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20 ORIGIN OF THE CITY
puts it, he, "going to Rome, wanne the city. — Belinus built
‘ Belinesgate in London, where his ashes were hanged in brasse,
after the Pagan manner, after he died, and had reigned twenty-six whole
years.” Billingsgate Market commemorates the name.
Many generations later we come to another Beli or Belinus, who
| reigned for sixty years, and at his
death left three sons, of whom the
eldest was Lludh, Lloyd, or Lud.
He "renewed the walles of newe
Troy, and called the city after his
owne name, Caerlhudh, and builded
there a gate, and called the same
Ludisgate; and after hee had goy¬
erned this land worthily eleven yeres,
he dyed, and was buried at Caer¬
ludh, neere unto the gate which
he had builded.” His brothers
name, Kaswalhawn, brings us to
the threshold of authentic history
if we identify him, as Harry does,
with the Cassibelaunus of Czesar’s
Commentaries.
It is hardly worth while to
pursue this apocryphal enumeration
further; but we must pause for a moment at Coelgodebog, who is
none other than the "Good King Cole” of the nursery rhyme, and
who 1s identified by our veracious historian with the father of “ Ellen,”
whom he gave in marriage to Constantine. “ This Elen went to Jeru¬
salem, and found the holy crosse, and brought it with her to Rome.”
To this Ellen, Elen, or Helena is usually ascribed the building of the