The !hQatural Hijlory 
was called in by YJmgMthelfian toaffift him (as Thomas of Walfin^ 
gham witneffes ) againft fome potent rehds that had- taken 
arms againft him " ; whom having vanquiflied, and reduced into 
obedience to their Prince^ and perhaps too (lain the defigned 
King of them (who poflibly might be perfwaded to this rebellion^ 
upon a conditional Prophefie of coming to that honor when he 
Hiould fee Long-Compton) might ereft this Monument in memory 
of the Fa^ ; the great fingk ffone for the intended King^ the ^ve 
Jlones by themfelves for his principal Captains^ and the round for 
the mixt multitude (lain in the Battle, which is fomwhat agreeable 
to the tradition concerning them. 
86. But if I may give my opinion what I really think of them, 
(though I do not doubt much but they muft be a Danijh or Norwe- 
gian tnonument^ 1 can by no means allow the round or other flones 
to be Sepulchral monuments : For had the Cirque of Jlones been any 
fuch memorial^ it would certainly have had either a tumulm in the 
middle, Yi^Qtht monument m2iX tht way to T^itilum S eland ^ and 
of liangtieen MUt not far from it °, and another near Eoefd^dlJ * ; 
or a Jione Altar^ as in the nouhXc monument o^ HaraldHjldetand 
near %titt in Seland^, placed there, hysWormiws (in another 
part of his Book) eo fine ut ibidem in memoriam defun^i quotannis 
facraparagantur^ that they might yearly offer Sacrifices in memo- 
ry of the defund, at the place of his inhumation. But neither 
of thefe are within Rollright Cirque^ nor could that curious and 
learned Antiquary the Worftiipful Ralph Sheldon of Beoly Efq; 
(one of the nobleft Promoters of this defign^ who induftrioufly 
dug in the middle of it (to fee whether he could meet any Jj/m- 
hols or marh§^ either who might ereft it, or for what end or pur- 
pofe) find any fuch matter. 
87. For the very fame reafon, it is alfo as certain that it can- 
not have been any place o^ Judicature^ fuch as was ufed in old 
time in the Northern Nations^ whereof there is one fo great in 
Seland^ as defcribed by Wormiu6^ that it takes upnolefs than fix 
and forty great flones of ftupendious magnitude within its cir- 
cumference \ and fo does Rollright and more too ; but then it 
has no (lone (nor I fuppofe ever had) erefted in the middle for 
the Judge to Hi on J as thofe always had. Befide thefe Fora^ or 
" Tho.deWal[inghamtpodigmaNeuflrt£,fubmitiurn. ° OlaiWormiMon.DaiJic. lib. \. cap. 7,. * Idem 
I'b. I . cap.6. P Idem lib. i . cap. 5 . ^ Olai Wormii Mon. Danie. lib. x.cap. 10. 
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