* * * * And the King Theodoric held the Empire of Rome for the said Zeno, the Emperor, doing him homage therefor and paying him tribute. In these times, about the year of Christ 470, while Leo, Emperor of Rome, was reigning in Constantinople, was born in Great Britain, which is now called England, Merlin the prophet (of a virgin, they say, by conception or machination of a devil), which wrought in that country many marvels by necromancy, and ordained the Round Table of Knights Errant in the time when Uther Pendragon reigned in Britain, which was descended from Brutus, grandson of Aeneas, the first inhabitant of that land, as afore we made mention; and afterwards the Round Table was restored by the good King Arthur, his son, which was a lord of great power and valour, and more gracious and knightly than all other lords, and he reigned long time in happy state, as the Romances of the Britons make mention, and whereof the Martinian Chronicle is not silent when treating of those times. Sec. 5.--_How the Goths were driven the first time out of Italy, and how they recovered their sovereignty by means of the young Theodoric, their king._ Sec. 6.--_How the Goths were entirely driven out of Italy by Belisarius, patrician of the Romans._ Sec. 7.--_Of the coming of the Lombards into Italy._ Sec. 8.--_Of the beginning of the religion and sect of the Saracens, instituted by Mahomet._ Sec. 9.--_Of the successors of Rotharis, king of the Lombards._ Sec. 10.--_How Charles Martel came from France to Italy at the summons of the Church against the Lombards; and of the origin of the city of Siena._ [Sidenote: 735 A.D.] [Sidenote: 740 A.D.]