Catalogue description Yorkshire: Rothwell. Plan showing Rothwell park and new park: named fields, closes and...

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Details of MPC 1/30
Reference: MPC 1/30
Description:

Yorkshire: Rothwell. Plan showing Rothwell park and new park: named fields, closes and woods with their acreage; fences and gates; River Aire; park bounded by Wrigglesworth, Oulton, Rothwell, Carleton, Lofthouse, Leeds (indicated by legend). 'The hey lodge' [the High Lodge]. No scale shown. Oriented to the south. Cardinal points shown. Endorsed in later hand: 'No 30 Rothwell'. To show lands for herbage in dispute between Thomas, Lord Darcy and the tenants of Rothwell. Lines crossing some boundaries may be marks of measurement or other marks made during the map's construction. For what appears to be a fair copy of this map in the same hand, see MPI 1/249. For Lord Darcy's own copy of this map, see SP 1/237 (part 2, f 148). For depositions in this case, dated 27 April, 25 Henry VIII, see DL 3/25 (D1).

Date: [1533]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in The National Archives: DL 31/30
Legal status: Not Public Record(s)
Language: English
Dimensions: 40 cm x 58 cm
Physical condition: Pen and ink
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: I. British Isles, c.1410-1860 (London, 1967), entry 3572. R W Hoyle, 'Thomas Lord Darcy and the Rothwell Tenants, c. 1526-1534', Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, vol 63, 1991, pp 85-107; this map is discussed at pp 92, 105-106.

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