H. Q. FORDHAM-HERTFORDSHIRE MAPS. 
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Passing from tlie great work of Saxton, John Horden (1548- 
1625 or 1626) follows, in 1593, with his ‘ Speculum Britannia? 
though, perhaps, the very interesting and artistic maps by Robert 
Adams and Ryther, showing the English and Spanish fleets and 
their engagements in the Channel, followed by a chart of the 
whole course of the Armada round the British Isles, published 
under the title and date, 1 Expeditions Hispanorum in Angliam 
vera descriptio? Anno Bo: mdlxxxviii, should be mentioned in 
passing as a specimen of native work. 
Norden did not complete his design, and, though he surveyed 
other counties, he succeeded in publishing descriptions and maps 
of Middlesex (1593) and Hertfordshire (1598) only. In 1607 he 
issued his 1 Surveyor’s Dialogue,’ which was subsequently several 
times reprinted, and in 1625 he published his last work, ‘ An 
Intended Gruyde, Eor English Travailers ’ (without maps), to which 
I shall refer again. He seems to have contributed to the series 
of County Maps published by Speed in 1611,*' as well as to the 
maps published in the folio edition of Camden’s ‘ Britannia ’ in 
1607, of which those of Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Hertford¬ 
shire, and Middlesex are attributed to him. Horden’s Hertford¬ 
shire appeared in 1598, under the title ‘ Speculi Britannia Pars. 
The description of Hartfordshire.’ The map is engraved by 
"William Kip. The work is said to have been reprinted in 1637, 
and it was republished, with the map newly engraved by Senex, 
in 1723. This map is pretty closely copied from the original 
design, but has some differences. 
Before quitting the county maps of the sixteenth century, 
I must call attention to the set of small maps copied from 
Saxton, and engraved by Peter Keer, or Pieter Yan den Keere 
(in its Latinized form Petrus Kaerius). They are first found 
printed, so far as I have been able to discover, in 1617, with 
Camden’s text condensed in Latin. Many of them bear the 
signature Petrus Kaerius calavit 1 and a few are dated 1599. As 
they are obviously a uniform series, there can be no doubt but 
that they are all attributable to Keer and to the latter date. 
But to revert to British cartography. In 1607, in the last 
Latin edition of Camden’s ‘ Britannia ’ (folio) published in the 
author’s lifetime, we find a set of county maps by several 
engravers. They follow Saxton and Korden in design and detail. 
The same plates are used to illustrate Holland’s translation of the 
‘Britannia ,’ London, 1610, f and 1637, folio. Of the 53 county 
maps in these editions of Camden, 34 are engraved by William 
Kip, and 17 by William Hole. Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, Kent, 
Hertfordshire, and Middlesex, as already noticed, are after Korden ; 
the rest, with five exceptions only, are stated to be taken from 
Saxton. 
* Preface to the 1 Intended Guyde.’ 
f In the Bibliotheque rationale, Paris, is a copy of this edition with only the 
frontispiece map of England. It seems to he in its original binding, and 
therefore to have been published without the county maps found in other copies. 
