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 ¬well have done if it had so recently received its name from a prince in the island; Caesar's first landing being, I believe, in the time of Cassibalaunus, who was brother to Lud, and succeeded him; neither could the city have been called London from Lud's Town — town not being a British but a Saxon word; and there- fore, if that had been its true derivation, it would have been called Caer Lud, and not Lud's Town — But it is still more strange how it should have been called Londinum, by Tacitus, as that was only its Latin name after it was called London ; an appellation which it never had in the time of the Britons, nor until the Saxon a?ra, when it received the name of Lundew, but with a termination then bestowed upon all well-fenced places, or such as had forts or castles — viz. Lundenburg and Lunden Ceaster. This name of Lunden was afterwards changed to London, neither of them being at all in honour of King Lud, hut adopted by the Saxons from the metropolitan city of Lundew, in Scotie- land or Sconia, then a place of great traffic in ¬the ¬