This point was allowed of them all, and so in the
end they rested vpon that resolution.
[Sidenote: King Egelred determineth to give place vnto Swaine.]
King Egelred therefore determined to commit himselfe into the
hands of his brother in law Richard duke of Normandie, whose sister
(as ye haue heard) he had maried. But bicause he would not doo
[Sidenote: He sendeth his wife and sonnes ouer into Normandie.]
this vnaduisedlie, first he sent ouer his wife queene Emma, with his
sonnes which he had begotten of hir, Alfred and Edward, that by their
[Sidenote: Richard duke of Normandie.]
interteinment he might vnderstand how he should be welcome. Duke
Richard receiued his sister and his nephues verie ioifullie, and
promised to aid his brother king Egelred in defense of his kingdome.
But in this meane while had Swaine conquered the more part of all
England, and brought (by little and little) that which remained vnder
his subiection. The people through feare submitting themselues
[Sidenote: _Simon Dun._ _Hen. Hunt._ Turkill. 1014.]
on each hand, king Egelred in this meane time (for the Londoners had
submitted themselues to Swaine) was first withdrawne vnto Greenwich,
and there remained for a time with the nauie of the Danes, which was
vnder the gouernement of earle Turkill, and from thence sailed into
the Ile of Wight, and there remained a great part of the winter,
[Sidenote: King Egelred passeth into Normandie.
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