Buthred bought him off again with a larger sum of money.

Hubba scarcely left the kingdom this time, but spent the money with his army, in carousings and excesses, and then went to robbing and plundering as before.

Buthred, at last, reduced to despair, and seeing no hope of escape from the terrible pest with which his kingdom was infested, abandoned the country and escaped to Rome.

They received him as an exiled monarch, in the Saxon school, where he soon after died a prey to grief and despair.
The Danes overturned what remained of Buthred's government.

They destroyed a famous mausoleum, the ancient burial place of the Mercian kings.