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Harold that reygned king of Englãd, was not the ſonne of Sueno but of
Canute, and was not ſlaine, but died of na|tural diſeaſe. See more hereof
in En|gland.
Canute king of Denmarke. This is cõtra|ry to our En|gliſhe writers.
Harolde enioyed not the ſame dominion of England paſſing .iij. yeares
after his fathers de|ceaſſe, but was ſlaine by Etheldred or Egelred, whom his father Sueno had chaſed into Nor|mandie.
Howbeit yet the fame Etheldred kept not long the kingdome in peace, for Canute
king of Denmarke to reuenge his brothers death, landed in England with a mighty
hoſte, and ſleayng Etheldred, recouered the kingdome
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the vſe of the Danes, but yet one Edmond ſonne to the foreſayde Etheldred,Edmund Iron|ſide. ſurnamed I|ronſide, maynteyned the
warre agaynſt Canute for a ſeaſon,This partely agreeth with
our wryters. till at length by bothe theyr con|ſentes, they agreed to
fight a combat ſingularly man to man, ſo to trie the mater betwixt them, who
ſhould reigne as king ouer the Engliſhmẽ.