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H. G. FORDHAM—HERTFORDSHIRE MAPS. 
their Coats of Arms to be inscribed on a new map now making/ 
and that in 1728 this map is referred to in the ‘Whitehall 
Evening Post/ Aug. 8th, as being to order. Then, in 1749, the 
map is referred to in Warburton’s hook on London and Middlesex. 
It seems evident that the map was a very long time in pre¬ 
paration. Probably the inquiries and the collection of subscriptions 
were tedious. I have preferred to follow Mr. Greg’s conjectures, 
and place the map late, rather than about or soon after 1728, as 
one might, were it not for his investigations based upon the owner¬ 
ship of the estates he refers to. 
1746. Simpson, Samuel. 7f x 6. Scale, 4 miles = 
1 inch. 
A map with a single-line border, giving the hundreds, the roads 
and rivers, towns, villages, parks, hills, and trees. There is a band 
of shading round the county boundary, outside. At the top, outside 
the border, “Hertford Shire.” In the left-hand top corner is 
a coat of arms with coronet and supporters, and the motto “ Sero 
sed serio ,” and below “The Arms of the Eight Honble. the Earl 
of Salisbury ”; and, to the right of this coat of arms, an irregular¬ 
shaped, ornamental panel bearing three leopards, and the inscription 
below: “ The Arms of Hertford.” * In the right-hand bottom 
corner is a star-and-circle indicator of the north, with a scale of 
(5) English miles below it. The directions of the roads where 
they leave the county are indicated. 
From ‘ The Agreeable Historian, Or the Compleat English 
Traveller: giving a Geographical Description of every County in 
that Part of Great Britain, call’d England . . . With 
a Map of every County prefix’d to each, from the best and latest 
Observations, after the Designs of Herman Moll, and others 
. . . Compiled from Camden, Leland, Dugdale, Ogilby, 
Morgan, and other Authors. By Samuel Simpson, Gent/ London, 
1746, 3 vols., 8vo. The map of Herts is in vol. ii. 
1746. The English Traveller. 7£ x 6-Af. Scale, 
4 miles = 1 inch. Engraved by John Bocque (?). 
A map of Herts with a single-line border broken on the left side 
by the county boundary near Tring. Above the map is the title 
“Hertford Shire.” It contains the same details, and is as nearly 
as may be of the same dimensions as the map in ‘ The Agreeable 
Historian’ last mentioned, from which it appears to have been 
very exactly copied, even to the errors in spellings. The writing, 
however, differs slightly throughout, and in lieu of the coat of 
arms, etc., on the latter map, are, in the left-hand top corner, 
a circular indicator of the north and a scale of (5) miles only. 
There are no other ornamental additions to the map. An obvious 
difference exists also in the fact that in the earlier map the border 
is not broken on the left-hand side. This map shows the hundreds, 
* This is a blunder; the Arms are those of the City of Hereford. The 
arms of the two counties have been transposed. Those of St. Albans are 
engraved on the map of Herefordshire. 
