prehended six hundreds, is described in Cheshire; and part of Rutlandshire is described in the counties of Northampton and Lincoln. The description is generally thus :-How many hides, or carucates, the land is gelded or taxed at? whose it was in the time of King Ed ward (the Confessor?) who the present owner, and the sub-tenants? what, and how much, arable land, meadow, pasture, and wood there is? how much in demesne, how much in tenancy, and what number of ploughs it will keep? what mills and fishings? how many freemen, sockmen, co-liberti, cotarii, bordarii, radmanni, radchenistres, villans, maid-servants, and bondmen there are? in some counties, what young cattle, sheep, working-horses, &c. are upon the land? and how many hogs the wood will support? sometimes, what churches there are, and how many priests or parsons? what customary rents, prestations, and services, are to be paid and rendered out of the lands? what has been added to the manor, what withheld from it, and by whom? what land is waste? what the whole was let for in the time of King Edward, and what the net rent; whether it was too dear rented, or might be improved? But all entries in this book are not alike, they being more or less exact and particular in some counties than others, according to the care, diligence, and industry of the commissioners, and scribes.-(Introduction to Domesday Book illustrated.) Domesday Book illustrated; containing an Account of that ancient Record; as also of the Tenants in Capite or Serjeanty therein mentioned; and a Translation of the difficult Passages, with occasional Notes; an Explanation of the Terms, Abbreviations, and Names of Foreign Abbies; and an alphabetical Table of the Tenants in Capite or Serjeanty in the several Counties contained in that Survey. By ROBERT KELHAM, of Lincoln's Inn, Author of the Norman Dictionary. Octavo. Lond. 1788. Formulare Anglicanum; or, A Collection of ancient Charters and Instruments of divers Kinds, taken from the Originals, placed under several Heads, and deduced (in a Series according to the Order of Time) from the Norman Conquest to the End of the Reign of King Henry VIII. (ByTHOMAS MADOX, Esq. Folio. Lond. 1702. Sir Robert Cotton's Abridgment of the Records, (Rolls of Parlia ment) in the Tower of London, from the Reign of K. Edward II. unto K. Richard III. of all Parliaments holden in each King's Reign, &c. published by W. Prynne. Folio. Lond. 1657 or 1679, the last being only a reprinted Title page. Calendars of the ancient Charters, &c. and of the Welch and Scotish Rolls, now remaining in the Tower of London; as also Calendars of all the Treaties of Peace, &c. entered into by the Kings of England with those of Scotland; and of sundry Letters and public Instruments relating to that Kingdom, now in the Chapter House at Westminster: Together with Catalogues of the Records brought to Berwick from the Royal Treasury at Edinburgh, and of those which were removed to different Parts of Scotland by Order of King Edward I. &c. To which are added Memoranda concerning the Af fairs fairs of Ireland, extracted from the Tower Records. To the whole is prefixed an Introduction, giving some Account of the State of the Public Records, from the Conquest to the present Time. (By Sir Jos. AYLOFFE.) Quarto. Lond. 1772. An Index to the Records, with Directions to the several Places where they are to be found;, with a List of the Latin Sir-names and Names of Places, as they are written in the old Records, explained by the moderu Names; with a Chronological Table of the Kings Reigns and Parliaments, &c. by STRACHEY. Octavo. 1739. Index to Records called the Originalia and Memoranda, on the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Side of the Exchequer; extracted from the Records and from the MSS. of Mr. Tayleure, Mr. Madox, and Mr. Chapman, formerly Officers in that Office, containing all the Grants of Abbey Lands and other Property, granted by the Crown, from the Beginning of the Reign of Henry VIII. to the End of Queen Anne: also Inrollments of Charters, Grants, and Patents to several Religious Houses; and to Cities, Boroughs, Towns, Companies, Colleges, and other Public Institutions, from the earliest Period, &c. By EDWARD JONES, Inner Temple. In Two Volumes. Folio. Lond. 1793-95. Reports from the Select Committee appointed to enquire into the State of the Public Records of the Kingdom; with an Analysis of the principal Matters in the various Records, Rolls, Instruments, &c. preserved in the several Public Repositories. Folio. Lond. 1800. Commissions and Abstract of Annual Reports of the Commissioners on the Public Records of the Kingdom; with a Statement of the Measures executed, or now in Progress under the Authority thereof. Folio. Lond. 1806. Calendarium Rotulorum Patentium in Turri Londinensi. Folio. 