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Add MS 62935
- Record Id:
- 032-001963476
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001963476
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000055.0x0001a2
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100162924841.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 62935
- Title:
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William Lambarde's map of warning beacons in Kent
- Scope & Content:
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William Lambarde's map of beacons in Kent, endorsed, in a hand resembling Lambarde's, 'Carde of the Beacons in Kent'. In the 1580s and 1590s Lambarde was deputy lieutenant to Lord Cobham, who commissioned the map in order to have multiple copies made as a guide to the effective use of beacons.
The positions of about fifty beacons are indicated, with lines in red ink indicating the direction of the signals given off by them. Prick holes, pencilled numbers and light inked crosses suggest that it was intended to create a graticule (network of lines of latitude and longitude)across the map, possibly as a preliminary to copying it for engraving. The scale varies, but is c. 1:230,000.
The coastal outlines and lines of rivers are copied from the anonymous map of 'The Shyre of Kent, Divided into the five Lathes therof' (c. 1577), itself based on Saxton's 1575 map of the four south-eastern counties.
It may have been intended for presentation to the Beresford family of Squerries manor, Westerham, which is specially depicted. Several Lambarde manuscripts were sold in 1924 by his last male descendant, William Gore Lambarde of Sevenoaks (see Warnicke, William Lambarde, Elizabethan Antiquary, pp. 138–39). It was unknown before about 1930, when it was in the possession of the parents of D. Brackley, who came from the Sevenoaks and Westerham areas.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001963476
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001963476
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100162924841.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1585
- End Date:
- 1585
- Date Range:
- August 1585
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 323 x 545 mm (map); 354 x 469 mm (volume).
Foliation: ff. 1 + 8.
Binding: British Library binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Owned by D. Brackley's parents, who came from the Sevenoaks and Westerham areas, in around 1930.
Purchased by the British Library from D. Brackley, Esq., December 1983.
- Publications:
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The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts: New Series, 1981–1985 (London: British Library Board, 1994), pp. 193–94.
William Lambarde, Perambulation of Kent, 2nd edition (London: Edmund Bollisant, 1596), pp. 68–70.
M. J. Rodríguez-Salgado, ed., Armada, 1588–1988: An International Exhibition to Commemorate the Spanish Armada (1988), p. 148, no. 7.69.
Retha Warnicke, William Lambarde, Elizabethan Antiquary (London: Phillimore, 1973), pp. 138–39.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)