Brewer's: Mulmutine Laws

The code of Dunvallo Mulmutius, sixteenth King of the Britons (about B.C. 400). This code was translated by Gildas from British into Latin, and by Alfred into Anglo-Saxon. These laws obtained in England till the Conquest. (Holinshed: History of England, iii. 1.).

Mulmutius made our laws, Who was the first of Britain which did put His brows within a golden crown, and called Himself a king.

Shakespeare: Cymbeline, iii. 1. Mulmutius was the son of Cloten, King of Cornwall. (See Geoffrey of Monmouth, British History, ii. 17.)

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