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CHAPTER I—ORIGIN OF THE CITY Some curious old Fables—Billingsgate, Cripplegate, Ludgate—Story of Brutus—King Bledhud’s Flight — King Lear—Brennus—Belinus—King Lud—Good King Cole—St. Helen Opinion—A few Facts—The Medieval Chronicles Augusta—Roman Remains—Modern Theories St. Lucius—Guest’s Aulus Plautius—Constantine—The Wall— Alfred the Great. Every one who has endeavoured to make a serious study of London history has been struck by the same fact:—in order to attain any information he has to read an immense quantity of what is either
