Ecbert.

ECbert in full highth of glory, having now en∣joy'd his Conquest seaven peacefull years, his victorious Army long since disbanded, and the ex∣ercise of Armes perhaps laid aside, the more was found unprovided against a sudden storm of Danes from the Sea, who landing in the 32. of his Reign, [An. Dom. 832] * wasted Shepey in Kent. Ecbert the next year, ga∣thering an Army, [An. Dom. 833] for he had heard of thir arrival in 35 Ships, gave them Battail by the River Carr in Dorsetshire;* the event wherof was, that the Danes kept thir ground, and encampt where the field was fought; two Saxon Leaders, Dudda and Osmund, and two Bishops, as some say, were there slain. This was the only check of Fortune we read of, that Ecbert in all his time receav'd. For the Danes returning Page  192 two years after with a great Navy, [An. Dom. 835] and joining For∣ces * with the Cornish, who had enterd League with them, were overthrown and put to flight. Of these invasions against Ecbert, the Danish History is not silent; whether out of thir own Records or ours, may be justly doubted; for of these times at home, I find them in much uncertainty, and beholding ra∣ther to Out-landish Chronicles then any Records of thir own. The Victor Ecbert, as one who had done enough, seasonably now, after prosperous success, [An. Dom. 836] the next year with glory ended his days,* and was buried at Winchester.