both Naval and Land supplies to his Enemies and entertaining such as run from him took up a resolution to make the Puissance of Rome known to these Islanders which being discovered by Merchants some particular States sent Ambassadors to him promising to put in Pledges and yeild obedience to the Roman Empire Caesar commending their Prudence and exherting them to continue in the same mind sends them back with Comius in their company whom he had made King of Artois giving him instructions to work them to a suller submission and prepare them to give him a quiet admission with his forces into their Countrey Hereupon the British Princes joyn to oppose him of whom Geffrey nameth these Caswallan Androgeus and Tenerantius with Crederus King of Albania Guitellus of Venedotia and Britael of Demetia Lhud as he writes though falsely was dead some years before and therefore is not here mentioned and King Belinus as I said before is only brought in to be his Son's General Caesar having gained what knowledge he could of the British coast from C. Volusenus whom he had sent out to descry it embarques two Legions in eighty Ships of burthen and some Gallies and endeavours to land in Kent Here Dolobellus General to King Belinus as appears by Nennius who calls him his Proconful stood ready to receive him and performed his part so bravely that the noble Roman confessed the terror of such resolute opposition made his Veteran Soldiers forget their wonted valour But in the end they gained the Shore and put the Britans to flight with extraordinary slaughter In Caesar â—â— Caesar is brought in by Julian attributing to himself the honour if it be at all an honour to that person which he suâ—â—ained of being the first that left his Ship and 〈◊〉 Land but this were to make him not understand what became him and he acknowledges it was the Eagle-bearer of the tenth Legion Lib. 4. de bello Galliâ—â—o Caesar marching forwards encamps upon a great Plain supposed to be Barham-Down where he beheld the dispersion and loss of a considerable part of his Flect by the violence of an unexpected storm Comius found not such entertainment as he expected being imprisoned as a Spy by the Britans who were wise enough to perceive that the Romans aimed at more than they should be willing to grant yet finding by the late conflict that there was an apparent inequality in the match between the Roman and Britain Arms and discipline they judged it convenient to make their best termes and submit to which end they dispatcht Ambassadors to him and with them sent back Comius thinking by the one to moderate his anger and by the other in consequence to procure a peace which they obtained the â—aslier by reason of the late Wrack and the approach of Winter yet were enjoyned to deliver Hostages But understanding his want of Horsemen and the losses he had sustamed by the Tempest they took courage again and slew to Arms. About a thousand Horsemen were coming after him in eighteen Ships which being got within view of the Camp were driven by a sudden storm some back to the Gallick coast others upon the Western part of the Island from whence they had much adoe to recover the Continent again and those Ships that were with him fared as ill for the Gallies which were drawn up to the Shore were filled with the Tide and the Ships of burden that lay at Anchor were so shaken with the Tempest that they were almost rendred unserviceable The seventh Legion being sent out to fetch in Corn was set upon by the Britans and in danger of being cut off if Caesar had not seasonably come to the rescue who contenting himself with putting his Enemies to a stand considering it was not now a fit time to offer Battel while his men were scarce recovered of so late a fear only keeps his ground for a while and soon after returns to his Camp The Britans giving themselves out for Victors sent straight to all the neigbouring States for more forces and getting together a great multitude drew towards the Romans but Caesar encouraging his Soldiers received these Guests with a battel before his Camp put them to rout with slaughter and burnt and laid wast all round about Daunted with this ill success they again crave peace which he granted them but withal severely reproved them for their breach of faith and imposed a double number of Hostages to be sent after him into Gaul whither the season of the year required him to hasten so that all his Ships but twelve being by this time made able to abide the Sea by incessant labour of the Soldiers he hoisted sail about midnight and arrived safely with all but eleven Ships of burden upon the Continent these not keeping their course landed at a Port of the Morini who would have put them to the sword in hopes of prey if Caesar hearing of their peril had not sent his Horsemen to fetch them off The Senate advertised of these passages by his Letters decreed a solemn Procession and Supplication of twenty dayes and himself ordering Labienus to chastise the rebellious Morini went to Rome as he used to do every Winter to look after his concernments there About this time died King Belinus having reigned forty years yet did not his death hinder the Britans from celebrating a solemn Festival in Trinovant for joy of Caesar's departure But here fell out an unlucky accident which proved of very ill consequence As the Youth were exercising themselves at Martial sports it chanced that two young Noblemen fell out the one named Hireldas is by Geffrey of Monmouth said to be Nophew to Caswallan the other named Evelinus to Mandubratius Henry of Huntington saith they were their Sons In this quarrel Hireldas was slain by Evelinus whem Caswallan would therefore have had to be put to death but Mandubratius prevailed with his Father Immanuentius to protect him Caswallan thought it too difficult a matter to contest at that time with his Brother in his own Royal City he departs therefore but quickly returns with strong Forces which he had in readiness kills Immanuentius seizes the greatest part of his Kingdom and compells Mandubratius to flee for safety of his life into Gaul Nennius who adhered so saithfully to him in his war against the Romans may seem likely to have sided with him now there being a grudg between him and Immanuentius for going about to change the name of Trinovant to Caer Lud as the * Lib. 1. cap. 10. Monmouth Writer tells us These proceedings of Caswallan allarm'd the Neighbour-States who thereupon took up Arms against him And thus were the Britans embroiled in Civil wars not fearing belike Caesar's return whose hasty departure they looked upon as little better than flight and thought he was as desirous to leave them as they were to have him and therefore all the States but two neglected the sending of their Hostages after him Here now
