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MODERN HISTORY.
Britons.
'I^HE Britons " like their neighbours the Gauls"* (two
of whose heads were shewn copied from Koman
monuments,) were Bearded, though, probably, for some
purpose of distinction, their Chiefs, as stated by Caesar
and others, had merely an enormous twisted moustache.
The Druids and their successors, the native British Clergy,
regarded this natural covering as adding to their dignity
and gracing their office and their age.f
* The Goths and Dacians, as seen on the Eonian monuments,
were Bearded; and the ancient Hungarians, Eaumer states, wore
long Beards adorned with gold and jewels. The Gatti also were
accustomed not to trim the hair of the head or Beard till they had
proved their manliness hy slaying an enemy in battle.
f One of the Legends of King Arthur mentions a giant who
made " a great exhibition of domestic manufacture," consisting oi' a
"cloak Cringed with the Beards of kings."
