56 Bibliography of Stonehenge and Avebury. 



1525. First printed edition ; 8vo. : London. 



1838. Edition by Stevenson, for English Hist. Soc, 8vo., xli., 122 : 

 London. 



1878. " Six old English Chronicles " (translation) : edited by 

 Dr. J. A. Giles (Bohn's Series), 8vo. : London. 



1899. Edition by Prof. Williams [Cymmrodorion Eecord Series]. 



The historical value of this book "depends mainly upon the absence of 

 better authorities." The only MSS. extant are two which are in the 

 University Library, Cambridge. " The whole tone of his work shows 

 Gildas to have been a man of gloomy temper, irritated and saddened by 

 the triumphs of the Saxons, and profoundly conscious of the vices and 

 weaknesses of his countrymen " {Diet. Nat. Biog.). He appears to have 

 retired to Brittany, and there written his book in a monastery which he 

 founded at Ruys, near Vannea. Gildas describes the wretched state of 

 Britain after the departure of the Romans ; and tells how Vortigern 

 foolishly invited the aid of the " fierce and impious Saxons." He praises 

 the conduct of a British chief or king — Ambrosius Aurelianus — but neither 

 mentions Stonehenge, nor any massacre near that spot of the Britons by 

 the Saxons ; indeed the greater part of his book consists of a series of 

 religious harangues and tirades. 



Crilpin, Rev. Wm. [1724—1804]: Author. 

 1798. Observations on the Western Parts of England, 

 etc. : 8vo., xvi., 359 ; with eighteen plates : London. 

 " All the plain [Salisbury], at least that part of it near Stonehenge, is one 

 vast Cemetary . . . By the rays of a setting sun the distant barrows 

 are most conspicuously seen. Every little summit being tipped with a 

 splendid light, while the plain is in shadow, is at that time easily dis- 

 tinguished " (pp. 77—95). 



Gilray, Thos. 1876. Legends of Pre-Eoman Britain. 



DnUin Univ. Mag., LXXXVIL, 385—402. 



" I am inclined to think that the sources of the book [Geoffrey's Mistoria 

 Britonum] are three-fold — Calenius's MSS. ; stories floating about and 

 told to Geoffrey by various people ; and Geoffrey's own imagination." 



Gippiug, Tlios. 1854. " A Query." .Notes and Queries, X., 463. 

 Asks about the nature of the " larger stones" of Stonehenge. 



G-iraldus de Barri, called " Cambrensis " [1146 — 1220] : 



Welsh imest. 

 1187. Topographia Hibernica (MS.). 



1602. First printed ; fol. : Frankfort. 



