To the Reader. 
furlongs) to a mile, k ufual in England, no lefs than 69 will cor- 
re/pond to a degree ; upon which account it ii and no other^ that of 
the middle Oxford-fliire 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 exa5i 
Northern latitude of Oxford, colle^ed from the many years obfer- 
vations of Dr. Banbridg, and at lajl concluded to befeatedin the 
4^ minute of the 5 1 degree, proxime ; /^e 52"'* degre-e beginning 
at the fmalllinepafftng through Mixbury, Clifton, north o/Dedding- 
ton, the two Barfords, South Nuneton, and between Hoke Nor- 
ton and the Lodge Bj which divifion 'tis eafie to know to a minute 
of a degree^ nayalmo^ to a fecond, in what latitude every Town, 
Parifli, Village, and Genthrmns Houfe Is feat ed. 
Befide^ for the Houfcs of the Nobility and Gentry, this Map k 
fo contrived^ that a FoveignGr a6 well as EngliCh-man, at what di- 
fiance foever^ may with eafe find out who are the Owners of mofi of 
them ; [0 06 to be able to fay that this h fuch or fuch a Gentlemans 
Houfe : And all this done by Figures put to every fuch Uoui^e^ which 
referring again to Figures of the fame value^ placed in order over the 
Arms in the Limb of the Map, Jhew in the bottom of each Shield the 
Nobleman or Gentlemans name, whofe houfe it w ; their refpe^ive 
Coats of Arms being always placed between the Figure andNzme : 
which too (all but fome few^ are cut in their metals, furs, or colours, 
as born by their Owners. 
And not only the Shields, hut Ordnaries, Charges, Differences, 
&c. where they are not too fmall: if Argent, being left white ; 
//Or, filled with fmall point s\ if Gules, perpendicular- 
ly, or in pale ; // Azure, horizontally, or fefs-ways ; if Vert, 
obliquely or bend-ways; i/Sable, both pale fefs-ways, as 
may be feen in the Map, which are all the colours made ufe of there. 
And if ever hereafter I Jhall meet with any hearing Purpure, Ten, or 
Sanguine ; thefirfl Jhallbe represented with Lines in bend finifter ; 
Ten, ir/M lines falter^ ways, mixt 0/ Vert Purpure ; andSzn- 
guine, paly bendy, mixt of Gules and Purpure. 
According /o.//ji5 method, not only the Arms of the Univerfity, 
all the Colleges^ and Towns incorporate in the County (which I 
have placed in the upper 7nargin of theu^^) hut on the fides and bot- 
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