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kingdom_n	east_n	king_n	saxon_n	1,827	5	11.5006	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32756	Proposals for printing a book entituled, The history and antiquities of Hertfordshire. Written by Sir Henry Chauncy, Kt, Serjeant at law. Containing, ...	Chauncy, Henry, Sir, 1632-1719.	1700 (1700)	Wing C3742; ESTC R213936	7,544	4

who lived about that Time but would have every one believe that the Saxons denominated this Town Hartford from a Ford of Harts which he fancies was both consonant to the Sound of the Name and to the Nature and Situation of the Place but cites not any Record History or Authority that proves his Opinion or that there was any Forest or Chace in this County but doubtless it is merely called Hartford for Hertford by reason of the broad Dialect and ill speaking of the vulgar sort of People which oftentimes through long usage changes the true Names of divers Places and in allusion to this new Name some Herald hath lately given to this Corporation a Coat of Arms wherein they bear a Hart Gules fording through a River In the beginning of the Heptarchy Heylin's Geograph p 313. Pryns Col. of Parl. p. 6. Matth. Westm Ann. 673. p. 236. edit 1570. Flo. Wig. 673. this Town was accounted one of the principal Cities in the Kingdom of the East Saxons where the Kings of that Province often kept their Court and in Anno Christi 673 a Parliamentary Council or National Synod was held on the 24th day of September in which Assembly Nisin and Kentin two Kings of the Heptarchy Theodorus Archbishop of Canterbury Putta Bishop of Rochester Elutherius Bishop of the West Saxons Winfrid Bishop of the Mercians and all the Nobles appeared in Person but Bisi Bishop of the East Angles and Wilfrid Bishop of the Northumbers appeared by their Deputies Aecci and Baldwin they being sick at that time and the Archbishop who presided in this Council produced a Book wherein he had noted ten Articles taken out of the Book of Canons requiring that the same might be received 1. That the Feast of Easter should be kept on the Sunday following the fourteenth day of the first Month. Spel. Con. 2. That no Bishop should intermeddle in anothers Diocese but be content with the Care of his own Flock 3. That no Bishop should in any thing disquiet any Monastery consecrated to God nor take by Violence any Goods that belonged to the same 4. That Bishops being Monks should not go from Monastery to Monastery except by sufferance or permission of their Abbots and should continue in the same Obedience wherein they stood before 5. That none of the Clergy should depart from his Bishop to run into any other Diocese nor coming from any other Place should be admitted unless he brought testimonial Letters with him but if any such Person should be received and should be sent for home and refuse to return both he and his Receiver should be excommunicated 6. That Bishops and others of the Clergy being Strangers should be content with the Benefit of Hospitality and should not take in hand any Priest's Office without Licence of the Bishop in whose Diocese he should remain 7. That twice in the Year a Synod should be kept but because of divers impediments herein they did think good that in the Calends of August a Synod should be kept once in the Year at a certain place called Cloveshook 8. That no Bishop should by his Ambition seek to be preferred before another but that every one should know the time and order of his Consecration 9. That as the Number of the Christians increased so there should be more Bishops ordained 10. That none should contract Matrimony with any Person but with such as should be lawful by the Orders of the Church None should make an incestuous Marriage None should forsake his Wife except for Fornication but if any Man did put away his Wife which he had lawfully married if he would be accounted a true Christian he may not be coupled with another but so remain or be reconciled to his own Wife These Articles were confirmed with the Subscription of all their Hands so that all those who should go against the same should be degraded from their Priesthood and separated from the Company of all of them But from the time of holding this Parliamentary Synod I cannot find any Record or History that gives any further account of this Town till the time of King Alfred for in the time of the Saxon Heptarchy those Petty Kings endeavour'd much to enlarge their Dominions and did often invade each others Country whereby great Waste and Spoil was committed by reason of those continual Wars so that no Memorials could be preserved during those troublesome times When these Petty Kings had weakened themselves and wearied out the People with Sword and Rapine at home King Egbert subdued his neighbouring Princes and made himself the first English Monarch and he divided this Land into Provinces that he might with the greater Ease distribute Justice to his People and keep his Subjects in Peace and Quiet and he denominated this Province from this Town and made it the Shire or County-Town for at that time this was the most remarkable Place and the greatest Town in this Province and the most convenient place for the Governour to manage the Affairs of the County and when this King died which was An. Christi 836 the Possession of this Town came to his Son Ethelwolph But the Danes and other barbarous People in those Pagan Countries Chron. Ethel 478. num 40. W. Malms 19. n. 40. Hov. 236. num 70. Chro. Sax. 544 545. Asser Min. H. Hunt Hist l. 5. p. 201. n. 10. Hol. Vol. 1. Histor Engl. 147. Hollingsh Desc Brit. 51. discovering the Poverty and miserable Condition which the late Wars had brought upon the Inhabitants of this Island took that opportunity to invade this Kingdom and did destroy the People and wasted this Land many years together sparing neither Age nor Sex and in An. Christi 894 and 23 of King Alfred they riding with their Navy in the River of Thames sailed up the River Lea with light Pinnaces and Ships and built a Fort on the Bank of the River about the place where the Town of Ware now stands and fortifi'd it with a great Wear which they raised about it by a great Bank or Damm which penn'd up the Water about the Fort from whence the Danes made their Excursions and assailed this Town of Heorutford spoil'd the Inhabitants and burn'd their Houses to the ground which caused King Alfred the same Year to levy an Army who built a Castle at this Town being about twenty Miles distant from London whither a great part of the Citizens of London and other People repaired and modelling themselves into an Army did attempt to destroy the Danish Fort at Ware but in that Action four of the King's Officers were slain and his Army put to flight When the Summer approach'd the King encamped with his Army on both sides the River and view'd the Fort which the Danes had fortified and when he had discovered the Strength of their Walls and the Order of their Ships fenced about with Stakes and knew that they would command all the Corn in the Field for their Garrison which was