ATHELNEY, (Somerset) i.e. in the Saxon language, an island of Nobles, is formed into a river-island, by the conjunction of
the Thone with the Parrot, a few ms. below Taunton. Here K. Alfred absconded, when the Danes over-run all, the floodings
of the rs. making the place inaccessible, the firm ground not being above 2 acres broad; and here he built an abby, which
was one of those, whose abbots did not sit in Pt. yet were looked upon as spiritual Lds.