Title: None but shows the planned new roads
and a
plan of the city of Exeter.
Size:
386 x 295 mm with a Scale of Chains (1+15 = 65 mm).
Imprint: HACKETT, LITHOG: EXETER.
A slightly better plan showing proposed Barnfield Road to join the London Road at Summerland Place (now forming) and the New North Devon Road (from St. David's Hill to Longbrook Street).
Herbert Edward Reynolds, a local historian and
author of a short history of the diocese, edited a number of items from the
Cathedral Archives including some plans and writings by John Hooker and brought them to the
attention of a wider public in his An
Original Manuscript Of John Hooker, Chamberlain Of The City Of Exeter 1555. This was published in
1892 and included illustrations of two of John Hooker’s manuscript plans made
300 years earlier.[1] Reynolds’ book included a Preface from Hooker’s ‘Great History of Exeter’ – now in the
Guild Hall of the same City Written by his own hand, and never before printed
– and included descriptive notes and an introduction. Hence, although John
Hooker’s original manuscript plan was executed in 1590 it was not until 1892
that the plan of St. Sidwell´s (below) or the Churchyard (next entry) were
first printed.
Though there is no
actual title to the plan described below there is text written within a
rectangle which describes the limits of the Fee ‘And so forth by the middle of ye same waye to a lile water
there called Shyttebrooke, And downe by ye midle of the same brooke unto ye
Southe ende & corner of a garden of ye sayde Prior of St. Johns adioynante
yto the same brooke wch garden lyeth in the West Syde of the same brooke and
within the soyle Fee & ground afore sayde. And so from ye same South ende
& corner by and by dytch of ye same garden into a pathe westewardes lyinge
betwene ye landes called St Johns
feeldes on ye one partie, and ye Soyle Fee & ground aforesayde on
the other partie. And so forthe in the same pathe westewardes unto a close of
William menardes. And so by ye midle of
ye same close over the close sometimes of Roger Golde in y southe partie and ye
barne of ye sayde Thomas Bernes ats Renolde in ye north partye And so out into
the high waye called Croldich waye, And so forth by ye midle of ye same waye
Northwards betwene ye garden and tenement of John at Forde in the west parte
into ye high waye cominge from Exeter to St Annes Chappell &c.’
Title: No title but shows the area of St. Sidwell’s
Fee
Size: 260 x 285 mm. A compass (top) but no scale.
The plan shows the
Fee of St. Sidwell, part of the castle and the city walls from the east gate
round to the south gate. Features of note include the Guildhall[2] at the corner of
Paris Street; the doorway through the wall into the close; the Alms houses;
three county stones; and St. Karlet’s Cross.
In 1911 William
Pollard published An Account of the
sieges of Exeter by John Hoker – transcribed by William J Harte. This work
contained other plans executed by Hooker usually with his imprint: William Pollard & Co. Ltd. Lithographers,
Exeter & London.
[1] The
original drawing and that of the churchyard are part of the collection of Hooker
manuscripts formerly held by the Dean and Chapter as D&C.Ex.3530 f.37 and
D&C 3530 f.59-60. They are now lodged at the Devon Record Office. Both maps
are listed in a Table of Contents to Hooker's history (ECA Book 52) but the
maps have no titles: Platt of St Sidwells
Fee; and A Platte of the Churchyarde.
[2] The
courts of the Lords of the Fee were held in this guildhall.
The second plate
included in Reynolds’ work. For source, see previous entry.
Title: No title but sketch plan of the Churchyard
Size: 228 x 290 mm but there is
no scale.
The Printed Maps of Exeter 1587 - 1901 300 Years of Exeter History by Francis Bennett and Kit Batten with an Introduction by Dick Passmore...
