Leland’s Journey through Wiltshire. 175 
[From the Latin}. 
“ Hubert, (Walter, Dean, afterwards Bp. of Sarisburi (Rich. I.) 
and afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury) attracted universal admira- 
tion at Acre, even from King Richard, by his noble military 
appearance. He was tall, of great foresight in counsel, and highly 
gifted, though not with eloquence. Together with Ranulph de 
Glanville who acted under his advice, he, in a manner, was King of 
England. He was a violent opponent of Girald Bishop of St. 
Dayid’s, in the efforts which that prelate was making at Rome to 
have the archiepiscopal pall restored to his see.” [Itin. vu. 84]. 
STONEHENGE. 
[It is remarkable that though so close to Stonehenge (which, no 
doubt, he,saw) Leland has left no description either of that place 
or of Avebury. So that we may make of him the same complaint 
which he makes of a still older writer of ancient English history. | 
“And Stoneheng, so notable a thing erect by the Britons, is 
nothing spoken of by Bede, and a great many things beside.” 
[ Collect. I. 511]. 
[From Geoffrey of Monmouth he gives the following extract 
relating to the neighbourhood of Stonehenge, if not to the place 
itself :— | 
“Hengist, upon hearing of Vortimer’s death, took with him a 
large army and returned into Britain. (Having invited the Britons 
to a friendly conference he concerted an attack upon them). 
When the proper moment for his treachery arrived, Hengist gave 
the word “Out with your swords,” and thereupon he seized 
Vortigern, and held him back by his robe. The Saxons on hearing 
the signal drew their swords, and falling upon the assembled chiefs 
utterly unprepared for any such assault, slew about 460 barons 
and officers, to whose bodies the blessed Eldad gave Christian burial not 
far from Caer-caradoc, now called Salesbiri, in a cemetery near 
Amesbury Monastery. The Pagans, however, did not commit 
this atrocity with impunity: for many of them were slain, whilst 
compassing the death of others. For the Britons caught up from 
