A direction for the English traviller by which he shal be inabled to coast about all England and Wales. And also to know how farre any market or noteable towne in any shire lyeth one from an other, and whether the same be east, west, north, or south from ye shire towne : as also the distance betweene London, and any other shire or great towne: with the scituation thereof east, west, north, or south from London : by the help also of this worke one may know (in what parish, village, or mansion house soeuer he be in) what shires he is to passe through & which way he is to trauell till he come to the journies end
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Type of record: Book
Title: A direction for the English traviller by which he shal be inabled to coast about all England and Wales. And also to know how farre any market or noteable towne in any shire lyeth one from an other, and whether the same be east, west, north, or south from ye shire towne : as also the distance betweene London, and any other shire or great towne: with the scituation thereof east, west, north, or south from London : by the help also of this worke one may know (in what parish, village, or mansion house soeuer he be in) what shires he is to passe through & which way he is to trauell till he come to the journies end
Classmark: Whitaker Collection 28
Creator(s): Simons, Matthew (1654)
Publisher: Are to be sold by Thomas Jenner
Publication city: [London]
Date(s): 1643 [i.e. ca. 1668?]
Language: English
Size and medium: 40 leaves, tables
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298155
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003838019705181
Description
Leaves 4-39 all consist of table of distance for an English county with a small map at bottom right hand corner.
Possibly a reissue of ca. 1668. Cf. Brotherton Library annotation, Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 28.
Indexed in: Chubb XLVI.
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