Item
Duplicate of Jennings's letter in SP 42/68/58. No. 59
Catalogue reference: SP 42/68/59
Date: 1711 August 25
Duplicate of Jennings's letter in SP 42/68/58. No. 59
Piece
Treatise on Fortification. This is a manuscript proposing the fortification of the...
Catalogue reference: SP 59/42
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This record is about the Treatise on Fortification. This is a manuscript proposing the fortification of the... dating from [1576] in the series Secretary of State: State Papers Scotland: Border Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- SP 59/42
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1576]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Treatise on Fortification. This is a manuscript proposing the fortification of the Anglo-Scots border on the line of the Roman Wall, with a preface addressed to the Queen, a summary of the 'argument', and 17 pages of text. The plan which accompanied the text appears to date from 1576, but the treatise may not have been drawn up until the Armada threatened a decade or so later, as suggested in the introduction to The Border Papers, I, viii-ix.
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For the plan extracted from this piece see
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3828844/
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SP 59
Secretary of State: State Papers Scotland: Border Papers
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