IN connection with the Bambury stone in Worcestershire, Mr.
Jabez Allies remarks, and Dr. Nash is of the same opinion, that
it was in all probability originally Ambury. He then gives us
several examples of the occurrence of this name--as Ambreforde
in Yorkshire, Ambrelie in Sussex, Ambresberie in Wilts,
Ambresdone in Oxfordshire, and many others. [a] "The ancients
distinguished stones, erected with a religious view, by the name
of amber, by which was signified anything solar and divine. [b]
"Respecting the Phoenicians being the founders of the Druidical
discipline in Britain, one fact weighs more with me than a
thousand arguments. I allude to the Tyrian coin, on which appear
the tree, the sacred fire, the two stone pillars of Hercules
(Thoth), and the singular legend, Tyr. Col. (Colony of Tvrians),
and the still more remarkable words under the erect stones,
AMBPOΣIE IIETPE (Ambrosiae Petrae), the anointed rocks. Let the
reader remember the monkish traditions of Ambrosius, the exact
likeness of these pillars o