and forrage the Countrey then passing the Straits of Gibralter came as Geffrey of Monmouth saith into the Tyrrhen Sea It should seem the old British Writers meant not by that name the Sea of Etruria for the Straits-mouth was out of the way from the Mediterranean thither but they understood some nearer Sea by it as appears by Nennius who tells us that King Belinus the Son of Minocanus subdued the Isles of the Tyrrhen Sea whereas the Britans never used to sail so far as â—â—ruria with any considerable Fleets yet why any Sea between the Straits and Britain should be so called I cannot see Here Brutus met with another Fleet of Trojans commanded by Chorinaeus who was descended from Antenor him he acquaints with the Answer he had from the Goddess and prevails with him to joyn with him in his Design Hence they pass forward through the Gallick Sea and cast Anchors in the River Loire which parted Aquitaine and Armorica Gaule was at this time governed by twelve Princes one of whom named Groffarius had Pictavia and part of these two Provinces aforenamed for his share who hearing the arrival of these Strangers in his Dominions sent out a party to take an account of them These found Chorinaeus with two hundred men chasing their Master's Deer and after some angry Expostulations fell to blows where Imbert Commander of the Gaules was slain by Cherinaeus and his men put to flight Groffarius hereat incensed marches against the Trojans who now were all landed and ready for the Encounter which was very sharp but at last the Victory fell to the new Comers who wasting the Country at their pleasure loaded their Ships with spoil and pillage In this Battel one Suardus a great Nobleman of Gaul lost his life by the hand of Chorinaeus But now the other Eleven Princes hasten to the succour of their vanquished friend and overbearing the Strangers with multitude beat them to their Camp and there beseige them About midnight Chorinaeus gets out with three thousand men and lodges them in an adjoyning Wood till morning at what time Brutus marched into the field whom the Gauls most furiously assail with assured hopes of Conquest when on a sudden Chorinaeus from the Wood falls in desperately upon their Rear who seeing themselves engaged both before and behind and thinking these last had been a new supply brought by Sea and more in number than they were began to faint which their Enemies perceiving redoubled their courages and charged them so fiercely that they put them to a total rout In this fight Turnus the Nephew of Brutus who came from Italy with Chorinaeus was slain after he had performed incredible exploits from whom the people of the countrey where the Battle was fought were named Turones Brutus began now to consider the numbers of his men were shrewdly diminished by these conflicts whereas the losses of his Adversaries would easily be repaired by fresh recruits which he could not have and therefore enquiring the name of the Land and finding that the place intended him by the Oracle lay beyond it he re-embarqued his Soldiers and with a prosperous Gale sailed into Britain arriving at Totnes in the Province of Danmonia and putting to flight the Albionians who opposed his landing The forementioned war between the Samotheans and Albionians becoming hereditary had lasted for divers Ages the former having the better of it and possessing the best part of the Isle so long as their Kings kept their residence in Gaul and assisted them in their exigencies but when Franâ—us removed his Court into Pannonia committing the government of Gaule to twelve Prefects whom he likewise ordered to be aiding to his Samothean Subjects when they should need their help they minding nothing more than to establish themselves in their Prefectures and to secure them to their Posterity took no care at all of Britain whereby the Albionians who were glad to keep themselves in the craggy and mountainous Moors while the others were helped from beyond Sea were emboldned to contend with them in open field The issue was that after many bloody Battels both Nations were reduced to such a paucity that Diana's Oracle when consulted by Brutus about the event of his Voyage is said to have termed this a Desart Island such animosity and hatred was between these two people though there was room enough and to spare for both The Samotheans having heard of Brutus his same presently repaired to him and received him for their King who to make good the opinion his new Subjects had conceived of him sought out the Albionians and utterly defeated them and then gave Danmonia to Chorinaeus from whom the Western part of it was called Corinia now Cornwall But as they were solemnizing a Festival for joy of their Successes not suspecting any danger on a sudden they were set upon and many killed by thirty of the boldest Albionians who since their overthrow had lurked in Caves thereabouts Brutus and Chorinaeus with their company betake themselves to their weapons and surrounding these Desperadoes slue them all but their Chief whose name was Gormagot and is reported to have been a Giant of a prodigious height whose strength Chorinaeus desired to try in wrestling which he afterwards did by the