The Quarterly Review, Volume 34William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1826 |
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... Mercia , dated at Kingsbury on Saturday in Easter - week , 851 , recites that the monks of Croyland having preferred their complaint before the Prelates and Peers of Mercia concerning various trespasses , the King ordered Radbod the ...
... Mercia , dated at Kingsbury on Saturday in Easter - week , 851 , recites that the monks of Croyland having preferred their complaint before the Prelates and Peers of Mercia concerning various trespasses , the King ordered Radbod the ...
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... Mercia and their dependencies , together with a few gleanings from Northumbria . The devastations of the Danes will account for the absence of the documents relating to the establishments which they destroyed , but it is not so easy to ...
... Mercia and their dependencies , together with a few gleanings from Northumbria . The devastations of the Danes will account for the absence of the documents relating to the establishments which they destroyed , but it is not so easy to ...
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... Mercia , governed the Hwic- cian territory for many generations . And the genealogies of the Mercian princes themselves are not clearly deduced . Most of the Anglo - Saxon names are significant , and the alliteration which was the basis ...
... Mercia , governed the Hwic- cian territory for many generations . And the genealogies of the Mercian princes themselves are not clearly deduced . Most of the Anglo - Saxon names are significant , and the alliteration which was the basis ...
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... Mercia are imper- fectly told , except when in connection with the history of Wessex : and the narrative relating to Northumbria is extremely jejune . Yet the imperfections of the Chronicle are the vouchers for its fidelity . It would ...
... Mercia are imper- fectly told , except when in connection with the history of Wessex : and the narrative relating to Northumbria is extremely jejune . Yet the imperfections of the Chronicle are the vouchers for its fidelity . It would ...
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... Mercia and Wessex , is almost entirely lost . Jarrow , and Durham , and Lindisfarne , the ancient seats of religion and learning , were plundered and destroyed , all their libraries perished , and the few , but impor- tant , details of ...
... Mercia and Wessex , is almost entirely lost . Jarrow , and Durham , and Lindisfarne , the ancient seats of religion and learning , were plundered and destroyed , all their libraries perished , and the few , but impor- tant , details of ...
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