144 ENGLAND. 



Kingdoms erected by the Saxons, usually styled the Saxon Heptarchy, 



KINGDOMS. COUNTIES. 



1 . Kent, founded by f" 



Hengist in 475, and-< Kent . i . 

 ended in 823 . . (_ 



2. South Saxons, f 



founded by Ella in J Sussex . . . 

 491, and ended in j Surry . . . 

 600 l_ 



3; East Angles, found- J c„«v.ii,. 

 ed by Uffa in 575 

 and ended in 793 



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CHIEF TOWNS. 



Canterbury 



4, West Saxons, found- 

 ed by Cerdic in 512,'} 

 and ended in 1060 



5. Northumberland, 

 founded by Ida 

 574, and 

 792 



J Suffolk 



' ] Cambridge, with 

 (JThe Isle of Ely 

 Cornwall . . 

 Devon . . 

 Dorset . . 

 Somerset 

 Wilts . . 

 Hants 

 Berks 



Lancaster . 

 York . . 

 Durham 

 Cumberland 

 ended in*^ Westmoreland 



Northumberland St Scot- 

 land, to the frith of 



I 



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Chichester 

 Southwark 



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J 



~] Norwich 



• Bury St. Edmunds. 



[Cambridge 



J Ely 



Launceston. 



Exeter 



Dorchester 

 ^Bath 



Salisbury 



Winchester 



Abingdon 



Lancaster 



York 



Durham 



Carlisle 

 Appleby 



Newcastle- 



Edinburgh 

 i. East Saxons, found- C Essex 

 ed by Erchewin in- Middlesex, 

 527, and ended in 746 , 



Mercia, founded by 

 Cridda in 582, and<^ 

 ended in 874 . 



and part of 



Hertford .... 



The other part of Hertf.- 



Gloucester 



Hereford 



Worcester ..... 

 Warwick ..... 

 Leicester . 



Rutland 



Northampton 



London 



Hertford 



Glouceste'r 



Hereford 



W&rcester 



Warwick 



Leicester 



Oakham 



Northampton 



Lincoln . . . . . . Lincoln 



Huntingdon 

 Bedford . . 

 Buckingham 

 Oxford . . 

 Stafford . . 

 Derby . . 

 Salop . . 

 Nottingham 

 Chester . . 



[Huntingdon 

 Bedford 

 Aylesbury 

 Oxford 

 Stafford 

 Derby 

 Shrewsbury 

 Nottingham 

 Chester 



It is the more necessary to preserve these divisions, as they ac- 

 count for different customs, and many very essential modes of inheri- 

 tance, which to this day prevail in England, and which took their rise 

 from different institutions under the Sa^Qjis. Since the Norman 



