Excerpt from Suggestions on the Ancient Britons in Three Parts, Vol. 1 of 3
The present work is to be received as a collection of notes, to be added to and better arranged by the qualified reader. The most fastidious will forego the usual desiderata of style and composition, and pass over the want of an introduction for its author, when he considers that the carrying out to completeness the suggested inquiry would transcend the power or compass of an individual, however high in any rank of literature. Let him reflects to what these disecta membra belong. No man has ever set on foot this general question of who were the ancient Britons, - the race to be accredited with the peculiarity of British institutions, Hundred, Shire, and Tything, Knighthood (including its orders, the "Garter" and "Bath,") that safeguard of order and morals in the middle ages, Jury, as well the "Grand Assize" as the Common Jury, or in Norman phrase, Jujement du pais, the Druid faith and Christian Church in Britain before the Emperor Constantine, the bard and dateless harp.
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