on heaps, that they had no roome to stir their weapons.  Which [Sidenote:  Hubba slaine.] disaduantage notwithstanding, they slue a great number of the Danes, and amongest other, Hubba the brother of Agner, with manie other of the Danish capteins.  At length the Englishmen hauing valiantlie foughten a long time with the enimies, which had compassed [Sidenote:  The victorie doubtful.] them about, at last brake out and got them to their campe.  To be briefe, this battell was foughten with so equall fortune, that no man knew to whether part the victorie ought to be ascribed.  But after they were once seuered, they tooke care to cure their hurt men, and to burie the dead bodies, namelie the Danes interred the bodie of their capteine Hubba with great funerall pompe and solemnitie:  which [Sidenote:  Abington.] doone, they held out their iournie till they came to Abington, whither the English armie shortlie after came also, and incamped fast by the enimies.

In this meane while, the rumor was spread abroad that king Alured had beene discomfited by the Danes, bicause that in the last battell he withdrew to his campe.  This turned greatlie to his aduantage:  for thereby a great number of Englishmen hasted to come to his succour. [Sidenote:  The Danes and Englishmen fight neer to Abington.] On the morrow after his comming to Abington, he brought his armie readie to fight into the field:  neither were the enimies slacke, on their parts to receiue the battell, and so the two armies ioined and fought verie sore on both sides:  so that it seemed the Englishmen men had not to doo with those Danes, which had beene diuerse times before discomfited and put to flight, but rather with some new people fresh and lustie.  But neither the one part nor the other was minded to giue ouer:  in so much that the horssemen alighting on foot, and putting their horsses from them, entered the battell amongst the footmen, and thus they continued with equall aduantage till night came on, which parted the affraie, being one of the sorest foughten [Sidenote:  Vncerteine victorie Thus farre Polydor.] fields that had beene heard of in those daies.  To whether partie a man might iustlie attribute the victorie, it was vtterlie vncerteine, with so like losse & gaine the matter was tried & ended betwixt them.  With the semblable chance of danger and glorie seuen times that yeere [Sidenote:  Ran.  Higd.] did the English and Danes incounter in battell, as writers haue [Sidenote:  A peace agreed vpon.] recorded.  At length, when their powers on both parts were sore diminished, they agreed vpon a peace, with these conditions, that the Danes should not attempt anie further warre against the Englishmen, nor bring into this land anie new supplie of souldiers out of Denmarke.  But this peace by those peacemakers was violated and broken, in so much as they ment nothing lesse than to fall from the conceiued hope which they had of bearing rule in this land, and of inriching themselues with the goods, possessions, rents and reuenues of the [Sidenote:  The Danes sojourned at London.] inhabitants.  The same yeere the Danes soiorned in the winter season at London, according as they had doone often times before.