[11] Now represented by Edgware Road.

[12] See Dict. Nat. Biog., and De la Moyne Borderie.

[13] Thorpe’s Ancient Laws.

[14] Joceline de Brakelonde, p. 56, cited by Wright.

[15] Cal. St. Paul’s MSS., Ninth Report Historic MSS. Com., p. 65.

[16] Rhys, Celtic Britain; Elton’s Origins.

[17] Thomas Wright says the Billings, a Saxon people, settled at Billingsgate, and Mr. W. H. Stevenson derives the name from Billing, a Saxon name.

[18] There is probably some fact at the bottom of this story: perhaps the sword of St. Paul was carved on the Bishop’s Gate. According to Geoffrey, the older Belinus had been placed in a golden urn on Billingsgate.

[19] Robert of Gloucester.

[20] See the story of Lludd in the Mabinogion.