[1] But to proceede. The Danes as is ſayd, ha|uing vanquiſhed the Scots, and waſted the coũ|trey of Fife,The Danes went into Louthian. paſſed ouer into Louthian, where robbing and ſpoyling all before them, they purſu|ed the inhabitants into Northumberlande, whi|ther they fled for refuge. There the Danes being ayded with certain Engliſh mẽ in fauor of Bru|ern, ſlue in battaile both Oſbert & Ella,King Osbert & Ella ſlaine. kings of that coũtry. The crueltie of the Danes was ſuch after they had atchieued ye victorie, that few eſca|ped with life, but ſuch as ſaued thẽſelues by flight. But chiefely their rage appeared moſte agaynſte prieſtes and ſuch as profeſſed themſelues men of religion. For the Danes being Ethnikes, perſe|cuted moſt egerly thoſe that in any wiſe profeſ|ſed Chriſt.This crueltie inuaded Nor folke alſo. The like outragious murthering of the Chriſtians was practiſed throughout the Countrey, and at length came vnto that bleſſed king S. Edmond, raigning as thẽ ouer the peo|ple of the Eaſt angles, as in the Engliſh hiſtorie more plainly may appeare. Howbeit other of the Engliſh kings mainteined the warres with theſe Danes certaine yeares after this, with variable fortune, the moſt part of thoſe people which inha|bited on that coaſt towarde the Germaine ſeas, eyther being ſlain or brought into miſerable bon|dage and thraldome.King Alured redreſſed thoſe harmes. But Alured which ſuccee|ded his brother king Etheldred, not in the king|dome of Northfolke and Suffolke (as Hector Boetius affyrmeth) but in the kingdome of the weſt Saxons,Hector Boeti|us miſtaketh diuerſe mat|ters touching the report of our hyſtories. redreſſed a great part of this miſe|rie into the which the countrey was thus brought by the Danes, by ſubduing them in ſundrie con|flictes, and ſlaying their two Captaines the fore|ſayd Hunger and Hubba as in the ſame Engliſh [...] further expreſſed.