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e audiant & discernant. ’ Lib. i. 1 . 6 z. ap. Lindenbrog. Andthe following law was made in a synod held a Winchesterann. 150g. ‘Item, quia in personis ebriis legicimus dici non

* debet consensus, inhib mos , ne in tabernis per quaecunque

* ve ba , air nisi jejuna saliva , vir aut mulier de cantrahendo8 tratrimonio liui invicetn hdem dare praesumant. ’ IVilkins ,1 Concil, tom. 2. p. 29t.

Tois ludeness, of wnicn we see the source in Tacitus,seems to have continued very long in England. ‘ Non exolevit‘ hactenus mos antiquus , ’ fays Sir Henry Spelman , 1 natn

* in luaiii feu placitis, quae afsisae jam vocantur , vicecomi-‘ tes provmciarurn b s quotannis magnam exhauriunt vim4 pecuniae, in judicibu? nobilibusque patriae convivandis. ’Gloss p. ;gy. In Scouand, in the memory of persons yeta’ive, the lawyers and retainers of the courts of justice didbusiness constantly and openly in the tavern. It is likewiseobservab'e, that some particulars which regard the institutionof the jury , are to be explained and illustrated from these facts,and this way of thinking. Historical Dissertation concerningthe antiquity os the English conftit. Part 4. Sect. 2.

( 9 ) " Nullas Germanorum populis urbes habitari, satisc notum eft, ne pari quidem inter se junctas fed es. Colunt4 discreti ac diverli, ut sons, ut campus, ut nemus placuit....6 Nec enim cum ubertate & amplitudine soli labore conten-‘ dunt, ut pomaria conserant, & prata separenr, &hortos‘ rigent. Sola terrae feg es imperatur. Unde annum quoque' ipsum non in totidem digerunt species: Hiems, &ver, &8 aestas, intellectum ac vocabula habent: Autumn! perindsnomen ac bona ignorantur.’ Tacit.dc Mor. Germ. c. 16. 26.

(to) ‘ Ceterum nec cohibere patietibus deos , neque in‘ ullam humani orisspeciem afliinilare, ex magnitudine caeles-8 tium arbitrantur. Lucos ac nemora consecrant, deorumque1 nominibus appellant secretum iilud , quod sola reverentia6 vident. fuspicia sortesque ut qui maxime observant.’ Tacit,de Mor. Germ. c. 9. Struvius , Corp. Hist. Germ, prolegom.

( n) Tacit, de Mor. Germ. c. 13 . Cluver , Germ. Antiq.lib. 1.

(12) ‘ voces exemplo potius quam imperio , si prompt!,