John Darby's Map of the Parish of Smallburgh in Norfolk, 1582

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Peter Barber is head of Map Collections, British Library.

Sarah Bendall, ed., Dictionary of Land Surveyors and Local Map‐Makers, 2nd ed. (London, British Library, 1997), Entry D 035.7, with additional manuscript notes by Peter Eden in Dictionary archive owned by British Library but with Sarah Bendall, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Holkham Hall Estate records 87a (photograph British Library 188.n.1 (10)).

R. A. Skelton and P. D. A. Harvey, eds., Local Maps and Plans from Medieval England (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986).

William Folkingham, Feudographia—The Synopsis or Epitome of Surveying Methodized (London, Richard Moore, 1610), 56–58.

H. A. Doubleday and Lord Howard de Walden, eds, The Complete Peerage or History of the House of Lords and All Its Members from the Earliest Times by G.E.C. (London, St Catherine Press, 1910–1940), 9: 225–26.

Lord Morley also had estates in Buckingham, Herefordshire and Hertfordshire and a house in London.

William Leybourne, The Compleat Surveyor (London, E. Brewster and G. Sawbridge, 1653), 274–75

Quoted from his Preparative in A. Stuart Mason, ‘A measure of Essex cartography’, in Essex ‘full of profitable things’, ed. K. Neale (London, Leopards' Head Press, 1996), 260.

Mark Pierce's map of Laxton (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS C 17.48 (9a)), was made for the wealthy London merchant William Courteen. See Catherine Delano‐Smith and Roger J. P. Kain, English Maps: A History (London: British Library, 1999), 122 and Plate 8 (detail); Charles Stewart Orwin and Christabel Susan Orwin, The Open Fields (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1935).

I am most grateful to Vic Gray, the former Essex County Archivist, for this observation. For the maps of lands in Falkenham and Pettistree, Suffolk (1591), of Aldeburgh (1594)—now in Aldeburgh Moot Hall—and an undated map of Blakeney Harbour, Norfolk, see the Dictionary notes by Peter Eden (note 1 ).

Doubleday and Howard de Walden, Complete Peerage (see note 5 ), 225–26. For the letter to his wife of 22 October 1570, see Calendar of State Papers Domestic, 1547–1580, 395.

Doubleday and Howard de Walden, Complete Peerage (see note 5 ), 226–27.

Peter Eden's Dictionary archive notes (see note 1 ).

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