Note 3 — AN ESSAY, &c.
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“This state of Britain has been denominated, with great impropriety, the Saxon Heptarchy. When all the kingdoms were settled they formed an Octarchy.”—Hist. of the Anglo-Saxons, Turner, b. 2, ch. 4.
The eight kingdoms were the following, viz.:—
West Saxons, or Wessex.
South Saxons, or Sussex.
Kent.
East Saxons, or Essex.
East-Anglia.
Mercia.
Deira. And
Bernicia.