Sea-side in which contest he was so enraged with the pain of his three Ribs which had broke in the strugling that heaving him up by main strength he cast him violently down a steep Rock into the Sea where he perished After which to prevent such surprises for the future they by degrees extirpated his whole Crue and this was the end of the Albionians so named from their Founder Albion who are said to have been a Generation of Giants Brutus thus settled in his new Kingdom ordained that all his Subjects both Samotheans and Trojans should be called Britans and then upon the side of the River Thames he built the City Trinobant which the Welsh will have to be more rightly named Troynovant for a place of Residence for himself and his Successors dying after a happy Reign of four and twenty years he left his Kingdom to be divided between his three Sons but reserved the Superiority and Soveraignty to the Eldest which was Locrinus whose part was better than both his Brothers and was of him named Loegria as Camber's part was named Cambria and Albanactus his share Albania This last was invaded and slain by Humber King of the Hunnes whose death was soon revenged by Locrinus and Camber by whom the Hunnes were overthrown and destroyed and their Prince drowned in his flight Three Ladies were taken Prisoners by Humber in Germany whom he brought with him into Britain one of which called Estrildis was a King's Daughter Locrinus intended her for his wife and therefore carried them all three with him to Court But Chorinaeus hearing of it to whose only Daughter and Heiress he had been affianced while his Father lived came to him and by menaces compelled him to persorme his
former Engagement Yet he still retaining his affection to the Captive Lady who was very beautiful kept her and her two Companions in a Cave till the death of Chorinaeus and then repudiating Guendolena married Estrildis But this injury was not long unpunished for the rejected Queen returning into Danmonia levied an Army wherewith she gave Battel to her wanton Husband in Worcestershire by the River Stour and victoriously slew him Estrildis here taken was thrown into the River Severne and drowned with her Daughter Habren which she had by Locrinus Madan the Son of Locrinus and Guendolena being under age his Mother governed for him as Guardian fifteen years and then retiring to a private life dyed within a short space whereupon the King gave Danmonia to his Uncle Camber After Madan reigned his Son Mempricius who murdered his Brother Manlius then Eboracus or Ebrauc the Son of Mempricius Brute Sirnamed Green-shield the Son of Ebrauc Leil the Son of Brute Rudibras the Son of Leil Bladud the Son of Rudibras and Leir the Son of Bladud This Leir had only three Daughters Gonerilla married to Maglanus Prince of Albania descended from Albanactus Ragana married to Henninus Prince of Danmonia descended from Camber and Cordella married to Aganippus a Gaulish Prince descended from one of those twelve with whom Brutus fought which twelve after the death of Galates the Son of Wolfheim Sichinger had made themselves absolute in their several Provinces each of them assuming the Name and Title of King as likewise did the German Princes after the death of Celtes Aganippus restored King Leir who had been expelled by his other Sons in Law and he in requital at his death left his Kingdom to Cordella which she ruled worthily while her Husband lived but after being taken and imprisoned by her Nephews she killed her self The Kingdom must now be divided into two parts whereof the Southern is allotted to Cuneda the Son of Henninus and all North of Humber to Morgan the Son of Maglanus which Agreement held not long for Morgan not satisfied with his moiety falls out with his Cousin who overcomes and kills him thereby getting the whole which he leaves to his Son Râ—â—aâ—â— To him succeeded his two Sons one after the other first Gorgustus then Sisillius and after him Jago Son or Grandson to Gorgustus Chinimarchus the Son of Sisillius and Gorbodugus the Son of Chinimarchus whose two Sons contended for the Kingdom but Ferrea finding himself the weaker fled into Gaule whence returning with such forces as he had procured of Suardus one of the Kings there he was slain in battel by his Brother Porrex who yet enjoyed not the fruits of his victory being in revenge hereof cruelly murdered as he slept in his Tent by Queen Videnia the Mother of them both assisted in that bloudy design by her Maids This plunged Britain into Civil Wars and turned the Monarchy into a Pentarchy under the Governments of Pinnar King of Loegria Rudaue King of Cambria Stater King of Albania Jevan King of Northumbria and Cloten King of Cornwall whose Father Chinimarchus was son to Prydain and Grandson to Aedhmaur the son of King Gorgustus Dunvallo Molmutius the son of Cloten reduced the Land to a Monarchical State again subduing all his Competitors but Jevan or Owen as some call him who terrified by the death of the rest submitted himself yet the generous Conquerour suffered their Sons to hold under him part of what their Fathers had enjoyed He is said to be the first that wore a Crown of Gold here His sons Belinus and Brennus parted the Island between them after their Fathers death the Southern moiety with the Soveraignty being assigned to Belinus as the Elder and the Northern to Brennus whom Cenulphus King of the Morini invaded to his own hurt being vanquished and chased home with shame Brennus herewith puffed up would no longer stand to the first Agreement but by the advice of some flattering Incendiaries sailed to the King of Norway and obtaining his Daughter in Marriage with a strong Army to make war upon his Brother who being informed of his design had seized his Principality into his own hands The King of Denmark a former lover of the Norwegian Princess armes all his power and meets this bold Britan upon the Sea where in the heat of the fight a sudden Tempest severs and scatters the Fleets The Danish