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Fic. 75.—Tascio (Hercules) coin of Ricon ruling Briton clan.

(After Poste, and see E.C.B., 8, 6-8.) Note the pentad “‘spears”’ as Tascio’s sacred cup-mark uumber,

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CHrRoNnotocicat List oF Earty Briton KINGs, FROM BrutusTHE-TROJAN, ABOUT I103 B.C., TO ROMAN PERIOD

Compiled from Early British Chronicles of Geoffrey of Monmouth and Supplemented by Records of Dr. Powel, etc.

Tue fact that these complete and systematic chronological lists of the Early Briton kings, from the advent of Brutus downwards without a break, have been fully preserved by the Britons, implies familiarity with the use of writing from the earliest period of Brutus. And we have seen that King Brutus-the-Trojan and his Brito-Phornicians were fully equipped with the knowledge and use of writing.

These chronological king-lists record the names and lengths of reign of the several paramount kings of Early Britain in unbroken, continuous succession from Brutus down to the Roman period of well-known modern history.

Their authenticity is attested not only by their own inherent consistency and the natural length of each reign in relation to the events recorded in the Chronicles, and by their general agreement with the few stray references by Roman writers to some of the later kings, and with the royal names stamped upon Early Briton coins, but also by their being confirmed by the royal names on several Early Briton coins, which names are unknown to Roman and other history; and these ancient coins had not yet been unearthed, and thus were unknown, at the period of Geoffrey and other early editors of these Chronicle lists of the Early Briton kings. Thus we shall see that they supply the key to the ‘“RVII”* name stamped on some of the Briton coins, the identity of which name has not hitherto been recognized, but which is now disclosed as the ‘‘ ARVI ” title of Caractacus as recorded in the ancient Chronicles of Geoffrey and others, and in Roman contemporary literature and disclosing coins of Caractacus and other kings hitherto supposed to have no coinage. And they supply the date and position of two famous Ancient Briton sovereigns whose Codes of Laws were translated by King Alfred for the benefit of the A nglo-Saxons. These lists were also reputed sources of Tudor genealogy.?

The dates of reign are recorded, as is usual, with only few exceptions, in ancient dynastic lists, not in a special era, but merely in the line of consecutive years of the successive reigns. In order, therefore, to equate those regnal years to the Christian era (as there is no fixed or even approximate date known for the Homeric Fall of Troy to determine the initial date of Brutus), I have started from the datum point fixed by the tradition that Christ was born in the 22nd year of the reign of Cuno-belin? (No. 71 on list), a well-known Briton king whom both the Chronicles and his very

* Powel and Harding's dated lists are respectively detailed by Borlase, op. cif., 404, etc., and are compared with others by Poste, Britannic Researches, 227, etc.

* Powel, cited by Borlase, op. cit., 405, with reference to Henry VII. * Tradition recorded by Powel, see Borlase, op. cit., 406,

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