An Abreviation of divers most true and auncient Brutaine Cronicles, briefelie expressing the foundation of the most famous derayed Cittie Caer Souse or Dinas Southwen, most auncient in Brutaine, (Troy Newyth onlie excepted) and of some other famous Citties in Greate Brutaine. By Oliver Mathews, Gent.
Maie, 1616.
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HAT Caer Souse or Dinas Southwen is one of the most auncient Citties in Greate Brutaine, yt appearethe by all true Brutains Chronicles, which was builte by Locrinus, eldest sonne to Brutus, abouts the yeare of the World 2877. before Christe his Incarnation 1086. for his Concubine Souchwen, late Wieffe to Humber, kinge of Hunnes. Which People of Hunnes entered into Albania, nowe called Scotland, spoiled and wasted the Countrey, and slew theire kinge, called Albanactus, after Brutains entred into Brutaine 22. yeres, before Salomon built the famous Temple of Jerusalem 67. yeres, before the buildinge of Roome by the Bastard Brethren Remus and Romulus 333. yeres, before Dyffall Muell Myd, late Duke of Cornewall, 569. yeres, before Julius Cæsar’s entraunce into Brittaine 1018. before the birth of [1]Saviour 1709. yeres, before kinge Cadwalader’s Departure to Roome, and that this land was called England and Wales, 1571. yeres, before Canutus and Swaine the Danes entraunce 1882. before William Bastard’s Conquest 2802. before the Brutaine kinge Henry 7. 3001 yere, from the buildinge of Caer Southe untill this present yere 1616, 3231. yeres. And after that Locrinus had drowned Humber in the River, nowe called by the same name, (which River in
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