King having luckily seized the Ship wherein was his beloved Lady was with two others making four Ships in all cast upon the British Shore and there taken and delivered to Belinus while his Fleet made shift to get home and Brennus with his Navy was driven upon the Gallick Coasts nor was it long ere he crossed over to Northumbria and fought with his Brother in the Forrest of Galtres but losing the day and all his Ships but one fled to Seginus King of the Senones and Allobroges Belinus now treats with his Danish Prisoner who swearing to become his Liegeman and pay a yearly Tribute and leaving Hostages for performance is dismissed with his Lady Brennus in this time had so far gained the love of Seginus that he bestowed upon him his only Daughter and dying shortly after left all to him so that he thought himself able to deal with his Brother and getting leave of his Neighbour-Princes to conduct his Soldiers through their Countreys transported them into Britain where the two Brothers being ready to encounter one another were reconciled by their mother Convenna They therefore fall to consulting how they should dispose of those multitudes of Warriours that were raised and brought together on both sides and resolve to purchase Renown by conquering forreign Nations Passing into Gaul they easily induced these people to joyn with them in their Enterprises being thereto encouraged by the former prosperous successes of Sigovesus in Germany and Pannonia and of Belâ—â—vesus and Elitovius in Italy Having now greatly increased their numbers and strength it was judged sit to divide their Forces and part asunder Brennus enters Italy having Aruns an inhabitant of Clusium for his Guide over the Alps and at his instigation besiegeth that City Aruns did this because he could not otherwise be revenged upon Lucumo a potent Citizen who had abused his Wife The Clusines crave help of the Romans who send three Sons of Marcus Fabius Ambustus to Brennus to try if fair words might avail any thing in the behalf of their Friends But these hot-spirited Youths taking offence at the Answer they received forgot the duties of Mediators and Ambassadors and encouraging the besieged to make a Sally put themselves in the head of their Troops in which Action Quintus one of the Brothers slew a great Commander of the Gauls This was a violation of the Law of Nations for which Brennus having in vain demanded their persons of the Senate marches towards Rome and takes the City having first defeated their Army near the place where the River Allia runs into Tibur They that
escaped from the City and the Battel sled to the City of Veij and afterwards under the conduct of Camillus who before was banished to Ardea but now made Dictator relieved those Senators which still held out the Capitol who compelled by famine had newly bought their lives and were paying the Gold Brennus had received the greatest part when Camillus came upon him and worsting him in a tumultuary skirmish forced him to quit Rome and following the Enemy fought a pitcht battel with him eight miles off in the Gabine Way where after a sharp dispute the Romans prevailed and the valiant Brennus with all his Gauls and Britans lost their lives upon the spot not one escaping as Livy writes Dec. 1. lib. 5. to carry the news Here was most of the Gold regained the rest being a long time after recovered by Livius Drusus Propraetor of Gallia Cisalpina Suâ—t in Tib. which at the first appearance of the Dictator had been sent away for Tuscany where the Gauls had then divers Colonics with some Troops to guard it who hearing the loss of their Companions entred into the Service of the Tyrant Dionysius Belinus had better fortune and subdued Pannonia where he settled the Gauls and most of his Britans married his Daughter Cambra a warlike Lady to Antenor King of the Sicambrians and returning home with Honour died in peace Next to him reigned his Son Gorguntius who slew the Danish King and conquered his countrey because he refused to pay the promised Tribute Then Guiteline Son to Gorguntius and Husband to the Learned Queen Martia Sisillius Son to Guiteline Chiomarus Son to Sisillius Danius Brother to Chiomarus and Morindus Son to Danius by his Concubine Tangustella by whom the King of the Morini invading this Land was overthrown and slain This victory he used cruelly putting all to the Sword that were taken Morindus is said to have aided the King of Orkney against Basanus King of the Sicambrians but lastly adventuring to fight singly with a Sea-monster he was devoured by it the Monster dying presently after of the wounds he had given it After his death the Kingdom was divided between his five Sons Gorbonian Archigallo Elidurus Eugenius and Peridurus Of these Gorbonian a just Prince dyed peaceably and was succeeded by his Son Regin Archigallo for Tyranny was expelled by his Nobles who gave his Kingdom to his Brother Elidurus through whose intercession he was restored and reigned afterwards very nobly parting his Principality at his death between his two Sons Morgan and Eneon But Elidurus found not the same kindness from his other two Brothers who took him prisoner and shared his Province between them till Eugenius dying first and then Peridurus he again recovered his Kingdom and left it to his Son Gerontius Edwal the Son of Eugenius or Owen and Runo the Son of Peridurus succeeded their Fathers like wise in their Provinces Thus was Britain cantoned into sundry parcels besides that the Descendents of those Princes who acknowledged the Soveraignty of Dunvallo and his Successors hitherto now renounced all manner of Subordination Which caused Tacitus to write of the Britans thus In vita Agric Heretofore they were governed by Kings now they are drawn by petty Princes into Partialities and Factions After Gerontius reigned his Son Cadellus for the British History takes no notice of the Posterity of the other Princes Then followed Coelus the Son of Cadellus Porrex the Son of Coelus Cherinus the Son