Old Hampshire Mapped
Blome's Hampshire
Descriptive text, introductionintroduction
Hantshire.
These transcriptions come from the descriptive text in:-Britannia: or, A Geographical Description of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, ...by Richard Blome, published 1673. The pages used are in the Map Collection of Hampshire CC Museums Service, items HMCMS:FA2001.11 and HMCMS:FA2002.7. The page size is: wxh, sheet = 20x32cm. The pages are from a broken book.
The whole text includes a preface 'to the reader', part of which is missing in the museum's copy; a list of subscribers refering the reader to engravings of their coats of arms, sales in Hampshire do not look too good; a description of the British Isles; individual descriptions of each county; descriptions of colonial territories in Africa, Asia, the Indies, and America; lists of names, titles and seats of the nobility of England and Wales. The atlas has five pages, pp.106-110, to accompany the Mapp of Hantshire ie Hampshire.
Begin at coats of arms
