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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
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Description of the Druid Temple [La Hogue Bie [Map]] lately discovered on the top of the Hill near St. Hillary in Jersey. Communicated by Mr. Molseworth. Read January 11, 1787.
It is sixty-six feet in circumference, composed of forty-five large stones, measuring seven feet in height, six in breadth, four in thickness, containing four perfect lodges [or cells] and one destroyed. The supposed entrance in it may be called a subterraneous passage, faces the East, and measures fifteen feet in length, four feet two inches and a half in breadth from the inside of the two outward pillars or stones, in height two feet, each pillar being one foot nine inches and a half thick.
The inside of the passage measures five feet three inches in breadth, four feet four inches in height, and the first covering stone three feet in thickness; it gradually decreases the length of the fifteen feet before-mentioned.
The vacancy on the North side, which appears to have been the real vacancy, measures in breadth fix feet nine inches.
The greatest lodge, facing nearly the East, or subterraneous passage, measures, both in depth and length, four feet three inches; the next on the left four feet in breadth, four feet three inches in length, and three feet feven inches in height. The distance from one to the other is two feet sixteen inches; the third, at the distance of five feet nine inches from the second, measures in breadth two feet sixteen inches, in length two feet nineteen, in height four feet.
The subterraneous passage in the inside of the temple, describing a perfect lodge, distant from the third ten feet, and the fourth joining both East: and North passages, in breadth measures two feet four inches, and two feet one-eighth in depth. The eastern cavity is still filled up with the same rubbish that covered the temple.
Two medals were found in this temple, one of the emperor Claudius, and the other so worn by time as to render it unintelligible.
About fifty yards South from the temple are five places in the form of our graves, masoned on every side, but not paved, and lying E. and W. A done quite alone lies five feet from the subterraneous passage.