APRIL the xxth. 1693. NEW PROPOSALS FOR Printing by Subscription, Cambden's Britannia, English.
Newly Translated, with Large ADDITIONS.

CAMBDEN's BRITANNIA in English being very Scarce and Dear, the Price of a Fair one being at present no less then Three Pound, tho' the Edition be but a very bad one, and the Translation very ill; divers Gentle­men have long desired the Re-printing of it in English, and to the doing thereof great numbers have already Contributed by Subscriptions: It is thought fit for the general Advantage, that these Proposals for Printing the said Book by Sub­scription be made publick.

The Reputation and Worth of the Author and Book is so universally known that nothing need be said here to Recommend it, except the Account of the Me­thod to be used in Printing this Edition.

Which shall be Printed in a fair Character, and on very good Paper, according to this Specimen.

The whole Book new Translated from the Original, which several Gentlemen of great Learning and Skill in the Antiquities of ENGLAND have under­taken to do.

In the former Translation made by Doctor Philemon Holland, many Additions of the Translator, were by a very unwarantable Liberty inserted into the Text, which are here put as Notes only at the end of the Page.

The Additions will be these,

A new Account of Mr. Cambden's Life and Works shall be given at large, with Additions and Amendments out of his own Papers.

A Map of England as in the times of the Romans will be Printed according to Antoninus's Itinerary, with the Names and Situation of the Roman Towns, Co­lonies, and Ways.

A Corrected Map of England as in the time of the Saxons will be Printed in like manner.

A general Map of England, Scotland, and Ireland; as also a particular Map of each County, by Mr. Robert Morden, according to the newest Surveys that have been made, together with all the Roads exactly marked out, and all the [Page]Places mentioned by Cambden, inserted, tho' many of them have by time been quite destroyed, and the Degrees of Longitude and Latitude Marked on the Sides. Nothing shall be Printed on the Back of the Maps.

All the Discoveries that have been made in several Counties since Mr. Camb­den's Death, in the particular Histories of well nigh half the Counties of England, and in several Manuscript and Histories, shall be added in short as Notes, or set forth in the Dissertation following the whole Work; together with an Account of all those Authors that have Illustrated England in General, or any one County in Particular.

An Account of the Universities, Colledges, Schools, Coins, Buildings of England, and the Seats of the present Nobility, shall be added at the end of the Work.

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The large Discourse of Mr. Cambden concerning the Government of the Ro­mans and Saxons in England, concerning the Degrees in England, and the Courts of Britain, will by large Marginal Notes be much Corrected and Improved, and some Original Discourses on that Subject will be added by an Eminent Hand.

Divers large INDEX'S and GLOSSARIES will be added at the end of the Work.

☞ THE Maps mentioned in the former Proposals (though they were Design'd according to the new­est Surveys very Correct, and contained all the Towns that were mentioned in Cambden's yet) were not thought Large and Comprehensive enough, by some Judicious and Ingenious Gentlemen that assist in the Work, Who think it Proper and Necessary to have the Maps of every County full as Large as this Sheet will admit, and to Comprehend every Town, Village, &c. throughout.

The Undertakers therefore to Comply with these and many other Gentlemens Desires, have Resolved to have the Maps so done; with all the Roads, and the Degrees of Longitude and Latitude, and other considerable Additions and Corrections never done before. Though the Expence will be at least 500 l. Extraordinary.

Besides which, many Additions will be made to the Book more than were mentioned; particularly a curious Collection of all the Publick Coins of England, supplying what are wanting in Mr. Cambden's of the Britains and Romans, and adding those of the Saxons, Danes, &c. which will be done by an Eminent Hand. And all the Coins fairly Engraved on Copper.

And for these Reasons we are obliged to raise the Price to Thirty Two Shillings, which cannot be esteem­ed Dear, considering the great Charge extraordinary, in Graving the Maps so Large, and the excessive Price of Paper at this time, the Maps alone being worth the Money.

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BRITAIN.

