Queries in order to the description of Britannia

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 what∣ever 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 Re∣quest 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 Privi∣leg'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 suffici∣ent 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.