THe Riches of any Nation , I mean the Native and Inland Riches , ( for by Imported Commodities , the Barrenest Nation in the World may be Rich , ) consist chiefly in the Arable , the Pasturage , the Fruits , and other Plants of peculiar Use and Advantage . The Rich Veins of Earth for Mettals and other sorts of Minerals , and the Plenty of Fish and Fowl ; all which things are both profitable in themselves , and for the Manufactures they produce ; and though common to this Nation , with the greatest part of the Earth in general , yet it will not be from the purpose to discover how far the English Nation excels in each of them , and what parts of the Nation are most peculiarly fam'd and commended for this or that Production . As to the Arable , it would be in vain to particularize any one part of England more than another , since so great Plenty of all sorts of Corn and Grain is produced in all parts of this Nation . Nevertheless , it is worth the observing , how some Counties are more peculiarly celebrated for this or that Grain : I have heard it affirm'd , that the very best Wheat in England is from a Vale near Hessen in Middlesex , lying Southward of Harrow on the Hill ; however among the four W's of Herefordshire , Wheat is one , the other three being Wool , Wood and Water . Moreover for Oates , if there be any where one sort better than another , the best Oats are said to be in Lancashire , and in greater abundance than any other County ; and for Barly and Malt , Bedfordshire hath among some a particular mention . Moreover , for what is said in general of some places above others : It is sufficiently considerable which is reported of the Town of Godmanchester in Huntingtonshire , in reference to the great Name that Town hath for Tillage , and its Prae-eminence above all the Towns of England ; besides for number of Stout and Able Husbandmen , namely that the Inhabitans of this Place us'd in former times to meet the Kings of England as they pass'd this way in their Progress , in a kind of Rural Pomp and Pageantry of show , with no fewer than 180 Ploughs ; and in this manner King James at his first coming to the Crown of England was received in his Journey from Scotland , with 70 Team of Horses , fitted with all their Furniture to as many New Ploughs ; the King expressing much Delight and Satisfaction at so Brave and Happy a Sight , and highly applauded the Industry and well deserved Prosperity of the people of that Place . Remarkable also is the Vale of Evesham in Worcestershire , so called of one Eoves a Swinheard to Egwin Bishop of Worcester , so Renowned for its Fertility and excellent kind of Corn it yields , that it is called the Granary of those parts . The Vale of Alisbury in Buckinghamshire , is also particularly taken notice of for its Pleasant Meadows and Rich Pastures . Nor are the Sheep-Pastures near Knetworth in Hartfordshire , which is called the Garden of England , to be forgotten . Portholm Meadow also in Huntingtonshire is reckon'd among the Notabilia of that County . The like may be said in a great measure of the Pasturage : However there are some places so peculiarly remark'd either for the Largeness or Richness of their Pastures , that the mention of them cannot well be omitted . The Isle of Shepey in Kent being about 21 Miles in compass , is without question so denominated from the numerous Flocks of Sheep which it feedeth . No less celebrated is Rumny-Marsh , heretofore a part of the Sea , under the Name of Romanum Mare , which by common Speech is easily corrupted into Rumnense Marshium : Of this Marsh , Twine in his Commentary , De rebus Anglicis , making a particular mention , thus concludes , Denique unde tot pingues peeudes , &c. Lastly , saith he , Whence so many Fat Cattle come to the Shambles , that not only all Kent is largely supplied from this place , but even the City of London also , in some measure fares the better . In the Marsh-Country of Norfolk commonly called Marsh-Land ; the Soyl is so very Mellow and Fruitful , that in a certain large Mead called Tilneysmeth , there are said generally to feed no less than 30000 Sheep at a time . Wormleighton in Warwickshire , breeds Sheep of so large a size , that there are scarce the like to be seen elsewhere . Lemster upon the River Lug in Herefordshire , feeds a Breed of Sheep which yields so Fine and Delicate a Wool , that our Noble Poet Draiton in his Polyolbion , compares it to the Wool of Apulia and Tarentum , which hath been always accounted the Finest Wool of Europe . The Bread also of Lemster is no less noted by reason of the Fineness of its Flower , insomuch that Lemster Bread and Weably Ale are united into a Proverb , as Leigh observes in his Description of England . Likewise the Sheep of Cotswold ( i. e. a place of Sheep-Cotes or Folds upon a Hill ) in Glocestershire , yield so Fine a Wool , that nothing but the Spanish Wool can outvy it , and this advantage it owes to a Present that was made by King _____ to _____ King of Spain , very much to the prejudice of England , as it hath since proved . Somerton once the chief Town , as some say , of Somersetshire , and gave the denomination to the Shire , consists almost wholly , with the Country thereabout , of Grasiers and Breeders of Cattle . After the Wool of Lemster and Cotswold , that of the Isle of Wight comes next in estimation . Besides those places above-mentioned , there is one more , which for its largeness and Fruitfulness alike , is worthy to be mentioned , viz. The Vale of the Whitehorse , which is partly in Wiltshire , and partly in Barkshire . For Fruit , there is scarce any County in England that is not tolerably well stor'd in one sort or other ; but above all for Cherries , and now of late for Pippins , Kent bears the Name ; and particularly Tenham , which is commonly styl'd the Parent of Fruit Gardens : But the first Pippins brought over , that is about 100 years since , were Planted in that part of Lincolnshire called Holland ; and about Kirton in the same Shire : Nor are our Cherries of much longer date , being first brought over from Flanders in the Reign of King Henry the Eight , and Planted in Kent , with that Success , that one only Orchard of but 32 Acnes , is said to have produced in one year , as much as yielded 1000 l. For all sorts of Apples and Pears , and for great quantity of excellent Syder , which furnish London and many other parts , Worcestershire , Glocestershire and Herefordshire , are the principal Counties .

Vines we have very frequent among us of several sorts , producing for the most part a very Sweet and Pleasant Grape , and good quantities of Wine , I have heard say , have been formerly made . At this day there are two places principally Eminent for making of Wine , viz. Claverton in Somersetshire , a Seat of Sir William Bassets , where there are said to have been made some years , no less than 40 Hogsheads of a very pleasant and palatable Wine , and in Kent belonging to Collonel Blunt . At Hatfield-House in Hertfordshire , belonging to the Earl of Salisbury , there is a parcel ground called the Vineyard , no doubt from the Plenty and goodness of the Vines there Planted . And in Glocestershire there are several places called Vineyards , out of which in former times , they yearly payed Rent-Wines , from the Plenty of Vines no doubt here growing . Moreover it is found in Ancient Records , that several Towns of this Shire payed Rent-Wines , as Dr. Fuller in his Worthys particularly observes .

BEsides those Beasts and Cattel which are of advantage for Food and Cloathing , and which no Country of Europe , perhaps of the World , bring forth more fair and large than England : There are some Beasts of service , which being common to England with other parts of Europe , are generally commended to be of a more excellent Kind than any , especially that which is the most serviceable of all others , viz. the Horse , with all manner of respects considered , is doubtless the most noble and useful of all four-footed Beasts ; for though the Elephant , Camel , and Dromedary , with which most places of Asia , and many of Africa , abound , are more remarkable for vast bulk of body , especially the Elephant , and consequently more capable of carriage and bearing of great burthens ; yet the same greatness of bulk renders them on the other side more unfit for expedition : and for the Ass and Mule , which indeed are fairer , larger , and more numerous in Spain and other Countries of Europe , than in this Kingdom , they are not certainly to be compar'd either for shape , service , or expedition with the forementioned Animal ; nor was ever any Grandee of Spain journying on his Mule with the Grand Pa and Spanish gravity so comely a sight , as a well accoutred Cavalier on horseback : and of all parts of England , Montgomeryshire is commended for excellent Horses : The Truth is , the Spanish Jenet , that of Barbary Race commonly , therefore called the Barbary : The Count of Oldenburgh's Breed in Germany , have the Name before all others for Swiftness , delicacy of Shape and Neatness , of Mark or Colour ; but for Courage , Ability of Body , either for Travel , Draught or Carriage , sufficient Swiftness and Agility , Tractableness for the Great Saddle and Management in War ; the Horses of English Breed , are reputed hardly matchable by those of any other Country : And our Dogs much less , by the Testimony of divers Eminent Authors ; Ortelius in his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum , affirms , that there is no part of the Earth , where there are better and larger Dogs to be seen , especially Hounds , he might also have added Mastives : To the same effect Cambden writes of our Dogs in general in his Hantshire and Middlesex : Burton also in his Commentaries on Antoninus his Itinerary , prefers the British Hounds and Mastives before those of any other Country whatsoever . And of our Mastives a Spanish Geographer of good Account , Lucas de Linda , in his Descriptio Orbis , saith , That they are the Bravest , the Largest and the Fiercest of any in the World beside : Moreover , that they were in great Request Anciently among the Romans , and made use of in their publick Games and Baitings , exhibited in their Amphitheaters , appears by this Verse of the Poet Claudian : Magnaque Taurorum fracturi Colla Britani .

