lieu Dr. Walter Charle

ton. An Interpola be- tion in Camden,

did not discover to

the

I determined with my self, in thereof, to publish some things sides, that would be of more benefit which Mr. Webb and service to the Reader, and be, be such. A Passage withall, less bulky, (for both the Parts, relating to Stone. henge from Mr. with the Glossary, would have made Camden's MS. SupIII Volumes.) Accordingly, therefore, plement in hands of the pu besides the curious Remains, that are to blisher. be met with in the Appendix to this Preface, and in the Glossary, I have published at the End of Peter Langtoft those four Pieces following, viz. (1.) The Copy of a Roll concerning Glastonbury Abbey, being a Survey of all the Estates belonging to that House at the Dissolution, taken by the King's Order and for his Vse, at the Dissolution.

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This Copy was transcrib'd from a noble and beautifull Original in the Hands of a Friend (personally unknown to me) at Colchester, who was pleased afterwards very kindly to present me with the said Copy, and to express himself with many particular Marks of Affection and Esteem for whatever I undertake for the publick. (2.) An Account of the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen (near Bautre) in Nottinghamshire, by John Slacke, Master of that Hospital. It was written at the Command of the most Reverend Father in God Richard Neile, Lord Archbishop of York, as appears from the Author's Letter (at the beginning of it) to the Archbishop. I transcrib'd

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it from a MS. in the hands of a modest ingenious Gentleman, who is one of the subscribers to what I publish. Tis a very faulty MS. But it being the only one I know of, I could not correct it otherwise than by conjecture. What Corrections and Notes I have made occur at the bottom of the page. Only I must here beg leave farther to note, that whereas in p. 394, 1. 19. it is 250. 7. in the English, in the Latin, immediately following, it is (p. 395. 1. 26.) at large pro ducentis & quadraginta libris; that the Robert Archbp. of York, mentioned p. 398. 1. 4. was Robert Halgate or Holgate; that for Commissioner in p. 400. 1. 2. perhaps should be read Commissioners; and that in p. 405. 1. 2. may be also read vacancy as well as vacante, tho' vacante be nearest the MS. After I had proposed to print this MS. I writ to my ingenious and worthy Friend Mr. Thoresby of Leedes in Yorkshire, in order to get some farther Information about this Hospital, much about which time I also writ to my learned and accomplished Friend Dr. Richardson of North Bierly near Bradford in that County, that I might, if possible, get some Intelligence about the nature of Earthhorns, mentioned in this Chronicle. But tho' the Action, upon account of which these Earthhorns are spoke of, happened in that part of England, and tho' the Dr. be a person ex

tremely

tremely curious in such Affairs, yet he was not able to satisfy me in that point, as I soon understood by a Letter from him, at which time he was pleased likewise to acquaint me, that Mr. Thoresby was incapable of writing himself to me, he having been lately seized with a palsy, which had, in a great measure, deprived him of the use of his right hand. Hereupon I writ again to Dr. Richardson, with a Request, that he would, were it not too great trouble, be pleased to give me what light he could himself in the Affair of the Hospital. Whereupon, not long after, he obliged me, not only with a Letter written by himself, but with one that he had receiv'd from Mr. Thoresby, who had imploy'd a Friend to write for him; a Copy of both which shall be subjoyn'd in the Appendix'. (3.) Two Tracts written by an anonymous Author, and transcrib'd by me from two MSS: (both written in the same hand) that were lent me by Mr. West of Balliol-College, an ingenious and curious Gentleman I have mentioned formerly) whom (I have always found very ready and willing to promote whatever I undertake for the publick service and benefit of Learning. The first of these Dis

'Num. XVIII. 2 See at pag. 285. of The History and Antiquities of Glastonbury. See

also p. 682, 706, 739. of my Glossary to Robert of Gloucester.

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courses is about some Roman Antiquities discover'd near Conquest in Somersetshire, supposed to be the place where the Romans Conquest of Britain was compleated. The other is concerning Stone-Henge, and is intituled, by it's Author, A fool's Bolt soon shott at Stonage. It is, without doubt, the same Tract that is mentioned in the following Passage of the Additions to Bp. Gibson's English Ed. of Camden's Britannia': "The opinions about Stonehenge

may be reduc'd to these 7 heads; 1. That it "is a work of the Phoenicians, as Mr. Sammes "in his Britannia conceits; a conjecture that "has met with so little approbation, that I "shall not stay to confute it. 2. That it was a "Temple of the Druids long before the com

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ing of the Romans; which Mr. John Au

brey, Fellow of the Royal Society, endea"vours to prove in his Manuscript Treatise, "entitl'd Monumenta Britannica. 3. That it was

an old Triumphal British Monument, erected "to Anaraith the Goddess of Victory, after a bloody battel won by the illustrious Stanings, "and his Cangick Giants, from Divitiacus and his Belga; and that the Captives and Spoils were sacrific'd to the said Idol in this Temple. An opinion advanc'd (upon what grounds

' Col. 108. Ed. Lond. 1695.

"I know

"I know not) in an anonymous MS. writ about "the year 1666, and now in the hands of the "learned Mr. Andrew Paschal, Rector of Ched

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zoy near Bridgewater. 4. That it was a mo"nument rais'd by the Britains in memory of "Queen Boadicia; advanc'd by the Author, of "Nero-Cæsar. 5. That it was a Temple built by the Romans to the God Calum, or Terminus, of the Tuscan order; is Mr. Jones's, in "his ingenious Conjecture upon this Subject. "6. That it was the burial-place of Vther-Pendragon, Constantine, Ambrosius, and other Bri"tish Kings; or as others would have it, a mo"nument erected by Ambrosius in memory of the "Britains here slain. 7. That it was a Danish "monument, erected either for a burial-place, a trophy for some victory, or a place for the "election and coronation of their Kings." These two MSS. are also very faulty. the Errors I have corrected, as the Reader will perceive as he goes along. What Notes I have added, I have distinguished from the Author's own by the Letter H. I have, after my usual custom, observed the Author's spelling, which sometimes is singular, as indeed his Observations, tho' learned, are likewise frequently singular. Who the Author of these two Tracts was is to me very uncertain. "Tis probable that some light may be learned from Mr. Pa

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