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Spain: Bayona. 'The Plotte of Bayonna' (endorsement): rough map showing the harbour,...
Catalogue reference: MPF 1/13
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This record is about the Spain: Bayona. 'The Plotte of Bayonna' (endorsement): rough map showing the harbour,... dating from [1585] 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 1/13
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1585]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Spain: Bayona. 'The Plotte of Bayonna' (endorsement): rough map showing the harbour, Isles of Bayon [Islas Cies], the estuary of the Vigo River, anchorages and a place near Bayona where English troops landed. Reference table. No scale shown. Cardinal points. Drawn to illustrate Edward Wynter's letter to Walsingham, from the Ayde at anchor off Vigo, 24 October 1585.
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For Wynter's letter see item 49 in SP 12/183
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- SP 46/36/11
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- 31 cm x 41 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 4189.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3981957/
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MPF 1
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