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A50038 The natural history of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak in Derbyshire with an account of the British, Phœnician, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. antiquities in those parts / by Charles Leigh ... Leigh, Charles, 1662-1701? 1700 (1700) Wing L975; ESTC R20833 287,449 522

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seems were for the Preservation of the Memory of Two Centuriont that had so many Years faithfully and worthily served the Romans there In the Year 1692 under the Root of an Oak in Med-Lock near Knot-Mill was found a Stone Three Quarters long Fifteen Inches broad Eleven Inches thick with the Letter'd side downward which Mr. Cambden saw not at least before the Finishing his Britania but is now to be seen in the Garden of Holme the Seat of Sir Iohn Bland Bar to whom that Estate descended the same formerly belonging to the Moseley's in Right of his Wife a Lady of great Temper Piety and Prudence The Inscription of the Stone is thus FORTVNAE CONSERVA TRICI LVCIVS SENACIANIVS MARTIVSBLEG VI. VICT. This seems to be an Altar dedicated to Fortune by Lucius Senecianus Martius Brutus a Commander in the Sixth Legion which remained in York in the Time of Severus his being there after he had vanquished Albinus General of the Britains and reduced their State under his Obedience It was surnamed Victrix and is plac'd by Dio in Lower Britain and the Twentieth Legion surnamed also Victrix remain'd at Chester which was plac'd in Higher Britain This Division it seems was made by the said Severus and the Country about it where these Legions were were divided into little Regions since call'd Hydes This was part of the Kingdom of Deiara several of whose Youth being sent to Rome and Pope Gregory admiring their Beauty sent over Augustine to convert the English Edward the First King of the West Saxons and afterwards of the Mercians sent into the Kingdom of the Northumbers an Army of the Mercians saith Hoveden ordering that they should fortifie the City of Manchester and place valiant Soldiers in it it being defac'd by the Danes It was a Frontier Town betwixt the Mercians that inhabited Cheshire and Derbyshire and the Northumbers inhabiting Lancashire and Yorkshire and in their Wars and mutual Incursions was sometimes possessed by the Mercians and sometimes the Northumbers Thus far our Author proceeds As to the present State of the Town it is vastly populous of great Trade Riches and Industry particularly for the Fustian Manufacture and Printing them as for those likewise which are call'd Manchester Wares both which are now sent all over the Kingdom as well as to the Indies It is watered by the Rivers Erwell and Irke Little can be added of Lancaster for Antiquity save that it was doubtless a Roman Fortress as appears by the Roman Wall and Road leading to it it is at this time a very thriving Corporation and an improving Port Its Eminency chiefly lies in this that many Branches of the Royal Family have enjoy'd Titles deriv'd from it which for the Dignity of the County in general I will enumerate as briefly as possible The First that was stiled Lord of the Place in the Beginning of the Norman Government was Roger of Poictou surnamed Pictarensis because his Wife came out of Poictou in France He was succeeded in that Honour by William Earl of Morton and Warren upon whose Death King Richard the First bestow'd it on his Brother Iohn afterwards King of England of whom Gualter De Hemingford and R. Hoveden gives this Account That King Richard shew'd great Affection to his Brother Iohn for besides Ireland and the Earldom in Normandy he bestow'd upon him such great Preferment in England that he was in a manner Tetrarch there For he gave him Cornwall Lancaster Nottingham and Derby with the adjacent Country and many other Things After this King Henry III. Son of King Iohn promoted his younger Son Edmund Crouchback he having been prevented of the Kingdoms of Sicily and Apuleia to the Earldom of Lancaster giving it in these Words The Honour Earldom Castle and Town of Lancaster with the Cow-Pastures which at this Day they call Vaccaries from thence and Forest of Wiresdale Lownsdale New-Castle under Lime with the Mannor Forest and Castle of Pickering the Mannor of Scateby the Village of Gormancester and the Rents of the Town of Huntingdon Edmund had Issue Thomas Henry and Iohn who died unmarried which Thomas was Second Earl of Lancaster and was succeeded in that Honour by his Brother Henry whose Son Henry was in Parliament created