[Sidenote: The Danes returne into Kent.]
meanes returning in safetie, immediatlie after the feast of saint
Martine, returned into Kent, and lodged with their nauie in the winter
following in the Thames, and oftentimes assaulting the citie of
London, were still beaten backe to their losse.

[Sidenote: 1010. Oxford burnt.]
After the feast of Christmasse they passed through the countrie
and woods of Chilterne vnto Oxford, which towne they burned, and then
returning backe they fell to wasting of the countrie on both sides the
Thames. But hearing that an armie was assembled at London to giue them
battell; that part of their host which kept on the northside of the
[Sidenote: Stanes.]
riuer, passed the same riuer at Stanes, and so ioining with their
fellowes marched foorth through Southerie, and comming backe to their
ships in Kent, fell in hand to repare & amend their ships that were
in anie wise decaied. Then after Easter, the Danes sailing about the
[Sidenote: Gipswich in Suffolke. _Simon Dun._]
coast, arriued at Gipswich in Suffolke, on the Ascension day of
our Lord: and inuading the countrie, gaue battell at a place called
Wigmere or Rigmere, vnto Vikill or Wilfeketell leader of the English
host in those parties, on the fift of Maie. The men of Northfolke and
Suffolke fled at the first onset giuen: but the Cambridgeshire
men sticked to it valiantlie, winning thereby perpetuall fame and
commendation. There was no mindfulnesse amongest them of running
awaie, so that a great number of the nobilitie and other were beaten
[Sidenote: Capat formicæ.]
downe and slaine, till at length one Turketell Mireneheued, that
had a Dane to his father, first began to take his flight, and deserued
thereby an euerlasting reproch.