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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.
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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