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See also:NORDEN, See also:JOHN (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
- 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. 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 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. (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.
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 (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. 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
- 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. 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.
End of Article: NORDEN, JOHN (1548-1625?)
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