ust have been either Inigo Jones's "The most notable
Antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stonehenge," printed in
1655, or "Chorea Gigantum, or the most famous Antiquity of Great
Britain, vulgarly called Stones Heng, standing on Salisbury Plain,
restor'd to the Danes," by Walter Charleton, M.D., and published in
1663.]

To dinner; and then out with my wife and people, and landlord: and to
him that showed us the schools and library, 10s.; to him that showed us
All Souls' College, and Chichly's picture, 5s. So to see Christ Church
with my wife, I seeing several others very fine alone, with W. Hewer,
before dinner, and did give the boy that went with me 1s. Strawberries,
1s. 2d. Dinner and servants, L1 0s. 6d. After come home from the
schools, I out with the landlord to Brazen-nose College;--to the
butteries, and in the cellar find the hand of the Child of Hales,...
long. Butler, 2s. Thence with coach and people to Physic-garden, 1s. So
to Friar Bacon's study: I up and saw it, and give the man 1s. Bottle of
sack for landlord, 2s. Oxford mighty fine place; and well seated, and
cheap entertainment. At night come to Abingdon, where had been a fair of
custard; and met many people and scholars going home; and there did get
some pretty good musick, and sang and danced till supper: 5s.

10th (Wednesday). Up, and walked to the Hospitall:--[Christ's
Hospital]--very large and fine; and pictures of founders, and the
History' of the Hospitall; and is said to be worth; L700 per annum; and
that Mr. Foly was here lately to see how their lands were settled; and
here, in old English, the story of the occasion of it, and a rebus at
the bottom. So did give the poor, which they would not take but in their
box, 2s. 6d. So to the inn, and paid the reckoning and what not, 13s. So
forth towards Hungerford, led this good way by our landlord, one Heart,
an old but very civil and well-spoken man, more than I ever heard, of
his quality. He gone, we forward; and I vexed at my people's not minding
the way. So come to Hungerford, where very good trouts, eels, and
crayfish. Dinner: a mean town. At dinner there, 12s. Thence set out with
a guide, who saw us to Newmarket-heath, and then left us, 3s. 6d. So all
over the Plain by the sight of the steeple, the Plain high and low,
to Salisbury, by night; but before I come to the town, I saw a great
fortification, and there 'light, and to it and in it; and find it
prodigious, so a