his cartographical and chorographical work. A steadier source of income was his devotional writing, of which he published twenty-four volumes between 1582 and his death. A Pensive Mans Practise, first published in 1584, reached more than forty editions in his lifetime. He always kept the two areas of his professional life quite separate, and when in the late 1590s a series of dedications in his devotional works to the Earl of Essex placed him in political difficulties with Sir Robert Cecil he attempted to deny authorship, claiming that the devotional books were the work of "another of my name ... [a] Norden pretender". This denial has caused historians some difficulty, but Frank Kitchen has established beyond doubt that there was only one John Norden. References Bibliography External links John Norden and his colleagues : surveyors of the Crown Lands 1548 births 1625 deaths 16th-century English writers 16th-century male writers 17th-century English writers 17th-century English male writers Alumni of Hart Hall, Oxford People from Hendon English cartographers 16th-century cartographers 17th-century cartographers 16th-century Protestants 17th-century Protestants English antiquarians 16th-century antiquarians 17th-century antiquarians 17th-century Anglican theologians 16th-century Anglican theologians Anglican devotional writers Early modern Christian devotional writers