The light of Britayne. A recorde of the honorable originall & antiquitie of Britaine:

❧ The Light of Britayne.

BRitania maior,* 1.1 (the Countrie of the bright Britona, called Bri∣tomartis the presidēt of Britayne) that is to say,* 1.2 the chaste Diana of Calydonia sylua: Astrorum decus: Syluarum dea: casta, et innupta: cu∣stos, et cultrix nemorum: Metuenda virago: terror syluestribus apris.

This Britannia maior,* 1.3 (the coun∣trie of the bright Britona called Britomartis) was first founde by Brute of Albania:* 1.4 the Conquerer of the Greekes: the mightie deli∣uerer of the Troyans: & the first founder of the noble Britaynes.

Who by the Oracle of the bright Britona,* 1.5 called Diana of Calydonia sylua (Astrorum decus) brought the Remaines of the Albanian

Troians of Asia:* 1.6 frō Albania Ca∣lydonia sylua: & Ætolia in Greece to Albania: Calydonia sylua: and Ætolia in Britayne.

Before whose most happie, and fortunate arriuall:* 1.7 there was ney∣ther Towne, Cittie, Countrie, Ry∣uer, region: or place of name in Britayne for Britannia (at Brutes arriuall) was no Britannia, but a rude and solitarie desart or wilder∣nes without name,* 1.8 Ferarum altrix, that is to say, a very nurscerie, or place of store, for wilde beasts. The Countries & Regions of Britaine, were then all ouergrowne wyth woods, replenished with all kinde of sauage and cruell wilde beastes: as Lyons, Beares, Wolues, Foxes, wilde Boares, and all kind of game belonging to the Chase. Besides, diuers other kinds of wild beastes and Cattell: especially, a certayne kinde of white monstruous wilde Bulles, and Kine with long shagde curled hayre, and manes: which

kinde of Cattell were as fierce and cruell as Lyons, and could neuer be tamed by mans arte, as ye shal find it registred & recorded in our aū∣cient Chronicles, and noted in the the common Dictionaries: vppon these words Caledonia: and Cale∣donia sylua Britanniae,* 1.9 alwaies mi∣staken & corruptly written, Cale∣donia for Calydonia, because the reason why our Country was first called Caledonia sylua, was no bet∣ter knowne to the auncient Ro∣maines in Iulius Caesars time, then it is at this daie knowne to diuers our Antiquaries & Chroniclers of Britayne:* 1.10 as we may see how Bu∣canon deriueth Caledonia sylua from Calden: and Camden (the author of the new Britannia, which lacketh Brutes light the glorye of Britayne) deriueth Calydonia syl∣ua from Kaled.* 1.11 But Camdens faire daugheer Kaled, is yet too young to bee the mother of Calydon, or Calydonia sylua Britanniae. And

Bucanons Calden, or Hasell sticke, is too weake to bee the mother,* 1.12 of Calydon. For (Calydon) of whom Calydonia sylua by Ætolia in Greece tooke name, was the sonne Ætolus, who was the son of Mars the God of battell.

* 1.13Mars the God of battell, was the father of Ætolus: of Parthaon, & of the bright Britona called Brito∣martis the president of Britayne.

Ætolus the sonne of Mars, and brother to the bright Britona, was the father of Calydon of, whom Ca∣lydonia sylua by Ætolia in Greece (the mother of our Calydonia syl∣ua the generall name of all Bri∣tayne) but especially of Calydonia sylua secunda,* 1.14 * 1.15 which is Scotlande, called Britania secunda, in which parte of Britayne at this day is the most ancient Towne of Parthaon,* 1.16 nowe called Perthe: and S. Iohns towne, the principal towne of Æ∣tolia,* 1.17 nowe called Atholl, a Region or coūtrey of Britannia, Albania, or

Calydonia sylua secunda:* 1.18 where the great Calydon woode, which beeginneth at Striueling (called the Dolorus Mount) and runneth forth through Mentieth, & Strat∣herne,* 1.19 to Ætholia (that fruitfull region of Grampius Mount) which reacheth to Lochquhaber, and to Calidonium Promontorium, which is Cathanesse or Orcha: the an∣gle, poynt, cape, forland, or landes ende of Scotland.

