Fragments in prose and verse Author:Elizabeth Smith Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: part of Glocestershire between the Wye and the Severn. Milton mentions Buillt in Brecknockshire. Camden mentions Kair-Lheon as a great city, having three churche... more »s, one of which was honoured with the metropolitan see of Wales. Here the. Roman Ambassadors received their audience at the illustrious court of the great King Arthur. " Theancient register of Llandaff, amongst many benefactions made to that church in the times of Dubricius, Telian, and Odoceus, the three first bishops of the see, recites at length two grants, one of the lands of St. Kinmarc, by Arthur king of G whent, son of Mouric king of Glamorgan, who gave Mochros to Dubricius; the other of Caerleoa by another Arthur, king also of Gwhent, but the son of Funvail king of the same country. Funvail defeats the Saxons at Tynterue, and dies at Ma- He had just life enough remaining to ask for a priest. A white friar, who chanced to be present, administered to the dying prince the last duties of his office. The hurry of the action being ended, Franfton came back to strip the person he had wounded. On viewing the body, which was still breathing, it was found, to the great joy of the English army, that it was the Prince of Wales." chapter{Section 4theme, which his son gives to Cardiffe in tlie year 560. About A. D. 600, the arcbbishopcic of Caerleon was removed to St. David's. " Upon the river Wye is Bui-lit. Whether this town be the ancient Bulkeum, or whether that city or fort were not at a place called Kareen, some miles distant from it, may be questioned. If it be urged in favour of Buillt, that it seems still to retain its ancient name; it may be answered1 that Buillt, which I interpret Ox-cliff, or Oxen-hill, was the name of a small country here, from whence in all probability the ancient BuHoeum was denominated; ...« less