. A topographical dictionary of England : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions ; and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bouroughs, bishoprics, universities, and colleges, and of the seals of the various municipal corporations. Stade, signifying aplace on a river, and from tie- trajectm or ford across the Sow, on Which -tream it i- situated. It i- -aid tohave been ID 705 the devotional retirement of St. Iier- telin, the
. A topographical dictionary of England : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions ; and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bouroughs, bishoprics, universities, and colleges, and of the seals of the various municipal corporations. Stade, signifying aplace on a river, and from tie- trajectm or ford across the Sow, on Which -tream it i- situated. It i- -aid tohave been ID 705 the devotional retirement of St. Iier- telin, the son of a Mercian king, upon whose expulsionfrom his hermitage, at a -pot (ailed Berteliney orBetheney, meaning the island of Bertelin, severalhonsea wen- built, which formed tin- origin of the present town. I n [)\ .,, Et belfll -da, (oiiiii I H I >i MlU. erected a castle on the north side of the river, and sur-rounded the town with Walla and a foSSe, of whiih theonly remain! are one side of a groove for ■ port* nllis, atthe entrance to Bastgate street. Kdwanl the Elder,brother of Ethelfleda, about a ] ar liter the erection olthe castle, buill ■ tower, the site of which Mr. Pennantsupposes to have been the mount called b) Speed Iih Hill. Prom this period to the Conqu it, the townappears to have increased considerably in extent andImportance; and though it had received no chartet olni .. Jrms, incorporation, it is in Domesday book called a city, theking having eighteen burgesses in demesne here, and theearls of Mercia twenty mansions. William, out ofall the manors in the county, reserved this only for him-self, and built a castle to keep the barons in subjection,appointing as governor Robert de Toeni, the progenitorof the house of Stafford, on whom he bestowed all theother manors with the title of Baron de , after having been rebuilt by Ralph Ford, B celebrated warrior in the reign of Edward III., remainedstanding till the civil war in the time of Charles.
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