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| THE EIGHT CHAPTER. | 449 |
Of Brute and his descent, how he slue his father in hunting, his banishment,his letter to king Pandrasus, against whom he wageth battell, taketh himprisoner, and concludeth peace vpon conditions.
Hitherto haue we spoken of the inhabitants of this Ile before the comming ofBrute, although some will néeds haue it, that he was the first which inhabited thesame with his people descended of the Troians, some few giants onelie excepted whom hevtterlie destroied, and left not one of them aliue through the whole Ile. But as we shallnot doubt of Brutes comming hither, so may we assuredly thinke, that he found the Ilepeopled either with the generation of those which Albion the giant had placed here, orsome other kind of people whom he did subdue, and so reigned as well ouer them as ouerthose which he brought with him.
Humfr. Lhoyd.This Brutus, or Brytus [for this letter (Y) hath of ancient time had the sounds both ofV and I] (as the author of the booke which Geffrey of Monmouth translated dooth affirme)was the sonne of Siluius, the sonne of Ascanius, the sonne of Aeneas the Troian, begottenof his wife Creusa, & borne in Troie, before the citie was destroied. But as other doo takeHarding. Alex. Neuil. W. Har.it, the author of that booke (whatsoeuer he was) and such other as follow him, are deceiuedonelie in this point, mistaking the matter, in that Posthumus the sonne of Aeneas(begotten of his wife Lauinia, and borne after his fathers deceasse in Italie) was calledAscanius, who had issue a sonne named Iulius, who (as these other doo coniecture) was thefather of Brute, that noble chieftaine and aduenturous leader of those people, which beingdescended (for the more part in the fourth generation) from those Troians that escapedwith life, when that roiall citie was destroied by the Gréekes, got possession of this woorthieand most famous Ile.
To this opinion Giouan Villani a Florentine in his vniuersall historie, speaking of Aeneasand his ofspring kings in