88 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALtS". 



Mr. Pennant,* .as well as Mr. Grif- 

 fith, in the above infcription feems to 

 have miftaken the date of this action, 

 which certainly does not appear to have 

 taken place fo early as 420. Matthew 

 of Weftminfler, from whom I extracted 

 the above account of it, fays exprefsly, 

 that it was in 448, and that Germanus 

 and Lupus did not arrive in this kingdom 

 till about two years preceding. -f- He 

 mentions nothing of the Saxons being 

 engaged in it, nor does it appear very 

 likely that they fhould, fince their army 

 7 was only introduced by Vortigern in the 

 fubfequent year. I do not think the 

 obfervations made by Mr. Pennant, 

 from Archbifhop Ufher, that the Saxons 

 here engaged might have been fuch as 

 came over prior to the invitation of 



* Tour, 1. 437. 



f Flores Hift. 152, 153, 154. In Rymer's Foedera, I. 

 443, it is faitj to have taken place about the year 447. 



Vorti- 



