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Eight maps (on five sheets) of disputed lands at Dedham, Essex, to show field names,...
Catalogue reference: MPC 1/70
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This record is about the Eight maps (on five sheets) of disputed lands at Dedham, Essex, to show field names,... dating from [late 17th century] 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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- MPC 1/70
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Date (When the record was created)
- [late 17th century]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Eight maps (on five sheets) of disputed lands at Dedham, Essex, to show field names, acreage, tenants, and to which manor they belonged; roads, gates, boundaries, Sherburne brook and mill, ponds, trees, heathland. Houses in simple perspective. No scale shown. Cardinal points. Oriented to the east. Sizes between 30 cm x 22 cm and 41 cm x 49.5 cm. Some sheets bear reference to page numbers, presumably of written survey. MPC 1/70 folio 3 bears the date 31 August 1573. These are late seventeenth-century copies of maps at MPC 1/276, item 3; and maps in MPC 1/77, items 4, 5, 6r, 7; the latter bear note of examination by Benjamin Ayloffe, (attorney to the Duchy of Lancaster Court, and keeper of Duchy records from 1685). For a commission and depositions in the same case, dated 16 Eliz I, see DL 4/16/18.
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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)
- DL 31/81
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Not Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English and Latin
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- Parchment. Pen and ink, coloured
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: I. British Isles, c.1410-1860 (London, 1967), entry 975. Map at folio 5 reproduced in G H Rendall, Dedham described and deciphered, (Benham and Co, Colchester, 1937).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3982613/
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MPC 1
Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from records of the Duchy of Lancaster
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Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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Eight maps (on five sheets) of disputed lands at Dedham, Essex, to show field names,...
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