THis Discourse of Stone-heng is moulded off, and cast into a rude Form, from some few indigested notes of the late judicious Architect , the Vitruvius of his age Inigo Jones . That so venerable an Antiquity might not perish, but the world made beholding to him for restoring it to light, the desires of severall his learned Friends have encouraged me to compose this Treatise. Had he survived to have done it with his own hand, there had needed no Apology. Such as it is, I make now yours. Accept it

King James , in his progresse, the year one thousand six hundred and twenty, being at Wilton , and discoursing of this Antiquity , I was sent for by the right Honourable William then Earl of Pembrook , and received there his Majesties commands to produce out of mine own practise in Architecture , and experience in Antiquities abroad, what possibly I could discover concerning this of Stoneheng . What mine opinion was then, and what I have since collected in relation thereunto; I intend to make th

Folio 10. line 6. These words, [ The Romans overthrew not the Temples, or razed to the Foundations, any of the sacred structures of the Druid’s and Britans made of stone, or other materials, which he might as readily have done, if they had used any such: but positively ,] should have been printed in the ordinary letter....