Hunt._]
the enimies kept on their waies to their ships.
[Sidenote: 1005. Swaine returned into Denmarke. _Simon Dun._]
In the yeare following king Swaine returned into Denmarke with all
his fleet, partlie constrained so to doo (as some write) by reason of
the great famin & want of necessarie sustenance, which in that
[Sidenote: 1006. _Hen. Hunt._ Swaine returned into England.]
yeare sore oppressed this land. In the yeare of our Lord 1006, king
Swaine returned againe into England with a mightie & huge nauie,
arriuing at Sandwich, and spoiled all the countrie neere vnto the
sea side. King Egelred raised all his power against him, and all the
haruest time laie abroad in the field to resist the Danes, which
according to their woonted maner spared not to exercise their
vnmercifull crueltie, in wasting and spoiling the land with fire and
sword, pilfering and taking of preies in euerie part where they came.
Neither could king Egelred remedie the matter, because the enimies
still conueied themselues with their ships into some contrarie
quarter, from the place where they knew him to be, so that his trauell
was in vaine.
[Sidenote: The Danes winter in the Ile of Wight.
They inuade Hampshire, Barkeshire, &c.]
About the beginning of winter they remained in the Ile of Wight,
& in the time of Christmasse they landed in Hampshire, and passing
through that countrie into Barkeshire, they came to Reading, and from
thence to Wallingford, and so to Coleseie, and then approching to
Essington, came to Achikelmeslawe, and in euerie place wheresoeuer
they came, they made cleane worke.
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