and all other ancient Greeke and Latine writers doo affirme to haue had their begining in Britaine, and to haue bin brought from thence into Gallia, insomuch that when there arose any doubt in that countrie touching any point of their discipline, they did repaire to be resolued therein into Britaine, where, speciallie in the Ile of Anglesey (as Humfrey Llhoyd witnesseth) they [Sidenote:  Anti. lib. 5. Annius super eundem. De bello Gallico. 6.] made their principall abode.  Touching their vsages many things are written by Aristotle, Socion, Plinie, Laertius, Bodinus, and others:  which I will gather in briefe, and set downe as followeth.  They had (as Caesar saith) the charge of common & priuate sacrifices, the discussing of points of religion, the bringing vp of youth, the determining of matters in variance with full power to interdict so manie from the sacrifice of their gods and the companie of men, as disobeied [Sidenote:  Hist. an. lib. 1.] their award.  Polydore affirmeth, how they taught, that mens soules could not die, but departed from one bodie to another, and that to the intent [Sidenote:  De diui. lib. 1.] to make men valiant and drealesse of death.  Tullie writeth, that partlie by tokens, and partlie by surmises, they would foretell things to come.  And by the report of Hector Boetius, some of them were not ignorant of the immortalitie of the one and euerlasting God.  All these [Sidenote:  Hist.  Scoti. li. 2. De migr. gen. lib. 2. Marcellinus.] things they had written in the Greeke toong, insomuch that Wolf.  Lazius (vpon the report of Marcellinus) declareth how the Greeke letters were first brought to Athens by Timagenes from the Druides.  And herevpon it commeth also to passe, that the British toong hath in it remaining at this day some smacke of the Greeke.  Among other abuses of the Druides, they had (according to Diodorus) one custome to kill men, and by the falling, bleeding, and dismembring of them, to diuine of things to come:  for the which and other wicked practises, their sect was first condemned for abhominable (as some haue written) and dissolued in Gallia (as Auentinus witnesseth) by Tiberius and Claudius the emperours; and [Sidenote:  Anna.  Boiorum. lib. 22.] lastlie abolished here in Britaine (by the report of Caius) when the gospell of Christ by the preaching of Fugatius and Damianus was receiued [Sidenote:  De ant.  Cant.] among the Britaines, vnder Lucius king of Britaine, about the yeare of our sauior, 179.

[Sidenote:  BARDUS THE SONNE OF DRUIS. Berosus ant. lib. 2. Annius in commen. super eundem. Ant.  Cant li. 1. script.  Britan. cent. 1. Nonnius. Marcel. Strabo. Diodor.  Sicul. lib. 6. Carol.  Stepha. in dict. hist. Bale. Iohn Prise.] Bardus the sonne of Druis succeeded his father in the kingdome of Celtica, and was the fift king ouer the Celtes and Samotheans, amongst whom he was highlie