Add MS 78629 B

B. Untitled plan by an unidentified surveyor, with paper label in Evelyn’s hand on the verso, `Rolle containing Divers surveys of the Grounds at Says Court & Roads in Deptford belonging to Jo: Evelyn &c’., with `Leasehold from the Crown’ added in another contemporary hand’; [bef. 1652?]. Pen and ink, with field borders marked in coloured washes. Large coloured compass rose (east at top). Scale bar: 100 perches: 7.5 inches [1: 2640]. Showing field names and acreages; bounded by the river Thames, Brick Close and Butt Lane (top); New Cross Field (right); Woolpicker Lane (bottom); Bridghouse Land (left). A few buildings are sketched pictorially in ink, including Halfway House and `Mr Prittymans House’. The latter, from its location (near Brick Close, Butt Lane and the east Broomfield), may represent Sayes Court manor house at the period before 1652 when it was occupied by Sir Richard Browne’s brother-in-law and trustee William Pretyman, but its frontage more closely resembles the nearby `storekeeper’s house’, as shown on Add. MS 78629 A above. A garden plan has been faintly sketched around it in pencil at an indeterminate date. Formerly Evelyn MS 281.

Vellum. 720 x 550mm.