But now to the purpose concerning K. Leill.  We find it recorded that he was in the beginning of his reigne verie vpright, and desirous to see iustice executed, and aboue all thinges loued peace & quietnesse; but as yeares increased with him, so his vertues began to diminish, in so much that abandoning the care for the bodie of the commonwealth, he suffered his owne bodie to welter in all vice and voluptuousnesse, and so procuring the hatred of his subiects, caused malice and discord to rise amongst them, which during his life he was neuer able to appease.  But leauing them so at variance, he departed this life, & was buried at Carleil, which as ye haue heard he had builded while he liued.

[Sidenote:  LUD or LUDHURDIBRAS THE EIGHT RULER.  Kaerkin or Canterburie is builded.  Caerguent is builded.  Paladour is builded.] Lud or Ludhurdibras the sonne of Leill began to gouerne in the yeare of the world 3046.  In the beginning of his reigne, hee sought to appease the debate that was raised in his fathers daies, and bring the realme to hir former quietnesse, and after that he had brought it to good end, he builded the towne of Kaerkin now called Canterburie:  also the towne of Caerguent now cleped Winchester, and mount Paladour now called Shaftsburie.  About the building of which towne of Shaftsburie, Aquila a prophet of the British nation wrote his prophesies, of which some fragments remaine yet to be scene, translated into the Latine by some ancient writers.  When this Lud had reigned 29 yeares, he died, and left a sonne behind him named Baldud.

[Sidenote:  BALDUD OR BLADUD THE NINTH RULER. Gal.  Mon. The king was learned.  Hot bathes.]

Baldud the sonne of Ludhurdibras began to rule ouer the Britaines in the yeare of the world 3085.  This man was well seene in the sciences of astronomie and nigromancie, by which (as the common report saith) he made the hot bathes in the citie of Caerbran now called Bath.  But William of Malmesburie is of a contrarie opinion, affirming that Iulius Cesar made those bathes, or rather repaired them when he was here in England:  which is not like to be true:  for Iulius Cesar, as by good coniecture we haue to thinke, neuer came so farre within the land that way forward.  But of these bathes more shall be said in the description.  Now to proceed.  This [Sidenote:  Mat.  West. The prince did flie.] Baldud tooke such pleasure in artificiall practises & magike, that he taught this art throughout all his realme.  And to shew his cunning in other points, vpon a presumptuous pleasure which he had therein, he tooke vpon him to flie in the aire, but he fell vpon the temple of Apollo, which stood in the citie of Troinouant, and there was torne in peeces after he had ruled the Britaines by the space of 20 yeares.