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 Lops devoted servant
John Webb.
TO
THE FAVOURERS
OF
ANTIQUITY.
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.
STONEHENG
RESTORED,
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.