There are likewise some other sorts of Dogs of English Breed , which though not so much taken notice of by Authors , I am apt to imagine , are no less excellent and supereminent in their kind , than those above mention'd , as namely , Water-Spaniels , Grey-Hounds , Setting-Dogs , and such like of Sport and Game . Lastly , that sort of Dogs that serve only for Show and the slightest of Divertisement ; I really believe that for Neatness of Mark and Delicacy of Shape , there are scarce to be found elsewhere the like to our Beagles and little Spaniels ; and this will appear the more evident to those that shall observe this one thing : namely , that whereas it is a general Curiosity ( not to say Vanity ) among our English Gentry , to admire and delight in Birds , Beasts , and other things , brought over from France and other Foreign Parts , as Parots from _____ Monkeys from _____ we find few or none of these above-mention'd Creatures , but what are English , at least none so curiously Mark'd and Limb'd as ours . There is said to be bred about Portsmouth , a race of very little Dogs , which by their shape seem to be of the Species of Beagles .

As for the Cats of England , it is observable , that the number of Fine Tabby-Cats that are finely Spotted , and as it were Marbled , hath very much increased of late years , whereby it may be probably conjectur'd , that some kinds of those so Curiously Cloathed Cats , have been brought hither from other parts , and particularly those of Cyprus , have been accounted for their Marbled Coats , the choicest of all others ; but setting aside the consideration of the Curious Mark or Colour , to shew how far ours have the Preeminence in the exercise of that faculty which nature hath implanted in this sort of Creature , that is , the Catching of Mice and other such Vermine ; there needs no other instance , than the History of a very Rich Lord Mayor of London , some few Ages ago , who first raised his Fortune from the Venture of an English Cat. As for the Eatable Cattle , and several Beasts of Game , some places we find there are , which claim a special Propriety to this or that particular kind . The best Oxen in England are said to be in Lancashire : In the New-Forrest in Hantshire , there is very great store of Red-Deer . A late Park near New-market in Cambridgeshire , was called Hare-Park , by reason of the multitude of Hares , Rabbetts ; the best and most are said to be in Norfolk ; yet I cannot think they much exceed those of Auburn-Chace ( belonging to my Lord of Pembroke ) in Wiltshire . The best Hogs in Hantshire . Of Birds there are few ( if any ) sorts wanting here , which are frequent in other parts of England , whether the most Curious of Singing Birds , the choicest Fowl both Wild and Tame for the Table , or Birds of Game and Delight : But of some it is observ'd , that what are bred in this Country , are peculiarly commendable above others , especially the Gallinaceous kind . Pliny observes of the Cock , that it is a Bold and Stout Bird , and crows in sign of Triumph immediatly after Victory , and doubtless scarce any Country affords so Couragious and Martial a Race of Game-Cocks as England ; a right Cock of the Game seldom or never ceasing on this side Death or Victory . Nor do I remember to have read or heard Report of any Country where the Sport of Cock-Fighting , of which our Countryman Ascham hath written a Learned Treatise , is so much used as here : Thus the Dog among Beasts , and the Cock among Birds , seem proper Emblems of true English Valour : However let us not repose our chiefest glory in this Vertue alone , but strive to excel in others of a higher nature , which are proper to man alone , since Valour , we see , is a Vertue common to Man with Brute . In the Rocks of Pembrokeshire are Hawks of an extraordinary kind , but chiefly of the Species of the Faulcon : In the Forrest of Shirwood in Nottinghamshire , and in the Forrest of Dean in Glocestershire , the Hawk called the Lanar , whose Female is the Laneret , is very frequent : Near Kinsland in _____ is often seen the Hawk called Lanius , the Butcher or Murthering Bird. Along the Sea-Coasts of England , from the West as far as Dover ; but chiefly upon the Sea-Coasts of Cornwal , there frequents a sort of Chough or Jack-daw , which is thence commonly called the Cornish Chough , supposed the same with the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Aristotle . In New-Forrest in Hantshire chiefly breeds the Vpupa or Hoop . In the Fens of Lincolnshire the Attagen or Godwitt . On Newmarket-Heath and Salisbury-Plains , the Bistarda or Bustard . In the Isle of Thanet a sort of Wild-Goose , commonly called a Birgander , in Latin Vulpancer . In several parts of Cornwal , two sorts of Birds , rarely seen elsewhere , viz. the Puffin and the Ganet . Also in Lincolnshire the Foolish Bird called the Dottrel , is so frequent , that the people of those parts have very good Sport in the Catching of it , as Cambden relates .

