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A68397	The breuiary of Britayne As this most noble, and renowmed iland, was of auncient time deuided into three kingdomes, England, Scotland and Wales. Contaynyng a learned discourse of the variable state, [and] alteration therof, vnder diuers, as wel natural: as forren princes, [and] conquerours. Together with the geographicall description of the same, such as nether by elder, nor later writers, the like hath been set foorth before. Writen in Latin by Humfrey Lhuyd of Denbigh, a Cambre Britayne, and lately Englished by Thomas Twyne, Gentleman.; Commentarioli Britannicae descriptionis fragmentum. English	Llwyd, Humphrey, 1527-1568.; Twyne, Thomas, 1543-1613.	1573 (1573)	STC 16636; ESTC S108126	73,902	228

by Twyne that thee doth sende To Brute his broode a labour sure that well deserueth prayse Go shew thy selfe to Britanists whose glory thou dost rayse FINIS ¶ Lodowick Lhuyd in prayse of the Author GO on be boulde thou litle booke sounde foorth thy aucthours fame Aduaunce the trauell tried of him that christened first thy name Thy state exilde thy age vnknown thy line that longe was lost Is now returnd and known againe in auncient Britaynes cost From Scythia shore from Phrigia feilds where longe thy selfe haue laine From raging Rockes and crased cragges thou art come home againe Thy patron graunde and auncient Sire Aeneas Troiane stoute Did neuer toile on land and SeaS as thou hast rangde aboute From Mountaines high wherto thy selfe alone wast wont to talke Lhuid taught thy steps to treade in Court with Princes wise to walke If then Solinus merit fame that Caesars stirpe haue pende The same ought Lhuyd of right to claime that Brutus line defende If Curtius be aduauncde on high Alexanders fame to feede Then well ought Lhuyd commended be to honour Hectors seede What praise had Liui then in Rome or Herodot in Greece That prayse ought neuer Humfry Lhuyd in natiue soyle to leese Who being aliue could Argos make with sugred talke t 〈…〉 e And now being dead 〈…〉 t Argos make with hundred eies to weepe Who though his corps is clothd in clay ▪ in mouldred dust to lie In spight of Parcas yet his fame doth skale the empire skie And though that age out liueth youth yet death doth age exile Though fame suruiueth death againe yet time doth fame defile So youth to age and age to death and death to fame in fyeld And fame to time and time to GOD this Lhuyd knew well to yeeld Sith then he founde Misenus trumpe to sounde againe the fame That once was wonne and then was lost extoll each one his name And gyue him then his due desert enroll his noble minde That first haue taught his countrimen their countrie state to finde Finis Laurence Twyne to his brother Tho. Twyne in prayse of his Translation AL that which learned Lhuyd of late in Latine did endite Of Britaynes race their auncient state their guise and countries rite Loe now in English tongue by true report and cunnings skill Twyne hath set forth th' unlearned sort their pleasure to fulfill Wherin who list to looke with heede straight Britaynes state shall know And wherwithall this noble land in auncient time did flow Lhuyds paynes was much in latine stile which wrote the same before But Brother sure in my conceit thou thanks deseruest more Of Britaynes and of British soyle which makst them vnderstand A thinge more meete me thinks for them then for a forren land Wherin as thou by toyle hast wonne the spurres and prayses got So reape deserued thanks of those for whom thou brakst the knot FINIS Iohn Twyne to the Readers of his brothers translation AS they of all most prayse deserue that first with Pen did show To vs the sacred lawes of God wherby his will wee know So many thanks are due to those that beate their busie brayne To let vs learne our earthly state in whiche wee here remayne Amongst the rest that euer wroate none hath of vs deserude Like prayse to Lhuyd who lo his foyl● hath here to vs preferd Wherin thou mayst the whole estate of this our natiue land What so is worthy to be knowne by readyng vnderstand And cause the aucthour wroate the same in tongue enstrangd to some Twyne hath it taught the English phrase in which it earst was dumbe Accept it well and when thou readst if ought therby thou gayne For recompence yeld thy good will to him that tooke the payne Finis A Table contayning the principall matters entreated of in this booke largely digested into the Alphabeticall ordre as followeth AEstiones Fo. 52 Albania whence so called 49 described 47. Albion why so termed 4 Anglysey in Wales 57 Animositie of Britaynes 62. their auntient maners 61 Arfon 64 Aron martir where buried 82 Attacotti inhabitours of Albania of Scottish originall 45 Augustine the Monke 13. his intollerable arrogancie 71 B Bardi 7 Bath how of olde time termed 18 Bedfordshyremen 24 Benbroche 78 Bernhard of Newmercate 83 Bernicia 28 Boadicia or Bunduica a valiant que●● 85. 