PEN, a town of Somersetshire, in England, on the north-east side of Wincanton, where Kenwald a West Saxon king so totally defeated the Britons, that they were never after able to make head against the Saxons; and where, many ages after this, Edmund Ironside gained a memorable victory over the Danes, who had before, i. e. in 1001, defeated the Saxons in that same place.
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