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Upon wh ^ t authority Gildas places that event ^ t the time abqve specified ^ he does not say , From domestic or British re * cords he appears to h ^ ve derived no assistance ; apd he was of opinion that no documents of that kind remained then
jn the country . And if there ever had been any such , he thought they h&d either been J > urnt by the enejpy , or carried ilitQ foreign parts by our exiled or emigrated countrymen : so that he had not been able to discover any of then ] , whiefy he looked uppn as a matter of serious regret . He must therefore have reljed upon the authority pf some foreign records * which he owns he had occasionally made use of ; or he might in this instance venture to follow the common and
prevailing tradition of the country , However that was , his statement ^ ppesrs to be , upon the whole , just ajid correct * an 4 is remarkably supported by the TTriades * which are ancient British document ^ of undoubted credit ( as also b ^ the JSonedd y Samty another very ancient record ) , though feut little kno \| ra till lately , except to 4 few who ha $ access £ a the remaining depositories of anciept Cambrian records , From these Triages we learn that the famous Caractaeus . after
he had been overthrown in the wars which he had carried on for nine years in defence df the liberties of his country * and afterwards basely betrayed and delivered up to the Romans by-Aregvvedd Foeddig ( theCartismanduaandBoadicea of Romaa authors ) , was , together with his father Br&n , and whole family % carried captive to Rome , about the year 52 or 53 , where they W $ re ctetain ^ d $ ^ yen years or more . In the mean tijn e Home
eiyoyed the preaching of the gospel , and Bran , with others of the famil y ^ became converts to Christianity . After the expire tioiv of seven years they had permission to return , and were the means of introducing the knowledge of Christ among their counr tryjnen , ; on xvhjch account Br ^ n was long distinguished as one of tfecj thrpe blessed sovereigns , and his family as one of the of Britain At the of
throe holy Hne ^ ges . return these earliest B r itish Qopverts , it might be expected that some of the chris « tian § witi , ! whom they had associated at Rome , would be solicited and prevailed yipon to accompany them back to their native country . Many of the eminent disciples of Christ , whose names are recorded ip . the New Testament , were probabjy at Rome when ih « jy quitted that city 5 but it does not appear that any of
* * Vhe Trjades of the Isle of Britain ^ re some 0 / the most curious and valuable fragments preserved in the Welsh language . They relate to persons and events from the earliest time ^ to tbe beginning of tjic eveath , ^ entuty ? Sec Preface tQ Llyyraxch litoV foem * . h r *• ' > . i ¦
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fl tSS The first Introduction qf the Gospel into Britain :
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1807, page 228, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2380/page/4/
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