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A History of the County of Sussex
… has been found. There may have been a fair at Findon in Saxon or even earlier times, 56 a theory perhaps corroborated …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… writers suppose this parish to derive its name from the Saxon Fleamburgh, and assert that Ida landed at the Head; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… In 1807, a leaden box. containing about 300 small Saxon silver coins, in high preservation, some silver rings, …
Old and New London
… walls and willing, for economy, to risk the forays of any Saxon pirates who chose to steal up the river on a dusky …
Old and New London
… on 24th May, 1851, and slowly and surely, in the Anglo-Saxon manner, the walls grew till, in the summer of 1866, all …
Old and New London
… Johnson's friend, Allen, who in 1772 published Manning's Saxon, Gothic, and Latin Dictionary, and died in 1780. In … doubt. His writings are remarkable for vigorous and racy Saxon, as full of vituperation as Rabelais's, and as terse …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Fleam Dyke, constructed between the Iron Age and the Anglo-Saxon period. 2 The Dyke's main section, which stretches … of the Dyke may have marked a boundary between early Anglo-Saxon territories. 3 The Fleam Dyke was probably the point at … and Great Wilbraham parishes, was perhaps in the Anglo-Saxon period the original assembly place for Flendish, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… and committed to the flames its invaluable library. The Saxon prince then attempted to penetrate further into the … in 1835, a small silver cross, inscribed with Saxon characters, was found in the vicarage-garden. …