of Porrex whose three Sons shared their Father's Inheritance between them Their names were Fulgentius Eldadus and Androgeus To this last succeeded his Son Vrianus after whom reigned these Kings in a direct line from Father to Son Flind Clidacus Clotenus Gorguntius Merianus Bladud Capys Owen and Sisillius who made another partition between his two Sons Blegâ—red and Archivallo Eldon the Son of Archivallo ruled after his Father and then followed in a lineal Succession Redion Rodericus Sawyl sirnamed Penissel Pyrrhus Caporius Gilquellus sirnamed Minocanus and Belinus he by his valour much enlarged his Hereditary Dominions for which he was entitled The Great For this is that B. M. Beli Maur so famous among the Cambrian Genealogists He had three Sons whom in his old age for he lived till the first coming of Caesar he assumed as Partners in his Kingdom assigning each of them a Province with Regal Authority and Title Immanuentius had the Trinobantes and was Sirnamed Lhud that is to fay Russet or Tawny it being usual with the Britans both ancient and modern to impose Names and Sirnames from colours Caswallan had the Cattieuchlani and is by Dion Cassius called Suellan corruptly for Cassuellan And indeed it is very likely that the same causes which lost us so many Books of that excellent Author might make some corruptions in them that were left unless we shall think Suellan or Swallan was his true name Cas being a Praeaddition taken from the Cassii the chief Sept of the Cattieuchlani as Cattimarus Teutobochus and Decebalus had the beginnings of their Names from the Catti Teutâ—nes and Daci though afterwards the name of Swallan grew out of use and Caswallan was used in its stead in honour of this Prince Nennius I conceive had Kent and might be the Father of Cyngetorix Carvilius Taximagulus and Segonax These three Princes acknowledged a subordination to their Father Belinus whom Geffrey of Monmouth will have to be dead some years before the Romans arrived here vainly esteeming it a disparagement to Lhud to reign under his Father and aiming to give Caswallan the entire honour of managing all the war from the first beginning and therefore makes that Belinus which then lived to be Caswallan's General and Counsellor not his Father contrary to Nonnius who expresly termes him King of the Britans And Henry of Huntington will needs have him to be his Brother and Cambden takes him for Caswallan himself contrary to the Cambrian Genealogists who all consent that he was his Father Thus far have we waded through the Maeandrian Intrigues of Antiquity from Samothes obtruding nothing upon the Reader 's belief of this that we have taken either from Annius of Viterbo or Geffrey of Monmouth though both those Authors have been followed and owned by some Learned men Neither is there any thing herein more incongruous or incredible than what the Greek and Roman Writers have delivered concerning the Originals of their Nations which things are yet allowed a place in many Authentick Historians and Chronologers What follows comes from the hands of more approved Authors In the year of the World's Creation Three Thousand Eight Hundred Ninety five according to the common Computation Pompey and Crassus being Consuls the second time Calus Julius Caesar having now by Conquests over-run Gaul out of an innate desire of Glory allured also as Suetonius saith with hope of Pearls which as he was informed were ingendred and gathered in the Creeks of the British Sea and being incensed against the Britans for sending
Usurpers Cl. Cornelius Laelianus Usurper Caius Carausius Usurper Caius Allecius Usurper M. Aurelius Asclepiodotus Pacatianus Gratianus Funarius Martinus Lupicinus Alypius Nectaridius and Bulchobaudes Severus Jovinus Theodosius Civilis and Dulcitius Fraomarius Maximus Usurper Chrysanthus Victorinus Marcus Usurper Gratianus Municeps Usurper Constantine and Constans Usurpers Gallio of Ravenna The Angles were a Tribe of the Suevians and both Suevians and Saxons were the Off-spring of the Syebi and Sasones in Asia and came into Europe together being of the same Gomerian Original with the Cimbrians Kings of the Saxons STresaeus Bedwig Gualas Hadras Ittermon Heremod Skeph reigned in Sleswick Skeld Bevin Tetuas Geta went to Asgard In Asgard Gedulph Son to Geta. Finne Fridulph Frelaph Fridwald In Germany Henry Sifrid Woden Son to Fridwald returned into Germany Weldeg and his Brethren with Sirick and his Sons Hunding and Gelder Anônymus contemporary with Wermund King of the Danes Gelder contemporary with Tordo King of Sweden and Dan the third King of Demnark Artrick Ansenrick Wilkin the I. Swerting and Hanef Swerting the II. Wilkin the II. Witikind Wilkin the III. with his Brother Sigar Marbod Bodo Vecta Vita Witigils Hengist Kings of the Suevians before the departure of the Angles from them to the Saxons ANônymus contemporary with Metellus Celer Arionistus or Ernest Nasua and Cimberius Maroboduus Vannius Vangio and Sido Italicus and Sido Kings of the PICTS THE Picts and Scots were Gothick Nations of the same Gomerian Original with the Cimbrians and came from Scandia which is also called Scythia Germanica But in regard our British Histories have hitherto been too deficient concerning the Pictish Kings I shall here exhibit a Catalogue of them out of John Fordon's M. S. Scotichronicon and Hector Boethius Cruithhe Camelon reigned ann 50. Ghede 100 Ghede II. Hect. 100 Chrine Hect. 150. Tharan 150. Ghede III. 150. Duchil 40. Dinorth Tisy 20. Duor Deghel 20. Decok Heth. 60. Congust 20. Caranath Creth 40. Garnard Bolg 9. Wipopneth whom Hector calls Unipanus 30. Blarchassereth 17. Phiathus albus Thalarg Amfrud 16. Canatalmel 6. Dongard Nethles 1. Feredeth Finyel Gannard Dives 60. Nectan II. Hect. 60. Nectan II. Hect. 60. Hungurst Son of Fergus 40. In his time Regulus brought St. Andrew's Relicks into Albania Thalarg Son of Keother 24 Durst aliàs Nectan Son of Irby 48. In his time Palladius taught in Ireland and Albania Thalarg Son of