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H. G. FORDHAM—HERTFORDSHIRE MAPS. 
Preface, says: “The Maps are all new engrav’d, either according 
to Surveys never before publish’d, or according to such as have 
been made and printed since Saxton and Speed. Where actual 
Surveys could he had, they were purchas’d at any rate; and for 
the rest, one of the best Copies extant was sent to some of the most 
knowing Gentlemen in each County, with a request to supply the 
defects, rectifie the positions, and correct the false spellings. And 
that nothing might be wanting to render them as complete and 
accurate as might be, this whole business was committed to 
Mr. Robert Morden, a person of known abilitie in these matters, 
who took care to revise them, to see the slips of the Engraver 
mended, the corrections, return’d out of the several Counties, duly 
inserted. Upon the whole, we need not scruple to affirm, that they 
are by much the fairest and most correct of any that have yet 
appear’d.” 
1695 (?). Seller, John. 5H x 4f. Scale, 8 miles = 
1 inch. 
This little map gives the hundreds (distinguished by letters 
referring to a marginal list), roads, rivers (including the New 
Eiver), towns, and villages, with trees and hills. It is divided by 
vertical and horizontal lines three miles apart, into squares which 
mark the distances east and west, and north, respectively, from 
London. In the right-hand bottom corner along the lower margin 
of the map, “ M : East from London,” and on the right-hand side, 
“Miles North from London.” In the left-hand top corner, in 
a clumsily-drawn, oval, shaded scroll, “Hartford Shire Ey John 
Seller,” and in the bottom corner on the same side a list of the 
Hundreds, lettered A to H. 
Erom ‘Anglia Contracta , or A Description of the Kingdom of 
England and Principality of Wales, in Several new Mapps of all 
the Countyes therein Contained Ey John Seller Hydrographer to 
The King,’ a small thick volume in 12mo. A copy in the British 
Museum has no date, but it is ascribed to 1695 in the Library 
Catalogue. In Gough’s Catalogue this work is, however, referred 
to as “ circ. 1690.” 
The book has an ornamental title with portraits of King William 
and Queen Mary, a second engraved title-page with figures of 
“A Britain” and “A Saxon” on the left and right, with the 
above title in a panel between them. These are followed by 
various maps of England and Wales, sheets of the arms and seals 
of the Bishops, etc.; then a series of county maps arranged in 
alphabetical order, folding in the middle, with a single-page list 
of the hundreds preceding each. 
(Reprinted in an epitome of Camden’s 1 Britannia ’ in 1701, in 
Seller’s History of England [3rd ed.], 1703, and with title altered, 
in 1787, in Grose’s 4 Antiquities of England and Wales.’) 
* 1700 (c). Morden, Robert. 17 f x 14*. Scale, 
about 2 miles = 1 inch. 
An unaltered reprint of the map of Herts which first occurs in 
