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THE XV. CHAPTER.
[Sidenote: HARDICNUTE, or HARDIKNOUGHT.]
After that Harold was dead, all the nobles of the realme, both
Danes and Englishmen agreed to send for Hardiknought, the sonne of
Canute by his wife queene Emma, and to make him king. Heere is to be
noted, that by the death of king Canute, the state of things was much
altered in those countries of beyond the seas wherein he had the rule
[Sidenote: Alteration in the state of things. _Simon Dun._, &
_Matt. West._ say, that he was at Bruges in Flanders with his
mother when he was thus sent for, having come thither to visit hir.
1041.]
and dominion. For the Norwegians elected one Magnus, the sonne of
Olauus to be their king, and the Danes chose this Hardiknought, whome
their writers name Canute the third, to be their gouernor. This
Hardiknought or Canute being aduertised of the death of his halfe
brother Harold, and that the lords of England had chosen him to their
king, with all conuenient speed prepared a nauie, and imbarking a
certeine number of men of warre, tooke the sea, and had the wind so
fauorable for his purpose, that he arriued upon the coast of Kent the
sixt day after he set out of Denmarke, and so comming to London, was
ioifullie receiued, and proclaimed king, and crowned of Athelnotus
archbishop of Canturburie, in the yere of our Lord 1041, in the first
yeere of the emperour Henrie the third, in the 9 yeere of Henrie
the first of that name king of France, and in the first yeere of
Magfinloch, alias Machabeda king of Scotland.
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