Amyle 2. Nectan Chaltamoth 10. Durst Germerth Son of Ethrede 38. Galan 15. Durst Son of Gigurun 5. Durst Son of Ethrede 8. Durst Son of Gigurun ag 4. Garnard Son of Gigurun 6. Kelturan Son of Garnard 6. Thalarg Son of Mordeleth 11. Durst Son of Mometh 1. Thalagath 4. Brude Son of Meilothon 19. In his time Columba came from Ireland to Albania Garnard Son of Dompnach 20 He built the Church of Abernethy Nectan Son of Irban 11. Kenel Son of Luchren 14. Nectan Son of Fode 6. Brude Son of Fathna 5. Thalarg Son of Farthard 11. Thalargan Son of Amfrud 4. Garnard Son of Dompnal 5. Durst Brother to Garnard 6. Brude Son of Bridebile 11. In his time Egfrid King of the Northumbrians was slain by the Picts Nectan Son of Brude 18. To him Abbot Celfrid writ about the observing of Easter and Clerical Tonsure after the Roman way Garnard Son of Feredeth 14. He slew Amberclet King of the Scots and gave an Oratory to the nine Daughters of Dovenald Oengussa Son of Fergus 16. Nectan Son of Decil Nine Months Feredeth Son of Alpin Six Months Alpin Father of Feredeth 26. Brude Son of Cenegus 2. Alpin Son of Cenegus 2. Thalargan Son of Durst 1. Thalarg Son of Drusken 4. Cenegus Son of Thalarg 6. Constantine Son of Fergus 40. He built the Church of Dunkeld 226 years after the building of Abernethy Church by Garnard Hungus Son of Fergus 10. Durstolorgus Son of Hungus 3. Feredeth Son of Badoc 3. Brude Son of Feredeth One Month. Kened Son of Feredeth 1. Brude Son of Fethel 2. Drusken Son of Feredeth 3. Five of these Kings are omitted in Fordon's Scotichronicon viz. Ghede the second Chrine and Ghede the third and the two Nectan's between Garnard and Hungurst but they are here supplied out of Hector Boetius I confess it is to be feared that in this Catalogue there may be some mistake either in the computation of years or the order of succession And therefore I could heartily wish that some Ingenious Lover of Antiquity could produce some more perfect and exact List of these Kings than this which I have faithfully transcribed out of the forementioned Author The TABLE A. ALbion whence so called Page 4 Ambrons a mischievous Nation Page 13 14 Asia a Province of Sarmatia Page 18 Asaei Asiotae ibid. Ancalites a British People Page 34 Attrebatij ibid. Attiscoti a Northern People Page 40 41 Invade the Roman Province Page 150 Albina Dioclesian's Daughter Page 53 Androgeus a British Prince Page 71 82 Adminius or Etiminius Page 84 85 87 Arviragus King of the Britans Page 91 Avitus Didius Gallus Governour of Britain Page 92 Agricola subdues the Ordovices Page 98 He overcomes the Caledonians Page 101 Agricola Calpurnius represseth the Picts and Caledonians Page 111 Adelphius Bishop of Colchester Page 144 Arminius a British Deacon ibid. Albinus Governour of Britain Page 117 Argetocoxus Prince of the Calcedonians Page 122 His Wifes Reply to the Empress ibid. Allectus an Vsurper Page 130 131 Asclepiodotus a Roman General Page 131 Was Governour of Britain Page 132 Alban and Aaron Martyrs Page 133 Amphibalus and Augulius Page 134 Alypius Governour of Britain Page 150 Armorica planted with Britans Page 162 174. Ambrose Son of Constantine Page 166 191 B. BRitain its Circuit p. 1 Whence named p. 5 6 Whether it was ever joyned to France p. 36 Brito King of Britain p. 9 Also a Centaure ibid. Britona or Britomartis ib. Britans whence descended p. 12 13 Belgae a British People p. 34 Bibroci Bodunni ibid. Brigantes whence so named p. 39 Britain how divided p. 44 45 British Idols ibid. Bards what they were p. 45 British Government under the Romans p. 46 47 Britains Cities and Streets p. 50 Brutus the same with Brito p. 9 His Discent and Exploits p. 55 56 His Successours p. 62 Brennus the Elder 's Warrs p. 64 65 66 Belinus King of Britain p. 63 66 Belinus the Great p. 68 His Sons p. 69 His Death p. 74 Boadicia's Insurrection p. 95 Bonosus an Vsurper p. 126 Brittia Batavica subdued p. 155 156 C. CImmerians Ancestors to the Cimbrians p. 13 26 And to the Britans ibid. Cerberion a City p. 30 Catticuchlani Cassij Cenimagni Cantij p. 34 35 Cossini Corini p. 33 Coritani Cornavij Cangi p. 38 Cantij p. 35 Caledonij Cantae Carini p. 40 Carnonacae Cerones Cornabyi ibid. Count of the Saxon Coast p. 47 48 Caswallan a British King p. 71 74 His Warr with Caesar p. 78 79 Cunobeline succeeds his Father p. 83 His Sons p. 85 Caligula intends to Invade Britain p. 84
Royal Prophet Thou lovest Righteousness and hatest wickedness Ps 45.7 therefore God thy God hath anointed thee with the oyl of gladness above thy fellows And again according to the same Royal Prophet Ps 72.1 Give the King thy Judgments O God c. for he said not the Judgments nor the Righteousness of Caesar For the King's Sons are the Christian Nations and people of the Realm who live and abide in the Kingdom under your Protection and Peace according to the Gospel Mat. 23.37 even as a Hen gathereth her Chickens under her wings The Nations and people of Britain are your people whom however divided you ought to gather into one to reclaim to Concord and Peace and the Faith and Law of Christ and to the Holy Church to cherish maintain or to lead by hand protect govern and always defend them from injurious and malitious Folks and from their Enemies Eccl. 10.16 Wo to the Kingdom whose King is a Child and whose Princes eat in the morning I do not term a King a Child for Infant-age but for Folly Iniquity and Madness according to the Royal Prophet Ps 55.23 Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their dayes By Eating we understand Gluttony by Gluttony Luxury by Luxury all filthy perverse and wicked things according to King Solomon Into a malicious Soul Wisdom shall not enter nor dwell in the body that is subject unto sin Rex dicitur à Regendo non à Regno A King hath his name from his Ruling not from his Kingdom As long as you govern well you shall be a King which if you do not the Name of King will not be evidenced in you and you will lose that Name which God forbid Almighty God grant you so to govern