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Maps, Westmoreland, scale about 7 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland? by R W Seale, 1761.
The Westmorland map has the coat of arms of Appleby.
Published in 'The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure: Containing ... And Other Arts and Sciences; Which may render it Instructive and Entertaining To Gentry, Merchants, Farmers, and Tradesmen. ... Published Monthly according to Act of Parliament, By John Hinton, at the King's Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London.' 1761.
Maps in the magazine, included in issues from 1747-66, were drawn by Bowen, Seale and Kitchin.
(map example JandMN (12))
map feature:- title cartouche & baroque cartouche & coat of arms & compass rose & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales & table of symbols & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & woods & relief & hillocks & county & wards (hundreds) & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed title cartouche, right below centre
WESTMORELAND, / Drawn from an actual / SURVEY / By R. W. Seale. / Universal Mag. J. Hinton, Newgate Street.
inscription:- printed upper left
ARMS of APPLEBY.
coat of arms
scale line:- 10 miles = 35.6 mm
scale:- 1 to 450000 ? (1 to 452063 from scale line)
wxh, sheet:- 24.5x21cm
wxh, plate:- 224x182mm
wxh, map:- 212x172mm
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references:- : 1761: Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure: Hinton, John (London)

sources:- Chubb 1927 (CLXXXVIII)
Hodson 1984
JandMN Collection
Armitt Library
Wordsworth Trust Collection
Carlisle Library Maps
Kendal Library Maps

items seen (illustrated items in bold):-
   Armitt Library : ALMC2008.14.29 -- map -- Westmoreland
   Carlisle Library : Map 59 -- map -- Westmoreland
   Dove Cottage : 2007.38.113 -- map -- Westmoreland
   JandMN (12) -- map -- Westmoreland
   Kendal Library : Map 26 -- map -- Westmoreland
   Kendal Library : Map 27 -- map -- Westmoreland
   Kendal Library : Map 28 -- map -- Westmoreland
   private collection (174) -- map -- North Riding of York Shire