92 Bibliography of Stonehenge and Avehury. 



Merewether, Rev. Jno. [1797 — 1850]: Dean of Hereford. 

 1851. Diary of a Dean ; 8vo., 48 pp. ; with thirty-eight plates : 

 London. 



This book is really a reprint of the two papers (mentioned below) which 

 were read at the Salisbury Meeting of the Archseol. Institute in 1849. 



1851. Examination of Silbury Hill [pp. 73 — 81] : and 



OF Barrows near Avebury [pp. 82 — 112]. 3femoirs on Wilts 

 [Archfeol. Inst.] ; 8vo. : London. 



Refers to Nenia Britannica (p. 161) for an account of the opening of Silbury 

 Hill in 1777. Describes the excavations made for the visit of the Institute 

 in 1849. 



Fourteen plates are given of the objects found in the Avebury barrows ; six 

 of certain earthworks in the vicinity ; and sixteen more of " antiquities 

 found near Avebury." 



" Merlin Ambrosius " (Merddin Emrys) : Legendary hard. 

 1450. Merlin: or the Early History of King Arthur, a 



Prose Eomance. 

 1865 — 73. Edited (in four parts) by Wheatley ; Nash; Glennie; 



and Mead for the Early English Text Society ; 8vo., two vols., 



c. 500 pp. each : London. 

 Dr. Mead writes the " Outlines of the Histoi-y of the Legend of Merlin " ; 



Mr. Nash, "Essays on Merlin the Enchanter and Merlin the Bard"; 



Mr. Glennie, on "Arthurian Localities"; while Mr. H. B. Wheatley 



edits the prose romance of "Merlin" from "the unique MS. in the 



University Library, Cambridge." 

 In Part I., pp. 57 — 58, we find the story of how the stones of Stonehenge 



were brought by Merlin from Ireland, and set up on Salisbury Plain as a 

 ' memorial to Pendragon, who had been slain there in battle with the 



Danes or " Sarazzins." 



Mlddleton, Thos. [1570—1627], and Wm. Rowley [1585 



— 1642] : Dramatists. 

 1662. Birth of Merlin: London. 

 1856. Edition by Delius ; 8vo., xix., 87 : Elberfeld. 

 1887. Printed in Pseudo-Shakesperean Plays [No. IV.] : Halle. 

 1840. Works and Life of Middle ton, by Eev. A. Dyce ; five vols., 



8vo. : London. 

 This play was acted in 1622, but not published till forty years later, when 



it was attributed to " W. Shakespeare and W. Eowley." Stonehenge is 



stated to be a monument erected by Merlin to the memory of his mother. 



