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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York

… 8 and evidently this was the popular derivation, as in the Saxon form Eoforwic. But the form Eburacum, accepted by … precautions comparable with the bastioned forts of the Saxon Shore, for it far surpasses them in size and strength. …

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The Church Records of St Andrew Hubbard, Eastcheap, c1450-c1570

… straddled Eastcheap in Billingsgate ward. 6 Of late Anglo-Saxon origin, it evolved like many of London's parishes …

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A History of the County of Somerset

… the Quantocks and the Parrett, an area crossed by the Saxon 'herpath' in the north and including the 10th-century …

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A History of the County of Somerset

… volume, controlled the passage which was followed by a Saxon herpath and later by the two principal roads between …

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Old and New London

… secure some views of it before it passes. Roman London, Saxon London, Norman London, Elizabethan London, Stuart … will be carefully detailed. Cheapside, famous from the Saxon days, next invites our wandering feet. The north side … of Richard I. by Longbeard, the desperate ringleader of a Saxon rising, who was besieged there, and eventually burned …

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Lincoln Wills

… last words, verba novissima, uttered in advance. In Anglo-Saxon times the parish priest must needs be present to …

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Final Concords for Lancashire

… terminated or composed by the levying of a fine. (4). In Saxon times the Lancashire thanes were required to do "Bode …

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Registrum Statutorum et Consuetudinum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Sancti Pauli Londiniensis

… of grants from several monarchs, some in their Anglo-Saxon form, though not a little corrupted in passing through … Pp. 44, 46, 47. See Index, sub voc. Charter. "A few (Anglo-Saxon Charters) are known to us from having been confirmed by …

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Survey of London

… Lambeth occurs in many forms in early records. It is of Saxon origin and signifies either a harbour or quay from … reference to Lambeth that has been found is in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, where, under date 1042, is the statement: … manors can only be surmised, but it probably originated in Saxon times. Kennington has been interpreted as royal manor …

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Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300

… (1083), Durham (1083) and Norwich ( c. 1100)-and three Saxon monasteries became cathedrals-Bath (1088), Coventry … in 1109, its bishop and cathedral being established in the Saxon abbey (founded 963-9). The inclusion of Carlisle brings …