This was about eleven hundred and ten winters after it was built. They reigned altogether in Britain four hundred and seventy winters since Gaius Julius first sought that land. Then sent they to the Angles, and requested the same from the nobles of that nation. This year died St. Martin. This year John the Baptist showed his head to two monks, who came from the eastern country to Jerusalem for the sake of prayer, in the place that whilom was the palace of Herod.
Some defects are also here supplied.
The materials of this part are to be found in Pliny, Solinus, Orosius, Gildas, and Bede. The admeasurement of the island, however inaccurate, is from the best authorities of those times, and followed by much later historians. De tractu Armoricano. Perhaps it was originally Reutha or Reotha. The error is retained in Wheloc's Bede.