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Some may imagine, many of thefc Camps were made 
by the Dams ; but by what may be ob(ery’<i from the 
Hiftory of thofe Times, that People feem’d not to l^e 
fo. formal an Enemy, as to prolong Wac by Encamp? 
ments; Their Refuge was in their Fleets that always 
attended them ; fo. that, when likely to be vigorouny 
oppos’d, they betook themfelves to their Ships, and; 
fuddenly invaded, another Part where was lefs Oppofi- 
tion and what they could not carry with them, con-^ 
{lim’d; with Fire and Sword. Thus continually haralTing 
the Nation by their hafty and rapacious Vifits, they 
exhaufted it of its Riches, and Strength, and as it werc; 
imitating the Quality of the Faulcon their Enfign, they 
ffcw the Prey to a iitand, and then feiz’d it. 
The Archdeacon of Huntingdon, in the Prologue or 
Dedication of his Annals, to Alexander Bifliop of Lin- 
coin, aflures his Diocefan, that he compil’d his.Hiftory 
from Chronicles referv’d in ancient Libraries ; no qua* 
(lion therefore, when fpeaking of tire Saxons \\qiq, lie: 
had good Author|ry to lay (as above cited ), magii 
magifaue fibi Regionis fpatia capeffentes-; and that no o- 
ther lyleaning could belong to it ; than that they car-^ 
ri$d‘ their Conqueft from Weft to Eaft, in longinquum. 
lengthways. Flad they entirely raadethemrelvesMa-- 
fters ordie Country, ’tWQuld have been too late: But, 
before they had. wholly gaind it, the allembleci- 
againft,them; the Saxon Chronicle fays tUdlJj i. e* prope ; 
Etheherd, juxta ; oXy ZS Hantingdon h^ it, apud^tttXt^ 
tlf^Dunits where a Battle was fo hard fought, that 
each Side had enough on’t, and retir’d. The Saxons 
were fo diminilh’d,, that was oblig’d ta fend for 
more Forces. This A<ftion, was in the Ninth . Year af-. 
terf^/Z/s firft footing ^here,. Three Years, before Hen- 
Deaths. Ann. Dom. 48^ y. It- fa, weaken’d Ella,., that 
Ws; hear; noi more, of him. till he, receiv’d his.Snpplies . 
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