Hyde Hall, Earl of Roden.
Knebworth House, Mrs. Lytton.
Lamer House, C. D. Gerrard, esq.
Langleybury, Rev. Sir J. Filmer, bart.
Lilly House, John Sowerby, esq.
Lockleys, Mackenzie, esq.
Marchmont House, T. A. Green, esq.
Moor Park, late Robt. Williams, esq.
Munden, Rogers Parker, esq.
North Mims Place, Hen. Browne, esq.
Offley Place,
Burrows, esq.

Panshanger, Earl Cowper.
Pauls Warden, Hon. Thomas Bowes
Brubl.

Pishiobury, Mrs. Mills.

Porters, Marchioness of Sligo.

Potterells, Just:nian Casamajor, esq.

Rothamsted, J. B. Lawes, esq.

Russel Farm, Lord Henley.
Sacombe Park, George Caswall, esq.
St. John's Lodge, Sir C. Cuyler, bart.
Salisbury Hall, William Suell, esq.
Sandridge Lodge, G. S. Marten, esq.
Stagenhoe Park, R. T. Heysham, esq.
Tewin Water, Henry Cowper, esq.
Theobalds Park, Sir George Beeston
Prescott.
Tittenbanger, Earl of Hardwicke.
Tring Grove,
Broadwood, esq.

Tring Park, Sir Drummood Smith,ot.
Ware Park, Thos. Hope Byde, esq.
Watton Wood Hall, Sam. Smith, esq.
Westbroke Hay, Hon. Rich. Rider.
Woodhall, Sam. Smith, esq.

Wormleybury, Sir Abr. Bume, bart.
Youngsbury, Daniel Giles, esq.

Members to Parliament. For the County, 2; Hertford, 2; St. Alban's, 2; total 6.

Produce. Wheat, Barley, Cats, Turnips, Clover, Apples, Cherries, horticultural Plants and Roots.

Manufactures. Malt, Cotton, Silk, Lace, Straw-plait, Paper.

POPULATION.

Hundreds, 8; Parishes, 134; Market-lowns, 17; Houses, 20,781.
Inhabitants. Males, 55,023; Females, 56,631; total 111,654.

Families employed in Agriculture, 11,998; in Trade, 7,192; in neither, 3,554; total, 22,744.

Baptisms. Males, 1665; Females, 1574.-Marriages, 614.—Burials, Males,

996; Females, 1016.

Total, Towns, 17; Houses, 7,726; Inhabitants, 41,059.

HISTORY.

Anno 61, Verulam taken and destroyed by Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni. 796, at Offley, died Offa, the great King of Mercia. Near Ware, Alfred cap. tured the Danish fleet by diverting the waters of the Lea from their original channel.

1066, at Berkhamsted, William the Conqueror took the oath imposed upon him by Fretheric, Abbot of St. Alban's, that he would keep the laws of Edward the Confessor.

1272, at Berkhamsted, died Richard, King of the Romans, Earl of Cornwall, brother of Henry III.

1312, at Whethamsted, assembled the forces of the Barons in arms against Edward II. and his favourite Gaveston.

1362, at Hertford Castle, died Joan, wife of David, King of Scotland, and sister of Edward III.

1381, to St. Alban's came Richard II. and his chief justice Tresilian, with a guard of 1000 men, when 15 of the insurgents under Wat Tyler were hung in chains, and the male inhabitants of the county, from 15 to 60 years of age, attended and took an oath never to disturb the public peace.

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1399, at Hertford, Henry Duke of Lancaster (afterwards Henry IV.) kept his Court when Richard II. was deposed.

1455, at St. Alban's, May 23, Henry VI. wounded and taken prisoner; Duke of Somerset, Earls of Northumberland and Stafford, Lord Clinton, and 800 Lancastrians, slain by Edward Duke of York, and Richard Neville, "the king-making" Earl of Warwick.

1461, at St. Alban's, Feb. 17, the great Earl of Warwick and Yorkists defeated by Margaret of Anjou. In this battle, Sir John Grey of Groby, first husband of Elizabeth Widville (afterwards Queen of Edward IV.) and 2300 men were slain.

