Polydor Virgil changing (as I haue shewed) the order of succession in
the British kings, in bringing diuerse of those kings, which after
other writers followed Beline and Brenne, to preceed them so
successiuelie after Beline and Brenne, reherseth those that by his
coniecture did by likelihood succeed, as thus. After the decesse of
Beline, his sonne Gurguntius, being the second of that name, succeeded
in gouernment of the land, and then these in order as they follow:
Merianus, Bladanus, Capeus, Duinus, Sicilius, Bledgabredus,
Archemallus, Eldorus, Rodianus, Redargius, Samulius, Penisellus,
Pyrrhus, Caporus, Dinellus, and Helie, who had issue, Lud,
Cassibellane, and Neurius.
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_Of king Helie who gaue the name to the Ile of Elie, of king Lud,
and what memorable edifices he made, London sometimes called Luds
towne, his bountifulnes, and buriall_.
THE NINTH CHAPTER.
[Sidenote: Whereof the Ile of Elie tooke name.]
Here note by the waie a thing not to be forgotten, that of the
foresaid Helie the last of the said 33 kings, the Ile of Elie
tooke the name, bicause that he most commonlie did there inhabit,
building in the same a goodly palace, and making great reparations of
the sluces, ditches & causies about that Ile, for conueiance awaie of
the water, that els would sore haue indamaged the countrie.
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