id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1552 Anglo-Saxons - Wikipedia .html text/html 27112 2210 70 Even so, there is general agreement that the kingdoms of Wessex, Mercia and Northumbria housed significant numbers of Britons.[50] Härke states that "it is widely accepted that in the north of England, the native population survived to a greater extent than the south," and that in Bernicia, "a small group of immigrants may have replaced the native British elite and took over the kingdom as a going concern."[34] Evidence for the natives in Wessex, meanwhile, can be seen in the late seventh century laws of King Ine, which gave them fewer rights and a lower status than the Saxons.[51] This might have provided an incentive for Britons in the kingdom to adopt Anglo-Saxon culture. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1552.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1552.txt