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XXVI. Disquisition on a passage in King Athelstan's Grant to the Abbey of Wilton: communicated by William Hamper, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

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As every thing connected with Stonehenge must be especially interesting to the Society of Antiquaries; I submit to their indulgence the following Disquisition on a passage in King Athelstan's Grant to the Abbey of Wilton, although it will directly (but I trust not disrespectfully) contravene the opinions of several of our most distinguished Members, hitherto misled by treading in the footsteps of an early writer: so true is the observation, that “one man adopts a system or hypothesis, and another follows him, not examining the grounds on which the foundation was laid.”

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1826

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References

page 399 note a Sir R. C. Hoare's Hundred of Branch and Dole, preface, p. vi.

page 400 note b Fol. 60, b.

page 400 note c Tom. ii.fol. 859.

page 400 note d Vol. ii. p. 321.

page 400 note e p. 83, note.

page 400 note f P. 87.

page 400 note g P. 88, where, as in the preceding page also, for vol. iii, read vol. ii.

page 400 note h Appendix, p. 378.

page 401 note i P. 379.

page 401 note k London, fol. A. D. 1827.

page 401 note l P. 33.

page 401 note m Registrum Wiltun. p. 33.

page 401 note n Hundred of Branch and Dole, p. 151.

page 402 note o Monast. Angl. torn. ii. fol. 861. New Monast. vol. ii. p. 322.