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thehigheft of them all about nine'foot alfo ; meeting formerly at 
the top (as drawn by Mr. Camden^ with their tapering ends, al- 
moft in Oiape of a wedge^ fince whofe time there are two of them 
fallen down from the reft. Of which ancient Monument (or what 
ever elfe it be) he gives us in brief this following account ^ 
8 2. Not far from Burford (he (hould have faid Chipping-norton^ 
for Burford cannot be lefs then 7 or 8 miles from it) upon the ve- 
ry border of Oxford- [fjire^ is an ancient Monument^ to wit, cer- 
tain huge ftones placed in a circle : the common people call them 
Rollrich-fiones^ and dream they were fomtimes men^ by a mira- 
culous Metamorphofis turned into hard ftones. The higheft of 
them all, which without the circle looketh into the Earthy they call 
the ^i/z^,becaufe he fhould have been King of England (for Tooth) 
if he had once feen Long-Compton^ a little Town lying beneath, 
and which one may fee if he go fome few paces forward. 
83. Other /z/eftandingon the other fide, touching as it were 
one another, they imagin to have been Knights mounted on horfe- 
back-) and the reft the Ar?ny. Thefe would I verily think, 
fays he, to have been the Af(9«MW7e/2/ of fome Vi6iory^ and happily 
erefted by Rollo the Vaiie^ who afterward conquer'd Normandy ; 
for what time he with his Danes troubled England with depredati- 
cns^we read that the Danes joynGd Battle with the Englip at Hoch- 
norton^ a place for no one thing more famous in old time, than for 
the woful flaughter of x.\\e EngliJ/j in that foughtcn Field under 
the Raign of King Edward the elder. 
84. That this Monument might be erefted by Rollo the Bane, or 
rather Norwegian^ perhaps may be true , but by no means about 
the time of Edrvard the elder ; for though it be true enough that 
he troubled England with depredations^ yet that he made them ia 
the days of King Alfred, I think all the ancient Hifiorians agree. 
An. 89 7. according to F/on7f^^^, but according to Abbot 5rof/z- 
ton"^ a much better Author, in the year 875, near 40 years before 
that flaughter of the Englijh in King Edvpards days, as wnll plain- 
ly appear, upon comparifon of this with the 75. of the fame 
Chapter, 
85. Therefore much rather thanfo, fliould I think he erefied 
them, upon a fecond Expedition he made into England-^ when he 
^ Britannia inOxfordp} Mattk Wefivwnaft. in An. citato. Johm- .Bfopnto'i Al>l>. Jarfi. iU'vifa 
A'uredi. 
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