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When Canute was young he was left in charge of the fleet at Gainsborough after an invasion of England in 1013. He gave Englishmen estates to his Danish followers as a reward for having Englishmen killed and outlawed. In 1018 Canute paid off most of his fleet after the English reached an agreement at Oxford.

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