Scale
1/24 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
as above, labelled Coxs Court, Cross Keys Court, Trinity Court, Great Montague Court, Little Montague Court, Westmorland Buildings, Albions Bds, Garden (twice), plots numbered 1-33 and dimensions given
Signed and dated
Medium and dimensions
Pen, brown ink, gamboge, sepia, violet and pink washes, pricked for transfer on laid paper (685 x 480)
Hand
John Manning (surveyor)
Watermark
J Whatman and fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and W below
Notes
Colour wash outlines may indicate the length of leases: for example, the small regular properties of Cross Keys Court are marked in pink and those facing St Bartholomew's Close are shown in yellow. Manning has noted of the owners of two plots Cannot Learn / their Names. The list of Ground Landlords given by Manning includes Christ Hospital with two plots on the east side from Trinity Court to Aldersgate Street. A map of 1684 in the Guildhall Library (Prints & Maps Department, from the collection of Christ's Hospital, Record: 21482) inscribed 'Planographic or ground plat [plan], of severall messuages or tenements & yards & back-sides in Little Britain, and in a court there called or know by the name of Pilkington Place in the parish of St Botolph Aldersgate ...' gives to Christ's Hospital the ownership of an area that corresponds to the southern part of Manning's survey, so that a hundred years later this had been reduced. In fact, Pilkington Place was bought by St Bartholomew's Hospital in the 17th century. Other landlords include Merchant Taylors Company, Revd Mr Edwards - Glebe, Aldersgate Parish and Was Chandlers Co.
Level
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