S SINCE the last Edition of this WORK, so many Alterations and Amendments have been made throughour, that some Account of the present One seems absolutely necessary to be given for the Reader's Satisfaction. It is acknowledged on all Hands to be the most perfect Piece, of its kind, extant; as noç only containing the State of Great Britain (and Ireland) made so by the Happy Union of Scotland, and these Kingdoms in the Year '1706. to the Immortal Glory of her late Majesty Queen Anne, but likewise, an exact Account of the German Dominions belonging to his most Excellent Majesty King GeoRGE II. with the GenEALOGY of the House of Hanover, the Dukes of Zell, and the rest of its Illustrious Branches, Many useful Improvements are now made in the Historical Parts of this WORK, and Tables added to each. As to the Lists of the Officers, Civil and MILITARY, the several Changes made therein have noc been inserted from common Rumour, or the Accounts of News Papers buc each Lift has been corrected by the Officers belonging to the respective Branches of the Royal Revenue, &c. To whom in this Place ic is proper to return our graceful Acknow ledgment for the same. The Catalogue of Baronets has beer faithfully continued by the College of Heralds and to render that Part more compleat, the Places of Abode or Ticle are now added to di ftinguish one Family from another, that bear the same common Name. And as the partie çular Manner of spelling those Names are very different, a strict Regard has also been had to that, as will appear by the Smiths, the Mid dletons, and several others; and a List of the Members of the Royal Society (both Foreigh and Domestick) as well as of the Establishment of the Army, the Officers of the Works, che Common-Council of the City of London, and several other Lists, equally useful, are corrected and amended in this Edition. So thao it is humbly hoped, this Book, as it is now presented to the Publick, is the most compleat of its kind, both with Respect to the History and Lifts. . THE
Τ Η Ε CONTENTS , CHAP. I. Of the Country, as inhabited and divided into three Principal Parts, England, Scotland and Wales, Page i CHAP. II. Of England in particular ; Of its Scituation, Ex- CHAP. III. Of the natural Beauty of England, and the Fertility tits Soil: The Advantage it has of being free from burtful, or EAP.IV. The principal Ornaments and Curiositiesof England, p. 12 HAP. V. Of the Populousness of England, and the yearly Rez 1 eetuz of its Lands and Houses, HAP. VI. England divided into Forty Counties, and a Table Ascing the Extent of each, and Number of its Parishes, Market- Gut, and Members of Parliament: The Counties afterwards evided into Maritime and Inland, EAP. VII. A particular Description of each County, in Alphabetical urder; wherein Notice is taken, especially of the Shire and Market- 285, and Market-days; of such Places as fend Members to Par. Laseri, and of those whence Noblemen take their Titles, p. 20 RAP. VIII. Of the Counties of Wales, FIP. IX. A new and exact Description of London, 12. X. Of the English Britons; and firft of their Original, zezage, Complexion, Conftitution, Temper and Genius; and :mot famous Men in former Ages, P. XI. Of the Religion of the English, 2.P. XII. Of their Way of Living, as to Lodging, Food, Raiment, le: Fuel: Exercises and Recreations ; Festivals and Fasting-days, * fane particular Cuftoms : Their Computation of Time : The Psales they are most fubje&t to, +P. XIII. Of the vaji Trade of England, both at Home and ? XIV. Of the Coir, Weights and Measures, which by the ** with Scotland, ought to be the same all over Great- XV. Of the Conveniencies of Travelling : Of the Pol, Pecket-Boats, for Intercourse of Letters, XVI. Of the several Orders and Degrees amongst the 23; and firft, of the Nobility, CHAP. XX. Of the dignified and inferior Clergy, with count of their Ordination, the Metbod us'd to get a Livin the Maintenance of the inferior Clergy; likewise of the CHAP. XXI. Of the several Parties which are now in Er CHAP. XXII. Of the Government of England ; and forf, Laws of England, of an Arbitrary Power, Minority, Absence, or Incapacity of the Royal Family neral, and the Succeffion to the Crown, CHAP. XXV. Of the Nine great Officers of State, CHAP. XXVI. Afort History of the Kings and Queens of land ; and forf, of the Saxon and Danish Kings, till w CHAP. XXVII. Of the Norman Kings of England, from Britain, James I. to bis present Majesty King George' II. CHAP. XXIX. Of the several Branches of the Royal Blog the Settlement of the Crown in the Proteftant Line, CHAP. XXXII. Of the King's Court, CHAP. XXXIII. Of his Majesty's Revenue, and Officers ing to it, and particularly of the Three Principal Secretaries of State, CHAP. XXXV. Of the Parliament of Great Britain, CHAP. XXXVI. Of the Courts of Judicature ; and the Superior Court of Chancery, CHAP. XXXVII. Of the Alizes and Seffions; and therein cular Account of the English Way of Trying Malefactors, CHAP. XXXVIII. Of the Courts of Sheriffs, Mayors, and men, Court-Leets, Court-Barons, and Courts of Conscience of the Court of Admiralty, Court-Marshal, and Forefts- CHAP. XXXIX. Of the Spiritual Courts, CHAP. XL. Of the Punishments infli&ted on Offenders, |
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