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without text, with the addition of meridian lines (longitude 
reckoned from the Azores), and with the imprint “ Amstelodami. 
Apud G. Valk , et P. Schenk ” in lieu of that of Jansson. 
The only copy of this map known to me is that in the collection 
of Mr. Lewis Evans (Herts County Museum), and I have not been 
able to find in any library the volume or atlas from which it is 
taken; hut, in Strutt’s ‘Biographical Dictionary of Engravers,’ 
2 vols., London, 1785, 4to, in vol. ii, at p. 373, under the heading 
“ Gerard Yalck,” it is stated that he “assisted Peter Schenck in 
publishing the large Dutch Atlas, in two volumes, folio, 1683.” 
It seems probable, therefore, that Mr. Evans’ map belongs to this 
Atlas. (Reprinted in 1724, in the * Atlas Anglois .’) 
* 1689 (c). Saxton, Christopher [Lea, Philip]. 
20 X 15f. Scale, about 2 miles = 1 inch. The original plate 
engraved by Nicholas Reynolds, of London [1577]. 
An impression from Saxton’s plate, with the whole of the design 
in the left-hand top corner cut out, except the words “ Parte .... 
of Bedforde.” In the bottom right-hand corner the word “ Essex ” 
and Seckford’s arms are erased, and a new title, “ Hartford 
Shire by C : S: Corrected and Amended with many Additions 
by P. Lea,” is inserted. The map itself appears to have been 
unaltered from the plate as engraved by Reynolds. This would 
appear to he the first or an early print of Saxton’s maps as issued 
by Lea. It is found in an Atlas of County Maps in the Douce 
Collection in the Bodleian Library, which has for title : “ All the 
Shires of England and Wales Described by Christopher Saxton Being 
the best and original Mapps. With many additions and Corrections 
by Philip Lea.” It has no date, hut the map of England hears 
the initials “ W. R.,” and as the reign of William III commenced 
in 1688, the Atlas must he ascribed to not earlier than that date. 
A few maps are re-dated, e.g., Hereford, 1665, Somerset, 1685, 
and the latest, Wiltshire, 1689, which brings the collection up to 
the last-mentioned date. 
A later copy of Saxton’s map as amended by Lea, and in which 
the amendments have been carried much further than in the above 
impression, exists in the collections of Mr. Greg and Mr. Evans 
(Herts County Museum). I am unable to give it any definite date. 
Almost all the marginal matter and ornamentation has been cut 
out and replaced as follows :—In the left-hand top corner is a plan 
of the town of Hertford, in a rectangular panel 5f X 3f, with 
a border of three plain ruled lines. At the top of the plan, rather 
to the left, “Hartforde” on scroll. Towards its left-hand top 
corner is a shield with a hart lying down to left, and in the left- 
hand bottom comer a panel with a list of buildings and streets in 
the town distinguished by letters A to P. At the bottom, towards 
the right-hand side, a circular indicator of the north resting on an 
ornamental panel with scale of (100) “ Pases.” 
Below this plan of Hertford are three shields with crowns, 
suspended, with a scroll under each. The first and second from 