Duke of Lancaster being the Second Dukedom that was erected in England that of Cornwall being the First in the Person of Edward the Black Prince and left Two Daughters Maud Dutchess of Bavaria and Blanch married to Iohn of Gaunt so call'd because he was born at Ghent in Flanders Fourth Son of Edward the Third who thereby coming to the whole Estate and being now equal to many Kings in Wealth was created Duke of Lancaster by his Father he also obtain'd the Royalties from him and the King then advanced the County of Lancaster into a Palatinate By this Rescript wherein after he had declar'd the great Service he had done his Country at Home and Abroad he adds We have granted from Us and our Heirs to our Son aforesaid that he during his Term of Life shall have within the County of Lancaster his Chancery and his Writs to be issued out under his own Seal belonging to the Office of Chancellor his Justices likewise as well for Pleas of the Crown as for other Pleas relating to Common Law to have Cognizance of them and to have Power of making all Executions whatsoever by his Writs and Officers and to have all other Liberties and Royalties whatsoever appertaining to a County Palatine as freely and fully as the Earl of Chester within the said County is known to have Nor was he only Duke of Lancaster but by Marriage with Constantia Daughter to Peter King of Castile sometime bore the Title of King of Leon and Castile but by Contract he parted with this Title and in the Thirteenth of King Richard the Second was created Duke of Aquitaine by Consent of Parliament to the great Dissatisfaction of the Country At that Time his Titles were Iohn Son to the King of England Duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster Earl of Derby Lincoln and Leicester and High Steward of England After this Henry de Bullingbrook his Son succeeded in the Dutchy of Lancaster who having deposed Richard the Second obtained the Crown and conferr'd that Honour upon Henry his Son afterwards King of England and that he might entail it upon him and his Heirs for ever he had an Act of Parliament made in these Words We being unwilling that our said Inheritance or Liberties by reason of our now assuming the Regal Seat and Diguity shou'd be any ways chang'd transferr'd diminish'd or impair'd but that our said Inheritance with its Liberties and Rights aforesaid shou'd in the same Manner and Form Condition and State wherein they descended and fell to us and also with all and singular Liberties Franchizes and Priviledges Commodities and Profits whatsoever which our Lord and Father in his Life-time had and held it for term of his Life by Grant of the late King Richard and wholly
Duke of Mercia and the Danes hitherto continu'd their Usurpations He was deposed from his Dukedom by King Canutus and that Part of the Kingdom of Mercia was afterwards govern'd by Earls commonly stiled the Earls of Chester Of the Earls of Chester Leofric the Son of Leofwin the Danes still continuing in these Parts was a great Lover of Chester and adorn'd it with several Buildings Algar the Son of Leofric succeeded him he died in the Year 1059 and was buried at Coventry Edwin the Son of Edgar succeeded him in his Earldom but after the Defeat of Harold by William the Conqueror the Saxon Nobility ended and this Earl was by the Conqueror carried into Normandy from whence he attempted to make his Escape into Scotland but was slain in his Journey thither as Hoveden testifies Gherbod a Fleming was the First Earl of Chester after the Conquest then Hugh Lupus had the Earldom and he was succeeded by Richard his Son Ranulph Nephew to Hugh Lupus succeeded him in the Earldom then Ranulph Son of the former Ranulph receiv'd that Dignity in 1141 was poisoned and succeeded by Hugh Kevelioc his Son then Ranulph the Third surnamed Blundevill succeeded his Brother Hugh John Scot Nephew to Ranulph succeeded him he likewise was poisoned died at Darnel Grange in the Hundred of Edsbury in Cheshire and was buried at Chester After his decease Henry the Third held that Earldom in his own Hands till he created Edward his Son Earl of that Palatinate Edward the First Son of Henry the Third succeeded him who mightily delighted in the Pleasantness of the City of Chester and for that Reason termed the Country the Vale-Royal of England he was succeeded by Simon de Montfort who was a Warrior as appears from his Battle at Lewes in Sussex wherein he defeated the King and afterwards receiv'd the Earldom of Chester he was slain at Evesham and his Honours return'd to the Crown in 1265. Edward the Second born at