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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	king_n	lord_n	year_n	9,908	5	5.2358	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14275	A tale of tvvo swannes VVherein is comprehended the original and increase of the riuer Lee commonly called Ware-riuer: together, with the antiquitie of sundrie places and townes seated vpon the same. Pleasant to be read, and not altogether vnprofitable to bee vnderstood. By W.V.	Vallans, William.	1590 (1590)	STC 24590; ESTC S111492	14,794	26

assured that you re●…member what a styr N. B. kept when I said that shippe●… had bene at Ware affyrming how it was vnpossible that that riuer which but of late was scarce able to beare a smal whyrrie shold in times past beare big and mighty ships Truly his wordes were many great but his reasons were smal And since that at that time I promised to send you in a letter a plaine and euident prooffe of those words which there I vttered I doubt not but in these few lines fully to satisfie not only your request but also your mind and confirme you in that opinion which fewe men vnlesse such as be altogether ignorant of the matter and of the place wil denie And for so much as the cause for which the ships went thether and what they did there then will I plainly prooue both by auchoritie and examples that it is likey that they were ther. Lastly I wil as my promise was shew you about what time and by whome Ware was builded That Shippes haue bene at Ware THe Danes who as Polidor Virgill saith dwelled in olde time beyond Ister but now be they inhabitants of the Germane Ocean or Denmark perceiuing how that their Country was ouermuch pressed with the great multitude of people y t in habited y e same determined to subdue the land to driue out y e Englishmen and to plant themselues and th●…ir posterity for euer 〈◊〉 the same for perfourming and accomplishing whereof they armed great store of chosen souldiers who about the yeare 832. in 34. shippes entered the riuer of Thames landed by great force spoiled fired wasted the country so far that Egbert who then was king of the more part of England was fame with an hoast of men to succour and relieue h●…s d●…stressed subiectes But such was the will of God for the punishment of sinne that then was rise that the kinge ioining battaile with the Danes was by them discomfited and put to flight After this batt●…ile the Danes were so encouraged that they 〈◊〉 out of the●…e countrie like f●…armes of Bees 〈◊〉 that if 〈◊〉 one weeke there were fiue thousand of thei●… 〈◊〉 yet in the werke following ther would come eight thousand more to supply their roomes They were oftentime discomfited and the greater part of them driuen b●…ke by diuers ●…akant kinges and princes bu●… yet by reason of their often arriuall therr force was still increased and maintained One while they arriued in one place then in another spoiling burning killing all they could come by I●… were too long to tell and verie grieuous it is to thinke how religion was decaied learning forgotten all partes quarters of the Realme wasted and spoiled howe cities townes churches abbe●…s religious ●…ouses were consumed with fire flame how miserablie the Commons were afflicted how pitifully men women and children and all fortes of people went to wracke how wonderfully the kinges themselues were amased the con●…ing of their enemies being both suddaine and violent how cr●…elly fire and sword famine and death raged thorow out the land heauen and earth intending as it were the fatall destruction and vtter dcay of the realme This miserie continued the space of 300 and ddde yeares within which yeares namely about the yeare of our Lord 217 the 23 yeare of King Alfreds r●…ns a great armie of Danes hauing re●…eiued an ouerthrow at a place ca●…ed Bu●…tington beside Seuethe fled into east England and there wintered and prepared a great hoast againe out of Northumberland and other places leauing there their wiues and children together with their money shippes and munition in east England and with great speed got to the Citie of 〈◊〉 which at that ●…e was de●…late the inhab●…tes hauing for feare of the Danes forsa●…en it or euer king Alfred Ethered the vnder king with their armies could ouertake the●… And yet such was the 〈◊〉 that king Alfred 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this purs●… that or euer his enem●…es had 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 he w●…th h●…s companie tooke a great deale of their c●…riage with all the booties of 〈◊〉 and other thinges that they in their iourney by robbing and spoyling had obtained and driuen away Hee also besieged the citie two or three daies but perce●…uing it woulde finally auaile he was fa●…ne a grieuous thing to heare to burn vp the greatest pate of the corne that grewe there aboutes and bestow the rest amongst his horses least his enemies shoulde haue the fruit and commoditie thereof The Danes perceiuing that and seeing there was nothing left whereof they might liue in those partes departed from thence and in great has●…e got them to north Wales where they spoyled and hartied the countrie farre and neere driuing away great booties of Cartel and carrieng with them rich spoiles From hence they departed And because for feare of the Mercians they durst not traueile that way they coasted along the countrie till they came to Northumberland and so through middle England taking the●… shippes their w●…ues children out of cast England with them they arriued at a little Island sc●…uate in the Sea in the east part of Essex called Merseyge From thence they departed and came into the riuer of Thames and seeing that Winter was now at hand they drew or rowed their shippes vp the riuer Lygean And twentie miles from London they began to buylde a Fort which being finished they taried there all that wynter spoyling robbing and burning those quarters without mercy When Winter was past a great part of the Citizens of London with those that inhabited neere thereaboutes traueiled thether and by force minded to breake downe the Fort or munition which they had there buylded But the Danes stoutlye resisted them and not far from the place gaue them a sharpe battaile where the Christians were put to flight and foure of King Alfreds men were slaine Thus the pagane or heathen Danes remained Lordes or maisters of those quarters compelling the husbandmen to eare and till the ground meaning themselues to reape the commoditie of it But the good King Alfred who alwaies was carefull for the welfare of his subiectes gathered an armie and before haruest time pitched his tents neer to the place of their abode By whose comming the enemies were so affraid that they durst not once peepe out of their hold to fetch either cattell or corne out of the fields by force In this space it happened on a time as the King rode alongst by the riuer side he viewed the water and perceiued how that in some places of it the chanell might easily bee stopped and the streame made lesse Whereupon he as Huntington writeth caused it to bee cut into three seuerall braunches or armes but howsoeuer it was hee so weakened the streame that the Danes could not bring back their ships the same way they came Which thing the Danes perceiuing and knowing well it was in vaine for them to abide any longer there they left their Shippes and fled by