the Kingdom of Britain that you may reign for ever with him whose Vicegerent you are in the said Realm This Letter was written in the year one Hundred seventy nine when the Emperour Commodus was Consul with Vespronius and is to be seen in Lambard's Archaeonomia Printed at London in the years 1560 and 1644 among Edward the Confessor's Laws and in a Copy of our old Laws written in Edward the fourths time now kept in Sr. John Cotton's famous Library and likewise in an Ancient Manuscript Chronicle called Brutus and Breton William Harrison hath inserted it into his description of Britain Lib. 1. c. 9. having translated it into English out of sundry ancient Copies Theon Bishop of London is said to have built St. Peter's Church in Cornhil London with the help of Ciranus the King 's Cup-bearer which Lucius liberally endowed and made it to be the Episcopal Sea for the Diocess of London But Fagan and Dwywan not confining their endeavours only to Lucius his Kingdom converted the greatest part of Britain with the assistance of Elvan and Medwin of whom the former had been made a Bishop at Rome the other a Doctor as Johannes Tinmuthensis and Capgrave in the life of Dubricius and an old Tract concerning the first state of the Church of Landaffe assirm meaning Presbyter or Priest as I suppose by Doctor for the title of Doctor doth not appear to have been so ancient in the Church in the sence wherein it hath been since used Divers other Bishopricks are reported to have been erected about this time as York Carleon upon Vske Winchester Gloucester Congresbury Landaffe and other places Philippus Berterius and Archbishop Vsher of Armagh take York to have been the Metropolis of Britain at that time as being a Roman Colony and honoured with the Emperour's Palace and the Praetorium of Britain in regard whereof Spartianus terms it by way of Excellency In vita Severi The City And in the Council of Arles Eborius of York subscribed before Restitutus of London He that in the year one Thousand four hundred and sixty wrote the History of the Archbishops of York makes Fagan the first Archbishop of that Sea but Harrison in his description of Britain saith Lib. 1. cap. 7. that one Theodosius was Bishop there in the time of Lucius who might be so indeed in the latter end of Lucius his Reign after Fagan's death The Church of Winchester being finished in the fifth year of Lucius his Conversion viz. in the year one Hundred and eighty was then Dedicated by Fagan and Dwywan at which time also one Devotus was made Abbot of the Monastery which the King had founded for certain Monks professing the Egyptian Rule of St. Mark And about the same time was also founded the renowned Abbey of Bangor And now the Northern men are up in arms again and passing Lollius his Fence were come as far as Adrian's Wall which they broke down putting most of the Soldiers that defended it with their commander to the sword and entring the Province wasted and spoiled it at their pleasure against whom Vlpius Marcelius was sent who valiantly beat them back to their own homes and governed the country with such same and reputation that the Emperour Commodus whose Vices were as notorious as his Lieutenant's Virtues fearing the growth of his Credit with the Romans in an envious mood sent him Letters of Discharge After his departure the Army which he had kept in excellent Discipline fell to mutinying and civil Dissensions the Officers abusing and defrauding the common Soldiers whereupon fifteen Hundred of them went to Rome and complained against the Emperour's grand Favourite Perennis as the cause of those and many other distempers in the State for which he was put to death Yet did not this compliance so appease the British Army but that they would have set up another Emperour and Helvins Pertinax who here succeeded in the Lieutenancy endeavouring to suppress their insolency by severe means provoked them to an Insurrection in which divers were slain and himself left for dead whereupon he was glad for his own safety to get himself revoked In his place came Clodius Albinus who so worthily demeaned himself that Commodus either for fear or favour honoured him with the Title of Caesar which yet he accepted not but upon a false report of the Emperour's death having in a set speech discovered himself to be better affected to the old Government of the Senate and Consuls than to Monarchical Empire he was commanded to resign to Junius Severus But Pertinax suceeding Commodus was not long after murdered by the Praetorian Guards who sold the Empire to Didius Julianus who enjoyed his Purchase but a very little time being soon after slain by Septimius Severus This Emperour to keep Albinus who during the late Broils had made bold to keep his place from attempting any thing against him during his Wars with Pescennius Niger created him his Caesar which he now accepted as having a greater esteem for him than for Commodus But Niger being defeated and slain Severus falls to practising the death of his new Caesar and therein failing proclaims him Traitour and publick Enemy and comes in person
