136 H. G. FORDHAM HERTFORDSHIRE MAPS. 



shows tlie roads, rivers, towns, villages, and the principal houses 

 and parks, and is ruled up into squares. The title, in the right- 

 hand bottom corner, runs •• " The Counties of Essex, Middlesex 

 and Hertfordshire Actualy Survey'd by Several Hands Corrected 

 and Amended and Humbly Dedicated to the Nobility and 

 Gentry of the Said Counties By Phil : Overton Mapseller in 

 Fleet Street and Tho : Bowles Mapseller in S. Pauls Church- 

 yard 172G." In the left-hand top corner is a plan of St. Albans 

 in a panel. This plan has to the left-hand side a " Scale of 

 Perches," and at the top, near the right-hand side, a circular 

 indicator of the points of the compass, with the north turned to 

 the corner of the plan. Below this plan is a nearly circular 

 panel, ornamented with scrolls containing the title: "St. Albans 

 Humbly Inscrib'd to Tho : Grape Esq'." 



A copy of this map — the only one I have seen — is in the 

 Library of the British Museum. 



Page 188, line 20. Thei'e is also a map of "Cambridgeshire and 

 The Great Levell of y^ Fenns " with Lea's and the Bowles' 

 imprints, and the date 1733, which is reprinted from the 

 plate of a map found in Lea's Atlas in the Pepysian Library. 

 See under date 1689. 



*1738. Cox, Thomas. 8^x6^ Scale, about 5 miles = 



1 inch. Draw^n by Robert Morden. 



Another impression of the map of Herts in Morden's small 



atlas of 1701 and 1704, as amended and reprinted in the ' Magna 



Britannia' of 1720-31. 



From a second edition of the ' Magna Britannia,' with the 



title slightly altered to : ' Magna Britannia Antiqua et Nova : or, 



a Svu-vey of the Ancient and Present State of Great Britain 



. . . ' London, 6 vols., 1738, 4to. 



Page 189, line 1. I have now obtained a copy of this atlas. 

 London, 1739, obi. fol. It is bound up with a copy of Moll's 

 ' Atlas Minor.' 

 Line 5, after " Maps of " insert " the Counties of." 



Page 193, line 18. For " right " read " left." 



Line 16 from the bottom. The measurements and scale of 

 the map described under "1748. Wale, S.," are, accurately, 

 6-1% X 5-1% and 4 J miles - 1 inch respectively. Add to the 

 description : — In the right-hand bottom corner is a star- 

 shaped indicator of the points of the compass, with an 

 ornamental arrow-head at the top, and the other cardinal 

 points indicated by letters, W., S., and E. Below it is 

 a scale of miles. The full title of the collection of maps, 

 in a copy bound in 1 vol., 8vo, in my library, is : — ' Geo- 

 grapMa Magnae Britanniae, Or, Correct Maps of all the 

 Counties in England, Scotland, and Wales ; with General 

 ones of both Kingdoms, and of the several Adjacent Islands : 

 Each Map expressing the Cities, Boroughs, Market and 

 Presbytery Towns, Villages, Eoads and Rivers ; with the 



