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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… township, in the parish of Ovingham, union of Castle ward, E. division of Tindale ward, S. division of Northumberland, 8 … of the Saxon heptarchy, it was comprised in the kingdom of Mercia. For the name, in Saxon written Roteland, no probable … in the parish of Stamfordham, union of Castle ward, N. E. division of Tindale ward, S. division of Northumberland, 9 …
Rymer's Foedera
… erant Instructi de Personis & Nominibus hujusmodi Obsidum, e de caus, inter dictos Dominos Commissarios Regis Angliae & … Salutem. Inspeximus Irrotulamentum cujusdam Cartae Domini E. nuper Regis Angliae, Progenitoris nostri, in Rotulis …
Old and New London
… an Angle city, the chief city of the Anglian nation of Mercia; but the Danes had settled there in great numbers, and … to Alfred to secure this city, not only as the capital of Mercia ( caput regni Merciorum, Malmesbury), but as the means … in the year 886, Alfred planted the garrison of London ( i.e., not as a town is garrisoned in our day, with men dressed …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… St. Mary at Coventry, founded in 1043 by Leofric, Earl of Mercia, and Godiva his wife. Although Leofric's foundation … Soc. Rep. & Papers, xxii. 331. V.C.H. Leics. iii. 197. F. E. Harmer, Anglo-Saxon Writs, 21422. V.C.H. Leics. i. 311. e.g. Cal. Pat. 12921301, 426; 131317, 212; 131721, 140; …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… This rout of Antoninus is from Duroliponte to Agelocum i. e. from Gormanchester to Littleburgh. Baxter places Grantham … improvements by building. It belonged to the kingdom of Mercia, and a part of that kingdom took afterwards in King … who were Pagans, made frequent inroads into the kingdom of Mercia, where they in a more extraordinary manner exercised …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… name, was a delimitation of the frontier between Wales and Mercia, constructed in all probability by the greatest of the … hill is a re-entrant angle forming a right-angle towards Mercia, and with a ditch on the inner side. On Herrock Hill … its end abutting on the modern road some 250 feet to the N.E. As it approaches the drive, Lyonshall Park, it changes its …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… ( Arch. Journ. xxx., p. 174) in the time of Berhtwulf of Mercia, c. 840, which was probably that elsewhere called … complete example of painted glass in the district is the E. window at Ross, which probably came from the chapel of the … The survival of wall-paintings is very infrequent in E. Herefordshire. Only two more or less complete subjects …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford
… narrowest for several miles in either direction. To the E. the flood-plain widens progressively until the fenland is … is the River Gwash which flows into the Welland to the E. of the town, and forms its boundary in that direction. … records that in 877 the Danish army shared half of Mercia among themselves. They established several political …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… union, and N. division of the county, of Durham, 4 miles (E. by S.) from Durham; containing 2000 inhabitants. It … Baptist), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wangford, E. division of Suffolk, 4 miles (S.) from Beccles; containing … and Wansdyke, the line of division between the kingdoms of Mercia and the West Saxons, runs along one boundary of the …