214 Ma^s of Wiltshire. 



Below, an elaborate cartouche encloses the title ; and, in a smaller one, 

 appear the arms of Thomas Seckford, Master of the Bequests to Queen 

 Elizabeth (Thomas Seckford was patron of Saxton's work of surveying 

 the whole of the country). In left-hand bottom corner, an open pair of 

 compasses stands upon a scale of ten miles. Saxton's name is printed 

 within the compasses, above the scale, and Hogenberg's name below. 



Christopher Saxton was a topographical draughtsman, born at Tingley, 

 near Leeds, He was educated at Cambridge, but at what college is not 

 known. Afterwards he came to London and was attached to the house- 

 hold of Thomas Seckford, at whose instigation and expense, and with 

 the authority of Queen Elizabeth, he surveyed and drew maps of every 

 county of England and Wales. 



This was the first survey of the counties of England and Wales. The 

 dates of the maps range from 1574 to 1579. They were drawn by Saxton 

 and engraved by Augustine Kyther, Eemigius Hogenberg, Cornelius 

 Hogius (or Hogins), Nicolas Reynolds, Leonard Terwoort, and F. Scatter. 

 The complete atlas was issued in 1579. Copies are now very rare, and 

 one sold at Christie's, in 1901, realised ^£90. 



The date of Saxton's death is uncertain ; but he was alive as late as 

 1596, when he surveyed and described the town of Manchester. 



1607. 



Wiltoniae Comitatus herbida planicie nobilis, vulgo 

 Willshire pars olim Belgarum. Guiliam Kip 

 sculp. Scala miliarum, 5 [ = lf inches.] 14in. x lliin 



In BRITANNIA SIVE FLOEENTISSIMORUM EEGNOEUM ANGLIC 

 SCOTIiE, HIBERNI^ . . . GUILIELMO CAMDENO AUTHORE, 

 LONDINI, IMPENSIS GEORGII BISHOP JOANNIS NORTON, 1607. fol. 



Based upon Saxton's Map of Wiltshire. With text in Latin on back. 



Shows towns, villages, hills, trees, enclosed parks, and rivers with the 

 bridges. The relative importance of the towns and villages are indicated 

 by the towers and spires of the churches. The hills are greatly 

 exaggerated. 



Top left-hand corner, the title enclosed in an ornamental cartouche. 

 Bottom left-hand corner, a pair of open compasses standing upon a scale 

 of five miles, and the engraver's name given in a small panel attached 

 on the right. Bottom right-hand corner, an indicator of the cardinal| 

 points. 



1610. 

 A reprint of tlie 1607 map. 



In [PHILEMON HOLLAND'S TRANSLATION OF CAMDEN'S BRITAN 



NIA] 1610. fol. 



The compass indicator has been altered by the addition of an inter- 

 mediate point and a ring enclosing the whole, and there is no text on back, 



