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Portraits, Monuments, Views, and other Prints contained in each Work; with Remarks that may enable the Collector to know when the Works are complete. By J. P. MALCOLM, Esq. F. S. A. Quarto. Lond. 1815.

INDICES VILLARES, GAZETTEERS, ETC.

The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine; presenting an exact Geography of the Kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Iles adioyning; with the Shires, Hundreds, Cities, and ShireTownes within the Kingdome of England, divided and described by JOHN SPEED. Folio. Lond. 1611, or 1650.

Villare Anglicum; or, A View of the Towns of England, Collected by the Appointment of Sir HENRY SPELMAN, Knt. Quarto. Lond. 1656, or 1678.

* Inserted in Gibson's Edition of Spelman's English Works. A Book of the Names of all the Parishes, Market Towns, Villages, Hamlets, and smallest Places in England and Wales, alphabetically set down as they be in every Shire; with the Names of the Hundreds in which they are, and how many Towns there are in every Hundred; with Maps of the Counties, by JACOB Van Laugeren. Small Quarto. Lond. 1657; republished in 1668.

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Index Villaris: or, An Exact Register, alphabetically digested, of all the Cities, Market Towns, Parishes, Villages, the Hundred, Lath, Rape, Ward, Wapentake, or other Division of each County; the Bishoprick, Deaneries, Churches, Chappels, Hospitals, with the Rectories and Vicarages in England and Wales, and their respective Valuations in the King's Books. The private Seats of the King, Nobility, Gentry, &c. By JOHN ADAMS, of the Inner Temple. The Third Edition; with a Map. Folio. 1700. Dictionarium Anglia Topographicum et Historicum; An Alphabe tical Description of the chief Places in England and Wales; with an Account of the most memorable Events which have distinguished them. By the celebrated Antiquary William Lambarde, formerly of Lincoln's Inn, Esq. and Author of "The Perambulation of Kent." Now first published from a Manuscript under the Author's own Hand. Portrait by Vertue. Quarto. Lond. 1730. England's Gazetteer; or An Accurate Description of all the Cities, Towns, and Villages of the Kingdom. In three volumes. Vol. I. and II. contain a Dictionary of the Cities, Corporations, Market Towns, and the most noted Villages, their distance from London, with their distance or bearing from the next market town, or well known place. Vol. III. a new Index Villaris, or alphabetical register of the less noted villages. This work includes all the chief harbours, bays, forests, hills, mines, medicinal springs, moors, and other curiosities both of nature and art; and not only takes notice of most of the manors and seats in the kingdom, both ancient and present; but also points out the old military ways, camps, castles, and other remarkable ruins of Roman, Danish, and Saxon antiquity and particularly shews the estates that were formerly Abbey.

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land. In Three Volumes. By Stephen Whatley. Lond. 1750-1, Duodecimo.

In the Gent. Mag. Feb. 1768, is a two-page view of all the counties of England and Wales; with the archbishopricks and bishopricks, and their valuation; the circumference, acres, hundreds, parishes, market towns, number of houses, members, chief town, latitude longitude, distance from London, market days, air, soil, and rivers.

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The Complete Gazetteer of England and Wales; or, an accurate Description of all the Cities, Towns, and Villages in the Kingdom; shewing their Situations, Manufactures, Trades, Market, Fairs, Customs, Privileges, Principal Buildings, Charitable and other Foundations, &c. and their distances from London: with a Descriptive Account of every County, their Boundaries, Extent, Natural Produce, &c. including the Chief Harbours, Bays, Rivers, Canals, Forests, Mines, Hills, Vales, and Medicinal Springs; with other curiosities both of Nature and Art, pointing out the Military Ways, Camps, Castles, and other remains of Roman, Danish, and Saxon Antiquity. Two Volumes. Lond. 1775." Duodecimo. England's Gazetteer: by PHILIP LUCKOмbe. Three Volumes. Duodecimo. Lond. 1790.

An Account of the several Cities and Market Towns in England and Wales; describing the Antiquities, Curiosities, and Manufacture carried on at each Place, the Days that the Markets are kept on, the number of Parliament men sent from each City, &c. and the computed and measured miles from London, alphabetically digested. Octavo. London: printed for S. Bladon.

A New Index Villaris for England and Wales. Quarto. Lond. 1804.

