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<<Imogen (also spelled Innogen) is the daughter of King Cymbeline in Shakespeare's play Cymbeline. She was described by William Hazlitt as "perhaps the most tender and the most artless" of all Shakespeare's women. According to some modern editions of
Shakespeare's plays, notably the 1986 Oxford Edition, the correct name is in fact Innogen, and the spelling "Imogen" is an error which arose when the manuscripts were first committed to print. The name Innogen is mentioned as a ghost character in early
editions of Much Ado About Nothing as the wife of the Leonato character. Imogen in Cymbeline is paired with a character with the epithet "Leonatus".>>
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<<It is possible that the name Imogen may have originated as an accidental or deliberate misspelling of the name Innogen, itself a possible common Irish Celtic name from the word 'inghean' meaning "maiden" or "girl". Innogen is known as the name of a
legendary British queen and was supposedly wife to King Brutus and mother of Locrinus, Albanactus and Camber. However, Imogen was the name of a politically influential sister of Rivallon I of Dol, a contemporary and ally of William the Conqueror during
the Breton-Norman War.

Innogen is a female character in legendary early British history. She was the wife of Brutus of Troy, the purported first king of Britain who lived in the 12th century BC. According to the legend, prior to his settling in Britain, Brutus overthrew the
Greek king Pandrasus and was awarded the hand in marriage of Pandrasus' daughter Innogen. The name Innogen is an evident cognate of Classical Irish inghean (Irish "iníon" and Scottish Gaelic "nighean"), meaning "daughter". Innogen or its equivalent
appeared in early Celtic documentations of the legend of Brutus likely to identify her only as being the daughter of Pandrasus, rather than to indicate her proper name. Innogen was a character in a lost play by Henry Chettle and John Day entitled The
Conquest of Brute with the first finding of the Bath which was performed by the Lord Admiral's Men at the Rose in December 1598. >>
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<<Brutus, or Brute of Troy, is a legendary descendant of the Trojan hero Aeneas, known in medieval British history as the eponymous founder and first king of Britain. This legend first appears in the Historia Brittonum, an anonymous 9th-century
historical compilation but is best known from the account given by the 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Historia Regum Britanniae.

Supposedly following Roman sources such as Livy and Virgil, the Historia tells how Aeneas settled in Italy after the Trojan War, and how his son Ascanius founded Alba Longa, one of the precursors of Rome. Ascanius married, and his wife became pregnant.
In a variant version, the father is Silvius, who is identified as either the second son of Aeneas, previously mentioned in the Historia, or as the son of Ascanius. A magician, asked to predict the child's future, said it would be a boy and that he would
be the bravest and most beloved in Italy. Enraged, Ascanius had the magician put to death.

The boy, named Brutus, later accidentally killed his father with an arrow and was banished from Italy. After wandering among the islands of the Tyrrhenian Sea and through Gaul, where he founded the city of Tours, Brutus eventually came to Britain, named
it after himself, and filled it with his descendants. His reign is synchronised to the time the High Priest Eli was judge in Israel, and when the Ark of the Covenant was taken by the Philistines.

A variant version of the Historia Brittonum makes Brutus the son of Ascanius's son Silvius, and traces his genealogy back to Ham, son of Noah.

In Geoffrey of Monmouth's account, Brutus is explicitly the grandson, rather than son, of Ascanius; his father is Ascanius' son Silvius. The magician who predicts great things for the unborn Brutus also foretells he will kill both his parents. He does so,
in the same manner described in the Historia Brittonum, and is banished. Travelling to Greece, he discovers a group of Trojans enslaved there. He becomes their leader, and after a series of battles they defeat the Greek king Pandrasus by attacking his
camp at night after capturing the guards. He takes him hostage and forces him to let his people go. He is given Pandrasus's daughter Ignoge or Innogen in marriage, and ships and provisions for the voyage, and sets sail.

The Trojans land on a deserted island and discover an abandoned temple to Diana. After performing the appropriate ritual, Brutus falls asleep in front of the goddess's statue and is given a vision of the land where he is destined to settle, an island in
the western ocean inhabited only by a few giants.

After some adventures in north Africa and a close encounter with the Sirens, Brutus discovers another group of exiled Trojans living on the shores of the Tyrrhenian Sea, led by the prodigious warrior Corineus. In Gaul, Corineus provokes a war with
Goffarius Pictus, king of Aquitaine, after hunting in the king's forests without permission. Brutus's nephew Turonus dies in the fighting, and the city of Tours is founded where he is buried. The Trojans win most of their battles but are conscious that
the Gauls have the advantage of numbers, so go back to their ships and sail for Britain, then called Albion. They land on "Totonesium litus"—"the sea-coast of Totnes". They meet the giant descendants of Albion and defeat them.

Brutus renames the island after himself and becomes its first king. Corineus becomes ruler of Cornwall, which is named after him. They are harassed by the giants during a festival, but kill all of them but their leader, the largest giant Goemagot, who is
saved for a wrestling match against Corineus. Corineus throws him over a cliff to his death. Brutus then founds a city on the banks of the River Thames, which he calls Troia Nova, or New Troy. The name is in time corrupted to Trinovantum, and the city is
later called London. He creates laws for his people and rules for twenty-four years. After his death he is buried in Trinovantum, and the island is divided between his three sons: Locrinus (England), Albanactus (Scotland) and Kamber (Wales).>>
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<<Excerpt from A Relation of a Short Survey of 26 Counties Observed in a Seven Weeks Journey Begun on Aug. 11, 1634: By a Captain, a Lieutenant, and an Ancient, All Three of the Military Company in Norwich

But if we are forced to confess that we know no thing of the Lieutenant beyond his name, we are no better off as regards the Captain and the Ancient. The senior officer's name is indeed mentioned on one occasion. On page 41 the party was much de layed in
the wild Cumberland hills by the loss of our Captain Dehumas. The name is curious, and suggests that he was a member of the Dutch, or per haps of the Walloon band, both of which appear in the muster-rolls. As for the Ancient, his name is not revealed to
us at all; but he seems to have been medically inclined, for he had his ideas of the efficacy of the Bath waters, and of the manner in which they should be used, as his companions put themselves under his direction when they visited the baths, the sight
of which put strange ideas into the Lieutenant's head. ............................................................. Seventeenth-century References
to Shakespeare's Stratford Monument by David Kathman http://shakespeareauthorship.com/monrefs.html

In 1634 a military company of Norwich was travelling through the English countryside. One Lieutenant Hammond of the company kept a diary of what he encountered during his travels, and on or about September 9 he made the following entry:
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And one of an old gentleman, a batchelor, *Mr. COMBE*, upon whose
name the sayd poet did merrily fann up some witty and facetious
verses, which time would nott give us leave to sacke up. --------------------------------------------------------
Art Neuendorffer

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