An Answer to, or Remarks upon Dr. Stukeley's, Origines Roystoianae; wherein, the antiquity and imagery of the oratory, lately discovered at Royston in Hertfordshire, are truly stated, and accounted for.. Cet article n’est pas disponible.An Answer to, or Remarks upon Dr. Stukeley's, Origines Roystoianae; wherein, the antiquity and imagery of the oratory, lately discovered at Royston in Hertfordshire, are truly stated, and accounted for.

[8], 76pp, frontispiece, 2 folding plates. 4to. Nineteenth century half red calf, marbled boards; joints & corners rubbed, sl. foxing. Armorial bookplate of Robert George Wyndham Herbert,1831-1905, the first Premier of Queensland. ESTC N5358. In the 1740s Parkin engaged in a dispute with William Stukeley over the antiquity and imagery of the carvings on the walls of the recently discovered cave at Royston. In this work he attacked Stukeley's claim that the chamber had been the private oratory of one 'Lady Roisia'. When Stukeley published a reply, Parkin responded with A Reply to the Peevish, Weak, and Malevolent Objections brought by Dr. Stukeley in his Origines Roystonianæ, No.2 (Norwich, 1748). Joseph Beldam, a later historian of the cave, wrote that 'though both parties showed abundant learning and ingenuity, the cause of truth suffered much from their mutual loss of temper'.