Heptarchy
Zell's Condensed Dictionary · 1879 · p. 23
(hép'tăr-kē.) [FromGr. hept a, and arc he in, to rule.] (Pol.) A form of govt. in which the executive power is vested in 7 persons. The principal instance of such a government recorded in history is that of the Saxon or English H, which,bet. the 5th and 9th cents., consisted of the seven several kingdoms of Kent, Su ex, We ex, E ex, North umber land, East Anglia, and Mercia. Dating its rise from abt. 449, the heptarchy became consolidated into one kingdom by Egbert, in 828. [s. 450]
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