Of 0 XFO %T)^SHI%E, 0 
places of Judicature^ (by the I>anes called '^itlg^) feem always to 
have had their muniments of fione^ either of a Quadrangular or 
Oval Figure, and not to be entered but at two fides, as that at 
iDittl^lti^ mention' d by Worm iit6\ whereas ours is drcM/^ir, and 
fliews no figns of (uch gates. 
88. Which perhaps might occaiion the Learned Dr. C/^^jr/eto, 
CO judg it rather a Trophie^ or Triumphal pile^ fet up as a Monument 
of fonie great ViSiorie^^ to whom though I cannot but fomwhat 
incline, yet am verily perfwaded, that at the fame time it might 
ferve alfo for the EleSHomnd Inauguration of a King ; and much 
rather than the great and hmoxxs monument of ^tone^l^eng on Sa- 
lesbury Plain ; the very difparities betwixt it and thofe in Den- 
mark.-) brought by himfelf ^, being not to be found here. 
89. For befide that it is placed (as all fuch Courts of the 
P^we5 were) i. Upon arifing^ro««^/, for the advantage of /to- 
(that the common people affembled to confirm the fuffrages 
or votes of the Ele^ors by their univerfal applaufe, and congratu- 
latory acclamations, might fee and witnefs the folemn manner of 
Ele^ion:) 2. Made of huge ^/c;?^^ of no regular Figure. And 
thirdly. Having no Epigraph or Infcription cut or trenched in the 
fiones^ as carrying a fufficient evidence of its defignment and ufe, 
in the figure of its platform. It is but a fingle Cirque of ftones ^^ith.- 
out Epifiyles or Architraves, few of them very high on which 
the Electors might eafily get up to give their fuffrage';^ as was ufu-^ 
ally done in the Northern Nations ; whereas ^toue^eng is made 
up of three circles at leaft (fome fay four') and the Jiones of each 
circle joyncd with Architraves^ whereof there is no example to be 
found in thofe Count rys. 
90. Now that the Northern Natioris Vi{wA\y erefted fuch Cirques 
of rude ftosies for the eMHon of their Kings^ is fully teftified by 
Olau6 Wormiws^ Reperiuntur inquit in hi^ orps loca qudedam in quibii^ 
Reges olim folenni creahantur pompa^ qude cin^a adhuc grandibus 
faxii^ ut plurimum duodecimo ccn^ficiuntur^ in medio grandiore quo- 
dam prominent e^ cui omnium [uffragii6 Eleftum Regem imponebant, 
magnoque applaufu excipiebant. Hie (sr Comitia celebrahant^ isf de 
Regni negoti^s confultabant. Regem vero defignaturi Eleftores Sa- 
xii infijlebant forum cingentibus^ decreti firmitudinem pronunciantes % 
i. e. as Englidied by Dr. Charleton 
«■ Ibidem- » Dodlor Charleton's Stone Heng reftored to the Danei, pag. 46. t Jdem fa^. 5-4. O/. 
Wormii Monument, Dank. lib. \.cap. 12. * Stone-Heng reftored to the Danes^^ag. 48. 
Uu 2 91. In 
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