Identifier: countiesofenglan01ditc (find matches)
Title: The counties of England, their story and antiquities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: Great Britain -- History England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he was buried at Aylesbury. Prayers for deliver-ance from danger were often addressed to her, and shewas commonly known at St. Sythe. Quarrendon alsogave birth to two other saints, the aunts of St. Osyth—St. Eaditha, abbess of Polesworth, and St. Edburg, whogave her name to Adderbury and Ellesborough. Theywere both buried at Aylesbury, the ^Egilsbury of theSaxons, which derives its name from Eglwys, signi-fying a church. King Offa, of Mercia, had a palace at Winslow, andheld his court there. Moved by devotion to AlmightyGod, he determined to found a monastery, and, directedby heavenly guidance, he gave his royal manor ofWinslow to his newly-founded abbey of St. Albans. It is unnecessary to record how the strife went onbetween the kingdoms of Mercia and Wessex, and howoften the district changed hands, until at length Egbert,the West Saxon king, established his rule over the wholecountry. But peace did not last long. The Danes beganto harass the district with many invasions. The great
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Buckinghamshire 373 white-leaf cross and the cross at Bledlow bear witnessto the fights when Edward the Elder defeated theravaging Danes at the battle of the bloody hill, andcut out the crosses on the chalk hill to commemoratehis victories. He built also two forts in the year 918at Buckingham, on each side of the river, to repel theDanish incursions, and, moreover, dictated his own termsof peace to the Danish chieftain, Turketil. But theysoon returned to the attack, and ravaged Buckingham,plundered the villages, drove away the cattle, and killedmany inhabitants between Aylesbury and Bernwoodforest. Again in 941 they came, and in 1010, when,having plundered the adjacent country, they retreatedthither to secure their stores of treasure. Three yearslater Sweyn marched along Watling Street, and allowedhis soldiers to plunder the country, burn the villages,deface the churches, and ill-use and slay the people.Peace was at length concluded at Oxford between thetwo nations, and the land had r

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