button to main menu Unknown 1560s-90s

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Map, lithograph, reproduction of Cotton MS Aug. vol.1.12, Civitas Carliolen, the City of Carlisle, Cumberland, time of Elizabeth I, published by Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, and Elliot Stock, London, 1894.
The sketch map shows a breach in the bank of the River Eden flooding through The Sands to join the Priest Beck - 'the breach neces for ye to be repared'. pointed out by a hand.
Reproduced from a copy used for a trial between the Corporation of Carlisle and the Duke of Devonshire about land rights, late 19th century.
Tipped in oppposite p.100 of The Royal Charters of the City of Carlisle, edited by R S Ferguson.
   Unknown 1560s-90s
map feature:- folded (3x3) & banner cartouche & labelled borders & up is SW (roughly) & rivers & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed cartouche over the city, at the top
Civitas Carliolen
wxh, sheet:- 36x30.5cm
wxh, map:- 345x281mm