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JOHN NORDEN (1548-1625?)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 740 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . His earliest known See also:work of importance was the See also:Speculum Britanniae, first See also:part . . . See also:Middlesex (1593); the MS. of this in the See also:British Museum (Hari . 570) has corrections, &c., in See also:Lord Burleigh's See also:handwriting . In 1595 he wrote a Chorographical Description of . . . 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 . See also:MSS . 31,853 . In 1596 he published his Preparative to . . .

Speculum Britanniae, dedicated to Burleigh, and in 1598 his See also:

Hertfordshire (See also:Lambeth Libr . MSS . 521) . 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 . Essex, edited for the See also:Camden Society in 184o by See also:Sir See also:Henry See also:Ellis from a MS. at See also:Hatfield (see also British Museum Addit . MSS . 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 . MSS . 6252) . 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 . 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 I . (see Hari .

MSS . 3749) . 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 . . . raising . . . of Coppices, and . . . Relation of . . . Proceedings upon . . . See also:Commission concerning new forests, to which he added in 1613 his Observations concerning Crown Lands and Woods (see See also:Egerton MSS . 8o6; Ashmole MSS .

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1148; and See also:

Lansdowne MSS . 165) . 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 . (see See also:Cambridge University Library, Ff. iv . 3o; See also:London, British Museum Addit . MSS . 6027); his last works were a survey of See also:Sheriff See also:Hutton See also:manor, Yorks, in 1624 (Hari . MSS . 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 . 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 . 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 in English See also:topography . 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) . Several important cartographical works of his are lost: e.g. his See also:

Map . . . of ... Battles fought in England from . . . See also:William the Conqueror to Elizabeth, in 16 sheets, formerly in the Bodleian See also:Gallery, See also: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 . 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 . See also:Bateman in Speculum Britanniae, pars Cornwall (1728), and by Sir H . Ellis in Spec . Brit., pars Essex (Camden Society, 1840) ; also H .

B . See also:

Wheatley in Harnson's Description of England (New Shakspere Society, 1877), and C . H . See also:Coote's See also:article in the Dict . Nat . Biog . (C . R .

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