Of XFO ^D^SHI^E. x? 



places of Judicature, (by the Danes called ^ttlggTj f e em always to 

 have had their muniments offtone, either of a Quadrangular or 

 Oval Figure, and not to be entered but at two fides, as that at 

 ^Djetijitlgmention'd by Wormiut*, whereas ours is circular, and 

 fhews no figns of fuch gates. 



88. Which perhaps might occafion the Learned Dr. Charleton, 

 to judg it rather a Trophie, or Triumphal pile, fet up as a Monument 

 of fome great Viftorie f , to whom though I cannot but fomwhat 

 incline, yet am verily perf waded, that at the fame time it might 

 ferve alfo for the Eleclion and Inauguration of a King ; and much 

 rather than the great and famous monument of fstone^ettg on Sa-> 

 lesbury Plain ; the very difparities betwixt it and thofe in Ben- 

 mark, brought by himfelf \ being not to be found here. 



89. For befide that it is placed (as all fuch Courts of the 

 Danes were) 1. Upon anting ground, for the advantage of pro* 

 ff>ecl (that the common people affembled to confirm thefurrrages 

 or votes of the Electors by their univerfal applaufe, and congratu- 

 latory acclamations, might fee and withefs the folemn manner of 

 Election:) 2. Made of huge flows of no regular Figure. And 

 thirdly, Having no Epigraph or Infcription cut or trenched in the 

 Hones, as carrying a fufficient evidence of its defignment and ufe, 

 in the figure of ksplatform; It is but a jingle Cirque of ftones with- 

 out Epislyles or Architraves, few of them very high on which 

 the Electors might eafily get up to give their fujfrages, as was ufii* 

 ally done in the Northern Nations ; whereas ^toue^eng is made 

 up of three circles at leaft (fome fay four') and the Jlones of each 

 circle joyned with Architraves, whereof there is no example to be 

 found in thofe Countrys. 



90. Now that the Northern NatioristfwdWy erefted fuch Cirques 

 of rude ftones for the elellion of their Kings, is fully teftified by 

 Olaut Wormius, Reperiuntur inquit in his oris loca quaedam in quibm 

 Reges olim folenni creabantur pompa, qude cincla adhuc grandibu4 

 faxh, ut plurimum duodecim, cenfyiciuntur, in medio grandiore quo- 

 dam prominent e, cui omnium fuffragw Eleftum Regem imponebant', 

 magnoque applaufu excipiebant. Hie isr Comitia celebrabant, (y dt 

 Regni negotii* confultabant. Regem vero defignaturi Electores Sa- 

 xk infifiebant forum cingentibws, decreti firmitudinem pronunciantes u ; 

 i. e. as Englifhedby Dr. Charleton w . 



r Ibidem- Dcxftor Charleton 's Stone Heng reftored to the Danes, pag. 4^'. t Idem pdg. f4- tf o/ 

 Wormri Monument. Dank. lib. 1. cap. 12. " Stone-Heng reftored to the Vane$,pag. 48. 



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