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appears from a charter in the Monasticon, there was at the 
west end of the bridge a piece of land called Winnet, corres- 
ponding to " Wynnet " and " Wynnod," of two Welsh ver- 
sions of the " Brut," and to the "Winwsed" of Venerable 
Bseda. The etymology of the name Winwaed, " the ford 
of the battle," seems to show that it was not the name of 
the river, but rather of the spot where the fugitives 
attempted to cross, and were drowned in the flood. It is 
remarkable that Speed, in his maps, places the battle-field 
in the neighbourhood of Kirkstall Abbey. It does not 
appear what his authority was for doing so, but he was 
undoubtedly right. 
The notice in the Annals of Cambria, of the execution of 
Penda in the year following the battle is valuable, for it 
explains the statement in Venerable Baeda, who does not say 
that he was killed in the battle, but mentions his execution 
as a circumstance subsequent to the date of the conclusion 
of the war, November 15th, A.D. 655. It would appear 
that he fell into Oswiu's power, and was beheaded by his 
orders some months afterwards. The British story is valu- 
able in another respect, inasmuch as it shows clearly, what 
might, indeed, have been inferred from the other account, 
that Oswiu was resident in Leeds at the time, and that it 
was against Leeds, as Oswiu's royal city, that Penda's attack 
was directed. 
The discovery of these fragments having established the 
fact that Leeds, which had become a royal city in the seventh 
century, continued to be so until the extinction of the North- 
umbrian monarchy, and was the burial place of its last king, 
it may be interesting to mention the existence of a coin, 
which, taken in connection with the probability that Leeds 
is the British Cair Luid (or Loit) Coit, and Ludeu of 
Nemrius and Geoffrey of Monmouth, seems to prove that it 
had, also, what might be expected from its being a royal 
