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A53238 Queries in order to the description of Britannia Ogilby, John, 1600-1676. 1673 (1673) Wing O180A; ESTC R218657 1,012 1

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QUERIES In Order to the Description of BRITANNIA WHEREAS John Ogilby Esq His Majesties Cosmographer being Authoriz'd by His Majesty to make an Actual Survey of His Majesties Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales in order to the Compiling An Historical and Geographical Description thereof more Accurate than whatever has been heretofore done in a fair large Volume sold BRITANNIA accompanied with another Volume of all the Principal ROADS of England ichnographically describ●d in Copper Sculptures And being sensible that the Well-performance hereof will render it a Work highly grateful to the Publick his Request is That the Nobility and Gentry and all other Ingenious Persons would be pleas'd to return him to his House in White-Eryers London such Remarques of the Country or Places of their Residence or what other they may be acquainted with as shall happen within the Verge of these following Queries 1. Cities their Antiquity Government Privileges Commerce c. 2. Towns Corporate Market-Towns Fair Towns Villages and Hamlets c. 3. Houses of Nobility and Gentry with the ancient as well as present Possessors 4. Castles Churches Chappels Schools Colleges Hospitals and other Publick Buildings c. 5. Mills Beacons Bridges Crosses Towers Pyramids 6. Chaces Forests Woods Groves Parks Warrens Commons Heaths c. 7. Mountains Valleys Dikes Rivers Brooks Water-works Sluces Ponds Meres c. 8. Springs Wells Baths Cold and Hot Waters Medicinal Aluminous Bituminous Nitrous Petrifying c. 9. Works and Mines of Gold Silver Copper Lend Black-lead Tin Iron Salt Salt-petre Allom Coperas Gems Precious Stones Glass Crystal Marble Alabaster Plaister Fullers-Earth Ochre Tobacco-pipe Clay Potters Clay Lime Chalk Marl Freestone Milstone Grindstone Whetstone 10. Precincts of Diocesses Bounds and Limits of Counties Hundreds and Parishes Peculiars and Privileg'd places 11. Roman Ways and Stations Coins and Monuments and other Antiquities 12. Extaordinary Accidents Calamities and Casualties 13. Peculiar Customs and Manners 14. Decay'd Places whether Cities Towns Castles Monasteries Abbies or other Houses of Note 15. Vaults Caves Caverns Holes Hollows Subterranean Passages or other Rarities 16. Places of Birth Education Habitation and Sepulture of Eminent Persons 17. Improvements in Husbandry Mechanicks Manufactures c. 18. Extraordinary Productions of Cattel Fowl Fruit Plants Herbs or other Animals or Vegetables 19. What Part of the Country is Arable Pasture Meadow Woods and Champain 20. On the Sea-coasts Ports Harbors Havens Creeks Peels Peers Watch Towers Land-marks Light-houses Sands Sholes Islands Eits c. 21. Productions of the Sea-coasts of Fish Shell-fish Amber Jet Coral Herbs c. 22. Extraordinary or Irregular Ebbings or Flowings of the Sea c. To such Ingenious Persons as shall be more Eminently Instrumental herein either by themselves or others the Author will make Honorable Returns of Books and carefully discharge whatever necessary Expences shall appear to have been laid out in this Concern And to whom Money shall be more acceptable the Author promises such Wages and Allowances as may handsomly correspond their Pains Always presuming That nothing will be impos'd upon him without sufficient Authority for its Assertion Truth being the main of his Design in all his Collections From the Office in White-Fryers London Anno 1573 T.O.