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abbey advance Aethelred Alfred Alfred's ancient Anglo-Saxon army Athelney battle battle of Deorham Bokerly Dyke border boundary Bridgwater British Britons Brue camp Cannington Cannington Park century Chronicle Clearbury Cnut coast Combwich conquest Danes Danish hosts defeat Devon district Domesday Dorset doubt Dumnonia Dyvnaint early earthworks East Anglia eastward Ecgberht Edington England English Ethandun evidence Exeter Exmoor fenland fighting fleet Florence of Worcester force forest fortress Fosseway fought frontier Gerent Glastonbury Guthrum Hampshire heathen hill Hubba invaders islands Kentwine Kenwealh king kingdom land later levies Mendips Mercia miles mouth Norse Northumbria Old Sarum Parrett Polden Hills Poldens position probably Quantocks raids ravaged record river Roman road Scandinavian seems settlement Severn ships shores slain South Petherton Stolford Sussex Sweyn Taunton Thames thanes thence tradition victory Viking Wales Wareham Watchet Welsh Wessex West Saxons westward William of Malmesbury Wiltshire
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Page 41 - Kentwine's victory gained for the West Saxons the sea-coast west of the mouth of the Parrett, the coast of Watchet, which afterwards figures in the Danish invasions. In short, Kentwine's victory made the English masters of Quantock, as Ceawlin's victory a hundred years before had made them masters of Mendip. How far west toward Dunster, Porlock, and Linton, the frontier may have reached, I do not propose to say. We might expect that the hills of Exmoor would be one of the districts in which the Britons...
Page 213 - Township and Borough, being the Ford Lectures delivered in the University of Oxford in the October Term of 1897. Together with an Appendix of Notes relating to the history of the Town of Cambridge. By FW MAITLAND, LL.D.
Page 114 - North-humbrians and among the East-Anglians gathered some hundred ships and went about south ; and some forty ships about to the north, and besieged a fortress in Devonshire by the north sea ; and those who went about to the south besieged Exeter.
Page 109 - Offa's daughter ; and in his days first came three ships of Northmen, out of Haeretha-land [Denmark]. And then the reve* rode to the place, and would have driven them to the king's town, because he knew not who they were : and they there slew him. These were the first ships of Danis.hmen which sought the land of the English nation.
Page 16 - ... and Eynsham, when added to the country already occupied by the Saxons north of the river, nearly completed our modern Oxfordshire. Only six years later, the West-Sexe pushed their conquests to the Severn. 'A.
Page 134 - Brixton, on the east side of Selwood ; and there came to meet him all the men of Somerset, and the men of Wiltshire, and that portion of the men of Hampshire which was on this side of the sea ; and they were joyful...
Page 122 - Then became the dread of the army so great, that no man could think or discover how they could be driven out of the land, or this land maintained against them ; for they had every shire in Wessex sadly marked, by burning and by plundering. Then the king began earnestly with his witan to consider what might seem most advisable to them all, so that this land might be saved, before it was utterly destroyed. Then the king and his witan decreed for the...
Page 59 - Taunton was founded by Ine at some time before 722 ; we can hardly doubt, therefore, that it was founded as a new border fortress for the defence of his conquests. Its almost certain date will be in, or soon after, the year 710, the year when these conquests were completed.
Page 60 - ... human remains have been found in the ditches. Much of the pottery is undoubtedly Roman and some Romano-British. A small series of bronze coins ranging from the second to the fourth century has also been found. DEVONSHIRE. — OLD BURROW CAMP, EXMOOR. — Excavations were carried out here last autumn by Mr. WM Tapp, LL.D., FSA, and Mr. H. St. George Gray. The relics found were very few, chiefly small shards of much weathered pottery, but they also included an uncommon form of an iron axe-adze...
Page 134 - And at that time King Alfred, with a few of his nobles and some warriors and vassals besides, led an unquiet life in great tribulation in the woodland and marshy parts of Somerset.