Cambria triumphans, or Brittain in its perfect lustre shewing the origen and antiquity of that illustrious nation. The succession of their kings and princes, etc / [Percy Enderbie].

  • Percy Enderbie
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[1810]
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Credit: Cambria triumphans, or Brittain in its perfect lustre shewing the origen and antiquity of that illustrious nation. The succession of their kings and princes, etc / [Percy Enderbie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Theat. of Great Britt lib. 6. ‘ sense ofTransmi- ‘ ahA sacrifice or vow they' used thlDruids as Ministers to offer it; ‘ Qui sunt and would otter sacirnc ’ . ft-sq;versantur, aut pro vidimus homines wmolant, ‘ ‘easacrijicia Druidibus rtwtfur. Diaforw » ‘ f,?® o-iveth this reason, that the ZWt were thus used who lived in th® sal ;fi f ' Brittains and G«w/s, much to their honour in their opinion, for Priests hold that sacrifices should be offered by them who were ruled by'the D , y d are skUful of the language of the gods; and which be acqu amtedwA.the dne, gh(mld bg aske J of tbe gods, by whose tl.ey 1 !, e iaen;L peace and war; ‘ Est apud cos moris, nullum absq; Philosophy sacrijicium Couns^ y.t'Jmntanim per dvoina naturae conscios sacra fieri oportere, tanquam linguae deorum facere, , intercessions bona a dels cement petenda, quorum consiho et pace et hello : TT.TfZZa fThe Theatre of Great Brittain make Cesar and ancient Writers fruun& ' . manner* The Druids Office was imployed about holy things; for they had the to speak m thismannerilte sacrifices, and to interpret and discuss matters of Religion Tfhll °d,oTcsorfreat numbers of young men to learn it their hands, and they be had m great unto then , determine almost all Controversies and matters in variance as well pub- reverence; for day f Urmrn almost^at or if there be any murther com- Ite/Tlire arise mi co.ntZZsie Concerning inheritance or bounds of Lands, they take the mitted, j d award either recommence or penalties in the Case; and if there be matgl ^private person or be it Corporation,) that will not stand to their judgement, they inter- apSh]m Jth, mmishmcnt • among them it is held most grievous. They that are so excommunicated, fin f'Ji'J'tJlJJ.JJZ that tMr SUt. <<“- mt. Ut U l,tr UfU J—J—* ™- T'~ Td Ld helebi Z7think men should be most stirred unto vertue when four of death is nothing ixzi siSsA tar ss xxt, L, ..u - ** Followers were. . +h • cause bv their own Writers and their own proceedings; N°w ^ most grosse and inhumaDe absurdities, would require a Volume for to wiite at 1< of other Writers against such Pagan Gent.ls their superstitions, from me, as cry out unt0 us, especially the more noble as the Celestial bodies (m wheieas a matures and effects these men were most conversant) that there is an eternal searching whose „a andCauSer which created all things, who being without beginning or and omnipotent \ ,, ther. Cceli enarrant glorimn Dei, et opera manuum ejus ending, was mad®^caufnd div”ne worship is onely due unto him, for his Almighty Excel- Mr. Br.f.244 anunaat firmi^jchXn a reasonable Creature received and further expected, and lenX’th to receive ft-om him which we commonly call Religion, a Releiging, Re ligation, or needeth to receive t ^ a reasonable intellectual and immortal Soul, ordained dutiful bindu „ , viceroy of God to govern this interior world, and by his bet¬ as it were le , ^ better and eternal things are ordained for him, if he doth not ter eternal Part asau, bat find out and perform the Will and Commandment of so infinite deprive himself of them> but tina out ai p ^ of aU thil especially for the use among his Creatures, which these Druids and their Disciples were so far from effecting, that they gave him no honour at all, nevei lemembiing Disciple worshinDed but doing the greatest dishonour they could unto him among those that they ™ shipped^ • g * and due tQ him. t0 rebellious him, m giving i Enemigs, damned and infernal souls, hundreds of thousands before Cieature P , obabie Historical accounts of later Time and Creation then the them, and d ve Bruius was And if we will follow Julius Cesar, who of all wnteth Author of their own.Sec*, y™Sg .gZ time of their chiefest Sway, and best knew what thev nrofessed ;6 he writeth of the Germans that they differed much from the French and their • tbe;r Kelirion, having no sacrifices, and only accounting for then gods whom Druids m their Hen ion °nanifestlv helped, as the Sun, the Moon, and such visible they see,, anc y gny/God; ‘ Germani multum a Gallorum consuetudme differunt; X’ sfrifiTs student; deorum numero eos solos ducunt quos cernunt, et quorum aperte op,bus ■ fZnturMem Vuleamm et Lunam; yet the German Writers are so confident that the Druids ruled there in Religion, that they shew unto this day m Germany as farc“ two esneciall Dlaces where they were wont to assemble under great Oaks to exercise tlie r su nerstitions and in detestation thereof, two Monasteries called Oberaltaich and Nederaltaich . . . P ere founded to blot out their Memory. ‘ In Bavaria quoque mfenore sub quercu magna su- Pon,. * v.m feieit superstitionem e.vercebant, qua loeapostea m Monasteria cmwersaetiam- < t oSS et Neberaltaich appellantur. Therefore these could not be Professors Must. Ger. pai't 1. p. 40, 41.