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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844. Excerpt: ... Mercia--founded by Cridda in 582; Gloucester, Hereford, Worcester, Warwick, Leicester, Rutland, Northampton, Lincoln, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Stafford, Derby, Salop, Nottingham, Chester, and the other part of Hertford. 15. Egbert, king of Wessex, or the West Saxons, having subdued all the other chiefs of the Heptarchy, united the whole under his own dominion, and thus became sole monarch of all Angle-land, or England, about A.d. 828. 16. His descendants held the sovereignty until dispossessed by the Danes, who ruled from 1013 to 1041, when the Saxon line being restored in the person of Edward the Confessor, continued until the memorable battle of Hastings, A.d. 1066. 17. By the result of this battle, the Norman princes became masters of England, and in their line the sovereignty has descended, directly or indirectly, to the present day. 18. Adjoining Britain were the Orcades, Orkney Isles, Hebrides, Western Isles, Mono, Tahiti, Isle of Anglesea, Mona Ccesaris, Isle of Man, Vectis, Isle of Wight, and Cassiterides, Scilly Isles. lerne, Juverna, or Hibemia, now Ireland, was known only by name to the ancients, who bestowed upon it also the appellation of Britannia Minor. 19. On the west coast of Gaul were, Uxantos, Ushant, Sarmia, Guernsey, Ccesarea, Jersey, Riduna, Alderney, Vindilis, Belle-isle, Pictonum, Rhe, and Uliarus, Oleron. ISLES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. 1. The Baleares, deriving their name from the skill of the inhabitants in slinging and archery, on the coast of Spain. Their names were Balearis Major, now Majorca, Balearis Minor, now Minorca, and Ebusa, now Ivica. We are told by Florus that the mothers never gave the children breakfast before they had hit with an arrow a certain mark in a tree, or until they had struck down their food...
