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A History of the County of London
… of Edw. Confessor (Rolls Ser.), 417, and see charter of Ethelred dated 986 in Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. viii, App. ii, 28, …
Old and New London
… England, and remaining here for three years as the ally of Ethelred, he expelled the Danes from several English cities, …
A Dictionary of London
… for in the "De Institutes Lundonie" in the Laws of King Ethelred (Thorpe, I. p. 300), provision is made for the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… between Wada, a Saxon duke, one of the murderers of Ethelred, and Ardulph, King of Northumbria, in the year 798, …
Old and New London
… main body of the Danish army lay encamped in the reign of Ethelred, while their ships held possession of the river for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock of a hunting lodge, presumably by the reign of Ethelred II (978-1016) when a witan was held 'at Woodstock in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the scene of a severe conflict between the Saxons under Ethelred and his brother Alfred, and the Danes, the latter of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… seat of it; asserting, on the authority of a grant by King Ethelred, that the monastery of Bodmin was annexed by that …
A New History of London
… sold at one shilling per acre. In the fourth year of king Ethelred, this city was almost wholly destroyed by fire. At … preparations for another descent on England in 992, king Ethelred fitted out a numerous fleet at London, to prevent … from extending their depredations, by the weakness of king Ethelred and his court, who, instead of vigorously spiriting …
A New History of London
… called Danegelt, which had been imposed on the nation by Ethelred to defray the charges of repelling the Danish … Hence it is probable a bridge was erected in the reign of Ethelred, between the said year 993, and Anno 1017, when …