Northumbria
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North-umbria
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Northern English province, historically distant and difficult for West-Saxon kings to govern.
Lively sympathy is excited by consideration of the difficulties that beset the path of King Edgar or King Ethelred, endeavouring to rule from Winchester the distant and alien races of North–umbria, Mercia, and East Anglia.
Law in a Free State
A region cited for its mining population, observed to show structural change attributable to occupational division of labour despite the general absence of caste in England.
Even in England, where caste is extinct, it has been observed among the mining population of Northumbria.