7.       Richard Izacke                                                                                                        1677

 

Richard Izacke was appointed Chamberlain of Exeter in 1653, like Hooker before him. His main work, Antiquities Of The City Of Exeter with a history of Exeter and a list of its most important official representatives was Collected by Richard Izacke, Esquire Chamberlain thereof and published in London by Richard Marriott with the Imprimatur of G Jane and dated October 20, 1676, although it wasn’t issued until 1677. Both this first edition^[1], and the second edition^[2] which appeared in 1681, contained a map of Exeter copied fairly closely from Speed’s (inset) map of 1610. Although very similar to Speed’s, with the same references (1 to 50 on map; only 1 to 48 in table Figures of Reference), it is somewhat wider and shows further buildings both east and west. As on Speed’s map item 32, St. Georges Church, is incorrectly labelled as St. Gregories.

Who drew and engraved the map is not known. The work was reissued in an extended and revised version, by the then Chamberlain, Samuel Izacke, in 1724, complete with a new map (see Sutton Nicholls). 

Title: A MAPP OF the CITY of EXETER

Size: 160 x 193 mm with no scale or signature. 

Map from the Antiquities of the City of Exeter.… 1677. Almost a direct copy of Speed’s 1610 map complete with numbered references it covers slightly more land, but without the detail of Hogenberg.

Considering the fact that Izacke was a local personage the map is, in many respects, disappointing. The Haven is shown with a false island, and there is a wind mill in mistake for the crane at the quayside. In nearly seventy years since Speed's plan there has been no development.

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^[1] Printed by E Tyler and R Holt for Richard Marriott.

^[2] Printed for Rowland Reynolds, next to the Middle Exchange, in the Strand, 1681.

 9.       Sutton Nicholls                                                                                 1723

 

Samuel Izacke was appointed Chamberlain in 1693, an office he kept for some 36 years. He, like Hooker and his father before him, carefully catalogued and recorded important Exeter events and in the process updated his father’s book, The Remarkable Antiquities of the City of Exeter (see 7). This appeared as The Second Edition: Now .... continued to the year 1723, by Samuel Izacke Esq., the present Chamberlain.^[1] The map, engraved by Sutton Nicholls (fl. 1680-1740), remained the same in subsequent editions.^[2]  

Title:  A True Plan of the City of EXCESTER Drawn & Ingraven by Sutton Nicholls

Size: 254 x 162 mm with A Scale of 1000 Feet (= 54mm). Signature in title. 

A faithful and well-executed, though smaller, copy of Fairlove covering the same area but retaining most of the former’s features: the scale bar is drawn vertically; serge racks proliferate; no attempt is made to show individual houses; only churches and Bishop’s Palace are drawn as views; and the important buildings are either titled or numbered but although the Guild Hall is highlighted he has forgotten to number it and add it to the key. Additions are the pecked lines to show the extent of the parishes and the inclusion of the Blue Maid’s Hospital of 1708 (previously only Maid’s Hospital). Nicholls has the spellings Bunnye and Paree Street and shows a different course to Genny Street and Milk Street. The title is in a simple ellipse.

The plan was reproduced in slightly reduced size in Freeman's History of Exeter, 1887 (see also 53 and 54).

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^[1] This edition was printed for Edward Score, John March and Nathaniel Thorne who were booksellers in Exeter, and for Samuel Birt in Ave-Marie-Lane, London. MDCCXXIII.

^[2] The 1724 edition omits Thorne’s name and the date. Editions for 1731 & 1734 have a reset title page dated 1724 and added plates of the Guild-Hall and the Conduit. The third edition, printed for the author and sold by Score and Birt, 1741, reverts to the 1723 title page except for Printed for Richard Izacke, son of the Author 1741. A 1757 edition has a reset title page but worded as 1723 except for the date MDCCLVII. A slightly reduced copy titled Exeter in the Seventeenth Century appeared in Freeman’s Exeter 1887, (see entry 53).