20 Bibliography of Stonehenge and Avebury. 



Aubrey, John [1626 — 1697]: Antiquary. 



For accounts of this famous Wiltshire antiquary see Britton (1845) ; 

 Masson (1856) ; etc. There is also a useful notice by H. N. Williams in 

 the Argosy for March, 1900. Of Aubrey's works only one (" Miscellanies,") 

 was published during his lifetime ; and he left his MSS. in the charge of 

 Tanner (afterwards Bishop of St. Asaph), by whom they were used in the 

 preparation of Bishop Gibson's edition of Camden. Mr. William Long 

 has reproduced much of Aubrey's local work and plans in his accounts of 

 Stonehenge (1876), and Abury (1858). 



1659 — 70. Topographical Collections : Wiltshire : (MS.) 



1862. Edition by the Eev. Canon J. E. Jackson (for the Wilts 

 Archreol. and Nat. Hist. Soc), 4to., xiii, 491 ; with forty-six 

 plates. Devizes. 



This excellent work includes much from Aubrey's MS. in the Bodleian 

 Library, Oxford. Aubrey had known Stonehenge " from eight years 

 old " ; while he may be said to have " discovered " Avebury while hunting 

 on the Marlborough Downs in 1648. Aubrey affirms that both Avebury 

 and Stonehenge are " Pagan Temples ; which was not made out before," 

 and that their priests were the Druids. To the student of Wiltshire 

 antiquities this work of Aubrey's is invaluable. 



1665. Monumenta Britannica ; or Miscellany of British 



Antiquities. Vol. I., Section 1, Templa Druidum ; Stoneheng. 

 [MS., now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.] 



A great part of this unique work has been printed by Mr. Long, in his 

 valuable Stonehenge and its Barrotcs, pp. 32 — 39, with facsimiles of 

 Aubrey's plans. It is much to be desired that the whole should some day 

 be published, exactly as it stands. 



1669 — 96. " Brief Lives," chiefly of contemporaries. [MS.] 



1898. Edition by And. Clark: two vols., 8vo., xv., 427; and 

 370. Oxford. 



Includes portrait of Aubrey from a pen-and-ink drawing in the Bodleian, 

 etc. " A village called Avebury . . . stands within one of the most 

 remarkablo monuments of its kind in England. It seems strange to me 

 that so little notice has been taken of it by writers, Mr. Camden only 

 touches on it and no more" (II.. 325). For Kollright Stones, see II.. 331. 



His:.. Xatiuai, History of Wilts. [MS.] 



1S47. Edition by Jno. Britton; li<»., 132; London. 

 u The stones called the (ire v \\\ titers . . . about Maryborough . . . 

 in many placos are . . . sown so thick that travellers in the twylight 



