( i6o ) 
H. From the Nt?rwtf» Conqueft, he has proceeded 
by way of Annals, giving an exad Account, under 
the (everal Years, ot the Defcent of Families, the Con- 
veyance of Eftates, and other Occurrences, which 
feem'd material towards the full lUuftration of the Hi- 
ftory of thofe Parts. 
III. He has given us iheHiftoryof tht Roman City 
jilchejler, near Bifler, composed in the Year 1612, 
by a Learned Antiquary, who had both Judgment and 
Opportunities, to make proper Obfervations upon thefe 
Remains of Antiquity. 
IV. We have the Profpefts of the moft confiderable 
Seats in thofe Parts. 
V. To thefe is added a General Index, of the Names 
of I^rfons and Places. 
VI. A Gloflary, explaining the Obfolete Words and 
Thrafei which occur in the Original Charters and Re- 
cords, fct down in their proper Places ,• fome Hundreds 
of which were never mentioned in any GlofTary. 
This, in fliort, is.theSubftance of the Work ; which 
(upon reading of the Title-page; I prefum'd would on- 
ly concern the Inhabitants of the feveral Parifties defcrib'd. 
But upon a farther Examination of the Book, I find it 
fo managed' by the Learned Author, as to be of great 
ufe to the L,overs of Antiquity in general. For 
!• It is an excellent Pattern of any ingenious Gentle- 
man, that fliall think fit to fearch into the Antiquities of 
his Native place, and the Neighbourhood (and it is none 
of the eafiefl: things to find out a proper Method, how. 
to digeft fiich a confufion of Matter, as one is necefla- . 
rily engag'd in by fuch an Undertaking.) But this is 
not all : As the Counties of £^g^W were divided into 
Karilhes , at the fame time, ai^ for the fame Ends,- Co 
lU^ Cuftoms and Gpyernnaent of them all,, is the fame 
