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A History of the County of Oxford
… as a portion of the West Saxon kingdom, before the rise of Mercia. The early stages of the growth of the Mercian kingdom … the power of Wessex was unbroken. Penda, the great king of Mercia, is first mentioned in the Chronicle under the year of … his nephew Cuthred a tract of country near Ashdown, i.e. the hilly ground between Marlborough and Wallingford. …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… so is a ford or passage over a river or water; He-Rit, or E-Rit; ford being added by the Saxons. Erith is a town (in … Harold, &c. Among the chief nobility, Leofric Earl of Mercia succeeded by his son Algar, who was father of Edwin … the famous Lady Godiva, wife of Leofric, the noble Earl of Mercia, had great posses- sions, and was founder of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 19 The Oxford meeting was revived in 1888, largely by C. E. Gillett, and the former Scottish Prebyterian church in … Sir James Murray (d. 1915), the lexicographer, and W. E. Soothill, professor of Chinese 1920-36, attended the … acquired consecration in India as 'Mar Jacobus, bishop of Mercia and Middlesex'. In 1909 he opened a mission in Temple …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… and voyages of discovery from the time of Offa, King of Mercia, to the year 1586. Many are treaties and privileges …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… of the country. The celebrated Dyke by which Offa, King of Mercia, in the latter part of the eighth century, defined the … union of Kington, county of Radnor, South Wales, 3 miles (E. S. E.) from New Radnor; containing 1744 inhabitants. This … of his lands into a separate lordship. Offa, King of Mercia, having expelled the Britons from nearly the whole of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… of Neath, county of Glamorgan, South Wales, 7 miles (N. E. by E.) from Neath; containing 500 inhabitants. This place is … in the year 795, between the Saxons under Offa, King of Mercia, and the Welsh, in which the latter, after a severe …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a union, in the First division of the hundred of Reigate, E. division of Surrey, 18 miles (E.) from Guildford, and 21 … styled Repandum, and was a chief town of the kingdom of Mercia. Before 660, here was a nunnery under the government … interred. The Danes, having expelled Burhred, viceroy of Mercia, from his throne, wintered at Repandum in 874, at …
A History of the County of Derby
… parts of the shire. Repton, a great missionary centre of Mercia, had an important abbey, under the rule of a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… they stood on the estates of the Crown or the earls of Mercia. The Norman Conquest produced a rapid redistribution … S.R.O. 1910/554. Cal. Pat. 1266-72, 99; 1272-81, 89. H. E. Forrest, Old Houses of Wenlock (1914), 25. There is no … cf. Cal. Pat. 1422-9, 275-6; The Coventry Leet Bk. pt. i (E.E.T.S. orig. ser. cxxxiv), 96-97. Cal. Pat. 1266-72, 110, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… seem that they dated from the period of the conversion of Mercia in the later 7th century. Bede describes how St. Chad, … of companions for prayer and study. 1 Wulfhere, King of Mercia (657-74), is said to have founded a monastery at …