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A History of the County of Oxford
… favoured by the royal houses of Mercia and Wessex. 81 Offa was the first to build a royal residence on Andersey … Culham and exchanged it for Goosey (Berks.) at the wish of Offa (d. 796), King of Mercia. 109 The Mercian kings used the …
A History of the County of Worcester
… 520). Heming, op. cit. 640. Birch gives a charter of King Offa (777) granting land at Daylesford to the abbey of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… princes of the Hwicce acting with the sanction of King Offa. Headda left his whole estate to any of his kinsmen who …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… have been endowed with Downton. Between 793 and 796 King Offa granted to that church, or perhaps simply confirmed its …
A History of the County of Worcester
… knights pertained to the manor of Elmley. 53 MANORS King Offa is said to have granted the land of two manentes in … cent.; Creddeshey, xv cent.) was given with Elmley by King Offa in 780 to the church of Worcester. 118 It evidently …
A History of the County of Hertford
… St. Albans. It is interesting to notice in a grant of King Offa of 795 that the land of Aldenham extended to the Elstree …
A History of the County of Worcester
… the land had been granted for three lives by King Offa to his thegn Ridda in 772 with reversion to the … is an obvious forgery. Birch also gives a charter of Offa, granting Evenlode with Daylesford and other estates to …
A History of the County of Worcester
… about this time Bishop Tilhere made a great feast for King Offa and his chieftains at Fladbury, where the king granted …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Saxon heptarchy, between the years 764 and 789, of whom Offa, king of the Mercians, was the chief benefactor, who … the years 778 and 779, which was confirmed afterwards by Offa, king of Mercia, and was said to be situated within the …
A History of the County of Bedford
… to Barford may perhaps be found in a charter by which Offa, King of Mercia, in 792 confirmed various lands to the …