Lakes Source, title page, Bowen 1720

Bowen 1720


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	Title page and a preface page, from Britannia Depicta or Ogibly Improv'd, by John Owen, Middle Temple, London, 4th edn with maps by Emanuel Bowen, 1720, published by Thomas Bowles, St Paul's Churchyard, London, and J Bowles, London, 1726? The prefatory pages have - table of maps, list of symbols, coats of arms of archbishops and bishops, table of cities, towns, etc, table of roads, and some explanation of the mapping.
	source type:-	Bowen 1720
	inscription:-	printed title page BRITANNIA DEPICTA / OR / OGILBY improv'd; / being a Correct Coppy of Mr. OGILBY's / ACTUAL SURVEY of all ye Direct & Principal Cross / ROADS in ENGLAND and WALES : / Wherin are exactly Delineated & Engraven, All ye / CITIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SEATS &c. / scituate on or near the ROADS, with their respective / Distances in MEASURED and COMPUTED MILES. / And to render this WORK universally Usefull & agreeable, [beyond / any of it's kind] are added in a clear & most Compendious Method / 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 from 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, Number 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 [ ]
	inscription:-	printed part of preface pages A Table of all the ROADS contain'd in this BOOK / 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 - / ... / The Second containing all the Direct De- / -pendant Roads, being Such as at Several / distances branch out of ye former Independant / Roads, are these - / ... / The Third Class contains all ye Principal / Independant Cross Roads, observing ye Alpha / betical order from ye Initial City or Town are these - / ... / 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 / ... /
	inscription:-	printed part of preface pages 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. /
	inscription:-	printed part of preface pages 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. /
	inscription:-	printed part of preface pages 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. / A Table of ye Peers Arms / 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 /
	inscription:-	printed part of preface pages 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. /
	inscription:-	printed part of preface pages 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. / ... / 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.
	inscription:-	printed part of preface pages 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.
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