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 ^r. <§tukleg. 



^HE following extracts relating to Wiltshire subjects are 

 from a book of MSS., by Dr. Stukeley, dated, "1721, 

 Onnond St., Queen's Square, 1748." It was kindly lent for ex- 

 hibition at the Society's Meeting at Hungerford, by W. Tite, Esq., 

 M.P., its present owner. 



It contains, among other matters of antiquarian interest, "a 

 Drawing of the ground-plot of the ruins of Whitehall, as June 

 14th, 1718, built by Cardinal Wolsey ;" Scite of Old Verolara and 

 of St. Alban's as in Christmas, 1717; Colchester, Easter, 1718; 

 Stones at Burrowbridge, Yorkshire, and near Kirk Oswald, in 

 Cumberland, and Druidical remains ; Memoranda respecting Lon- 

 don ; Roman Camps, Temples, &c. ; Roman Inscriptions ; Monu- 

 mental Effigies; The Comet in 1748; "My house at Barnhill, 

 Stamford, 1743;" "Drawing Romuli et Remi Templum, Jacobus 

 St. Amand Delin ;" Plan of Albanbury ; Effigies of Sir Thomas 

 Erpingham, with autograph letter from Edmund Prideaux, dated 

 Norwich, January 25th, 1720 ; Celtic Antiquities ; Monument of 

 Abbot J. Islyp ; Autograph letter from R. Thoresby to John Anstis, 

 dated 3rd March, 172^ ; Monument in Medley Church, Yorkshire ; 

 Coloured Drawings of Monuments in Norwich Cathedral; Two 

 coloured Drawings of a window in St. George's Church, Stamford, 

 by R. Thoresby; Drawing of Monument of Sir W. Philip; Eques- 

 trian Portrait of King Henry in a window at Grafton ; Letter 

 from W, Beckett on Small-pox ; &c., &c. 



Many of the objects mentioned in the MSS. Have since been 

 destroyed, and these pages contain the only record of them, now 

 remaining. 



In Wiltshire the following are noticed ; — 



" Longstone at Broome, near Swindon, Wilts, is a great high 

 stone, and a little way off many lesser ones in a row. 

 VOL. XI. — NO. xxxm. 2 e 



