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A Survey of London
… haue tryed by conference of the pence of Burghrede king of Mercia, Aelfred, Edward, and Edelred, kings of the West …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… King of Northumbria, and Penda, the pagan King of Mercia, in which the former was slain, and the members of his … Powysland, until the year 777, when it was annexed to Mercia, by conquest; and an earthen mound called Clawdd Offa, … of an important victory obtained in 773, by Offa, King of Mercia, over Ealhmund, King of Kent; and also of a sanguinary …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Othery parish 1841 The heart of the parish is an island of Mercia Mudstone; sand and gravel of the Burtle Beds lie to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of several others between the sovereigns of Wessex and Mercia. In the year 778, the county being ceded by Cynewulf, King of Wessex, to Offa, King of Mercia, the latter made a wide and deep trench, as a boundary …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… to (Bede, III. C. 21) is, that A. D. 653 Peada, King of Mercia, was baptized, with all his chivalry, in a royal vill …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… century, though the former has been largely rebuilt, and Mercia Farm and the Greyhound Inn are of the 17th century. …
A History of the County of Leicester
… were held by Lewin. 29 Alveva, widow of lfgar, Earl of Mercia, had held 5 carucates in Aylestone with 12 ploughs …
A History of the County of Oxford
… c. 650), who may have been the daughter of Penda, King of Mercia, 26 it is likely that the place was named after her. … and Bloxham which had formerly belonged to Earl Edwin of Mercia. 219 By the 13th century the Adderbury part of the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… the chronicles of the abbey of Evesham, Ceolred, King of Mercia, gave land in ARROW to the abbey. 13 It was … for the Evesham chronicler claimed that Ceolred, King of Mercia, had given land in Ragley to the abbey in 710. 47 …
A History of the County of Warwick
… years ago. 67 Manors Earl Alfgar, son of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, is given in Domesday as the preConquest owner of …