There was no mindfulnesse amongest them of running
awaie, so that a great number of the nobilitie and other were beaten
[Sidenote: Capat formicae.]
downe and slaine, till at length one Turketell Mireneheued, that
had a Dane to his father, first began to take his flight, and deserued
thereby an euerlasting reproch.
The Danes obteining the vpper hand, for the space of three moneths
togither went vp and downe the countries, & wasted those parties of
the realme, that is to say, Northfolke, and Suffolke, with the borders
of Lincolnshire, Huntingtonshire, and Cambridgeshire where the fens
are, gaining exceeding riches by the spoile of great and wealthie
[Sidenote: Thetford. Cambridge. _Hen. Hunt._]
abbies and churches which had their situation within the compasse
of the same fens. They also destroied Thetford, and burnt Cambridge,
and from thence passed through the pleasant mountaine-countrie of
Belsham, cruellie murdering the people without respect of age, degree
[Sidenote: The Danes arrive in the Thames. 1011.]
or sex. After this also they entred into Essex. and so came backe
to their ships, which were then arriued in the Thames. But they rested
not anie long time in quiet, as people that minded nothing but the
destruction of this realme. So as soone after, when they had somwhat
refreshed them, they set forward againe into the countrie, passing
through Buckinghamshire, & so into Bedfordshire.
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