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A History of the County of Huntingdon
… three miles broad. He says that the sons and servants of Cnut, when crossing it on their way from Peterborough to … soldiers with their swords (hence called Swerdesdelf or Cnut's-dyke), in the adjoining marshes between Ramsey and Whittlesea. Presumably Cnut's intention was to put a limit to the waters on the …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… in the reign of Edward the Confessor were held by Cnut and Torchil, and together were assessed at 8 carucates. …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… in 1275 that the manor had been in the hands of King Cnut and had been demesne of the Crown until Henry I gave it …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… divided into Great and Little. Before the Conquest Ulf and Cnut held 6 carucates there as two 'manors'; this was in the … Rictona, xii cent.; Richton, xiii cent.) belonged to Cnut; it was in the king's hands in 1086, when part of it was …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… existed at Lambourn in about 1032, when a charter of King Cnut, then lord of the manor, defined its endowments. These … perhaps made on the occasion of the grant of the church by Cnut to the Dean of St. Paul's, 391 to whose maintenance it …
A History of the County of Warwick
… a Fleming, who accompanied him in 1036 when he escorted Cnut's daughter Gunnild to 'Saxony' for her marriage, and …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… improbable traditions that it was the site of a palace of Cnut, 7 and was the camp which Alfred the Great visited in …
A History of the County of Somerset
… of the Holy Cross it is implied that the owner in Cnut's time was Tofig, the sheriff. 76 By 1086, however, …
A History of the County of Rutland
… Emma, the wife first of Ethelred the Unready and then of Cnut. 86 Edward the Confessor assigned it to his queen Edith, …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… is a tradition that it was granted to the family by King Cnut, and an ancient ox-horn with a silver-gilt mounting of …