[809.] So, the Cornishmen quitting their libertie with their prince,
stouped to the commaund of Egbert King of West-sex, and with their
territorie (saith William Malmsburie) enlarged his confines.
[937.] Athelstane handled them yet more extremely; for hee draue them
out of Excester, where, till then, they bare equall sway with
the Saxons, & left onely the narrow angle on the West of Tamer riuer,
for their Inhabitance, which hath euer since beene their fatall bound.
On their Reguli (as Vincentius deliuereth) he imposed an yerely
tribute, of 20. li. in gold, 300. li. in siluer, 25. oxen,
and hunting hounds and hawkes, at discretion.
[997.] To these afflictions by home-neighbours of bondage, tribute,
and banishing, was ioyned a fourth, of spoyling by forrayne enemies:
for Roger Houedon telleth vs, that the Danes landed in sundry places
of Cornwall, forrayed the Countrey, burned the Townes, and killed
the people.
[1068.] To whom succeeded in the like occupation, Godwin, and
Edmond magnus, King Harolds two sonnes, discomfiting the forces
opposed against them, harrowing Deuon and Cornwall, and then
retiring with their prey into Ireland.
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