By W. Jerome Harrison, F.G.S. 79 



Lambarde, Wm. [1536—1601]; Keejjer of the Records in the 



Toiver, etc. ; 



1580 c. DiCTiONARiUM Angliae, etc. [MS.] 



1730. [First printed]: 4to, iv., xiv., and 498; with portrait. 

 London. 



Quotes Geoffrey's account, but thinks the tales about Merlin fetching the 

 stones out of Ireland to be " mere vanities." Neither does Lambarde 

 see anything very wonderful in the position of the lintels — " for they 

 hang with no more wonder than one part of a house hangeth upon 

 another," seeing that they are provided with mortises and tenons. The 

 stones were brought from near " Marlborow." 



Lancaster's Stonehenge Handbook [1894] ; 8vo., 26 pp. ; 

 with three cuts : J. L. Lancaster, Salisbury. 



" Containing the opinion of some of the most eminent writers on the origin 

 and object of that mysterious monument of antiquity, Stonehenge on 

 Salisbury Plain." 



Langtoft, Pierre de [d.l307]: Chronicler; Canon of Bridlington. 

 1307. Chronicle [History of England to death of Edward I]. 

 1725. Translation by Mannyng ; published by T. Hearne ; two 



vols., ccxxvi., 714, 8vo. : Oxford. 

 1810. Reprint; two vols., 8vo. : London. 

 1866—68. Edition by Thos. Wright; two vols., 8vo., xxx., 497, 



487 ; Rolls Series, No. 47 : London. 



See (Rolls edition) Vol. I., p. 124. Repeats— in French verse — the stories 



of Geoffrey of Monmouth about Stonehenge. In Hearne's edition see p. 



clxxxviii. 



Lappenberg, Dr. J. M. [1794 — 1865] : German historian. 

 1845. England under the Anglo-Saxon Kings [translated by 

 Thorpe] : two vols., 8vo., Ixviii., 292 ; and xvi., 371 : London. 

 1881. Edition in Bohn's Series, two vols., 12mo. 

 The slaughter of the Saxons by Hengist is considered (Vol. I., p. 70, 

 Thorpe's translation), to be a worthless tradition. 



Layamon [fl. 1200] : Priest of Areley, in Worcestershire. 

 1205. " Brut " [or Chronicle of Britain]. 



1847. Edited by Sir F. Madden for the Soc. of Antiquaries ; three 

 vols., 8vo., c. 600 pp. each : London. 

 A poetical Semi-Saxon paraphrase of the " Brut " of Wace. Is therefore 