Carnarvan in Wales succeeded him he was Earl of Chester and Flint Edward the Third his Son was created Earl of Chester as likewise Prince of Wales and Duke of Aquitain Edward the Black Prince ensu'd next then Richard his Son born at Burdeaux likewise assum'd the Title of Prince of Chester as Wallingham testifies Henry the Fifth was after him Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester Henry the Sixth succeeded him in that Earldom the next Earl was Edward Son of Henry the Sixth he was murthered at Tewksbury by Richard Crouchback Edward the Fifth succeeded him who was likewise murthered by his Uncle Edward the Son of King Richard the Third was next Earl of Chester then Arthur Eldest Son to Henry the Seventh who was succeeded by Henry the Eighth his Brother afterward Edward the Sixth then Prince Henry Eldest Son of King James the First and he was succeeded by King Charles the First and he by Charles the Second his Eldest Son Thus it remains Titular to the Royal Family and for ought appears may continue so for a Series of endless Generations The Bishops of Mercia The Two First Bishops were Diama and Ceollah Two Scotch Men the Third was Tramkere an English Man but ordain'd by the Scots after him Iarnman or German as Bede relates it To these succeeded Bishops who had sometimes their Sees at Coventry sometimes at Chester but most commonly at Litchfield Those were all in the Saxon Government of whom there is a full Account in Ingulphus Bede and others The First after the Conquest was Petrus who removed his Seat from Litchfield to Chester but was afterwards alter'd by Robert Pecaam who had Three Seats Chester Litchfield and Coventry but the Episcopal Seat was again restor'd to Chester in King Henry the Eighth's Time and that of St. Werburgh appointed the Cathedral Church and the Bishop made a Suffragan of York The Catalogue of the Bishops after that Time may be seen at large in Godwin and others The Barons of Chester The First Barons we read of were Nigell Baron of Haulton Robert Baron de Mount Hault Seneschal or Steward of the County of Chester who dying without Issue it came to Isabell Queen of England by Settlement and Iohn de Eltham Earl of Cornwall and his Heirs thence to William de Malbedenge Baron of Malbanc whose Great Grand-daughters transferr'd this Inheritance by their Marriages to the Vernons and Bassetts and for want of an Heir Male to Vernon Baron of Sipbroke it came by the Sisters to the Willburhams Staffords and Littleburys Robert Fitz-Hugh Baron of Malpas Hammons de Massey Fittons de Bolin Gilbert Venables Baron of Kinderton Warrens of Pointon Barons of Stockport descended from the Noble Family of the Earls of Warren and Surrey succeeded in Right of Marriage I have not met with any farther Antiquities of Chester or the County but by what has already been discover'd we may assuredly conclude the City of Chester to have been the most Ancient and August Colony in these Parts Derbyshire especially the Peak which in the Saxon Language fignifies Eminence part of the famous Mercian Kingdom whose Inhabitants were call'd Coritani will afford us but a slender Scene of Antiquities the very Nature of the Place rendring it inhospitable to Mankind and at the same time indulgent to Wolves and Beasts of Prey yet withal we may with Admiration contemplate the Conduct of wife and provident Nature where amidst all this unpolish'd Rubbish of the Globe she her self sits in State and displays her Works equally compatible with the most desirable Objects Those uneven Mountains she has made pregnant with a very useful and necessary Mettal and as useful Minerals she has here and there scatter'd her Disports for the Diversion of the Curious and cut out large Themes for Philosophical Enquiries she liberally affords Hot and Mineral Waters for the Relief and Comfort of infirm and decrepid Mortals so that these untractable and dispeopl'd Parts become frequented with numerous Crouds who yearly arrive here either through a Prospect of Ease from their Pains and Infirmities or for the pleasing Entertainment of the Mind with new Objects of which these Parts are very prolifick I will as briefly as I can give you my Thoughts of what is most remarkable I have not heard of any Roman Antiquities save that Place call'd Little Chester mention'd by Mr. Cambden where Coins of several sorts and different Mettals are sometimes dug up some of Copper Silver and Gold and an Altar mention'd by Mr. Gibson dug up near Bakewell in the Grounds belonging to Haddon House the present Seat of the Right Honourable the Earl of Rutland with this Inscription DEO MARTI BRACIACAE OSITIUS CAECILIAN PRAEFECT TRO V. S. As to the Tooth Skull and Bones found in digging a Grove mention'd by Mr. Gibson I have spoke of such Forms before and take them to be only the Lusus Naturae in Sparr and other indurated Bodies which unquestionably at the first were all fluid and capable of any Impression We