This Calydonia sylua Britannia,* 1.20 was the daughter of Calidonia sylua by Ætolia in Greece, who toke his Originall from Calydon the son of Ætolus, the sonne of Mars.

Ætolia,* 1.21 nowe called Atholl in Britayne, is the daughter of Æto∣lia, cittie of Albania, and Calydonia sylua in Greece, so called of Æto∣lus the sonne of Mars.

Parthaon:* 1.22 now called Perthe or Saint Iohns Towne, the principall Towne of Ætolia in Scotlande,* 1.23 toke his glorious name of Parthaon

the sonne of Mars, brother to the bright Britona, called Britomartis, the president of Britayne, of whom al Britannia (containing al the coū∣tries and regions, of England, Scot∣land, Wales, and Cornwall: called of Alexander Necham, in his booke De diuina sapientia Bruti tellus,) tooke the moste glorious name of Britannia.

* 1.24For Brute of Albania: the foun∣der of Britaine, came to this Isle by the Oracle of Britona, called Diana of Calydonia sylua, wherefore, hee called this Isle Britannia, of the bright Britona (called Britomartis) the president of Britayne.

* 1.25The same Brute also who was borne in Albania, banished to Al∣bania: and the first founder of Bri∣tayne called Albania: called all our coūtrey of Britaine, Albion, seu Al∣bania: not of the white Rocks and Cleues as some mē do suppose, but of Albania in Asia: & Albania Epi∣ri in Greece, the Country of Hele∣nus

and Andromache, the Queene of Albania Epiri, from whence Brute of Albania brought the Al∣banian Troyans, the founders of Britayne.

The same Brute of Albania,* 1.26 the founder of Britayne: who by the Oracle of the bright Britona, cal∣led Diana of Calydonia sylua, did bring the remaines of the Troy∣ans from Albania: Calydonia syl∣ua: and Ætolia in Greece, to Al∣bania Calydonia sylua: and Æto∣lia in Britayne: named al our coun∣trie Calydonia sylua Britannia, but especially Scotlande called Britan∣nia: Albania: and Calydonia sylua secunda. Whereas at this day. Yee shall finde Calydonia sylua: Caly∣don Towne: Calydon Castell, Ca∣lydon Promontorie. With that most auncient Towne of Parthaon in Ætolia,* 1.27 most glorious recordes of the honorable Originall of the noble Britaines, the remaines of the Troyans, that sprang of the genera∣tion

of Mars and Hercules, and o∣ther the immortall Goddes of the Gentils. Bright starres at this daie, whose mantions in the firmament are well knowne to all Philoso∣phers & Astronomers of our time. So that to conclude, the Britaynes sprang not ex coluuie omnium gen∣tium,* 1.28 neither of Dogs (as Buchanon saith he is able rather to proue) but they sprang of the Albanian Troy∣ans, the principal Souldiours of the world, whom Brute brought from Albania, Calydonia sylua, and Æ∣tolia in Greece, to Albania, Caly∣donia, sylua & Ætolia in Britayne.

* 1.29Whereof we haue a multitude of most glorious Recordes & Chro∣nicles, written, and printed, confir∣med by the testimonie of Iulius Cae∣sar, by Elutherius Pope: by Parlia∣ment holden at Norham vppon Twede: & at Lyncolne in the time of King Edward the first, who by his Letters sent from Lyncolne to Pope Boniface,* 1.30 dooth approue

