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schist ; three others are horn-stone with small specks of feldspar and 

 pyrites. The altar-stone is a micaceous fine-grained sandstone." 

 Hoare writes (Ancient Wilts, I., 127), that while excavating a barrow 

 (No. 16) near Stonehenge, " we found a large piece of one of the blue stones 

 of Stonehenge, which Sowerby the naturalist calls a horn stone." 



Speed, John [1552 — 1629]: Historian, etc. 



1611. History of Great Britain; foL: London. 



Later editions in 1623 ; 1625; 1627; 1632; 1650; 1676. 



Third edition, 1632; foL, xx., 1237; with summary and index : 

 London. 



" That rare and admirable monument now called Stonehenge " has been 

 ascribed to Aurelius Ambrosius. The trilithons "to some seeme so 

 dangerous, as they may not safely be passed under . . . notwith- 

 standing at my being there, I neither saw cause of such fear, nor un- 

 certaintie in accounting of their number; as is said to be." Speed also 

 mentions the "entrance on the east side": the trench or earth-circle : 

 and the barrows — " like great Hay-cockes in a Plaine Meadow,'' etc. (3rd 

 ed., p. 267). 



Speed, Dr. John [1595 — 1640]: Son of the historian. 

 1635. Stonehenge; a Pastoral. [MS.] {See Wilts Mag.,l., 212.) 



In the Athence Ooconienses (ed. by Bliss, II., 659) Antony Wood tells us that 

 Speed's play was acted in the refectory of St. John's College, Oxford. 

 " The said pastoral is not printed, but goes about in MS. from hand to hand.'' 



Spenser, Edmund [1552— 1599]: Poet. 

 1590. Faerie Queen ; 4to. : London. {See Book XL, Canto x., 



verses 66 and 67.] 

 1869. " Globe" edition, edited by Hales. 

 1882 — 4. Edition (ten vols.) by Grosart. 



Two brief references to Stonehenge — (1) as the tomb of Aurelius ; and (2) 

 as the " moniment " to the British lords slain by Hengist. 



Sprigge, Rev. Josh. [1618 — 1684] ; Chaplain to Fairfax. 



1647. Anglia Kediviva (England's Eecovery,etc.) ; fol. : London. 



1854. New edition ; 8vo., xvi., iii., 336 : Oxford. 



This is the " History of the Motions, Actions, and Successes " of the army 

 of the Parliament, under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax : — 

 " 1645 : Monday, June 30 ; the army marched from Marlborough to 

 Almsbury, fourteen miles . . . Thence on Tuesday, July 1, they 

 marched to Burchalk, twelve miles, and being drawn up that morning to 

 a rendezvous at a place called Stonage, marched in battalia upon 

 Salisbury plain." Almsbury is on p. 333 printed Amhresbury, so that 

 Amesbury is clearly meant. 



