[1] Gorbo|men, or Gorbo|nian. [figure appears here on page 30] GOrbonia|nus ye firſt ſonne of Mo|tindus, ſuccee|ded hys father in the King|dome of Bry|tayne, in the yeare of the world .3676. after the buyl|ding of Rome .46. and fourth yeare of the .121. Olympiade.
[1] A righteous and religious Prince. This Gorbonianus in the Engliſhe Chroni|cle is named Graubodian, and was a righteous Prince in his gouernment, and very deuont (ac|cording to ſuch deuotion as he had) towardes the aduauncing of the religion of his Gods: and ther|vpon he repayred all the olde Temples throughe his kingdome, and erected ſome of newe.
[1] He buylded alſo the townes of Cambridge, and Grantham (as Caxton wryteth) and was beloued both of the rich and poore, for he honored the rich, and relieued the poore in time of their ne|ceſſities.
[1] In his time alſo was more plentie of al things neceſſarie for the wealthfull ſtate of man, than had beene before in any of his predeceſſors dayes.
[1] He dyed without iſſue, after hee had raigned (by the accorde of moſt wryters) about the terme of ten yeares.
[1] There be that write, that this Gorbonian built the townes of Cairgrant, now called Cãbridge, [...] by [...] was [...] and alſo Grantham, but ſome thinke that thoſe which haue ſo written are dec [...]yued, in miſtaking the name, for that Cãbridge was at the firſt cal|led Granta: and by that meanes it might bee that Gorbonian built onely Erantham, and not Cã|brige, namely, bicauſe other write how that Cã|bridge (as before [...]s ſaid) was buil [...]in the dayes of Gurgũtius the ſonne of Beline, by one Cantaber a Spaniard, brother to Partholoin, which Par|tholoin by the adui [...]e of the ſame Gurgũtius, got ſ [...]ates for himſelfe and his companie in Ireland, (as before ye haue heard.)
[1] The ſayd Cantaber alſo obteyning licence of Gurguntius, [...]uylded a town vpon the ſide of the ryuer called Canta, which he cloſed with walles, and fortified with a ſtrong tower or Caſtell, and after procuring Philoſophers to come hither from Athens (where in his youth he had bene a ſtudent he placed them there, and ſo euen then was that place furniſhed as they ſay) with lerned men, and ſuch as were redie to inſtruct others in knowledge of letters & Philoſophicall doctrine. But by whõ or in what time ſoeuer it was built, certaine it is that there was a Citie or towne walled in that place before the cõming of the Saxons, called by the Brytaynes Cairg [...]aunt, and by the Saxons Grantcheſter.
[1] This towne [...]ll ſo in ruyne by the inuaſion of the Saxons, that at length it was in maner left deſolate, and at this day remayneth as a village. But neare thervnto vnder the Saxon kings, an+other towne was buylt, now called Cambridge, where by the fauor of K. Sigebert & Felix a B [...]|gunian, that was Biſhop of Dunwich, a ſchoole was erected, as in place cõuenient it ſhal appeare.