QUERIES In Order to the Description of BRITANNIA.  
WHEREAS John Ogilby Esq His Majesty's Cosmographer, being Authorised by His Majesty to make an Actual Survey of His Majesty's Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales, in order to the Compiling An Historical and Geographical Description thereof, more Accurate than whatever has been heretofore done, in a fair large Volume, sold BRITANNIA: accompanied with another Volume of all the Principal ROADS of England, ichnographically described in Copper Sculptures. And being sensible that the Well-performance hereof will render it a Work highly grateful to the Public, his Request is, That the Nobility and Gentry, and all other Ingenious Persons, would be pleased to return him, to his House in White-Eryers, London, such remarks of the Country or Places of their Residence, or what other they may be acquainted with, as shall happen within the Verge of these following Queries.  

1. Cities, their Antiquity, Government, Privileges, Commerce, etc.  
2. Towns Corporate, Market-Towns, Fair Towns, Villages, and Hamlets, etc.  
3. Houses of Nobility and Gentry, with the ancient as well as present Possessors.  
4. Castles, Churches, Chapels, Schools, Colleges, Hospitals, and other Public Buildings, etc.  
5. Mills, Beacons, Bridges, Crosses, Towers, Pyramids.  
6. Chases, Forests, Woods, Groves, Parks, Warrens, Commons, Heaths, etc.  
7. Mountains, Valleys, Dikes, Rivers, Brooks, Water-works, Sluices, Ponds, Meres, etc.  
8. Springs, Wells, Baths, Cold and Hot Waters, Medicinal, Aluminous, Bituminous, Nitrous, Petrifying, etc.  
9 Works and Mines of Gold, Silver, Copper, Lend, Black-lead, Tin, Iron, Salt, Salt-petre, Allom, Coperas, Gems, Precious Stones, Glass, Crystal, Marble, Alabaster, Plaster, Fullers-Earth, Ochre, Tobacco-pipe Day, Potter's Clay, Lime, Chalk, Marle, Freestone, Millstone, Grindstone, Whetstone.  
10. Precincts of Dioceses, Bounds and Limits of Counties, Hundreds, and Parishes, Peculiars, and Privileged places.  
11. Roman Ways and Stations, Coins and Monuments, and other Antiquities.  
12. Extaordinary Accidents, Calamities, and Casualties.  
13. Peculiar Customs and Manners.  
14. Decayed Places, whether Cities, Towns, Castles, Monasteries, Abbeys, or other Houses of Note.  
15. Vaults, Caves, Caverns, Holes, Hollows, Subterranean Passages, or other Rarities.  
16. Places of Birth, Education, Habitation, and Sepulture of Eminent Persons.  
17. Improvements in Husbandry, Mechanics, Manufactures, etc.  
18. Extraordinary Productions of cattle, Fowl, Fruit, Plants, Herbs, or other Animals or Vegetables.  
19 What Part of the Country is Arable, Pasture, Meadow, Woods, and Champain.  
20. On the Seacoasts, Ports, Harbours, Havens, Creeks, Peels, Peers, Watch Towers, Landmarks, Light-houses, Sands, Sholes, Islands, Eits, etc.  
21. Productions of the Seacoasts, of Fish, Shellfish, Amber, Jet, Coral, Herbs, etc.  
22. Extraordinary or Irregular Ebb or Flow of the Sea, etc.   
To such Ingenious Persons as shall be more Eminently Instrumental herein, either by themselves or others, the Author will make Honourable Returns of Books, and carefully discharge whatever necessary Expenses shall appear to have been laid out in this Concern.  
And to whom Money shall be more acceptable, the Author promises such Wages and Allowances as may handsomely correspond their Pains; Always presuming, That nothing will be imposed upon him, without sufficient Authority for its Assertion; Truth being the main of his Design in all his Collections.  
From the Office in White-Fryers, London Anno 1573. T.O.