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item:- Carlisle Library : Map
137
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Map, uncoloured engraving, Generall Mapp of the Countie
of Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Richard
Blome, 1672, probably engraved by Richard Palmer, published,
London, 1673.
The map has a dedication to and the coat of arms of Charles
Howard, Earl of Carlisle.
Published in 'Britannia: or, A Geographical Description of
the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, ...', 1673.
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Blome 1673
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map feature:-
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labelled borders & drape cartouche & up is N &
scale line & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers
& lakes & relief & hillocks & parks &
county & settlements
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inscription:-
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printed title cartouche, upper right
A Generall Mapp of the Countie of / CUMBERLAND /
Described by Ric. Blome, / By his Matys. Especiall / Command
/ London Printed for / Richard Blome / 1672
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inscription:-
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printed cartouche, lower right
To the Rt. Honble. Charles Howard / Earle of Carlisle,
Vist. Howard of Morpeth / in Northumberland, Ld Dacres of
Gitsland / Ld Leiutenant of ye Countyes of Cumberland / &
Westmoreland, & one of ye Ld of his Mait[ ] most /
Honourable privy / Counsell [vca] / This Mapp id Humbly
dedicated by / Ric Blome
coat of arms, gules on a bend between six cross crosslets
fitchee argent on an escutcheon thereon a demi-lion rampant
pierced through the mouth with an arrow within a double
tressure flory counterflory and a difference
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inscription:-
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printed with scale line
Scale of 5 Miles
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scale line:-
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5 miles = 30.6 mm
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wxh, sheet:-
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31x33.5cm
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wxh, map:-
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248x313mm
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scale:-
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1 to 260000 ? (1 to 262965 from scale line wrongly assuming
a statute mile)
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