. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . g. Another proof perhaps is the fact that the English town is always pro-nounced as if it were spelled Harford. It is also interesting to note that in anaccount of Hertford Castle pubUshed in 1589, the name is spelled with an a in-stead of an e, which should prove to us pretty conclusively that it is the mothertown that has strayed from the correct method of spelhng, while her child, ourtown, adhered to the original and proper spelling. Hertford was four hundred years older than the thousand years for which thiscelebration was held
. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . g. Another proof perhaps is the fact that the English town is always pro-nounced as if it were spelled Harford. It is also interesting to note that in anaccount of Hertford Castle pubUshed in 1589, the name is spelled with an a in-stead of an e, which should prove to us pretty conclusively that it is the mothertown that has strayed from the correct method of spelhng, while her child, ourtown, adhered to the original and proper spelling. Hertford was four hundred years older than the thousand years for which thiscelebration was held, being inhabited by a sturdy race of Britons before the Saxonsconquered the country. It was a flourishing town when the great Saxon king,Alfred, allowed the cakes of the peasants wife to burn, thereby enduring a scoldingby the angry woman, who, of course, did not know she was tongue-lashing hersovereign. Hertford is situated at the meeting point of three rivers, the Maran, theBeane, and the Lea, and as far back as the time of the Caesars there was a British. From PUturesque Ufrtford PORT HILL, HERTFORD, ENGLAND Publiihtd iy Re ^ Sons
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