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5 items (enclosures in Governor Edwards' despatch of 1 August 1870) extracted from...
Catalogue reference: MPG 1/1002
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This record is about the 5 items (enclosures in Governor Edwards' despatch of 1 August 1870) extracted from... dating from 1780 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPG 1/1002
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1780
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Description (What the record is about)
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5 items (enclosures in Governor Edwards' despatch of 1 August 1870) extracted from CO 194/35 (pages 52-60). Five maps of the outer defences of St. John's, Newfoundland (now in Canada) by Robert Pringle, Chief Engineer, Newfoundland. High land and woodland in relief. (1) 'Sketch of the Lines and Batteries to defend the Pass from Quiddy Viddy Pond'. Scale: 1 inch to 70 feet. Marked as No. 3 in manuscript. (2) 'Sketch of the Entrance into Quiddy Viddy Harbour shewing the situation of Edwards's Battery to defend the Gut.' Scale: 1 inch to 60 feet. Compass Rose. Marked as number 2 in manuscript. (3) General map of Cuckolds Head and Quidi Vidi Pond. Scale: 1 inch to 400 feet. Compass rose. Marked as number 3 in manuscript. (4) 'Sketch of Hay's Battery, erected to defend an Important Pass in the Road from Petty Harb r to. St John's'. Scale: 1 inch to 100 feet. Not numbered in manuscript. (5) 'Sketch of Cuckolds Cove, with the Lines and Batteries to prevent a landing'. Scale: 1 inch to 40 feet. Compass rose. Marked number 5 in manuscript. Dimensions: (1) 37.3 cm x 53.3 cm; (2) 36.1 cm x 52.3 cm; (3) 44.7 cm x 52.3 cm; (4) 54.9 cm x 38.6 cm; (5) 25.4 cm x 35.6 cm.
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The maps are bound into the portfolio in the order given above and not in the order given in the published catalogue Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 959.
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 959
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