notes Norden 1607

	Research Notes Map Group NORDEN 1607

Norden 1607
	Map, Hamshire, ie Hampshire, scale about 6 miles to 1 inch, by John Norden, London, engraved by W Hole, 1607; published 1607-1637.
	These notes are made from a map of Hampshire by John Norden, engraved by W Hole, 1595, published in the last Latin edition of Camden's Britannia, 1607. The map studied is in the Map Collection of Hampshire CC Museums Service, item HMCMS:FA1996.22.
	MAP FEATURES
	PUBLISHING HISTORY
	NORDEN'S SURVEYORS DIALOGUE 1607
	REFERENCES
	ITEMS in the Collection

MAP FEATURES
title strapwork cartouche	The title cartouche at the top left of the map is decorated with strapwork. This decoration is only on the sides towards the body of the map, right and lower sides, but is continued beside the tables of symbols and hundreds. HAMSHIRE / OLIM PARS BELGARVM Camden's work is arranged by the old british tribes; Hampshire was the land of the Belgae.
orientation compass rose	Compass rose and scale line are combined, together with an inscription of the map maker's and engraver's names. Jo: Norden descripsit WHole sculp The cardinal, half cardinal, and false points of the compass are indicated, north is marked with a fleur de lys. The cardinal points are named:- SEPT Septentriones: refering to the seven stars that make up the constellation of The Bear, or Plough, that is a pointer for the Pole Star in the North ORI Oriens: from the Latin orior, to rise, where the sun rises in the East MERI Meridiens: middle of the day, where the sun is then in the South OCCI Occidens: from the Latin occido, to fall or set, where the sun sets in the West
scale line scale old english mile	The scale line of 10 miles is chequered in half miles. The 10 miles = 66.4 mm, giving a scale 1 to 243300, on the bad assumption of a modern statute mile. The map scale is about:- 1 to 240000 4 miles to 1 inch An estimate of scale can be made from town positions, comparing known town-town distances, using DISTAB.exe. The map scale is about:- 1 to 380000 6 miles to 1 inch The map maker's mile is an:- Old English Mile = 1.24 statute miles
index grid	This map has no index grid. Calculations have been made to overlay the National Grid system on the map. For details, and how this grid can be used compare early county maps, and to index places, see:-
	Old Hampshire Mapped
	By comparing the headings of the towns from the centroids, and averaging, it is calculated that NGR north is -8.2degrees from map north.
	The grid references of the map borders were calculated as:- bottom left SY907888 top left SU036781 top right TQ015639 bottom right SZ886747
	This could be useful to present the map in a GIS system.
table of symbols	The map has a table of symbols, upper left. Settlements are positioned by a dot and cirlce, and distinguished by additional elements. MARKET TOWNES [dot, circle, buildings] Parishes & places of cure [dot, circle, tower or building] Hamlets & villages [dot, circle, a short vertical line] Chappels of ease [dot, circle, half cross] ie a short vertical line, with a horizontal line to one side Howses of bestericcite [dot, circle, tower either side] Ordinarie howses of name [dot, circle] Places ruinate and decaid [dot, circle, cancelled by a slash] Castles [two towers with a flag] Old trenches and fortes [hatched circle, and flag] Monasticall places [dot, circle, and cross] Beacons or beaukens [posts on a hill] Norden's manuscript for the map is in the British Library, part of AddMSS 31.835:- A Chorographical Description of the severall Shires and islands of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Weighte, Gurnesey and Jersey, performed by the traveyle and view of John Norden, 1595 His original list of symbols included:- ... Howses of best receite, Ordinarie howses of means, ... Old trenches and fortes, ... Woody Places, Devision for Hundreds, Rivers, Bridges, and Parkes The 1607 edition is slightly different.