The places of England most eminenly Famous for several sorts of Fish , are New-castle upon Tine for Salmon ; as also Bywell in Northumberland , and the River Wye in Herefordshire , also the River Lune near Cockerfand-Abbey in Lancashire . The Coast of Cornwall for Herrings ; there being there so great a Trade of Herring-Fishing , that there is scarce the like again in any place of Europe ; at Limmouth also in Dorcetshire there is taken great quantity of Herrings ; at Yarmouth in Norfolk , the Herrings are very large and good , and are therefore called Yarmouth Capons . Shrewsbury and some other places thereabout upon the Severn , for a Fish call'd a Mort , which in Taste hath very much of the Salmon in it ; Sussex in general for Carps : For Lobsters Chichester , the chief Town of Sussex , and Selsey ( so called , qu. Isle of Seals or Sea-Calves ) in the same County ; the first for small ones , but very Sweet and well Tasted ; the second for those esteemed , not only because of their Goodness , but also their Fulness and Largeness ; for Cockles ▪ the same Selsey . For Oysters Colchester , the chief Town of Essex , and several places of Kent , especially Whitstaple and Reculver , which for Oysters of savoury saltness , exceed all other parts of that County , especially Reculver . There is a sort of small Fish called a Pilchard , commonly about the bigness of a Herring ( though I have heard say , that in some parts of Cornwall there have been taken Pilchards an Ell long ) and not much differing in shape in several places on the Sea-coasts of Cornwall . At a place called Foreditch in Kent , there are Trouts of a treble remark : First , That they equal Salmon in Largeness . Secondly , That they remain nine Months in the Sea , and three in Fresh-water . Thirdly , That contrary to the nature of all other Trouts , they have been known but once to have been taken in that place with an Angle , so much more cunning they are than all the rest of their kind . In the River Kennet near Hungerford in Barkshire , there is great plenty of Trouts , remarkably large and good ; also the Town of Hungerford it self , Marlborough , and some other Places thereabout , are noted for plenty and goodness of Cray-Fish . The River Stowr in Dorcetshire hath a particular commendation for Tenches , as some parts of Cambridgeshire for the best Eels , and Lincolnshire for plenty of Pikes : But there is also another Stowr in Kent , which runs through Canterbury , and is said to breed the best Trouts in the South-East of England : Yet those of Cashalton in Surry are accounted excellent Trouts . In Miander-Meer in Lancashire , there breeds a sort of Fish called a Chare , which they say is no where else to be found . Much more might be said , ( but that it is not our business to dwell upon any particular , but to take a general Survey of several things ) of the Animals which our Country excels in above others ; but to speak of the Minerals and Vegetables which this Island produceth , would require each a large Volume ; and though we have no Mines of Gold , yet the many Mines we have of other Mettalls , as Iron , Lead , Tin , Copper , &c. ( and it is said some discoveries have been also made of Silver , besides Mines of Allum ▪ Coal and other Minerals , would , if utmost Improvement were made of our Trade and Manufacture , make a considerable compensation . The Stanneries or Tin-Mines of Cornwall and Devonshire have been famous from all Antiquity : And whereas it hath been formerly taken for granted , that the Britains were unknown to the rest of the World before the Arrival of the Romans ; there are not wanting who are of Opinion , and have confirmed their Opinion with probable Evidences , that the Ancient Inhabitants of this Island , long before the Romans Arrival , had Commerce with the Greeks and Phaenicians ; and that because they would not admit of Strangers into their Country , therefore they made the Isles of Scilly the Mart for the vending of their Tin ; whereupon some suppose them to be those Islands which the Ancients called the Cassiterides , which imports as much as Tin-Isles ; not as having any Tin-Mines in them , but as being the Mart , as we said before , for the Vending of that Commodity . And of all parts in Cornwall , Godolphin-Hill is particularly taken notice of for its Rich and Plentiful Veins of Tin . Nor do the Mines of Cornwall abound in Tin only , but 't is said there have been quantities of Metallick Oar that have contain'd a mixture of Gold and Silver ; and very memorable is the tradition of a quantity of Silver Oar , dig'd out of a place in the Parish of Comb-Martin in Devonshire , out of which William Wimondham coin'd 270 weight of Silver for