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Who first founded Malmesbury ? 



coast ; 5, Akoman (properly Ach-maen, i.e. Pavement) Street from 

 Mcnapia (St. David's) joining Watling Street at Leicester ; 

 G and 7, the two Sarn Halens, i.e. Salt ways from the Cheshire salt 

 mines to Portsmouth and the Humber ; 8, the Fosse Road from 

 Ictis (St. Michael's Mount) to Dunbreton (Dunbarton) on the 

 Clyde, unless we terminate it at Ludford in Lincolnshire. Some 

 of these roads were undoubtedly pitched or paved from their British 

 names "Palmentadi," others like the Fosse appear to have been little 

 else than open strata or passages running without interruption 

 from end to end, free to all, and placed under the protection of the 

 " King and Country." A robbery or assault on any one of these 

 was visited with the same legal penalty as burglary or violence in 

 a closed house. They took mostly a sinuous line at a moderate 

 elevation above the ground. Being completed by Belinus they 

 were better known as the Belinian roads. In their first and second 

 invasions the Romans made them their lines of march and subse- 

 quently in some measure laid down their own military roads by 

 them. Hence the Belinian and Roman Itinera constantly run in 

 and out of each other. 



The trade with Phoenicia appears to have attained its height in 

 the reign of Malmud. Ezekiel mentions tin as a staple article in 

 the commerce of Tyre, the city which rose " very glorious and of 

 great beauty in the midst of the sea, the merchant of the Isles far 

 off." As the tin mines of Cornwall were the only ones ever known 

 to the Ancients, the article must have been obtained in that cradle 

 of British mining and commerce. Wherever bronze is made men- 

 tion of, British tin must as early as the days of Moses have found 

 its way. 



Malmutius bequeathed his first name Dunwal or Dunwallo to the 

 place of his birth which still retains it in Cornwall — Dunwallo 

 Wynton. Tradition places also his ducal palace there, which the 

 name " Wyndun the White Town," seems to confirm. 



He is said also to have been the First British Monarch who wore 

 a golden crown with the double arch, the Kings who preceded him 

 being content with a plain gold bandlet. 



He was succeeded after a reign of 40 years by his son Belinus 



