Transcriber’s Note: Minor errors of punctuation and printing have been repaired, but the transcriber does not fancy she knows the writer’s meaning better than he knows it himself, and has left the rest alone. VESTIGES OF THE SUPREMACY OF MERCIA IN THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND DURING THE EIGHTH CENTURY _With T. Kerslake’s Compliments, Bristol, 1879._ CONTENTS. PAGES 1-8-9, &c. ST. WERBURGH. 2-14, &c. BRISTOL. 3-5. WICCIA. 6-7. ANGLO-SAXON. 10. FEMALE NATIONAL SAINTS. 11, &c. ÆTHELBALD. OFFA. 11-12. 50. ST. BONIFACE. 13. AVON FRONTIER. 14. 56. BATH. HENBURY. 15-17. NORTH DEVON. 18. 22. CORNWALL. 19-21. ST. CUTHBERT. 23. 25. 36, &c. KENTISH HOO. 26-39, &c. CLOVESHOE. 28-29, &c. CLIFFE AT HOO. 40. HIGHAM FERRY. 41-42. MIDDLESEX. 43. CEALCHYTHE. 44-45. ACLEAH. 46. PARISHES. 47. WERBURGHWICK. 49-51. HAETHFELTH. HERUTFORD. &C. 53-58. ST. HELEN. OFFA. 56-58. HASTINGS. SUSSEX. 59. LONDON. 60-63. DEDICATIONS. 61. HOLY ROOD. 62. ST. ETHELBERT. MARDEN. ST. MARY. ERRORS. Pages 24, 25 in Notes; _for_ p. 119-121, 125 _read_ 15-17, 22. ” 27. Note _for_ 1565 _read_ 1863. ” 7, line 3, _for_ “knut--” _read_ “Knut--”. ” 11, 12, 34, _for_ Bonifatius _prefer_ Bonifacius. ” 47, _for_ appanage _read_ apanage. Various others, including some introduced after the proofs had been finally revised by the writer, by some one who fancied he knew the writer’s meaning better than he knows it himself. VESTIGES OF THE SUPREMACY OF MERCIA IN THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND DURING THE EIGHTH CENTURY. (_Reprinted from the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archæological Society_). _Bristol_, 1879. VESTIGES OF THE SUPREMACY OF MERCIA IN THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND, DURING THE EIGHTH CENTURY. By THOMAS KERSLAKE. “… residual phenomena …, the small concentrated residues of great operations in the arts are almost sure to be the lurking-places of new chemical ingredients.… It was a happy thought of Glauber to examine what everybody else threw away.”--SIR J. F. W. HERSCHELL.