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Map of Allerton and Wavertree manors, Lancashire: shows wasteland, commons, fields,...
Catalogue reference: MR 1/11
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This record is about the Map of Allerton and Wavertree manors, Lancashire: shows wasteland, commons, fields,... dating from [1568] in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MR 1/11
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1568]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Map of Allerton and Wavertree manors, Lancashire: shows wasteland, commons, fields, hedges, lanes, hills, meres, named stones, cross. Childwall church, two post windmills on large mounds, houses, gates, in simple perspective. Legends within labels. Two fretwork cartouches within which the boundaries of the two manors are set out. No scale shown. Cardinal points in labels decorated with flowers. Oriented to the north-east. Endorsement in late seventeenth-century hand: 'No. 73 Wavertree The Comicion Interrogatorys and Depeosicions are with the bundle of Comicions And are 10th Elizabeth'. For the petition from Sir Richard Molyneux, steward of the Duchy of Lancaster manor of Wavertree, and Richard Lathorne, owner of the manor of Allerton, asking for the joint boundaries of the manors to be ascertained, see DL 1/60, M 15. For the commission ordering the making of the map, dated 30 May, 10 Elizabeth, and the commissoners' return, see DL 44/169
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For papers in the case see DL 44/169
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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 31/73
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- Not Public Record(s)
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- 82 cm x 86.4 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 3231
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4559038/
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