Chronicles (1 of 6): the Historie of England (2 of 8)

excerpt from the book...Hitherto haue we spoken of the inhabitants of this Ile before the commingof Brute, although some will néeds haue it, that he was the first whichinhabited the same with his people descended of the Troians, some fewgiants onelie excepted whom he vtterlie destroied, and left not one ofthem aliue through the whole Ile. But as we shall not doubt of Brutescomming hither, so may we assuredly thinke, that he found the Ile peopledeither with the generation of those which Albion th