This account, given by Gildas, is remarkably corroborated by the _Triads of the Isle of Britain_, which are ancient British documents of undoubted credit, though but little known. {217a} From them we learn that the famous _Caradoc_, or _Caractacus_, having been overthrown in the war, and afterwards basely betrayed and delivered up to the Romans, by _Aregwedd Voeddig_ (the _Cartismandua_ of Roman authors) was, together with his father _Brân_, (or _Brennus_) and whole family, carried captive to Rome, about the year 52, where they were detained seven years, or more. At that time Rome enjoyed the preaching of the gospel, and Brân with others of the family became converts to the christian religion. After the expiration of their captivity, they returned home, and were the means of introducing the knowledge of Christ among their countrymen: on which account, Brân is called, one of the three holy sovereigns, and his family, one of the three holy lineages of Britain. The Triads also have preserved the names of three of the primitive christians who accompanied Brân on his return to this country, and who were probably the very first christian ministers that ever set foot on this island: one was an Israelite of the name of _Ilid_; of the other two, one was called _Cyndav_, and the other _Arwystli Hên_, or Arwystli the aged. {217b} This account is very curious, and, in all probability, authentic. {217c} When Brân returned to his native country, it has been understood that some of his family stayed behind and settled at Rome. Of them _Claudia_, mentioned, along with _Pudens_ and _Linus_, in the second Epistle to Timothy, is supposed to be one, and the very same with _Claudia the wife Pudens_, mentioned by the poet _Martial_, who lived in those times, and who celebrates her, in his Epigrams, as a _Briton_ of extraordinary beauty, wit, and virtue. To this it has indeed been objected, that Martial, living in the reign of _Trajan_, cannot be supposed to speak of Paul’s Claudia, who flourished in the reigns of _Claudius_ and _Nero_. But it might be urged in reply, that though he lived in Trajan’s reign, he lived also, and resided at Rome, in the reign of _Vespasian_, if not in that of _Nero_; and the Epigrams in which he mentions _Claudia_ might be written in his younger years, when she was in the prime and bloom of life. Some have made her to be the _daughter of Caractacus_, which seems not at all unlikely. _Pomponia Græcina_, the wife of Aulus Plautius, Claudius’ Lieutenant, and the first Roman Governor here, has also been, thought a Briton and a christian, and one of the earliest British Christians. Tacitus speaks of her as an illustrious lady, but accused for having embraced a _strange_ and _foreign superstition_; {218} and though he says she was acquitted, as to any thing immoral, yet he represents her as leading ever after a _gloomy and melancholy kind of life_: all which will strictly coincide with the idea of her being a _christian_.