Ancient MS. Account of Britain

I find the following note in Cooper's *Thesaurus Linguæ Romanæ et Britannicæ*, Impressum Londini, 1573, under the word Britannia:— "About 30 yeares since it happened in Wilshire, at Juy church, about twoo miles from Salisbury, as men digged to make a foundation, they founde an hollowe stone covered with another stone, wherein they founde a booke, having in it little above xx leaves (as they sayde) of verye thicke velume, wherein was some thing written. But when it was shewed to priestes and chanons, which were there, they would not read it. Wherefore after they had tossed it from one to anothe…