Who first founded Malmesbury ? 



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who built over his remains the " Porta Belini " now Billingsgate 

 in London. 



The original name of Brokenborough was Cad-bury. Whenever 

 we meet with " Cad " it implies that a battle has been fought on the 

 spot, and a "Battle-mound," — " Cad-bury " — erected for the fallen. 

 Cad occurs in almost every county in England. CW-durburg the 

 name of the Saxon Royal Palace at Brokenborough, also indicates 

 its origin to be British. 



Upon the whole, supposing Malmutius to have first occupied 

 the commanding position on which Malmesbury stands, and 

 the Monk Mael-dulph (the first syllable of whose name is identical 

 with that of Malmud as written in the British "Maelmud") 

 who fixed his Hermitage, amongst probably the debris of cen- 

 turies on the same site in the sixth century to be considered its 

 religious Founder, there appears to be a good deal more of interesting 

 matter transmitted to us from the hoary records and traditions of 

 Antiquity about the King-Father than the Monk-Father of this 

 ancient town. The name Malmesbury, flowing so easily from Mal- 

 meedsbury, cannot without some degree of phonic violence be 

 derived from such a word as " Maeldulphsbury," and it is but his- 

 torical justice that the claims of the Royal British Numa, adverted 

 to by Leland, Camden and others, to be the original Founder of the 

 stronghold on the River Bladon, should — admitted or not — be at 

 least formally recorded in court. 



Bmtannicus. 



Charlton, August, 1862. 