89 Bodotua 48 Boëthius reproued 21. 24. 33. 38. 49. 81. Bogwelth or Buellt 83 Brecknock 83. by what Englishman first subdued ibidem Brennus whose sonne and brother 53 why he slew himselfe 54. what language his Souldiers vsed 54. his Court or Palace 72. was a perfect Britayne 53 Brenni where they dwelt 55 Brigantes were neuer in Scotland 30. their Cities names 29 Britayne why so named 8. how deuided ibid. the Etimology therof 8 Britayne the lesse or the Second 35 Britayne the first seconde thyrde and fourth 35 Britaynes how they celebrate Easter 67. their Ualiencie 69 British names corrupted by the Romās 5 Britons nigh Fraunce 10 Brustius crueltie 83. his miserable death ibidem Bristow 18 Buckynghamshiremen 24 C Cadeuenna 73 Caesar what he termeth a Citie 32 Caerbro castle in the Wyght 17 Caer Andred by whom ouerthrown 15 Caerlile 47 Calice 14 Cambria why so called 49 Cambra 53 Cambridge 23 Camalodunum 21 Camudolanum ibidem Cangorum where it standeth 66 Cantimanduas treason 34 Cantorbury why so called 15. metropolitane of England and Wales ibid. Caradoc described 33 Cardigan 75 Castle of Clun 34 Castle of Douer 14 castle of Emlyn 79 castle of Lion. 70 Cataracus where he ●aught with Ostorius 34 Catguilia 79 Ceretica described 75. 79 Chepstow 81 Chester 27 Chichester 16 Cicester 19 Citie of Legions 82 Cities of Brigantes 29 Clun castle 24 Cōmendation of the Bathes at Bath 18 Conouia by whom builded 65 Cornish Welshmen one nation 18 Cornwall 17 Crneltie of Brustius 83 Cumberland by whom in olde time in habited 30 Cymbri 15 D Danes came in 13 Danica Sylua 74 Dannij 30 Dauid how termed in British 77. trāslated the Archbishopricke to Meneue ib. Death of Brennus 54 Death of Brustius 83 Deheubarth 74. why worse then Gwynedh 75 Deera in old time called Brigātia 30. 28 Demetia 77 Denbigh 66. described ibidem Deuani 26. how called of old by the Rom. ibi Description of Albania 47 Description of Cambria 49 Description of Caradoc citie 35 Description of Ceretica 75. 79. Description of Denbygh 66. Description of Tegenia or Igenia 68 Description of Wales 62 Diuision of Britayne 9 Diuision of England 12 Diuision of Wales 62 Diuision of Venodotia 64 Diuisions are dangerous 93 Dorchester 24 Doruentani why so called 27 Douer 14 Douer castle by whom builded 14 Druydes 42 Dunetus Abbot 71 Dunwallon forsaketh his kyngdom 68 Diuerse kynges possess● diuers partes of Wales 63 E Edward the first entred Wales 58 Edenburgh by whom builded 48 Egbert first Monarch of Lohëgr 19 Eluyl 74 Elbodius archbishop of Northwales 67 Emlyn castle 79 England deuided 12. by whom first so called

of Aegypt sent foorth his oratours vnto Reutha kynge of Scots that by the view taken and report of his neare countrymen namely such as had come lyneally from the Egiptians he might vnderstand the situation and forme of the countrie together with the conditions and maners of the people to the intent that he might set downe the same in his woorke of Cosmographie whiche he had then in hand Whiche oratours beyng right courteously intertayned were afterward led through all the regions and townes of Scots and Readshankes at last beyng largely rewarded returned into Aegypt O noble and worthie deede of a Gentleman but moste vnthankfull Ptolomaeus and vnmindeful of so great rewards Who after that he had sent his Embassadours into countries so farre distant hath left no shire yea almost no towne in all Britayne in that woorthy woorke of his vnspoken of whiche was set foorth not by the kynge but longe time after by another Ptolomaeus Pheludensis a Philosopher very well learned onely his welbeloued cosins the Scots and Readshāks he hath lefte raked vp in their owne darkenesse neither once vouchsaued in his booke wherin he made a most perfect description of all Albania to expresse so muche as their names Nay rather Boethius it is a sinne to beleeue that suche a kyng when he had sent thither his Legates and recited all the Cities and people of Albania to haue bin ignorant of the nations name and in describynge the situation of the Region so to haue varied from the trueth For he whiche sette foorthe that noble woorke aboute the yere of our redemption one hundred and fortie appeareth in no place to speake of the Scottes and Readshankes which at that time were vnknowen to the worlde This beyng omitted let vs come to the second Fable wherein gentle reader whether I shal mooue thee to laugh ter or lothsomnesse I am vncertayn He writeth that one Gyllus vsurped by force the kyngedome of Scotland before the commynge of Caesar into Britayne who after that he had committed many cruell deedes at length by