H. G. FORDHAM-HERTFORDSHIRE MAPS. 
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1598. HTorden, John. 9-&- X 7li. Scale, about 4 miles 
= 1 inch. Engraved by William Kip. 
This map shows the hundreds, rivers, principal roads, indicated 
by double dotted lines, towns, villages, with churches and hamlets, 
hills, parks, and woods, and figures of armed men representing the 
sites of battles. It is divided by horizontal and vertical lines 
into % inch squares (=2 miles), indicated in margins, at sides 
by letters a to o , and at top and bottom by even numbers, 2 to 36. 
Plain margin. In left top corner in plain long panel, in capital 
letters, “Hartford Shire,” and below, circular, crowned and 
ornamented scroll with royal shield and motto, “ Honi . Soit . Qui . 
Mai. Y . Pence” In left bottom comer, “ Scala Milliarium .” 
The right-hand top corner has a smaller circular band with crown 
and motto, and blank shield in centre. On right-hand side an 
indicator of the points of the compass, and in the bottom right- 
hand corner a rectangular panel with ornamented margin, and 
the inscription “Joannes Nor den perambulavit et descrip sit 1598 
Wilhelmus kip Sculp sit. ” 
Erom the ‘ Speculi Britannice Pars. The description of Hartford- 
shire,’ by John Horden. London, 1598. 4to. The ’‘Speculum, 
Britannice. The first parte,’ containing Middlesex, was published 
by Horden in 1593,* with a map of that county, and these two 
parts were all that appeared. The manuscript of Hertfordshire is 
in the Lambeth Library (Catalogue of MSS., Ho. 521) ; both the 
MS. and map are dated 1597. 
“ Horden was the first Englishman who designed a complete 
series of county histories, and he essayed his task with boundless 
energy. . . . But the task was beset with difficulties, mainly 
pecuniary. In 1596 he published a ‘Preparative’ to his ‘ Speculum 
Britannice .’ . . . In 1607 Horden published his ‘ Surveyor’s 
Dialogue,’ which was republished in 1610, 1618, and 1758, and it 
was re-edited in 1855 by J. W. Papworth in the Architectural 
Society’s Publication, vi, 409. . . . Horden’s latest published 
work as a topographer was ‘ England, An intended Guyde for 
English Travellers,’ 1625, 4to, a series of distance tables intended 
to be used with Speed’s set of county maps. Horden probably died 
soon after its publication.” f 
(Keprinted in 1637 in quarto, but I have never been able to. 
identify a copy of this date, beyond finding in the Gough Collection 
in the Bodleian Library a mutilated title-page so dated, but which 
may possibly not belong to Horden’s work at all, although it is 
bound up with it. There is a reprint, whether that of 1637 or of 
a later date seems doubtful, in which the date and the engraver’s 
name in the panel in the right-hand bottom corner are erased, 
* It is entitled ‘ Speculum, Britannice. The first parte. An historicall and 
chorographicall discrip tion of Middlesex. .... .By the Travaile and vew of 
John Norden, Anno 1593,’ and contains, besides the map of Middlesex, one of 
London, and one of Westminster. 
t ‘ Dictionary of National Biography,’ vol. xli (1895), article ‘ Norden, John 
(1548-1625?), topographer.’ 