1468, near Barnet (April 14), Lancastrians defeated, and their Commander, the Earl of Warwick, "that center-shaking thunderclap of warre," with his brother, the Marquis of Montacute, and 10,000 men, slain by Edw. IV. 1496, at Berkhamsted, died Cecily, Duchess of York, mother of Edward IV. and Richard III.

1553, at Hunsdon, July, Mary, on her road to London, was informed by the Earl of Arundel of the death of Edward VI. and thereby prevented from falling into the power of the Earl of Northumberland.

1603, at Theobalds (then the seat of Robert, first Earl of Salisbury), May 3, the Lords of the Council paid their homage to James I.

1625, at Theobalds (which he had obtained in exchange for Hatfield from the Earl of Salisbury), March 27, died James I.

1642, at Theobalds February, Charles I. received the petitions of both houses of Parliament, and thence went to put himself at the head of his army. 1683, at Rye House, was said to be concerted the conspiracy to assassinate Charles II. and his brother James Duke of York, on their return from Newmarket, for which Lord Russel and Algernon Sydney, without the slightest evidence of their being privy to the intended assassination, were condemned and beheaded.

BIOGRAPHY.

ALBAN, ST. Protomartyr of Britain, Verulam (suffered 303.)
Alban's, St. John de, philosopher, St. Albans, 12th century.
Baldock, Ralph, Bp. of London, Baldock, (died 1313.)

Barnet, John, Bp. of Ely, Lord Treasurer, Barnet (died 1373.)

Blount, Sir Henry, traveller, Titten hanger, 1602.

Bostock, John, Abbot of St. Alban's, benefactor, Whethamsted, (died 1440.)' Bourchier, John, Baron Berners, translator of Froissart, Tharfield, (died 1532.) BREKESPERE, NICHOLAS, Adrian IV. only English Pope, Abbots Langley, 1090. Burgess, Anthony, divine, voluminous writer, Watford.

Capel, Arthur Lord, loyalist, Hadham, (beheaded 1648.)"

Cary, Henry, first Viscount Falkland, Lord Deputy of Ireland, Berkhamsted, (died 1633.)

Cartwright, Thomas, puritan divine, 1535.

Chauncy, Sir Henry, historian of the county, Yardley-bury, (died 1700.)
Chauncy, Isaac, nonconformist divine and author, Ware, (died 1712.)

COWPER, WILLIAM, Poet, Berkhamsted, 1731.

Dike, Daniel, divine, Hemsted, (died 1614.)

Dike, Jeremiah, divine, Hemsted, (died 1620.)

Dixon, Nicholas, divine, founder of Cheshunt Church, (died 1448.)

Duncombe, John, poet and divine, Stocks, 1730.

Duncombe, William, dramatic writer and translator of Horace, Stocks, 1689.
Edwards, John, divine, Hertford, 1637.

FANSHAW, SIR RICHARD, diplomatist, poet, and translator, Ware Park, 1607.
Ferrars, George, lawyer, historian, and poet, near St. Alban's, about 1512.
Field, Richard, Dean of Gloucester, theologian, Hemsted, 1561.
Gaddesden, John de, physician, Gaddesden, (flor 1320.)

Giles, John," Joannes Ægidius," physician, St. Alban's, 13th century.
Gorham, Nicholas, commentator on the Scriptures, Gorham, (died 1400.)
GUNTER, EDMUND, inventor of the scale, Hertford, 1581.
Guyse, John, author of Paraphrase on New Testament, Hertford, 1680.
Haddam, Edmund of, Earl of Richmond, father of Hen. VII. Haddam (died 1456.)
Hale, Richard, founder of Hertford School, Cudicot, (died 1640.)

Hill,

Hill, Robt. learned tailor, compared by Spence to Magliabechi, Miswell, 1699.
Humphry, John, nonconformist divine and author, St. Albans, 1622.
Incent, Ju. Dean of St. Paul's, founder of Berkhamsted school, Berkhamsted.
Janeway, James, nonconformist divine and author, Kershall, (died 1674.)
JENNINGS, SARAH, Duchess of Marlborough, Sandridge, 1660.

