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4 days ago · Rejecting the concept’s seasonality, Thompson and screenwriters John C.W. Saxton, Peter Jobin, and Timothy Bond patterned the mysterious killer’s actions around the idea of a grisly...
5 days ago · In 1382 John Cassey bought land in Wightfield from Thomas of Leigh. John Cassey, who was Chief Baron of the Exchequer from 1389, died in 1400 and was buried at Deerhurst. Wightfield presumably passed to John's son William and then to William's son John, described as of Wightfield in 1436.
1 day ago · Explaining linguistic change, and particularly the rise of Old English, is crucial in any account of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain.According to Higham, the adoption of the language—as well as the material culture and traditions—of an Anglo-Saxon elite, "by large numbers of the local people seeking to improve their status within the social structure, and undertaking for this purpose rigorous acculturation", is the key to understanding the transition from Romano-British to Anglo-Saxon.
5 days ago · In the reign of Hen. VIII. (fn. 8), the wardship of John, son of Sir John St. John, was granted to Sir Richard Carew (fn. 9), who married him to Margaret, one of his daughters, and probably gave the manor of Carshalton with her as a portion.
1 day ago · By becoming rulers of all England, the West Saxon kings had to administer regions with variant customs, governed under West Saxon, Mercian, or Danish law.
2 days ago · Bede's name reflects West Saxon Bīeda (Anglian Bēda). It is an Old English short name formed on the root of bēodan "to bid, command". The name also occurs in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, s.a. 501, as Bieda, one of the sons of the Saxon founder of Portsmouth.
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2 days ago · The term Anglo-Saxon is sometimes used to refer to a broader group of peoples descended or associated in some way with the English ethnic group, in ways which go beyond language, and often involve ideas about religion.
