Catalogue description 1 item extracted from SP 15/3 . Northumberland: Holy Island. '1548. The platte of the...

1 item extracted from SP 15/3. Northumberland: Holy Island. '1548. The platte of the Holie Ilond' (endorsement). Plan of the priory, town, and castle, showing the jetty, breakwater, sand-banks and shoals. Buildings shown in plan; [St Cuthbert's?] cell in perspective. Jetty in bird's-eye view. No legends on map face. No scale shown. This map was originally filed with other (apparently unrelated) papers of the Secretary of State; it may have been made in response to Somerset's orders to increase fortification of the North of England; Colvin suggests that it may have been used by Sir Thomas Holcroft to show Somerset the difficulty and expense that would be required to further fortify the island.

Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: I. British Isles, c.1410-1860, (London, 1967), entry 3346. H M Colvin, ed., The History of the King's Works, vol IV, p 677 (illustrated at Plate 51), (London, HMSO, 1982).