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r . ' ¦ •; connection with the imperial court , and his kriown intimdcy with the emperor himself , who was a native of Britairi , lie may well be supposed to have possessed the best iriforinatiofn j and , as much of his reasoning depends upon the truths of
the above allegation s it may be presumed he Kad tdker * care to be well assured of the fact . Theodbret also ^ attotfte ^ ancient and respectable ecclesiastical historian , expressly names the Britons among the nations wholti the kpb ^ tles ( or the fishermen , publicans and tent-makers ^ as he calls ; them ) , Had persuaded to embrace the reli g ion of frim who r wa £ s
crucified ^ ' ^ m m ;; To the foregoing testimonies may be added that of Gildas , the earliest of all our British historians . Accordtng to him , the gospel began to be published here about- the time } of the memorable revolt atid overthrow -of the Britons tinder Boadicea , which seenns to have happened aboiit the ytear 60
or 6 t , and was followed by a long iritervltl of |> ea £ e , xyhich could not fail of proving favourable to th ^ itlt ¥ <^ uctidp ( 6 f the new religion , as well as to the general siicicessi of its publishers : speakin g of the said revolt ^ together * with its < fisastrous termination and consequences , Gildas adds > a Itilthe
meantime Christ , the true sun , afforded his rays , tti&t i& , ; the knowledge of his precepts to this island , benumbed wittv extreme cold ^ having been at a great distance from thesijrv jiot the sun in the firmament , but the eternal stih in heaveivK * * Theodoret , Tom . iv . Serm . 9 . p . 6 io , '''" '
f Gild . Epist . c . i . Oil < ias was the son of Caw , a northern chieftain , and < grahfU son of Geraintab Erbin , prince of Dyfnaint , or Devon . He ^ ra ^ Tbpm ab iu t A *; D-500 , in the north , among either the Cumbrian Britons , or-those ofjStratclyde , who ^ e chief city was Caeralcluid , or Dunbarton ; hence he is sometimes called Glid es Albanicus . Toward the middle of the sixth century , the Saxons madeTso very
conisicjerable and alarming a progress in their encroachments Upon , the Britons of Cumbria and Stratclyde , as well as those of Northumberland and the JLothjfans , that Caw and his family were obliged to remove from those parts , and take refuge in Wales , * The father settled in Anglesey , where he passed the remainder of his days ; Most of the children , it is said , went to SiJuria , where they were hospitably , received blf kim *
Arthur , whose capital and favourite residence was Caerleon upon U ^ k . Mafcy o £ them embraced a religious life , and Gil das himself was of that number . He joiied himself with the congregation of Catwg In Glamorgan , ( an institution wliich owed its origin to the zeal and policy of St . Germans and his anti-pelagian adherents ) , where he resided for some time . In SSS be is said to have opened a school at Caerbaddon , or Bath , whence he is sometimes denominated Gildas Badonicus : for there seems to be no good foundation for thinking that there were two Cirt&ases .
He has been thought , by good judges , the same person with Aneurin Gwa ^ rdrydd , the celebrated bard : if so , he fell at last by the hand of an assassin , a chieftain of the name of Eidyn , in revenge , probably , for the freedom and severity of his censures upon the men in power , who > e characters he had exhibited in a very unfa voiurable light . His son Cennydd was at the head of a congregation or college at Cor-Cennydd now Uangennydd in Gwyr , Cennydd had possej $ ions , it secj « jfs f at Caerphilly , which from him was also called Seingbenydd . Its present : name anay probably be traced to his son Fili , who was also a religious man , and lived &bo , nt the beginning of the seventh century ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1807, page 227, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2380/page/3/
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