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invaders. One of the customs on which the lecturer laid 
especial emphasis was the division of time by which the Forest 
Courts were regulated, having their set times not according to 
our measure of months and weeks, but by periods divisible by 
the Druidical numbers 3 and 9, as thus:—The Druidical year 
consisted of 360 days; this divided by 9 gives 40 days, which 
was the period for the assembling of the Verderers Courts. 
Not only was this so, there were two other courts higher than 
the Verderers; these were the Swainmote (or Free Tenants 
Court,) which was held every 120 days—or three times a year— 
and the highest of all, called the Court of Eyre, which was held 
every three years. In the lower court three witnesses were 
required, swearing with a stick of holly held in the hand: the 
bounds were perambulated every three years: and the Justices 
in Eyre sat three on the bench at the Triennial Court. 
The above is but the merest outline of the long and elaborate 
treatment of the subject by Mr. Bettows, who brought to bear 
on it a vast amount of research, all going to show that in the 
Court still held in the “Speech House ” we have the last 
vestige, though perfect in itself, of the grand system of the 
Druids in Britain. 
In the absence of Mr. CuristopHEer Bow ty, who had intended 
to read some notes on the archeology of St. David’s, Mr. 
WircuEtt gave a brief description of the more important 
objects of interest to archeologists in the neighbourhood of St. 
David’s. These included 10 camps, all formed by making 
entrenchments across the base of a rocky promontory projecting 
into a valley or into the sea. Drawings of two cromlects were 
_ exhibited, one at Longhouse, the other at St. David’s Head; 
and reference was made to several stone circles in the neigh- 
bourhood of that locality, several of which were stated to have 
an area of 20 feet in diameter. 
This was the last meeting held by the Club. There should 
have been one held in March, but in consequence of the paper 
promised for the occasion not being completed, that paper will 
be read at a future day. 
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