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<HEAD>PROPOSALS For the Carrying on an Actual Survey of All the Counties in the Kingdom of <HI>ENGLAND</HI> and Principallity of <HI>WALES,</HI> in Order to the Compleating a New Book in Large Folio, to be Intituled Atlas Anglicanus.</HEAD>
<BYLINE>By <HI>John Seller</HI> Hydrographer to the KING's Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>John Oliver</HI> and <HI>Richard Palmer.</HI></BYLINE>
<P>_WHEREAS our former PROPOSALS hath been gratefully Accepted by &s;everal of the Nobi|lity and Gentry of this Kingdom: And we having con&s;ulted all Mapps already Extant, and finding &s;o great a Deficiency therein, we thereupon thought our &s;elves obliged to undertake this Great and Elaborate Work of an Actual Survey; wherein &s;hall be truly laid down the Sci|tuation of all the Cities, Market Towns, Pari&s;h Churches, Villages, and the Re&s;idencies of all the Nobility and Gentry, with particular Di&s;tinctions, and other Places of Note; with all the Principal Roads, truly Delineated therein: Wherein you may find the Latitude of any Town or Place in any of the &s;aid Mapps. And al&s;o an Exact Rule is given for the ready finding out any place at the fir&s;t fixing your Eye upon the &s;aid Mapps, and the Di&s;tances of one Place from another, without the trouble of Mea&s;uring.</P>
<P>To the Mapp of each County &s;hall be annexed a De&s;cription of the Air, Soil, Commodities, and Manufactures thereof; with other u&s;eful Remarques.</P>
<P>The whole &s;hall be printed with a fair Character on Royal Paper: For the better performing the &s;ame, we will im|prove our utmo&s;t Care and Diligence, that nothing may be omitted in &s;o Noble a De&s;ign; for the rendering the &s;aid Mapps more compleat and perfect; and not only larger, but much more Ornamental, and far more u&s;eful than any hi|therto publi&s;hed.</P>
<P>We do proceed herein with all convenient &s;peed, hoping to have the whole compleated by <HI>Michaelma&s;s Term</HI> 1681, if not before.</P>
<P>This being &s;o Publick and Laborious an Undertaking (and was never yet effectually performed) by any; and in regard it requires &s;o great an Expence in the Surveying, Engraving, and Printing thereof, we therefore, for the more Expeditious Carrying it on, do make the&s;e following
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<ITEM>1. Tho&s;e that will be plea&s;ed to &s;ub&s;cribe and pay unto any of the afore&s;aid Undertakers, or their A&s;&s;igns, the Sum of <HI>Fifty Shillings; Twenty</HI> whereof to be paid at the time of Sub&s;cription; for which &s;hall be given a Receipt under the Hand and Seal of any of the &s;aid Undertakers; <HI>Thirty Shillings</HI> more to be paid at the Delivery of the &s;aid Book in Quires, when compleated.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Any Gentlemen that are de&s;irous to have a nearer Relation to the &s;aid Work, paying the Charges thereof, may have their Coat of Arms curiou&s;ly Engraven, as Benefactors to the &s;ame.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Such Per&s;ons of Honour and Quality, as &s;hall be plea&s;ed to grace this Worthy De&s;ign with a more nearer Relati|on, may have the Mapp of any County they de&s;ire, dedicated to them: for which &s;ome convenient Incouragement is expected.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. Tho&s;e that will be more Curious in their Books, may have them printed on Imperial Paper, with the Mapps and Coats of Arms Illu&s;trated in their proper Colours; for which <HI>Fifty Shillings</HI> more is to be paid at the Delivery of the &s;aid Book.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. Who&s;oever &s;hall procure Sub&s;criptions for Twelve of the &s;aid Books (upon the performance thereof) &s;hall have One of the &s;aid Books pre&s;ented them <HI>gratis.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>For the &s;atisfaction of all Gentlemen that are Encouragers of this De&s;ign, none of the &s;aid Books &s;hall be &s;old to any Per&s;on what&s;oever, except to the Sub&s;cribers, under Three Pounds ten Shillings a piece; neither &s;hall any Book be delivered to any Per&s;on before the Sub&s;cribers have theirs.</P>
<P>And for the better &s;atisfaction to all Gentlemen of the Reality of this De&s;ign, there is to be &s;een at the Hou&s;e of <HI>John Seller</HI> at the <HI>Hermitage</HI> in <HI>Wapping,</HI> and <HI>John Oliver</HI> at the <HI>Eagle and Child</HI> on <HI>Ludgate-Hill;</HI> the Succe&s;&s;ive Progre&s;s of the Survey of each County, with a <HI>Specimen</HI> of our Work, being Mapps of one or more Counties; which is to be a Model to the re&s;t: And all to be performed in the &s;ame Manner and Exactne&s;s.</P>
<P><HI>FOR the Advancement of the Work above-mentioned, I will take and receive of</HI> John Seller, John Oliver, <HI>and</HI> Richard Palmer, <HI>or any of their A&s;&s;igns, <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> of the &s;aid Books, and pay the Money expre&s;&s;ed, according to the <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Propo&s;al.</HI></P>
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