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arsinReVigiori ; and they were exempt both from tbefervices of 
War, and from paying any Taxes ; by which fmmunities many 
were invited to enter themfelves into that Order and Difcipline. 
What ic is , that engaged them to have the Oak in fo great venerati- 
on,is not foea(ie4odeiermine.It feems.this Order of mea was in fo 
great reputation, that the Gauls, though they had themfelves Dru- 
iaV in their Country, yet fent their Children into Britam^ to be ' 
ififtrufled in the Myfteries of the Druids here. 
thirdly, I cannot paf^-by the Obfervation, which our Author 
Kiaketh,p. 4i9. & fiq, viz. That, as the Britaim were originally 
a Branch of that Nation, vid, the Cimbri , a people of Germany, 
who anciently came and feated themfelves in Britain\ fo the 
that were invitedhither after a revolution of fo many Ages 
fromthat time, were a true branch of thofe very Cimbri^ that had 
feated themfelves fo long ago before them in thi^ Ifland. Nor 
need it to be wonder'd, that, if the Ancient Britai»s,znd the later 
Saxom be derived from the fame ftock (the Cimbri,^ they fjhould 
underftand nothing of each others language at the Saxom entrance: 
For, the continuance of Time, and the mixture of the Britains 
with the Phamcians^ Gr^zcians, Gauls dx\6 Bcmans, in feveral ages, 
was the caufe of that difference 5 though it is not to be doubted ^ 
but that there are many words in the Bmi/& tongue which agree 
with the Saxm^ and which in probability they had in ufe long be- 
fore the arrival of the Saxons themfelves. 
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