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The eighth and last kingdom of the Heptarchy, between the Thames and the Humber. It was the merc or boundary of the Anglo-Saxons and free Britons of Wales.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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