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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
… 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 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
… 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
… 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
… 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
… 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
… 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
… that at Cambridge. The river formed the boundary between Mercia and East Anglia; token engagements between villages to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the middle of the seventh century, by Wulphere, King of Mercia; and in digging on the site, a little north of the …