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LIST

OF THE PRINCIPAL

BOOKS, MAPS, AND VIEWS,

THAT HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN

lustration of the Topography, Antiquities, &c. of the

COUNTY OF SURREY.

TOWARDS the middle of the seventeenth century, Sir Edward Bysshe, a native of Surrey, announced his intention of publishing a Survey, or History of this County. It is certain that he made some collections for the purpose as some fragments of them are interspersed in his notes on Upton De studio militari, Lond. 1654. fol.; but the office of Garter King at Arms, to which the Parliament appointed him in 1645, though five years before, he, with other members, had voted it illegal, diverted him from the prosecution of his design.

The plan of a History of Surrey was, however, resumed before the death of Sir Edward Bysshe by Aubrey, who was furnished with a requisition to all justices, mayors, and other officers in general, to assist him in making an actual survey of the county, and to give him free access to all such public registers and other books as might promote the geographical and historical description of the kingdom, which Ogilby was authorized by the royal warrant to prepare. Aubrey accordingly perambulated the whole county, and his labours were revised, corrected, and published by Dr. Rawlinson, under the title of: "The Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, begun in the year 1673, by John Aubrey, Esq. F. R. S. and continued to the present time. Illustrated with proper sculptures, Lond. 1719." 5 vols. 8vo. A second edition appeared in 1723, brought down to that time, by Dr. Rawlinson.

A few years afterwards appeared the "Antiquities of Surrey, collected from the most ancient Records, with some Account of the present State and Natural History of that County. By N. Salmon, LL. B. Lond. 1736." 8vo.

Such were the only publications that had appeared respecting this district in general, when the late Rev. Mr. Manning began to form collections for a work which should truly deserve the name of a County History. On this undertaking, for which he was eminently qualified by his critical skill in the Saxon language, and his general learning, he bestowed unwearied attention for thirty years, till the loss

of sight suspended, and death put a final period to, his labours. He had formed a plan differing in one respect from that of any preceding writer on the subject. He began with the Terra Regis in Domesday; and after illustrating it by a commentary, he intended to deduce the history of those particular estates to modern times. He had hunself drawn a map of all the places in, the County mentioned in that venerable record, (which is given in the first volume,) and had caused to be engraved on copper a fuc simile of the whole of it which relates to this county; he had written an introduction; he had drawn up and transcribed nearly all this part. For the rest of the county he had inade large collections; but these were left merely in the form of notes, with the exception of a very few parishes, which he had begun to digest. In this situation were his papers at the time of his death, when an application was made to the late Mr. Gough to superintend the publication, but declined by him. Under these circumstances the task was undertaken by William Bray, Esq. a gentleman particuJarly well qualified for the task, from having attended from an early part of life to the history of his native soil, and the opportunities which he possessed of giving considerable information, as well from his own collections as from the British Museum, and who has personally visited nearly all the churches in the county. Under his superintendence the first and second volumes have appeared, under the title of "The History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, compiled from the best and most authentic Historians, valuable Records and Manuscripts in the Public Offices and Libraries, and in Private Hands. With a fac simile copy of Domesday, engraved on thirteen plates. By the late Rev. Owen Manning, S. T. B. rector of Peperharrow, and vicar of Godalming in that County. Continued to the Present Time. By William Bray of Shire, Esq. Fellow and Treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Fot. I. 1804. Vol. II. 1809." tolio. These volumes are illustrated with numerous views and plans; and the third, which will complete the work, is expected to appear early in 1813.

"General View of the Agriculture of the County of Surrey. Drawn up for the Board of Agriculture, and Internal Improvement. By William Stevenson, 1809." 8vo. With a map shewing the different soils of the county.

"A Report on the State of the Heaths, Commons, and Common Fields," 4to. was drawn up by Mr. James Malcolm in 1794, by desire of the Board of Agriculture. The same writer has published

"A Compendium of Modern Husbandry, principally written during a Survey of the County of Surrey, made at the desire of the Board of Agriculture. By James Malcolm. Lond. 1805." In 3 vols,

8vo.

Skrine, in his Account of the Rivers of Great Britain, has introduced descriptions of some of the most prominent scenes in this county.

A pretty copious account of such of the parishes of Surrey as lie in the immediate vicinity of the metropolis will be found in "The Exeirons of London, being an Historical Account of the Towns, Vil

Luges,

lages, and Hamlets, within Twelve Miles of that Capital: interspersed with Biographical Anecdotes. By the Rev. Daniel Lysons, A. M. F. R. S. F.S. A. and L. S. Rector of Rodmarton in Gloucestershire, Second Edition. Lond. 1811." 4to.

Of this Edition the Surrey parishes occupy the whole first part of the first volume, and a portion of the Appendix subjoined to the second part.

