See also:JOHN See also:NORDEN (1548-1625?)
, See also:English topographer, was the first Englishman who designed a See also:complete See also:series of See also:county histories and geographies
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His earliest known See also:work of importance was the See also:Speculum Britanniae, first See also:part
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See also:Middlesex (1593); the MS. of this in the See also:British Museum (Hari
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570) has corrections, &c., in See also:Lord Burleigh's See also:handwriting
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In 1595 he wrote a Chorographical Description of
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Middlesex, See also:Essex, See also:Surrey, See also:Sussex, See also:Hampshire, See also:Wight, See also:Guernsey and See also:Jersey, dedicated to See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth; the MS. of this is in the British Museum, Addit
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See also:MSS
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31,853
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In 1596 he published his Preparative to
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.
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Speculum Britanniae, dedicated to Burleigh, and in 1598 his See also:Hertfordshire (See also:Lambeth Libr
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MSS
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521)
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Before his See also:death he had completed in See also:manuscript his See also:account of five other counties; three of these studies were printed See also:long after his death, viz
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Essex, edited for the See also:Camden Society in 184o by See also:Sir See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Ellis from a MS. at See also:Hatfield (see also British Museum Addit
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MSS
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33, 769); See also:Northamptonshire, known to have been finished in 161o, but only published in 1720; See also:Cornwall, likewise finished in 161o, published in 1728 (see Hari
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MSS
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6252)
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Of See also:Kent and Surrey even the MSS. are now lost; parts of the latter are perhaps identical with sections of the Chorographical Description of 1595
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In 1600 See also:Norden was appointed surveyor of the See also:crown See also:woods and forests in See also:Berkshire, See also:Devon, Surrey, &c.; in 16o5 he obtained the surveyorship of the duchy of Cornwall; in 1607, after a careful survey, he composed his valuable Description of the See also:Honour of See also:Windsor, with See also:fine maps and plans in See also:colour, dedicated to See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I
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(see Hari
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MSS
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3749)
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In ,6o8 he was mainly occupied with the See also:surveying of crown woods, especially in Surrey, Berkshire and Devon, and with the See also:writing of his See also:works on See also:forest culture—Considerations touching
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. . raising
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. . of Coppices, and
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Relation of
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Proceedings upon
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See also:Commission concerning new forests, to which he added in 1613 his Observations concerning Crown Lands and Woods (see See also:Egerton MSS
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8o6; Ashmole MSS
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1148; and See also:Lansdowne MSS
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165)
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In 1612 he was made surveyor of the royal castles in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, ,Hampshire, Berkshire, See also:Dorset, See also:Wiltshire, See also:Somerset, Devon and Cornwall; in 1616 and 1617 he appears surveying the See also:soke of Kirketon in See also:Lindsey, as well as various manors and lands belonging to See also:Prince See also:Charles, afterwards Charles I
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(see See also:Cambridge University Library, Ff. iv
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3o; See also:London, British Museum Addit
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MSS
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6027); his last works were a survey of See also:Sheriff See also:Hutton See also:manor, Yorks, in 1624 (Hari
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MSS
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6288), and See also:England, an intended See also:guide for English travellers, a series of tables to accompany See also:Speed's county maps, executed in 1625, shortly before his death
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Norden's maps of London and See also:Westminster (in his Speculum Britanniae of 1593) are the best representations known of the English See also:metropolis under the Tudors; his maps of Middlesex (also from the Spec
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Brit. of 1593), of Essex (1594, 1840), of Hertfordshire (1598, 1723) and of Cornwall (published in 1728 ; see above) are also See also:note-worthy; in the last-named the roads are indicated for the first See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in English See also:topography
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Norden also executed maps of Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex, for the fifth edition (1607) of Camden's Britannia, also maps of Middlesex, Essex, Sussex, Surrey and Cornwall for J
.
Speed (161o)
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Several important cartographical works of his are lost: e.g. his See also:Map
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. . of
...
Battles fought in England from
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See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William the Conqueror to
Elizabeth, in 16 sheets, formerly in the Bodleian See also:Gallery, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, of which some part is probably preserved in the Invasions of England, an appendix to the Prospect of the most Famous Parts of the See also:World, by J
.
Speed (1635); and his View of London, in 8 sheets, made c
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1604-1606, and View of London See also:Bridge, published in 1624; in the Crace collection at the British Museum is an earlier View of London by Norden (1600), and an 1804 reprint of the View of London Bridge; a map of Surrey by Norden, said to have been copied .by' Speed and Kip in Camden's Britannia of 1607, has also disappeared
.
C
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See also:Bateman in Speculum Britanniae, pars Cornwall (1728), and by Sir H
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Ellis in Spec
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Brit., pars Essex (Camden Society, 1840) ; also H
.
B
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See also:Wheatley in Harnson's Description of England (New Shakspere Society, 1877), and C
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H
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See also:Coote's See also:article in the Dict
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Nat
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Biog
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(C
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R
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