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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London

… of driving them at the head of the procession. The Anglo-Saxon term for the mortuary was "soulesceat." In the will of … Tower. Bequests to anchorites and hermits. From the Anglo-Saxon times until the Reformation hermits, as well as … "Borough" ( burgus). This school is recorded in the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle' as having been burned down A.D. 816. We find …

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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting

… Court of Husting of the City of London is of Anglo-Saxon or, to speak more accurately, of Scandinavian origin, … in contradistinction to other things or courts, which in Saxon times were usually held in the open air. 1 The judicial … It was to secure the advantage of notoriety that our Saxon forefathers executed all conveyances at the County …

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Parish Fraternity Register

… in the ordinances of four eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon guilds. 8 Most of the parish fraternities of the later …

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Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066 - c.1214

… and went to Rome 708 709 ( HBC, 10). Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters, no. 124. This text, in its present form, is … WA, 223. Harvey, WA, 3412, 346, 3524, 3589; Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters, nos. 670, 774 (spurious), 894 (spurious), 903. Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters, nos. 1487, 1522; Harvey, WA, 234. ASC E, sub …

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The Cartulary of Holy Trinity, Aldgate

… f. 203 and made a rather unsuccessful attempt at an Anglo-Saxon script and elsewhere wrote part of the Lord's Prayer in … Association Leaflets, 934 (1934). F. E. Harmer, Anglo-Saxon Writs (1952), 2314. V.C.H. Essex, ii, 166. 4 and see J. … see Stenton, Norman London, 1315, and F. E. Harmer, Anglo-Saxon Writs, 233. See A. B. Beaven, Aldermen of the City of …

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Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean & Chapter of Wells

… but all of them have been published by collectors of Saxon documents; and the brief chronicle of the bishopric …

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Annales Cestrienses

… the prevalent belief that the excessive drinking of our Saxon forefathers was taught them by the Danes. It will, …

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The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk

… to which place, tradition asserts, it was navigable in Saxon times. At Brandeston it receives an augmentation to its … crossing the Waveney at Billingford, passed by Wacton, the Saxon wake ( i. e. watch) town, Long Stratton, and Taseburgh, … of the Saxons is uncertain. Cerdic, one of the earliest Saxon invaders, landed in 495 on the eastern coast of …

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A History of the County of Stafford

… Dove in Stretton. Burton came to prominence in late Anglo-Saxon period as the site of a Benedictine abbey, itself …

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Survey of London

… that Southwark was a place of importance in the Anglo-Saxon period. It was burnt by William the Conqueror in 1066 … coins, pottery, and other objects of Roman date. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle contains a number of references to the bridge …