say, in very ancient times, they used to take a certain quantity of
ears out every day, and having dried and bruised the grains, made a
kind of food for their immediate use."

Jeffrey of Monmouth relates that one of the laws of Dunwalls
Molnutus, who is said to have reigned B.C. 500, enacted that the
ploughs of the husbandmen, as well as the temples of the gods,
should be sanctuaries to such criminals as fled to them for
protection.

Tacitus states that the Britons were not a free people, but were
under subjection to many different kings.

Dr. Henry, quoting Tacitus, says, "In the ancient German and
British nation the whole riches of the people consisted in their
flocks and herds; the laws of succession were few and simple: a
man's cattle, at death, were equally divided among his sons; or, if
he had no sons, his daughters; or if he had no children, among his
nearest relations. These nations seem to have had no idea of the
rights of primogeniture, or that the eldest son had any title to a
larger share of his father's effects than the youngest."

The population of England was scanty, and did not probably exceed a
million of inhabitants. They were split up into a vast number of
petty chieftainries or kingdoms; there was no cohesion, no means of
communication between them; there was no sovereign power which
could call out and combine the whole strength of the nation. No
single chieftain could oppose to the Romans a greater force than
that of one of its legions, and when a footing was obtained in the
island, the war became one of detail; it was a provincial rather