in the south of England. In the Carlisle district then the order of settlement among the races of Britain is different from what it is anywhere else. Elsewhere it is Briton, Angle or Saxon, Dane or Northman. Here, as far as one can see, the order must be Briton, Angle, Pict, Northman, Saxon.
- [Footnote: ferde horð to Cardeol, and þa burh geæðstaþelede, and þone castel arerde,
and Dolfin út adraf, þe æror þær þæs landes weold, and þone castel mid his mannum gesette." Florence seems to connect this with the unwrought ceremony at Lincoln; "His actis, rex in Northymbriam profectus, civitatem quæ Brytannice Cairleu, Latine Lugubalia vocatur, restauravit et in ea castellum ædificavit." Orderic brings together the old and the new when he speaks (917 B) in David's time of "Carduilum validissimum oppidum, quod Julius Cæsar, ut dicunt, condidit."]
- ↑ The Chronicler goes on; "And syððan hider suð gewænde, and mycele mænige cyrlisces folces mid wifan and mid orfe þyder sænde þær to wunigenne þæt land to tilianne." So Henry of Huntingdon, vii. 2; "Rex reædificavit civitatem Carleol, et ex australibus Angliæ partibus illuc habitatores transmisit." Florence leaves out both the colonization and the driving out of Dolfin.
- ↑ See Appendix R.
- ↑ See N. C. vol. iv. p. 858.
