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Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066 - c.1214
… forgeries. These texts include one charter of Offa of Mercia; two of Edgar; one of Ethelred Unraed; two of St … HANDIWORK: GRANTOR HARMER SAWYER HARVEY, WA Offa of Mercia 501 no. 124 345 Edgar 3389 no. 774 3412; 3446; 349, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… linear defensive earthwork 7 miles long running N.W.-S.E. comprising a large bank with a deep ditch on its S.W. … promontory suggests that it was intended to meet the S.E. end of Reach Lode (Swaffham Prior (74)) already in … and built to protect East Anglia against the attacks by Mercia under Penda. Work by Fowler and Lethbridge (C.A.S. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Abingdon, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 3 miles (S. E.) from Abingdon; containing 187 inhabitants, and comprising … N. division of the county of Nottingham, 5 miles (N. by E.) from East Retford; containing 109 inhabitants. It … of a fortification which had been raised by Offa, King of Mercia: they are nearly circular, and comprise an area about …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the parish and union of Howden, wapentake of Howdenshire, E. riding of York, 2 miles (W. by S.) from Howden; containing … commuted for 396. One of the sons of Wulphere, King of Mercia, is said to have suffered martyrdom at Burston. Aston … several manors anciently belonging to the earls of Mercia, under whom that of Aston, at the time of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… but chiefly in the hundred of Buttinghill, rape of Lewes, E. division of Sussex, 4 miles (N.) from Cuckfield; … wapentake of Hallikeld, N. riding of York, 5 miles (N. N. E.) from Ripon; containing 296 inhabitants. This place is on … of Northumbria. In 642 it was besieged by Penda, King of Mercia, who, after an unsuccessful attempt to set it on fire, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Collumpton and N. divisions of Devon, 21 miles (N. by E.) from Exeter, and 162 (W. by S.) from London; containing … valued in the king's books at 20; net income, 118; patron, E. Rendell, Esq.; impropriator, Charles Chichester, Esq., … and widows. A monastery here, in which Ethelred, King of Mercia, became a monk in 704, was destroyed by the Danes in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… earthwork in the Anglo-Saxon period. 78 Burroway (i.e. burhíeg), a gravel island in the Thames alluvium, is named … from the 11th century to the 13th. The 'beam' itself (O.E. béam, 'tree', 'post', or 'pillar') may have been an … with the distribution network of 8th- and 9th-century Mercia. 88 A minster on the site of the later church existed …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Blackbourn, W. division of Suffolk, 2 miles (N. by E.) from Ixworth; containing 826 inhabitants. The living is a … a parish, in the corporation and hundred of Forehoe, E. division of Norfolk, 3 miles (N.) from Wymondham; … the preparations for his coronation, by Edwin, Earl of Mercia, and Morcar, Earl of Northumberland, with many of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… Barrington 2 BARRINGTON (O.S. 6 ins. aTL 35 S.E., bTL 45 S.W., cTL 34 N.E., dTL 44 N.W.) Barrington Barrington is a village and … that at Cambridge. The river formed the boundary between Mercia and East Anglia; token engagements between villages to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Eddisbury, S. division of the county of Chester, 4 miles (E. N. E.) from Chester; containing 668 inhabitants. This place … the middle of the seventh century, by Wulphere, King of Mercia; and in digging on the site, a little north of the …