Note 240 — Chapter VI · THE KING.
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At a later period we find a duchy of the Merscware, or inhabitants of Romney marsh, and this is certainly in favour of a third Kentish kingdom. William of Malmesbury speaks of the reguli whom Æðelberht had subdued, and it is probable that these were petty princes of Kent. Gest. Reg. lib. 1. § 10.