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the Brylaines that were slaine and buried there, in the raigne of 

 Vortiger, at the banquet and communication of Hengist with the 

 Saxons. This ancient Monument is yet to be seen, and is a number 

 of stones, rough, and of a gray colour, 25 foote in length, and about 

 10 foot in breadth, they are ioyned by two and two together, and 

 every couple sustaineth a third stone lying overthwart, gatewise, 

 which is fastened by the meanes of tenons that enter into mortaises 

 of those stones not closed with any cement. It appeareth that there 

 hath beene 3 ranks going round as circles one within another : 

 whereof the vttermost and largest containeth in compasse 300 foote, 

 but the other ranks are decayed, and therefore hard to reckon how 

 many stones there be. 



" The Chronicles of the Britaines doe testifie, that whereas the 

 Saxons, about the yeere of our Lord 450, had slaine 480 of the 

 Britaines Nobility by treason, and vnder colour of a treaty, Aurelius 

 Ambrose now King of the Britaines desirous to continue their memory 

 with some worthy monument, caused these stones to be set vp in a 

 place of their murther and buriall, the which stones had beene first 

 brought from Affrik into Ireland, and placed on mount Killare, 

 and from thence by the industrious meanes of Merlin, were convayed 

 to this place to the aforesaid end. There are about this place 

 certaine little hils, or banks, vnder the which are found sometimes 

 bones of big men, and pieces of armour : also not far from thence, 

 remaine old ruines of the manner of a fortresse, which the Romanes 



(as it is not vnlike) did build there in times past 



Aurelius Ambrose being poysoned, dyed, when hee had raigned 35 

 yeeres, and was buried at Stonehenge, then called Chorea Gigantum.^^ 



Thomas Fuller,^ in chapter 26 of the first book of the " Church 

 History of Britain" (1656), gives the following account of Stone- 

 henge : " It is contrived in form of a crown, consisting of three 

 circles of stones set up gate-wise; some called 'corse-stones,^ of 

 12 tons, others called ' cronets,'' of 7 tons^ weight (those haply for 



' Dr. Thomas Fuller, the eminent historian and divine, died in 1.661. He 

 was the author of " the Worthies," " the Church History of England," " History 

 of the Holy War," etc. He was a man of " quaint conceit," and had such a 

 memory that be could recite a sermon verbatim after he had heard i% once. 



