^{page ix note a} Athenæ Oxon. Bliss's edit. vol. ii. col. 279.

^{page ix note b} Brit. Topogr. vol. i. p. 266.

^{page x note c} Ath. Oxon. ut supr. Fasti, col. 181.

^{page x note d} Ibid. col. 189.

^{page xviii note a} The original MS, of Norden's Hertfordshire, in his own hand-writing, is preserved in the archiepiscopal library at Lambeth (Cat. of MSS. No. 521.) It differs in nothing from the printed copy, except in a dedication, not in Latin to Lord Seymour, but in English to Lord Burghley, whose arms ornament a beautifully drawn map of the county, on vellum, in the body of the work. Both MS. and map are dated in 1597. Lord Burghley died in 1598, before the publication of the volume; which accounts for the dedication being transferred to Lord Seymour.

^{page xx note a} A folio fragment of a History of Northamptonshire in the Library of the British Museum, entered in the Catalogue as Norden's, has a manuscript title-page in the same words as this edition of 1720, with the addition of “since improved by John Bridges, Esq. of Barton, near Kettering, in this county.” The leaves begin p. 27–160, in the same type as the two volumes of Bridges's Northamptonshire, fol. Oxf. 1791. They are probably the cancelled sheets which had been committed to press by the Rev. Peter Whalley, who left the work for others to publish. They are not Norden's.

^{page xxii note a} Richard Carew of Antony, writing to Camden, expresses his wish to add Norden's Map of Cornwall, then recently made, to his Survey. Camd. Epist. p. 72.

^{page xxiii note a} See Brydges's Restituta, vol. i. p. 550.

^{page xxiv note a} “Later printers added the E. and W. views pasted at the sides, and called it The Countrymen's Travelling Guide through the City of London; with figures engraved, 1. 2. A. B. but seldom affixed dates. Bagford, p. lxxxii.”

^{page xxiv note b} “Bagford, p. lxxxii.”

^{page xxv note a} Biogr. Brit. Alleyn [G.]

^{page xxvi note a} In this a bird's-eye view of the town of Windsor is comprised.

^{page xxvi note b} This table includes a minute view of the greater part of the town of Guildford.

^{page xxvi note c} It has so a miniature view of Woking House.

^{page xxvi note d} With a view of Bagshot House.

^{page xxvi note e} With Ditton House.

^{page xxvii note a} Gough, Brit.Topogr. i. 175, says, “Among Bishop More's MSS. (Cat. MSS. Angliæ, tom. ii. 365.) is a survey of the manor of Blewberrie, being parcel of the Prince of Wales's estate, taken July 1617, by John Norden, sen. and jun. deputed by Sir James Fullerton, surveyor-general of the said estate.” In a subsequent page (Brit. Top. ii. 183) he adds, “Norden's Survey of the manors of Blewberry and Shipton, which Bishop Nicolson calls A Collection for the History of Berks, is remarkably fair, and particular in describing the several parcels of lands lying in each manor, and their value. (Mr. Spicer's Letters to Mr. Mores.)”

^{page xxxiv note a} For these particulars the editor is indebted to J. W. Burgon, esq.

^{page xliii note *} An illustration of this may be quoted in a short note from the Earl of Lenox to Sir Julius Cæsar, then Chancellor of the Exchequer; the original is preserved among the Lansdowne MSS.

“M R. CHANCELLOR,

“This bearer, Humfrey Lloid, hath bin so longe without his money, for the clocke he solde the Kinge, that I do very earnestly praie you (now that the privie seale is graunted for his satisfaction) to give order that he may receave his money. And so commending me unto you, I rest “This 18 of July, 1607.

Yr most assured freende,

LENOX.”