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A set of fifty new and correct maps of the counties of England and Wales, &c. with the great roads and principal cross-roads, &c. Shewing the computed miles from town to town. A work long wanted, and very useful for all gentlemen that travel to any part of England. All, except two, composed and done by Herman Moll, geographer. Viz. 1. The map intituled, in gratiam itinerantium curiosorum antonini Aug. itinerarium per britanniam tentavit Wil. Stukeley, 1723. 2. A general map of England. 3. Cornwall. 4. Devonshire. 5. Dorsetshire. 6. Somersetshire. 7. Wiltshire. 8. Hampshire. 9. Isle of Wight. 10. Berkshire. 11. Surry. 12. Sussex. 13. Kent. 14. Glocestershire. 15. Oxfordshire. 16. Buckinghamshire. 17. Bedfordshire. 18. Hertfordshire. 19. Middlesex. 20. Essex. 21. Suffolk. 22. Norfolk. 23. Cambridgeshire. 24. Huntingdonshire. 25. Northamptonshire. 26. Leicestershire. 27. Rutlandshire. 28. Lincolnshire. 29. Nottinghamshire. 30. Derbyshire. 31. Warwickshire. 32. Worcestershire. 33. Staffondshire. 34. Shropshire. 35. Cheshire. 36. Herefordshire. 37. South-Wales. 38. Monmouthshire. 39. North-Wales. 40. Denbigh and Flintshires. 41. Yorkshire. 42. -West Riding. 43. -East Riding. 44. -North Riding. 45. Durham. 46. Lancashire. 47. Westmoreland. 48. Cumberland. 49. Northumberland. 50. The isles of Mar, Guernsey, and Jersey. And, to render this work more acceptable to the curious, the margins of each map are adorned with great variety of very remarkable antiquities.
Moll, Herman, -1732.Date: [1739]- Books
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A Narrative of the life and astonishing adventres of John Daniel, a smith at Royston in Hertfordshire, for a course of seventy years. Containing, the melancholy occasion of his travels. His shipwreck with one companion on a desolate island. Their way of life. His accidental discovery of a woman for his companion. Their peopling the island. Also a description of a most surprising engine, invented by his son Jacob, on which he flew to the moon, with some account of its inhabitants. His return, and accidental fall into the habitation of a sea-monster, with whom he lived two years. His further excursions in search of England. His residence in Lapland, and travels to Norway, from whence he arrived at Aldborough, and further transactions till his death, in 1711. Aged 97. Taken from his own mouth, by Mr. Ralph Morris.
Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Pictures
Edward Hyde Villiers, Earl of Clarendon. Colour lithograph by L. Ward (Spy), 1901.
Ward, Leslie, Sir, 1851-1922.Date: Jan.y 10th 1901Reference: 823404iPart of: Vanity fair (London, England : 1868)- Books
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A narrative of the life and astonishing adventures of John Daniel, a smith at Royston in Hertfordshire, For a Course of seventy Years. Containing, The melancholy Occasion of his Travels. His Shipwreck with one Companion on a desolate Island. Their way of Life. His accidental discovery of a Woman for his Companion. Their peopling the Island. Also, A Description of a most surprising Engine, invented by his Son Jacob, on which he flew to the Moon, with some Account of its Inhabitants. His return, and accidental Fall into the Habitation of a Sea-Monster, with whom he lived two Years. His further Excursions in Search of England. His Residence in Lapland, and Travels to Norway, from whence he arrived at Aldborough, and further Transactions till his death, in 1711. Aged 97. Illustrated with several copper plates, engraved by Mr. Boitard. Taken from his own mouth, by Mr. Ralph Morris.
Daniel, John.Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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The art of making wines, of fruits, flowers, and herbs, all the native growth of England: Particularly of grapes, goose-berries, currants, rasp-berries, mul-berries, elder-berries, black-berries, straw-berries, dew-berries, apples, pears, cherries, peaches, apricots, quinces, plumbs, damascens, figs, and roses, cowslips, scurvy-grass, mint, morella, baum, &c. with a succint account of their medicinal virtues, and the most approv'd receipt for making raisin wine. To which are annex'd many secrets relative to the mystery of vintners, never yet made publick: shewing not only how to prevent those accidents to which all wines are liable, but absolutely to retrieve those which are actually tainted; and give them the most agreeable flavour and colour. Written, after upwards of thirty years experience, by William Graham, Esq; late of ware, in Hertfordshire. And intended, according to the words of the poet, to[.]
