A Late Seventeenth-Century Plan of York

R. M. Butler

doi:10.1017/S0003581500021107

A Late Seventeenth-Century Plan of York

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R. M. Butler

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A manuscript plan of York, preserved in the city library, was made by Captain James Archer. A similar plan at Stafford, illustrating reports on York's defences by Sir Christopher Musgrave, is signed by Jacob Richards. The relationship between these plans is examined. Archer's career is traced from the State Papers and other sources, showing that he served the Duke of Ormond, made surveys in the Channel Isles, worked on Kinsale fort, and died in c. 1680. It is suggested that the plan at York was drawn in c. 1673, used by Musgrave in 1682, and copied by Richards in 1685.

Type: Research Article
Information: The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , September 1972 , pp. 320 - 329

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581500021107 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1972

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^{page 320 note 1} I am grateful to the Commissioners of the R.C.H.M. (England) for permission to include material collected during the preparation of their Inventory for the City of York. The two plans were copied for the Commission by courtesy of the Earl of Dartmouth and of York City Librarian. I am also grateful for information supplied by the Institute of Royal Engineers, Chatham, and by Stafford Record Office.

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^{page 322 note 7} Ibid., 440.

^{page 323 note 1} C.S.P.: Dom., 1673–5, p. 81.

^{page 323 note 2} T. W. J. Connolly, ‘Notitia Historica’, MS. at Institution of Royal Engineers, Chatham.

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^{page 323 note 6} Ibid., 1672–3, pp.470, 510, 549.

^{page 323 note 7} H.M.C., Dartmouth, i, 20.

^{page 323 note 8} Connolly, ‘Notitia Historica’.

^{page 323 note 9} Ibid.

^{page 324 note 1} H.M.C., 6th Rep., App., p. 731b.

^{page 324 note 2} H.M.C., Ormonde, N.S. iv, 99.

^{page 324 note 3} Ibid., 101, 135.

^{page 324 note 4} Ibid., 227; 6th Rep., App., p. 723ab.

^{page 324 note 5} H.M.C., Ormonde, N.S. iv, 176; Egmont, ii, 75.

^{page 324 note 6} H.M.C., Ormonde, N.S. iv, 260.

^{page 324 note 7} C.S.P.: Dom., 1680–1, p. 136.

^{page 324 note 8} Ibid., 1683–4, p. 393.

^{page 324 note 9} Cal. Treasury Books, 1681–5, pp. 162, 312.

^{page 324 note 10} Ibid., 1689–92, p. 1493.

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^{page 325 note 8} C.S.P.: Colonial. America and the West Indies, 1681–5, p. 516, no. 1305.

^{page 325 note 9} C.S.P.: Dom., 1678, p. 536.

^{page 325 note 10} Ibid., 1685, p. 417, no. 2090.

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^{page 327 note 18} R.C.H.M., York, ii, The Defences (1972), pp. 176–9, pls. 61–2.

^{page 328 note 1} Similar lists of stores, including most of the same items, are now in York City Archives (Acc 104 M/3). They seem to be extracts from annual returns to the Ordnance Office for 1669–71.

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