 | Charles Peirce - Textbooks - 1811 - 266 pages
...British blood ; to whom succeeded Constantino his son ; then Vortiger, who usurped the crown, and to maintain his usurpation, first called in the Saxons, at that time hovering along'the coast of Britain. The Saxons having got footing in the island, either enslaved or .extirpated... | |
 | Thomas Tegg - Chronology, Historical - 1824 - 356 pages
...his son; then Vortigern, who usurped the crown; but being harassed by the Scots and Picls, in 449, to maintain his usurpation first called in the Saxons,...at that time hovering along the coast of Britain, in 440. — These having got sure footing in the inland, never left the Britons quiet till they were... | |
 | Tablet - 1838 - 302 pages
...son ; then Vortigern, who usurped the crown j but being harassed by the Scots and Picts, in 448, to maintain his usurpation, first called in the Saxons, at that time hovering along the ' cuast of Britain, in 449. These having got sure footing in the island, never left the Eritons quiet... | |
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Britons quiet till they were possessed of the whole. — And though they were overthrown in many battles, by king Vortimer, the son and colleague of Vortigern, and afterwards by king Arthur, yet the Britons were soon, after his... 