1802. Taxatio Ecclesiastica Angliæ et Walliæ, auctoritate P. Nicholai IV, circa A.D. 1291. Folio. 1802. Calendarium Rotulorum, Chartarum et Inquisitionum ad quod Damnum. Temp. Reg. Joann. ad Hen. VI. Folio. 1803. Rotulorum Originalium in Curiâ Scaccarii Abbreviatio temporibus Regum Henrici III. Edwardi I. II. II. Two Volumes. Folio. 1805, 1810. Calendarium Inquisitionum post Mortem sive Escætarum, temp. Hen. III. Ed. I. Ed. II. et Ed. II. Two Volumes. Folio. 1806, 1808. Testa de Nevill; sive Liber Feodorum in Curiâ Scaccarii, temp. Hen. III. et Ed. I. Folio. 1807. Nonarum Inquisitiones in Curia Scaccarii, temp. Regis Edw. III. Folio. 1807. Valor Ecclesiasticus tempore Henrici VIII. auctoritate regia institutus. Two Volumes. Folio. 1810–1814. Placitorum Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi aaservatorum Abbreviatio temporibus Regum Richardi I., Johannis, Henrici III., Edwardi I. et II. Folio. 1810. Inquisitionum ad Capellani Domini Regis retornatorum, quæ in publicis Archiviis Scotia adhuc servantur, Abbreviatio. Three Volumes. Folio. 1811, 1816. Rotuli Hundredorum temp. Henrici III. et Edwardi I. in Turri Reports of the Commissioners on the State and Condition of the Woods, Forests. and Land Revenue of the Crown. Two Volumes. Folio. 1787-1809. Abstracts of the Answers and Returns made pursuant to an Act for taking an Account of the Population of England, Wales, and Scotland in 1801 and 1811. Three Volumes. Folio. Lond. 1802, 1812. Copies of Memorials or Statements of Charitable Donations delivered in to the several Offices of the Clerks of the Peace of the several Counties or Ridings, or Cities or Towns being Counties of themselves, in England and Wales, in pursuance of an Act of the 52d of George III. intituled "An Act for the registering and securing Charitable Donations." Folio. 1815. EARLY BRITISH HISTORY.* Many bold and curious opinions on the history and antiquities of this era, are contained in the first book of the History of Manchester, by the Rev. JOHN WHITAKER. De Anglorum Gentis origine disceptatio; Authore ROBERTO SHERINGHAMO. Octavo. Cant. 1670. Belgium Brittanicum in quo illius Limites, Fluvii, Urbes, Viæ Militares, Populus, Lingua, Dii, Monumenta, aliaque per multa clarius & uberius exponuntur. Auctore GUIL. MUSGRAVE, M. D. Præfixa est Dissertatio, De Brittannia quondam pene Insula. In Four Volumes. Octavo. Iscæ Dunnioniorum. 1719-20. Introduction to the History of Great Britain and Ireland; on the Origin of the Ancient Britons, Scotch, Irish, and Anglo-Saxons, including their Character, Manners, and Customs. By JAMES MACPHERSON. Quarto. Lond. 1773. The Several works containing allusions to the history, manners, and customs of the Britons, arenoticed in the subsequent chronological classes, to which they bear a more immediate refereuce; more particularly under the class of Roman Geography of Britain. The Genuine History of the Britons Asserted against Mr. Macpherson. By the Rev. Mr. WHITAKER, Author of the History of Manchester. The Second Edition, corrected. Octavo. Lond. 1773. The British History, translated into English from the Latin of Jeffery of Monmouth, with a large Preface concerning the Authority of the History. By AARON THOMPSON, late of Queen's College, Oxon. Octavo. Lond. 1718. Johannis Rossi Britannica, sive de Regibus veteris Britanniæ usque ad exitium Gentis, & Saxorum imperium, Historia versibus expressa. Duodecimo. Franc. 1607. Sketch of the Early History of the Cymry, or Ancient Britons, from the year 700, before Christ, to A. D. 500. By the Rev. P. ROBERTS, A. M. Author of an Harmony of the Epistles, &c. Octavo. Lond. 1803. Celtic Researches, on the Origin, Traditions, and Language of the Ancient Britons; with some Introductory Sketches, on Primitive Society. By EDWARD DAVIES, Curate of Olveston, Glouces shire. Royal Octavo. Lond. 1804. Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, in Antiquities, concerning the most Noble and Renowned English Nation. By the Study and Travail of RICHARD VERSTEGAN. Plates. Quarto. Antwerp. Printed by Robert Bruney, 1605. Antiqua Restaurata; a Concise Historical Account of the Ancient Druids, shewing their Civil and Religious Governments, Ceremonies, Groves, Derivations, and Etymologies, categorically deduced with Biographical Sketches. Also the remains of Druidical Antiquity, in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and France. By JACOB DES MOULINS. Octavo. Lond. 1794. Antiquities Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall, consisting of several Essays on the First Inhabitants, Druid--Superstition, Customs, and Remains of the most remote Antiquity in Britain, and the British Isles, exemplified and proved by Monuments now extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, with a Vocabulary_of_the_Cornu-British Language. By WILLIAM BORLASE, L. L. D. F. R. S. Rector of Ludgvan. Plates. Folio. Lond. 1769. A Complete View of the Manners, Customs, Arms, Habits, &c. of the Inhabitants of England, from the arrival of the Saxons to the present Time: with a Short Account of the Britons, during the Government of the Romans. By JOSEPH STRUTT. In Three Volumes. Quarto. Lond. 1775-6. The Chronicle of England: or a History of the Ancient Britons and Saxons: from the arrival of Julius Cæsar to the Norman Conquest. By JOSEPH STRUTT. In Two Volumes. Quarto. Lond. 1777-8. The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England from the earliest period to the present time, in which are represented most of the popular Diversions. By JOSEPH STRUTT. Quarto. 1801. A Compleat A Compleat View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, from the establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the present Time. To which is prefixed an Introduction, containing a General Description of the Ancient Habits in Use among Mankind, from the earliest period of time to the conclusion of the Seventh_Century. By JOSEPH STRUTT. In Two Volumes. Quarto. Lond. 1796-99. Before the discovery of the Itinerary of Richard of Cirencester, in the middle of the 18th century, the only works which had descended to us respecting the Roman stations and the Roman roads within this island, were the Geography of Ptolemy; the Itinerary of Antoninus; the Imperial Notitia; the Anonymous Chorography; and the Tabula Peutingeriana. The Notitia" is a list of the several military and civil officers and magistrates, in the Eastern and Western Empires, lower than the reigns of Arcadius and Honorius; written, probably, towards the end of the younger Theodosius's reign, or about 445, when the bulk of the Roman forces was stationed on the Kentish coast, against the Saxon invaders, and on the Northern barrier, per lineam valli. It seems to have been transcribed from the Latercula, or Registers of State." See Gough, British Topography, Vol. I. P. 8. The Chorography of Britain, by the anonymous geographer of Ravenna, is a work of less utility than the preceding, and has been termed "a mere confused catalogue of hard names"; but a conjecture of Dr. Mason may be thought to reduce it to some kind of consistency. He supposes "that the names have been taken from some map, which Ravennas began at the south-west corner, proceeding east and across the kingdom; still in the main advancing northwardly; by which means some are twice over, and, no doubt, many omitted." The author of this work, and the time at which it was composed, are equally involved in doubt. See Horsley, Brit. Rom. P. 489, and Reynolds, Introduction to Iter Britanniarum, P. 131. The Tabula Peutingeriana is "a parchment roll, above twentytwo feet long, and one broad, on which were traced the stages, or mansions, for the Roman army throughout the empire; and bears great resemblance to our surveys of roads by Ogilby. It is an Itinerary, or Routier, in a form for carriage, exhibiting, as well as such a size would permit, the roads, and distances of the principal places. Some judicious critics date it in the reign of Theodosius the Great; and suppose Antonine's Itinerary was copied from such a table." See Gough's British Topography, Vol. I. P. 6, where is given a statement of the different editions through which the above table has passed. ROMAN GEOGRAPHY OF BRITAIN. Antonini Iter Britanniarum Commentariis illustratum Thomæ Gale, S. T. P. nuper Decani Ebor. Opus posthumum. Revist, auxit, edidit R. G(ale). Accessit Anonymi Ravennatis Britanniæ Chorographia, |