THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND: OR, A Comprehenfive View Of the ANTIQUITIES of this KINGDOM; The Remains of PALACES, MONASTERIES, CAMPS, The chief VILLAGES, MARKET, TOWNS, and CITIES; The Two UNIVERSITIES, and the CITIES of LONDON The whole divided into the refpective COUNTIES ATRAVELLING POCKET COMPANION: Pointing out whatever is Curious, both in ART and The Second EDITION, improved and enlarged. LONDO N: Printed for L. DAVIS and C. REYMER 3, against Gray's-Inn Gate, Holborn M.DCC.LXIV. G.A. Gen. top 16° 1744 TO THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES PRINCE WILLIAM AND PRINCE HENRY WHO ARE BY NATURE FORMED AND BY CULTURE FINISHED TO BE THE ORNAMENTS OF THEIR NATIVE COUNTRY THIS COMPREHENSIVE VIEW OF IT IS WITH THE MOST PROFOUND HUMILITY ADDRESSED BY THE EDITOR (r) PREFA CE T HE general Plan of this Work is explained in the Title; fome Particulars, however, with regard to the Execution of it, the Editor judged not amifs to make the Subject of a Page or two. Whatever may be the Merits of other Compilations in this Way, it must be owned that they are commonly voluminous; confequently improper for the Pocket, and thereby rendered incapable of anfwering one of the main Purposes for which they are confeffedly intended, the Ufe of the Road. The Editor has therefore attempted to accommodate the English Traveller with a small portable Affiftant, proper to direct bim to fuch Particulars as appear to be worthy his Attention, in the respective Counties to which they belong. Few Englishmen have acquired fuch a competent Knowledge of what their Country exhibits, as to be able, when they travel, in any tolerable Degree, to fatisfy their own Curiofity. And it is in vain to expect that we fhould always find upon the Spot, Perfons fufficiently fkilful and willing to give us the necessary Information A 2 Without |