Chronicles (1 of 6): the Historie of England (2 of 8)
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Chester repaired. ]LEILL the sonne of Brute Greeneshield, began to reigne in the yeare ofthe world 3021, the same time that Asa was reigning in Iuda, and Ambri inIsraell. He built the citie now called Carleil, which then after hisowne name was called Caerleil, that is, Leill his citie, or the citie ofLeill. He repaired also (as Henrie Bradshaw saith) the citie of Caerleonnow called Chester, which (as in the same Bradshaw appeareth) was builtbefore Brutus entrie into this land by a giant named L...eon Gauer. But whatauthoritie he had to auouch this, it may be doubted, for Ranulfe Higdenin his woorke intituled "Polychronicon, " saith in plaine wordes, that itis vnknowen who was the first founder of Chester, but that it tooke thename of the soiourning there of some Romaine legions, by whome also it isnot vnlike that it might be first built by P. Ostorius Scapula, who as wefind, after he had subdued Caratacus king of the Ordouices that inhabitedthe countries now called Lancashire, Cheshire, and Salopshire, built inthose parts, and among the Silures, certeine places of defense, for thebetter harbrough of his men of warre, and k
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