The result is seen in the change which comes over the relations between the two races.

In Ine's laws the distinction between Welshmen and Englishmen is strongly marked; the price of blood for the servile population is far less than that of their lords: in AElfred's laws the distinction has died out.

Compared to the heathen Dane, West Saxons and West Welsh were equally Englishmen.

From that day to this, the Celtic peasantry of the West Country have utterly forgotten their Welsh kinship, save in wholly Cymric Cornwall alone.

The Devon and Somerset men have for centuries been as English in tongue and feeling as the people of Kent or Sussex..