Rev. T. D. Fosbrooke

Rev. Charles Mayo
William Beckford, Esq.
Ralph Gaby, Esq.
Robert Sadler, Esq.
William Scrope, Esq.

Walter Coleman, Esq.
John Thomas Mayne, Esq.
Barnard Dickinson, Esq.
Robert Holford, Esq.

John Bennett, Esq.

Charles Tatham, Esq.
John Rock Grosett, Esq.
Paul C. Methuen, Esq.
Thomas Timbrell, Esq.
John Pitt, Esq. M. P.
Mr. Richard Harris
Mr. Crocker

Mr. Cunnington

With the last-named county terminates the list of contributors communicated by Mr. Britton. The correspondents of several subsequent Editors, or those who particularly favoured their enquiries, are thus gratefully enumerated; and, in regard to some counties, acknowledgments are due to noblemen and gentlemen whose name the Editor of the Introductory Volume has not the opportunity of recording.

MIDDLESEX,

(The County separate from
London) comprised in one
Volume, written by Mr. J.
Norris Brewer.

George Gostling, Esq.
Josiah Boydell, Esq.
Thomas Willan, Esq.
James Hall, Esq.
Edward Hogg, Esq.

His Grace the DUKE OF NORTH J. W. Freshfield, Esq.

UMBERLAND

John Nichols, Esq.

The Right Hon. Lord North- Thomas Fisher, Esq. wick

The Right Hon. Sir Joseph

Banks, Bart, K.B. Rev. Henry Drury

Edmund Dwyer

George Byng, Esq. M.P.
John Walker, Esq.

J. J. Park, Esq. author of the

History of Hampstead

Mr. Faulkner, author of the
Histories of Chelsea and
Fulham

Mr. Nelson, author of the His-
tory of Islington

NORTH

Thomas Hall, Esq. Harpsden
Court

John Hanscomb, Esq. Bell
Hatch

Richard Davis, Esq. Grove
Cottage, topographer to his
Majesty

James Taylor, Esq. Wargrave.
Henry Hakewill, Esq.

Mr. R. P. Culham, Henley
Mr. John Hollier, Thame
Mr. D. Moore, Thame

John Atkyns Wright, Esq. M.P. | Mr. J. Badcock, Watlington

The Rev. Dr. Mavor

The Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel,
M.A. Keeper of the Bodleian
Library

The Rev. E. G. Walford, chap-
lain to the Earl of Guilford.
The Rev. W. Woolston

A. E. Howman

The Rev. J. Francis, of Burford, communicated some information relating to that town and its neighbourhood

RUTLANDSHIRE.

Thomas Barker, Esq.

The Editor of the "Beauties" for SHROPSHIRE, SOMERSETSHIRE, and STAFFORDshire, thus collectively enumerates the principal correspondents in regard to those parts of the work.

The Rev. Hugh Owen, M.A.
Rev. Joshua Toulmin, D.D.
Right Rev. Dr. John Milner,
Vicar Apostolic of the Mid-
land District

Mr. D. Parkes, of Shrewsbury
J. F. M. Dovaston, Esq.
M. Wood, Esq.
John Hulme, M. D.
William Sneyd, Esq.

WAR

WARWICKSHIRE.

The Earl of Warwick

The Earl of Craven

Rev. Dr. Parr

Rev. John Kendall

F. Parker Newdigate, Esq.
Mr. John Nickson, of Coventry
Henry Hakewill, Esq.

R. B. Wheler, Esq. author of
"the History and Antiquities
of Stratford upon Avon"

J. Roe, Esq. of Warwick

YORKSHIRE.

The late Duke of Devonshire

The Earl of Carlisle

Lord Grantham

Right Hon. John Smith
Hon. William Stourtou
Very Rev, the Dean of Peter-
borough

Very Rev. the Deau of Ripon
Sir Henry Vavasour, Bart.
Sir Francis Wood, Bart.
Sir Thomas White, Bart.

Messrs. Beilby and Knott, of Sir John Lawson, Bart.

Birmingham

WESTMORLAND.

Right Hon. Earl of Lonsdale

Rev. George Barrington

Dr. Robinson

John Waller

J. L. Leech, M.A. J. Pearson Edmund Law Robert Smirke, Esq.

Mrs. Atkinson

Matthew Atkinson, Esq.

George Gibson, Esq.

Charles S. Duncombe, Esq.
Thomas Thompson, Esq. M.P.
Henry B. Barnard, Esq.

Mr. Alderman Peacock, York
Marmaduke Constable Maxwell,
Esq. of Everingham
Marmaduke Constable, Esq. of
Wassand

T. Hinderwell, Esq.
Edward Topham, Esq.
J. H. Maw, Esq.
Brian Cook, Esq.
Colonel Wroughton
Colonel Wrightson

Colonel Vavasour

Alderman Pennington, of Ken-T. Clarridge, Esq.

dal

Mr. Harrison, of Kendal

Mr. Hutton, of the Museum,
Keswick

WORCESTERSHIRE.

John Lee, Esq.

Christopher Alderson, Esq.
Thomas Langhorne, Esq.
T. F. Billam, Esq.

Grey, Esq.
Billam, M.D.

The Lady Viscountess Beau-William Payne, Esq.

champ

Rev. Francis Wraugham, F.R.S.

George Dixon

Mr.

The death of the Rev. John Evans, Editor of the Seventeenth Volume of the BEAUTIES, comprising an account of NORTH WALES, has deprived us of an opportunity of recording the names of those gentlemen who afforded information in regard to that division of the principality.

INTRODUCTION,

&c. &c.

INGLAND and WALES comprehend such parts of the island of

E

Great Britain, as are south of the Cheviot Hills, and an arbitrary line drawn from Solway Firth to the river Tweed. These districts are finely diversified in character; and partake, in the Cambrian, or western division, of the mountainous rude grandeur of the tracts to the north of the line of boundary. In other directions they are rich in a graceful succession of hill and vale; the former being in partial instances only too steep for cultivation, and the lowlands almost invariably fertile, or capable of responding to the efforts of the Agriculturalist.

England is famed for an abundance of wood, distributed in ornamental proportions; and numerous rivers afford great facilities of inland navigation, whilst their diffusive and winding courses are favourable to the picturesque adornment of the country. Although the metals deemed precious are rarely found in England or Wales, those which are useful to the real wants of man are discovered in salutary plenty; and have, from the earliest recorded period, formed a source of moral energy to the Briton, by propelling him to exertions of industry, and by leading him to habits of Commercial interchange.

But, however estimable may be the natural capacities of a country, its real beauties are to be sought in the progress of mind amongst its inhabitants. The source of opulence is but the