Excerpt from The Saxon Dynasty: Pedigree of the Kentish Kings Catalogue of historical portraits, public indulgence on account of its general utility. The numerous visitors of the scenes, with which the names of the Kentish Kings have been connected, are for the most part bewildered by the list of strange and half-barbaric names which are scattered through the pages of local histories, like seed sown by the way-side. How to put together in their minds, or to arrange in any possible order the names which are thus introduced to them is a difficult problem, and hence it appeared to the writer, that a clear and concise summary of the history of the Kings of Kent, would be a useful accompaniment to the many local histories, whose object is rather to describe the works or the localities which have been associated withtheir names, than to show the order of their work or the passages of history in which their names succeed one another. The royal family of Kent (unlike the other families of the same rank in the Heptarchy) has entirely disappeared in later history. Not the most distant link connects it with the illustrious families who have absorbed in succession the representation of Saxon royalty. Perhaps it was lost in some humbler race in the confusion which followed the destruo tion of the Kentish Kingdom, and has become another instance of those vicissitudes of fortune, which Mr. Godfrey Faussett has so admirably described in the case of the family of Fogge, which, though so nearly related to royalty, ended obscurely in the last century in the wife of a shepherd living in a wretched hovel at. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.