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ous in hiflory by the title of Hofpitalers and Johannites, which in the 

 changes of their fortune gave place to that of knights of Rhodes ; and 



now they are called knights of Malta. [Willielm. Tyr. L. xviii, c. 4 



Brencman. de rep. Amalf. § 8.] 



1028 — So far was Cnut from entertaining any apprehenfions of an 

 inclination to revolt among the Englifli, that he made frequent voyages 

 to the continent, where he enlarged his dominions by the conqueft of 

 Norway. This acquifition, which united all the maritime nations of 

 the North under one fovereign, was effeded chiefly by Englifh Ihips, 

 and by the help of his Englifh fubjeits, whofe courage revived under 

 the condudt of a general capable of direding it. 



Some of the fhips of Cnut's fleet (but whether built in England or 

 Denmark, we are not told) exceeded in magnitude the largeft fhip built 

 by Olaf Trygvafon king of Norway, or any other fliips hitherto feen 

 upon the Weftern ocean. \S710rro., Hijl. Olafi Sandi, c. 158.] 



1 03 1 — Cnut alfo made a journey to Rome, * becaufe he was told by 

 ' wife men that St. Peter kept the key of the celeftial kingdom,' where 

 he fpent a great deal of money. There he met with the emperor Cun- 

 rad and other princes, from whom he obtained for all his fubjeds, whe- 

 ther merchants or pilgrims, a complete exemption from the heavy tolls 

 ufually exadled on their journey to Rome. [See Cnut's own letter ap. 

 Will. Malmjh.f. 41 b.] 



Cnut is believed to have eftablilhed, or authorized, mints at a greater 

 number of places than any other king of England; and the following 

 modernized lift of the names, found upon money coined in his reign, 

 fhows that at leafl: thirty-feven cities and towns had that privilege. 



Briftol, 



Cambridge, 



Canterbury, 



Chefter, 



Colchefter, 



Crookhorn, 



Derby, 



Dorchefter, 



Dover, 



Exeter, 



Gloucefter, 



Haftings, 



Hereford, 



Hertford, 



Hythe, 



Huntingdon, 



Ipfwich, 



Leicefter, 



Lincoln, 



London, 



Manchefler, 



Norwich, 



Nottingham, 



Oxford, 



Rochefter, 



Sarum, 



Shaftfbury, 



Shrewfljury, 



Southampton, 



Southwark, 



Stamford, 



Sudbury, 



Tamworth, 



Thetford, 



Wells, 



Winchefter, 



York *. 



1036 — On the death of Cnut the citizens f of London were again a 



• This lift is extraftcd from a Catalogue of the 

 coins of Canute king of Denmark and England, 410, 

 1777, publifhed in coiil'equence of a great variety 

 of his coins beinij found in the year 1774 in a 

 ■peat mofs near Kiikwall in Orkney, whither they 

 mijrht be conveyed either by trade or by piracy, 

 in thofe ages the chief trade of the Norwegian in- 

 habitants of the Orkney iflands, which were fub- 

 jed to the crown of Norway till the year J468. 



f The Saxon Chronicle calls them feamen or 

 navigators (' liths-men'). They were probably 

 merchants who went in their own vcffels. William 

 of Malnifbury on this occafion obferves, that the 

 citizens of London, by their great intercourfe with 

 the Danes, vihom he calls barbarians, refenibleJ 

 them very much in their manners. 



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