Graham, William, of Ware.Date: [1760?]- Books
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Bibliotheca Warburtoniana: a catalogue of the entire library of printed books and manuscripts of the late John Warburton, Esq; Somerset Herald, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquary Societies; Editor of the large and distinct Maps of Yorkshire, Northumberland, Middlesex, Essex and Hertfordshire, from actual Surveys; Author of Vallum Romanum, London and Middlesex illustrated, &c. Deceased. Containing a valuable Collection in Manuscript and Print, towards a particular History, Natural, Ecclesiastical and Civil, of every County in England; together with a great ... of Original Visitations, Pedigrees, Ordinaries, ... Grants, and Alphabets of Arms, and other Heraldical Manuscripts: Also his Collection of Prints, Copper Plates, Coins, and other Curiosities. Which will be sold by Auction, By Samuel Paterson, At Essex House, in Essex-Street, in the Strand; On Monday the 19th of November 1759, and the five following Evenings, To begin each Evening precisely at Six O'Clock. The whole may be viewed on Monday the 5th of November, and (sundays excepted) to the Time of Sale.
Paterson, Samuel, 1728-1802.Date: 1759]- Pictures
Walter Lionel Rothschild. Colour lithograph by L. Ward (Spy), 1900.
Ward, Leslie, Sir, 1851-1922.Date: Sep 13th 1900Reference: 823362iPart of: Vanity fair (London, England : 1868)- Books
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The modern husbandman: or, The practice of farming: as it is now carried on by the most accurate farmers in several counties of England. For the month of January. Containing, I. Why and where wheat may be sown late; with remarks on Mr. Yelverton's great crop of wheat in Ireland; and instructions concerning new broken-up ground. II. New ways of sowing pease. III. Various ways of sowing lent grain. IV. How the author sent a banking plough to a gentleman for destroying the ant-hills of 300 acres of land. V. How he sent two sorts of drill ploughs, and the new invented, most profitable horse break, to a gentleman. VI. How rogues stole and sold sheep, and the subtle method a farmer took to recover his stolen fowls. VII. How a person made a great profit by transplanting turneps. VIII. Copy of a letter from a learned gentleman, how to drain wet land in the cheapest manner, with the author's answer. With many other serviceable matters, never before published. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M,DCC,XLIV. [1744]- Books
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The large English atlas: or, a new set of maps of all the counties in England and Wales, drawn from the several surveys which have been hitherto published. With three general Maps of England, Scotland, and Ireland, From the latest and best Authorities. 1 England 2 Scotland 3 Ireland 4 Bedfordshire 5 Berkshire 6 Buckinghamshire 7 Cambridgeshire 8 Cheshire 9 Cornwall 10 Derbyshire 11 Devonshire 12 Dorsetshire 13 Durham 14 Essex 15 Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire 16 Hampshire 17 Hertfordshire 18 Herefordshire 19 Huntingdonshire 20 Kent 21 Lancashire 22 Leicestershire and Rutlandshire 23 Lincolnshire 24 Middlesex 25 Norfolk 26 Northamptonshire 27 Northumberland 28 Nottinghamshire 29 Oxfordshire 30 Shropshire 31 Somersetshire 32 Staffordshire 33 Suffolk 34 Surrey 35 Sussex 36 Warwickshire 37 Westmoreland and Cumberland 38 Wiltshire 39 Worcestershire 40 Yorkshire 41 East Riding of ditto 42 North Riding of ditto 43 West Riding of ditto 44 Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire 45 Carmarthenshire and Glamorganshire 46 Radnorshire and Brecknockshire 47 North Wales, Containing in one Map the Counties of Carnarvon Denbigh Flint Merioneth Montgomery and The Island of Anglesey laid down on a large scale, And containing all the Cities, Towns, Villages, and Churches, whether Rectories or Vicarages, Chapels, many Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats, &c. &c. Each Map is Illustrated With a General Description of the County, its Cities, Borough and Market Towns, the Number of Members returned to Parliament, of Parishes, Houses, Acres of Land, &c. And Historical Extracts relative to the Trade, Manufactures, and Government of the Cities and Principal Towns, and the present State of their Inhabitants, &c. By Emanuel Bowen, Geographer to His Majesty, Thomas Kitchen, and others.
