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Aiithorities for the above. 



1. In 1620. Mr. Newdick— Refer to Sir Richard Colt Hoare's 

 " History of Ancient Wiltshire," vol. i., pp. 153, 154, and 155. As 

 George Duke of Buckingham made his researches at Stonehenge in 

 the year 1620 and from the information Mr. Aubrey received from 

 Mrs. Trotman that the Duke of Buckingham would have given to 

 Mr. Newdick (the owner of this place) " any rate for it, but he 

 would not accept it," it might be presumed that it belonged to him 

 at the time when the Duke of Buckingham made those researches. 



2. In Dawbony or Dowbeny. — In the printed particulars of 



the Amesbury Estate, drawn up when it was for sale in 1824, men- 

 tion is made of the Manor of Dawbneys, and from the following it 

 will appear that West Amesbury Estate is the manor that bore that 

 name, on which Stonehenge stands. The name of Dowbeny still 

 exists in the name of a meadow in the parish of Amesbury, situated 

 on the West Amesbury Estate, commonly called Bony Mead, mean- 

 ing no doubt Dawbony^s Mead. In the following remarks there is 

 still further evidence to prove that West Amesbury belonged to Mr. 

 Dawbony. 



3. In 1639. Sir Laurence Washington, knight. — In the boun- 

 daries of the Manor of Amesbury Earls examined on Monday, the 



