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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… part of the ancient manor of Merdon or Merden, in the Saxon chronicles called Mrantune, and supposed to be the … is mentioned in the Domesday survey, and belonged to the Saxon Gilmichel. Adam de Hoton was one of the witnesses to …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… was found which later discussion attributed to an Anglo-Saxon burial. 41 During the 19th century an annual fair was … by Robert under Guy de Reinbudcurt, 45 had been part of a Saxon estate centred upon Stanford-onAvon (Northants.). It …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from which circumstance it appears to have derived its Saxon name, signifying "harbour." In 456, a sanguinary battle …
Old and New London
… south its limits were not equally well defined. Under the Saxon kings, it would appear that the Manor of Eia, of which … most appropriately observes, "Could the shade of that old Saxon revisit the land which he held when in the flesh, no … as a royal park, under its ancient name, no doubt of Saxon origin. The manor of Neyte became the property of the …
The English Fur Trade in the Later Middle Ages
… of contemporary views emerges from a story told about the Saxon Wulfstan, the eleventh-century Bishop of Worcester, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… an ancient fort, and on the Downs are some barrows. In the Saxon times, here was a shrine or statue of a pagan deity, … been a Roman station on the river Ivel, obtained the Saxon appellation of Ivelceastre, of which its present name …
The English Fur Trade in the Later Middle Ages
… The sutor was one of the most important men in Anglo-Saxon England. Abbot Aelfric wrote in the tenth century of … eleventh-century immigration, see D. M. Waterman, 'Late Saxon, Viking and early medieval finds from York', …