Note 013
Archbishop Usher (Antiquitat. Britan. Eccles. p. 107,
l08) has diligently collected the legends of the island and
the continent. The whole emigration consisted of 30,000
soldiers and l00,000 plebeians, who settled in Bretagne.
Their destined brides, St. Ursula with 1l,000 noble and
60,000 plebeian virgins, mistook their way, landed at
Cologne, and were all most cruelly murdered by the Huns. But
the plebeian sisters have been defrauded of their equal
honours; and, what is still harder John Trithemius presumes
to mention the children of these British virgins.
The History Of The Decline and Fall
Of The Roman Empire—
Chapter 27