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Maps for Historians: In and Out of Context - Maps and History in South-West England. Edited by Katherine Barker and Roger J. P. Kain. Exeter Studies in History, 31. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1991. Pp. xi + 148. £9.95. - The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State. By Roger J. P. Kain and Elizabeth Baigent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Pp. xix + 423. $49.95. - Maps, Land and Society: A History with a Cartobibliography of Cambridgeshire Estate Maps, c. 1600–1836. By A. Sarah Bendall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xxiv + 404. $155.00. - Maps in Tudor England. By P. D. A. Harvey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Pp. 120. $29.95.

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R. W. Hoyle
R. W. Hoyle*
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University of Central Lancashire
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , January 1996 , pp. 127 - 133
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Copyright © North American Conference of British Studies 1996

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References

1 Lindquist, E., “The Failure of the Great Contract,” Journal of Modern History 57 (1985): 641, 645CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Hoyle, R. W., “‘Shearing the Hog’: The Reform of the Estates, c. 1598–1640,” in The Estates of the English Crown, 1558–1640, ed. Hoyle, R. W. (1992), p. 211Google Scholar.

3 Harvey, P. D. A., “Estate Surveyors and the Spread of the Scale-Map in England, 1550–1580,” Landscape History 15 (1993): 37–50CrossRefGoogle Scholar. I am grateful to Paul Harvey for sending me a copy of this in advance of publication.

4 This forms the subject of my continuing research.

5 In fairness, in “Estate Surveyors,” Harvey identifies the survey as a source needing systematic study.

6 Guy, John, The Court of Star Chamber and Its Records to the Reign of Elizabeth I (1985), p. 44Google Scholar; the plan (Public Record Office [PRO], STAC3/6/47) is a crude schematic drawing of the relationship of the parcels in contention with notes of their acreage and the parties' rival claims.

7 Bendall, S., “Interpreting Maps of the Rural Landscape: An Example from Late Sixteenth-Century Buckinghamshire,” Rural History 4 (1993): 107–21CrossRefGoogle Scholar. The maps will be discussed further in a forthcoming history of the forest by the writer and others. For a petition to Burghley asking that Christopher Saxton be commissioned by the court of Exchequer to map lands in dispute in Monk Bretton, Yorkshire, in 1590, see PRO, SP46/18, fols. 222d–223.