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Hartfordshire
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Proper noun
en Hertfordshire.
en w:John Stow A Svmmarie of the Chronicles of England, from the Firſt arriuing of Brute in this Iſland, vnto this preſent yeere of Chriſt, 1590 1590 https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_a-summarie-of-englyshe-c_stow-john-the-summary-_1565/page/n5/mode/1up?q=%22hartfordshire%22&view=theater From thence to the riuer of Trent, which paſſeth through the middeſt of England, be 16 ſhires, whereof the firſt ſix (ſtanding Eaſtward) are Eſſex, Middleſex, Hartfordſhire, Suffolke, Northſolke and Cambridgeſhire:
en [Hamon L’Estrange] The Reign of King Charles: An History Faithfully and Impartially Delivered and Disposed into Annals London Printed by E. C. for Edward Dod, and Henry Seile the younger,and are to be sold at the Gun in Ivie-lane, and over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, 1655. 1655 64 https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-reign-of-king-charle_lestrange-hamon_1655/page/64/mode/1up He [Francis Bacon] lyeth interred in the Church of St. Michael at St. Albans in Hartfordſhire, and hath there a fair ſtatuary monument erected for him of white Marble at the coſt of Sir Thomas Meautis, his ancient ſervant, who was not neerer to him living then dead: