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B18452	Camden's Britannia newly translated into English, with large additions and improvements ; publish'd by Edmund Gibson ...; Britannia. English	Camden, William, 1551-1623.; Gibson, Edmund, 1669-1748.	1695 (1695)	Wing C359	2,080,727	883

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 Belgae and that the Captives and Spoils were sacrific'd to the said Idol in this Temple An opinion advanc'd upon what grounds 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 Chedzoy near Bridgewater 4. That it was a monument rais'd by the Britains in memory of Queen Boadicia advanc'd by the Author of Nero-Caesar 5. That it was a Temple built by the Romans to the God Coelum 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 Uther Pendragon Constantine Ambrosius and other British Kings or as others would have it a monument 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 ●nehenge ●itish These are all the opinions have been advanc'd about it And in general I should think one need make no scruple to affirm that it is a British monument since it does not appear that any other nation had so much footing in this kingdom as to be Authors of such a rude and yet magnificent pile For to pass by the Phoenicians that it could not be built by the Romans is evident from the rudeness of the whole work So that as ●en Brit. S. Mr. Aubrey has very well observ'd whilst Mr. Jones pleases himself with retrieving a piece of Architecture out of Vitruvius he abuses his reader by a false scheme of the whole work For the Cell is not of an exact Hexagonal figure but very irregular and comes nearer a Heptagon so that the whole work cannot be form'd upon the basis of four equilateral triangles as Mr. Jones suppos'd Neither are the entrances into the trench so regular and so equidistant as that Author would make them Till these and some other doubts which may be rais'd from the order of the building be resolv'd and till we are assur'd from good authority that the Romans us'd to build such stupendous piles 6 or 7 miles from any of their Stations without any Inscription or any Roman coin ever found near them it cannot be safe to close with Mr. Jones tho' his book otherwise be a learned and ingenious piece Danish Nor could it be built by the Danes as for many other reasons so particularly because 't is mention'd in some Manuscripts of Ninnius who as every body knows wrote almost 200 years before the Danes were Masters of any considerable part of this Island Other arguments that make against this may be had from Mr. Webb's Vindication of Stonehenge restor'd in which he hath endeavour'd with a great deal of Learning to defend his father-in-law Mr. Jones's Scheme tho' that be in it self false One great argument by which Mr. Jones establishes his own opinion is that 't is a thing altogether improbable the Britains could build such a Monument But the contrary is evident from the fortifications of Caratacus's Camp from the vast stones mention'd by Dr. Plott to be in or near the British city or fortification by Wrottesley in Staffordshire and from the parcels of stones not unlike Stonehenge that are in some parts of Scotland and Wales whither the Romans and Danes never came 'T is true those monuments have not their Architraves which Stonehenge has not only in the stones round the Cell but also on the great stones of the utmost circle and this makes it probable that Stonehenge was built after the Romans came in and in imitation of some of their structures tho' as to the general part of the work it appears to have been inartificial and savours of their primitive rudeness For that the Britains among other parts of humanity and neat living learn'd something of Architecture from the Romans is plain from the life of Agricola ●henge ●at end In that other point the occasion upon which it was built 't is easier to confute those opinions that have already appear'd than to deliver a true one There is no authority to convince a man of the truth of what Nero Caesar or Mr. Paschal's MS. have laid d●wn and 't is hard to assent to the later British Writers who tell us 't was the sepulchre of the British Kings or else rais'd in memory of the Britains here massacr'd by the Saxons For not to mention the improbability of what those Authors have deliver'd they tell us farther that the Kings bury'd or Britains martyr'd in this place were Christians Now 't is strange if so there should be no Cross nor any other token of the Christian Faith upon this monument What reason can be given why the surviving friends of these Princes and Noblemen should not be so careful of their memory as they of the same age were of King Arthur's in whose monument at Glassenbury was found so distinct an Inscription But what makes more against this opinion are the ashes and pieces of burnt bone here frequently found by which it is plain it was no Christian burial-place since sacrifices and the custom of burning the dead grew out of use upon the receiving of the Christian Faith For the name Name of Stonehenge Leland's opinion that the British one Choir gaure should not be translated Chorea gigantum but Chorea nobilis or else that gaure is put for vaure which makes it Chorea magna is probable enough But the true Saxon name seems to be Stanhengest and so it is writ in the † Tom. 1● p. 97. Monasticon out of a Manuscript of good authority from the memorable slaughter Hengist the Saxon here made of the Britains For tho' 't is not very probable th●t they were erected by Ambrosius in memory of the Britains yet without doubt that treacherous slaughter was committed at or near this place If this Etymology may be allow'd that receiv'd derivation from the hanging of stones may be as far from the truth as that of the vulgar Stone-edge from Stones set on edge However it is not like that by the Heeþanne Byrgelse mention'd in the Saxon Chartulary of Wilton-Abbey Stone-henge is to be meant as the Editors of the Monasticon would have it For not only the words may be attributed to any barrow rais'd by the Romans or Danes the latter especially who are often call'd in the Saxon Annals Haeþene men and accordingly by Latin Writers Pagani but also the bounds of those places where this Paganorum sepulchretum is noted for a Land-mark could never extend so far by a great many miles as to Stone-henge ee But now it is time to pass over the river upon whose banks is Ambresbury Ambresbury call'd by Matthew Westminster Pagus

pleasure might we promise our selves from a full meal To see them all rang'd into order of time to have those that are already publisht refin'd by the assistance of Copies and such as lye still in Manuscript rescu'd at last from dust and ashes what a satisfaction would this be to the curious and what an honour to the Nation If it had been done a hundred years ago 't is more than probable that the same hand which gave us the Britannia had furnisht us likewise with a Civil History That he had once set about it Britannia under the title Normans himself has told us and I no way doubt but one of the greatest rubs that discourag'd him was this confusion of our old Historians When they are got together 't is then time enough to think of an Universal History but 't is a little too soon to talk of melting and refining when the best part of the Ore is still under ground The next year gave him an opportunity of paying a publick respect to his great Friend and Acquaintance Sir Robert Cotton by the edition of his Remains It appears by the Original that at first he had design'd to dedicate this Work to Sir Fulk Grevil but the Volume of Historians having already given him an opportunity of making his acknowledgments there he now thought it a piece of duty to show his gratitude to Sir Robert a Person whose Conversation and Library were the main support of his Studies The discovery of the Gunpowder-Plot gave him the next occasion of employing his Pen in the Service of the Publick His Majesty was not content only to appoint a solemn Thanksgiving for that deliverance but also thought it necessary to convince foreign Nations of the justice of his proceedings and to give timely notice to the Reformed Churches abroad to be always upon their guard against those inveterate Enemies of the Protestant Religion Mr. Camden was pitch'd upon as a person best qualified to draw up the whole case in a Latin stile agreeable to the subject It was publish'd in the year 1607. and Index Librorum Prohibitorum Expurgatorum was rank'd among the Books expresly prohibited by the Church of Rome in 1667. The Grammar the Westminster-Monuments the Volume of Historians the Remains and lastly the Proceedings against the Conspirators tho' they are all of them highly useful and very well becoming the Character of Mr. Camden yet they fall far short of his Britannia And no wonder they were only the fruit of his spare hours like so many digressions from his main design and while that was growing seem intended only to convince the world that he was not unmindful of the publick interest The last of these was publisht the same year that he put the last hand to his Britannia so that now he was at liberty to set about in earnest what he had had in his eye for ten years before the Annals of Queen Elizabeth This Work was begun in the year 1597. at the instance of William Lord Burghley who had both an entire Veneration for the Queen and by his constant favours had that interest in Mr. Camden to which few or none could pretend But he dying the very next year and the difficulties of the Work sensibly encreasing Mr. Camden did not prosecute it with so much resolution as formerly but began to have a sort of indifference whether he brought it to any head or not This coolness was encreas'd by the death of the Queen which hapned some years after But when he saw no one that had more strength and leisure would take the task upon him now the care of his Britannia was pretty well over a strong sense of gratitude spurr'd him forward and he could not be wanting to the commands of the best of Patrons nor the memory of the best of Princes So Diary in the year 1608. he fell to digesting his Materials but did not publish before the year 1615. and came no lower than 1589. As it had been long expected and earnestly desir'd by the Learned so did it meet with an agreeable reception from all hands as appears by the several Letters of Thanks from the greatest Persons of that time And a very eminent man of our own Nation scruples not to affirm Seld. Epist praefixa Libro Augustini Vincentii that this and my Lord Bacon's History of Henry the seventh are the only two Lives of the Kings or Queens of England which come up to the dignity of the Subject either in fulness of matter or beauty of composition The pleasure which the first part afforded encreas'd the application of his Friends and made them so much the more importunate with him to consider That the infirmities of old Age were drawing on apace and that he could not better employ the remaining part of his time either to the service of the Publick or the satisfaction of the Curious than by going on as he had begun Especially considering that himself had been an eye-witness of the latter part of her reign and maintain'd an intimate correspondence with some who had bore the greatest share in the Government How little it was Mr. Camden's humour to leave things imperfect let the Britannia witness But the censures he met with in the business of Mary Queen of Scots and the private resentments of some persons who thought him too severe in the character of their Ancestors were enough to have made him stop his course and not venture any farther in such a troublesome road That Historians raise themselves almost as many Enemies as they tell Truths is a just tho' very melancholy observation and the publication of this gave him so large experience of it as to make him peremptorily resolve that the second part should not see the light till after his death He wisely consider'd that mens writings and actions do meet with a more favourable construction after they are once remov'd out of the world but if what he had deliver'd with the utmost sincerity should after all give offence to particular persons that he should however be out of the noise of their clamours and beyond the reach of their disturbance Tho' the whole was finisht in the year 1617. as appears from his Epist 147. 155. Epistles yet he persisted in his resolution against all the importunities of Friends And lest the common fate of posthumous Papers should be urg'd against him he took care that a fair Transcript of it should be Puteani Vit. p. 50. Camd. Epist 247. deposited in the hands of his intimate Friend Petrus Puteanus and kept the Original by him which is now in the Library of Sir John Cotton So the second Tome came not out before the year 1625. Dr. Smith's Life of Camden The Records and Instruments out of which he extracted his Annals are most of them if not all in Cotton's Library By a Manuscript of Dr. Goodman's who was afterwards Bishop of Glocester we learn that He desir'd them of Mr. Camden as a Legacy