The most notable Antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain / Restored by Inigo Jones Esquire, Architect Generall to the late King

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RESTORED By INIGO JONES Esquire, Architect Generall to the late KING.
LONDON ,
Printed by James Flesher for Daniel Pakeman at the sign of the Rainbow in Fleetstreet , and Laurence Chapman next door to the Fountain Tavern in the Strand . 1655.
TO The Right Honourable PHILIP Earle of Pembroke and Montgomerie , Baron Herbert of Caerdiff and Sherland , Lord Parr and Rosse of Kendall , Lo: Fitzhugh Marmyon and Saint Quintin &c. STONE-HENG restored is humbly dedicated by Your Lo ps devoted servant John Webb .
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 in his name , from
J. W.
BY INIGO JONES Esquire.
BEing naturally inclined in my younger years to study the Arts of Designe , I passed into forrain parts to converse with the great Masters thereof in Italy ; where I applied my self to search out the ruines of those ancient Buildings , which in despight of Time it self, and violence of Barbarians are yet remaining. Having satisfied my self in these, and returning to my native Countrey , I applied my minde more particularly to the study of Architecture . Among the ancient monuments whereof, found here, I deemed none more worthy the searching after, then this of Stoneheng ; not only in regard of the Founders thereof, the Time when built, the Work it self, but also for the rarity of its Invention , being different in Forme from all I had seen before: likewise, of as beautifull Proportions , as elegant in Order , and as stately in Aspect , as any.