A Topographical Dictionary of England; exhibiting the names of the several Cities, Towns, Parishes, Tythings, Townships, and Hamlets, with the County and Division of the County, to which they respectively belong. The Valuation and Patrons of Ecclesiastical Benefices and the Tutelary Saint of each Church.-The resident Population, according to the Returns made to Parliament in 1801; and the Amount of the Parochial Assessments, according to the Returns made to Parliament, in 1803.-The Distance and Bearingof every Place from the nearest Post Office, and from the County. Town.-Market and Fairs.-Members of Parliament, and Corporations.-Free Schools. -Petty Sessions, and Assizes. To which is added Miscellaneous Information respecting Monastic Foundations, and other matters of Local History. Collected from the most Authentic Documents, and arranged in Alphabetical Order. In Two Volumes. By NICHOLAS CARLISLE, Fellow and Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Quarto. Lond. 1808.

Gazetteer of England and Wales; containing the Statistics, Agriculture, and Mineralogy of the Counties; the History, Antiquities, Curiosities, Manufactures, Trade, Commerce, Fairs, Markets, Charitable and other Institutions; Population and Elective Fran

chises of the Cities, Towns, and Boroughs; including a complete Index Villaris, with the Bearings and Distance of each Village and Mansion from the nearest Market Town. Illustrated by two large Maps, descriptive of the Roads and inland Navigation. By THOMAS POTTS. Octavo. Lond. 1810.

A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom; compiled from Parliamentary and other authentic Documents and Authorities ; containing Geographical, Topographical, and Statistical Accounts of every District, Object, and Place in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and the various small Islands dependant on the British Empire. Accompanied by Forty-six Maps drawn purposely for this Work on an original Plan. By BENJAMIN PITTS CAPPER, Esq. Octavo. Lond. 1813.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND.

The Description of Britayne and Irelond, taken out of the Policronicon, finished (by Caxton) 18 Aug. 1480, 20 Edw. IV. A little Folio Tract at the end of Caxton's "Chronicles of England.”

Historical Description of the Island of Brittaine; with a Briefe rehersal of the Nature and Qualities of the People of England, and such Commodities as are to be found in the same; comprehended in three books and written by W. H. (William Harrison,) Chaplain to Sir William Brook, Lord-Warden of the Cinque-Ports; prefixed to both Editions of Holinshed's Chronicle, 1577 and 1587, Folio.

BRITANNIA: sive florentissimorum Regnorum, Angliæ, Scotiæ, et Hiberniæ, et Insularum adjacentium ex intima Antiquitate Chorographia Descriptio. Authore GUL CAMDENO. Lond. 1586 and 1587. Octavo. —Reprinted in Quarto in 1590, 1594, and 1600. -In Folio, at London, in 1607, and at Amsterdam in 1648 and 1659.

Britain or A Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and the Islands adjoining, out of the Depth of Antiquity; beautified with Maps of the several Shires of England. Written first in Latin by William Camden, and translated into English by PHILEMON HOLLAND, Dr. in Physic. Folio. Lond. 1610 and 1637.

Britannia: or, A Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, together with the adjacent Islands. Written in Latin by WILLIAM CAMDEN, Clarenceux King at Arms; and translated into English, with Additions and Improvements, by EDMUND GIBSON, D.D. late Lord Bishop of London. This Fourth Edition is printed from a Copy of 1722, left corrected by the Bishop for the Press. In Two Volumes. Folio. Lond. 1772.

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***Originally printed in One Volume, folio, in 1695; in Two Volumes in 1722 and 1753.

Britannia: or, A Geographical Description of the flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands adjacent,

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from the earliest Antiquity. By WILLIAM CAMDEN. Translated from the Edition published by the Author in MDCVII. Enlarged by the latest Discoveries by RICHARD GOUGH, F. A. and R. S. S. In Three Volumes. Illustrated with Maps and other Copperplates. Folio. Lond. 1789.-Reprinted in Four Volumes in 1806.

A Discoverie of certaine Errours published in print in the much commended Britannia, 1594, very preiudicial to the Discentes and Successions of the auncient Nobilitie of this Realme. By RALPHE Successions of the auncient Nobilitie of BROOKE, Yorke Herault at Armes. To which are added the learned Mr. Camden's Answer to this Book; and Mr. Brooke's Reply. Now first published from an original Manuscript in the Library of John Anstis, Esq. Garter King at Arms. Portrait of the Author, and the Monument of Camden. Quarto. Lond. 1724. A satisfactory, and curious, account of Ralph Brooke's invidious publication is contained in the Life of Camden by Mr. Gough, prefixed to his edition of the Britannia.-Originally printed in 1599 in Quarto.

Descriptio Britanniæ, Scotia, Hyberniæ, et Orchadum, ex libro Pauli Jovii, episcopi Nucer. de Imperiis et Gentibus cogniti Orbis, cum ejus operis proboemio, ad Alexandrum Farnesium Card. ampliss. Quarto. Venet. 1548, and Bas. 1561, duodecimo.

