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The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
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Archaeologia Volume 8 Section XXXIV is in Archaeologia Volume 8.
Description of the Druid Temple [La Hogue Bie [Map]] lately discovered on the top of the Hill near St. Hillary in Jersey. Communicated by Mr. Molseworth. Read January 11, 1787.
It is sixty-six feet in circumference, composed of forty-five large stones, measuring seven feet in height, six in breadth, four in thickness, containing four perfect lodges [or cells] and one destroyed. The supposed entrance in it may be called a subterraneous passage, faces the East, and measures fifteen feet in length, four feet two inches and a half in breadth from the inside of the two outward pillars or stones, in height two feet, each pillar being one foot nine inches and a half thick.
The inside of the passage measures five feet three inches in breadth, four feet four inches in height, and the first covering stone three feet in thickness; it gradually decreases the length of the fifteen feet before-mentioned.
The vacancy on the North side, which appears to have been the real vacancy, measures in breadth fix feet nine inches.
The greatest lodge, facing nearly the East, or subterraneous passage, measures, both in depth and length, four feet three inches; the next on the left four feet in breadth, four feet three inches in length, and three feet feven inches in height. The distance from one to the other is two feet sixteen inches; the third, at the distance of five feet nine inches from the second, measures in breadth two feet sixteen inches, in length two feet nineteen, in height four feet.
The subterraneous passage in the inside of the temple, describing a perfect lodge, distant from the third ten feet, and the fourth joining both East: and North passages, in breadth measures two feet four inches, and two feet one-eighth in depth. The eastern cavity is still filled up with the same rubbish that covered the temple.
Two medals were found in this temple, one of the emperor Claudius, and the other so worn by time as to render it unintelligible.
About fifty yards South from the temple are five places in the form of our graves, masoned on every side, but not paved, and lying E. and W. A done quite alone lies five feet from the subterraneous passage.