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or 886, and set over it his son-in-law Æthelred, who
held it until 912; after which his widow Æthelflæd,
the Lady of the Mercians, ruled it. At her death, in
919, King Eadward took the province into his own
hands.
The north-eastern part of Mercia was divided in
877 among such of Halfdan’s veterans as had not
received land in Northumbria the year before. This
district, though at first under Halfdan’s influence, was
not previously, and later on ceased to be, a part of
the Northumbrian realm. After the treaty between
Ælfred and Guthorm-Æthelstan, its southernmost part
was north of Stony Stratford, where the East Anglian
and Saxon boundaries met on Watling Street. In its
widest extent it must have included the present counties
of Nottingham, Leicester, Derby, Rutland and
Lincoln, with the greater part of Northamptonshire
and parts of Stafford and Cheshire.
But as Mr. Round has shown, not even all this
district was in the full sense settled by the Danes
(Feudal England, p. 69). Their land-measurement,
by carucates, applies in Domesday to Nottingham,
Leicester, Derby, Rutland and Lincoln, but not to
the rest of the territory : there is even a difference
between Leicestershire and the more thoroughly
Danish districts, for its lands are not reckoned in
hundreds of twelve carucates, although Leicester itself
was a thoroughly Danish town. On the other hand,
part of Warwickshire had some Danish colonies, such
as Rugby, which is south-west of Watling Street. In a
word, the Danes did not care to spread themselves
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