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which chanced in the yeere 1069. So that from the beginning of
Hengist his reigne, vnto Harolds death, are reckoned 916 yeeres, or
(after some) 617, as by the supputation of the time will easilie
appeere. By all the which time there reigned kings of the Saxons bloud
within this land, except that for the space of twentie yeeres and
somewhat more, the Danes had the dominion of the realme in their
possession: for there are reckoned from the beginning of K. Swaines
reigne (which was the first Dane that gouerned England) vnto the last
yeere of K. Hardicnute (the last Dane that ruled heere) 28 yeeres, in
which meane space Egelred recouering the kingdome reigned 2 yeeres,
then after him his sonne Edmund Ironside continued in the rule one
yeere; so that the Danes had the whole possession of the land but 25
yeeres in all. Touching this alteration, and others incident to this
Iland, read a short aduertisement annexed (by waie of conclusion)
to this historie, comprising a short summarie of the most notable
conquests of this countrie one after an other, by distances of times
successiuelie.
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