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A History of the County of Shropshire
… and the succeeding Keuper marls (now known as the Mercia Mudstone group) were both formed in largely … environment was restored and the saliferous marls of the Mercia Mudstone group were then deposited. These impermeable … called Keuper sandstone) and silts and mudstones like the Mercia Mudstone (originally known as the Keuper marl). Less …
Old and New London
… and that having belonged at one time to the kingdom of Mercia, and at another to Kent, Surrey became after the …
Staffordshire Historical Collections
… tradition, Wolphere or Wulfer, the first Christian King of Mercia, founded a religious house at Stone for nuns and a …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Newenden. THE MANOR of Newenden was given by Offa, king of Mercia, by the name of Andred, to the monks of Christ-church, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… three of the largest kingdoms, viz. Northumberland, Mercia, and the East-Angles, which last contained the tract … and there he lived, till Penda, that wicked King of Mercia, with his heathenish cruelty, troubled the … also, which so encouraged Egbert, that he openly invaded Mercia, conquered Whitlafe their king, Ludicenus's …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… peace with them, and the next year 5 the army went into Mercia, and they were also glad to do as the East-Angles had … the year 870 6 (or as others 871) the army returned out of Mercia, came to East-England, and wintered at Theodford, and … they left Notyngham and Northumberland, and went to Mercia, and staid there the whole winter, burning the …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… slain. The next year, the Danes made another inroad into Mercia, but King Edward meeting their host, after a sharp … to the English King Edward. And this kingdom, with that of Mercia, was joined to his West-Saxon dominions, and this city …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… was a hard contest between Alpher, or Elpher, Earl of Mercia, who restored the secular priests that had been … favoured; for this Earl and the other temporal lords of Mercia destroyed the abbies that King Edgar had built in Mercia, and restored the priests, with their wives, to their …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… while he passed the country; then he went through South-Mercia, Oxford, and Winchester, all which submitted to him; … but with no success, and so they went and ravaged in Mercia: Edmund upon this enters Kent, and met them at Otford, … Baker, fol. 25. Sax. Chron. p. 169. Fabian, 163. Or Mercia. Hol. fo. 277. Fab. 265. The eans were then so many …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of which St. Werburga, sister of Ethelred, King of Mercia, was abbess. She died in 683, and the establishment …