After the payment of £16,000 Danegeld in 994 failed to deter raiding, Danish fleets resumed their attacks. In 997 a fleet ravaged Cornwall, Devon, and Wales, attacking Lydford (a royal burh) and burning Tavistock Abbey. The Chronicle records these raids in increasing detail as a portrait of England's inability to coordinate defence. The attacks on Alfred's burh network showed the system's limitations when the political will to man and maintain them was absent.
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