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‘The Epystle to the Queen’s Majestie’ and its ‘Platte’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2016

Marcus Merriman
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It was Howard Colvin who, whilst going through the accounts, fragments and miscellanea at the Public Record Office, as well as the plans, in the late 1950s stumbled over the two halves of MPF 146 and suggested to Mr Noel Blakiston, then supervising the preparation of a catalogue of the PRO’s early maps, that the two should be reunited.

Type
Section 1: Royal Works and The Office of Works
Information
Architectural History , Volume 27: Design and Practice in British Architecture , 1984 , pp. 25 - 32
Copyright
Copyright © Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 1984

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References

Notes

1 I am grateful not only to Howard Colvin, who patiently answered my queries on these points, but also to Mr N. Penfold and Miss G. L. Beech of the PRO for their assistance.

2 Bain, J. Calendar of Border Papers, I (1894), ii-xxii passim, no. 581.Google Scholar

3 See pi. 49, History of the King’s Works, ed. Colvin, H. M. iv (1982). It is discussed, ante, p. 613.Google Scholar

4 PRO, SP 12/287/88.

5 Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office, 1, British Isles, c. 1410-1860 (1967), compiled by H. N. Blakiston, xi.

6 The transfer slips are SP 12/287/89 and in SP 39/42.

7 These descriptions are in the typescript volume, ‘Maps and Plans in the PRO to 1603’, datedjanuary 1961, to be found in the Round Room (shelfmark 5) at Chancery Lane and in the Map Room at Kew. The Round Room’s copy has them on the 8th, 14th and 20th pages.

8 Maps and Plans in the PRO, no. 18.

9 Birley, E. Research on Hadrian’s Wall (Kendal, 1961), pp. 23-24.Google Scholar

10 Unless otherwise indicated, all quotations are from the printed edition in Bain, Border Papers, 1, 300-02. When reference is made to the original (SP 59/42), the original pagination is used.

11 Gai luli Caesarisde Bello Gallico, ed. Walpole, A. S. (1949) commentariorumi, ch. 8 and see comment on p. 52.Google Scholar I am grateful to Dr D. Shotter for this reference and much assistance.

12 PRO, SP 59/42, pp. 4-6. The computation of the cost makes interesting reading (Bain gets most of it).

13 Treason crops up on pp. 7, 10, 16-17.

14 Ibid., p. 10.

15 The half-moon trench is clearly visible in the upper left-hand portion of pi. 49 in History of King’s Works, IV.

16 I am grateful to Mr I. Maclvor for this reference. It could also be argued that the Confederate lines before Petersburg in 1864 had by 1865 become a ‘distended trench’.

17 See the map and discussion in Parker, G. The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road (Cambridge, 1972), pp. 1416 Google Scholar; see also his The Dutch Revolt (1977), p. 237 and ‘Why Did the Dutch Revolt Last Eighty Years?’, Trans. R.H.S., 26 (1976), 60.

18 The History of the King’s Works, iv, 607-13 (with footnotes) is a brief introduction to this topic.

19 Cal. Foreign, S. P. 1561-2, pp. 222-24, 270-72, 306.Google Scholar Interestingly enough, this commission paid a visit to Lanercost (p. 217).

20 Huddleston, C. R. and Boumphrey, R. S. A Geneology of Cumberland and Westmorland (Kendal, 1978), p. 82 Google Scholar; Ferguson, R. S. and Ferguson, C. J. ‘Lanercost Priory’, Trans. Cumberland and Westmorland A & A Soc., o.s. 1 (1866-67), 114-16, 131 Google Scholar; Baldwin, G. and Whitehead, H. ‘The Monuments in the Choir and Transepts of Lanercost Abbey’, C&WAAS, o.s. xn (1892-93), 312—38 Google Scholar; Martindale, J. H. ‘The Priory ofLanercost’, C&WAAS, n.s. xxvi (1926), 259-60.Google Scholar There is a nice short biography of Sir Thomas, ‘The Dacres ofLanercost’ by Mclntirein, W. T. The Cumberland News (18.2.39), p. 12.Google Scholar

21 Much less is known about Christopher Dacre; notices of him are scattered about C&WAAS, but see (additionally to other references here) Border Papers, 1, nos. 83, 197, 245, 263, 371, 377-78, 386, 746. The phrase is found in ibid., p. 231.

22 For Camden’s visit, see Birley, Research on Hadrian's Wall, pp. 4-5. The original charter for the priory stated that the foundation lands ran from ‘the Old Wall’ ( Moorman, J. R. H. ‘The Estates of the Lanercost Canons’, C&WAAS, n.s. vxlviii (1949), 77-78).Google Scholar

23 Two manuscript versions exist: PRO, E101/532/1 andSP 15/27B, fols 110-14. The forts and dike proposals are at the end. For a notice of his map, see Border Papers, p. 32.

24 For his being on the commission, cf. PRO, SP 15/27/44, SP 15/28/7, SP 15/28/9$ and his letter is reproduced in Bates, J. C. The Border Holds of Northumberland (Newcastle, 1891 as vol. xiv of Archaeologia Aeliana), 76-77 (but reference should be had to the original, PRO, SP 15/28B, fol. 105). His proposal (SP 15/28B fols 108-09) is adequately rendered by Bates, Border Holds, pp. 77-80 Google Scholar, but is badly calendared and inaccurately dated in Cal. Domestic, S.P. 1580-1625 (1872), pp. 17-18.Google Scholar

25 Maps and Plans in the PRO, no. 3338; Bates reproduces the map (between pp. 78 and 79) and deciphers it on pp. xvii-xviii.

26 PRO, SP 15/32/47 at fol. 104 (Cal. S.P. Domestic 1580-1625, pp. 337-38).

27 Huddleston and Boumphrey, Genealogy of Cumberland, p. 82; for his decline see Border Papers, 1, nos. 746, 786; 11, nos. 291 (1), 399, 613.

28 Bates, Border Holds, p. 80.