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
accompanied him by this vainglorious Emperour taken into Protection Who thereupon bragg'd in his Letters to the Senate Anno Do. 40. that the whole Island was yielded to him The issue of this his Expedition was That he made his Army march embattelled to the Sea-shore over against Britain and commanded them to gather Cockles Muscles and other Shel-fishes into their Helmets terming them the Spoils of the Conquered Ocean and in memorial of this Exploit he built a high Watch-Tower which was afterwards named Brittenhuis and then returned to Rome leaving his Enemies the Britans and Germans to laugh at his strange folly and madness Cunobeline after a long and peaceable Reign of sixty six years dyed leaving behind him divers Sons Togodumnus whom the Britans call Guiderius Caradock Adminius Arviragus and others The first of these had reigned many years before with his Father whom he had but newly interred when suddenly he found himself necessitated to prepare for his defence against the Romans Hitherto the Britans enjoyed an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the free use and exercise of their own Laws and Customs only paying a Tribute But now the Rebellion of some ambitious persons makes way for their more absolute subjection for being unable to make good their parties against their Princes they flee to Rome and there find favourable entertainment Of these one Bericus was the principal who incited Claudius to make war upon the Britans who were grown so stout that they refused to pay the Tribute because their Fugitives were not delivered up to those that were sent to demand them Claudius sends over A. Plantius with an Army who soon after his arrival overcomes Caradock first 43 and then Togodumnus upon which part of the Dobuni who had been subjected by the Cattieuclani shook off their old Masters and submitted to him receiving a Garrison Plautius marches forwards to a River on the further side of which the Britans who deemed it unpassable without a Bridge lay careless and secure The Germans whose custom was to swim armed through the swiftest and yiolentest Rivers were sent over first with orders to strike especially at the Horses whereby the Chariots might be rendred unserviceable These were seconded by Vespasian and his Brother Sabinus by whom the Britans were surprised and many of them killed but night coming on hindred further execution The next morning the Britans joyned Battel with them which continued a long space with doubtful success till Sidius Geta at the point of being taken so bestirred himself that through his valour chiefly the Romans obtained the victory After this another Battel was fought neer the mouth of the River Thames where the Britans were again overthrown though this victory cost the Romans dear many of them being lost not only in the fight but in the pursuit too following the Chase too rashly among the Bogs Togodumnus retreating to Portchester was there slain by Vespasian who subdued those parts which was about two years after Cunobelines death The Britans were more enraged than daunted at the death of their King and Caradock who succeeded carried on the War with such fiereness that Plautius despairing of Conquest sent word to the Emperour of the doubtful condition of his Affairs Claudius glad of this occasion to get himself an Honourable Name sets forward with strong Forces and armed Elephants and coming over joyns with Plautius and marches against the Britans who were so far from fearing him that they adventured to fight a set Battel with him but were over-power'd and vanquished After which Claudius took Camalodunum formerly the Royal City of Adminius or Etiminius as his name is inscribed in an old Coin where he reigned under his Father before his Banishment Divers Cities submitted hereupon and were committed to the Government of Plautius the first Propraetor or Lieutenant of Britain Claudius for these Successes was several times by his Army saluted Imperator and tempering his Conquests with Clemency though he disarmed the Britans yet he remitted the Confiscation of their Goods for which they worshipped him as a God Having atchieved these Exploits in the space of sixteen dayes for he staid here no longer he departed homewards and came to Rome at the end of six months from his first setting out from thence entring the City in Triumph Plantius goes on with the relicks of the War and speeds so well that it was decreed he should have the less sort of Triumph called Ovation at his Return wherein the Emperour honoured him with his company and gave him the right hand all the way both going and coming And Vespasian who had fought thirty battels here in one of which he had beed slain if he had not been rescued by his Son Titus and had sudued two Nations and above twenty Towns together with the Isle of Wight was rewarded with Triumphal Ornaments and other great Dignities Valerius Asiaticus Junius Silanus Sidius Geta and others had marks of Honour conferred upon them P. Ostorius succeeding Plautius was entertained with troubles at his very entrance upon his Charge for they that had leagued with the Romans or submitted to them were over-run by the other Britans who encouraged themselves with a conceit of the new Propraetor's unacquaintedness with the Army But he knowing first Successes to be of great consequence with his readiest Cohorts advanced against them whom he soon routed and dispersed and then fell to disarming them that he suspected and