| Guthrum quickly defeated Burgred and placed a puppet on the throne of Mercia. |
| But it was only in order to throw themselves on the neighbouring realm of Mercia. |
| The 7th century saw a struggle for hegemony between Northumbria and Mercia, which in the 8th century gave way to Mercian preeminence. |
| In fact, my home town was once the capital of an old territory called Mercia, and has a Norman castle that dates back over 1000 years. |
| Rennies Travel's Mercia Schultz said yesterday that the tax would have to be collected manually by consultants as the system had not yet been programmed electronically. |
| The plaque is made from fine grained sandstone, probably derived from a skerry bed in local Mercia mudstone deposits. |
