Search
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… ROMANS having thus abandoned Britain, with an intention to return no more, the Scots and Picts no sooner heard of it, … destroying all with fire and sword. Next they resolved to attack the wall, which had been lately repaired, and soon … themselves masters of it, the Britons betaking themselves to slight, and their enemies pursuing them, made a dreadful …
Magna Britannia
… Liskeard, and Restormel: Trelawney-Park, belonging to the family of that name, in the hundred of Lesnewth; … park, in the hundred of Pyder; Bodrugan-Park, belonging to the family of that name, in the hundred of Powder; and Lansladron-Park, in the same hundred, belonging to the Arundells, which, as Norden says, was "the most …
Magna Britannia
… church of Cranbourn 1 1 The church of Battle 2 churches, to one of which was annexed a hide of land. The church of St. … Birige Brisfort Sawin the priest, nephew of Brisfort, to whom it was given by Queen Matilda. Birlande Probably Beer … table are recorded in the Exchequer Domesday, but are not to be found in the Exeter copy. Ancient Names of Manors …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… that no one could travel in safety, in order, therefore, to secure them from such outrages and robberies, the king … of his jurisdiction; but there was an appeal from it to the court of the lath, or trithing. These laths in this … number, and were so called from the Saxon word, gelatbian, to assemble together; for in this court all the principal men …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… eminence guardians of the realm, in different parts of it, to withstand the incursions of the Danes, who greatly … was, in the year 1020, for his great bravery and services to king Canute, created Earl of Kent. 3 He was of a noble extraction, and brother to the great Edric Streon, earl of Mercia, in the reign of …
Magna Britannia
… Peche-fers 1; but we gain no information from it, as to the extent of the several districts. The Hundred Roll, a … speak of the hundreds of Risley and Sawley. This seems to have been the same district, and probably a part of the … hundreds. The hundred of Repton and Gresley, which seems to have been two wapentakes, in 1273, is supposed to answer …
Magna Britannia
… from that of the country they inhabited: the truth seems to be that the country was called by its antient inhabitants, … from its projecting promontories; that it was latinized to Carnubia or Cornubia; that when the Saxons gave the name of Wealas to the Britons, they distinguished those who had retired into …
Magna Britannia
… Danmonium, or Dunmonium. Sammes supposes Danmonium to be derived from two Phnician words, dan or dun, a hill; … deep vallies; both, names sufficiently appropriate to the county. Ancient Inhabitants, Language, and Government. … previously to this they had sent up to the King certain articles to which they demanded his assent. An answer to …
Magna Britannia
… with monkish fable; few local events have been handed down to us, and even those are to be received with caution. Till the time of the renowned … ratified by the most solemn oaths; but, like the Cheshire articles of neutrality, proved insufficient to its object, …