QƲERIES in Order to the Description of BRITANNIA.

  • 1 OF the County in general.
  • 2 The several Hundreds, Parishes, Villages and Hamlets.
  • 3 Peculiars or Priviledg'd Places.
  • 4 Cities, Towns Corporate, Market-Towns and Fair-Towns
  • 5 Houses of Nobility and Gentry.
  • 6 Castles, Churches, Chappels, Monasteries, Hospitals, Schools, Colleges.
  • 7 Mills, Beacons, Bridges, Mountains.
  • 8 Chaces, Forrests, Woods, Groves, Parks, Warrens, Com­mons, Heaths.
  • 9 Valleys, Rivers, Brooks, Meres, Ponds.
  • 10 Places where Battles have been, Lodges in Forrests, &c.
  • 11 Works and Mines of Salt, Lead, Tin, Iron, Coal, Lime, Alabaster, Marble, Free-stone, Grindstone, Mill-stone, Silver, Gold, Copper.
  • 12 Waters, Springs and Baths, Cold or Hot, Medicinal, Bi­tuminous Petrifying, &c.
  • 13 Precincts of Diocesses.
  • 14 What Part of the Countrey is Arrable, Pasture, Meadow.
  • 15 Roman Ways and Stations, Coyns and Monuments, &c.
  • 16 Accidents, Calamities or Casualties.
  • 17 Improvements in Husbandry, Houswifery.
  • 18 Peculiar Customs or Manners of the Countrey.
  • 19 Places of Birth, Education or Habitation of Eminent Persons, in all Ages.
  • ⟨20.⟩ ⟨Obsolete and peculiar Words.⟩
  • ⟨21.⟩ ⟨Old Customs.⟩

Of these, or any of them, Information is desir'd in Writing, either upon certain Know­ledge, or other good Authority, directing each Remark to the Number relating to it, and annexing thereto the County and Hundred wherein the Remark falls. ⟨ ✓⟩

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