and fully continu'd preserv'd and enjoy'd by Us and our Heirs specify'd in the said Charters and by the Tenure of these presents we do upon our certain Knowledge and with the Consent of this our present Parliament grant declare decree and ordain for Us and our Heirs that as well our Dutchy of Lancaster as all and singular Counties Mannors Honours Castles Fees Advowsons Possessions Annuities and Seigniories whatsoever descended to us before the Royal Dignity was obtain'd by us how or in what Place soever by Right of Possession Inheritance or in Reversion or other way remain to Us and our said Heirs specify'd in the Charter abovesaid after the said Manner for ever And in this State and Condition it remain'd from that time saving that Edward the Fourth in the First Year of his Reign when he had attainted Henry the Sixth for Treason appropriated it as they term it to the Crown that is to say to him and his Heirs Kings of England However Henry the Seventh broke this Entail and so at this Day it has its peculiar Officers namely a Chancellor Attorney Clerk of the Court Six Assessors a Messenger Two Auditors Three and Twenty Receivers and Three Supervisors Chester the Metropolis of that County Palatine is very remarkable for the many Antiquities there discover'd and will furnish us with Variety of Matter both in relation to its self and the many celebrated Personages that have receiv'd Titles from it that it was Eminent in the Romans Days is unquestionable by the numerous Spoils of their Grandeur and Magnificence found there I will briefly give you the most noted Observations of Mr. Cambden upon it and then add what has been more lately observ'd That it was a Roman Colony the Tyles daily dug up there confirm to us on the Reverse of some is inscrib'd Col. Divana Leg. XX. Victrix It is true indeed we cannot expect to behold the stately Ruines of the Place in this Generation which preceding Ages did yet even in the last Age it was not barren of them as Ranulph a Monk of this City tells us in his Polycronicon There are Ways says he under Ground wonderfully arch'd with Stone-work Vaulted Dining-Rooms huge Stones engraven with the Names of the Ancients and sometimes Coins dug up with the Names of Iulius Caesar and other famous Men. Likewise Roger of Chester in his Polycraticon When I beheld the Foundations of vast Buildings up and down in the Streets it seem'd rather the Effect of Roman Strength and the Work of Giants than of British Industry As to its Situation Lucian the Monk who lived Five Hundred Years ago speaks very largely both for its Pleasantness and Conveniency and doubtless it was an Argument of the Roman Prudence here first to form a Camp for so the Word Chester from Castrum implies and then to build a City for as Lucian observes this Place standing in the West Parts of Britain was very convenient to receive the Roman Legions transported hither and besides it was proper for Watching the Frontiers of the Empire and was a perfect Key to Ireland its Harbour supply'd it with the Products of all Europe For says the same Author Ships come in from Gascoigne Spain Ireland and Germany so that we drink Wine very plentifully Mr. Cambden takes no Notice of any Antiquities in this City except some Pavements of Chequer-work so that our Votive Altars and Curiosities must be of more modern Discovery Mr. Gibson indeed the late Publisher of him with Additions has an Altar with this Inscription I. O. M. TANARO T. ELVPIVS GALER PRAESENS GVVA PRI. LEG XX. VV. COMMODO ET LATERANO COS. V. S. L. M. Which he thus reads * But upon this Altar Mr. Prideaux who writ the Marmora Arundeliana Comments thus That it is an Altar dedicated to Iupiter the Thunderer Tanar in the British Language signifying Thunder and makes Praesens Guna to Praeses Gunathae that is Governour of North Wales Iovi Optimo Maximo Tanaro Titus Elupius Galerius Praesens gubernator Principibus Legionis Vicessimae Victricis Valeriae Commodo Laterano Consulibus Votum solvit Lubens Merito From which Inscription he argues the Twentieth Legion was stiled Victrix Valeria and not Valens Victrix as Mr. Cambden and others wou'd have it Another Inscription he mentions is VARONIV ......... ECTVS LEG XX VV c. And here the V being doubled