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A History of the County of Worcester
… 5 In 709 grants came from Kenred, king of Mercia, and Offa, king of Essex, of eighty-four manses round Evesham on … frequent, and the charters purporting to be grants from Offa of Mercia 15 and Beorhtulf king of Mercia 16 are in … and were claimed as included in the gifts of Kenred and Offa confirmed by Pope Constantine. On this ground at a later …
A History of the County of Worcester
… viceroy added Sedgeberrow, which he had obtained from King Offa, to the possessions of St. Mary. 13 Offa made numerous grants to both churches, but the …
A History of the County of Hertford
… It has been noticed, 614 for instance, that while Offa's charter contained nothing about exemption from … 10 s. 4 d. Alms on anniversaries and for the soul of King Offa came to 2; diet of 12 poor men praying daily for King Offa's soul, 17 12 s. 8 d.; payments to the king and pope, 48 …
A History of the County of Hertford
… a 13th-century monk of the abbey. According to his account Offa II, King of the Mercians, desired to found a monastery … for the hand of their daughter. 1 Being at Bath in 793, Offa, it is said, was visited one night by an angel who … ages,' went to Verulamium, where they were joined by Offa. There the place of Alban's burial being forgotten, the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… nuns continued for about a century, but in the war between Offa and Kinewolf they were dispersed and never reassembled. … but twenty years later the reverse was the case, when Offa routed Cynewulf of Wessex at Bensington. One result of … the disruption of the nunnery at Wytham. In the time of Offa a certain bishop of Leicester, by name Hrethun, …
A History of the County of Dorset
… 'Crutesdune' 36 hides and 'Wytecumbe' and 'Wluene'; King Offa Potterne with its appurtenances; King Egbert 10 hides …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… space of fifty years. 9 It has been suggested that King Offa took the lands of the monastery into his own hands as he …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Cynewulf King of the West Saxons 12 with the consent of Offa King of Mercia granted five manentes of land at North … Bishop of Worcester; but he seems to have offended Offa King of Mercia, who claimed that the grant made by … at the Synod of Brentford 13 in 781, Hthored gave back to Offa all that 'celebrated monastery' at Bath, and south of …
A History of the County of Essex
… in Lindsey, the son and daughter of a heathen king named Offa. Erkenwald was given to Christianity at the time of the … of Barking, is mentioned in a charter of her father Offa, king of Mercia, to Chertsey in 787. The next event we …
A History of the County of Hertford
… 7 until they numbered thirteen; the corrodies of Kings Offa and Henry and Pope Hadrian when the holders died, and …