sea area sea pecked sea monsters ships	The sea is pecked. A number of ships decorate the sea area; and there is a monstrous fish N off the Isle of Wight.
coast line coast shaded	The coast line is shaded.
coastal defence castles	The coastal defence castles are drawn and labelled:- Hurst castle Calshot cast Netley cast St: Androw cast Ruynes of Haselworth castle South cast
rivers bridges	Rivers are drawn but not named. Braiding might be suggested, for example south of Stockbridge. The rivers that are shown can mostly be indentified, and include the major rivers of the county. Bits of some streams look as if they have been detached and joined to others? A few bridges are marked. For example at Fordingbridge. The river system at Winchester is more complicated:- and the stream emerge from the city walls.
relief hillocks	Relief is suggested by hillocks. which are grouped in various ways.
beacons	Beacons are shown as a hill with posts or ?flames on top. Three of the beacons are named on the map:- Selborne beak [SU2500] Toothillbeac [SU3818] 3 Parow beacons [SU5044 = Three Barrows] The other beacons shown are:- W of Hythe [SU3703] W of Pitt [SU4230] WNW of Boteley [SU4712] SW of Burghclere [SU4758] NW of Extone [SU5723] W of Farlington [SU6504] SE of Bramshott [SU8754] This map was drafted in 1595, only a few years after the Armada, whose presence off our shores was signalled by beacons. Norden must have been aware how important beacons were for defensive communication. The number of posts is always three; though on other maps the number varies and is thought to show how many beacons there were in a sophisticated system.
woods forests trees	Forests are indicated by groups of outsize pictures of trees. A number of these are labelled, eg:- New Forrest Forrest of Beare which is East Bere Forest Weste Forrest which is West Bere Forest One single tree is named, the:- Lomer Ash
parks	Parks are shown by a fence of palings in a ring; there are several examples around Basingstoke. Most parks can be identified, and some are lebelled, eg:- Fremantle pk Barne pk which is Beaurepaire Park
county swash lettering	The county boundary is a dotted line. Swash lettering is used to fill space outside Hampshire, naming the adjacent counties. Eg:- PARTE OF WILTSHIRE
hundreds table of hundreds	The hundred boundaries are shown by dotted lines, and the areas numbered to a key at the side of the map. Beware that some hundreds have detached parts. The key is just a list, eg:- HUNDREDES Crundall hundred -- 1 Odiam -- -- -- -- - 2 Alton -- -- -- -- - 3 Norden has put Bosmere over the top of what is now Bermondspit. Bosmere, today, is Hayling Island which has no number on the map, plus part of Portsdown. Norden has 13 on the map where it should be 31 in central Hampshire. Someone has coloured the hundred boundaries on this copy of the map, opinion is that this is comparatively recent, wrongly in places - be careful how you follow the lines. Further notes:- see:- NRD1HUN.txt
settlements	Settlements are positioned by a dot and circle; additional elements grade place by type, as described in the table of symbols, see above.
city	Town walls and towers can be seen around Winchester, as also Portsmouth and Southampton.

