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Giles Smith (born 1962 in Colchester, Essex) is a British journalist for The Times. In 1998 he was named Sports Columnist of the Year. In 1998 he was named Sports Columnist of the Year. He attended Colchester Royal Grammar School .
Between 1797 and 1815 Colchester was the HQ of the Army's Eastern District, had a garrison of up to 6,000, and played a main role in defence against a threatened French or Dutch invasion, At various times it was the base of such celebrated officers as Lord Cornwallis, Generals Sir James Craig and David Baird, and Captain William Napier.
Between Anglo-Saxon times and the nineteenth century the English county of Essex was divided for administrative purposes into 19 hundreds, plus the Liberty of Havering-atte-Bower and the boroughs of Colchester, Harwich, and Maldon. Each hundred had a separate council that met each month to rule on local judicial and taxation matters.
Also notable is the reduction in importance of Winchester, the Anglo-Saxon capital city of Wessex. Although not a direct measure of population, the lay subsidy rolls of 1334 can be used as a measure of both a settlement's size and stature and the table gives the 30 largest towns and cities in England according to that report. [ 12 ]
Burial in Later Anglo-Saxon England c 650—1100 AD. Oxbow Books. ISBN 978-1842179659. Glasswell, Samantha (2002). The Earliest English: Living and Dying in Early Anglo-Saxon England. Tempus. ISBN 978-0752425344. Lucy, Sam (2000). The Anglo-Saxon Way of Death: Burial Rites in Early England. Sutton. ISBN 978-0750921039.
At times, Essex was ruled jointly by co-Kings, and it thought that the Middle Saxon Province is likely to have been the domain of one of these co-kings. [3] The links to Essex between Middlesex and parts of Hertfordshire were long reflected in the Diocese of London , re-established in 604 as the East Saxon see, and its boundaries continued to ...
In late Anglo-Saxon and Norman times, hundreds were not yet established in Northern England and the Welsh border areas. Law enforcement was the responsibility of paramilitary "sergeants of the peace" under the control of local lords. [75] By the end of the 13th century, over half of all hundreds had been granted to barons, bishops, or abbeys.
A Saxon church dedicated to St Botolph originally stood on the site of the priory, with a tower which resembled the Saxon tower of Holy Trinity church in Colchester. [2] The church's conversion to an Augustinian priory began with a Kentish priest called Norman, who had studied under Anselm of Canterbury in France before returning to England and settling in Colchester.