Magnæ Britanniæ Delicia seu Insularum et Regnorum quæ Magnæ Britanniæ nomine, et sereniss. Regis Jacobi, &c. imperio hodie comprehenduntur, Descriptio: ex variis auctoribus collecta, et reliquarum Europe Nationum jam ante editis Deliciis addita. (Auctore GASP. EUS.) Duodecimo. Colon. 1613.

RUTGERI HERMANNIDE Britannia Magna, sive Angliæ, Scotia, Hiberniæ, et adjacentium Insularum Geographico-Historica Descriptio. Duodecimo. Amstel. 1661.

POLY-OLBION: or, A Chorographicall Description of all the Tracts, Rivers, Mountaines, Forests, and other Parts of this renowned Isle of Great Britaine; with Intermixture of the most remarkable Stories, Antiquities, Wonders, Rarityes, Pleasures, and Commodities of the same. Digested in a Poem by MICHAELL DRAYTON, Esq. Folio. London: Printed for M. Lownes, J. Browne, J. Helme, J. Busbie, 1613. With a Frontispiece, whole-length Portrait of Henry, Prince of Wales, engraved by William Hole, and Maps. To the Second Edition, 1622, were added Twelve Books, describing the East and North Parts of the Island. Reprinted in a folio Edition of Drayton's Works in 1748, and in an octavo Edition in Four Volumes, in 1753.

In Fynes Moryson's Itinerary, 1617, fol. Part III. Book III. c. 3, 4, 5, are descriptions of England, Scotland, and Ireland, in single chapters each. The last, with his History of the Affairs of Ireland from 1599 to 1603, was Reprinted at Dublin, 1735, in Two Volumes. Octavo.

The History of the Worthies of England, Endeavoured by THOMAS FULLER,

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FULLER, D.D. With a Portrait of the Author, by D. Loggan. Folio. Lond. 1662.

An Abridgement and Continuation was published in octavo in 1684, intitled Anglorum Speculum; or The Worthies of England in Church and State, by G. S."

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**The original Work was reprinted in Two Volumes, quarto, in 1811, with a few explanatory Notes, by John Nichols, F.A.S. In the Philosophical Transactions, No. 359, p. 589, and in the Proæmium of his " Belgium Britannicum," 1719, is Dr. William Musgrave's Latin Dissertation "de Britannia quondom pæne insula.” Magna Britannia et Hibernia, Antiqua et Nova: or A New Survey of Great Britain; wherein to the Topographical Account given by Mr. Cambden, and the late Editors of his Britannia, is added a more large History, not only of the Cities, Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes mentioned by them, but also of many other Places of Note, and Antiquities since discovered. Collected and composed by an impartial Hand. In Six Volumes. Quarto. Lond. in the Savoy, 1720-1731.

ENGLAND DESCRIBED: or The several (Counties and Shires thereof briefly handled; some Things also premised, to set forth the Glory of this Nation. By EDWARD LEIGH, Esq. Master of Arts of Magdalen Hall, in Oxford. Octavo. Lond. 1659.

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Memorabilia Mundi; or, Choice Memoirs of the History and Description of the World, 1670, 12mo. is more than half employed in the Description of England and Ireland.

BRITANNIA OF, A Geographical Description of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the Isles and Territories thereunto belonging. By RICHARD BLOME. Folio. Lond. 1672. England's Remarques; giving an exact Account of the several Shires, &c. Duodecimo. 1678, 1682.

ANGLIA REDIVIVA; being a full Description of all the Shires, Cities, principal Towns and Rivers in England; with some useful Observations concerning what is most remarkable, whether in relation to their Antiquity, Situation, Buildings, Traffick, or Inhabitants. Collected by Mr. DUNSTAR. Duodecimo. Lond. 1699. Britannia Baconica: or, the Natural Rarities of England, Scotland, and Wales, according as they are to be found in every Shire: historically related, according to the Precepts of the Lord Bacon; and the Causes of many of them philosophically attempted: by J. CHILDREY. Small Octavo. Lond. 1661.

Firma Burgi: or, An Historical Essay concerning the Cities, Towns, and Boroughs of England; taken from Records. By THOMAS. MADOX, Esq. His Majesty's Historiographer. Folio. Lond.

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British Curiosities in Art and Nature; giving an Account of Rarities both ancient and modern; viz. Monuments, Monasteries, Priories, Frieries, Nunneries, Colleges, Hospitals, Walls, Roman Camps, Garrisons, Highways, Coins, Altars, Urns, Pavements of Mosaic

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