Bowen, Emanuel, 1693 or 1694-1767.Date: [1777?]- Books
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A compleat system of experienced improvements, made on sheep, grass-lambs, and house-lambs: or, the country gentleman's, the grasier's, the sheep-dealer's, and the shepherd's sure guide: in the profitable management of those most serviceable creatures, according to the present practice of this author, and the most accurate grasiers, farmers, sheep-dealers, and shepherds of England. Shewing, I. How the best of sheep may be bred. ... X. The newest methods of suckling house-lambs, in the greatest perfection. With many other curious and serviceable matters. A work different from all others ever yet published, as it is explained and improved by great numbers of various cases that have really happened; whereby the woollen manufacture, and interest of Great Britain, may be more highly improved, than ever it was yet done, by keeping all sorts of sheep and lambs in the greatest health, though they feed all the while on the worst of moorish, or swampy ground; and causing them to yield, in the wettest seasons, a wool, far exceeding in goodness, that of all nations whatsoever. In three books. By William Ellis, of Little Gadderden, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M,DCC,XLIX. [1749]- Books
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The unparallel'd impostor: or, the whole life, artifices and forgeries of Japhet Crook, alias Sir Peter Stranger, Bart. With all the proceedings against him. Containing, I. An Account of the several Employments he followed in Hertfordshire (under the Profession of a Quaker) as Brewer, Malster, Grazier, Chapman, Merchant, &c. Of his Marriagees, Amours, Breaking, and Running away. II. Of his Rambles to Ireland, Scotland, and the North of England, the various Pranks he played in all these Places, and of his being taken up during the Preston Rebellion, and defrauding the King's Messenger of a considerable Sum of Money, and afterwards cheating his Widow. III. Of his twice becoming a Bankrupt. His Artifices, to impose on Mr. Hawkins. Copies of his Wife's Last Will and Testament to Him; and his own Will to Mr. Hawkins; in order (as he did) to draw in that Gentleman to leave him his Estate. Also Mr. Hawkins's Will. IV. A Collection of his Original Letters, setting forth his Negotiations with the Dutchess of Kendal, Duke of Somerset, Lord Carlisle, Lord Blessington, Sir Robert Walpole, Lord Townshend, General Pepper, Colonel Kempston, Sir John Eyles, and many others.
Moore, James, of Hampstead.Date: M.DCC.XXXI. [1731]- Books
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The modern husbandman: Or, The practice of farming: as it is now carried on by the most accurate farmers in several counties of England. For the month of June. Containing the following particulars, viz. I. A description of, and the uses of the excellent three-wheel and pulley drill ploughs, several sorts of horse-breaks, and hand instruments, as they are now employed by common farmers, for improving their crops of wheat, barley, pease, beans, rapes, weld, coriander, carraway, canary, seeds of trees, turneps, hops, and other vegetables, in the cheapest and most profitable manner. ... IV. Of proper plowings, necessary to be done in this month, in high or low, wet or dry lands. V. A large account of making natural hay, and its preservation from firing, and other damage. VI. Of sheering sheep. The nature and value of the several sorts of wooll of Great Britain; and how it is run to France. ... X. The improvement of corn, hops, cows, calves, sheep, lambs, and bees. XI. Eighteen ways of keeping off and destroying rats and mice; and the case of an horse, who was near being killed by rats poisoned with mercury: with many other curious cases, and serviceable matters. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M,DCC,XLIII. [1743]- Books
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The modern husbandman: or, The practice of farming: As it is now carried on by the most accurate farmers in several counties of England. For the month of August. Containing, I. The present practice of the best managers in getting in wheat crops. II. Curious cases relating to wheat crops. III. Six several ways of curing wettish or damp wheat ears. IV. How farmers may advance their corn four pence or six pence a bushel. V. Experienced cases in the improvement and getting in of rye, barley, oats, peace, beans, canary, coriander, carraway, and other crops of grain. VI. Of a flax crop, and how to improve it, after it is got in, to the greatest advantage. VII. A new method of greatly improving a crop of clover, while it is seeding in the field. VIII. Plowings necessary to be performed in several countries in this month. IX. Of hop plantations for August, and the middlesex farmers management of their second crop of hay. X. A large account of managing bees in this month. XI. How cattle died of the Murrain in 1736, and a famous receipt to cure or prevent it, with many other serviceable matters never before published. By William Ellis, of little gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M,DCC,XLIII. [1743]- Books
Beating social exclusion : an evaluation of specialized midwifery support services in teenage pregnancy : final report / authors, Fiona Brooks, Marianne Mead, Karen Windle.