Euenus the lawfull heyre one Cadallus beyng captayne was in Ireland vanquished in blouddie fight and afterwarde slayne Of this slaughter by reason that the Irishmen were afflicted with the force armes of the Albion Scots the Poete Claudianus other writers haue entreated Wherby he maketh the noble poete Claudianꝰ which liued vnder Honorius 410. yeres after the incarnate woord author of the Scottish war against Gyllus which vnto him seemeth no inconuenience who in other places most impudently fathereth his follies fables vpon Caesar the Dictator Tacitus In very deede Claudianus hath writen of the Gyldonicum warre made in Africk by Masticelis brother to Gyldo cheiftaine therin and of the expedition which Honorius tooke in hande against the brother that rebelled But I besech you my freend Hector tell me whether you affirme this geare in iest or in good earnest that thereby wee may iudge of the residue or whether that you thought you could deceaue all men with your lies This Gyldo was a Goth no Scot the warre was in Africk not in Ireland This visible tyranne liued in the yere of our Lorde 398. but theyr feyned inuisible Gyllus is deuised to haue flowrished 400. yeres before Besides these insulse and vnsauored lies he affirmeth that all the knowledge and learnynge of the Druydes came first vnto the Scots when as it playnely appeareth vnto suche as are excercised in the readyng of Hystories that Phylosophy and the liberal sciēces were knowen to the Celtae and Britaynes longe before they were to the Greekes and Latines But as touchyng the holsome lawes institutes whiche he falsely attributeth vnto the Scots vnto those whiche reade Solinus and Mela depayntyng foorth the maners and nature of the Irishmen the truth will appeare Likewise out of S. Hierome whom wee may better credite then Boethius it is euident that at his time that is as muche to say as in the yere of our Lorde 400. the Scots were accustomed to eate mans fleash For saieth he what shall I say of other nations when as I my selfe beyng but a yonge man saw in Fraunce Scottes whiche fead on mans fleash And when as they chance to finde in the wooddes any heards of Hogges also any droues of catayle or beastes they vse to cut of the buttockes of the Heards men and keepers and the Pappes of women accomptyng those partes for a most delicate dish These Scots as though they followed Platoes cōmon wealth haue no peculiar wiues of their owne but as their lechery moueth them saith he runne lasciuiously about after the maner of beastes This much S. Hierome Since therfore it is certainly prooued out of this true author that they were so barbarous at his time it is not like that so many hundred yeres before as Boethius doth fayne they were ruled with so many good lawes and holsome institutes Neither doo I for my part write this to the intent I woulde detract any thinge from the Scottish glory in so much as I know very well that this nation after that it had departed from barbarousnesse and embraced Christian religion and obeyed lawes and rightes precisely like other people was so firmlye ioyned in league of friendship with our Britaynes that wee reade how in many warres th`one nation ayded the other I acknowledge also that many thinges haue bin by them doone both wisely valiently in Britayne Fraunce and Italy and that the Englishmen howbeit a stronge nation seldome assayed the Scots in war but that they were alwaies readie with al their force to ioyne with them in battayle which is no signe of a cowardly or hart lesse people But I write this only to this entent that the truth of the history may be knowne and that the Scots themselues may contemne this fabler hold them selues contented with this that together with the Saxons Frenchmen Englishemen most noble natiōs they were first knowne to the Roman world And now let vs see what substantiall approued writers whom bothe wée they must credit haue transported to memorie touchyng the Scots and Readshankes The first therfore of the Romans so far as I know Mamertinus in his Panegyricus called Maximinianꝰ maketh mention of the Readshankes by these woordes And truly not like as there is but one name of Britayne so should the losse be but smale to the cōmonwealth of a lande so plentifull of corne so flowrishyng with numbers of pastures so flowynge with riuers of metalles so gaynefull for reuenewes so welbeset with hauens so wide in circuit Which when Cesar first of the Romans the beginner of this your name entred into wroate that he had founde another world supposing it to be so bigge that it seemed not to be compassed with the Oceane but rather to compasse the Oceane about But at that time Britayne was nothynge furnished with shippes for Warre by Sea and the Romans after the Punick and Asiatick warres had