[111] “I have been in White Hill in the Court of Cynvelyn” (Taliessin). According to a Triad it was Arthur who disinterred the head of Bran, disdaining to be so protected.
[112] Dr. Maitland, Domesday and Beyond.
[113] The Anglo-Saxon chronicler under 878 tells how Alfred made a geweorc at Athelney.
[114] As to the Danes holding the burh with London, see above, [p. 68]. I find London “and the Boro” mentioned together early in the thirteenth century.
[115] See G. R. Corner, Archæologia, vol. xxv.
[116] Saxon Chronicle.
[117] On the boundary of Paris Gardens was an embankment called the Old Broad Wall.
[118] See “House of Lewes Priory,” Archæologia, vol. xxxviii.
[119] So well informed a guide as Baedeker says the Abbey was so named with reference to Eastminster by the Tower, which was only founded in the fourteenth century.
[120] See Sir J. H. Ramsay, vol. i. p. 422.