By William Long, Esq. 28 



marbled, whei'ein great holes are beaten even by force of weather, 

 that serve for ravens and other birds to build in and bring forth 

 their young. The ground plot containeth about three hundred foot 

 in compasse, in plan almost round, or rather like unto a horse-shoe, 

 with an entrance in the east side. Three rowes of stones seeme 

 formerly to have been pitched, the largest outwards and the least 

 inwards, many whereof are now fallen downe, but those that stande 

 shew so faire an aspect, and that so farre off, that they seeme to the 

 beholders to be some fortresse or strong castle. A trench also is 

 about them, which hath beene much deeper, and upon the plaines 

 adjoyning many round topped hilles without any . . . trench 

 (as it were cast up out of the earth) stand like great Hay Cockes in 

 a plaine meadow. In these and thereabouts by digging have been 

 found pieces of ancient fashioned armour with the bones of men, 

 whose bodies were thus covered with earth that was brought thither 

 by their well-willers and friends even in their head-peeces ; a token 

 of love that then was used, as some imagine. This trophy Aurelius 

 Ambrosius (in memorial of the Bs. massacre) created and is worthily 

 accounted one of the wonders of this island, and one in the verses 

 of Alexr. Necham called the Giant^s Dance, wherein this Ambro- 

 sius, &c., &c., as in Geoffrey.^' 



According to Antony a "Wood (Athense Oxonienses, vol. i., p. 631 ; 

 Bliss' ed. ii., p. 659), John Speed, M.A,, M.D., bom c. 1595, son of 

 the above, an eminent physician, wrote " Stonehenge," a pastoral 

 which was acted before Dr. Richard Bailie, the President, and 

 Fellows, of St. John's College, Oxford, in their common refectory, 

 at what time the said Doctor was returned from Salisbury after he 

 was installed Dean thereof, 1635. " The said pastoral is not printed 

 but goes about in MS. from hand to hand." 



Among Dr. Thumam's memoranda for his intended paper on 

 Stonehenge is the following: "Nero Caesar, 162-1, by the trans- 

 lator of Lucius-Florus (Bolton MS. on title) dedicated with leave 

 to the Duke of Bunkingham, Lord Admiral, [^tukeley and Aubrey 

 had their Twining, Inigo Jones his Bolton. — J.T.'\ Page 181, § 32 : 

 " Of the place of Boadicea's buriall . . , Admirable monument 

 of the stones upon Salisburie plaine . . . the dumbness of it 