Elionor Dutchess of Bar. A place called Newlands in Cumberland , is rich in Copper Mines , and hath some store of Black-Lead ; especially about Keswick . In this County also , the Stone called Lapis Calaminaris , is said to have been here first found : But much of this Lapis Calaminaris is digg'd out of Mendip-hills in Somersetshire . At Wenlock in Shropshire , in the Reign of King Richard the second , there was found a Rich Copper Mine . The Rich Mines of Iron in the Forrest of Dean in Glocestershire , have been an occasion of making those Woods very thin , in respect of what they have been formerly . Kent hath several Iron Mines , and also Veins of Marl. Darbyshire abounds much in Minerals , and several kinds of Stones ; particularly in the Peak of Darby , there are Mines that afford plenty of Lead , likewise Stibium or Antimony , also store of Mill-stones and Whet-stones ; nor less noted are the Lead-Mines on Mendip-hills in Staffordshire : As also those on the Hills of Richmondshire , where there are likewise Copper-Mines ; near Moinglath in Denbyshire , is a plentiful Vein of Lead : So likewise in the Abby of Fountains in Yorkshire , not far from whence in the same Shire is store of Iron : Other Mines also there are , which though not so Rich , are no less useful than those of Mettal ; as Alom , Coal , Free-stone , Fullers-earth , Marl , with all which , take one with another , there is surely no Nation better stor'd ; and indeed our Salt-pits are no other than a kind of Liquid-Mines . It is no less wonderful to observe what abundant Supplies of Fewel are yearly sent up from the Coal-Mines of Newcastle to this Vast City of London , and other parts of the Nation , besides what is Exported into Foraign parts ; then it may seem hard to conjecture how this City could subsist before the discovery of this great Mine , which was not till the year 1305. Since we find by experience , upon any occasion of the obstructing of this Newcastle Fleet , and the raising of the Price of Coals , into what great distress and inconveniency the City is thereupon reduc'd ; but then it must be considered that the City then was nothing near so large as now , and the Country far better stor'd with Wood ; the want whereof for Firing , is not the only prejudice the Nation hath sustain'd by the vast quantity of Timber that hath been fell'd of late Ages ; the number of Alehouses is also increas'd ten to one , at least within these 100 years , and proportionably , as may well be imagin'd , the number of Brewhouses to supply them with Drink ; which Houses cannot be maintain'd and carry on their Trade , without a wonderful quantity of Fewel : Nor need it be wondred how other great Cities are able to subsist without the like convenience ( as doubtless there is scarce any City of the World that hath the like advantage for Fewel ) considering the difference of Climate , of Customs , of manner of Living , and of Diet. There are who speak of Blackheath , as a place no less sufficiently abounding with Pit-Coal to serve the City of London and parts adjacent , than Newcastle it self , but are willing to believe that the grand security of these Coal-pits , lies in the great prejudice to Navigation , which the breaking of them up would occasion , in regard this Colliers Trade between Newcastle and London is the greatest Nursery of Seamen we have ; which objection would easily cease , could the Fishing Trade be once promoted , till when the Coal Mines of Blackheath must of necessity be laid aside . There is also Sea-Coal , like that of Newcastle at Wedsborough in the East-Riding in Yorkshire : Likewise up and down in many of the Inland parts of England , there is abundance of Pit-Coal of another nature , that is too say , not Caking or Clinging together ( a quantity of small Particles ) into one great lump or mass , like that of Newcastle ; but as it is laid on in great pieces , burning sheer away into Ashes , each piece like Wood. Up and down in several parts of Darbyshire and Staffordshire , there is a sort of Pit-Coal , which is commonly called Cannel-Coal , perhaps as it were Candle-Coal , because it burns clear like a Candle ; this Coal is of a bright shining gloss , and withal of so tough and solid a substance , that they frequently make thereof Standishes , Salt-Sellers , Candlesticks and other such like Utensils , which appear as it were of a courser sort of Jett . In Staffordshire , Pensneth-Chace is particularly made mention of for plenty of Pit-Coal . In Leicestershire , Coal-Overton in the Hundred of West-Goscot , and other parts of the North of this County , where there is store of Pit-Coal of a Bituminous nature , very hard and fast : In Warwickshire , Bedworth : In Somersetshire , Mendip-hill , and several places on the shore of the River Frome : In Richmondshire , the tops of certain Hills . In the Isle of Anglesey there is said to be great store of an Aluminous Matter , out of which it is thought might be made very good Alum and Copperass , but nothing of this nature hath been brought to that perfection , as the Alum-works in Yorkshire , through the great Industry of Sir John Bourchier , who in the Reign of King James made away with a considerable Estate for the carrying on of this great work , in lieu whereof he obtain'd the grant of a Patent from the King , whereby he was Invested with the whole benefit of the said Alumwork , which was valued at a Thousand Pound a year ; but however matters were carried , his Grandchild Mr. Richard Bourchier , is now reduc'd to utmost necessity , receiving no relief by vertue of the Patent for the loss of the Paternal Estate : But Gesborough in this Shire is most particularly noted for an Alum-Mine , which some say was first found out by Sir Thomas Chaloner Tutor to Prince Henry . As for the Stone-Quarries of England , they must indeed be confess'd inferior to those of Italy , Greece , and other parts , for all Curious kinds of Marble , Alabaster and Porphyrie ▪ ( of Marble the Parian was Anciently accounted the best : ) However we have many Structures both publick and private to shew , which being built of our own native Free-stone , want not their State and Elegance . The principal Magazine of this Commodity , is the Isle of Portland in Dorcetshire , which hath supplied many of the grand Buildings of England . Likewise the Isle of Purbeck in the same Shire , hath Veins of Marble , which though not continued , but scatteringly here and there , as Cambden observes , yet run a great way under ground . At Edgcomb House near Plimouth in Cornwall , there is digg'd good quantity of a Stone , which is of great use and Ornament in Building ; also on the Moors of the said County , there is found a sort of Stone , which is thence called the Moor-stone , of which there are frequently made Chimney-Pieces and Ornaments of Windows and Doors ; besides another sort of the colour of Marble . In Nottinghamshire there is digg'd a soft Stone , at least much softer than Alabaster , with which being burnt and made into a Plaster , they generally floor their Upper-Rooms , this Plaster being well laid , as soon as it comes to be dry , proves harder than any Plaster of Paris , and is wonderful durable . In Herefordshire , hard by Snodhill-Castle , is a Quarry , from whence they say there is digg'd forth very good Marble . At a place called Peter's - post in Yorkshire , is a famous Quarry of Stone ; also near Shirburn in the same Shire : Nor is that near Manchester in Laneashire inconsiderable ; besides a Quarry of a fine Reddish-stone on the Banks of the River Irwell in the same Shire : Moreover , what we want in Alabaster , Porphyrie Marble , &c. is more than compensated to us by Stones of a greater value , particularly in Cornwall , there are found in great quantities Stones of a natural Smoothness , formed into Angles , and considerably large , some of the bigness of a Walnut , or thereabout , and of such a lustre , that many scruple not to call them Diamonds , and probably they might pass for such , did not the cunning Lapidary know how to distinguish the true Orient Diamond from others by its Adamantine hardness and solidity : Likewise St. Vincents Rock at Bristol affords plenty of these English Diamonds , commonly called Bristol Stones : At Shugbury in Warwickshire is a sort of precious Stone , at least by some so accounted , called Astroites , from a mark it hath upon it resembling a Star . And on the Rocks of Guarnsey , there is a hard Stone called an Emeril . Nor are we wholly destitute of Marble and Alabaster , though doubtless short for Beauty and Fineness to those of Italy and Greece ; in some parts of Staffordshire there is digg'd a sort of Alabaster , thought to be the best in England . Fullers-Earth , Potters-Earth , Marl , Lime , Slate , Tobacco-Pipe-Clay , &c. There are large Veins in several parts , particularly Woburn in Bedfordshire abounds in Fullers-Earth ; as also Rigate in Surry : In some parts of Wiltshire the store of Marl that is found there , gives Appellation to one of the chief Towns of that Shire , viz. Marlborough , and in divers parts of Lancashire , is found a Marl , which very much enriches the Land . Near Nonsuch in Surry is a large Vein of Potters-Earth . Near Walsal in Sussex , are store of Lime-Pits : And not many Miles from Pomfret in Yorkshire , it being averr'd by some that no less than 2000 l. a year usually made of the Lime thereabouts .