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The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… appellation than that of the Danish, under the reigns of Canute, Harold, and Hardicanute." 13 Mr. Gage, an acute and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… he had received half of it for life only from Queen Emma (Canute's widow) and had died in King William's time. 79 Far …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… (2). Aldgate. This gate is first mentioned temp, Canute [ Cal. of Letter Books, C, 217]. The plan of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… chiefly of the reign of Ethelred, and one of the reign of Canute, were found in a field near Bongate, with a ring …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… was demolished in the war between Edmund Ironside and Canute. After the Conquest, Henry I. bestowed the manor upon …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of a Danish nobleman, at which Hardicanute, the son of Canute the Great, became the victim of his own intemperance, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… vale of the Ancholme; where Kettel, a Danish captain under Canute, is said to have dwelt, on a site afterwards occupied …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… It claims antiquity for its name as high as the time of Canute, the Dane, who is said to have halted here on his … is inferred to be a corruption of Nute, an abbreviation of Canute. Several of the old Lanes are narrow and winding, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… banks of a small stream, across which was formerly a ford. Canute, the Dane, is said to have passed over the ford with … of Edmund Ironside; and it may thence have been called Canute's Ford, from which the town is said to derive its …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a haven belonging to some ancient proprietor named Lamb. Canute, on his invasion of London, in 1026, is said to have …