by placing Garrisons and Forts upon the Rivers Antona and Sabrina attempted to hemme in so much of the Island as he was concerned to defend Sabrina is granted by all to be Severn but Antona is not so well known Camden saith it is the River Nen that runs by Northampton but then he will have it to be transcribed amiss for Aufona upon a supposition that the Britans called all Rivers Avon and so Northampton should be contracted of Northafandon But I cannnot see any necessity of blaming the Transcriber here nor any reason why Northampton or Northanton may not take its name from Antona since himself allows Southampton to be so called from a River of the very same name The Icenians who had sought the friendship of Plautius disliked the proceedings of Ostorius and armed against him with their Confederates but were overcome whereby they that wavered were confirmed in their obedience In this conflict M. Ostorius the Licutenant's Son merited a Civick Crown or Garland The Cangi were the next who felt the anger of the Romans by whom their Territory was wasted and harryed all over The Lieutenant was gotten near the Sea-coast which looks towards Ireland when some stirs among the Brigantes brought him back but those he quickly quieted by seizing and punishing some great ones who would have incited that people against him the rest upon his willingness to remit the Commotion departing peaceably to their homes But a War with the Silures could not be avoided King Caradock in person headed them who could not be prevailed with by all
Franks and Batavians was hereat so surprised that flying up and down like a mad-man he lighted upon Marcus Aurelius Asclepiodotus Grand Seneschal of the Praetorium and not staying for the coming up of all his Forces only with the Accessaries of his Treason and his mercenary Germans and those not marshalled in good order desperately began the Battel in which his Army was routed and himself slain having first cast off his Purple Robe his body being hardly found among the dead Carcasses The slaughter fell heavy upon the Barbarians of whom such as escaped hasted to London designing to sack it and so take their flight but part of the Roman Army which in the Mist had been sever'd at Sea from the rest coming thither at the same time put them to the Sword with their Commander Livius Gallus at a place near a Rivulet which from him was called Gallbrook now Wallbrook Thus was Britain restored to the Romans after it had been withheld for ten years space by the two Usurpers And because so many Tyrants had from the time of the Emperour Galienus born sway in Britain therefore Porphyrius the Philosopher who lived in those dayes termed it A fertile Province of Tyrants And here by the way it will not be amiss to observe that this Porophyrius is the first and ancientest Writer that makes mention of the Scots which he doth in his very next words as his contemporary the Oratour Eumenius is the first that mentions the Pictis As for Geffrey's narration of Bassianus Carausius Allectus Asclepiodotus and Coelus I do not hold it worth the reciting as being contrary to the truth of all History and Chronology This Asclepiodotus had been Consul with Afranius Hannibalianus in the year two hundred ninety two of whom Vopiscus speaks with Honour in his Lives of Aurelianus and Probus Constantius leaving him to govern Britain departed hence to war against the Almans whom he overcame with the slaughter of sixty thousand of their men In the year three Hundred and three while Asclepiodotus ruled here the tenth Persecution began in the month of March wherein this Land which had escaped all the former bore a great share Here on the two and twentieth day of June suffered Alban the Protomartyr of this Island and the Soldier Heraclius who being appointed for his Executioner preferred death before the employment This Alban was by Birth a Britan by Descent a Roman of a Noble Family and of great Authority whose dwelling at Verulam and dying near it did much ennoble that City The place where he dyed was called Derswold and Holmhurst where now stands a noted Mercate Town which bears his Name His Death is said to have been accompanied with divers Miracles and particularly Gildas tells us That by his Prayers he made a way through the River for himself and a thousand others to pass over dry-footed This River now named Colne passing by Colnebroke a Mercate Town runneth into Thames of which Gildas therefore accounted it an Arm and called it by the name of Tamisis The men which followed Alban through the River soon after laid down their lives for the same cause among those that suffered with Amphibalus On the first of July suffered Aaron and Julius Citizens of Caerleon upon Vske and on the sixteenth of September the forementioned Amphibalus a famous Doctor of the Monastery of Caermarden but born at Caerleon by whom Alban was converted after whose death he fled to the borders of Wales whither he was followed by a great many Christian Verulamians to the number of nine hundred ninety nine But a party of Soldiers were sent to bring them and their Instructor back who quickly seizing their prey in their return put the Verulamians to death by the way at Lichfield and bringing Amphibalus with nine others of his Companions to a place called Redburn about three Miles from St. Albans there cruelly slew them at which time about a Thousand more of the same City of Verulam declaring themselves to be Christians were likewise Martyred with them On the next day being the seventeenth