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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the Saxon heptarchy, it was comprised in the kingdom of Mercia. For the name, in Saxon written Roteland, no probable …
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 of doing what Mercia had not doneviz., of making it a barrier to the …
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 …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… 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 … afterwards included, in the Saxons time, in the kingdom of Mercia. But not intending to swell this section with things …
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 …
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 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford
… records that in 877 the Danish army shared half of Mercia among themselves. They established several political …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and Wansdyke, the line of division between the kingdoms of Mercia and the West Saxons, runs along one boundary of the …