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Cornwall: Scilly Isles. 'A Map of the Islands of Scilly. Shewing all the Rocks And...
Catalogue reference: MPH 1/368
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MPH 1/368
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1707]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Cornwall: Scilly Isles. 'A Map of the Islands of Scilly. Shewing all the Rocks And Ledges, with the Soundings & Barings, And y e Exact Places wher e The Association Eagle Rumny, & Tierbrand was Lost. These Islands are In Number 53 and but 7 Of them Inhabited. Sidney Kedolfin y e Gover nour Edmund Gostelo F.'. Shows the islands, towns, abbey, churches, lighthouse and other buildings. Circular map surrounded by a landscape, one house, lighthouse, humans, native and exotic animals, mermaid and sea monsters. Notes on tides. Scale: 2 inches to 2 miles. Compass indicator. Arms of Queen Anne post Act of Union, 1707. Title in ornamental cartouche, supported by two robed, male figures. Scale bar in ornamental cartouche, surrounded by two putti, masks, two mourning human figures and a griffin rampant. The names are written as spoken: recte Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, and Edmund [?Costello], about whom nothing additional is known. Godolphin lived to 1712, but had been dismissed from government in 1707. The ships mentioned are those associated with Sir Clowdisley Shovell, which were wrecked in October 1707: HMS Association, HMS Romney and HMS Firebrand (the initial letter of Tierbrand in the map title is 'F' without the horizontal bar). Map 43 cm in diameter, on sheet 47 cm x 59.5 cm.
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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)
- WO 78/1471
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- cm
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:63360
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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 1980
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4562175/
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