By the Rev. Bryan King. 



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in Indian ink, partly by pen and partly by brash, within an oval 

 of four and three-quarter inches in length, subscribed in neatly 

 written Roman letters : — 



"Thomas Hay ward gen: owner of Stonehenge 4 Jul. 1723." 



Beneath this inscription is a coat of arms consisting of a cow's 

 (?) head erased sa : between three mullets sa : on a shield arg : and 

 then at the foot of the page : — 



"ad vivum designavit W. S. ob. 1724." 



This line is written in lighter ink than the rest of the page, 

 leading to the inference that it was added after Mr. Hayward's 

 death ; then follows : — 



"prcesente illustr. Com, Winchilsea." 



There is a peculiarity about these words, and for some time I was 

 disposed to read them "prcesuli Ike." as indicating the author's 

 intended dedication of the plate to the Earl of Winchelsea, as he 

 has dedicated his plates xxxvi. and xl. to others ; but a careful com- 

 parison of the letters of the word with others on the same paper 

 has convinced me that " prcesente 33 is correct ; and thus this sentence 

 may have been inserted by Stukeley merely as a private memorandum 

 to remind himself of the circumstances under which the portrait 

 had been taken. 



The portrait is of an aged face in a flowing wig, and is character- 

 ized by a vigorous and life-like treatment, as might be expected 

 from the hand which drew the original of poor " Tho : Robinson," 

 at p. 23, and which threw such a villainous expression into a face 

 which was doubtless regarded by Stukeley with a wholesome arch- 

 aeological hate. 



I may here mention incidentally that from this Thomas Robinson 

 has descended a family of father and three sons, now of this village, 

 who spend their lives, as masons, in joining together those sarsen 

 stones which their ancestor so recklessly broke in pieces. 



This portrait of Mr. Hayward was, I presume, intended to have 

 been engraved and inserted as an illustration in the place where it 

 occurs in my copy, but his death in 1724 before the publication of 

 the work, and the circumstance of the possession of Stonehenge 

 having passed into the hands of the Rev. Mr. Hayward mentioned 



