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Essex-Colchester-1648

CBTM:
19335
Map Date:
1648
Repository reference:
Colchester Library, Local Studies
Historic county:
Essex
Town name:
Colchester
Map type:
Military
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TL995252
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TL 9925
Map title:
[Top centre:] 'Colchester'; 'The siege of Colchester by his excellency ye Lord Fairfax as it was with the line and outworkes 1648.'
Comments on map:
Accompanied by long letterpress description of the siege: map is intaglio, inset top centre.
Scale:
1:25,344*
Map-maker:
W. Keymer, Colchester [pr, sold].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
31.5 x 20.7 [overall: map 57.7 x 40.3].
Number of parts:
1
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 2390(1); BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.III, part II [pub Keymer], BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.III, part II [pub Witham], BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.III, part II [no pub], BOL Ashmole H 24 (XXVI) [pub J. Partridge], BOL Gough Maps Essex 2 [pub Witham, 1650]; CUL Maps.FR.x.11; BOL Gough Gen Top 316 [1724]; ColcLS ['original' and photocopies]; BL 2366.aa.11, TNA [PRO] Library [in E.L.Cutts, Colchester, London: Longman, 1889, f.p.184]; TNA [PRO] Library [in Janet Cooper, ed, A history of the county of Essex, Vol IX (Victoria County History), Institute for Historical Research/Oxford University Press, 1994, 74]; BL X.802/10620, BOL G.A.Essex c.34 [1978: in D. Stephenson, The book of Colchester, Barracuda Books].
Symbolic elements:
Cannon: at top of second, wordier, title.
Ordnance Survey's
1875
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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