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Now if the ‘‘ Gaer Ditches,” with its entrances east and west, was the scene 
of Caradoe’s defeat, what more likely than that the Auxiliaries, or light-armed 
troops, were told off for the pursuit from ‘‘ Coxwall Knoll,” &¢., and to attack on 
the steep eastern side of the hill; while, (and there is a local tradition about this 
too) the Legionaries or heavy-armed troops, marched up by the Teme, under cover 
of Stow Hill, and attacked the last Fortress of Caradoc, where his wife and 
daughter were, at the more accessible western gate; so that ‘‘si auxiliaribus re- 
sisterent, gladiis ac pilis legionariorum; si huc veterent spathis et hastis 
auxiliarium sternebantur ” ? 
Caradoc made his escape, but was delivered up by Cartismandua, his mother- 
in-law, Queen of the Brigantes, to Ostorius, whose triumph he adorned at Rome. 
The Emperor granted pardon to Caradoe, his wife and brothers, and if we may 
trust tradition in this case, to his daughter Gladys too, for she was married in 
A.D. 53 to a rich Senator, Aulus Rufus Pudens Pudentianus, and was adopted by 
the Emperor, and so took the name of Claudia. 
Martial wrote some Elegiacs a few years later, in which he sings of Claudia’s 
beauty— 
“* Quale decus formae ! Romanam credere matres, 
Italides possunt, Atthides esse suam.’ 
And of the marriage— 
‘Nec melius teneris junguntur vitibus ulmi, 
Nec plus lotus aquas, littora myrtus amat.’ 
St. Paul sends the greeting of Pudens and Claudia in his Second EKpistle to 
Timothy (iv. 21). 
The Palace of Caradoc, which the Emperor had assigned him, was afterwards 
the residence of Pudens and Claudia. Their daughter, Claudia Pudentiana, 
converted it into the first Christian Church at Rome, known first as the Titulus, 
and now as St. Pudentiana. Baronius says, “It is delivered to us by the firm 
tradition of our forefathers that the house of Pudens was the first that entertained 
St. Peter at Rome, and that the Christians assembling formed the Church, and 
that of all our churches the oldest is that which is called by the name of Pudens.” 
Tf these things were so, the subject of this paper has more than an antiquarian 
interest. The noble struggle of our last British hero was to have a yet nobler 
end; and defeated though he was, as we believe, in this very locality, the defeat 
led to great things for him and for his. He might well be content to sheathe his 
sword, since he had a Gladys, in the wife of Pudens, whose memory should 
glitter all along the victorious march of the Catholic Church. 
The Presrpent thanked Mr. Burrough, on behalf of the Club, for his very 
interesting and careful paper. Tiime did not admit of that discussion on the spot, 
which generally leads to this favourite subject. The question was taken up, 
however, by several groups in their descent to the village of Brampton Bryan, 
and from time to time during the day, and the ideas evolved may be thus sum, 
marised. The argument was good from the Tacitus point of view solely, and 