he appeals to Dio who says the Twentieth Legion which is call'd Valeria and Victrix is now in upper Britain which Augustus preserv'd together with the other Legion that hath the Name of Vicesima and hath its Winter-Quarters in Lower Germany and neither now is nor then was usually and properly call'd Valeria He farther proceeds that Valeria may as well be allow'd as to other Legions the Additional Titles of Ulpia Flavia Claudia Trajana Antonina c. were But as to this disputed Title we shall give the Reader full Satisfaction in what follows Before I take Notice of his other Altar communicated to him by Mr. Henry Prescot of Chester let me insert what the same Author acquaints us was found round it About the Foundation where the Altar lay were to be seen the Signs of a Sacrifice as the Bones Horns and Heads of several Creatures as the Ox Roe-Buck c. with these Two Coins 1. Brass on the first side IMP. CAES. VESPASIAN AVG. COS. III. And the Face of the Emperor on the Reverse Victoria Augusti S. C. and a Winged Victory standing 2. Copper on the first side FL. VAL. Constantius Nob. C. And the Face of Constantius on the Reverse Genio Populi Romani a Genius standing holding a Bowl used in Sacrifices in the Right Hand and a Cornucopia in the Left One of these Coins is not spoke of in the following Manuscript given me by Mr. Prescot so I thought it not amiss to quote Mr. Gibson for it But that I may now do Justice to the Courtesie and Generosity of that curious Gentleman Mr. Henry Prescot of Chester the Reader may here take a full Account of that Altar from his Manuscript To Kendrick Eyton Esq at Eyton in the County of Denbigh SIR Chester Ian. 12. 1693. THE Altar found here is a considerable Piece of Antiquity it does indeed prove it self so at first sight but because the Names of the Emperors and Consuls are wanting it requires greater Skill in Antiquity than I pretend to to fix its Aera however since you command me I will give my Conjectures upon that and other Circumstances of it In Iuly last 1693. upon Occasion of digging a Place for a Cellar in the House of Mr. Heath in the East-Gate about Two Foot deep it was found with the Inscription downward upon a Stone Two Foot square and One in thickness which is supposed to have been the Pedestal being mouldred off on three sides the Foundation lay deep and broad consisting of many great Stones the Earth about was solid but of several Colours and Ashes were frequently found About the
Lancashire received their Denominations from that People by an easie Corruption As to the Kings of Mercia who were Governours of this Province in that famous Heptarchy of the Saxons the first of the Royal List is by Hollingshead call'd Crida who left it to his Son Wibba Anno Dom. 595 this King had Wars with the Northumbers and slaughter'd Twelve Hundred Monks at Bangor Anno Dom. 604 as is manifest from the Computation made by Henry of Huntington and Bede's Ecclesiastical History This City till now was in the Possession of the Britains but their King being defeated it fell into the Hands of the Northumbers as Malmesbury testifies but as Sir Henry Spelman observes they were stopped by the British Forces under the Command of Bledrick Duke of Cornwall Manaduc Duke of South Wales and Cadwan Duke of North Wales who slew Ten Thousand of their Soldiers and forced them to retreat to their own Country North of Trent Cadwan was now crown'd King in the City of Chester as Dr. Powel Gyraldus in his Description of Wales and Dr. Llwyd affirm Ceolus Brother of Wibba was the next Mercian King and Penda the Son of Wibba succeeded him Anno Dom. 625. He was a great Warrior and succeeded by Peada the Son of Penda Anno Dom. 655. he married Alfleda Daughter of Oswy upon Condition he would turn Christian as Florentinus testifies and was baptized by Finanus in the King of Northumberland's Palace Afterwards he founded the stately Abby of Peterborough he was succeeded by King Oswey as Bede relates who was dethroned by Three Captains Immin Eada and Eadberht and Wulferus fixed on the Mercian Throne he was the second Son of Penda and began his Reign 658 In the Beginning of his Reign he was unfortunate but at length gain'd the chief Rule over the Saxons Etheldred succeeded him A. D. 676 in the Kingdom of Mercia this Prince changed his Crown into a Cowl and became a Monk in the Abby of Bardny in Lincolnshire as the Monast. Angl. informs us Upon this Resignation of the Throne Kenred the Son of Wulfer ascended it He took a Journey to Rome A. D. 709 became one of the Religious and died there Cheldred the Son of Etheldred