Brutes Historie to bee no fable, as the Critici of our time do esteeme it, who will not beleeue our aunci∣ent written Recordes, although cō∣firmed by Emperors, Kings, Popes and Parliaments, neither the testi∣monie of Strangers. Wherfore by the Oracle of Diana,* 1.31 called Brito∣na the president of Britayne: And by the Oracle of Diana Lucifera: that is to say, Ʋenus called Bospho∣rus: the bright Queene of Phry∣gia: and Caria the mother of Ae∣neas and the Graces, of whō came Brute of Albania, the founder of Britayne: who brought in Carius, a noble prince of Lydia and Caria, with the people of Carie, & Swans of Carie into Britayne. By the O∣racles aforesayd,* 1.32 the Swans of Ca∣rie in Britayne, are now stirred vp to maintain the veritie of the Brit∣tish Historie. By the gods of the Gentils. Diana: Apollo: Ʋenus: Mars: Mercurie: &c. Whose

Temples our forefathers,* 1.33 the Gē∣tils of the Troyan race, erected in diuers Countries and Regions of Britayne, especially at Troia noua, nowe called London in Britayne,* 1.34 where the Troynouants did some∣times sacrifice Bulles, Bullox and Stags, to Diana Tauropolia, whom the Gentils called the Queene of Heauen. Which was the same Di∣ana called Bellona,* 1.35 whom the Bri∣gantes honored at Yorke, Brigan∣tium ciuitas: and what were these Brigantes I pray you? Herodian saith,* 1.36 that the Briges, Phryges, and Brigantes were all one, wherupon I conclude, that the Brigantes, that is to say, our Northen Britaynes, were Phrygian Troyans. The Bri∣gantes of Britayne,* 1.37 are the people of Yorkeshire, Richmondshire, Lancashire, Durham, Westmer∣land,* 1.38 and Cumberland: hard to the Pictes wall. Where the Abij and Picti Agathyrsi dwell, about Abus

Aestuarium:* 1.39 nowe called Hum∣ber.

And what were these Abij, but Albanian Troyans,* 1.40 that came also from Abus Ryuer of Albania Epi∣ri. And the auncient Britaynes cal∣led the Picti Agathyrsi, what were they,* 1.41 euen Scythian Troyans of Al∣bania, who sprang of Scythes and Agathyrsus, the sonnes of Hercules,* 1.42 who sometimes raigned in Troy. And let not the Scythian Scots dis∣daine their name,* 1.43 seeing they were Troyans, for the famous Cittie of Troy in Phrygia, the heade of all Asia, was in Scythia.

The noble Troyans were called Taurini, and Tauroscythe,* 1.44 of a fa∣mous Mountaine of Asia, called Taurus Mount,* 1.45 which runneth through all Asia: a great parte of the Mountaine Taurus, endeth in Caria,* 1.46 which is a Countrey of Asia belonging to Troy. Ʋenus called Bosphorus, the mother of Aeneas

and the Graces, (of whome came Brute of Albania the founder of Britayne) was Queene of Phrygia and Caria: The famous Ryuer of Maeander is in Caria.* 1.47 This Mae∣ander Ryuer, hath golden sands & singing Swannes, that sometime serued Ʋenus Queene of Phrygia and Caria: wherfore the Swannes of Caria,* 1.48 and Signettes of Troy in Britayne, must alwaies singe of Troy and Troyans.

The Daughters of Heauen and Earth:* 1.49 that is to saie, Isis, Themis Rhea, Thetis, Abus, Arius, Ala∣nus, Ax, Tameres, and all our fa∣mous Ryuers of Britayne, with the Deucalion Sea, and Islandes of Bri∣tayne, especially Archadia, Aemo∣nia, and Arachne, are glorious Re∣cordes of Brute & the Troyans the founders of Britayne.

* 1.50Diuers our most aūcient towne•• and Citties of Britayne, as Oxford vpon Isis, and Themis: Troia no∣ua,

vpon Isis, Themis, and Rhea Al∣banorum: Yorke Brigantium ciui∣tas: Antandros, turned to S. An∣dros: Parthaon turned to S. Iohns towne: Albanum ciuitas, turned to S. Albanes: Chester and Dorisce∣stria, with the auncient Townes of Derbie, and Leicester, and Ty∣anton vppon Tamares Ryuer of Britaine, with diuers other townes and Citties of Britayne, are Re∣cordes of Brute and the Troyans founders of Britayne.