"The History of Guildford, the County town of Surrey. Containing its Ancient and Present State, Civil and Ecclesiastical; collected from Public Records and other Authorities. With some Account of the Country three miles round. Guildford, 1801." 8vo. For this History the public is indebted to Mr. Russel, bookseller, and a native of Guildford.

A considerable part of the second volume of the Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica is devoted to the illustration of the History of Lambeth and Croydon, and contains the four following tracts:

"The History and Antiquities of the Archiepiscopal Palace of Lambeth from its foundation to the present time. By Dr. Ducarel. F. R. and A. S. S. Lond. 1785." 4to. with 10 plates.

"The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, including Biographical Anecdotes of several eminent persons, compiled from Original Records, and other Authentic Sources of Information. Lond. 1786." 4to. with 19 plates.

"Some account of the Town, Church, and Archiepiscopal Palace, of Croydon, in the County of Surrey, from its Foundation to the year 1783. By Dr. Ducarel, F. R. and A. S. S. Lond. 1783." 4to. with 10 plates.

"The Case of the Inhabitants of Croydon, 1673, with an Appendix to the History of that Town. A List of the Manorial Houses which formerly belonged to the See of Canterbury. A Description of Trinity Hospital, Guildford; and of Albury House; with Brief Notes on Battersea, Chelsham, Nutfield, and Tatsfield, in the County of Surrey. Lond. 1787." 4to. with views of Trinity Hospital, Guildford, Aldbury House, Nutfield, and Tatsfield Churches, and a Map of the County.

The fifth number of Miscellaneous Antiquities published in continuation of the Bib. Top. Brit. contains: "Historical Particulars of Lambeth Parish and Lambeth Palace, in Addition to the Histories by Dr. Ducarel in the Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica. By the Rev. Samuel Denne, M. A. F. S. A. Vicar of Wilmington and Darenth, Kent, 1795." 4to.

"The History and Antiquities of the Parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark, illustrated with Plates. By M. Concanen, jun. and 4. Morgan, 1795." 8vo.

"The Rarities of Richmond: being Exact Descriptions of the Hermitage and Merlin's Cave in the Gardens there. Lond. 1735." 8vo. zwith his Life and Prophecies, 1736." 8vo.

Two Historical Accounts of the making New Forest in Hamp

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shire, by William the Conqueror, and Richmond New Park in Surrey, by King Charles I." Lond. 1750. 8vo.

Prefixed is a paltry plate designed as a View of the Park, encompassed by a wall and several roads marked out. There is a breach in the wall, through which several persons, and among them a clergyman in his canonical habit, have got into the park; some are huzzaing and waving their hats, while others are sitting on the wall. This pamphlet was probably published by those who in the following years prosecuted the suits for the obstruction of the foot-paths through this park.

In 1807, the Rev. Thomas Maurice published a descriptive and historical poem in 4to. intituled “Richmond Hill, in two cantos,” the first of which is descriptive of scenes and objects in the immediate vicinity, the second of those which are surveyed from it at a distance, and both containing tributes to the many eminent and illustrious characters who have resided, or are now resident, at the several places nor ticed in the poem.

"Forresta de Windsor in Com. Surrey. The meers, meets, limits, and bounds of the Forest of Windsor, in the County of Surrey, as the same are found, set out, limited and bounded by inquisition, taken by vertue of his Majesty's Commission in pursuance of one act made in the Parliament begun at Westminster in the 16th year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King Charles, entitled an Act for the certainty of Forests, and of the meets, limits and bounds of Forests, as the same now remains upon record in his Majesty's High Court of Chancery. Lond. 1646." 4to.

A Catalogue of the Plants in the Royal Gardens at Kew was published by Dr. John (afterwards Sir John) Hill in 1768, under the `title of "Hortus Kewensis," 8vo. A second edition appeared in 1769, with 20 plates.

Under the same title a much more copious account of them was given in 1789, by Mr. William Aiton, who had been superintendent of this collection from its first establishment in 1759. The work consists of three octavo volumes, illustrated with plates, and containing an account of 5400 plants, many of which had hitherto been unnoticed even by the celebrated Linnæus. In 1783, the care of all the gardens at this place was committed to Mr. Aiton; and on his death, in 1793, the same appointment was conferred by his Majesty on his son William Thomas Aiton, who is now publishing a new edition of his father's work.

Charles Louis P Heritier Baron Brulette spent fifteen months in examining and procuring drawings of the most valuable and least known plants in the English gardens; and on his return to France published: "Sertum Anglicum seu Plantæ rariores in horto regio Kewensi & aliis juxta Londinum. Par. 1788," folio, 24 plates, and 36 pages.

Miss Meen published two numbers of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Gardens, 1791.

A single folio number of Bauer's Delineation of exotic Plants, cultivated in these gardens, was published by Mr. Aiton, jun. 1796.

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