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1 item extracted from SP 15/3. Northumberland: Holy Island. '1548. The platte of...
Catalogue reference: MPF 1/369
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- [1548]
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1 item extracted from SP 15/3. Northumberland: Holy Island. '1548. The platte of the Holie Ilond' (endorsement). Plan of the priory, town, and castle, showing the jetty, breakwater, sand-banks and shoals. Buildings shown in plan; [St Cuthbert's?] cell in perspective. Jetty in bird's-eye view. No legends on map face. No scale shown. This map was originally filed with other (apparently unrelated) papers of the Secretary of State; it may have been made in response to Somerset's orders to increase fortification of the North of England; Colvin suggests that it may have been used by Sir Thomas Holcroft to show Somerset the difficulty and expense that would be required to further fortify the island.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- 45 cm x 64 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 3346. H M Colvin, ed., The History of the King's Works, vol IV, p 677 (illustrated at Plate 51), (London, HMSO, 1982).
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