By William Long, Esq. 43 



without inscription or image that would surprise all succeeding 

 generations, and be, in all likelihood, permanent for ages to 

 come/' 



In 1730, Mr. Sampford Wallis published a little book (printed 

 at Sarum) entitled " Dissertation in Vindication of the Antiquity 

 of Stonehenge in answer to the Treatises of Mr. Inigo Jones, Dr. 

 Charleton and all that have written upon that subject, by a Clergy- 

 man in the neighbourhood of that famous monument of An- 

 tiquity." 



In Hearne's copy of the work now in the Bodleian Library, is 

 the following splenetic notice of it written in his small but clear 

 handwriting : " Tis' nothing but an extract from Webb, abating 

 some abusive expressions of the thief, who sufficiently exposeth 

 himself by endeavouring to detract from the reputation of those 

 great men Olaus Wormius and Dr. Walter Charleton, tho' I differ 

 from Dr. Charleton, yet I think that Dr. hath supported his opinion 

 very well, and deserved thanks rather than obloquy. At least it is 

 very unbecoming for such mean writers as the publisher of this 

 extract to attack such a worthy man as the Dr. certainly was, in 

 so rude a manner." The following spiteful note is appended : " One 

 Stafford Wallis was incorporated M.A. of Oxford from St. Andrew's, 

 July 11, 1671." 



In the year 1747, John Wood, the Bath architect, described and 

 illustrated Stonehenge. He ''differs materially in his lines of the 

 third and fourth circle " from any of his predecessors. He gives it as 

 his opinion " that it was a temple erected by the British Druids, 

 about a hundred years before the commencement of the Christian 

 sera." 



The Rev. William Cooke, Vicar of Enford, published in 1754 

 " An Enquiry into the Patriarchal and Druidical Religion, Temples, 

 etc.," and concluded " that Stonehenge had been a place held sacred 

 by the Druids, and appropriated to ciyil or religious assemblies." 



In the year 1771 Dr. John Smith (who calls himself inoculator 

 of the small pox), published a little work in which he endeavoured 

 to prove that Stonehenge had been a tropical temple, erected by the 

 ancient Druids for observing the motions of the heavenly bodies. He 



