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Alexander Charles (fl.1671-1678), Sketches & notes (on 19 pp) written in the back of Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, 1624. f. 18 EDINBURGH :Canon Mills, Elevation showing machinery. Insc: The order of the canno/mills near Edinburgh John Dunbar supplies the information that Alexander Charles, wright, burgess of Aberdeen, worked at Fetteresso Castle, Kincardineshire in 1671-2. He seems to have been acting as overseer to the new house of Fetteresso
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ADD3 f. 18
Purpose
Alexander Charles (fl.1671-1678), Sketches & notes (on 19 pp) written in the back of Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, 1624. f. 18 EDINBURGH :Canon Mills, Elevation showing machinery. Insc: The order of the canno/mills near Edinburgh John Dunbar supplies the information that Alexander Charles, wright, burgess of Aberdeen, worked at Fetteresso Castle, Kincardineshire in 1671-2. He seems to have been acting as overseer to the new house of Fetteresso
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Elevation showing machinery
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Insc: The order of the canno/mills near edinbrugh
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Drawing
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