For the site, if you will needs urge me to it, I am not fully resolved, it may be in Terra Australi Incognita, there is room enough (for of my knowledge neither that hungry Spaniard, nor Mercurius Britannicus, have yet discovered half of it) or else one of those floting Islands in Mare del Zur, which like the Cyanian Isles in the Euxine sea, alter their place, and are accessible only at set times, and to some few persons;

or one of the Fortunate Isles, for who knows yet where, or which they are? there is room enough in the inner parts of America, and northern coasts of Asia. But I will chuse a site, whose latitude shall be 45 degrees (I respect not minutes) in the midst of the temperate Zone, or perhaps under the Æquator, that Paradise of the world, ubi semper virens laurus, &c. where is a perpetual Spring: the longitude for some reasons I will conceal.

Yet be it known to all men by these presents, that if any honest gentleman will send in so much money, as Cardan allows an Astrologer for casting a Nativity, he shall be a sharer, I will acquaint him with my project, or if any worthy man will stand for any temporal or spiritual office or dignity, (for as he said of his Archbishoprick of Utopia, tis sanctus ambitus, and not amisse to be sought after) it shall be freely given without all intercessions, bribes, letters, &c. his own worth shal be the best spokesman;

& because we shal admit of no deputies or advousons, if he be sufficiently qualified, and as able as willing to execute the place himself, he shall have present possession.

It shall be divided into 12 or 13 Provinces, and those by hils, rivers, rode-wayes, or some more eminent limits exactly bounded. Each province shall have a Metropolis, which shall be so placed as a center almost in a circumference, and the rest at equal distances, some 12 Italian miles asunder, or thereabout,

and in them shall be sold all things necessary for the use of man; statis horis & diebus, no market towns, markets or fairs, for they do but beggar cities (no village shall stand above 6, 7, or 8 miles from a city) except those Emporiums which are by the seaside, generall Staples, Marts, as Antwerp, Venice, Bergen of old, London, &c.

cities most part shal be situat upon navigable rivers or lakes, creeks, havens, and for their form, regular, round, square, or long square, with fair, broad, and strait streets, houses uniform, built of brick and stone, like Bruges, Bruxels, Rhegium Lepidi, Berna in Switzerland, Millan, Mantua, Crema, Cambalu in Tartary described by M. Polus, or that Venetian Palma.

I wil admit very few or no suburbs, & those of baser building, wals only to keep out man & horse, except it be in some frontier towns, or by the sea side, and those to be fortified after the latest maner of fortification, and site upon convenient havens, or opportune places.

In every so built city, I will have convenient churches, and separate places to bury the dead in, not in churchyards; a citadella (in some, not all) to comand it, prisons for offenders, opportune market places of all sorts, for corn, meat, cattel, fuel, fish, &c. commodious courts of Justice, publike hals for all societies, burses, meeting places, armories, in which shall be kept engines for quenching of fire,

artillery gardens, publike walks, theaters, and spacious fields allotted for all gymnicks, sports, and honest recreations, hospitals of all kinds, for children, orphans, old folks, sick men, mad men, souldiers, pest-houses, &c. not built precario, or by gowty benefactors, who, when by fraud and rapin they have extorted all their lives, oppressed whole provinces, societies, &c. give something to pious uses, build a satisfactory alms-house, school, or bridge, &c. at their last end, or before perhaps,

which is no otherwise then to steal a goose, and stick down a feather, rob a thousand to relieve ten: And those hospitals so built and maintained, not by collections, benevolences, donaries, for a set number (as in ours) just so many and no more at such a rate, but for all those who stand in need, be they more or lesse, and that ex publico ærario, and so still maintained, non nobis solùm nati sumus, &c.

I will have conduits of sweet and good water, aptly disposed in each town, common granaries, as at Dresden in Misnia, Stetein in Pomerland, Noremberg, &c. Colledges of mathematicians, musicians, and actors, as of old at Labedum in Ionia, alcumists, physicians, artists, and philosophers; that all arts and sciences may sooner be perfected & better learned;

and publick historiographers, as amongst those ancient Persians, qui in commentarios referebant quæ memoratu digna gerebantur, informed and appointed by the state to register all famous acts, & not by each insufficient scribler, partial or parasitical pendants, as in our times.

I will provide publike schools of all kinds, singing, dancing, fencing, &c. especially of Grammar & languages, not to be taught by those tedious precepts ordinarily used, but by use, example, conversation, as travelers learn abroad, & nurses teach their children: as I wil have all such places, so will I ordain publike governors, fit officers to each place, Treasurers, Ædiles, Questors, Overseers of pupils, widows goods, and all publike houses, &c.

and those once a year to make strict accounts of all receipts, expences, to avoid confusion, & sic fiet ut non absumant (as Pliny to Trajan,) quod pudeat dicere. They shall be subordinate to those higher officers, and governors of each City, which shall not be poor Tradesmen and mean Artificers, but Noblemen and Gentlemen, which shal be tied to residence in those towns they dwel next, at such set times and seasons:

for I see no reason (which Hippolitus complains of (that it should be more dishonourable for Noblemen to govern the City, then the Country, or unseemly to dwell there now, then of old. I will have no bogs, fens, marishes, vast woods, desarts, heaths, commons, but all inclosed; (yet not depopulated, and therefore take heed you mistake me not) for that which is common, and every mans, is no mans;