To the Reader. 



furlongs) to a mile, as is ufual in England, no lefs than 69 will cor- 

 refpond to a degree ; upon which account it is and no other, that of 

 the middle Oxford-fhire miles, each containing 9 furlongs and.a 

 quarter, about 60 will do it. 



According to thefe miles, the degrees of North latitude are divi- 

 ded into minutes on each fide /^eMap, chiefly made off from the exacl 

 Northern latitude of Oxford, collected from the many years obfer- 

 vations of Dr. Banbridg, and at lafi concluded to befeated in the 

 46 minute of the 5 1 degree, proxime ; the$2 nd degree beginning 

 at the fmall line pajfing through Mixbury, Clifton, north o/Dedding- 

 ton, the two Barfords, South Nuneton, and between Hoke Nor- 

 ton and the Lodge; By which divifion 'tis eafie to know to a minute 

 of a degree, nayqlmoft to a fecond, in what latitude every Town, 

 Parifti, Village, and Gentlemans Houfe is feated. 



Befide, for the Houfes of the Nobility and Gentry, this Map is 

 fo contrived, that a Foreigner as well as Engli(h-man, at what di- 

 flance foever, may with eafefind out who are the Owners of moft of 

 them ; (0 as to be able to fay that this is fuch or fuch a Gentlemans 

 Houfe: And all this done by Figures put to every fuch Houfe, which 

 referring again to Figures of the fame value, placed in order over the 

 Arms in the Limb of /i>eMap, Jhew in the bottom of each Shield the 

 Nobleman or Gentlemans name, whofe houfe itfc ; their refteftive 

 Coats of Arms being always placed between the Figure, and Name: 

 which too (allbutfomefew) are cut in their metals, furs, or colours, 

 as born by their Owners. 



And not only the Shields, but Ordnaries, Charges, Differences, 

 &c. where they are not too/mall: if Argent, being left white ; 

 if Or, filled with fmall points; if Gules, lineated perpendicular- 

 ly, or in pale j if Azure, horizontally, or fefs-ways ; if Vert, 

 obliquely or bend-ways ; //"Sable, both pale and fefs-ways, as 

 may bejeenin the Map, which are all the colours made uje of there: 

 And if ever hereafter I Jball meet with any bearing Purpure, Ten, or 

 Sanguine ; thefirjl Jhallbe represented with Lines in bend finifter ; 

 Ten, with lines falter- ways, mixt of Vert and Purpure ; and San- 

 guine, paly bendy, mixt of Gules and Purpure. 



According to this method, not only the Arms of the Univerfity, 

 all the Colleges, and Towns incorporate in the County (which 1 

 have placed in the upper margin of /^Map) but on the fides and bot- 

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