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“ Oriens ,” u Mer idles” and “ Occidens At “Barnett field” a 
group of foot-soldiers fighting ; another group north of St. Albans 
with the legend “ Battayle of S* Albons ”; and another west of 
“ Kempton,” “ A Battle where the Danes were over throwne.” 
In the left-hand top corner, a square panel with scrolled border, 
containing title, viz., * PLartfordice Comitatus nova description 
continens in se oppida mercatoria xyiii, ecclesiasque parochiales 
ccvm.’ In left bottom corner, an open pair of compasses standing 
on a scale of 7 miles, and “ Scala milliarium .” In rectangular 
panel in the right-hand top corner, “ Nomina Hundredorum in hoc 
Comitatu. A. Odsey Hundred. B. Edwinstree Hundred. C. Hitchin 
half Hundred. D Brodwater Hundred. E. Braghing Hundred. 
E. Hartford Hundred. G. Dacorum Hundred. H. Caisho Hundred.” 
In right bottom corner, in square panel, with pictorial signs as used 
on the map : 
“ Notarum Explication 
Lat. 
Oppida Mercatoria 
Castella 
JEdes et Palatia Elizabeths 
Abbatice 
Ecclesice Parochiales 
Nobilium cedes 
Villce 
Molce 
Ahg. 
Markett Townes 
Castells 
Houses et manners of Q,. Elizab: 
Abbeys 
Parish Churches 
Gentlemen’s howses 
Villages 
Milles ”; 
and below, “ Printed and sould by P. Stent.” 
Along the bottom margin, in one broken line, “ Sould by . . . 
John Overton at the . . . white horse without Newgate . . . 
neare the fountaine tavern.” 
There is no direct evidence to fix the date of this map, as I have 
only seen it in the collections of Mr. Greg and Mr. Lewis Evans. 
In a copy of Saxton’s Atlas in the Inner Temple Library is inter¬ 
polated a map of England described and dated as follows : “A new 
map of the Kingdome of England and Principality of Wales, taken 
out of I.S. Printed and are to be sold by Peter Stent at the 
White Horse in Giltspur Stret without Newgate, 1665,” which 
might very probably be taken from an atlas of that date by Stent 
of which the above-described map of Herts was a part. 
There is a catalogue of Stent’s maps and other publications, 
dated 1662, in the Gough Collection in the Bodleian Library, and 
it appears from an undated advertisement of John Overton’s that he 
succeeded Stent in his business, although this is disputed at great 
length by Robert Walton in a rival advertisement in the same 
collection. 
* 1666 (?). Speed, John. 20 x 15. Scale, 2^ miles = 
1 inch. Engraved by Jodocus Hondius. 
Another unaltered reprint of the map of 1611, with Bassett and 
Chiswell’s imprint, and no text on back. 
