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             ST o N EE          NG Reford.                         7
 their Sacrifices, and divine Myfteries n, ( as from  reveral Authors
 I have already proved.) Neither find I any pa ticular Place men-
 tioned, to which any of thefe their Tenple ( if they may fo be
 talled) were afigned ; only Adat (it feems from Dion Cafii)
 had a Grove facred to her in the Country of the Iceni, ancient-
 ly containing Norfolk, Sufaolk, Ca*6bridge, and Huntingdon Shires3
 far enough from, Stne-Heng.
   Befides, it is not to be paft over in Silence, how 7Iacitus ex-
tpreffeth himfelf in the before cited fouteenth Book of his Annals,
telling us; the Romans overthrw not the Temples, or razed to the
Foundations, any of the facred Stru¢iurcs of the Draids and .Pk-
tains made of Stone, or other Materials, which he might As read-
dily have done, if they had ufed any fuch: but pofitively, the Ro-
mans cut down the Britaits Woods and Gioves, afongft them
reckoned holy, -and confecrated to their execrable Supeftitions.
True it is, other Temples, of greater Magnificence than already
fpoken of, 1 find non -._Ornaments oi Art to_pxich thcn they
were not acquainted with : fuch order1y compofed Works as Stone-
Heng they had not any : yea, no kind of facred Stru6tures of Stone
were in ufe among4f them: their Idolatrous Places being naturalk
ly adorned, only with wild, and over-grown Shades, defigned and
brought to Perfeion by Dame Natu~e her fe  Ih being Archi'
tco-general to all their Deities. Nor did it confift with their Vain
Religion to ufe any other, they making their Wotihip, performing-
their Ceremonies, offering their Sacrifices in, dark and obfcure-
Groves, moft conformable unto their barbatous, and inhuma e, hu-
mane Oblations.
   Neither muff it feem frangethey ufed fio otherTemples thaft thefe, Mayet.   r K.
 it not being their Cuftom alone 5 for the Excegi or high. Places 'c.
 mentioned in the facred Story, whercft' the ._1ethen perform&{
 idolatrous Rites unto their Idols, were cotimonly troves, affeaed-
 ly fited upon fome mountainous Place, without any Houfe or 7em,
_pie. The Perians of old, (of whom  ikt dotu  N eqe   tas, Iero; . ib. .
neque temp/a, nt'que aras extruvre confuetud e  Eted
Images, nor Temples, nor A/1tars: quhlimo hoc fikientibus inft   Ie "
tribuere, accounting it great Folly and Madnefs in thofe that did-
but afcending to the Tops of the higheft, and moft lofty Hills, on
them offered Sacrifices to their Gods. Frm heice, Aerxes, in his
Expedition, burnt down the Temples of the Greeks, becaufe they
fhut up their Gods therein, to whom all things are open and free,
cind to whom the whole Univerfe ferves for a Temple. The 444ff
gians alfo (inhabiting Mount Cascafrs) did worfhip, even till Pro-
coius his Time, Groves and Woods 5 and in a barbarian Siiplici-
ty efteemed the very Tr&s themfelves t6 be Gods. In like Mani-
ner, the Northert and Soufiern People of 4me id, made all their'
Invocations and Exorcifris in Woods. The ancient Germans Jik -
wife confecrated Woods and Foreffs. Liicbs ac nenora conJecraint,
faith Tacitus of them. And the like Places for idolatrous Super-
flition, did divers other barbarous Nations ufe, before reduced tQ.
Order, and Civility of Life, Tacitus giving this Reafon for it 5 They
thought it a Matter ill befeeming the Greatnefs of their Deities,,
to enclofe them within Temples made by Art. His Words are,"
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