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H. G. FORDHAM-HERTFORDSHIRE MAPS. 
the left are inscribed “ Roger Erie of Clare and Hartford ” and 
“Edward Seimour Erie of Hartford” respectively. The third 
shield and scroll are blank. The title of the map, in the right-hand 
bottom corner, is as above set out, in a scrolled and ornamented 
oval panel. 
A. good many places and names are inserted in the map itself, 
amongst others the Hew River, a road, indicated by a single line, 
from Dunstable to Royston through Hitchin and Baldock, with 
a branch from Hitchin to Horton, and one drawn with a double 
line from Watford to St. Albans, etc. The rivers are altered from 
the original in some cases, and their names are inserted. The new 
names are in rather larger lettering than the old ones. 
In the Pepysian Library, in Magdalene College, Cambridge, 
is another of Lea’s Atlases of Saxton’s Maps, in which Herts is 
Seller’s map with the date 1676, and Bucks, Middlesex, and Surrey 
are also by Seller; a map of Essex, in Seller’s style, is signed by 
William Morgan, and there is a map of the county 20 miles round 
London, which is in Seller’s style. There are a few other maps 
by other engravers, hut the collection is in the main that of 
Saxton, the maps showing the roads, and being re-dated as above 
noted. The marginal ornamentation does not appear to have been 
altered, hut the maps have been “Corrected and Amended with 
many Additions by P. Lea.” The title-page of this Atlas runs : 
“ The Shires of England and Wales Described by Christopher 
Saxton. Being the Best and Original Mapps. With many Additions 
and Corrections, viz. y e Hund ds , Roads, Etc., by Philip Lea. Also 
the Hew Surveis of Ogilby, Seller, etc.” 
As Pepys died in 1703, and the atlas is in his original binding, 
it must have been issued between 1689 and the latter date. 
Other copies of Lea’s Atlas are in the Douce Collection and the 
Gough Library in the Bodleian Library. 
There seems to have been a reprint of this series of maps by 
Thomas Bowles in 1733 (see under that date^as^, p. 188). 
1695. Oliver, John. 31 X 23£. Scale, 1 mile = finch. 
A well-filled map, similar in style to John Seller’s map of Herts 
of 1676. It shows the boundaries of the hundreds, and the roads, 
rivers, towns, villages, parks and beacons, with trees and hills, 
and is divided into squares lettered A to K on the left-hand side of 
the map, and numbered 1 to 13 along the top. In the left-hand 
top corner, in a large panel ornamented with scrolls, sheaves of 
corn, fruit, etc., “ The Actual Survey of the County of Hertford ; 
Containing the Miles, Eurlongs, and Poles, between Place and Place 
on all the Roads in the Survey exactly Measured and set forth 
in a Printed account, hereunto annexed, A work never done to 
any County before. Also an Alphabetical Table of the Hohility 
and Gentry, with a ready method for the finding their Particular 
Seats, or Places of Residence in the said County. By John Oliver. 
Cum .... Privilegio 16 ... 95.” In the bottom 
corner on the left of the map is a scrolled panel of “Explanations ” 
