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might well change the places of their Coronations : Befide, Canute 

 and the reft were much greater perfons, and more civilized than 

 Rollo and his crew, can be prefumed to have been ; for befide that 

 he lived above a hundred years before them, we find him (though 

 the fon of a Norwegian %ty\i, or Earl) a great Pyrate at Sea n , and 

 little better then a Robber by Land ; well might he therefore be 

 contented with this Inauguration, after the old barbarous fafhion, 

 having gained no City wherein it might be done with greater fo- 

 lemnity. 



i o i . But as for the fiones near the Barrow at Stanton- Harcourti 

 called the Devils Coits, I fhould take them to be appendices to 

 that Sepulchral Monument, but that they feem a little too far re- 

 moved from it ; perhaps therefore the Barrow might be caft up 

 for fome Saxon, and the fiones for fome Britans (lain hereabout 

 Caut vice verfaj at what time the Town of e^ney-ham, about a mile 

 off, as Camden informs us, Was taken from the Britans by Cuth- 

 wolf the Saxon . Which is all I can find worthy notice con- 

 cerning them, but that they are about eight foot high, and near 

 the&j/efeven broad ; and ..that they feem not natural, but made 

 by art, of a fmall kind of fiones cemented together, whereof 

 there are great numbers in the Fields hereabout ; which makes 

 thus much for the conje&ure concerning thofe at Stone-Hcng, 

 that they may be artificial, it being plain from thefe, that they 

 could, and did do fuch things in the ancienter times. 



1 02. There ftands alfo a ftone about half a mile South-weft of 

 Enfion Church, on a Bank by the way-fide between Neat-Enfion 

 and Fulwell, fomwhat flat, and tapering upward from a broad 

 bottom, with other fmall ones lying by it ; and another near the 

 road betwixt Burford and Cbipping-nor ton, which I guefs might 

 be ere&ed for the fame purpofe with the two former, as above- 

 mention M : Unlefs we (hall rather think, both tbefe and them to 

 have been fome of the Gods of the ancient Britans, as the Reve- 

 rend and Learned Dr. Stillingfleet thinks it not improbable thofe 

 Pyramidal fiones-) mention'd by Camden in Torkrjbire, called the 

 Devils bolts p , fomtimes were. Andfolikewife Stone-Heng in 

 Wilt/hire, which he judges neither to be a Roman Temple, nor Da- 

 nijb Monument, but rather fomwhat belonging to the Idol Marh^ 



* VidckronhonNorwegicum. Vid.CamdBritan.h Oxfordjh- * Idem i* Com. E&&. 



