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16 ORIGIN OF THE CIEY first for France, where he built Tours in Touraine in memory of his nephew, Turnus—they cherished the family names apparently—who was slain by the natives of those parts, and eventually came "to this Isle of Britain, which they found desolate, saving a few giants, which they in time vanquished.” He built London, calling it " Troy Newydh ”—we are not told how he came to know Welsh—and the whole island he named after himself " Brittaine.” After a reign of twenty-four years he died, and was buried in London. Against this story I have nothing to say. Geoffrey may have heard it, or he may have invented it, and Harry’s improvements are not of much consequence. A Celtic village probably occupied some part of the site of Roman London to which it imparted its name, and there are said to be reasons for placing it on the right or western bank of the Wallbrook, near the modern Blackfriars, and to the eastward of it. Furthermore, it may be the fort of which Julius Caesar speaks ; but of this there is no kind of proof, and it is a piece of futile guess-work to try and localise his c7vfas Trinobantum: the more so as he never mentions Llyndin, or any other form oe oy & of the Celtic name. ¥ aa "a Harry next tells us about King Bledhud, the founder of Bath, who was Ezt ST. PETERS UPON CORNHILL "
