Middlesex-London-1676

18542

? 1676

BOL Gough Maps 21, fols 8B-17B

Middlesex

London

General Purpose

whole built-up area

TQ326811

TQ 3181

'A large and accurate map of the City of London ichnographically describing all the streets, lanes, alleys, courts, churches, halls and houses, &c. Actually surveyed and delineated, by John Ogilby Esq; His Majesties Cosmographer.'; alternately, 'A new and accurate map of the City of London, distinct from Westminster and Southwark, iconographically describing all the streets, lanes, allies, courts, yards, churches, halls, houses, &c. At the scale of an hundred foot in an inch: actually survey'd and delineated by John Ogilby Esq and William Morgan Gent. His Majesty's Cosmographers.'

Record is from a copy in sheets.

1:1200

engraved

149 x 244 [larger plates 50.0 x 38.0].

20

generally

important buildings only

shown, public buildings emphasised

shown comprehensively: With ground-plans.

town hall/administrative

castles/forts/batteries, town walls

hospitals, misc: Charterhouse.

further educational/colleges

exchanges, markets: Including pens in Smithfield, and flesh, fish, leather and herb markets at Leadenhall.

sports grounds

scattered tree cover

borough, Parish: [City boundary: a 'chain' effect].

DH28. GL [DH28(1)]; BLML Maps C.7.b.5 ['explanation' at C.7.b.5], Crace Port.II.61 [DH28(2)], GL [DH28(2)]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [DH28(2)]; BOL Gough Maps 21 Fol 8B-18B, Gough Maps 46, Fol 20-39, C17:70 London a.2 [DH status uncertain]; BLML maps 33.e.17, Bishopsgate Institute FFL 18, CUL Atlas.2.89.5, RGS Portfolio 99 Westminster Archives Board Room Drawer no 2 [London & Middlesex Archaeological Soc facsimile, 1895: DH28.i]; Bishopsgate Institute QL.18, BOL C17:70 London d.1, RGS 8.C.39, Southwark Library S.C.912, Westminster Archives f.912.4211 [in Geraldine Edith Mitton, Maps of Old London, London: Black,1908, which is same as in Sir Walter Besant, London in the time of the Stuarts, London: Black, 1903]; Bishopsgate Institute Map Drawer, BOL (E)C17:70 London (1138), CUL Atlas.4.97.159, Maps.bb.19.G.86 [in sheets], Camden 85.23 1677, Lambeth-Minet 2/1676/M406(A), RGS Portfolio 176 and 14.B.283, Tower Hamlets L.6015, Westminster Archives Map Cabinet A 061 [1976, pub Lympone: Harry Margary, from original in GLC map & print colln: DH28(ii)]; BOL C17:70 London d.97 G32/C17.32E, CUL Atlas.6.99.139 [A-Z of Restoration London, pub. Lympne: Harry Margary 1992]; London Metropolitan Archives open access photocopy RM4 [photocopy].

chemicals, textiles: [Tenters].

shown

Inns of Court

abstract decorative: Three.

trade and livery company halls

shown

Monuments: ['The Pillar where ye fire began an. 1666'].

Dividers over scale; bottom border includes 'The Achievement of the Honble. City of London': crown, lion and unicorn, with putti on either side, one holding map 'Anglia', the other holding a section of London map, of London Bridge and area to north; Carolean-looking female figures sprouting fruit and flowers; one has birds on either side.

Soldiers on The New Artillery Garden, numerous boats both on the Thames and in the 'New Canal' (Fleet River).

municipal, misc: Sir John Sheldon, Lord Mayor in 1675-6.

shown

(1) Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Sheriffs of City of London; (2) King Charles II.

apparently fairly complete