England's remarques giving an exact account of the several shires, counties, and islands in England and Wales. In every of which you have I. How the county is bounded. II. The length, breadth, and circumference. III. The temperature of the air, and fertility or barrenness of the soil. IV. What commodities each shire or county affordeth. V. In what dioces, and how many parishes in it. VI. The number of Parliament-men, hundreds, and market-towns. VII. In every shire you have the name of the city or shire-town, with the latitude thereof, and how it bears, with the reputed and measured distance of the same from London, the road to the same; how governed, and the coat of arms, and what other things are therein remarkable. VIII. You have the names of such noble families as have been dukes or earls of each county since their first constitution. IX. Whatsoever is eminent or remarkable thorow-out the whole kingdom. To which is added a travelling map, describing the principal roads thorow-out England.

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London :: printed for Langley Curtis in Goat-Court upon Ludgate-Hill, and sold by Tho. Mercer at the Half Moon under the south-east corner of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill,

1682.

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"England's remarques giving an exact account of the several shires, counties, and islands in England and Wales. In every of which you have I. How the county is bounded. II. The length, breadth, and circumference. III. The temperature of the air, and fertility or barrenness of the soil. IV. What commodities each shire or county affordeth. V. In what dioces, and how many parishes in it. VI. The number of Parliament-men, hundreds, and market-towns. VII. In every shire you have the name of the city or shire-town, with the latitude thereof, and how it bears, with the reputed and measured distance of the same from London, the road to the same; how governed, and the coat of arms, and what other things are therein remarkable. VIII. You have the names of such noble families as have been dukes or earls of each county since their first constitution. IX. Whatsoever is eminent or remarkable thorow-out the whole kingdom. To which is added a travelling map, describing the principal roads thorow-out England." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A38421.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.

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But now, as contemning Bondage, this City hath enlarged her self on all sides with spacious Suburbs, insomuch that she hath joyned her self Westward with another City, to wit, Westminster; and extending her Building Eastward as far as Black-wall; so that now the City is of great ex∣tent, being in length, from Black-wall in the East, to Tuttle-fields in the West, about six miles; and in breadth, one, two, and in some places al∣most three miles; and in circuit 'tis computed about 14 or 15 miles; in which are numbred above 500 Streets and Lanes, and 75000 Dwel∣ling-Houses.