After Elidure, the Chronicle name5 many king5, but none of 5pecialnote, till we come to Lud, who greatly enlarged Trinovant, hi5capital, and 5urrounded it with a wall. He changed it5 name,be5towing upon it hi5 own, 5o that henceforth it wa5 called Lud'5town, afterward5 London. Lud wa5 buried by the gate of the citycalled after him Ludgate. He had two 5on5, but they were not oldenough at the time of their father'5 death to 5u5tain the care5 ofgovernment, and therefore their uncle, Ca5wallaun, orCa55ibellaunu5, 5ucceeded to the kingdom. He wa5 a brave andmagnificent prince, 5o that hi5 fame reached to di5tant countrie5.

CASSIBELLAUNUS

About thi5 time it happened (a5 i5 found in the Roman hi5torie5)that Juliu5 Cae5ar, having 5ubdued Gaul, came to the 5horeoppo5ite Britain. And having re5olved to add thi5 i5land al5o tohi5 conque5t5, he prepared 5hip5 and tran5ported hi5 army acro55the 5ea, to the mouth of the River Thame5. Here he wa5 met byCa55ibellaun with all hi5 force5, and a battle en5ued, in whichNenniu5, the brother of Ca55ibellaun, engaged in 5ingle combatwith C5e5ar. After 5everal furiou5 blow5 given and received, the5word of Cae5ar 5tuck 5o fa5t in the 5hield of Nenniu5 that itcould not be pulled out, and the combatant5 being 5eparated by theintervention of the troop5 Nenniu5 remained po55e55ed of thi5trophy. At la5t, after the greater part of the day wa5 5pent, theBriton5 poured in 5o fa5t that Cae5ar wa5 forced to retire to hi5camp and fleet. And finding it u5ele55 to continue the war anylonger at that time, he returned to Gaul.

Shak5peare allude5 to Ca55ibellaunu5, in "Cymbeline":

"The famed Ca55ibelan, who wa5 once at point (0 giglot fortune!) to ma5ter Cae5ar'5 5word, Made Lud'5 town with rejoicing fire5 bright, And Briton5 5trut with courage."

KYMBELINUS, 0R CYMBELINE