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H. G. FORDHAM-HERTFORDSHIRE HAPS. 
This title is taken from Gough’s ‘ Anecdotes.’ It is mentioned 
there, and also in his ‘ British Topography,’ in the chapter on Maps. 
1749(F). War bur ton, John. 30^x24. Scale, about 
1^ miles = 1 inch. Engraved by Nathaniel Hill. 
Shows hundreds, rivers, main roads (with distances in miles 
between market towns, and junctions of cross roads), towns, 
villages, hamlets, parks and houses (with numbers relating to the 
shields of the owners, as shown on a separate sheet, corresponding 
to the shields on the margin of the larger map of Middlesex, Essex, 
and Herts, published about 1745, q.v. ante, p. 190), churches, 
wind- and water-mills, commons, woods, and hills, with sites of 
battles, Homan stations, religions houses, and springs of medicinal 
waters. It has a double-ruled, plain border, with degrees and 
minutes of longitude and latitude marked, and is ruled up into 
squares of three miles, numbered 1 to 15 along top margin, and 
lettered A to L on left. In the left-hand top corner is a large, 
scrolled, ornamental panel, containing: “To the Nobility and 
Gentry of Hertford Shire, Subscribers to the Work, This Map is 
most humbly Dedicated, by their Oblig’d Servant John Warbnrton, 
Somerset,” with three surveying instruments, one on either side, 
and the third below the panel. In the bottom left-hand corner are 
two small coats of arms, inscribed, at the top, “Hertford,” and 
“St. Albans,” and “Nath 1 . Hill Sculp” In the right-hand top 
corner a coarsely-drawn star shaped indicator of the points of the 
compass, and, in the bottom corner on the same side, a very full 
“Explanation of the Map,” in an ornamental, rectangular, upright 
panel. On the left of this panel, along the bottom border of the 
map, is a scale of miles, and a statement as to the squares on 
the map. 
There is a copy of this map in Mr. Lewis Evans’ collection 
(Herts County Museum), and one, much cut down, in the British 
Museum. 
There is a good deal of doubt as to the dates of publication of 
Warburton’s maps. The matter is discussed ante , pp. 191, 192. 
According to Gough (‘Anecdotes,’ p. 203, and ‘ British Topography,’ 
vol. i, p. 433), this map was issued earlier than the large one of 
Middlesex, Essex, and Herts, but he does not give any reasons 
for thinking so, or a date for either map. 
The year 1749 seems a probable approximate date for this map, 
because Warburton published in that year a work on the names 
and coat-armour of the nobility, etc,, of London and Middlesex, 
and a map of Middlesex, and also about the same time (according 
to Gough) a map of Essex. 
1749. Kitchin, Thomas, and Thomas Jefferys. 
5| x 5^-. Scale, 10 miles = -f- inch. 
Shows divisions of hundreds, rivers, principal roads (marked 
with distances in miles between towns), towns, a few villages, and 
parks. Shading round the boundary of the county, so as to give 
it the appearance of an island. Double-ruled border, with degrees 
