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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.