[1] Gur|guint. [figure appears here on page 21] GVrguyn|tus ye ſon of Beline, began to raigne ouer the Brytayns, in the yeare of the Worlde, 1596. after the building of Rome .380. af|ter ye deliuerãce of the Iſraelites oute of captiuitie .164. com|plete, which was aboute the .xxxiij. yeare of Ar|taxerxes Mnenon, ſurnamed Magnus, the .vij. king of the Perſians.
[1] This Gurguint, in the Engliſh Chronicle is named Corinbratus, and by Math. Weſtmon. he is ſurnamed Barbiruc,Ma. VVest Gal. M. the which bycauſe the trybute graunted by Guylthdag King of Den|marke in perpetuitie vnto the Kings of Bry|taine was denyed, hee ſayled with a mightie na|uie and armie of men into Denmarke, where hee made ſuche warre with fyre and ſworde,Gurguint cõ|ſtrayned the Danes by force to pay their tribute. that the King of Denmarke with the aſſent of hys Barons was conſtrayned to graunt eftſoones to continue the payment of the aforeſayde try|bute.
[1] After hee had thus atchieued hys deſyre in Denmarke, as he returned back toward Brytain againe, he encountred with a Nauie of .xxx. ſhips beſyde the Iles of Orkeney.
[1] Theſe Shippes were fraught with men and women, and had to theyr Captayne one called Bartholoin or Partholin.Mat. VVeſt. Gal. Mon. The which beeyng b [...]ought to the preſence of King Gurguint, de|clared that hee with hys people were baniſhed oute of Spayne, and were named Balences or Baſclenſes,Baſques. and had ſayled long on the Sea, to the ende to fynde ſome Prince that woulde aſ|ſigne to them a place of habitation, vnto whom they would become ſubiects,See more here of in Ireland. and hold of him as of theyr ſoueraigne gouernour.
[1] Therefore hee beſought the King to conſi|der theyr eſtate, and of his greate benignitie, to appoynte ſome voyde quarter where they might inhabite.
[1] The King with the aduice of hys Barons, graunted to them the Ile of Irelande, whiche as then (by report of ſome Authours) lay waſt and without habitation.
[1] But it ſhoulde appeare by other wryters,P [...]lid [...] that it was inhabyted long before thoſe dayes, by the people called Hibernenſes, of Hiberus theyr Captayne that brought them alſo out of Spaine.
[1] After that Gurguintus was returned in|to hys Countrey, hee ordeyned that the lawes made by his [...], ſhoulde be duely kept and obſerued.
[1] And thus [...]yniſtring iuſti [...]e to hys ſub|iectes for the tearme of .xix. yeares, he finally de|parted this lyfe, and was buried at London, or as ſome haue, at Cairleon.Cai [...]
[1] In hys dayes was the Towne of Cam|bridge wyth the Vniuerſitie fyrſt founded by Cantaber, brother to the aforeſayde Bartho|loin (according to ſome wryters) as after ſhall appeare.