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H. G. FOEDHAM-HERTFOEDSHIEE MAPS. 
notes, title, and ornamentation. The panel in the left-hand top 
corner gives the title as follows:—“Hertford Shire Actually 
Survey’d and Delineated By John Seller Hydrographer to the 
King. Cum Privilegio Regis P Against the left-hand margin of 
the map, in the squares 1—E and 1—E respectively, are added 
shields with coats of arms under coronets inscribed below : ‘ ‘ Boger 
Earle of Clare and Hertford” and “Ed: Semour Ea of Hertford.” 
In the left-hand bottom corner “The Explanation of the Mapp ” 
contains the following, amongst other particulars :—“ The Squares 
on the Mapp serve for a IJniversall Scale, the side of each Square 
Containing three statute or common miles, whereof 5280 feet make 
one mile,” and:—“On the east side of the Mapp is placed y e 
Meridian line, each Degree of Latitude Containing 69-^- of common or 
Statute Miles and 14 Pole and is Devided [see] into Minutes and each 
Minute in 15 seconds.” In the right-hand bottom corner, in place 
of the panel in the map last noted, is a large coat of arms, with 
scrolls, supporters, and motto, “ Fide et Fortitudine ,” and below, on 
a pendant cloth, “ To His Excellency Arthur Earle of Essex Yicount 
Maldon Baron Capel of Hadham L d Leiutenant of the County of 
Hertford one of His Ma 1 ^ most Hon ble privy Councill L d Leiutenant 
Generali and Generali Governor to his most Excellent Ma tie King 
Charles y e 2 d of his Kingdom of Ireland in y e eight and twentieth 
Year of his Ma ties Reigne Anno . . Dom. 1676. This Mapp is 
humbly Dedicated by John Seller, Hydrographer to the King.” 
It gives the meridian of longitude E. and W. Horn London. 
This map is found in an atlas of county maps, mostly reprints 
from Saxton’s plates, hut some by Speed, and containing Surrey by 
Seller, Oliver, and Palmer, and Middlesex and Oxfordshire by 
Seller. It was issued by Lea. A copy exists in the Pepysian 
Library. (See also under Saxton, 1689, post.) 
A fine (and, apparently, later) impression of the map, with 
some trifling alterations, especially the addition in the title of the 
names of John Oliver and Richard Palmer, and the omission of the 
words “ Hydrographer to the King,” and of the coats of arms on 
the left-hand side of the map, is found in the British Museum in 
a large folio volume of maps, containing county maps mostly 
reprints of Speed, with some of Saxton, without date, the title 
being: 1 A Collection of the County Mapp’s of the Kingdome of 
England and Principality of Wales By John Seller.’ The first 
map in this collection is a large one of London, Westminster, and 
Southwark, as rebuilt after the Great Eire, “Published by John 
Seller and are to be sold by him at the Hermitage in Wapping and 
by John Hill in Exchange Alley London. John Oliver fecitP 
* 1676. Speed, John. 20 x 15. Scale, 2£ miles = 
1 inch. Engraved by Jodocus Hondius. 
Another unaltered, hut rather fainter, impression of the map of 
1611 and 1666, except that the imprint is that first found in the 
plates of 1662, viz. : “ Performed by John Speede and are to he sold 
* prefixed to a date indicates a reprint. 
