Mercia I imagine to be that portion of Burgred’s kingdom, which upon its division by the victorious Danes in 874, they committed as a tributary royalty to Ceólwulf; which subsequently came into the hands of Ælfred, by the treaty of Wedmor in 878, and was by him erected into a duchy under his daughter Æðelflǽd, and her husband. Wokensetna may possibly be the Gá of the Wrocensetan, the people about the Wrekin or hill-country of Somerset, Dorset and Devon. The Pecsetan appear to be the inhabitants of the Peakland, or Derbyshire: the Elmedsetan, those of Elmet, the ancient British Loidis, an independent district in Yorkshire: Lindisfaran are the people of Lindisse, a portion of Lincolnshire: North and South Gyrwa were probably in the Mark between Eastanglia and Mercia: as Peterborough was in North Gyrwa land, this must have comprised a part of Northamptonshire: and Æðelðrýð derived her right to Ely from her first husband, a prince of the South Gyrwians; this district is therefore supposed to have extended over a part of Cambridgeshire and the isle of Ely. Spalda may be the tract stretching to the north-east of these, upon the river Welland, in which still lies Spalding. The Hwiccas occupied Worcestershire and Gloucestershire[139], and perhaps extended into Herefordshire, to the west of the Severn. The Wihtgaras are the inhabitants of the Isle of Wight; and the Cilternsetan were the people who owned the hill and forest land about the Chilterns, verging towards Oxfordshire, and very probably in the Mark between Mercia and Wessex. ----- Footnote 139: Cirencester was in the south of the Hwiccas. Gloucester, Worcester, and Pershore were all in this district. It was separated from Wiltshire in Wessex by the Thames, and the ford at Cricklade was a pass often disputed by the inhabitants of the border-lands. -----