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therefore lie could not have marched to him in seven days, bu 

 there is no need of our believing that he was there, as there 

 were other places, at one of which he might have been, but there 

 was only one whence he could march to Totness in seven days. 

 In the lolo Manuscripts (p. 63) among some laws of kinship is 

 one (I know not whether it is of the early time of Gweyrydd) 

 that the main kingly residences of the head-king (Unben) of 

 Britain, were the cities of London, Caerlion on Usk, and York, 

 in each of which places he had a right to a national palace, just 

 as the President of the United States has a right to the White- 

 house. All these places, however, are too far away for such a 

 march to Totness. Where was he, then, you may ask ? I 

 answer at home at Caer Gloew (Gloucester), which I believe 

 is about 120 miles from Dartmouth, and a march of seven days 

 at about 17 miles a day would bring him to the shore of Totness 

 as the Brut says it did. After the peace, says the Brut, .Gwey- 

 rydd and Vespasian went together to London. Why to London ? 

 Because we have seen it was one, and tho main one, of the triad 

 of the head-king's abodes, where he might veil wish to lay 

 matters before a national convention. When winter came on 

 Vespasian went back to Italy, having already sworn Gweyrydd 

 to stedfast fealty to Rome. Gweyrydd would surely have a home 

 in his own dominion in the west, and we have many very clear 

 marks which, together, becomes proof that it was Caer Gloew 

 (Gloucester) where he was buried, and where Claudius is said 

 to have built a temple, which might well have been the Roman 

 temple in which he was buried, and this matches with the his- 

 tory that he wedded a daughter of Claudius, who might have 

 built it for his daughter's use in Roman worship, and that he 

 was there buried with his w ife. The form and later history of 

 Gloucester would match very well with the British 

 history that it was founded by Claudius, since it 

 was a Roman castra with a vallum of four 

 sides and a gate in each, and became a Roman colony, and, i 

 may be one, of the earliest in Britain ; and what is more likely 

 than that a Roma^ colony should be settled at Gloucester, so that 



