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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 18 miles (N. E.) from Winchester, and 45 (W. S. W.) from London, on the … High Peak, N. division of the county of Derby, 4 miles (N. E.) from Bakewell; containing 962 inhabitants. This place is … of Secular canons was founded, in 775, by Offa, King of Mercia, who had taken Bath from the King of Wessex, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… partly in the Upper division of the hundred of Tewkesbury, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 6 miles (E. N. E.) from Tewkesbury; containing, with the hamlets of … a very early period, in the chapel of which, Offa, King of Mercia, who had been a great benefactor to it, was buried; …
The Environs of London
… died many years before him; and he afterwards married Mercia, daughter of Stephen Heyme 39; for his, his second …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and partly in the hundred of Hartcliffe with Bedminster, E. division of Somerset, 1 mile (S. by W.) from Bristol; … hundred of Purslow, S. division of Salop, 4 miles (N. E.) from Knighton; containing 139 inhabitants. It comprises … In 674, a battle was fought here between Wulfhere, King of Mercia, and scuin, a nobleman in the service of Saxburga, …
A History of the County of York
… priest Coifi to destroy the heathen temple at Goodmanham (E.R.) is unlikely to have taken place so far away from … at first to Addingham in Wharfedale. In 872 he fled to Mercia, but was recalled in 873, and, so far as is known, he … and he and Archbishop Wulfhere took refuge with Burgred of Mercia. It was presumably to deal with this revolt that the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the union of Bridlington, wapentake of Dickering, E. riding of York, 3 miles (N. N. E.) from Bridlington; … is said to have been the residence of the kings of Mercia, who had a palace here; and on an intrenched eminence … of the West Saxons, who, revolting from Ethelbald, King of Mercia, defeated him at Burford in 752; but it was finally …
A History of the County of London
… the writer between Offa of East Saxony (709) and Offa of Mercia (757–96) who is really the next reputed benefactor of … little remains in the museum example, was:— SIGILLE ECCL'E SBI PETRI APL'I WESTMONASTERII Of the second seal we have … . . . with the Birth of o r Lord and Seynt Edwards story e.' Trans. of Lond. and Midd. Arch. Soc. iv, 325. Customary …
Benson (Including Fifield, Preston, Crownmarsh, Roke)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… strategic role in the contested border zone between Mercia and Wessex. Bishop Forthhere of Sherborne may have … grant there between 727 and 736, 4 and in 779 King Offa of Mercia reportedly recovered Benson from Wessex during a … partly in corn) until the 1850s. 17 Remaining 'base' (i.e. copyhold) tenures on Benson manor were confirmed by the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… It is a town of considerable antiquity, the kings of Mercia having had a castle here, to which circumstance may be … ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Frome, E. division of Somerset, 2 miles (E. N. E.) from Frome, and on the road from Bath to Salisbury; …
Old and New London
… to have represented King Alfred and Alred, Earl of Mercia, to whom Alfred entrusted the care of the gate. It was … which are those contributed by the vicar, the Rev. J. E. Cox, and by Mr. W. Williams, of Great St. Helen's, who has …