The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps

156 PHGNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

-_._. The place where he fell is called Lam Goémagot, that is, ‘ Goémagot’s Leap ’ unto this day.

Founding in Britain of New Troy “ Tri-Novantum ” or “London” about 1100 B.C.

“ Brutus, having thus at last set eyes upon his kingdom, formed the design of building a city, and with this view travelled through the land to find a convenient site, And coming to the river Thames, he walked along the shore and at last pitched upon a place fit for his purpose. Here he built a city which he called * New Troy,’ under which name it continued for a long time after, till at last, by corruption, it came to be called ‘ TyiNovantum. But afterwards, when Lud, the brother of Cassibellaun, who made war against Julius Cesar, obtained the government of the kingdom, he surrounded it with stately walls and towers and ordered it to be called after his own name, ‘ Kaer-Lud,’ that is, the ‘ City of Lud’ for‘ Lud-Dun,’ corrupted into ‘ Lon-don ’].2

Making Laws for Government

“ After Brutus had finished building the city, he made choice of the citizens that were to inhabit it, and prescribed them laws for their peaceable government. . . . At the same time also, the sons of Hector, after the expulsion of the posterity of Antenor, reigned in Troy ; as in Italy did Sylvius 4Eneas, the son of Aineas, the uncle of Brutus, and the third king of the Latins.

Death of King Brutus about 1080 B.C. and Division of Britain

“ During these events Brutus had by his wife Ignoge three famous sons, named Locrvin, Albanact and Kamber. These, after their father’s death, which happened in the twenty-fourth year after his arrival, buried him in the city which he had built; and then, having divided the kingdom of Britain [excepting Cornwall] among them, retired each to his government. Locrin, the eldest, possessed the central part of the island, called afterwards from his name ‘ Legvia, Kamber had that part which lies beyond the river Severn, now called Wales, but which was for long named ‘ Kambyia,’ and hence the people

» This rock is said by Gilbert (op. cit.) and Camden (Britanwia, 1586) to be, according to local tradition, the ‘‘ Haw ”’ at Plymouth and the “ giant ”

is there known as *‘ Gogmagog.” * See Appendix V for details,