36.     George Oliver / John Norden                                               1850 (1617)

 


John Norden (1548-1625), surveyor and topographer, produced the first complete series of county histories and invented the triangular distance table (Intended Guyde for English Travailers in 1625). In 1600 he was appointed to survey the crown´s forests in Devon (and other counties) and surveyed those areas c.1608. As surveyor of the King´s castles (appointed 1612) Norden surveyed Exeter castle in 1615 or 1617 (when James I made over the manorial rights of the Duchy of Lancaster and Cornwall to his ‘dearly beloved Charles’). The survey was presumably drawn to settle the actual castle boundaries, and made under the instruction of Sir James Fullerton, Surveyor General. 

Title: FACSIMILE PLAN OF THE CASTLE PRECINCT, EXETER and below MADE BY NORDEN IN 1617, AND ATTACHED TO HIS SURVEY. ADDL MSS BRITISH MUSEUM No. 6027.

Size: nominally 170 x 205 mm. There is no scale.

Signatures: P. H. De la Motte, del. (bottom left) and J. H. le Keux, sc. (bottom right). 

Plain sketch of castle area with the border broken at the top for a small triangular piece of the Castle Hill. Letters A – K as references but which are not explained on the map sheet.

This plan was included by Oliver in two of his writings: it appeared first in The Archaeological Journal of June 1850 (see above, illustrated opposite); and it was reissued with the reference key (see opposite) in his History of Exeter of 1861 with letter L added, signatures replaced by that of Geo. G. Palmer, Lith, Exeter and everything in title after date deleted. The plan was also copied for W M Bounsall’s Exmouth and its Neighbourhood (1868, illustrated below) with small variations. Bounsall’s plan has title John Norden’s Plan of Exceter Castle and Parte of the Citie of Exceter 1617 (upper case) and is signed by Day & Son (Limited) Lith.

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