This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...provinces, Eichard Blome's and Strafford's, before alluded to. In the State Papers (temp. Henry VIII.) there are three Irish maps, for the first time printed from old MSS. maps. The first of these is a map of Munster, the date of which is only shown by its being noted in Lord Burleigh's hand. The second is a map of all ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...provinces, Eichard Blome's and Strafford's, before alluded to. In the State Papers (temp. Henry VIII.) there are three Irish maps, for the first time printed from old MSS. maps. The first of these is a map of Munster, the date of which is only shown by its being noted in Lord Burleigh's hand. The second is a map of all Ireland, made by John Goghe in 1557; and the third is also a map of Ireland, made by John Morden, for the Earl of Salisbury, in 1609-All these contain clan names; one of them has the arms of the principal families, and they all, besides written names, contain topographical maps of much antiquarian value. In the Pacata Hibernia, edited by Stafford in 1633, there are maps of Ireland, of Munster, and fifteen plans of different places in Munster, roughly engraved, but usefully drawn as picturemups or panoramas--the best s.tyle for small plfns at least, and lately revived on the continent in the panoramas of Switzerland, the Rhine, &c. Danville contains a map of ancient Ireland, and he and Beaufort, and many others published, made up maps of Ireland in the middle ages. Ware, too, in his antiquities, prints a map of ancient Ireland, made from Ptolemy, Camden, and in one place from Orosius. "We now come to the celebrated Down Survey. It was executed by Sir William Petty, Physician General, under a commission, dated 11th Dacember, 1654, at the payment of 20. a-day and Id. an acre. Petty got a lot of Cromwellian soldiers into training in two months, and then surveyed all the forfeited lands. These soldiers used the chain and circumferentor, and their measurements were sent to Dublin, and there plotted or laid down on paper, whence the work is called The Down Survey. This Survey contained both barony and parish maps of two-thirds of Ireland; t...
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