The transcription below is limited to what concerns Hampshire. Thus, much is left out of the tables ...
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1, A full & particular Description & Account of all the CITIES, BOROUGH-TOWNS, TOWNS-CORPORATE &c. their ARMS. Antiquity, Charters, Privileges, Trade, Rarities, &c. with / suitable Remarks on all places of Note drawn ffrom the / best HISTORIANS and ANTIQURIES - /
By INO. OWEN of the MIDD: TEMPLE Gent. /
2, The ARMS of the PEERS of this REALM who derive / their Titles from places lying on, or near the ROADS /
3, The ARMS of all ye BISHOPRICKS & DEANARIES, their found / -dation, Extent, Yearly-Value, Number of Parishes &c. /
4, The ARMS, & a succinct Account of both UNIVERSITIES & their respective COLLEGES, their foundations, Fellowships &c. /
Lastly Particulars & Correct MAPS of all ye Counties of SOUTH BRITAIN; with a / Summary description of each County, its Circumference, Nnumber of Acres, Boro. & Market / Towns & Parishes, Air, Soil, Com~odities, Manufactures & what each Pays in ye [ ] Aid Ec. /
The Whole for its Compendious Variety & Exactness, preferable to all other Books of / Roads hitherto Published of Proposed; And calculated not only for the direction of / the Traveller [as they are] but the general use of the Gentlemen and Tradesmen /
[ye 4th. Edition.] By EMAN: BOWEN Engraver / LONDON Printed for & Sold by Tho: Bowles Print & Map Seller next ye Chapter House / iin St. Pauls Church-Yard & I. Bowles Print & map Seller over against [Stocks] Market [ ]
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Having dispos'd all the Principal ROADS of ENGLAND & WALES into 4 Classes, under ye distinction / & order following Vizt Independant & Dependant Direct Roads, Principal & Accidental Cross Roads.
The first containing all the Direct Inde- / -pendant Roads from London are these -
from London to -
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11 Lands End ________________ 59.
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13 Portsmouth________________ 71.
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The Second containing all the Direct De- / -pendant Roads, being Such as at Several / distances branch out of ye former Independant / Roads, are these -
from London to -
15 Barnstable________________ 77
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19 Chichester________________ 95
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28 Southampton ______________ 128
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30 Weymouth__________________ 134
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The Third Class contains all ye Principal / Independant Cross Roads, observing ye Alpha / betical order from ye Initial City or Town are these -
55 Oxford to Chichester______ 215
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57 Oxford to Salisbury ______ 221
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The 4th Class containing all ye Accidental Cross Roads / i.e. Such Roads as are not in a Direct Linee but com- / prise either 2 or 3 Horizontal bearings which are these
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70 London to Pool____________ 262
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The Title of every Road is a Distinct Page; to each of / which is annex'd a Map of ye County wherin the Initial / or Boundary City Town or Place lies [for the nost- / part] or else Some part of the description of ye Road / itself. /
The beginning of the Road is always at the bottom on / the left Hand, in the Page following the Title; whence you / proceed upwards from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 &c Miles untill you come / to the Top of the first Collum; and so on in like man~er / from the Bottom of the 2d. 3d. &c. beginning in every / Page on the left Hand as before directed -
The Black Dots or Points in the middle of the Road, / are the Stations of the Miles, with their respective / nos. affixed to them.
When any other Road Crosses or goes out of the Road / described there is an opening with the name of the / Place to which it goes: And in your progress you meet / with Rills, Brooks, Rivers, Bridges, [the Plan of / the Road shewing whether built of Wood, Brick, / or Stone, No. of Arches contain'd in each if of any / Note] Woods, Trees, Mountains and Hills [shew- / ing their Ascent or Descent as they really are, ve- / ry Naturally] The Plan of the Road having at the / Same time the Ichnography of all Citys, Towns / &c. and the Compass in each Collum the True / Bearings both of the Road itSelf and of all the Towns / and Places that offer themselves to your View on either / Side of it. The Road is all the Way bounded with 2 Paral- / lel Black Lines if inclosed or Hedg'd in on both sides, or / else if open, with 2 Parallel Dotted Lines, or lastly, if bound- / ed or Hedged in on One Side and open on the other, with / a Black Line and a Dotted Line Parallel to it.
The name of the Country the Road passes through is Engrav'd / on each Collum.
In the Margin or some other convenient Place of every Page / is likewise Engraved a Description of the City's, Boroughs, / [with the Arms of all such that have any] Corporations, / Market Towns, and whatever is remarkable, with figures / referring to the places where they are to be found in the Plan / of that Road: but to the intent that the Reader might / readily find out any place describ'd in this Book, we have / hereunto subjoyn'd an Alphabettical Table of all such places, / And wheras in the whole course of these Roads there are / many places repeated often in the Plan: The Reader / must therefore have recourse to the aforesaid Table to / direct him to the place he wants, it being describ'd only in / One.
Note The following Table refers both to ye Arms & ye descripti- / on of every City and Borough Town at Once, they being insepe- /rably connected together throughout this Book.
A Table of ye Cities Towns &c. describ'd in this Book.
Cities Towns &c. ____________ Page
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Alton________________________ 217
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Alton________________________ 129
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Andover_______________________ 78
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Basingstoke___________________ 61
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Christ Church________________ 204
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Limington____________________ 263
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Malwood______________________ 263
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Petersfield___________________ 96
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Portsmouth ___________________ 73
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Ringwood ____________________ 263
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Rumsey ______________________ 263
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Southampton__________________ 129
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Stockbridge__________________ 125
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Whitchurch ___________________ 60
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Winchester ___________________ 97
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A Table of ye Peers Arms
Dukes
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Marquesses
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Winchester_________________ 97
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Earls
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Viscounts
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Barons
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N.B. The Arms of the / Peers who derive Titles / from any of the Counties of / South Britain are placed / in ye Maps of those Counties
See a Table of all the / Counties in ye following Pages
A Table of all the MAPS contain'd in the BOOK
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Hampsh.____________ 262
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NB. The following Caracters in each of the Maps here referred to do denote [ ] Bishoprick / [ ] Borough Towns. [ ] Market Towns. [ ] Towns of less Note and Villages.
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All England & Wales in relation to Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction is divided into 2 Provinces, Canterbury and / York. The ArchBishop of Canterbury is stiles Primate of all England & Metropolitan; & ye ArchBishop of York / Primate of England & Metropolitan. Under these are 24 Bishops, 21 under Canterbury & 3 under York. / The Names of ye BP.ricks belonging to each are set down in ye following Table wch. also refers to ye places where / both ye BP.ricks & Deanaries are severally describ'd.
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Winchester [b'rick see here][deanary see p.97]
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The Bishoprick of WINCHESTER
[coat of arms]
Contains the Counties of / Surrey & Southampton / & ye Isles of Wight, Jersey, / Guernsey, Sark, & Alder- / ney, & therein 386 Pars. / Was founded by Kinegil- / fas K. of ye West Saxons, AD / 650 St. Birinethe first BP. / Value 3193œ=4s=7d=1/4: / Chief Seats Farnham Castle in / Surrey, Wolvesey House in Winchester, Chel- / sea House in Middlx.
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NB, the Arms &c. on either Side of this Table / are placed in this Page for want of convenient / Room in the Places where they ought to have been inserted.
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Advertisment
Whereas in this Work there is an omission of Some / particulars set forth in ye Proposals; ye Undertakers / have Since ye publishing ye said Proposals been ad- / vised to omit ye same as immaterial, & doubt not but / ye Subscribers will think Such omission amply re / compensed by Several very material [& more / expencive] Additions never proposed.
