[1] [2] [3] [4] _WHEN Brute had entred this land, immediatlie after his arriuall (as writers doo re|cord) he searched the countrie from side to side, and from end to end, finding it in most places verie fertile and plen|tious of wood and grasse, and full of pleasant springs and faire riuers. As he thus trauelled to discouer the state and commodities of the Iland,Brute en|countred by the giants. he was encountred by diuers strong and mightie giants, whome he destroied and slue, or ra|ther subdued, with all such other people as he found in the Iland, which were more in number than by re|port of some authors it should appeare there were. A|mong these giants (as Geffrey of Monmouth wri|teth) there was one of passing strength and great e|stimation, named Gogmagog,Corineus wrestleth with Gogma|gog. with whome Brute caused Corineus to wrestle at a place beside Douer, where it chanced that the giant brake a rib in the side of Corineus while they stroue to claspe, and the one to ouerthrow the other: wherewith Corineus be|ing sore chafed and stirred to wrath, did so double his force that he got the vpper hand of the giant,Gogmagog is slaine. and cast him downe headlong from one of the rocks there, not farre from Douer, and so dispatched him: by rea|son whereof the place was named long after, The fall or leape of Gogmagog, but afterward it was called The fall of Douer. For this valiant déed, and other the like seruices first and last atchiued,Cornwall gi|uen to Cori|neus. Brute gaue vnto Corineus the whole countrie of Cornwall. To be briefe, after that Brute had destroied such as stood against him, and brought such people vnder his sub|iection as he found in the Ile, and searched the land from the one end to the other: he was desirous to build a citie, that the same might be the seate roiall of his empire or kingdome. Wherevpon he chose a plot of ground lieng on the north side of the riuer of Thames, which by good consideration séemed to be most pleasant and conuenient for any great multi|tude of inhabitants, aswell for holsomnesse of aire, goodnesse of soile, plentie of woods, and commoditie of the riuer, seruing as well to bring in as to carrie out all kinds of merchandize and things necessarie for the gaine, store, and vse of them that there should [page 11] inhabit.
[1] Here therefore he began to build and lay the foun|dation of a citie, in the tenth or (as other thinke) in the second yeare after his arriuall, which he named (saith Gal. Mon.) Troinouant, or (as Hum. Llhoyd saith) Troinewith, that is, new Troy, in remem|brance of that noble citie of Troy from whence he and his people were for the greater part descended.
[1] [2] [3] [4] When Brutus had builded this citie, and brought the Iland fullie vnder his subiection, he by the ad|uise of his nobles commanded this Ile (which before hight Albion) to be called Britaine, and the inhabi|tants Britons after his name, for a perpetuall me|morie that he was the first bringer of them into the land. In this meane while also he had by his wife, .iij. sonnes, the first named Locrinus or Locrine, the se|cond Cambris or Camber, and the third Albanactus or Albanact. Now when the time of his death drew néere, to the first he betooke the gouernment of that part of the land nowe knowne by the name of England: so that the same was long after called Loegria, or Logiers, of the said Locrinus. To the se|cond he appointed the countrie of Wales, which of him was first named Cambria, diuided from Loe|gria by the riuer of Seuerne. To his third sonne Al|banact he deliuered all the north part of the Ile, af|terward called Albania, after the name of the said Albanact: which portion of the said Ile lieth beyond the Humber northward. Thus when Brutus had di|uided the Ile of Britaine (as before is mentioned) into 3. parts, and had gouerned the same by the space of 15. yeares, he died in the 24 yeare after his arri|uall (as Harison noteth) and was buried at Troi|nouant or London:In the daies of this our Brute Saule and Samuell gouerned Is|raell. although the place of his said buriall there be now growne out of memorie.