A very rare broadside of which no online record could be traced. Indeed the item is printed for a T. Waterton of Duck Lane, London, of whom also nothing could be found. It is a broadside listing all the major roads of Flanders and the distances between towns. It was published at the time of the Nine Years War between France and the Grand Alliance. The majority of the campaigning took place in the Spanish Netherlands for which purpose this was printed. The title goes on to state ‘Giving the True Distances of all the Cities, Towns, Castles, and Places of Strength (each from the other) in the Ten Provinces. And the most passable Roads for the Confederate Army (Commanded by the King of Great Britain) to March to the Siege of any Place. And the passable Ways, by which the Confederate Army may enter in the the Heart of France. With distinguishing Characters, shewing by Whom each Place is Possessed. Very necessary for Accomodating all Gentlemen and others (during the War in Flanders) in Reading the English and Foreign Gazetts, and other Intelligences, of the Movements and Actions of the Confederate and French Armies”.

As stated initial letters identify the possessors as either Spanish, Dutch, Bishop of Liege, French of the Duke of Juliers. Asterisks marks Bishopricks, further marks identify Universities and Abbeys. The broadside was licensed by James Fraiser on 3 June 1691 and priced at two pence. Fraiser appears in the ESTC in a narrow time frame of 1690-91. Not in the ESTC, not in the BBTI.