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them did at that time visit Britain . We find , howevety that some Christians from Rome did actually accompany those liberated and converted captives hither ; but of their exact number we
are not informed . The names of three only of them have been preserved . One was called Hid , and is said to have been an Israelite ; of the other two , the names of one was" GyndaVj &nd of the other Arwystli H&n , both of them probably of Gentile
extraction . What their Rptnaxi names were it is now impossible to say . They are supposed to have been all preachers , and are said to have been instrumental ( the former especially ) in turning great numbers of the Britons from the ,- error of their uays , and persuading them to believe in Christ . ' As Bran and Caradoe ( otherwise Brennus and Caractacus )
were Silurian princes , we may safely conclude that Christianity made its w&y into Wales as early as into any part whatever of this kingdom ; so that it appears to have existed there now no less than 1740 years . When Bran returned to his natiVe land , some of his family , it is thought , staid behind and settled at Rome * Of these Claudia , mentioned
along with Pudens and Lfinus , in Paul ' s 2 d ^ p istlc to Timothy , is deemed to have been one , and supposed to be the same with that Claudia , the wife of Pudens , mentioned by Martial the poet , who lived in those times ,, aud who spoke of her as a Briton of extraordinary virtue , wit , and beauty . To this indeed it has been objected , that Martial , living in the reign of Trajan , cannot be supposed to speak of Paul ' s Claudia , who flourished in the reigns of Claudius and Nero , But it
might be urged in reply , that though he hyed m Trajan ' s reign , he lived also and resided at Rome in the reign of Vespasian , if not in that of Nero ; and the epigram in which he mentions Claudia , might be written in his younger years ,
when she was yet in the prime and bloom of life . Some have made her to be the daughter of Caractacus : it is not at all unlikely that she was , at least , one of his kindred . Her Roman name can be here no objection , as one of Caractacus ' s sons is known to have borne the name of Octavius .
- Pomponia Groecina , the wife of Aulus Plautius , Claudius ' s lieutenant , and the first Roman governor here , has ^ Iso been thou ght a Briton and a Christian , and one of the very earliest British Christians . Of her Tacitus says , " Pomponia Graecina * an illustrious lady , married to Plautius , who was honoured with an ovation or lesser triumph , for his victories in Britain , was accused of having embraced a strange and foreign supersti-P ° Pi and her trial for that crime was committed to her husband .
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Thtjirst Introduction oj the gospel into Britairv . 229
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1807, page 229, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2380/page/5/
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