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6 items extracted from SP 36/138. Hampshire. (1)-(3) Three plans of Portsmouth, showing...
Catalogue reference: MPF 1/365
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This record is about the 6 items extracted from SP 36/138. Hampshire. (1)-(3) Three plans of Portsmouth, showing... dating from [1757] 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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- [1757]
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6 items extracted from SP 36/138. Hampshire. (1)-(3) Three plans of Portsmouth, showing coastline, waterways, fortifications, location and number of cannons, etc. No scale shown. Dimensions of sheets: 57 cm x 44 cm and 53 cm x 44 cm. (4)-(6) Three sheets of rough preliminary sketches for (1)-(3). Dimensions of sheets: 30 cm x 37 cm and 23 cm x 38 cm. All allegedly drawn by and found on the person of William Dunstan [Dunster], arrested on suspicion of supporting the Jacobite cause, 25 October 1757.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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