The Dorset Survey of the Parish of Tottenham in 1619 after Thomas Clay 1823 map
[The Dorset Survey of the Parish of Tottenham] The true platt and inscription of ye lands belonging to ye Mannors of Pembrooke, Bruces, Daubeneys & Mockings, in the Parishes of Tottenham and Edmonton in the County of Midd[lesex]. being [part?] of ye possessions of the right honorable Richard Erle of Dorsett, wherein all the Demeanes and Lease lands lying in severall are marked thus [three dots with tail symbol] ye freehold thus fr. The Customarie Lands thus cp. The intermixed lands belonging to other Mannors are all laid in a Skyrcullc [circle?] and marked with different letters according to their hold as P for Paul's hold, Tn for Tmyfords. The rivers and waters are blue, the Commons and highways are light browne, the content of each [part?] is mentioned in the ye Survey Booke. The length and breadth as Pr Scale here set down. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Reduced from Thomas Clay's original map by Barrow and Engraved by Walker. Provenance: "The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Tottenham in the County of Middlesex", by William Robinson. 2nd edition. London: Nicholls and Son, Parliament Street; W. Pickering, Chancery Lane; Hunnings, and G. Coventry, Tottenham. Type: An early 19th century printed and hand coloured copy of the original 1619 manuscript survey map. This highly decorative map of the Parish of Tottenham, known as "The Dorset Survey" is an early 18th century printed copy of the original 1619 manuscript map by the surveyor Thomas Clay. The map takes its name from Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset, whose grandfather, Thomas Sackville acquired the Manor of Tottenham In 1604. Richard, who inherited his title at the age of 20, has been described as "one of the seventeenth century's most accomplished gamblers and wastrels". In 1619 he commissioned a survey to record the value of his lands, possibly in order to determine a means to pay off some of the substantial gambling debts that he had accumulated. The survey comprised two parts: a ha
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Location: London
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License: Royalty Free
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