62 Bibliography of Stonehenge and Avebvry. 



Hamnett, Wm. J. 1899. [Price of Stonehenge.] Times, 

 28 Aug., p. 9. 



The sum asked (i.125,000) is " monstrous." For Sir M. H Beach's estate 

 at Netheravon (in the same district) All 8s. lid. per acre was recently 

 paid by the War Office. 



Hamper, Wm. [1736 — 1831]: Antiquary. 

 1806. Views of Stoneuknoe and Avebury in 1796. Gent's 

 Mag., LXXVL, ii., 600. 



Gives a view (drawn by himself in 1796) showing Stonehenge before the 

 fall of a trilithon in 1797. Drawings of Abury, and of the Rol-right stones 

 are included in the same plate. 



1829. King Athelstan's Grant to Wilton Abbey. 



Archccologia, XXII, 399—402. 



The " Stone Ridge " named in Athelstan's grant, and said to " shoot to the 

 Heathen Burial Place," cannot be Stonehenge. For the place described 

 (Burcombe) is six or seven miles distant from the monument. [See Ingram, 

 and Dugdale.] 



Hardy, TllOB. [b. 1840]: Architect and novelist, 

 1891. Tess of the D'Urberyilles ; 8vo. : London. 



Stonehenge is finely described in the closing scenes of this famous novel. 



Hardyng, John [1378 — 1465]: Chronicler. 

 1464. Chronicle of England [MS.] 

 1543. First printed by R Grafton: London. 

 1812. Edition by Sir H. Ellis; 4to., kxl, ou7 ; with index: 

 London. 



The "Stone hengles " or " Giantes carole " was made by Merlin's advice 

 as a place of sepulture for the massacred Britons. Afterwards, Auivlius 

 Anibrosius and his successors, Constant viie, cU'., were also interred there. 

 [A repetition, " in metre," of Geoffrey's legend.] 



Harington, Sir Jno. [1561—1612]: CowrHer and writer. 

 1591. Translation of "Orlando Firioso"; fol. : London. 

 KeprinUNl 1 GOT ; 1634. 



I n a note to hook 111. the author w rites of Merlin : — -1 That there was such 

 u man, a ^reat counsellor to Kin^ Arthur. I hold it certaine." lie had a 

 castlo of Merlinsbury mow Marlborow), round which great stones of 

 " unmeasurable hignesse und number lie scattered about.'" These stones 

 " have given occasion to some to report, and others to beleevo wondrous 

 stratagems wrought by his groat skill in magick. us likew ise the great 