against him with the strength of the Empire Albinus hereupon bestirs himself and encreasing his Army with the Flower of the British Youth crosses over into Gaul where near Lyons a Battel was fought between them in which at first Albinus had the better but was at last overthrown and killed his Head being sent to Rome by the Conquerour as a token of the Victory After which Severus divided the Roman Province here into two Prefectures of which the Southern part was termed the Higher and the Northern was termed the Lower About the beginning of Albinus his Government here Fagan and Dwywan went to Glastonbury where they found nothing but ruine and desolation for the Hermits who took care of the Church were all dead long ago This Church they repaired and placed there twelve of their Associates procuring King Lucius to confirm to them and their Successors by Charter the Donation of such Lands as had been given by his three Predecessors to Joseph and his Companions Nine years they are said to have spent in this place and then having visited their Converts and confirmed them in the Faith to have deceased in Britain where divers Churches were afterwards erected and consecrated to their memory After Theon's death Elvan was Bishop of London and is said to have built a Library adjoyning to his Cathedral and to have converted many of the Druids to Christianity King Lucius having built St. Peter's Church at Westminster St. Maries at Dover and a Church at Canterbury which was afterwards called St. Martins dyed and was buried in the Cathedral of Gloucester as Geffrey saith in the year two Hundred and eight as Hollinshed out of ancient Writers tells us having reigned three and forty years according to the Author of the Genealogicon de Gestis Anglorum I know there is great difference in Writers about the time of his Reign and Conversion which I conceive was partly occasioned through the variety of Computations of the years both of Christ's Nativity and Passion As for his Reign some allot him but twelve years as Caxton Bale Grafton Stow and Basing stochius too short a space by far for the many memorable works done in his time others allow him seventy seven years as Matthew Westminster the Chronicle of Salisbury and the Pensile-Table of St. Peter's Church in London but these then take from the years of his Predecessors and make his Great Grandfather Arviragus and his Grandfather Marius to be dead before Domitian's time They generally give him the Character of a Religious and Munificent Prince and say that he did very liberally give Possessions and Territories to Churches and Church-men which he confirmed to them by Charters and that he priviledged Churches and Churchyards to be Sanctuaries and places of Refuge for such Offenders as fled to them He was the first Europaean King that we read of who received the Christian Faith and Britain the first Land in which it was by Publick Authority professed A high and singular Honour for our Country and which next to Divine Providence is in a great measure to be ascribed to the clemency of the Emperour Aurelius to the Christians upon his miraculous victory over the Germans Some with a manifest Antichronisme confound this King with Lucius the Apostle of the Rhetians and Bavarians but Achilles Cassarus in his description of Augspurg as we have him in Munster's Cosmography and Archbishop Vsher of Armagh Cap. 6. in his Treatise De Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Primordiis do judiciously distinguish the one from the other Again others in opposition to a whole cloud of Eminent Witnesses make him a meer Larva denying that ever there was any such King because Britain was then subject to the Romans But these do not consider that it was customary with the Romans to permit Kings to reign in several Countreys which they had subdued as in Judaea Herod in Cilicia Tarcondemus in Cappadocia Archelaus in Pontus Polemon in Mauritania Juba and here in Britain Cogidunus and that even at this time the Emperour Lucius Verus having finished the Parthian War did as Julius Capitolinus saith distribute Kingdoms to Kings and Provincial Governments to his Counts I do not fondly suppose that he was King of all Britain as Geffrey would perswade us nor yet of the greater part of it but I rather think that after Arviragus was driven out of Siluria by Frontinus and out of Ordovicia by Agricola the Province of the Belgae with part of the Province of the Dobuni might upon his submission be granted to him as places not so difficult to be reconquered if he or his Successors should revolt being an open Champaine Countrey of easie access and surrounded in a manner with Roman Garrisons That Arviragus Marius Coelus and Lucius bore some sway in this part of the Island I am the rather inclined to believe because I read of their Sepulture at Gloucester and their Bounty to Glastonbury besides the last King's Liberality to Winchester and Congresbury all which places stand within this Territory Neither did Lucius restrain his Beneficence within the limits of his own Kingdom but piously extended it to several other parts of Britain where Christianity had taken any footing This we find written of him by Bale Lucium pium Coeli filium unicum Romanorum fautorem Caesaris Marci Antonini Veri tum benevolentiâ tum autoritate Britannis post patrem imperâsse That Lucius the Godly the onely Son of Coelus a friend to the Romans by the favour and authority of the Emperour Marcus Antoninus Verus reigned over the Britains And Archbishop Vsher in his Primordia saith Cap. 3. that there were found here in England two ancient pieces of Coin one of Silver which was in the keeping of M. Josephus Hollandus the other of Gold which himself saw among the Cimelia in Sr. Robert Cotton's Library stamped with the effigies of a Christian King as appeared by the Cross upon which these three Letters LVC were inscribed In the mean time Virius Lupus was so overmatched by the Maeatae and Caledonians that he was constrained to buy his Peace and the liberty of some Prisoners with great Sums of Money but understanding that Severus had now ended his other Wars he sends him an account of the British Affairs who thereupon taking with him his two Sons Bassianus and Geta sets forward with a mighty Army to revenge his Lieutenant's disgrace he arrives in Britain in the same year that Lucius dyed and finding divers Competitors striving to succeed him puts an end to the Conquest by laying the Kingdom to the Higher Province The Northern people terrified with his coming crave peace but in vain whereupon the Prince of the Caledonians whom Fordon Boetius and Lesley call Fulgentius though Geffrey names him Fulgenius and saith that he was Brother to Martia the first wife of Severus sails over to Scandia to procure a fresh Supply of Picts with which and his own Subjects and Confederates by the advantage of Loughs Bogs Mears