succeeded next in 716 and was buried at Litchfield in Staffordshire Ethelbald the Son of Alwey the Son of Eoppa the Son of Wibba began his Reign the same Year of our Lord as appears by the Saxon Annals he laid the Foundation of and gave a Charter to the Abby of Crowland in Lincolnshire he was powerful in Arms and lead a great Army against Somerton Castle Six Miles from Glastenbury in Somersetshire An. 757 he was slain at Sekinton in Warwickshire and buried at Repton in Derbyshire his Death was brought about by his own Subjects especially Bernred who succeeded him in the Mercian Kingdom He lost his Kingdom to Offa his Successor for his Parentage and Progeny not being known the Legality of his Right was suspected so he was deposed and afterwards burnt after his Engagment with Offa Egfrid the Son of King Offa succeeds him whose Reign was One Hundred and Forty One Days he was buried at St. Alban's and succeeded by Kenulph in Seven Hundred and Ninty Six In his Reign Egbert King of the West Saxons wasted the Welsh Territories and took the City of Chester from them he died in the Fourth Year of his Reign and was buried at Winchcomb in Gloucestershire An. Eight Hundred and Twenty as Malmsbury testifies Kenelm succeeded him an Infant and he as Ingulph reports died a Martyr Some say he was murthered and buried at Clent in Staffordshire Ceoluph was expelled his Kingdom by Bernulf who was an Usurper and began his Reign An. Eight Hundred and Twenty Two he was slain in the Fourth Year of his Reign by the East Angles Ludican his Kinsman began his Reign in 826 and he likewise was slain in Battle by the East Angles Whitnaff of the Mercian Blood Royal was chosen King before he understood Martial Discipline he was overthrown in a Battle by Egbert's Captains and absconded in a Monastery as Huntington testifies he died in Eight Hundred and Forty and was buried at Repton in Derbyshire Bertulph Brother of Whitnaff by Permission of the Saxon Monarch obtained the Mercian Kingdom An. Eight Hundred and Forty Eight In the Year Eight Hundred and Forty Nine King Alfred was born in the Third Year of whose Age the Danes came into the Mouth of the Thames with Three Hundred and Fifty Nine Ships with whom Bertulph had an unhappy Engagement as Hoveden testifies he died in Eight Hundred and Fifty Three In that Year Burthred ascended the Mercian Throne and was assaulted by the Danes This King died at Rome and was buried in the Church of the English Colledge there dedicated to the Virgin Mary Selulfe a Servant of his was substituted by the Danes in his Room in Eight Hundred and Seventy Five and bound by Oath to keep Possession in their Name as the Saxon Annals assure us He commanded the Danish Army against King Alfred An. Eight Hundred and Seventy Seven In the Year Eight Hundred and Eighty Six after King Alfred had overpower'd his Enemies he made Etheldred Duke of Mercia and Captain of his Forces in the City of London and so the Mercian Kingdom ended and instead of Kings the noble Alfred substituted Dukes under him to Govern it which happen'd in the Year 886 as Matthew of Westminster testifies it having continued under the Reign of Twenty Two Kings from King Crida Of the Dukes of Mercia Etheldred one of the Race of the Kings of Mercia being constituted Duke he married Elfleda the Daughter of Alfred The Danes in 894 took the City of Chester but were therein besieged and reduced to great Streights and they quitted it in 908 as Matthew of Westminster affirms This Duke and his Lady Repaired the City of Chester and Wall'd it about he was buried at Gloucester Afterwards Elfled ruled and built Edesbury once a famous City now nothing but Rubbish It is at this Day call'd the Chamber of the Forest. Near this Place are many Fortifications and Fosses she made Wars upon the Britains at the Castle of Brecknock took it and therein their Queen and Thirty Three Prisoners She had a War with the Danes at Derby assaulted the Castle and took it She died at Tamworth the Thirteenth of July and was buried in the Porch of St. Peter Elswina the Daughter of Etheldred succeeded her An. 919. The City of Chester in 941 was surprized by the Welsh and won again by King Edward the Elder whose Fifth Son Edward married this Elswina as Matthew of Westminster testifies who was Mother to King Edgar At this Time the Danes still usurped some Parts of England Alfarus was the next Duke of Mercia Alfric the Son of Alfar succeeded him in 986 who when he shou'd have engag'd the Danish Army counterfeited an Infirmity to the Dishonour of the Nation Edrick the Son of Egilricus was the Sixth