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WHO WERE THE NORMANS ?

The period from which the English aristocracy dates
its origin is that of the Norman conquest. Aristocracy,
indeed, there was in the country before, but that was an-
n Minted by the Normans ; and this epoch is the vaunted
birth-day of our nobility. There is nothing of which
we hear so much as of the pride of a descent from these
first Norman nobles ; of the pure and immaculate blood
derived from this long descent. To say nothing of the
wretched fallacy of blood and descent—for the most
wretched and mischievous fallacy it is which ever cursed
the human race—being the pretext for every insolence,
and every species of tyranny amongst men, and being
besides, the most hollow bubble that ever was blown by
pride, for, there is no beggar who, if he could trace his
pedigree, would not find himself descended from kings,
and no king who is not descended from beggars,---we will
take the trouble to refer to the histories of the time, and
show what these Norman conquerors really were. We
shall then find that, so far from being a set of men to be
proud of as ancestors, there cannot be a more scanda-
lously disgraceful origin. They were, in fact, a swarm
of the most desperate and needy adventurers ; " a rascal
rabble" of vagabond thieves and plunderers. They were
not, in fact, one half of them, what they are pretended
to be—Normans ; but collected by proclamation, and by
lavish promises of sharing in the plunder of conquered
England—vultures from every wind of heaven rushing to
the field of British carnage. We shall find that, allowing
the claims of such families as now can trace a clear descent
from these men—and these are very few indeed—even
such of them as were Normans were but of the lower
and more rapacious grade. The great vultures fleshed
themselves to the throat with the first spoil, and returned
home, while their places were obliged to be repeatedly
supplied, through renewed proclamations, and renewed
offers of the punder of the Anglo-Saxons, from the still
hungry tribes of knights who were wandering and fight-
ing any where for bloody bread.
Again we shall come to the curious question, who the
Normans actually were ? Who actually they were who
actually were Normans ? And here will come another
singular laying bare of the proud pretences of our prowl
nobles. Forsooth, they are descended from the gal-
lant and chivalrous Normans. They will be de-
scended from them and them alone. There is
not a soul of them who will claim the honour
of descent from the Danes. Oh no ! The barbarous and
bloody Danes, they are a scandal and an abomination !
They are thieves, pirates, plunderers, and savages. No-
body is descended from them, except some plebeians in
the North of England, and except that the rabble rout
of the common people are contaminated with their blood.
And yet, who are the Normans ? Why, the Danes !
Yes 1 the proud aristocracy of England, such of them
as have any long known descent at all, are actually de-
scended from the Danes I They are the legitimate issue
of this bloody and barbarous people that nobody
wishes to acknowledge as ancestors. The Danes,
driven from England, fell on the shores of
France, and amid the distractions of that kingdom,
laid Paris in ashes, and seized on that district which
thence received from these Northmenner or Normans,
its name of Normandy. Here, though settled too com-
fortably for their deserts, they never ceased to keep an
eye on the far richer prize of England, from which, for
their cruelties and fiery devastations, they had been
elLasecl away. In the time of the Conqueror, they had
been se;;:led about two centuries in France ; and though
they had ae,;:iired a considerable degree of external
civilisation, and n..7ch martial discipline, yet, if we are
to judge by their proce,'
,dings on the acquisition of Eng-
land, they had lost none of their greedy hunger of
spoil, nor of their reckless and uthless disposition to
shed blood.—Llampden's History oi the English Aris-
tocracy.

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