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The earliest record of an English eel-rent is from 8th C. Wessex. The annual rent for 10 hides of land (c. 300 acres) in King Ine's territory included:

- 10 honey vats
- 300 loaves
- 32 ambers of ale
- 2 cows
- 10 geese
- 20 hens
- 10 cheeses
- 1 amber of butter
- 100 eels

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2022-09-14

Calm Before the Danes: Guest Post by Annie Whitehead : My novel, To Be a Queen, tells the story of Aethelflaed, daughter of Alfred the Great. She effectively became ruler of what was by then little more than a satellite kingdom of Wessex. https://t.co/lpyDhWUbj8

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2022-06-05

St. Walpurga's brothers were St. Winibald and St. Willibald. Their mother was St. Wuna.

Of Wessex.

Imagining their playground days with those names I get why they moved to Germany.

No word yet on implied go-Kart rival Saints Malpurga, Millibald etc.

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2022-04-30

The earliest record of an English eel-rent is from 8th C. Wessex. The annual rent for 10 hides of land (c. 300 acres) in King Ine's territory included:

- 10 honey vats
- 300 loaves
- 32 ambers of ale
- 2 cows
- 10 geese
- 20 hens
- 10 cheeses
- 1 amber of butter
- 100 eels

7 79
2021-11-27

Alfred of Wessex was the King of the Wessex. He styled himself as the "King of the Anglo-Saxons.” He was shrewd, wise, cultured, ruthless and used his intelligence and his deep Christian beliefs to drive towards English power to gain alliances and defeat his enemies. (Segue)

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2021-01-27

Evidence of an Anglo-Saxon Alliance 

The Watlington hoard, found in Oxfordshire in 2015, is a gift to the historian. It dates from the 870s: a decade which saw Alfred the Great face and, after some near misses, stave off a Viking invasion of Wessex...

https://t.co/K1WyapfO77

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2019-11-11

Today, 25 May is Also known for the feast day of Saint Aldhelm considered the patron saint of To celebrate all things visit our partner museums today and look out for our spotlight loans

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2018-05-25