Historiae Cantebrigiensis Academiae ab urbe condita, liber primus [-secundus]

continues from previous page: ...ing the seed of life, until, as it is said, it came to his parents at Cambridge. There, after he had disputed much and variously with the philosophers (for reason and philosophy, which investigate the causes of things, do not easily grasp the mysteries of God), they baptized in one day both all the philosophers and three thousand men. This was done in the year of our Lord 178. According to some—who attribute these things to Faganus and Damianus, or Fugatius and Deruuianus (monks, as others say), the nuncios of Eleutherius, as we explained in the first book on the Antiquities of Cambridge—they placed priests, bishops, and archbishops throughout the whole region in the place of the Druids, flamens, and archflamens. Nor are these things reported in such a way that the Christian religion had not previously existed in Britain from Christ. For in the beginning it was introduced by Joseph of Arimathea, who died and was buried at Glastonbury original: "Septonia", and was cultivated even by the Britons, but secretly on account of the fear of the princes, whom he had as opponents, as we said in the second book on the Antiquities of Cambridge, and shall say in what follows. However that may be, at that time there were 28 flamens, in whose places 28 bishops were substituted; and three archflamens: of London, York, and the City of Legions original: "vrbis legionum", to whom were also substituted three archbishops: of London, York, and the City of Legions. Lucius subjected Loegria and Cornwall to the Londoner, Deira and Albania to the Yorkist, and Cambria to the City of Legions. By Loegria I mean whatever is between the southern sea, the Humber, and the Severn. By Deira and Albania, what is stretched from the Humber to Caithness, the extreme part of Scotland. By Cambria, whatever all of Wales contains. The City of Legions, Glamorganshire, which others call Caerleon, although it does not escape me that the City of Legions is called Cairdiffe by Ranulphus in the Polychronicon, book 1, where he deals with ancient cities, and is thought to be situated near Glamorganshire.
On the antiquity of the Christian religion in Britain.

Flamens.
Bishops.
Archbishops.
Loegria.
Deira.
Cambria.
City of Legions.
Cornwall.
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