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 for the Mannor of Yale Raglar, being Parcell of the Lordshipps of Bromfielde and Yale [county of Denbigh], made before John Norden the Elder, Esq., and John Norden the Younger, gent., by vertue of a Commission of Survey to them directed from the Prince his Highness’ (Charles), June 1620, is in MS. Sloane, 3241. The first part of ‘Supervisus Mannerii de Shippon in Com. Berk … Ducat. suo Cornub. nunc spectan per excamb. pro Byflet & Waybridge in Surr’ (among Camb. Univ. MSS. Dd. viii. 9 (1. 2.)) is ascribed to Norden in Bernard's ‘Catalogue,’ ii. 365. In the same collection is ‘Bookes of Survaies delyvered in by Mr. Norden and Mr. Thorpe,’ a list of manors surveyed by Norden in 1617 and 1623, and at the end Norden appeals for ‘a poore and meane yet sufficient mayntenance’ (M. m. iii. 15). Norden, as far as we know, was publicly employed for the last time in making a survey of the manor of Sheriff Hutton in Yorkshire in July and August 1624, with a ground plan of the park (Harl. MS. 6288). Norden's latest published work as a topographer was ‘England, An intended Guyde for English Travellers,’ 1625, 4to, a series of distance tables intended to be used with Speed's set of county maps. Norden probably died soon after its publication.

Norden made numerous contributions to cartography of very high interest. The maps engraved in his own works are as follows: 1. ‘Myddlesex’ (in ‘Speculum Britanniæ for Middlesex,’ 1593), and re-engraved by J. Senex for the reprint in 1723. 2. ‘Westminster’ (ib.). 3. ‘London’ (ib.), the best plan of London in Shakespeare's time that has come down to us; republished and enlarged, accompanied by an admirable essay, by Mr. H. B. Wheatley, for the New Shakspere Society in 1877. 4. ‘Hertfordshire,’ 1598 (in ‘Speculum Britanniæ for Hertfordshire),’ re-engraved with the text in 1723. 5. ‘Essex,’ 1594 (in ‘Survey of Essex,’ 1840), engraved for the first time by J. Basire in 1840. 6. ‘Cornwall’ (in ‘Speculum Britanniæ for Cornwall,’ 1728), with nine maps of the hundreds of East (or East Wivielshire), Kerrier, Losemouth, Powder, Pyder, Stratton, Trigg, and West hundred. Here the roads were indicated for the first time in English cartography.

Norden executed maps of ‘Hamshire, Hertfordiæ,’ Kent, Middlesex, Surrey, and ‘Sussexia’ for W. Camden's ‘Britannia,’ 1607 (5th edit.). He also made maps of Cornwall, Essex, Middlesex, Surrey, and Sussex for J. Speed in 1610. They were afterwards incorporated with those by Saxton and others in Speed's ‘Theatre of Great Britain,’ 1626, folio. In Hearne's ‘Letter on Antiquities,’ 1734, p. 34, mention is made of ‘A Map or Draught of all Battles fought in England from the landing of William the Conqueror to the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, in sixteen sheets, done with a pen by John Norden.’ It was formerly preserved in the Bodleian Gallery, Oxford, but is now lost or destroyed. It however appears to survive in ‘The Invasions of England and Ireland. With al [sic] Civill Wars since the Conquest,’ Corn. Danskertsz sculpsit, an appendix to the ‘Prospect of the most famous parts of the World,’ by J. Speed, 1635, folio. In the text on the verso of the map Speed says that it was ‘finished in a farre larger platforme,’ and that he ‘intended there to have staid it from further sight or publication’ (p. 5, end). Bagford, in a letter to Hearne, writes: ‘Mr. Norden designed a “View of London” in eight sheets, which was also engraved. At the bottom of which was the Representation of the Lord Mayor's Show, all on Horseback. … The View was taken by Norden from the Pitch of the Hill towards Dulwich College going to Camberwell from London, in which College, on the Stair Case, I had a sight of it. Mr. Secretary Pepys went afterwards to view it by my recommendation, and was very desirous to have purchased it. But since it is decayed and quite destroyed by means of the moistness of the Walls. This was made about the year 1604 or 1606 to the best of my memory, and I have not met with any other of the like kind’ p. lxxxii (, De Rebus Brit. Collectanea, 1770, vol. i.) This view is now lost. There is, however, preserved in the Crace collection (Portfolio i., 12 Views) at the British Museum an earlier view of London by Norden, wrongly assigned to Morden, apparently taken from the site of old Suffolk House in Southwark. It is inscribed ‘Civitas Londini. This Description [View] of the moste Famous Citty of London was performed in the yeare of Christ 1600. … By the industry of John Norden,’ 27½ in. by 14½ in. About the same period Norden executed ‘The View of [old] London Bridge from East to West.’ Norden was fraudulently deprived of the plate, as he informs us, for twenty years, and he was unable to publish it until 1624, during the mayoralty of John Gore, whose arms it bears, with those of James I. Even now it is only known to us by a reprint of 1804 (see Crace collection, Portfolio vii., 2 Views). Another missing map is recorded by Gough: ‘John Norden made a survey of this county [Surrey], which some curious Hollander purchased at a high price before the Restoration. The map was