The Efijlle Dedicator/, 



Yet what more particularly moved me to prefent it to 

 Your Majefty, is not only Your favor to Learning in ge- 

 neral) and efpecially to this place but much more Your 

 Majefties exquifit infight into the matter it folf, infomuch 

 that though the former might have given me fome confi- 

 dence of Your Majefties acceptance, yet it feems more my 

 intereft to appeal to Your Judgment, and humbly to im- 

 plore Your Majefties decifion, Whether if England and 

 Wales were thus furveyed, it would not be both for the 

 honor, and profit of the Nation ' 



Which defign, if Your Majefty think fit to difapprove, 

 it will yet be fome fatisfadtion to the Author, that he has 

 fhewed his ready (though mifguided} zeal to ferve his 

 Country : But if Your Majefty fhall judge it advanta- 

 geous to the Kingdom, or but any way worthy Your 

 Majefties diverfion, there {hall none more induftrioufly 

 and chearfully proceed in itj than 



Your Majeslles mofl Loial 



and 

 most obedient 



SubjeB, 



Rob. Plot. 



