when the solemn day arrived, commenced everything which 

 they were to carry on for the whole year. 



" With the same kind of entombment a certain earl of 

 ' Civitas Caergueriensis,' now called Warwyk, who was of 

 the British race, was most sumptuously buried by his people 

 under the water of ' Albanus,' otherwise ' Avyn.' 



"'There succeeded to King Gurguncius —King Guthelin, 

 otherwise Kenelin, or Kibeline, all of which are but one 

 name. After the death of his father he received the crown, 

 and ruled virtuously ; for he was a kind and prudent man. 

 He built Porcestria — that is, Porchester — near Southampton, 

 and the city of Warwic, which is the chief town of the 

 surrounding county, and which was called Caerleon, 

 according to our Gildas ; a man very learned in his day, 

 and highly cultivated, and head chaplain of King Arthur. 



["He dilates on the derivation of Caerleon, and how it 

 may be from ' Guthe-leon,' and continues:] — With these 

 considerations I find that there were of old three 'Urbes 

 Legionum.' The first in Sath-Wallia; the second in the 

 confines of Loegria and North- Wallia, which is now called 

 Cestria ; the third in Loegria, which sometimes is called 

 Caerleon, and sometimes Warwyk — whose builder, King 

 Guthelin, reigned ten years, and was buried at New Troy, 

 — that is London — about the time, as far as can be guessed, 

 when the most noble king and conqueror, Alexander the 

 Great, was born, and when, in turn, those most famous 

 philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle flourished, and 

 when Queen Hester, the consort of King Asower, was nobly 

 ruling over the Assyrians. 



"When ten years had passed from the coronation of 

 Kmg Constantine, there came a certain Pict, saying he 

 wished to speak with the king secretly apart from the 

 others, and he killed the king with his knife in a certain 

 copse, and the wretch fled away in safety to his own people. 

 Then there was again an incursion of the enemy, and a 

 devastation of the kingdom. While this ruin was going on, 

 a certain chief of the Britons, by name Guayr, coming after- 

 wards to the site of the town Caer-umbre, which had again 

 been devastated, again repaired it, and ordered it to be called 

 by his name — Caer-gwayr. Thither came St. Dubrians 



