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Kent: ?Swaleness marsh, opposite Queensborough on the Isle of Sheppey. Plan of a...
Catalogue reference: MPF 1/9
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This record is about the Kent: ?Swaleness marsh, opposite Queensborough on the Isle of Sheppey. Plan of a... dating from [?1574] 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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- MPF 1/9
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Date (When the record was created)
- [?1574]
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Kent: ?Swaleness marsh, opposite Queensborough on the Isle of Sheppey. Plan of a fortification with eight points surrounded by a moat, with drawbridge shown raised, in bird's-eye view. At centre, a perspective view of houses around a courtyard within the keep; two stairways to walls at centre of opposite sides of keep. Hatched border within black border. Scale bar: 1 inch to 20 feet. Bears no cardinal points or legends. Endorsed in hand of William Cecil: '.. in ye Swale near Q[uen]borough for def[…] of ye Shipps'. Andrews and Colvin suggest that the plan may be by an engineer named Robert Lythe (Lyeth or Lueth), who reported on the defensive situation of Sheppey to the Privy Council in 1574. The plan may illustrate a proposal rather than actual works. It is apparently a finished version of the plan at MPF 1/8, although the houses in the keep are different in details.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- SP 46/36/7
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- Public Record(s)
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- 74 cm x 76 cm
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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 1228. Attributions of the map to Lythe are in J Andrews, 'The Irish surveys of Robert Lythe', Imago Mundi, vol 19, (1965), p 27, and in H M Colvin, ed., The History of the King’s Works, (London, HMSO, 1982) vol IV, part 2, p 479
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Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from records of the State Paper Office
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