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A History of the County of Warwick
… place and linking the name of the village with King Offa. Camden 3 went further and indulged in a romance about Offa's son Fremund, 'a man of great renown', being murdered …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… taken from its having been once part of the possessions of Offa, king of Mercia, the most famous monarch of the Saxon …
A History of the County of Worcester
… by Ccolred and Ethelbald, Kings of Mercia, and by King Offa. 30 The fate of Ombersley is not known during the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… left of the church. The MANOR OF ORGARSWIKE was given by Offa, king of Mercia, in 791, to Christ church, and it seems …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… The first of these was fought in the year 773, when Offa, king of Mercia, having already joined to his dominion … with Aldric, king of Kent, at this place; and though Offa gained the victory, yet it was not without great … battle with the Danes was fought. IN THE YEAR 791, Offa, king of Mercia, whose gifts to the British churches and …
A History of the County of Worcester
… was called the manor of Overbury and Conderton. 45 In 780 Offa, King of Mercia, gave 5 'manses' at TEDDINGTON … Wasshebourne, xv cent.; Knyghtyswasshebourne, xvi cent.). Offa, King of Mercia, gave 10 cassates of land at Little …
A History of the County of Oxford
… boundaries of an estate granted to Worcester by King Offa, supposedly in 774, and preserved in a charter forged in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… wall. Manors. Pyrton 93 was a royal estate in 774 when Offa, King of Mercia, gave 40 hides there to Worcester … township was included in the 40 hides in Pyrton granted by Offa to the Cathedral Church of Worcester at the end of the … p. 3. Cart. Sax. ed. Birch, i, no. 216. This grant by King Offa in 774 to Worcester of 40 hides in Readanoran is now …
A History of the County of Hertford
… is said to have been granted to the abbey of St. Albans by Offa, 21 and was confirmed to the abbey and convent by King … to have been given to the monastery of St. Albans by Offa, king of Mercia. 144 Richard de Croxley was one of the … were granted to the abbey of St. Albans by Egfrid son of Offa in 796. 170 William Pinefeld held land of the abbot of …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… inhabited by poorer sort of people. IN THE YEAR 791 king Offa gave to Christ-church, in Canterbury, fifteen … of this parish, not included in the above grant of king Offa, seems to be that which Cuthred, king of Kent, in the … some of which were those which had been given by king Offa, as above-mentioned, to the priory of Christ-church, …