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386 PHGENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

numerous coins place as the contemporary and protégé of the Roman emperor Augustus who reigned 27 B.c.-14 A.D., and thus included the epoch of the birth of Christ. This datum point, moreover, agrees fairly well with another fixed date, Cesar’s second invasion of Britain in 54 B.c., in regard to which Geoffrey’s Chronicle records that Cassibellan died “seven years’ after that event,* that is, in 47 B.c., which the Chronicle chronology, as now equated, places at 45 B.c., that isa variation of only two years, and there is this variation in the estimated birth-date of Christ.

I have adopted the length of reigns recorded by Geoffrey as far as they go, as they are usually identical with those of Dr. Powel’s lists, and for the remainder I have adopted Powel’s regnal years in preference to those of Harding, as the latter presumably included as regnal years those years during which crown-princes acted as co-regents with their fathers, although the sum total of years between the accession of Brutus down to the period of Cassibellan in Powel and Harding respectively differs only by fwo years.*

It is noteworthy that all the lengths of reign are perfectly natural terms of years, and the lists contain no supernatural lengths of reign such as disigure some ancient chronologies which nevertheless are generally accepted as “ historical.’’ It will also be seen that the Early Britons had already a highly-civilized king ruling in London before the Israelites had yet obtained a king.

ABBREVIATIONS : G=Geoffrey r=reigned k=king s=son m=married w=wife P=Powel Date of Accession Length of Events Contemporary No. B.C. Name. Reign and Historical Events {approxi- in Years. Remarks. B.C. mate). I 1103 Brutus, great grand- 24 Conquers Britain | Assyrian massacring inson of Afneas, m. (P. 15) and founds Tri-} vasion of Hittite Asia Ignoge, daughter Novantum or} Minor and Syria by ot King Parnassus London. Tiglath Pileser I of Greece, tr2o. Saul rst k. of Israel 1095. 2 1079 Locrinus, s. of r. to Invasion of Huns (P. 20) on Humber repelled. 3 ro69 Guendolen regent, 15 w. of 2, and daughter of Duke Corineus. 4 1054 Madan, s, of 2 and 3. 40 David becomes k. of Jerusalem rog7; and Hiram Pheenician k. of Tyre. 5 Tord Memipricius, s. of 4. 20 (omitted by P.) 6 994 Ebrauc, s. of 5. 40 Founded York} Solomon builds temple and Dun-| ror2-gor. Barton and} (Sylvius Latinus rc. in invaded Gaul. | Alba Longa in Italy.) 7 954 Brutus IT, or Grene r2 His brothers conshylde, s. of 6. quered and ruled Germany. 8 942 Leyle or Leir, s. of 7. 25 Founded Car-} (Sylvius Epitus r. in lisle. Alba Longa.) 9 917 Rudhebras or Hudi- 39 Built Canterbury | (Capys, s. of Epitus r. in bras, s. of 8. (P. 29) and Caer Guen| Italy.) or Winchester.

' The date for the birth of Christ introduced into the later versions of the British Chronicles by their earlier Christian editors was, of course, the traditional date for the beginning of the Christian era, and not the actual date of that event in 4 8.c. as estimated by modern historians,

* Geoffrey op. cit., 4, II. *See Borlase. op, crt. 406.