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him to the most worthy Brittaine records of Assur and Beda or Bedoe, and the learned Brittaine Gildas, and he shall finde this most true, yf he can have their auncient records in the auncient Brittaines langwage; or yf he be a Saxon or Norman, let him learne the Brittaines language, and then peruse the forenamed Aucthors, and the truthe will appeare to be as I have said.

THE AUNCIENT NAMES OF SALLOP.

Caer Odder yn Hafren.
Penne Gwerne Powys.
Shroudsbury.
Ymythyge, derived of anger.
Sallop or Sallopia, of the sallie trees there growinge.