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Henry Dove was elected Mayor in 1615, and according to Hatcher's Salisbury, 

 p. 697, died August 20th, 1616, during his year of office, and was succeeded 

 by Richard Godfrey. The Dove family was connected with Salisbury for a 

 considerable time, one Peter Dove, of St. Edmuud's, is mentioned in a list 

 of the gentry of Salisbury in 1565. Others of the family, Francis, John, and 

 William, took an active part on the Parliamentary side in the Civil War. 



John Dove was High Sheriff for Wilts in 1655. 



Robert and Thomas Dove,'in all probability sons of Henry Dove, the Mayor^ 

 graduated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and, having taken holy orders, were 

 Vicars, in succession, of Elm, in the County of Cambridge. 



C. W. HOLQATE. 



Books and Articles on Wiltshire. 



Stoneheng'e. In the Illustrated ArchcBologist for September there is an 

 article on Stonehenge by Mr. Edgar Barclay, in which he calls attention to a 

 point which he maintains has been overlooked by all writers on the subject — with 

 one exception — the significance of the short stone in the south side of the outer 

 circle. Professor Flinders Petrie is the exception. He notices this short stone, 

 but regards it as an evidence that the outer circle was never properly finished, 

 and that material became scarce before the work was completed. Mr. Barclay, 

 on the other hand, maintains that the difference in size of this stone from that of 

 all the other uprights of the outer circle was not an accident, hut a part of the 

 original design of the building, that there must have been at this point a break 

 in the lintel ring — for this stone could have had no lintel on the top of it — 

 and that its position, due south of the southern trilithon, marked the original 

 entrance to the temple. In support of his contention that — contrary to the 

 received belief — there was an opening in the circle here, he argues that it is 

 very unlikely that the presence of the short stone is due to the fact that the 

 builders could not find one of the proper size, for the uprights on either side 

 of it, that on the east still standing and that on the west lying prostrate, are 

 both of the same size as the other stones of the circle, and in both the tenons 

 to hold the lintels are clearly to be seen. 



Mr. Barclay further argues that the design and proportions of the structure 

 prove that the whole of it was erected at one time, and his final contention 

 is, "That Stonehenge is not of Prehistoric antiquity, but was raised immediately 

 after the first shock of the Roman conquest upon the downfall of Druidism, 

 by the Britons under the leadership of their native chieftains— and that the 

 temple was erected in a locality consecrated from time immemorial as a burial 

 ground of the race." 



To Black and White for March 25th, 1893, Mr. A. P. Sinnett contributed 

 an illustrated article, under the title of a "New Theory of Stonehenge." In 

 this he impartially pours contempt on the theory of the Post-Roman origin 

 of Stonehenge, as propounded by Fergnsson, and on the older theory that it 

 was erected by the Britons before the advent of the Romans. " Where is the 



