The antiquities of England and Wales . uments, and generally pointed outthe ufes for which they are fuppofed to have been erected, orappropriated, I mail conclude this article, with remarking, thatin all the different parts of this kingdom where thefe monumentsare found, the common people retain a kind of traditionary reve-rence for them, without being able to affign any reafon for theirveneration, and all relate almoft fimilar ftories, ferving to provethat great and uncommon misfortunes have attended thofe per-v fons who have ventured to break or remove them. The fame tale that is told of Sto
The antiquities of England and Wales . uments, and generally pointed outthe ufes for which they are fuppofed to have been erected, orappropriated, I mail conclude this article, with remarking, thatin all the different parts of this kingdom where thefe monumentsare found, the common people retain a kind of traditionary reve-rence for them, without being able to affign any reafon for theirveneration, and all relate almoft fimilar ftories, ferving to provethat great and uncommon misfortunes have attended thofe per-v fons who have ventured to break or remove them. The fame tale that is told of Stonehenge is alfo related ofalmoft every other large Druidical Circle, by its local hiftorian :namely, that no one has ever been able to count the ftones ofwhich it is compofed, fo as to make the numbers of two fucceffivereckonings agree. Although a baker once effayed to do it, byplacing a loaf on every ftone, and afterwards counting the loaves jyet on a fecond trial he always found the former number ofloaves either too many or too END OF THE PREFACE. THE BEDFORDSHIRE. Xs a fmall inland county. When the Romans landed in Britain, 55 years beforeChrift, it was included in the diflrift inhabited by the Catieuchlani, whofe chief orgo-vernor CafTibelinus, headed the forces of the whole ifland againft Csefar, and the yearfollowing was totally defeated. In 310 the emperor Conftantine divided Britain intofive Roman provinces, when this county was included in the third divifion, calledFlavia Caefarienfts, in which Hate it continued 426-years, when the Romans quittedBritain. At the eftablifhment of the kingdom of Mercia (one of the divifions of theSaxon Heptarchy) it was confidered as a part of that kingdom, and fo continued from582 to 827, when with the other petty kingdoms of the ifland it became fubjecl tothe Weft-Saxons under Egbert, and the whole was named England. In 889, Alfredheld the fovereignty, when England was divided into counties, hundreds and ty things,and Bedfordihire
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