TOTHE FAVOURERSOFANTIQUITY.
THis Discourse ofStone-hengis moulded off, and cast into a rude Form, from some few indigested notes of the late judiciousArchitect, theVitruviusof his ageInigo Jones. That so venerable anAntiquitymight not perish, but the world made beholding to him for restoring it to light, the desires of severall his learnedFriendshave 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 inhis name, from
J. W.