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Mercia

The eighth and last kingdom of the Heptarchy, between the Thames and the Humber. It was the mere or boundary of the Anglo-Saxons and free Britons of Wales.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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