. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times. ^,literally translated from the British, Cader, the seat of , who gives the most probable account of the derivation ofthe name, attributes it to Edwin, king of Northumberland, Avho, * C. 62. from 50 ^ ft j:s tJ ^ fv: S- 1 W c- /e So M 1 ^ ^ fed ?^1 ^ ^ ?^ o ^ 1 g 1 ?? 1 i-d 63 N r^ ;> 0 > r*j. 465 from tlie conquests of his predecessors, was in possession of all thetract from Humber to
. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times. ^,literally translated from the British, Cader, the seat of , who gives the most probable account of the derivation ofthe name, attributes it to Edwin, king of Northumberland, Avho, * C. 62. from 50 ^ ft j:s tJ ^ fv: S- 1 W c- /e So M 1 ^ ^ fed ?^1 ^ ^ ?^ o ^ 1 g 1 ?? 1 i-d 63 N r^ ;> 0 > r*j. 465 from tlie conquests of his predecessors, was in possession of all thetract from Humber to the firth of Forth. i\ccordini<;ly Ave Gnd, inAery old writers, that the place was called Edwiasburch, and Ed-winsburg*. It continued in the hands of the Saxons, or English,from the invasion of Octa and Ebusa, in the year 4,52, till the defeatof Elfrid, king of Northumberland, in 655, by the Picts, who thenrepossessed themselves of it for about four centuries. Jhe Saxon kingsof Northumberland reconquered it in the ninth century, and their suc-cessors retained it till it was given up to Indnlfus, king of Scotland,about the year 956. All the names in this liact arc of Saxon origin,and the language now spoken is full of old English words andphrases. The castle is of great strength; and, as it was for a long timesupposed to be impregnable, was called the Maiden Castle. Ed-ward I. in 129(), made himself master of it in a tcw days : but inthe reign of his successor, it was, in 1313, surprized an
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