Horae Britannicae Author:John Hughes Subtitle: Or, Studies in Ancient British History Containing Various Disquisitions on the National and Religious Antiquities of Great Britain General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1818 Original Publisher: Printed by J. and T. Clarke, for the author Subjects: Great Britain History / Ancient / General Juvenile No... more »nfiction / History / Ancient Religion / Christian Church / History Social Science / Archaeology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Gaul and Britain were peopled, or received their first important acquisition of inhabitants, in about the same age, and from the same parent stock. We have pursued this subject beyond the limits we had proposed, and must therefore proceed to -close this part of the preliminary Essay, after we have collected some remarks on those tribes who settled by consent of the three first colonies, and those other tribes who came over in the way of hostility. Polydorns Virgilius falls very severe on our Geoffry of Monmouth for the fictions contained in his Latin History. Geoffrj, as we have shewn, was not the inventor of that History ; but Polydore may be allowed to say whatever he pleased respecting the fable of the supposed Trojan colony. Considered with all the circumstances of the relation as we have it in the old Chronicle, it is sufficiently ridiculous ; but the whole probably arose from making Brito the son of Hysicion. or Prydyn the son of Hu- ysgwn, into Brutus the Trojan : this was partly countenanced by the ancient tradition of the Druids, that theCyraro-Britons were of Thracian origin. Mr. Wynne, in the Preface to his edition of Dr. Powel's History of Wales, has vindicated Geoftry against the aspersions of the Italian Polydore : but whatev...« less