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England fully described in a compleat sett of Mapps of ye County's of England and...
Catalogue reference: WO 78/418
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WO 78/418
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Title (The name of the record)
- England fully described in a compleat sett of Mapps of ye County's of England and Wales, with their Islands, containing in all 58 Mapps
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Date (When the record was created)
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[?1710-?1713]
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Description (What the record is about)
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England and Wales; Channel Islands; Isle of Man. One of the so-called 'Overton Atlases', made up of impressions from plates of county maps in the possession of Henry Overton.
(1) Title page, with decoration including figures of a Briton (or Celt), a Roman, a Saxon, a Dane (or Viking) and a Norman, and an inset view [?of London]; engraved by R White. (2) Contents page. (3-43) English county maps, showing division into hundreds, with MS colouring at hundred boundaries: (3) Kent; (4) Sussex; (5) Surrey; (6) Middlesex and the City of London; (7) Hampshire; (8) Dorset; (9) Wiltshire; (10) Somerset; (11) Devon; (12) Cornwall; (13) Essex; (14) Hertfordshire; (15) Oxfordshire; (16) Buckinghamshire; (17) Berkshire; (18) Gloucestershire and Bristol; (19) Suffolk; (20) Norfolk; (21) Rutland; (22) Northamptonshire; (23) Huntingdonshire; (24) Bedfordshire; (25) Cambridgeshire; (26) Warwickshire; (27) Leicestershire; (28) Staffordshire; (29) Worcestershire; (30) Shropshire; (31) Herefordshire; (32) Lincolnshire; (33) Nottinghamshire; (34) Derbyshire; (35) Cheshire; (36) Yorkshire; (37) North Riding and East Ridings of Yorkshire; (38) York and West Riding of Yorkshire; (39) Lancashire; (40) Durham; (41) Westmorland; (42) Cumberland; (43) Northumberland, including Berwick-upon-Tweed. (44-57) Welsh county maps showing divisions into hundreds: (44) Wales, showing counties; (45) Monmouthshire; (46) Glamorgan; (47) Radnorshire; (48) Brecknockshire; (49) Cardiganshire; (50) Carmarthenshire; (51) Pembrokeshire; (52) Montgomeryshire; (53) Merionethshire; (54) Denbighshire; (55) Flintshire; (56) Caernarfonshire; (57) Anglesey. (58-60) Island maps: (58) Isle of Man; (59) Holy Island (Lindisfarne), the Farne Islands, Jersey and Guernsey, all on one sheet; (60) Isle of Wight.
Various reference notes, many of a historical nature. Decorated with coats of arms, historical portraits and views, etc. Compass points or compass indicator to each map. The map of Kent by P Lee. The remaining maps are taken from John Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain', sold by Thomas Basset and Richard Chiswell; many sheets are based on earlier maps by John Norden or Christopher Saxton, some sheets are engraved by Jodocus Hondius, and some are corrected by Christopher Browne. Several sheets bear the date 1610; Carmarthenshire, Dorset, Essex and Huntingdonshire are dated 1662. This edition, with roads added to the plates, printed and sold by Henry Overton, White Horse without Newgate, London, [?1710 or 1713]. Insets: maps and views of cities and county towns, many with reference tables to notable buildings, appear on most sheets. Each map is endorsed with the stamp of the Board of Ordnance.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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Z 60/4
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
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MPZ 21
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
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Engraved, with MS colouring
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Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: I. British Isles, c.1410-1860 (London, 1967), entry 2. Extract reference originally printed as MPZ 21; document subsequently reverted to WO 78/418. The 1713 edition of the Overton Atlas is also described in Thomas Chubb, The printed maps in the atlases of Great Britain and Ireland (2nd edn, Folkestone, 1974) p 41, no xxx
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