Chronicles : The Historie of England

Chronicles : The Historie of
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Title: Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8)
Author: Raphael Holinshed
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THE THIRD BOOKE
OF THE
HISTORIE OF ENGLAND.

_Of Mulmucius the first king of Britaine, who was crowned with a
golden crowne, his lawes, his foundations, with other his acts and
deeds_.
THE FIRST CHAPTER.
[Sidenote: MULMUCIUS. _Matth. West. Polyd_.] Now to proceede
with the aforesaid authors, Mulmucius Dunwall[=o], or as other saie
Dunuallo Mulmucius, the sonne of Cloton (as testifieth th'english
chronicle and also Geffrey of Monmouth) got the vpper hand of the
other dukes or rulers: and after his fathers deceasse began his reigne
ouer the whole monarchie of Britaine, in the yéere of the world 3529,
after the building of Rome 314, and after the deliuerance of the
Israelites out of captiuitie 97, and about the 26 yéere of Darius
Artaxerxes Longimanus, the fift king of the Persians. This Mulmucius
Dunuallo is named in the english chronicle Donebant, and prooued a
right worthie prince. He builded within the citie of [Sidenote: Fabian.
See more in the description.] London then called Troinouant, a temple,
and named it the temple of peace: the which (as some hold opinion, I
wote not vpon what ground) was the same which now is called
Blackwell hall, where the market for buieng and selling of cloths is
kept. The chronicle of England affirmeth, that Mulmucius (whome the
old booke nameth Molle) [Sidenote: Malmesburie and the Vies built.
_Matth. West_. Lawes made.] builded the two townes Malmesburie
and the Vies. He also made manie good lawes, which were long after
vsed, called Mulmucius lawes, turned out of the British spéech into the
Latine by Gildas Priscus, and long time after translated out of latine
into english by Alfred king of England, and mingled in his statutes. He
moreouer gaue priuileges to temples, to plowes, to cities, and to high
waies leading to the same, so that whosoeuer fled to them, should be in
safegard from bodilie harme, and from thence he might depart into
what countrie he would, [Sidenote: Caxton and Polychron.] with
indemnitie of his person. Some authors write, that he began to make the
foure great high waies of Britaine, the which were finished by his sonne
Blinus, as after shall be declared.

[Sidenote: The first king that was crowned with a golden crowne.]
After he had established his land, and set his Britains in good and
conuenient order, he ordeined him by the aduise of his lords a crowne
of gold, & caused himselfe with great solemnitie to be crowned,
according to the custome of the pagan lawes then in vse: & bicause he
was the first that bare a crowne héere in Britaine, after the opinion of
some writers, he is named the first king of Britaine, and all the other
before rehearsed are named rulers, dukes, or gouernors.
[Sidenote: Polyd. Weights and measures.] Amongst other of his
ordinances, he appointed weights and measures, with the which men
should buy and sell. And further he deuised sore [Sidenote: Theft
punished. Fabian.] and streight orders for the punishing of theft.
Finallie, after he had guided the land by the space of fortie yéeres, he
died, and was buried in the foresaid temple of peace which he had
erected within the citie of Troinouant now called London, as before ye
haue heard, appointing in his life time, that his kingdome should be
diuided betwixt his two sonnes, Brennus and Belinus (as some men doo
coniecture.)
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_The ioint-gouernment of Belinus and Brennus the two sonnes of
Mulmucius, their discontentment, the stratagems of the one against the
other, the expulsion of Brennus out of Britaine_.
THE SECOND CHAPTER.
[Sidenote: Belinus and Brennus. 3574.] Brennus and Belinus began to
reigne iointlie as kings in Britaine, in the yéere of the world 3574, after
the building of the citie of Rome 355, and after the deliuerance of the
Israelites out of captiuitie 142, which was about the seuenth yéere of
Artaxerxes [Sidenote: _Matth. West_.] surnamed Mnenon, the seuenth
king of the Persians. Belinus held vnder his gouernment Loegria, Wales,
and Cornwall: and Brennus all those