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Add MS 57494
- Record Id:
- 032-001999479
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001999479
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000036.0x0002e5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100162924830.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 57494
- Title:
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Survey of the Sussex coast, 1587
- Scope & Content:
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A survey of the Sussex coast, made by Sir Thomas Palmer, 1st Baronet (1540-1625), and Walter Covert, Sheriff of Sussex (c. 1549-1632). With five coloured maps of the coast and inland areas of Sussex by Nicholas Reynolds, cartographer, May 1587.
ff. 1r-1v, 4v, 7v, 9v, 12v: Survey, titled ‘A Survey made by Sir Thomas Palmere Knight and Mister Waltar Couerte esquire Deputie Lieutenants of her Majesties Countie of Sussex of all the places of descente alongste the sea coaste of the said Shire. N:B: This survey was taken in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth' (f. 1r).
ff. 2r, 5r, 8r, 10r, 11r: Five coloured maps on vellum, showing Sussex from Thorney and Selsey Bill to Winchelsea and Camber Castle, with compass roses and scales in colour, drawn, signed and dated by Nicholas Reynolds.
Map scale approximately 1:1:50688.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001999479
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001999479
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100162924830.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1587
- End Date:
- 1587
- Date Range:
- 1587
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper; parchment.
Dimensions: 251 x 350mm (first map 250 x 420mm).
Foliation: ff. xv + 13.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum.
Script: Secretary; italic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Wynne E. Baxter, solicitor, of Lewes (1844-1920): former owner, 1870.
E. Warburton: former owner, 1970.
Purchased by the British Museum at Sotheby’s, 29 November 1971, lot 144.
- Publications:
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Harley MS 703 (on the survey as part of defences against the Spanish Armada).
Additional MS 63650 Q (letter from Nicholas Reynolds to Abraham Ortelius. Latin).
Maps K.Top. XLII.10.a. and K.Top. XLII.10.b. (Copies of the survey made in 1737).
The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1971-1975, Part 1: Descriptions (London: The British Library, 2001), pp. 98-99.
Peter Barber, 'England II: Monarchs, Ministers, and Maps, 1550-1625', in Monarchs, Ministers and Maps, ed. David Buisseret (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), pp. 57-98 (p. 74).
Martin Biddle, Jonathan Hiller, and Ian Scott, Henry VIII’s Coastal Artillery Fort at Camber Castle, Rye, East Sussex (Oxford: Oxford Archaeological Unit, 2001).
M.A. Lower, ed., A Survey of the Coast of Sussex, made in 1587, with a view to its defence against Foreign Invasion, and especially against the Spanish Armada (Lewes: W.E. Baxter, 1870).
William Page, ed., The Victoria History of the County of Sussex, vol. 2 (London: Archibald Constable, 1907), p. 152.
Christopher Saxton, Atlas of England and Wales (1579). (Map of Hertfordshire, 1577, engraved by Nicholas Reynolds).
J.C. Wright, ‘Notes on the Older Eastbourne’, The Antiquary, 7 (1911), 19-24.
M. Zell, ‘Kent's Elizabethan JPs at work’, Archaeologia Cantiana, 119 (1999), 1–43.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)