2JO A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



know not; yet it is not unlikely, but 

 that .they had fet times, and peculiar ce- 

 lebrations, for many of their deified 

 warriors. 



To be excluded from their facred rites, 

 was efleemed the mod grievous punifh- 

 ment that the Druids could inflict; and 

 they had the power of doing this to any 

 that they judged it proper. Thofe 

 againft whom this fentence of excom- 

 munication was pronounced, were con- 

 fidered as impious, and their fociety was 

 ihunned by all. They were denied the 

 protection of the law, and were rendered 

 incapable of any honor or trufl. The 

 Druids took every care to inculcate in 

 the people, the indifpenfible obligation 

 of their fubmitting to the neceflary rites 

 and duties of oblation and facrifice, to- 

 gether with their own indifputable 

 power, of defigning and appropriating 

 whatever perfons or things they thought 



proper, 



