Mon. writeth, where other affirme that he reigned 40
yeares, and some againe say that he reigned but 7 moneths.
There is great diuersitie in writers touching the reignes of these
kings, and not onlie for the number of yeeres which they should
continue in their reignes but also in their names: so that to shew the
diuersitie of all the writers, were but to small purpose, sith the
dooings of the same kings were not great by report made thereof by
any approoued author. But this maie suffice to aduertise you, that
by conferring the yeeres attributed to the other kings which reigned
before them, since the comming of Brute, who should enter this land
(as by the best writers is gathered) about the yeere before the
building of Rome 367, which was in the yeere after the creation of the
world 2850 (as is said) with their time, there remaineth 182 yeeres
to be dealt amongst these 33 kings, which reigned betwixt the said
Elidure & Lud, which Lud also began his reigne after the building of
the citie of Rome (as writers affirme) about 679 yeeres, and in
the yeere of the world 3895, as some that will seeme the precisest
calculators doo gather.
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