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For many years afterwards the Five Boroughs were a separate and well defined area of the country where rulers sought support from its leaders, including Swein Forkbeard who gained the submission of the Five Boroughs in 1013, before going on to attack London. In 1015 there is a unique reference to the 'Seven Boroughs', which might have been ...
As a historical source, the code is particularly important for the Danelaw. [14] Within that area itself, the text specifically refers to the Five Boroughs, with clause 1 §1 naming specific fines for "breach of the peace which the ealdorman or the king's reeve establishes in the court of the Five Boroughs". [2]
The Five Boroughs and the English Midlands in the early 10th century [26] The area occupied by the Danelaw was roughly the area to the north of a line drawn between London and Chester, excluding the portion of Northumbria to the east of the Pennines. [citation needed]
The text of the poem in MS A of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (f. 27r). "Capture of the Five Boroughs" (also "Redemption of the Five Boroughs") is an Old English chronicle poem that commemorates the capture by King Edmund I of the so-called Five Boroughs of the Danelaw in 942.
The reeve was supported by a group of assistants, called in Devon the witan, in the boroughs of the Danelaw by a group of (generally twelve) "lawmen", in other towns probably by a group of aldermen, senior burgesses, with military and police authority, whose office was in some cases hereditary. These persons assisted the reeve at the great ...
A wapentake, an Old Norse–derived term as common in Northern England, [a] was the equivalent of the Anglo-Saxon hundred in the northern Danelaw. In the Domesday Book of 1086, the term is used instead of hundreds in Yorkshire, the Five Boroughs of Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham and Stamford, and also sometimes in Northamptonshire. The ...
Nov. 11—Hampton's Smuttynose Brewing Co. will further expand its reach into New York with the purchase of Five Boroughs Brewing Co. in Brooklyn. Finestkind Brewing LLC, the owner of Smuttynose ...
The Romans established the town of Derventio, which was later captured by the Anglo-Saxons and then by the Vikings who made Djúra-bý one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw. Initially a market town , Derby grew rapidly in the industrial era and was home to Lombe's Mill , an early British factory and it contains the southern part of the ...