<span>midlands the Kingdoms of Mercia and East Anglia which encompasses most of Lincolnshire and the counties bordering on Wales. The Saxons on the other hand settled in the South and grabbed the best land possibly because they were the first to invade, though it is said by the historian Bede that they were invited by the Romanized British as mercenaries to help in keeping the Irish pirates and Scottish Pict's under control. The Saxon tribes occupied the modern counties of Wessex (West Saxons), Essex (East Saxons) and Sussex (South Saxons). We shall throw in Kent, one of the most pleasant and fertile of the English counties. The Romans would have this land in the South under much cultivation and habitation. Britain was a melting pot of different tribes at this time fighting for possession of the land. The Anglo Saxon tribes were a fierce warlike people who refused to become subject to Roman control</span>
