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Then there was wrangling with Caswallawn and Avarwy on the 

 point of jurisdiction for the trying of Hirlas for man- 

 slaughter, if not nmrder, whether he should be tried in the 

 jurisdiction of Avarwy (the Trinobantes) or that of Caswallawn 

 (the Cassii), and it was followed by a deadly feud and even war, 

 as Caswallawn beset London, and unhappily Avarwy sent over 

 to Gaul to ask Csesar for help. Hence Avarwy is called in a 

 historial triad one of the three traitors of the Island of Britain , 

 Gwrteyrn (our Vortigern), who called in the Angles, being 

 another. The Brut says when Caesar came again to Britain, 

 Caswallawn was besetting London, and went to meet him in a 

 woody glen near Canterbury, which may mean that he went to 

 his stronghold at St. Albans, an " oppiduin," as Csesar says, 

 " sylvis et paludibus munitum" (Comm. v., 11). Though some 

 may not call St. Albans near to Canterbury, but two or three 

 days' march may not have been thought very far by the writer 

 of the chronicle, or he might not have known how far London 

 and St. Albans were asunder. When peace had been made 

 between Csesar and Caswallawn, Avarwy withdrew to Home, 

 and not unwisely so, as he could hardly be free of peril from the 

 true-hearted Britons, who had marked him by the name Bradwr 

 (traitor), for having called the Romans into Britain. Avarwy 

 having left Britain was followed in the kingship by Teneuvan, son 

 of Ludd, Prince of Cornwall. He seems to have been a king of 

 Romanish mind, and his son Cynvelyn (the Cunobelinus of 

 Latin writers) is said to have been bred up at Rome by Ceesar, 

 and to have paid willingly the Eoman tribute. Gwydir and 

 Gweirydd were sons of Cynvelyn (Cunobelinus). Gwydir, after 

 the death of his father, took the headship, and withheld the 

 Eoman tribute, and Claudius Caesar was sent against him, and 

 beset Caer Peris (the British stronghold at Porchester), and 

 Gwydir withstood the Romans, but was slain. His brother 

 Gweyrydd fought on a while, but was overcome by the Romans, 

 and they took the caor, and he withdrew to Winchester, whither 

 Claudius followedhim, and after a while peace was made between 

 them, and it is clear from what followed afterwards that he 