of September here suffered Socrates and Steven of whom the latter is conceived to be that Steven whose name we meet with in the Catalogue of the Archbishops of London which if we take for granted we may then suppose that Socrates might be Archbishop of York seeing we find his Name placed before Stevens in the Roman Martyrology and others But if Steven was Archbishop of London there can be then but little time allotted to his Successor Augulius whom some call Augurius Augulus and Agulinus For we find that he also suffered Martyrdom here on the seventh day of February following About the same time Nicolas a British Bishop suffered and was buried at Peblis in Lauden near the Monastery of Meilros where in the Reign of King Alexander the Third was sound an Urn of Stone with Ashes and Bones of a man's body which seemed to have been torn piece-meal Some three or four paces off was found a stately Cross in a certain Coffer of Stone on which Coffer was engraven this Inscription Locus sancii Nicholai Episcopi The place of St. Nicholas a Bishop In this place King Alexander built a Church and gave it to the Monks of the Holy Trinity Dempster would have this Nicholas to be a Scot but alledgeth no Authority for his opinion and it is as well known for evidence of the contrary that Lauden in the time of this Persecution was in the possession of the Britans as that Dempster is a notorious Hagiocleptes Melior or Melorus and many others were then invested with the Crown of Martyrdom in this Island But in the year three Hundred and four the Emperours Diocletian and Maximian freely resigned to Galerius and Constantius which latter presently put an end to the Persecution in Britain Gaul and Spain though in the other parts of the Empire under Galerius and his Caesars it lasted eight years longer In the East that renowned Soldier St. George was martyred about the beginning of this Persecution He was born in Cappadocia of Christian Parents and after the death of his Father was carried by his Mother into Palestine whereof she was a Native and Heiress to a great Estate there which upon her decease fell to him For his valour and good Service in the Persian War he was first made a Military Tribune and afterwards a Count Imperial and was in high esteem with Dioclesian and Galerius till they set up their Edict at Nicomedia against the Christians For then our George coming thither could not contain himself but moved with Zeal and pious Courage tore it down and putting off his Military Habiliments and making Doal of all his Substance to the Poor on the third Session of the Senate when the Imperial Decree was to be confirmed he boldly avouched himself to be a Christian And when neither by allurements nor threatnings he could be drawn to renounce his Religion after sundry cruel Torments which he
Son to Olbius Namnes Son to Galates and Rhemus Son to Namnes During the Reigns of these Samothean Kings hapned nothing remarkable only that in the time of King Lucus Osiris the great King of Egypt was slain by his Brother Typhon with the help of Laestrigon Antaeus Gerion Albion and Bergion the Grandsons of the murdered Heroe by his Son Neptune after which Albion and Bergion with a multitude of Africans coming into Spain where Gerion reigned from thence invaded and conquered Britain and Ireland where they ruled for some years But in the time of Celtes Hereules pursuing the revenge of his Father's death kills Typhon and Antaeus settles his Brother Orus and his mother Isis in the Kingdom of Egypt destroyes Gerion in Spain and marches into Gaule with intention to pass into Italy Celtes joyfully entertains him in requital whereof he built the City of Alexia Albion and Bergion suspecting he would at length call them to an account resolved to be before hand with him and came against him with a puissant Army who having married Galatea and increased his Army with Gaulish Supplies encountred them in a place named The Stony Strond or Stony Field now called by the French Le Craux where after a long and terrible fight the two Brothers were deseated and slain From thence Hercules departed into Italy where he slew Laestrygon The Samotheans in Britain emboldned by the success of this Battel took up Arms against the residue of the Africans that were lest behind commencing a long war which continued till the coming of Brutus In this interval the fifty Daughters of Dioclesian King of Syria having all murdered their Husbands in one night were for their punishment embarqued in a Ship well victualled but without Pilot Mast or Sail and so committed to the mercy of the Seas At last they were cast upon the Western Coast of this Island then inhabited by the African Progeny to whom women were very welcome in regard the Samotheans disdained to give their Daughters to them The Eldest of these named Albina was married to the Prince of these Barbarians and renewed to this Isle the name of Albion which had been before imposed by Neptune's forementioned Son of that name but now was worn out This Fable I conceive to be founded upon the Grecian Story of Danaus his Daughters King Remus having no other children but one Daughter gave her in marriage to Franicus Francus or Francion Son to Hector King of the Germans whose Father Brennus was lineally descended from the ancient Tuisco He succeeded his Father and Father-in-Law and kept his residence in a City of Pannonia which himself had built and called Sicambria after the name of his Son Sicamber who reigned after him and married a Lady named Galatea