Marmol makes this city to have succeeded the ancient Roman town of Silda or Gilda.

My home Is the convent of St. Gildas de Rhuys, Of which, very like, you never have heard.

For some of us knew a thing or two, In the Abbey of St. Gildas de Rhuys!

Go on, if you please, With your story about St. Gildas de Rhuys. Lucifer.

The Duke of this wild province gave him the abbey of St. Gildas; but its inmates were ignorant and disorderly, and added insubordination to dissoluteness.

Every known authority on the subject, from Pliny to Gildas, was carefully considered; every learned pilgrim to Rome was commissioned by Bede to ransack the archives and to make copies of papal decrees and royal letters; and to these were added the testimony of abbots who could speak from personal knowledge of events or repeat the traditions of their several monasteries.

Gildas's History | 597.

Stephanus takes notice of it, by the name of Gilda, and says, that it was a place of great note.

Marmol also asserts, that the present Mequinez answers in every respect to the ancient Gilda.

ANDERSON, GILDA OAKLEAF.

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Two or three centuries later we find Niall of the Nine Hostages making nautical descents on the neighboring shores, especially Britain: and there is every probability that ships of the island conveyed some at least of the "Scots" (Irish) whom Gildas in the sixth century describes as joining the Picts in furiously storming the Roman wall.

Trade companies were founded, and still exist, in various parts of the kingdom, as "Gilda Mercatorum;" and there is little doubt that this was the origin of the municipal or governing corporate bodies in cities and towns whose "Guildhalls" still remain"gildated" and "incorporated" were synonymous terms.