62 AGRICULTURAL WRITERS. 



Crambourne, Earle of Salisburie, Principall Secretarie to the most high 

 and magnificent Prince, James, King of Great Britain, France, and 

 Ireland, Master of his Majestie's Wards and Liveries, of his Majestie's 

 most Honourable Privie Counsell, and Knight of the most Noble Order 

 of the Garter." He is stated to have belonged to a genteel family in the 

 county of Wilts, and was born in about the year 1548. He became a 

 commoner of Hertford Hall in 1564, and took the degree of master of 

 arts in 1573. 



John Norden was the first Englishman who designed a complete 

 series of county histories and maps. He was then living at Fulham, and 

 was friendly with Gerard, the herbalist, who gave him some red beete 

 seed, "which, although altogether of one colour in his garden, brought 

 forth^^many other beautiful colours." 



Gerard mentions the fact in his Herbal, vol. 2, page 319. In 1600 

 he was acting as Sur\eyor of Crown Woods and Forests in Berkshire, 

 Devonshire, Surrey, and elsewhere, and in 1605 petitioned for a similar 

 office under the Duchy of Cornwall, complaining that he had spent 

 /, 1000 in former employment without receiving recompense. His claims 

 were evidently recognised, for in 1607 he surveyed Windsor, issuing as 

 the result a vellum folio MS. called "A Description of the Honor of 

 Windsor, performed by the Perambulation and Delineation of J. Norden," 

 containing eighteen coloured maps and bird's-eye plan. For this he 

 recei\/ed a free gift of ^^200 from King James I. 



Later on he held the surveyorship of the Duchy of Cornwall jointly 

 with his son. He was the delineator of the county maps engraved by 

 William Kips, and his merits as a draughtsman were evidently recognised, 

 as there are records of a Privy Council order to all lieutenants of counties 

 " that the bearer, J. Norden, Gent, was authorised by his Majesty to 

 travel through England and Wales to make more perfect descriptions, 

 charts, maps, &c." 



I now come to his book on surviving which contains a good deal of 

 interesting material, and was well thought of at the time. It comprises 

 six parts, each of which may be described as follows : 



The first Booke 

 Containeth a communication betweene a Farmer and a Surveyor of Land ; wherein 

 is prooved that Surveyres of Manners and Lands are necessary, both for the Lord and 

 Tennant, and in what manner Tennants ought to behave themselves towards their 

 Lords, in respect of their tenures. 



The second Booke 

 Is intreated betweene the Lord of a Manner and a Surveyor, concerning- the estate 

 of a Manner, of the parts and profits thereunto belonging, and how the Lord of 

 a Manner ought to deale with his Tennants. 



The third Booke 

 Containeth the manner and method of keeping a court of survey, and the articles 

 to be inquired of, and the charge : how to enter and mroll copies, leases, and deedes, 

 and how to take the plot of a manner. 



