Omnibus his meritò est laus debita & optima merces,
Quòd patriæ accendant lumina clara suæ.
Longa dies opus hoc peperit, longæua senectus,
Et libri authores perbeet, atque librum.
AN
HISTORICALL DESCRIPTION
OF
THE ILAND OF BRITAINE;
WITH A BRIEFE REHERSALL OF
THE NATURE AND QUALITIES OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND,
AND
SUCH COMMODITIES AS ARE TO BE FOUND IN THE SAME.
COMPREHENDED IN THREE BOOKES, AND WRITTEN BY W. H.
A TABLE OF SUCH CHAPITERS AS ARE CONTEINED IN THE FIRST BOOKE
OF THIS DESCRIPTION.
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| 1 | [Of the diuision of the whole earth.] | [2] |
| 2 | [Of the position, circuit, forme, and quantitie of the Ile of Britaine.] | [4] |
| 3 | [Of the ancient denominations of this Iland.] | [6] |
| 4 | [What sundrie nations haue dwelled in Albion.] | [9] |
| 5 | [Whether it be likelie that anie giants were, and whether they inhabited in this Ile or not.] | [14] |
| 6 | [Of the languages spoken in this Iland.] | [22] |
| 7 | [Into how manie kingdoms this Iland hath beene diuided.] | [26] |
| 8 | [The names of such kings and princes as haue reigned in this Iland.] | [31] |
| 9 | [Of the ancient religion vsed in Albion.] | [33] |
| 10 | [Of such Ilands as are to be seene vpon the coasts of Britaine.] | [52] |
| 11 | [Of riuers, and first of the Thames, and such riuers as fall into it.] | [78] |
| 12 | [Of such streames as fall into the sea, betweene the Thames and the mouth of Sauerne.] | [91] |
| 13 | [The description of the Sauerne, and such waters as discharge themselues into the same.] | [117] |
| 14 | [Of such waters as fall into the sea in compasse of the Iland, betweene the Sauerne and the Humber.] | [123] |
| 15 | [The description of the Humber or Isis, and such water-courses as doo increase hir chanell.] | [156] |
| 16 | [Of such fals of waters as ioine with the sea, betweene Humber and the Thames.] | [168] |
| 17 | [Of such ports and creeks as our sea-faring men doo note for their benefit vpon the coasts of England.] | [181] |
| 18 | [Of the aire, soile, and commodities of this Iland.] | [183] |
| 19 | [Of the foure high waies sometime made in Britaine by the princes of this Iland.] | [189] |
| 20 | [Of the generall constitution of the bodies of the Britons.] | [192] |
| 21 | [How Britaine at the first grew to be diuided into three portions.] | [195] |
| 22 | [After what maner the souereigntie of this Ile dooth remaine to the princes of Lhoegres or kings of England.] | [196] |
| 23 | [Of the wall sometime builded for a partition betweene England and the Picts and Scots.] | [214] |
| 24 | [Of the maruels of England.] | [216] |