Brooks, FionaDate: 2003- Journals
Annual report / Hertfordshire County Nursing Association.
Hertfordshire County Nursing Association.Date: 1910-- Archives and manuscripts
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Glamorganshire-Huntingdonshire
Date: 1931-1948Reference: SA/FPA/A11/61EPart of: Family Planning Association- Books
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Poems on the principal festivals and fasts of the Church of England. I. On the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary; commonly called, Lady-Day, March 25. II. On the Nativity of our Saviour, or Birth-Day of Christ; commonly called, Christmas-Day, December 25. III. On the Circumcision of Christ, being New-Year's-Day, January 1. IV. On the Epiphany, or, Manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles, January 6. V. On the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, commonly called, The Purification of Saint Mary the Virgin, February 2. VI. On Ash-Wednesday, and the Lent-Fast. Vii. On the Day of our blessed Saviour's Crucifixion; commonly called, Good-Friday. Viii. On Easter-Day, the great Festival of our Lord and Saviour's Resurrection from the Dead. IX. On the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ; commonly called, Holy Thursday. X. On Whit-Sunday, being the great Festival of the Descent of the Holy Ghost; sometime called Pentecost, as being Fifty Days after Easter. XI. On Trinity-Sunday; being the Lord's-Day, next after Whit-Sunday. With Prayers for the said Festivals and Fasts. Designed for the instruction and benefit of humble and serious Christians. By Daniel Hallows, A. M. Rector of Gilston in Hertfordshire.
Hallows, Daniel, 1669 or 1670-1741.Date: M.DCC.XXXIII. [1733]- Books
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The new art of brewing and improving malt liquors to the greatest advantage. Containing the new improvement of the barley corn, for making the truest, best, and palest malt. The best methods of brewing all sorts of fine ale, strong beer, and table beer, in several parts of England and Wales. An account of hops, and of a new discovered herb growing wild, which for its agreeable bitter, and wholesome qualities, is often preferred to the hop. Curious methods of drying malt and hops in the greatest perfection. The prodigious damage done by the wevil infect to malt, wheat, &c. and how to destroy them. To fine, relish, strengthen and preserve ale or strong beer, wine or cyder, and to recover them if turned, &c. &c. &c. With many other curious and very useful matters relating to the brewery, never before published, and absolutely necessary for all who would brew their own malt drink in the highest perfection. To which is prefixed, an introduction, proposing an easy and cheap expedient for improving London porter, by rendering it pleasanter and much more wholesome; with a detection of several pernicious ingredients too commonly put therein; and directions for the use very best method of using the hop. By William Ellis, late of little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire, author of the London and country brewer, &c. who was formerly a public brewer in London.
Ellis, William, brewer.Date: 1761- Books
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A copy of the poll for Knights of the Shire of the county of Hertford, taken at the town of Hertford, April 6, 1761. John Ashfordby, Esquire, sheriff. Candidates. Charles Gore, Esq; Jacob Houblon, Esq; Thomas-Plumer Byde, Esq; 1243.1526.1633.
Hertfordshire (England)Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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[Report 1930] / School Medical Officer of Health, Hertfordshire County Council.
Hertfordshire (England). County Council. n 50062101.Date: 1930- Books
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[Report 1924] / School Medical Officer of Health, Hertfordshire County Council.
Hertfordshire (England). County Council. n 50062101.Date: 1924- Books
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[Report 1970] / School Medical Officer of Health, Hertfordshire County Council.
Hertfordshire (England). County Council. n 50062101.Date: 1970- Books
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[Report 1936] / School Medical Officer of Health, Hertfordshire County Council.
Hertfordshire (England). County Council. n 50062101.Date: 1936- Books
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[Report 1927] / School Medical Officer of Health, Hertfordshire County Council.
Hertfordshire (England). County Council. n 50062101.Date: 1927- Books
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[Report 1953] / School Medical Officer of Health, Hertfordshire County Council.
Hertfordshire (England). County Council. n 50062101.Date: 1953