formation refpecting the ancient divifion, of the Island, accompanied with an explanatory Map; and, at the request of feveral very refpectable Seminaries for the Inftruction of Youth, he is now writing an abridged Hiftory of Rome, upon a very interefting plan, which he trufts will be found a proper introduction to the perufal of more voluminous writers upon this important fubject.

CLASSICAL ATLAS:

Combining ANTIENT and MODERN GEOGRAPHY, for the Ufe of SCHOOLS.

Speedily will be published, in a Quarto Size, By the Rev. EDWARD PATTESON, M. A. of Richmond, in Surrey,

A SET OF MAPS,

equally adapted to the purpofe of Reference in the courfe of Reading, or to facilitate the Inftruction of young Perfons in the Science of GEOGRAPHY.

The number of Maps will be nearly Thirty-five, with blank Duplicates of each.

With the Maps will be published a small Volume, containing Directions for the ufe of them, and defcribing the method of Inftruction, which the Compiler has fuccefsfully employed, and which they were defigned to affift. Fur ther particulars will be advertised as foon as the expence ot the Publication can be ascertained.

INTRODUCTION.

THE feveral divifions of England merit the attention of youth, as they account for different local cuftoms; and many very effential modes of inheritance, which to this day prevail in our country, took their rife from different Saxon inftitutions.

The Ancient Divifion of England, under the BRITONS.
Chief Towns.

Ancient Divifions.

1 1. Dumnunii r

2. Durotriges

3. Belga

Counties.

Dorfet, part of So

merfet, and part Durnovaria, Dor

of Hants, to

Southampton

Water

The remainder of

chefter.

4. Attrebates

Berks

Calleva, Reading.

Suffex, and the re

5. Regni

mainder of Surry

Regnum, Chichester.

Durovernum, Can

ampton, Hunt- Verulamium, by St,

ingdon, Bucking

ham, Bedford,

and Herts

The greateft part of

Gloucefter, the

Alban's.

remainder of Ox- Glevum, Gloucefter.

ford, and a small

part of Worcester

Roman Divifion of England.

1. Britannia Prima, comprehended the South of England. 2. Britannia Secunda, Wales.

3. Maxima Cæfarienfis, the Northern countries. 5. Flavaria Cafarienfis, the middle of England.

But the exact boundaries of these provinces are not

Kingdoms erected by the Saxons, ufually filed the Saxon

Uffa in 565 Cambridge, with the Cambridge, Ely

5. Northumber-Lancaster, York, Dur-Lancaster, York,

Egbert, as fovereign of the whole heptarchy, having made the other fix kingdoms fubfervient to the Weft Saxons, firft diftinguished his dominions by the name of England, about the year 828. Alfred, his fucceffor, in 889, rendered the dimenfion of the districts more exact, and divided England into thirty-two counties or fhires, when Durham and Lancashire were included in that of Yorkshire; Cornwall was included in Devonshire; Rutland in that of Northamptonshire; Monmouthshire was deemed a part of Wales; and Northumberland, Westmoreland, and Cumberland, were then fubject to the Scots.

Alfred fubdivided each county into trethings or trithings, (of which riding is a corruption) hundreds, and tythings. or decannaries. The trething was a third part of a county; the hundred was a district containing a hundred families ; and the tything a district that contained ten families.

Since the Norman conqueft England has been divided into fix circuits, each containing a certain number of Counties; two judges are appointed for each circuit, which they vifit twice a-year, for the adminiftration of justice to the fubjects, who are at a distance from the capital. The circuits and counties are as follows:

HOME CIRCUIT.

Chief Towns.

Chelmsford, Colchester, and Harwich..
Hertford, St. Alban's, part of Royston,
Ware, Hitchin, and Baldock.
Maidstone, Canterbury, Chatham, Ro-
chefter, Greenwich, Woolwich, Dover,
Deal, Ashford, and Deptford.

Southwark, King fton, Guildford, Croy-
don, Epfom, and Richmond.
Chichester, Lewes, Rye, Eaft Grin-
ftead, and Haftings.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.

Aylesbury, Buckingham, Stoney Stratford, Wickham, and Marlow. Bedford, Ampthill, Woburn, Dunstable, Lutton, and Biggleswade. Huntingdon, St. Ives, and Kimbolton. Cambridge, Ely, Newmarket, and part of Royfton.

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