H. G. FORDHAM-HERTFORDSHIRE MAPS. 
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appeared in the following year. In this, in the copy in the British 
Museum, is inserted an additional page of letterpress printed from 
type. These two editions were both sold by Mathew Simons. 
The only copies I have ever seen are two (1635 and 1636) in 
the British Museum and one (1636) in the Bodleian Library. 
The table and map of Herts from this work are also reproduced 
in facsimile (Plate VI). 
In 1657 appeared a fuller work founded on those published by 
Simons: ‘ A Book of the Names of all Parishes, Market Towns, 
Villages, Hamblets, and Smallest Places, in England and Wales. 
Alphabetically set down, as they be in every Shire. With the 
Names of the Hundreds in which they are, and how many Towns 
there are in every Hundred,’ etc. It was published by Thomas 
Jenner, and contained a printed list of places, together with impres¬ 
sions from the original plates of Van Langeren altered by the 
obliteration of his skeleton maps, and the insertion in their place 
of larger and more detailed, though still very small maps of the 
counties. This ‘Book of the Names’ was republished in 1662 
(Samuel Pepys’ copy, preserved in the Pepysian Library at 
Magdalen College, Cambridge, is of this date) and 1668, by Jenner, 
and again by John Garret in 1677. The tables of distances were 
again used, copied in the same form on a larger scale, in the 
‘Magna Britannia et Hibernia'' of the Rev. Thomas Cox, published 
1720-31, 6 vols., 4to. 
In the middle of the seventeenth century the rival families of 
Blaeu and Jansson were publishing in Holland their large folio 
atlases, with editions in various languages (Latin, Erench, German, 
Spanish, Dutch, and Flemish), incorporating verbatim, in the 
volume appropriated to England, the text of Camden, and with 
maps of the English counties. Blaeu gives Hertfordshire in one 
map.* In Jansson’s atlas Middlesex and Hertfordshire are in the 
same sheet. The series of earlier maps is closed by Richard 
Blome, who, in his ‘ Britannia ’ (1673), folio, copies his prede¬ 
cessors, but in very poor style. 
Contemporaneously with the development of cartography in the 
Low Countries, a school of geographers was growing up in France, 
of which Nicolas Sanson, of Abbeville (1600-67), who was 
royal geographer from 1627, and his sons Nicolas, Adrien, and 
Guillaume Sanson were the earlier and more prolific members. 
They were succeeded by other eminent workers, and in the middle 
of the eighteenth century France is described as “ facile prineeps in 
cartographic achievements.” As, however, no English county maps 
appear to have been printed in any of the French atlases, I need 
not refer further to this school. 
Towards the end of the seventeenth century, when the Dutch 
school of engravers and map-makers, so prolific in its day, seems 
to have entirely died out, the English engravers became more 
numerous, and, during the following century, they produced many 
* The tailpiece on p. 32 is taken from Blaeu’s map of Herts. 
