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and in this manner deftroyed both himfelf 

 and his partner in guilt. Others fay that 

 his palace was confumed by lightening,* 

 and others again, that it was deftroyed by 

 Aurelius Ambrofius and Uter Pendragon,-f- 

 two fons of Conftantine, who having fought 

 out the place of his retirement, fet fire to 

 it, and confumed him and his family to 

 afhes.J We are not, however, certain 

 that any of thefe were true; for Vortigern, , 

 being confidered as the author of all the 



* Ibid. Stow 's Chronicle. 



t So called from his having caufed two golden 

 dragons to be caft, one of which he prefented to 

 the cathedral of Winchefter, and the other he car- 

 ried along with him in his wars, moft probably by 

 way of creft on his helmet. Jones's Welfh Bards, 40. 



^ Whitelock's Memorials from Brute, p. 131 

 Stow's Chronicle. According to Nennius, the pa- 

 lace that was deftroyed muft have been that in Nant 

 Gwrtheyrn, for, c. 44. he fays, that when Vorti- 

 gern went to fortify himfelf at Caer Gwrtheyrn, he L- 

 gave to Myrddin the caftle he had built in Eryri. 



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