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CHAP. XXIIL 



The Manners and Customs of the Welsh. 



j^c count of the Wel/h Manners in the Tivclfih Cuitury. — Mode of 

 Fighting. — Dumeflic Cv./loms and Dre/s. — The Officers belonging 

 to the Court in the Tenth Century. -^The Officers oftheNohiUly. — 

 Various ft iigular JLaivs and Cufloms of tins Period, — ^tate of So- 

 ciety in the fubfequent Centuries. — The Lciivs oj the Chr.ce. — The 

 ancient Games.—^W eJ/h and Etigl'JJj Contcfs after the Infui reSion 



ofGlyndivr. Ins M^iNNfRS of the modern 1'/el%h. — Im- 



prjitions fometimes praclifed on Englifh Travellers . — Irafcibility. — 

 7he Welfh Cottages. — I'omen. — Curiofty. — Svperfitions. — jic- 

 count of a fuppofed Kind of aerial Beings called Knoclers. — 

 Witches. — Coelcerth. — Tr Eryr.'—'^ aniuyll Corph. — Offering of 

 Enemies. — Wells of Saints. — Plygain. — Leehs on St. David's 

 Day.— 'Terming. — Alode of CourfJjip called Bundling. — Cifloms 

 at Weddings. — Funerals. — Offerings at Funerals. — Reafon f.r 

 not interring en the North tides of Churches. — Planting t':e 

 Craves, 



If accounts of the manners and habits of life of the 

 inhabitants of diflant nations be found interefting-, 

 the aborigines of our own ifland, and a people that 

 now form part of our own<commonweakh, mufl cer- 

 tainly be entitled to fome attention. Compelled, as 

 the Welfh people were, to feek for flicker in this 

 obfcure corner of Britain, near fourteen centuries 

 ago, from the perfecutions and treachei*y of their 

 Saxon foes, their manners have had many fmgular 



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