Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 384 of 400
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This is a page of running prose text from what appears to be a historical or antiquarian work (not a typical penny dreadful). The visible text discusses the Saxon conquest of Britain, explaining how King Egbert renamed his dominion "Angel" or "England" after his Saxon ancestors' homeland, and tracing the origins of the English people to three Germanic regions—Saxony, Anglia, and Jutland—whose inhabitants invaded and settled Britain, eventually displacing the Britons and establishing the Heptarchy.
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