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Lot 148

SUFFOLK – ST BARTHOLOMEW'S PRIORY
"A Description of St Bartholomews Priory, w.th the Lands belonging thereunto, lyeing neare Sudbury in the County of Suffolk", Sudbury, 1656

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SUFFOLK – ST BARTHOLOMEW'S PRIORY

"A Description of St Bartholomews Priory, w.th the Lands belonging thereunto, lyeing neare Sudbury in the County of Suffolk, containing 150 Acres, I, Rood, 33 Perches, herein particularly Described in the Year of Our Lord God 1656. By John Coffyn", showing the priory and its outbuildings (including, presumably, the chapel and barn), with ornamental compass rose at the top right-hand and at the foot ornamental dividers and rule showing "The Scale of Perches", on one skin of vellum, the surveyor's legend printed on paper and pasted on, the borders and ornaments heightened in red, blue, yellow and green wash or ink, sepia borders, overall dust-staining, open tear near the legend, others at edges, some minor staining, 650 x 840mm., Sudbury, 1656

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St Bartholomew's Priory outside Sudbury in Suffolk was a cell of Westminster Abbey; and was founded during the reign of Henry I as a house for Benedictine monks. For another map by John Coffyn, dated 1699, of land in Essex, see the Highlights of the Bodleian Library's Map Collection (August 2012), (MS) C17:28 (39); another example (with Theophilus Byrd), dated 1654, is held by the Essex Record Office (D/DWv P2).

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