140 Bihliography of Stonehenge and Avebury. 



TTssher, Dr. Jas. [1580-1655]: ArchUshop of Armagh. 

 1639. Britannicarum Ecclesiarum, etc. ; 4to. : London. 

 1829—1864. Edition of Ussher's Works, by Ellington and Todd; 

 17 vols., 8vo. : Dublin, 



See Vol. v., pp. 475 — 477, etc., for a repetition of Geoffrey's legend of the 

 massacre at " Stanhengest" by the Saxons. 



Vallancey, (General) Chas. [1721 — 1812]: Antiquary. 

 1798. Oriental Collections : Vol. II. 



Correlates the Hibernian Druids with the priests of the Hindoos and the 

 Chaldeans. Stone-circles were intended both for religious purposes and 

 astronomical observations. 



1824. Collectanea de rebus Hibernicis. 



VeitCh, Prof Jno. [1829—1894]: Scottish historian. 

 1889. Merlin, etc. Journ. Brit. ArchKol. Assoc, XLV., 123—130 ; 

 and 207—214. 



There were two Merlins; the one lived (e) A.D. 450—470; the other died 

 about A.D. 623. 



Verney, Lady [d. 1890]. 1876. Old Welsh Legends, etc. 

 Contemp. Review, XXVIL, 396 — 416. 



The oldest existing Welsh MSS. are of the 12th and 13th centuries; but 

 these embody materials which have come down from much earlier times. 

 The earlier Welsh poems were never written down ; but were transmitted 

 from bard to bard. 



Vertue, Geo. [1684—1756]: Engraver. 



1763. Diary, etc. [Edited by Horace Walpole.] 



1786. Second Edition ; 12mo. : London. 



Vertue writes that " after having seen these stones, and taken draughts of 

 them, and more than once reviewed them, and read mostly all that has 

 been published concerning them," he is of opinion that " they were erected 

 by the first heathen Saxons." [That is, he believes the date assigned for 

 the erection of the monument by Geoffrey of Monmouth {c. 470 A.D.) to 

 be approximately correct.] 



1762—1771. Anecdotes of Painting in England, etc. 



[Edited by Horace Walpole] ; four vols., 4to., illustrated : London. 

 For Life (with portrait) of Inigo Jones, *ee Vol. II., pp. 142 — 154. "In 



1620 he [Jones] was employed in a manner very unworthy of his genius. 

 King James set him upon discovering, that is guessing, who were the 

 founders of Stonehenge." . . . Ambresbury House in Wiltshire was 

 designed by him, but executed by his scholar Webb, who married a cousin- 

 german of Jones 



