Old Hampshire Mapped
Introduction
Norden's Hampshire 1595The map was drawn for:-
Speculum Britanniaea Mirror of Britain, which was to be a series of pocket guide books to the counties of Britain which failed in its patronage, and thus failed entirely.
The original drawing is included in the manuscript:-
A Chorographical Description of the severall Shires and Islands of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Weighte, Guernsey and Jersey, performed by the traveyle and view of John Norden, 1595.In the collections of the British Library, call number Add MSS 31.853 ff.23v-24, which has only the maps and descriptions for Essex and Hampshire, the latter has the islands as well, other material is lost.
The map has a title cartouche upper left:-
HAMSHIREand the printed map has, lower right:-
Johes Norden descripsitThe second part in a different 'hand'.
Printed and sold by Iohn Overton at ye white horse without Newgate
It was engraved by engraved by Christopher Schwytzer and possibly published around 1600, but no copy survives? The plates survived and Hamshire was published by Peter Stent, at The White Horse, Guiltspur Street, London, about 1650s-60s. It is probably listed in a broadside 'A Catalogue of Plates and Pictures that are printed and sould by Peter Stent ...' about 1655; this printing is known as state II, and has Stent's imprint; later editions are published in atlases.
It was published again by John Overton, London, about 1670, 1675, 1690, and 1700. The 1670 map, presented here, is known as state III, and has Overton's imprint; it has other alterations to whatever was its earlier state, the table of symbols is altered, a galleon is erased from the sea, etc.
The 1595 drawing was engraved again about 1607, either from the ms or from a surviving copy of a printed map, and published with an edition of Camden's Britannia, 1607; see Norden 1607.
This study concentrates upon what can be seen from the map; studies of the background of county mapping in England, and map makers have been published elsewhere.