The diuers nations and people of Britayne, as the Troynouaunts,* 1.51 the Brigantes, and Scotobrigantes, the people of Albania, Calydonia, and Ætolia: the Iberi: the Albani, & Georgij: the people of Derbie and Leicester: the people of Che∣ster, that came from Cestria Epiri,* 1.52 with the Dores, Ioues, and Cares, and the Tamarites of Tyanton, commonlie called Tanton, al these are Recordes of the noble people

of Greece and Asia, the Remaines of the Troyans that came into Bri∣tayne with Brute

* 1.53To these, adde the Catalogue or Register of the auncient Prin∣ces, Noble men, and Gentlemen of Britayne. Recordes of Brute, and the Troyans, founders of Britayne.

FINJS.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Britannia of Britona.
• * 1.2

  Diana.
• * 1.3

  Britannia of Brito∣martis.
• * 1.4

  Brutes stile
• * 1.5

  Diana Bri∣tonas Ora∣cle.
• * 1.6

  Albania, Calydonia Ætolia
• * 1.7

  Britannia a wildernes.
• * 1.8

  Ferarum altrix.
• * 1.9

  Caledonia for Caly∣donia.
• * 1.10

  Bucanons Calden.
• * 1.11

  Camdens Kaled.
• * 1.12

  Calydon, was the son of Ætolus the son of Mars.
• * 1.13

  Mars the father of Ætolus. Parthaon & Britona.
• * 1.14

  Calydonia sylua prima
• * 1.15

  Calydonia sylua se∣cunda.
• * 1.16

  Parthaon in Ætolia.
• * 1.17

  Ætolia Atholl.
• * 1.18

  Calydon woode.
• * 1.19

  Calydoniū Cathanesse.
• * 1.20

  Clydon,
• * 1.21

  Ætolia.
• * 1.22

  Parthaon
• * 1.23

  Britona Britomartis
• * 1.24

  Britanniae of Britona.
• * 1.25

  Albania: of Albania.
• * 1.26

  Calydonia sylua of Calydonia.
• * 1.27

  The Bri∣taines of the genera∣tiō of Mars & Hercules.
• * 1.28

  Bucanon.
• * 1.29

  Cronicles and written Records of Brute.
• * 1.30

  Brutes hi∣story coun∣ted a fable.
• * 1.31

  The Swans of Carie, are stirred vp to main∣taine Brutes Historie.
• * 1.32

  The Swans wil main∣taine the veritie of the Brittish Historie.
• * 1.33

  Dianas Tē∣ple of Troia noua.
• * 1.34

  Diana Tau¦ropolia Thoantea Dea.
• * 1.35

  Diana Bel∣lona of Yorke.
• * 1.36

  Briges Phryges. Brigantes.
• * 1.37

  Brigantes.
• * 1.38

  Abij, Picti, Agathyrsi,
• * 1.39

  Abus Aestuariū.
• * 1.40

  Abij, Albani.
• * 1.41

  Agathyrsi.
• * 1.42

  Scythes. Agathyrsus
• * 1.43

  Scythian Troyans.
• * 1.44

  Troyans called Tau∣rini, & Tau∣roscythi.
• * 1.45

  Taurus in Caria.
• * 1.46

  Taurus the mantion of Venus.
• * 1.47

  Maeander Ryuer of Caria, gol∣den sandes, singing Swannes.
• * 1.48

  Swannes of Carie, Sig∣nettes of Troy.
• * 1.49

  Ryuers of Britayne, are Records of Brute.
• * 1.50

  Townes & Citties, Records of Brute.
• * 1.51

  Diuers na∣tions and people of Britayne Recordes of Brute.
• * 1.52

  Tanton vp∣pon Tama∣res, or Tone Ry∣uer.
• * 1.53

  Princes, Noble men and Gen∣tlemen, Re∣cordes of Brute.