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268 Then follows a list and valuation of the appliances of a Celtic smith:— 'The tools of a smith, six-score pence: The large anvil, three-score pence: The brick-orne anvil, twelve pence: The bellows, eight pence: The smith's pincers, four pence: The smith's sledge, four pence: A paring-knife (for the hoofs ?— Cammec-pedeyr Keynnyanc), four pence: A bore (or punch — Kethraul), four pence: A groover (Knysyll), four pence: A vice, four pence: A hoof-rasp (Carnllyf), four pence.' This enumeration is curious, as we observe in the list several of the articles found in the Druidical mound at Alesia, in Gaul. The Dimetian, or 'South Wales Code,' is in some respects similar to that of the Venedotian. 'The protection of the groom of the rein is, whilst the smith of the Court makes four shoes with their complement of nails, and whilst he shall shoe the king's steed,'  The protection of the groom of the rein to the queen was the same. The smith of the Court was to have the heads of the oxen and cows slaughtered in the palace, and food for himself and servant from the palace; as well as the feet of all the cattle, and other privileges. The worth of his tools was also six-score pence.