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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… religion first established in it in the time of the Saxon heptarchy. Those noble rivers, the Thames and the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Hengist's invitation was joyfully accepted of by Ella, a Saxon general, of the posterity of Woden, who, with his three … not do whilst Hengist was alive. 3 This was the second Saxon kingdom, and contained the present counties of Sussex … over the other kings. In the year 495, Cerdic, a noble Saxon general, arrived in Britain with a large body of …
Magna Britannia
… others, one manor each. Among these are several Saxon names, as Almar, Brixi, Ulric, Ulward, &c. It appears …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… some special divine services in certain. 1 It was an old Saxon tenure, and continued under the Norman revolution …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… in these parts. The river DARENT, called also, in the Saxon charters, Trent, takes its rise above the grounds …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Britain; and the Comes Littoris Saxonici, or Count of the Saxon Shore. The first of these feems to have been merely a … eastern and southern coasts, from the depredations of the Saxon pirates; for which purpose he had likewife a sufficient … Britain. The government of the honourable the Count of the Saxon Shore in Britain, extended over the counties of …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… to this exposition of the term, it is derived from the Saxon word gafol or gavel, which signifies rent, or a … free customs bind, Then only shewd'st thyself of antient Saxon kind. Of all the English shires be thou surnamed the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of the Danes, an antient and numerous people, whom the Saxon Chronicle makes the same with the NORTHMANNI, or … of England give them the name of Wiccingi, from the Saxon WICCINGI, a pirate; for piracy was their first and … them more and more to a state of subjection to the West Saxon monarchs; and when Ethelred the Second succeeded to the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… contented themselves with taking it from the mouths of the Saxon informers, whose pronunciation could not be fit to … who, besides, might purposely deprave and contract the Saxon words out of pure detestation of that language, which …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… their own tongue, sheriffs, i. e. the shyrereeve, from the Saxon word gerefa, or gereva, i. e. provost, prfect, or …