By William Long, Esq., M.A. 313 



taken notice of it : and commanded Dr. Charlton to bring me to him 

 the next morning. I brought with me a draught of it donne by 

 memorie only: but well enough resembling it, with w"'' his Ma''" 

 was pleased: gave me his hand to kisse and commanded me to 

 waite on him at Marleborough when he went to Bath with the 

 Queen (w"** was about a fortnight after) which I did : and the next 

 day, when the court were on their journie, his Ma'""" left the Queen 

 and diverted to Aubury, where I shewed him that stupendioua 

 Antiquity, with the view whereof, He and his Royal Highness, the 

 Duke of Yorke, were very well pleased. His Ma"° commanded me 

 to write a Description of it, and present it to him : and the Duke 

 of Yorke commanded me to give an account of the old Camps, and 

 Barrows on the Plaines. 



" As his Ma"" departed from Aubury to overtake the Queen, he 

 cast his eie on Silsbury-hill about a mile off: w^'' they had the cu- 

 riosity to see, and walkt up to the top of it, with the Duke of Yorke, 

 Dr. Charlton and I attending them. They went to Lacock^ to din- 

 ner : and that evening to Bath ; all the Gentry and Commonaltie 

 of those parts waiting on them, w"" great acclamations of joy, &c. 



" In September following, (^1663^, I survey'd that old monument 

 of Aubury with a plain-tables, and afterwards tooke a Review of 

 Stonehenge : and then I composed this following discourse in 

 obedience to his Ma"" command : and presented it to Him : w'*" he 

 commanded me to put in print. 



" There have been several books writt by learned men concerning 

 Stoneheng, much differing from one another, some affirming one 

 thing, some another. Now I come in the rear of all by compara- 

 tive arguments to give a clear evidence that these monuments were 

 pagan temples, which was not made out before ; and have also 

 (with humble submission to better judgments) offered a probability, 

 that they were temples of the Druids. 



" When a traveller rides along by the ruines of a Monastery, he 

 knows by the manner of building, ic. Chapcll, Cloysters, «&;c., that 

 it was a Convent, but of what order (sc. Benedictine, Dominican, 

 &c.,) it was, he cannot tell by the bare view. So it is cleer that till 



' Sir John^nlbot'a. 



