228 Maps of Wiltshire. 



LEA AT THE ATLAS AND HERCULES IN CHEAPSIDE, NEAR FEIDAY 

 STREET, AND AT HIS SHOP IN WESTMINSTER HALL NEAR THE 

 COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, ETC. [1690.] 



A reprint of Saxton's map of 1576, with considerable alterations, by- 

 Philip Lea, who issued a reprint of Saxton's atlas, about 1690. The 

 map of Wiltshire was probably published in 1667, as the date has been 

 altered, there being evidence of the 8 having been 6 and the 9 a 7. 



The whole of the design on the left-hand side of the original plate, 

 consisting of the Royal Arms, cartouche with the title, and the arms of 

 Thomas Seaford, has been expunged, and replaced by plans of Salisbury 

 and Stonehenge as given in Speed's map of 1611. Below these have 

 been added six shields of the Earls of Wiltshire, and eight of the Earls 

 of Salisbury. The scale and compasses, in the bottom left-hand corner, 

 remain as in the original ; but there has been a slight alteration in the 

 position of the word " of " and the letter " t " in Somerset. 



On the right-hand side, just above Hungerford, two shields of the 

 Earls of Marlborough have been added, and, a little below these, are 

 added the Royal Arms with the initials C. R, The latter addition 

 explains the earlier date which was erased, and shows that the map was 

 first issued in the time of Charles II. 



Bottom right-hand corner, two shields of the Earls of Clarendon 

 have been added. 



In the map itself an important innovation was made by the introduction 

 of the names and divisions of the hundreds, and the principal roads, 

 which constitutes this the first map of the county showing roads. 



Philip Lea was a bookseller and publisher, from about 1680 to 1700, 

 at the Atlas and Hercules in the Poultry, and at Westminster Hall. He 

 published a large number of maps — mostly copies or reprints. On some 

 of his maps he calls himself " Globe maker at the Atlas and Hercules in 

 Cheapside." In 1703 his widow published A Netv Map of the French 

 lines in the Province of Brahant. 



1695. 



Wiltshire. By Robt. Morden. Scale of miles, 6 

 [=2 inches.] Sold by Able Swale, Awnsham & 

 John Churchil. lejin. x 13|m. 



In CAMDEN'S BRITANNIA, NEWLY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH 

 ... BY EDMUND GIBSON . . . LONDON, 1695. fol. 



A delicately engraved map, showing towns, villages, parks, hills, woods, 

 hundreds, roads, rivers and bridges. 



The greater art of the plate on the left is bare, except for the names 

 of the adjoining counties. Bottom left-hand corner, the imprint. Top 

 right-hand corner, a cartouche with the title. Bottom right-hand corner,| 

 the scale. 



