H. G. FORD HAM—HERTFORDSHIRE MAPS. 
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. . . In the County of Essex.” In the top left-hand corner 
of the map is the title, within a large scroll, with figures: “ A Hew 
and Correct Map of Middlesex, Essex, and Hertford-Shire, With 
the Roads Rivers Sea-Coast Etc. Actually Surveyed. 
i John Warburton, Esq r . 
Somerset Herald & E.R.S. 
Joseph Eland ) 
and > Gent.” 
Payler Smyth, ) 
On the left-hand side of the map is an oval panel with the 
“‘Explanation of the Map,” and at the foot, in the centre, are two 
rectangular panels having the form of the two pages of an open 
hook, containing an “Explanation of the Arms,” and to the right 
on the bottom margin “Engraved by S. Parker.” In the left- 
hand bottom corner is an indicator of the cardinal points, with 
lines radiating from its centre, and in the right-hand bottom corner 
are additional arms for each county, and the arms of all the borough 
towns in the three counties. 
This map, which I have examined in Mr. Greg’s collection, has 
been enriched by the colouring and gilding, in the proper heraldic 
tints, of the coats of arms which form the most important feature 
of the work. Mr. Greg has examined the names of owners of 
the various Herts estates in order to establish the date of publi¬ 
cation of the map. He notes that Warburton held the office of 
Somerset Herald from 1720 to the time of his death in 1759, and 
that “ as a Chester is given in the map (No. 38, Herts) as owner 
of Newsells, near Parkway, and he only bought it (from a Jenyns) 
in 1743, the map must have been published between 1743 and 
1759, when Warburton died, and before 1747, when Dr. Savage, 
Clothall Bury, died.” 
Warburton appears to have published a map of Northumberland 
as early as 1716. 
In the Catalogue of the Gough Collection in the Bodleian 
Library, under the head of Middlesex, at p. 173,1 find : “ Proposals 
for publishing a new Map of Middlesex, Essex, and Hertfordshire, 
by John Warburton, Esq., 1720.” In the same collection, at 
p. 180, is catalogued, “London and Middlesex illustrated, by John 
Warburton, Esq., Somerset Herald, 8vo, London, 1749.” There 
is a copy of this work also in the British Museum. At this latter 
date Warburton published a map of Middlesex, on two sheets 
of imperial atlas, and a similar map of Essex was published, 
apparently about the same date, to which date it seems probable 
that the map of Herts described post, p. 194, may he attributed. 
There are some notes in the ‘Literary Anecdotes of the 18th 
Century,’ by John Nichols, London, 1812, 8vo, in vol. vi, pt. 1, 
at p. 141, etc., which throw some light, though not very much, 
on Warburton’s work. It is there stated that he published in 
1722-23 ‘A list of the Nobility and Gentry of the Counties of 
Middlesex, Essex, and Herts, who have subscribed, and ordered 
