NORTHUMBERLAND. 
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fucceffion of eve i 
hoftile to the jmmédiate pier kien of Ae glorious a 
tiny fo aufpicioufly begun. Penda, the Pagan king of Mer- 
cia, oe Ceadwallo, king of the teat to = up 
arms, and throw off the Northumbrian yoke ; the two mo- 
ir fotces, and waited the a nce of Edwin, 
owerful force to 
pryryey 
Penda and Ceadwallo now penetrated into the kingdom 
of aru pain and fpread death and defolation every 
where around t Penda in particular, if belief can be 
given to the mo onkith hiftorians, directed his favage vengeance 
with ten-fold cruelty againft the Chriftian inhabitants ; till 
at length fated with blood, both he and the Britifh monarch 
oT to their own dominion 
Again en aye 
and the 
ment was fought at Zane he on the border# “of the. county ; 3 
and eventually enabled er to affume the crown of Nor- 
thumberland, by a re-union of the kingdoms of Bernicia and 
Deira. Ofwald hkewife a the Chriftian religion, and 
fucceeded, by his are condud, in wholly extirpating 
Pagani m from his dom e is much celebrated by the 
monkith sealer for his fanétity and charity, which procured 
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ours of ayaa {wald died in battle 
agaiaft ft Penda, king o and was fucceeded by his 
natural brother Ofwy, ae ‘eftablifhed himfelf on the Nor- 
thumbrian throne, by putting to death Ofwin, the fon o 
Ofric, the lait, eo the race of pe hae fon Egfrid 
fucceeded, ‘him, w flain in an en ment with the 
a years of age, is prince 
reigned eleven’ years, ies was murdered by his infman Ken- 
having fuffered the pac La t of his b by a fimilar 
ate fric, and after him Celwulph, Kenred, 
ext mounted the t one ; which the latter relinquifhed in 
favour of ert, his coufin-germ He, imitating his 
predeceffor, abdicated the crown alfo, and retired into a 
ery. lf, fon to Eadbert, perifhed in an infur- 
his acceffion, when the fovereignty was 
feized be a nobleman named Mollo, who. reiyned ten years, 
and was flain by the treachery of Alured. his ae a 
Sadat from Ida, firft king of Northumberland, now ob- 
tained the fceptre, but, conducting himfelf eranncally, was 
expelled by his fubjeéts: Ethelred, his fucceffor, was like- 
wife compelled to renounce his authority ; and Ce ad, the 
next king, was depofed and flain by the eg ee - sy = 
filled by Ofred, who, after reigning on e way 
ain for Ethelred, whofe death was equi gel as that 
of An univerfal anarchy now 
Egbe of Wellex, fubdued th , and ren- 
dered it tary to his crown. From this‘time Northum- 
berland remained in fubje€tion to the Welt Saxon yoke, till it 
nearly ex 
prietars, end fettled themfelves in the deferted territories. 
Thus ended the powerful monarchy of Northumberland, 
after it had fubfifted three hundred and thjrty years. As the 
poffeffors of the land were now entirely Danes, Dam laws 
prevailed throughout its entire extent, and sy geal ini force 
till the time of Edward the Confeffor, when they were incor- 
porated with the he 
whole ee commonto England 
af Edwa The governors fabteqnent to this period were 
hereditary eae, who fometimes affumed the title and infignia 
of royalty. - Edgar, however, deeming the hereditary rule 
oO fo extenlive a count ry an elevation too high fora fubject, 
divided it into two ditting portions; and not long after 
ranted all the diftri@, from the Tweed to Edinburgh, to 
nay me of Scotland, to be for ever annexed to his do- 
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general, an office of a sles nature, and ufually held by 
one of the dukes or. earls of Alohes paar ere The exe- 
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