BRITAIN, by the Latins called Britannia, and Albion, by the Greeks [...], and [...], the most Famous Island of the whole World, is di­vided from the Continent of Eu­rope by the Ocean. It lies over against Germany and France in a Figura Triquetra. Caes. Com. l. 5. Triangular Form, having it's Three Promontories shooting out three several ways, viz. Belerium [the Lands End] toward the West; Cantium [the Foreland in Kent] toward the East; Tarvisium or Orcas [the Point of Cathness in Scotland] toward the North. On the West, between it and Ireland, the Vergivian [or Irish] Sea breaks in; On the North it is bea­ten upon by the vast and wide Northern Ocean: On the East, where it faceth Germany, it is wash'd by the German Ocean; On the South over against France by the British Channel. Thus divided by a convenient Distance from these Neighbouring Nations, and made fit by its open Harbors for the Traffick of the whole World, it seems to have ad­vanced it self on all side into the Sea, as it were for the general Benefit of Mankind. For between Kent and Calais in France it runs so far out into the Sea, See in Kent. and the Channel is so straight, that (a) some are of opinion that a Breach was there made, and that the Sea hath work'd it self thro' the Neck of Land, which before joyn'd the two Countries to each other; and to confirm it they bring Virgil in that Verse,

Et penitus toto divisos Orbe Britannos.

And Britans quite from all the World disjoyn'd.

Because as Servius Honoratus observes, that Britain was anciently joyn'd to the Continent. And Clau­dian in Imitation of Virgil,

—Nostro diducta Britannia Mundo.

And Britain sever'd from our World.

It is not at all unlikely that the outward Face and Fashion of the Earth may by the Deluge and other Causes have been alter'd, that some Moun­tains may have been raised and heightned, and many High Places may have sunk into Plains and Valleys; Lakes and Meers may have been dried up, and dry Places may have become Lakes and Meers, and some Islands may have been torn and broken off from the Continent. But whether it be true indeed, and whether there were any Islands before the Flood, I shall not here argue, nor of God's Works inconsiderately give my Opinion. All know that the Divine Providence hath dispos'd different things to the same end: And indeed it hath always been allow'd, as well by Divines as Philosophers, That Isles scatter'd in the Sea do no less contri­bute to the Beauty of the whole World in general, than Lakes and Lofty Mountains dispersed about the Continents.

Livy and Fabius Rusticus have made the Form of this [Island] to resemble an Scutulae Oblongae. Oblong Platter, or Bipenni. See Sir H. Savile upon this place in Tacitus. Two edg'd Ax; and such certainly is its Shape towards the South, (as Tacitus observes) which yet hath been ill apply'd to the whole Island. For Northward that vast Tract of Land shooting for­ward to a Point, groweth narrow and sharp like a Wedge. The Ancients thought it so great, and so very large in Circumference, that Caesar, The Pane­gyrick spo­ken to Con­stantius, falsly Enti­tuled to Maximian. who first of all the Romans discover'd it, wrote that he had found out another World, supposing it so great, that it seem'd not to be surrounded with the Sea, but even to contain and encompass the Ocean. And Julius Solinus Polyhistor asserts, That for its large­ness, it almost deserv'd to be call'd another World. Nevertheless, our Age, by many and often Surveys, hath now well nigh found the true Dimensions of the whole Isle. For from Tarvisium [the Point of Cathness] unto Belerium [the Lands end] reckoning the windings and turnings of the Shores along the West side, are computed about DCCCXII Miles. From thence along the Southern Coasts to Cantium [the Kentish Foreland] CCCXX Miles. Hence Coasting the German Ocean, with crooked Bays and Inlets for DCCIV Miles, it reacheth to Tarvisium [the Point of Cathness]: So that by this Computation the whole Island is in Circuit MDCCCXXXVI Miles. Which Mea­sure, as it falls much short of Pliny's, so it is some­what less then Caesars: Com. 5. Read Schimnius. Schitinius Chius is not worth my mentioning, who in Apollonius de Mirabilibus (having told us strange Stories of Fruits grow­ing in Britain without Kernels, and Grapes with­out Stones) makes its Circuit CCCC Stadia [Furlongs] and no more. But Dionysius Afer in his Description of the World, hath given a much bet­ter Account of the British Islands, that is, Britain and Ireland.

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Vast is the Compass of the British Coasts;
A like Extent no Rival Island boasts.

And with him Aristides and other Greek Wri­ters agree, who by way of Excellency have truly call'd Britain [...]the Great Island.

Now they that have more accurately compar'd the Spaces of the Heavens with the Tracts of Earth, have plac'd Britain under the VIIIth. Climate, and include it within the (b) XVIIIth. & XXVIth. Pa­rallels, computing the longest Day at XVIII E­quinoctial Hours and an half. Belerium [the Lands end] according to the Spherical Figure of the Earth, they place (c) XVI Degrees and L Scruples from the farthest Point Westward; Cantium [the Kentish Foreland] in XXI Degrees of Longitude. As for the Latitude they Measure in the Southern Parts L Degrees X Scruples; at Tarvisium [Cathness] LIX Degrees, XL Scruples. So that according to [...]

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