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Bibliography of Stonehengc and Avcbury. 



Usslier, Dr. Jas. [1580-1655]: Archbishop of Armagh. 

 1G:>9. Brit annicarum Ecclesiarum, etc. ; 4to. : London. 

 18^9—1804. Edition of Ussher's Works, by Eirington and Todd ; 

 17 vols., 8vo. : Dublin, 



See Vol. V., pp. 475 — 477, etc., for a repetition of Geoffrey's legend of the 



massacre at " Stanhengest " by the Saxons. 



Vallancey, (General) Chas. [1721 — 1812]: Antiquary. 

 1798. Oriental Collections: Vol. II. 



Correlates the Hibernian Druids with the priests of the Hindoos and the 

 Chaldeans. Stone-circles were intended both for religious purposes and 

 astronomical observations. 



1824. Collectanea de rebus Hibernicis, 



Veitch, Prof. Jno. [1829—1894]: Scottish historian. 

 1889. Merlin, etc. Journ. Brit. Archceol. Assoc., XLV., 1 23—130; 

 and 207—214. 



There were two Merlins; the one lived (c) A.D. 450—470; the other died 

 about A.D. 623. 



Verney. Lady [d. 1890]. 1870. Old Welsh Legends, etc. 

 Contemp. Review, XXVII., 396—416. 



The oldest existing Welsh MSS. are of the 12th and 13th centuries; but 

 these embody materials which have come down from much earlier times. 

 The earlier W elsh poems were never written down ; but wore transmitted 

 from bard to bard. 



Vertue, Geo. [1084 — 1756]: Engraver. 

 170-">. Diary, etc. [Edited l>y Horace Walpole.] 

 1786. Second Edition ; L2mo. : Louden. 



Vertue writes that "after having seen these stones, and taken draughts of 

 them, and more than once reviewed them, and read mostly all that has 

 been published concerning them," he is of opinion that " they were erected 

 by the first heathen Saxons." [That is, he believes the date assigned for 

 the erection of the monument by Geofl'rey of Monmouth (r. 170 A.D.) to 

 be approximately correct.] 



1702 — 1771. Ank< I'otks ov I'aintini; in England, etc, 



[Edited \)\ Horace Walpolc] ; four vols., 4to., illustrated : London. 

 For Life (with portrait) of Inigo .lones, see Vol. II., pp. 142 — 154. "In 

 1620 he [Jones] was employed in a manner very unworthy of his genius. 

 King .lames set hint upon discovering, that is guessing, who were tho 

 founders of Stonehenge." . • • Ambresbury House in W iltshire was 

 designed by him, but executed by his scholar Webb, who married a cousin- 

 gurmun of Jones 