town

village

hamlet

house	of best reception, and:- an ordinary house.

ruins

miscellaneous
mills windmills	A post mill is drawn at Clanfield.
antiquities hillforts	The table of symbols has a symbol for earthworks:- Old trenches and fortes This is a hatched circle much like the tumulus symbol commonly used today, plus a flag. Some of the sites are named, eg:- Butserhill Dunbury hill Other sites can be identified, eg:- Bury Hill site, Hengistbury Head site, Beacon Hill site at Burghclere, etc.
antiquities roman towns	Some roman sites are named, for example:- Venta Vindonum Clausentum
religious houses	Monastical places, a cross on a place mark. Chapels of ease, half a cross on a place mark.
copperas works	Copperas mines are drawn and labelled at:- Alomechine Copperas house Bascombe Copperas house
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PUBLISHING	HISTORY

	The map is derived from a drawing made about 1595 for Norden's projected 'Speculum Britanniae' a Mirror of Britain whose patronage failed, and with it the project. Norden's manuscript map is in the British Library, part of AddMSS 31.835. The original drawing was engraved around this time and possibly published but is only known from later states published by Stent and by Overton; see Norden 1595.
	Published in 'Britannia, sive florentissimorum Regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, & Insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate Chorographica descriptio: Nunc postremo recognita, plurimus locis magna accessione adaucta, & Chartis Chorographicis illustrata. Gulielmo Camdeno Authore. Londini, Impensis Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, M.D.CVII.' ie 1607.
	The 1607 geography is the 6th and last Latin edition of Camden's Britannia, the first with county maps although he considered maps as early as 1589; the maps have Latin text on the reverse, Hampshire has pages 187-188; the geography has an illustrated title page, and has a map of England in the Heptarchy; its size is 8 1/4 x 12 1/2 ins.
	Published in 'Britain, Or A Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Ilands adioyning, out of the depth of Antiquitie: Beautified with mappes of the severall Shires of England: Written first in Latine by William Camden ... Translated newly into English by Philemon Holland ... Finally, revised, amended, and enlarged with sundry Additions by the said Author. Londini. Impensis Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, M.DC.X.' ie 1610.
	The maps in the 1610 atlas are the same as in the 1607 edition of Camden, but there is no text on the reverse; this is the first English edition of Camden.
	Published in 'Britain or a chorographicall description of England ... translated ... by P. Holland ... London. Printed by F. K. R. Y. and I. L. for Andrew Heb, 1637.'
	In the 1637 atlas the worn plates might be retouched, and some, including Hampshire, now have plate numbers.
	A crib to printings - 1607 latin text pages 187/188 on reverse, no plate number; 1610 plain reverse, no plate number; from 1637 plate number.

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NORDEN'S	SURVEYORS DIALOGUE 1607
	These brief notes are taken from the Surveyors Dialogue, by John Norden, London, 1607. The copy seen is in the British Library, call number BL:967.k.17. NB. They are not directly related to the map of the same date but had not been allocated their own Map Group.
	From a brief study, the book does not provide useful information about the mapping of a county. John Norden is mostly concerned with land ownership and estate management, the techniques of surveying take a second place, and mostly concern mapping at an estate scale.
	TITLE PAGE
	The book's title page reads:-
	The Surveyors Dialogue. Divided into five Bookes. Very profitable for all men to peruse, that have to do with the revenues of Land, or the manurance, use, or occupation thereof. both Lords and Tenants: as also and especially for such as indevor to be seene in the faculty of surveying of Mannors, Lands, Tenements, &c. By I.N.
	PROV. 17.2. A discreet servant shall have rule over an unthrifty sonne, and he shall divide the heritage among the brethren.
	Voluntas pro facultate.
	LONDON, Printed for Hugh Astley, dwelling at S. Magnus corner. 1607.
	CONTENTS
	The Contents of the five books of the Surveyors Dialogue.
	THe first Booke containeth a communication betweene a Farmer and a Surveyor of land: wherein is proved, that Surveyors of Mannors and land, are necessarie both for the Lord and Tennant, and in what maner tenants ought to behave themselves towards their Lords, in respect of their tenures.
	In the second Booke, is intreated between the Lord of a Mannor, and a Surveyor, concerning the estate of a Mannor, of the parts and profits thereunto belonging, & how the Lord of a Mannor ought to deale with his Tenants.
	In the third Booke is contained the maner and method of keeping a Court of Survey, and the Articles to be inquired of, and the charge how to enter & inroll Copies, Leases and Deeds, and how to take the plot of a Mannor.
	In the fourth Booke is shewed the maner of the Casting up of the qua~tities of acres of alsorts of grounds by the scale and compasse, with Tables of computation for ease in accompting.
	In the fifth Booke is shewed the different natures of grounds, and whereunto they mmay be best imployed, how they may be bettered, reformed and amended, fit for all Farmers and husbandmen.
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REFERENCES
	Camden, William: 1607: Britannia: Bishop, George & Norton, John (London)
	Camden, William & Holland, Philemon (trans): 1610: Britain
	Camden, William & Holland, Philemon (trans): 1637: Britain: Heb, Andrew (London)
	Earlier notes about the map have been published in:-
	Norgate, Martin & Norgate, Jean: 1997: Notes from Norden's Map of Hampshire: Hampshire County Council Museums Service:: ISBN 1 85975 131 8
also see:-
	related map group -- Norden 1595 ms
	related map group -- Norden 1595
	presentation in Old Hampshire Mapped
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ITEMS	in HMCMS Map Collection (scanned item in bold)
	HMCMS:CRH1960.8 -- map
	HMCMS:FA1996.22 -- map
	HMCMS:FA1997.2 -- map
	HMCMS:FA2002.81 -- map
	HMCMS:KD1996.2 -- map
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