having first slain his Rival Acis a Sicilian Prince The Greeks for his valour called him Polyphemus which signifies famous and the Poets fable him to be a Cyclopian Giant and Son of Neptune whom they generally make the Father of Gigantick Issues This Polyphemus Sicamder is by the Germans named Woltheim Sichinger At his death he divided his Kingdom between his three Sons to Celtes he left Germany who extended the name of Celts to all the people of that Land Gaule and so much of Britain as was held by the Samotheans fell to Galates and Pannonia to Illyrius who by Conquest added to it the Countrey which of him took the name of Illyris Francus had parcelled Gaule into twelve Provinces and appointed over each of them a Vice-roy with orders to be aiding to his Samothean Subjects as occasion should require but Ambition prompted them to other Designs whereunto they were animated by their Princes over-large Bounty who it seems had made their Prefectures Hereditary so that after the death of Galates whose Reign was spent in Wars abroad they assumed to themselves the Royal Title and Power In the Reign of Wolfheim Sichinger the famous City of Troy was taken by the Greeks whereupon Aeneas and Antenor were forced to seek new seats of whom the latter found means to settle himself about Padua the other in Latium whose Son and Successour Ascanius built Alba Longa. But far worse fortune had many of their Countreymen who with their Families were carried away Captive into Greece by Pyrrhus and by him kept in slavery From him descended one Pandrasus as Geffrey calls him though the Greeks had another name for him who shewed himself very cruel to the issue of these Trojans In his time a certain Nobleman dying left two Sons the one by a Greek wife the other named Assaracus by a Trojan who falling out about the sharing of their Father's Territory caused the King to interest himself in the quarrel who hating the Trojan Nation and consequently Assaracus for his relation to them took his Brothers part against him and would by force have disseised him of his Inheritance if he had not been opportunely succour'd by Brutus of whom we come now to speak Ascanius King of Alba dying there arose a controversie about the succession between his Son Julus and his Half-Brother Sylivins Posthumus the Son of Aeneas by Lavinia the first being favoured by the Trojans the other by the Latines who being more numerous advanced Posthumus to the Crown assigning the Pontificate to Julus who upon the reconciliation assumed his Uncles name for his Praenomen and was called Sylvius Julus It was made a piea against him that he was not of years sufficient to manage the weighty affairs of a Kingdom by which it appears that he married very young having had two Sons before his Fathers death from the Elder of whom the Julian Family descended The Younger named Brutus proved fatal to both his Parents for his Mother died in Child-bed and at fifteen years of age he by mischance killed his Father at a hunting for which he was banished by Posthumus and went into Greece where upon sundry occasions he gave such proofs of his valour as encouraged the poor oppressed Trojans to repair to him and request him to undertake the freeing of them from the Grecian Bondage Brutus becomes their Prince and entring league with Assaracus wins two victories of Pandrasus In the first Antigonus the King's Brother and his friend Anacletus were taken Prisoners in the other the King himself Hereupon by the means of a Trojan named Mempricius ensued a peace whereby Assaracus was secured in his Right and Brutus obtained in marriage the King 's eldest Daughter Innogen with a Fleet of three hundred twenty four Ships well provided with all necessaries to transport the Trojans and their Families to another Country The first place he arrived at was an Island where Diana had a Temple whose Oracle he with his Soothsayer Gerion consults about the success of his Voyage and receives a propitious Answer From hence departing he sailed along the coast of Africk conquering by the way the Pirates of those Seas and for a fresh supply of provision was forced to land in Mauritania
have kept their station upon those Hills near Cambridge which Henry of Huntington terms The most pleasant Mountains of Balsham from a little Village of that Name standing beneath them but the Students call them Gogmagog Hills On the top of which there is to be seen a Fort entrenched and the same very large strengthned with a threefold Rampire which Gervase of Tilbury calleth Vandelbiria Beneath Cambridge saith he there was a place named Vandelbiria for that the Vandals wasting the parts of Britain with cruel slaughter of Christians there encamped themselves where upon the very top of the Hill they pitched their Tents there is a Plain inclosed round with a Trench and Rampire which hath Entrance into it but in one place as it were at a gate Carus Manlius coming to the Empire made his two Sons Carinus and Marianus Caesar's allotting by decree to the former Britain Spain Gaul and Illyricum who seems to have exploited something here against the Northern people from these Verses of Nemesianus Nec taceam quae nuper bella sub Arcto Foelici Carine manu conâ—â—ceris ipso Penè prior genitore Deo Neither may I the Wars in silence hide Dispatcht of late with happy hand i' th' North By thee Carine thy Father Deify'd Who dost well near surpass in works of worth But after the death of his Father and Brother Diocletian being saluted Emperour by the Eastern Armies vanquished