[Sidenote:  Robert archbishop of Canturburie.  Frenchmen or Normans first entered into England.] Ye must vnderstand, that K. Edward brought diuerse Normans ouer with him, which in time of his banishment had shewed him great friendship, wherefore he now sought to recompense them.  Amongst other, the forenamed Robert of Canturburie was one, who before his comming ouer was a moonke in the abbeie of Gemeticum in Normandie, and being by the king first aduanced to gouerne the see of London, was after made archbishop of Canturburie, and bare great rule vnder the king, so that he could not auoid the enuie of diuerse noble men, and speciallie of earle Goodwine, as shall appeere.  About the third yeere of king Edwards reigne, Osgot Clappa was banished the realme.  And in the [Sidenote:  1047] yeere following, that is to say, in the yeere 1047, there fell a maruellous great snow, couering the ground from the beginning of Ianuarie vntill the 17 day of March.  Besides this, there hapned the [Sidenote:  A great death. Ran.  Higd.] same yeere such tempest and lightnings, that the corne vpon the earth was burnt vp and blasted:  by reason whereof, there followed a great dearth in England, and also death of men and cattell.

[Sidenote:  Swain Goodwines sonne banished.] About this time Swaine the sonne of earle Goodwine was banished the land, and fled into Flanders.  This Swaine kept Edgiua, the abbesse of the monasterie of Leoffe, and forsaking his wife, ment to [Sidenote:  Edgiua abbesse of Leoffe.] haue married the foresaid abbesse.  Within a certeine time after his banishment, he returned into England, in hope to purchase the kings peace by his fathers meanes and other his friends.  But vpon some [Sidenote:  This Bearne was the sonne of Vlfusa Dane, vncle to this Swaine by his mother, the sister of K. Swaine. H.  Hunt.] malicious pretense, he slue his coosen earle Bearne, who was about to labour to the king for his pardon, and so then fled againe into Flanders, till at length Allered the archbishop of Yorke obteined his pardon, and found meanes to reconcile him to the kings fauour.

[Sidenote:  Hen.  Hunt.] In the meane time, about the sixt yeere of king Edwards reigne, certeine pirats of the Danes arriued in Sandwich hauen, and entring the land, wasted and spoiled all about the coast.  There be that write, that the Danes had at that time to their leaders two capteins, [Sidenote:  The Danes spoile Sandwich.] the one named Lother, and the other Irling.  After they had beene at Sandwich, and brought from thence great riches of gold and siluer, they coasted about vnto the side of Essex, and there spoiling the countrie, went backe to the sea, and sailing into Flanders, made sale of their spoiles and booties there, and so returned to their countries.  After this, during the reigne of king Edward, there chanced no warres, neither forren nor ciuill, but that the same was either with small slaughter luckilie ended, or else without anie notable [Sidenote: