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we have already shown, Gweyrydd was the son of Cynvelyn 

 (Cunobelinus), who was sou of Teneuvan, Prince of Cornwall, 

 and so it is clear enough that Gweyrydd was Prince of Cornwall ; 

 but the dukedom of Cornwall so called was very broad ; taking 

 in the shire of Cornwall (Cernew), and Devon (Dyvnamt), and 

 Dorset, with some share of Somerset, the immense arm of 

 Britain, as Richard of Cirencester calls it, that reaches from 

 Dorset to Land's End. So in the lolo MS. in a list of territories 

 or possessions, Devon (Dyvnamt) and Cornwall (Cernew) are 

 put as one territory, reaching from Artlechwedd Galedm, and 

 along the mid-seas to the British Channel (Mor Udd, main sea), 

 and therefore Vespasian came away from the Roman Rutupia to 

 strike Gweyrydd in the side on the shore of South-west Britain. 

 As Vespasian might or would have known of the wrecking of 

 some of the ships of Julius Ceesar on an open shore in Kent, so 

 he might well have chosen the shores of Totness, where the 

 broad estuary of the Dart might hold his empty galleys on 

 smooth water, while his men would be on shore in warfare. 

 Geoffrey of Monmouth says that the Saxons who had come down 

 to the south from the north of Britain, and whom King Arthur 

 had overcome at Bath, had landed at Totness. The Brut says 

 that peace was made between Vespasian and Gweyrydd by the 

 intercession of the Queen, which matches with the history of the 

 Brut already quoted, that his Queen was a daughter of Claudius, 

 a Eoman lady, and she therefore, like one of the Sabine wives 

 in the early days of Rome, made peace between her own kin and 

 that of her husband. Nor is it wonderful that such a Roman 

 lady should so far play the office of a Sabine bride as to try to 

 make peace between her British husband and her own people 

 through Vespasian, a Roman ? By the Brut again, as soon as 

 Gweyrydd was told of this onslaught of Vespasian at Totness he 

 made his way for Penhwylcott, and reached it on the seventh 

 day, and began a bloody but bootless battle, in which he was 

 overpowered by the number of the Romans. Now, some may 

 believe that Gweyrydd was at Ruputia (Richborough), when he 

 was told of Vespasian's landing on the shore of Totness, and 



