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IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS BOOK PLEASE ONLY POST REQUESTS ON THE HERTFORDSHIRE LOOK UP REQUEST BOARD THANK YOU
Extract taken from Angliae Notitia: or the Present State of England dated 1704.
Apart from changing the 'f' to 's' I have kept the spelling exactly as it appears in the book.
Hartfordshire
Is in the Diocese of London and Lincoln, 130 miles in circumference; contains about 451000 acres and 16569 houses: The air is sweet and healthful, the soil for the most part chalky, but fruitful in corn, grass and wood. Its rivers Coln, Lea: Its chief commodities are wheat, barley and mault: It has 120 parishes and 18 towns, most of them very good: The shire town is Hartford, 20 miles from London: Barnet is noted for medicinal waters, Berkhamsted for its ancient castle, chief place of residence formerly of the Dukes of Cornwall; Hitchin for its school; Ware for a canal, which furnishes London with new river water. Its chief seats are Theobalds, formerely a Royal Palace; Moor Park, the later Duke of Monmouth's: Hatfield House, Hartford Castle, Bygrave, Chestnut, Quicks Wood, all the Earl of Salisbury's; Cashiobury, Haddam Hall, Earl of Essex's; Totteridge, Earl of Anglesey's; Holloway House at St Alban's, Duke of Marlborough's; Aldenham, Duke of Newcastle's and a vast number more it hath of gentlemens houses.
[/i]A true list of the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses of the Parliament, which met at Westminster the 20th Of October 1702.[i]
Hertfordshire
Ralph Freeman jun. Esq
Thomas Halsey Esq Borough of St Albans
George Churchill Esq
John Gape Esq Borough of Hertford
Charles Caesar Esq
Richard Goulston Esq
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uknames: Josolyne - Essex & Herts, Wainwright - Hamps & London, Kentish - Rotherhithe, London & Kent, Herbert - Seaford, Sussex - London & Glous. |
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