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Old and New London
… Lambarde, in his "Perambulations of Kent," says that in Saxon times it was styled Grenevicthat is, the "green town;" … and solicitation. "You press me in vain," was the noble Saxon's answer; "I am not the man to provide Christian flesh …
The Environs of London
… of Plutarch de Isi et Osiride; an essay on the Anglo-Saxon government in England and Germany; a vindication of the … 1600. His works are, a collection and translation of the Saxon laws, intitled A[rchaionomia]; the Perambulation of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… church is an old structure, with a square tower, and fine Saxon porch, and contains two small brasses. Gresty, with …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… remains reflect activity of several different periods. For Saxon occupation on this site, see (14). (3) Bronze Age … Northants. Archaeol., 10 (1975), 167). a(13) Anglo-Saxon Cemetery (?) (unlocated). Records (in NM) mention the discovery of Saxon burials within the parish, but details are lacking (OS …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the British or the Roman annals, is supposed to be of Saxon origin, and to have derived its name from Guild, a … Speed, is said to have been the residence of some of the Saxon kings. About the year 900, Alfred the Great bequeathed …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… which is certainly a 4th-century type (Myres, Anglo-Saxon Pottery and the Settlement of the English (1969), 73 … YCL 16, under date May 1879); and two presumably pagan Saxon cremations in urns are recorded from the junction of … the seat of an archbishopric, and the capital of the Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria, which stretched from the Humber …
Old and New London
… a Briton; the other, with a halbert, he opined to be a Saxon. Both of them wore garlands. What was denied to great … the high position of the ancient "ealdormen," or superior Saxon nobility, from whom they derive their name and partly …
A Dictionary of London
… to time as to the origin of the guilds existing in Anglo-Saxon times. Perhaps the most reasonable is that which … this country during the Roman rule, and to which the Anglo-Saxon guilds show a striking similarity, both in origin and …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… Westerby, Saddington, and Foxton. It is probable that the Saxon and medieval village did not occupy the site of the … Covert there is a pond called 'the Mot' which may be a Saxon site. 35 The pond stands in a small natural …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… N.E. of (61), is probably the Berendes beorh of an Anglo-Saxon charter concerned with the boundaries of Handley ( …