Excerpt from The Comprehensive History of England, Vol. 1: Civil and Military, Religious, Intellectual, and Social, From the Earliest Period to the Suppression of the Sepoy Revolt
The commencement of the strange story, by which a Trojan ancestry is secured for the an cient Britons, is thus told by Giovani Villani, a Florentine, in his Universal H istory, as quoted by Holinshed: Sylvius, the son Of zeneas by his wife Lavinia, fell in love with a niece Of his mother, the same Lavinia; and by her he had a son, of whom she died in travail, and therefore he was called Brutus; who after, as he grew in some stature, and hunting in a forest, slew his father at unawares; and thereupon, for fear of his grandfather, Sylvius Posthumus, he fled the coun try, and with a retinue of such as followed him, passing through diverse seas, at length he arrived in the isle of Britain.
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