that the place where he landed was likely to be one where the Britons had some strength. Here, again, whatever we may make of the history, it is Hamo’s Port that is the fitting centre of national life; and it is the Hamoaze that best suits the reference. ----- Footnote 3: Bridport also, on the ground of its etymology, Brute-port (!). ----- This legend of Brute the Trojan was firmly believed in, and associated with these Western shores, by the leading intellects of the Elizabethan day. Spenser refers to it in his:— That well can witness yet unto this day The Western Hogh besprinkled with the Gore Of mighty Goemot. Drayton verifies the legend in his _Polyolbion_, and tells us how— Upon that loftie place at Plimmouth, call’d the Hoe, Those mightie Wrastlers met; and how that Gogmagog was by Corin— Pitcht head-long from the hill; as when a man doth throw An Axtree that with sleight deliurd from the Foe Roots up the yeelding earth, so that his violent fall, Strooke Neptune with such strength, as shouldred him withall; That where the monstrous waues like mountaines late did stand, They leapt out of the place, and left the bared sand To gaze vpon wide heauen. And this article of faith had then long been popular. Carew, in his _Survey of Cornwall_, says: “Moreover, vpon the Hawe at Plymmouth, there is cut out in ground the pourtrayture of two men, the one bigger, the one lesser, with clubbes in their hands (whom they terme Gogmagog), and (as I have learned) it is renewed by order of the Townesmen when cause requireth, which should inferre the same to be a monument of some moment.” Westcote, writing some half a century later, states of the Hoe—“in the side whereof is cut the portraiture of two men of the largest volume, yet the one surpassing the other every way; these they name to be Corinæus and Gogmagog.” And there these figures remained until the Citadel was built in 1671—a remarkable witness of the local belief that Plymouth had played a prominent part in the affairs of Brutus and his fellows. We know when these figures ceased to be. Can we form any idea as to when they originated? Their earliest extant mention occurs in the Receiver’s Accounts of the borough of Plymouth, under date 1494–5:— It. paid to Cotewyll for y^e renewying of y^e pyctur of Gogmagog a pon y^e howe. vij^{d.}