312 Ahury. 



diveraion I happened to see Wensditch (sic), and an old camp and 

 two or three sepidchres. The evening put a period to our sport, and 

 we returned to the Castle at Marleborough, where we were nobly- 

 entertained ; juvat hcec meminisse. I thinke I am the only sur- 

 viving gentleman of that company. 



" In the year 1655 was published by Mr. "Webb, a book entitled 

 "Stonehenge Restored," but written by Mr. Inigo Jones ; which I 

 read with great delight. There is a great deale of learning in it, 

 but having compared his scheme with the monument itself, I found 

 he had not dealt fairly, but had made a Lesbian's rule, which is 

 conformed to the stone ; that is, he framed the monument to his own 

 hypothesis, which is much differing from the thing itself; and this 

 gave me an edge to make more researches ; and a further oppor- 

 timity was, that my honored and faithfull friend Colonel James 

 Long,^ of Draycot, was wont to spend a week or two every autumne 

 at Aubury in hawking, where several times I have had the happi- 

 ness to accompany him. Our sport was very good, and in a ro- 

 mantick countrey, for the prospects are noble and vast, the downs 

 stockt with numerous flocks of sheep, the turfe rich and fragrant 

 with thyme and burnet. 



' Fessus ubi incubmt baculo, saxoque resedit. 

 Pastor amndineo carmine iniilcct oves.' 



Nor are the nut-brown shepherdesses without their graces. But 



the flight of the falcons was but a parenthesis to the Colonell's 



facetious discourse, who was 'tarn Marti qvam Mercurio,' and the 



Muses did accompany him with his hawkes and spaniels. 



" 1663. King Charles II. discoursing one morning with my 



Lord Brownker and Dr. Charleton- concerning Stoneheng, they told 



his Majestic, what they had heard me say, concerning Aubury, sc. 



that it did as much exceed Stoneheng as a Cathedral does a Parish 



Church. His Ma*" admired that none of our Chorographers had 



* Afterwards Sir James Long. There is an amusing sketch in water colours 

 of Sir James and Aubrey on one of these hawking expeditions, in Aubrey's MS. 

 " Sypomnetnata Antiquaria, A." in the Ashmolean Museum. 



^ William Vise. Broimcker of Earlstoke, was the first President of the Royal 

 Society. Dr. Walter Charleton was the King's Physician, and author of a 

 treatise advocating the Danish origin of Stonehenge. 



