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London-1682

CBTM:
21332
Map Date:
? 1682
Repository reference:
London Metropolitan Archives [open access: RM5/1-/8]
Town name:
Lambeth, Rotherhithe, London, Westminster, Southwark, Whitechapel
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ320811
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3181
Comments on map:
Recorded from Harry Margary facsimile. Seems to be on 8 plates. Liberally furnished with text, both as references to features and as dedications, starting with a suitably wordy and ingratiating one to King Charles II, top left. In all this date and title are apparently omitted. Near top right: 'Advertisement. The Names of the Nobility &c. are not affixt to decoy Subscribers (ye intent of some in publishing large Catalogues with their Proposals) but publiquely to own the bounty and favour of those that encoraged Mr. Ogilby in his great Adventures: & were there room many hundreds might be added, whom we will shortly find opportunity to mention, yt their love to & encoragmt. of Ingenious undertakings, togethr. with our gratitude may be known to posterity. Neither is it without use in that it gives Strangers the knowlege of the Numerous Families of the Illustrious Nobility, with their Order and the Precedency of the Great Officers and Ministers of the State.' Also advertises the 1:1200 map and Ogilby's Britannia, Vol. 1. Also note of number of houses, and estimated population and number of fighting men: one has the impression that this is a map looking over its shoulder. Also 'Explanation' in English, about statistics and making of map, and 'Explication' in French: all these top right. Numbered references, mostly bottom right: is it coincidence that 666 is Hores head Court?
Scale:
1:3600
Map-maker:
William Morgan, Master of His Majesty's Revels in Ireland, next the Blew Boar in Ludgate Street [author, pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
244 x 114 [maximum: plates 62.5 x 51.0].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
royal palaces, important buildings only: [Including various parts of Whitehall palace].
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised: Public buildings and large houses are pictorial.
Mills:
(unspecified type)
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, quays, river stairs
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial): St Pauls appears complete, no doubt anticipating developments.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, central government, internal revenue
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, volunteer parade grounds, town walls, misc., (pictorial): Victualling Office; [wall shown in plan: The Tower is effectively a birds eye view; men assembled on Artillery Ground].
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses, mental
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets: ['The Sheep penns' [pictorial] at Smith Field].
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough, Parish: [City of London: chain effect].
Known copies of map:
Darlington & Howgego's no.33. BL Crace Port.II.58, 59, London Museum, Royal Library, Copenhagen [DH33(1)]; TNA [PRO] [1692.c: DH33(2)]; Tower Hamlets map 57 [sheet 11 only]; BL Crace Port.II.60, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1720.c: DH33(3)]; BLMK K.Top.20.25, Maps 175.t.2(2), Crace Port. III.90, TNA [PRO] MR 1/1694, Tower Hamlets map 71 [sheets 8, 8a, 12 only], Westminster Archives Ashbridge 61 [mutilated copy] [1732[?1749/50], Jeffreys: DH33(4)]; BLML Maps 175.t.1(1), Bishopsgate Institute FFL.18, BOL (E)C17:70 London (441), CUL Maps.AA.72.90.14-, Lambeth-Minet 2/1681-2/MF (AP 836), RGS Eng & Wales S.1(5), Westminster Archives Board Room Drawer no.4, Map Cabt A 044 [LTS, 1904, DH33(i)]; Bishopsgate Institute Map Drawer, BOL (E)C17:70 London (1179), Camden 85.23 1682, RGS Portfolio 200, Tower Hamlets maps 1159-1171 [Harry Margary Facsimile/Guildhall Library facsim, 1977: DH33(ii)]; London Metropolitan Archives open access photocopy RM5 [photocopy].
Industry:
paper/print, textiles: [Printing Houses, extensive pictorial tenters].
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground: With deer and waterfowl in St James Park.
Service and professional:
Inns of Court
Landowners and occupiers:
notable residents
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: The dedication to the king, top left, has two modern-dress male figures to left and right, and is surrounded by cannon, pkies, armour, drum, etc, and also orb, sceptre and fruit.
Clubs and societies:
trade and livery company halls
Borders:
decorative
Monuments:
Monuments, (pictorial): [In Covent Garden].
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Symbolic elements:
Male figures, cannon, pkies, armour, drum, orb, sceptre, fruit: in dedication.
Crosses:
cross, named: [Charing Cross].
Miscellaneous buildings and structures:
Dog Houfes.
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Boats and shipping in River Thames, including several ceremonial-looking barges.
Arms and heraldry:
royal arms: [In dedication, and above scale: the latter has Britannia and another female (Hibernia?) as supporters, and four putti beneath, two with dividers and two with chains].
Ferries:
ferry
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
pounds/pinfolds
Cemeteries:
shown
Dedicee of map:
The King, Duke of Ormond [governor of Ireland], the Royal Society, College of Physicans, Mayor and Aldermen of London ('who bountifully encouraged this Survey'), trade companies (who Encouraged this worke'), Treasuers and Governors of Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals, Earl of Clarendon, Deputy Governor, Treasurer and New River Company, the nobility, Lord Chancellor and Judges, Attorney and Solicitor Generals, the Archbishop and the Bishops, and the Chancellor, fellows, etc of Oxford and Cambridge, and equivalents at Dublin.
Tenement boundaries group:
generalised/schematic
Ordnance Survey's
1868-1876
1:1056
1:2500
1:10,560
1894-7
1:1056
1:2500
1:10,560
1848-51
1:1056
1:5280
1:10,560
Skeleton survey
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