and slew Carinus at Murgum or Murtium in the confines of Maesia and Pannonia Diocletian associated with him in the Empire his old Companion in Arms Maximian committing the Western parts to his Government by whom Caius Caransius a Menapian who had given good proof of his Abilities in the late War against the Gallick Rusticks called Bagaudae was intrusted with the charge of Admiral of the Roman Fleet for scouring the Seas and guarding the Maritim Coasts then terribly infested by the Saxons and Franks But he designing to enrich himself and oblige his Complices suffered some of those Pirats to pass under Compositions and others he would not seize till they had first robbed and spoiled the true Subjects and what he did intercept he neither restored to the Provincials nor accounted to the Publick These courses made him suspected of intentions to rebell whereupon Maximian sent some Forces against him with orders to put him to death To prevent this danger having made sure of the Navy he crossed over into Britain where he drew to his side the Roman Legion that was lest here in Garrison and detained other outlandish Cohorts which he â—ound here listed the very Merchants and Factors of Gaul and procured great Aids from the German Nations especially the Franks and putting on the Purple Robe sent out his Ships to Sea who did more mischief to the Roman Subjects of Gaul Spain Italy and other places than ever the Germans had done whence this was called the Piratick War By these means he so strengthned himself that Maximian not able to come any nearer to him than the Sea-shore and having his hands full enough at that time of other Enemies thought fit to make a feigned Peace with him for the present yielding Britain to him with Gessoriacum now Boloign and some other Sea-towns neigbouring to it And now Carausius to gratifie his new Subjects turned his Forces against his Northern Enemies whom he defeated and then as Nennius informs us he reedified the Wall between Glotta and Bodotria and fortified it with seven Castles and built a round House of polished Stone upon the bank of the River Carun which took name of him now commonly called Carron erecting therewith a Triumphal Arch in remembrance of his victory This House is by some called Arthur's oven by others Julius hoff and the Temple of Terminus After ensued a peace which Carausius the more willingly granted because he conceived these people might be useful to him if the Roman Emperours should break their Agreement with him and invade him In the year two hundred eighty nine Coelus the British King dyed and was buried at Glastonbury to whom succeeded his Brother Trahern Diocletian and Maximian had now conferred the Title and honour of Caesars upon Constantius and Galerius whom as Eutropius saith they made to put away their former Wives and so Diocletian married his Daughter Valeria to Galerius and Maximian gave his Emperesses Daughter Theodora whom she had by a former Husband to Constantius The detention of Britain could now no longer be endured and therefore in the year two Hundred ninety two Constantius Caesar Sirnamed Chlorus is sent against the Usurper who besieged Bolóigne and with Stones and Timber obstructing the Port kept out all Relief whereby the Garrison was forced to surrender after which followed the yielding of all on that side of the Sea and the Soldiers were pardoned and taken into Caesar's Service These Losses much impaired the reputation of Carausius with his own party who the same year was slain after seven years Reign by Caius Allectus Captain of his own Guard who was the more emboldned to this Treason because he presumed the Romans would never be able to provide a Navy sufficient for the recovery of the Island Having therefore murdered his Master and assumed the Title of Emperour he sent out his Ships to rob and spoil the Subjects of Rome and thinking himself secure enough became a most luxurious Tyrant The year following Constantius leaving orders for the preparing of a strong Fleet transfers the War into Batavia which the Franks had seised by the help of Carausius and the revolt of that people Cleve was besieged by them and reduced to great extremity when Constantius with invincible courage surmounting all the difficulties of a tedious march through Woods and Bogs where the Enemy had planted themselves to impede his passage came seasonably to the relief and overthrowing the Assailants freed the City and following his fortune recovered the Province forcing Assaricus and Gaiso Princes of the Franks to sue for peace which with much adoe they obtained but so that he transplanted many of their Nation into Gaul to till the wast and desert places there In the year two Hundred ninety four Constantius having gotten his Armada now in readiness set sail with a mighty Army though in a very Tempestuous Scason and by the benefit of a Mist passing by the British Fleet unseen which was placed near the Isle of Wight to discover and intercept him arrived happily in Britain to the great joy of the oppressed Inhabitants who ran out with their Wives and Children to meet their Deliverer whom they lookt upon as sent them immediately from Heaven and adored the very Sails and Oars of the Ship that brought him Presently he set all his Ships on fire to take from his followers all hopes of escaping otherwise than by conquering Allectus who relyed chiefly upon his Naval strength and thought Constantius had given over all hopes of regaining this Countrey when he saw him engaged in war with the