Catalogue description 1 item extracted from SP 10/18 (item 43) and SP 16/89 (item 85). Plan of Hertford...

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Details of MPF 1/161
Reference: MPF 1/161
Description:

1 item extracted from SP 10/18 (item 43) and SP 16/89 (item 85). Plan of Hertford Castle, Hertfordshire, showing rooms used by the Courts of Wards, Requests, Exchequer and King's Bench. Drawn by Henry Hawthorne.

Date: [1582 or 1592]
Arrangement:

The map comprises two parts, joined. One part was removed from SP10/18 in 1930 and given the reference MPF 161. The other part, removed from SP16/89, was added to MPF 161 in February 1956.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Dimensions: 47.2 cm x 72.9 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 1088. See Victoria County History, Hertfordshire, vol III, p 503, on Hertford Castle and the move of the law courts there in 1563, 1582 and 1592 to avoid the plague.

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