Among the books are Eliana, Holesworth’s Valley of Vision, Robotham’s Exposition of Solomon’s Song, N. Byfields’ Marrow of the Oracle of God, Pheteplace’s Scrutinia Sacra, Featly Tears in Time of Pestilence, Templum Musicum by Joannes Henricus Alstedius, two cook books, a jest book, Troads Englished, and ends with A Comment upon the Two Tales of our Renowned Poet Sir Jeffray Chaucer, Knight. At the end of this is the following by way of erratum: “Courteous Reader. In the first Epistle Dedicatory, for Felton read Feltham.” [Illustration: _View here the Shadow whoſe Ingenious Hand_ _Hath drawne exact the Province Mary Land_ _Diſplay’d her Glory in ſuch Scænes of Witt_ _That thoſe that read must fall in Love with it_ _For which his Labour hee deſerves the praiſe_ _As well as Poets doe the wreath of Bays ._ _Anno Dõ: 1666. Ætatis Suæ 28._    _H.W._ _AM PHOTO-LITHOGR. OC (OSBORNES PROCESS.)_] A CHARACTER Of the PROVINCE of MARY-LAND, Wherein is Deſcribed in four diſtinct Parts, (_Viz._) I. _The Scituation, and plenty of the Province._ II. _The Laws, Cuſtoms, and natural Demeanor of the Inhabitant._ III. _The worſt and beſt Vſage of a Mary-Land Servant, opened in view._ IV. _The Traffique, and Vendable Commodities of the Countrey._ ALSO A SMALL _Treatiſe_ on the Wilde and Naked INDIANS (or _Suſquehanokes_) of _Mary-Land_, their Cuſtoms, Manners, Abſurdities, & Religion. Together with a Collection of Hiſtorical LETTERS. By GEORGE ALSOP. _London_, Printed by _T. J._ for _Peter Dring_, at the ſign of the Sun in the _Poultrey_; 1666. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE CÆCILIUS LORD BALTEMORE, (see note No. 2) Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of _Mary-Land_ and _Avalon_ (see note No. 3) in _America_. MY LORD, I have adventured on your Lordships acceptance by guess; if presumption has led me into an Error that deserves correction, I heartily beg Indempnity, and resolve to repent soundly for it, and do so no more. What I present I know to be true, Experientia docet; It being an infallible Maxim, _That there is no Globe like the occular and experimental view of a Countrey_. And had not Fate by a necessary imployment, consin’d me within the narrow walks of a four years Servitude, and by degrees led me through the most intricate and dubious paths of this Countrey, by a commanding and undeniable Enjoyment, I could not, nor should I ever have undertaken to have written a line of this nature. THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY. If I have wrote or composed any thing that’s wilde and confused, it is because I am so my self, and the world, as far as I can perceive, is not much out of the same trim; therefore I resolve, if I am brought to the Bar of _Common Law_ for any thing I have done here, to plead _Non compos mentis_, to save my Bacon.