The surveyor was the land agent, and the allotments were apportioned by each applicant drawing a lot out of a hat.

Prefixed to this work, are some anecdotes of the life of Musæus, taken by Chapman from the collection of Dr. William Gager, and a dedication to the most generally ingenious and only learned architect of his time, Inigo Jones esquire, Surveyor of his Majesty's Works.