KEN, THOMAS, Bp. of Bath and Wells, one of the seven imprisoned Bishops,
Berkhamsted, 1637.

Kenrick, William, miscellaneous writer, near Watford, (died 1777.)

King, Sir John, lawyer, St. Alban's, 1639.

Langley, Edm. of, Duke of York, 5th son of Edw. III.King's Langley (died 1402.)
Lee, Nathaniel, dramatic writer, Hatfield, (died 1691.)

Legat, Hugh, commentator on Boethius, (flor 1400.)
MANDEVILLE, SIR JOHN, traveller, St. Alban's, 1300.

Nequam, or Neckham Alexander, Abbot of Cirencester, "miraculum ingenii,”
St. Albans, (died 1227.)

Pemberton, Sir Francis, Chief Justice, St. Alban's, 1625.

Redman, Richard, Bishop of Ely.

Rudborue, Thomas, Bp. of St. David's, chronicler, Rudborne (flor. 1419.)
Shute, John, first Viscount Barrington, statesman, Theobalds, 1678.

Stanley, Thomas, scholar and philosopher, Cumberlow, 1644.

Symonds, Edmund, divine, vindicator of Charles I. Cottered, (died 1649.)
Titus, Silas, Colonel, author of " Killing no Murder," Bushy.

Tooke, George, poet, Popes, about 1595.

Vincent, Thomas, non-conformist divine, and author, Hertford, 1634.

Walker, John, philologist, author of Pronouncing Dictionary, Barnet, 1732.
WALLER, EDMUND, poet, Coleshill, 1605.

Ward, Seth, Bp. of Salisbury, mathematician, Buntingford, 1617.

Ware, Richard de, abbot of Westminster, treasurer to Edw. I. Ware,(died 1283.)
Ware, William de, instructor of Duns Scotus, Ware, (flor 1270.)
Waterhouse, Sir Edw. Chancellor of Exchequer for Ireland, Helmsted bury,1535.
White, Sir Thomas, founder of St. John's College, Oxford, Rickmansworth.

MISCELLANEOUS REMARKS.

Albury Hall was the residence of the learned Chief Baron Sir Edw. Atkyns. At Amwell is a curious grotto formed by John Scott, who resided there, and has described the neighbouring scenery in his poems. -Amwell was the burial place of William Warner, author of" Albion's England," and of Isaac Reed, editor of Shakspeare.

Brantfield Rectory was the first Church preferment of the factious Saint Thomas à Becket, afterwards Abp. of Canterbury.

Cheshunt Manor House was the residence of Cardinal Wolsey, and in a house near the Church, under the assumed name of Clarke, July 12, 1712, died the Ex-Protector, Richard Cromwell, aged 85.

Gorhambury was the residence of Lord Keeper Sir Nicholas Bacon, who frequently entertained his royal Mistress there. It was also the residence of his son," the wisest, greatest, meanest of mankind.”

In Haddam Parva Church is an inscription to the memory of Arthur Lord Capel, Baron of Hadham, beheaded for his loyalty to Charles I.

In Hatfield Church is the monument of its founder, the politic Robert Cecil, first Earl of Salisbury.

Hunsdon House was the residence of Mary I. Elizabeth and Edw. VI. when children. In the Church is the monument of Chief Justice Sir Thos. Forster. Moor Park was the seat of the beautiful Lucy Harrington, Countess of Bedford; of Anne, wife of the unfortunate Duke of Monmouth, and of Lord Anson, the circumnavigator. The latter planted in his kitchen-garden here the apricot, from that circumstance called the Moor Park."

In North Mims Church is the monument of the patriot Ld. Chancellor Somers. Pelham Furneaux was the vicarage of the eminent divine Charles Wheatley, who died there 1742.

In Rickmansworth, was buried the translator, Hen. Cary, Earl of Monmouth. Royston has given its name to the "hooded crow," or "corvus cornix,” of Linnæus. According to Holinshed, wheat in the time of Henry VI. was so plentiful as to be sold in this town at 12d. the quarter.

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Monument of John Lord Bellasyse, in the Church Yard of S. Giles's in the Fields .