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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundreds, West and East Hemesby HEMESBY. Algar Earl of Mercia, son of Leofric Earl of Mercia was lord of Hemesby in the time of King Edward; Alwi …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… One part of this town, was a beruite to Algar Earl of Mercia's manor of Hemes, which Alwi, and Stigand, the …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… and 10 furlongs broad, and paid 30 d. gelt. Algar Earl of Mercia had been deprived of it. He had also the lands of a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in which he defeated and killed Penda, the pagan king of Mercia, who had invaded his territories in 655. This …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… its having been granted, so early as 664, by the King of Mercia, to his new monastery of Medeshamsted, now …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… Worcester, with the help of Ethelred and Kenred, Kings of Mercia, built and endowed an abbey here, A.D. 701, in honour …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the heptarchy, if not the metropolis of the kingdom of Mercia, it was at least the residence of some of the Mercian … signed in the cathedral, by himself, by Burhred, King of Mercia, and Edmund, King of the East Angles (his tributary …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… was made to the bishop of Worcester by King Ethelbald of Mercia. 44 The episcopal estate had been encroached upon by …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the scene of the battle between Celred and Ina, kings of Mercia and the West Saxons, in 715. A fine gold coin, bearing …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from whom, however, it was taken in 628, by Penda, King of Mercia, whose son Wulfhere, on his accession to the throne, … on the other side of the Severn. Sexulf, Bishop of Mercia, founded here the first Christian church within his … reign of Ethelred, that monarch having resolved to divide Mercia into five separate dioceses, Osric prevailed upon him …