Edward Aglionby's Notes of the
Debatable Land, 1590, page 161
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... Copy of a Manuscript Tract addressed to Lord Burghley, illustrative of the Border Topography of Scotland, A.D. 1590; with a Platt or Map of the Borders taken in the same Year, both preserved in one of the Royal MSS. in the British Museum: Communicated by HENRY ELLIS, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary, in a Letter addressed to the Right Honourable the EARL OF ABERDEEN, K.T. President. Read 31st May 1827.British Museum, May 29th, 1827. MY LORD, AMONG the Royal Manuscripts in the British Museum is a Volume of Saxton's Maps,a published in 1579: upon the Margins of which the names of the Justices of Peace in England at that time, or soon after, are written, with occasional miscellaneous Remarks. Several manuscript Maps and Draughts of Sea-ports, Towns, &c. are added in different places of the Volume, likewise accompanied by Memoranda in the hand-writing of Lord Burghley, to whom the Volume at one time belonged. Among these latter Articles is a manuscript Map with the date of December 1590,b entitled, "A Platt of the opposite Borders of Scotland to the West Marches of England." Upon this the different Castles and Houses of strength, with the names of many of the owners, are minutely specified, and I cannot but think that a Copy of it would be valuable for the Archaeologia of the Society of Antiquaries.c At the bottom of this Map or Platt is written, "The moste of these places on the Scotish syde are tower and stone houses, with some fewe plenashed |
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a Bibl. Reg. 18 D. III.
b See the fol. 70. c See Pl. XXI. |
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