6 Eddius Stephanus, The Life of Bishop Wilfrid, ed. B. Colgrave, Cambridge, 1927); Fisher, Anglo-Saxon Age, 44.
7 H. C. Darby and E.M.J. Campbell, The Domesday Geography of South-East England (Cambridge, 1962); H. C. Darby and R. Welldon Finn, The Domesday Geography of South-West England (Cambridge, 1967); H. C. Darby, A New Historical Geography of England before 1600 (Cambridge, 1973).
8 Even today habits of deference are stronger among older country people in Gloucestershire than in the north of England or East Anglia, in the experience of this historian. Elderly laborers in Gloucestershire still knuckle and tug their forelocks when met in remote country lanes. Manners in East Anglia and the north are distinctly different.
9 The towns of Bath, Taunton, Poole and Bridgewater, and large parts of south Hampshire, supported Parliament during the Civil War. But the Cathedral towns were Royalist, as were many of the rural gentry.
10 During the 19th century this region continued to vote for conservative candidates. It did so even in the 1880 election, which was a liberal landslide. In the late 20th century, the south of England is still a Tory stronghold, and the place of greatest popularity for the conservative policies of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.