Magnae Britanniae notitia: or, the present state of Great Britain. With diverse remarks upon the ancient state thereof / by John Chamberlayne.

  • Chamberlayne, Edward, 1616-1703.
Date:
1737
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Credit: Magnae Britanniae notitia: or, the present state of Great Britain. With diverse remarks upon the ancient state thereof / by John Chamberlayne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    s Clje patent <State Part L Azores j but London n\ all our late Maps is made the firft Me¬ ridian] asar e Brit any and Normandy in France, and between •50 and 56 of Northern Latitude, as are Flanders, Zealand, Holland, Lower Saxony, and Denmark, advantageoufly for Traffick to all Parts of the World. The longeft Day in the moft Northern Parts is 17 Hours 30 Minutes, and the fhorteft Day in the moft Southern Parts is> almoft 8 Hours. Bimenfion^*] ft is in Shape Triangular, the longeft Side from Berwick North, to the Land’s End South-Weft, 386 Miles 5 frcfrn Berwick to Sandwich* S S. E. about 280 Miles j from Sandwich E. to the Land’s-End W. by S. 279 Miles. And the Perpendicular from Berwick to Portfmouth, N. and S. 320 Miles: Contains, by Computation, 39,038,500 Acres, J»i75j95i Houfes, is almoft ten times as big as the United Ne¬ therlands, five times as bigas the Spani/Jj Netherlands; lefsr than Italy by almoft one Half, and, in Comparifon with France, is as 30 to 82. The Yearly Rent of all the Lands in England and Wales is computed at 7,500,000 Pounds, befldes the Rent of Houfes. [The Rents of England, if all the Lands Were taxed 4:0 the height, would be Ten Millions, becatife the Land-Tax iit4$. in thePound (which is a fifth Part of the Whole) makes Two Millions: But as four Tenths of the Lands are fuppofed to be taxed at half the Value, we therefore add Four Millions more, and then the Rents of all the Lands of Engl’tiria mu ft amount to Fourteen Millions, which is almoft Double what Mr. Chamherlayn fuppofed them to be.] UDifoifipn.] The whole ProvincialBritain, which took in Eng¬ land and the Loiv-Lands of Scotland as far as Grahnris Dike, wa% in the Time of the Romans, divided into Britannia Prima, Bri¬ tannia Secunda, and Maxima C&farienjis. The firft of thefe con- tainedthe South Part of England: the fecond all that Wedern Bart now called Wales ; and the third, the Northern Part beyond Brent; and, by a late Divifion, into Britannia Prima, Britannia Secunda, Flavia Cdfarienjis, Maxima C&farienjis, and Valencia. As to its Political Divifion, England (including Wales) is iTrft divided into 52 Counties, and they are fub-divided into Rapes, Lathes, Wapentakes, and Hundreds, and they again into Tythings. According to its Ecclefraftical JurifdifUon, it ts divided firft into 2 Provinces, or Archbifhopricks, Canterbury and York; <hefe 2 Provinces into 26 Diocefes, which are again divided *into 60 Archdeaconries, and thofe into Rural Deaneries, and thofe again into Parifhes } of which there are in both Provin¬ ces 9284; hereof 3845 are Churches Impropriate, i. e. in Lay- hands, where Lay-men receive the Tythes; or Appropriate, i. e. annexed to Colleges, or Church-Dignities. Of Parifhes (Camden fays) there are but 9284, from a Ca¬ talogue exhibited to Ring James L € H A ?,