Catalogue description Essex: plan of Sturmer Mere, fringed reeds, and with fish, swans, and man in boat. Also...

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Details of MPC 1/33
Reference: MPC 1/33
Description:

Essex: plan of Sturmer Mere, fringed reeds, and with fish, swans, and man in boat. Also shows Sturmer village, and Wixoe manor (Suffolk), roads, woodland. Notes on map concerning the seasonal variation in the state of the ground around the mere, ownership and usage. Reference table. Scale bar surmounted by dividers: 1 inch to 6 poles. Cardinal points: oriented to the south. Made by John Huntte, a commissioner in a case over fishing rights on the mere, Thomas Barnardiston v Henry MacKwilliam, farmer of the dissolved Stoke College for the Queen.

Note: [Grid references: OSGB36: TL 690 438; WGS84: 52.06633, 0.46581]. WGS84 interpolated from OSGB36.
Date: [1571]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in The National Archives: DL 31/33
Legal status: Not Public Record(s)
Dimensions: 60 cm x 44 cm
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 1058

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