London-1562

18538

? 1562

University of Exeter Geography Department

London, Westminster, Southwark

General Purpose

whole built-up area

TQ320811

TQ 3181

'Civitas Londinum'.

The 'Agas map', of which the one reasonably certain thing is that it isn't by Ralph Agas: recorded from the reproduction in A collection of early maps of London 1553-1667, introduction by John Fisher, Lympne: Harry Margary, 1981. The dating of this map is notoriously problematic, but '1562' seems to fit (a) the 'situation date' and (b) derivation from the 'copperplate map' [Exeter 18527].

1:2160*

engraved

183.5 x 72.0

1

generally

important buildings only

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

windmills

Anglican/established only

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

misc: Charterhouse.

bear-baiting, misc

scattered tree cover

DH8. GHL, TNA [PRO] MPEE 1/25 [original]. Photographic facsimiles: BLML Maps 16.c.15, Bishopsgate Institute QL 18, BOL (E)C17:70 London (35), Camden 85.23 1560s, CUL Atlas.6.87.21, Atlas.6.87.31, Lambeth-Minet 2/[c.1560]/M23 (AP634), RGS 14.a.157 [1874: facsimile pb Adams & Francis, 1874: DH8.i]; BLML Maps 3518(19) [1875: Blades East & Blades/E.Bonser]; BLML Maps 183.p.1(1), Bishopsgate Institute FFL 18, BOL (E)C17:70 London (433), J.Maps 251 [55] CUL Maps.BB.72.90.2, Lambeth-Minet 2/[c.1560] MF (AP824), RGS Eng & Wales S.1(6), Southwark Library Map Cabt 1, maps 3,4,5, Westminster Archives Map cabt A, 044 [1905: London Topographical Society: DH8.ii]; Bishopsgate Institute QL.18, RGS 8.C.39, Southwark Library S.C.912, Westminster Archives f.912.4211 [1908: Geraldine Edith Mitton, Maps of Old London, London: Black, 1908]; CUL Atlas 5.98.8, RGS 14.A.379, Southwark Library S.C. 912, Westminster Archives f.912.4211 [1979: A-Z of Elizabethan London (Harry Margary & London Topographical Society [LTS 122], 1979)]; BOL (E)C17:70 London (1240), BOL (E)C17:70 London (1250), RGS 14.B.282 [1981: Harry Margary & Guildhall Library, Early maps of London, 1553-1667: intro by John Fisher]; RGS Eng & Wales S/S 157 [1 sheet only]; London Metropolitan Archives RM 2 [photocopy: open access]. Transcripts and re-engravings: BL 577.d.1, Maps 3480(34), Maps 18.d.5(1) [1708: in New View of London] (1708); BLML Maps 3480(4), K.Top.20.12, Bishopsgate Institute FFL 18, BOL Gough Maps London 1 [1737: pb Vertue [DH8.a]]; BOL (E)C17:70 London (34) [1737/1874: 'Agas'/Vertue]; BOL Gough Maps 43 no 275, Gough London 47 [1738: in W. Maitland, The history of London], BL 1855.b.6 [1739: in W.Maitland, History of London]; Southwark Library Map Cabt 1, Map 353 [J. Bowles, Cornhill [pb]: London in Queen Elizabeth's time]; BLML Maps 3480(6), CUL Maps.d.71.78.5, BOL (E)C17:70 London (294), RGS Eng & Wales S.3 [1789: London in 1563, pub J. Wallis]; BOL Gough London 267, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.I, part VI 72 (194), G.A.Lond.e.109 [1790: Neele (engr): reduction, in Thomas Pennant, Some account of London (1790)]; BOL Art.Seld.CC 82 [1793: Pennant, ed 3, pb Robert Faulder]; BOL G.A.Lond.8o 2040 [1813: Pennant, ed 5, pb Faulder]; BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] CI, part V [1807

shown

abstract decorative: Round description and City Arms.

shown

Putti support London arms.

cross, (pictorial)

Dogge hous [on More Fyeld], cannon and crane by riverside to south of Tower.

Linen spreading to dry shown in some fields, animals in fields, people on a few paths, and in fields; plenty of boats on river.

royal arms, municipal: [London].

out-of-town inns only: [Beere howfe at Horsleydown].