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85 Gratian Municeps At this time the Picts and Scots harass the Britons, who apply to the Romans. 86 Constantine, prince of Armorica, comes to assist the Britons ____|___ ___________________________      |              |                   | 87 Constans    89 Aurelius    90 Uther Pendragon=Igerna Ambrosius                      | 88 Vortigern usurps the throne (5.9) ______|______ and calls in the Saxons         |           | 91 Arthur     Anne 92 Constantine  93 Aurelius Conan   94 Wortiporius   95 Malgo 96 Careticus    97 Cadwan __________        |           |        |         |         Peanda   (sister)=98 Cadwallo |                      99Cadwallader

, surnamed from his birth-place Richard of Cirencester, flourished from the middle to the latter end of the fourteenth century. No traces of his family or connections can be discovered; though they were at least of respectable condition, for he received an education which in his time was far beyond the attainment of the inferior ranks of society. In 1350 he entered into the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter, Westminster, during the abbacy of Nicholas de Lytlington, as appears from the rolls of the bey; and his name occurs in various documents of that establishment in the years 1387, 1397, and 1399.

He devoted his leisure hours to the study of British and Anglo-Saxon history and antiquities, in which he made such proficiency that he is said to have been honoured with the name of the Historiographer. Pitts informs us, without