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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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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.