IN this second booke I will first report what I haue learned of
Cornwall, and Cornishmen in general, and from thence descend to the
particular places and persons, as their note-worthie site, or any
memorable action, or accident, of the former or later ages,
shall offer occasion.
The highest which my search can reach vnto, I borrow out of Strabo,
who writeth, that the Westerne Bretons gaue ayde vnto the Armorici
of Fraunce, against Caesar, which hee pretended for one of the causes,
why he inuaded this Iland.
Next I find, that about sixtie yeeres from the landing of Hengist,
[Anno Do. 509.] one Nazaleod, a mightie King amongst the Bretons,
ioyned battell with Certicus, Soueraigne of the West-Saxons,
and after long fight, with his owne death accompanied the ouerthrow
of his armie. [519.] Yet, the Bretons, thus abandoned by fortune,
would not so forsake themselues, but with renued courage, and forces,
coped once againe with Certicus, and his sonne Kenrick, at [97
Certicesford, thogh equally destitute of successe as before.
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