62 Bibliography of Stonehenge and Avehury. 



Hamnett, Wm. J. 1899. [Price of Stonehenge.] Times, 

 28 Aug, p. 9. 



The sum asked (.£125,000) is " monstrous." For Sir M. H Beach's estate 

 at Netheravon (in the same district) ^11 8«. \\d. per acre was recently 

 paid by the War Office. 



Hamper, Wm. [1736 — 1831] : Antiquary. 

 1806. Views of Stonehenge and Avebuky in 1796. Gent's 

 Mag., LXXVI., ii., 600. 



Gives a view (drawn by himself in 1796) showing Stonehenge before the 

 fall of a trilithon in 1797. Drawings of Abury, and of the Rol-right stones 

 are included in the same plate. 



1829. King Athelstan's Grant to Wilton Abbey. 



Archceologia, XXIL, 399—402. 



The " Stone Ridge " named in Athelstan's grant, and said to " shoot to the 

 Heathen Burial Place," cannot be Stonehenge. For the place described 

 (Burcombe) is six or seven miles distant from the monument. [See Ingram, 

 and Dugdale.] 



Hardy, ThOS. [b. 1840] : Architect and novelist. 

 1891. Tess of the D'Urbervilles ; 8vo. : London. 

 Stonehenge is finely described in the closing scenes of this famous novel. 



Hardyug, John [1378 — 1465] : Chronicler. 

 1464. Chronicle of England [MS.] 

 1543. First printed by E. Grafton : London. 

 1812. Edition by Sir H. Ellis; 4to., xxi., 607; with index: 

 London. 



The " Stone hengles" or " Giantes carole" was made by Merlin's advice 

 as a place of sepulture for the massacred Britons. Afterwards, Aurelius 

 Ambrosius and his successors, Constantyne, etc., were also interred there. 

 [A repetition, " in metre," of Geoffrey's legend.] 



Hariugton, Sir Jno. [1561 — 1612]: Courtier and ^oriter. 

 1591. Translation of "Orlando Furioso"; f ol. : London. 

 Reprinted 1607 ; 1634. 



In a note to book III. the author writes of Merlin: — " That there was such 

 a man, a great counsellor to King Arthur, I hold it certaine." He had a 

 castle of Merlinsbury (now Marlborow), round which great stones of 

 " unmeasurable bignesse and number lie scattered about." These stones 

 "have given occasion to some to report, and others to beleeve wondrous 

 stratagems wrought by his great skiU in magick, as likewise the great 



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