Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: were presented to the Bodleian Library. The eighth volume of the latter manuscript was subsequently recovered. It was not, however, until 1710-12 that the chief part of these papers, the ' Itinerary', was published, by Thomas Hearne, at Oxford, in nine volumes. Of this a second edition appeared in 1744-5, and a third in 1768-9. Hearne's edition of the Collectanea appeared, also at Oxford, in six volumes, in 1715, with a second edition in 1774. Miss Toulmin Smith's edition, issued in five volumes, 1907-10, London, 410, is a magnificent example of industry and scholarship, and leaves nothing further to be done towards placing the life and work of John Leland fully before the world. It shows Leland as a most painstaking chronicler, and a very observant traveller. The' Itinerary' consists of short descriptive sentences, dealing with the produce of the country, the character and aspect of the soil and landscape, with details of the direction to be taken, the bridges and fords and other particulars of each route, and the distances in miles. It is thus a Road-Book in its character. This is shown very clearly by Mr. William Harrison, in his paper recently published on Leland's ' Itinerary V in which he works out Leland's journey through Cheshire and Lancashire, identifies the places mentioned in the ' Itinerary ' in those counties, and illustrates the whole by a series of maps. A full appreciation of Leland's work can only be obtained by a careful study of the whole text. Leland is believed to have been born about 1505 or 1506; he died April 18, 1552. It was not until much later in the century that the ' Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland', compiled by Raphael Holinshed, William Harrison, and others, were printed, in three volumes, folio, London, 1577. A second edition app...