[Illustration: TAB. I. _frontispiece._ _The Groundplot of the Brittish Temple now the town of Aubury Wilts. A^o. 1724_ _Stukeley del._ _E. Kirkall sculp._] ABURY, A TEMPLE OF THE =British DRUIDS=, With SOME OTHERS, DESCRIBED. Wherein is a more particular account of the first and patriarchal religion; and of the peopling the BRITISH ISLANDS. ——_Quamvis obstet mihi tarda vetustas, Multaque me fugiant primis spectata sub annis, Plura tamen memini_—— Ov. Met. XII. v. 182. By _WILLIAM STUKELEY_, M.D. Rector of _All-Saints_ in _Stamford_. _LONDON_: Printed for the AUTHOR: And Sold by _W. Innys_, _R. Manby_, _B. Dod_, _J. Brindley_, and the Booksellers in London. M DCC XLIII. To the RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY EARL of _PEMBROKE_, &c. &c. RIGHT HONOURABLE, In a family that has been in all ages remarkably the friend of the muses, I think myself happy, that I have a particular claim. To You, my Lord, this dedication is devolv’d by hereditary right. Through Your father’s auspices and encouragement, I began and continued the work. He was ever pleas’d to look upon my mean performances with a favourable eye; and to assist me out of the inexhaustible fund of his own knowledge, in all kinds of ancient learning; and promised to patronize it, when published. But if any thing herein be acceptable to the publick, they are indebted to Your Lordship for its appearing abroad sooner than I intended myself. Out of that innate love of letters which warms the breast of the PEMBROKES, You thought fit to prompt and encourage me to the printing of it; and Your Lordship’s judgment will be an agreeable prejudice in my favour; who have cultivated Your excellent talents by your own industry; by all that can be learn’d in a curious view and observation of the antiquities of _Italy_; who are in every sense a master of that immense treasure of _Greek_ and _Roman_ marbles, which render _Wilton_ the _Tramontane Rome_.