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.
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