The most notable Antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain / Restored by Inigo Jones Esquire, Architect Generall to the late King

Chapter 2: TO THE FAVOURERS OF ANTIQUITY.

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An architect's treatise reconstructs and analyzes Stonehenge, offering measured descriptions, proportional and geometric arguments, and comparative references to classical monuments. It surveys historical opinions, contests attribution to Druids, and proposes a reasoned restoration based on field observation and continental experience. The work blends antiquarian description, architectural theory, and illustrative reconstruction to defend and elucidate the monument's original design and construction.

TO
THE FAVOURERS
OF
ANTIQUITY.

THis Discourse of Stone-heng is moulded off, and cast into a rude Form, from some few indigested notes of the late judicious Architect, the Vitruvius of his age Inigo Jones. That so venerable an Antiquity might not perish, but the world made beholding to him for restoring it to light, the desires of severall his learned Friends have 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 in his name, from

J. W.