H. G. FORDHAM HERTFORDSHIRE MAPS. 135 



the left and a large oue in roman characters ou the right. In 

 a panel below : 



" Length. 30. 



" Bredth. 28. 



" Circumference. 130. 



,,-„-,. 1 ( D. from Lon : 20° 22. 



"Hartford | i^^^titude 61 50'." 



The map, including the panels, measures Sli inches in height. 

 It shows the boundary of the county and the boundaries of 

 adjoining counties as far as the margm of the map, by dotted 

 lines, with the principal and some less important roads (dis- 

 tinguished by double and single lines respectively), the rivers, 

 and a few towns. Towards the left-hand top corner, within the 

 county of Bedford, is a small circular indicator of the points of 

 the compass, the north indicated by an arrow-head and the east 

 by a cross. In the right-hand bottom corner a scale of ten miles. 



From ' A Pocket Book of all the Counties of England and 

 Wales : Wherein are describ'd, the Clieif Cities, Market-Towns 

 and others ; With the Rivers and Eoads from London. To 

 which is added, a Compass, shewing the Bearing, and a Scale for 

 the Distance of Places. There is also given the Length, Breadth, 

 and Circumference of each County : The Latitude of each City 

 or Town, and its Distance from London. Being a necessary 

 and plain Direction for Travelling to any Place or Town in all 

 England or Wales. Sold by Eobert Morden at the Atlas in 

 Cornhil, and Joseph Pask Stationer, at the three Ink-bottles 

 in Castle-ally, under the west-end of the Royal Exchange.' 

 Loudon, no date, 12mo. This is a little, tall, narrow book in the 

 Library of the British Museum, dated in the Catalogiie 1670 (?). 

 It contains a series of small county maps mounted two on 

 a page, the title-page and a blank flyleaf being similarly 

 mounted. On the back of the binding is : " Pocket Book of 

 Counties of England and Wales. R. Morden." 



(Reprinted by H. Turpin in a little book dated doubtfully 

 1780 in the British Museum Catalogue.) 



Page 31, line 3. Insert an asterisk (*) before " 1671 (?)." 



PART II. 



Page 181, line 12. For " 1700 (c) " read " 1701 ; " this date 

 being given in Nichols' ' Catalogue of the Hoare Library ' 

 (1840), under the head of G-eneral Topography, at p. 98. 



Page 183, line 11. Insert an asterisk (*) before "1713 (c)." 



Page 187. 

 1726. Overton, Philip, and Thomas Bowles. 



37 X 23i. Scale, about 24 miles = 1 inch. 



A map of Essex, Middlesex, and Herts, of which the county 

 of Hertfoi-d occupies a space measiu-ing about 17 X 15^. It 



