An Accurate map of Cambridgeshire divided into its hundreds [map] : drawn from surveys, assisted by the most approved modern maps, with variety of improvements illustrated with historical extracts relative to the soil, air, natural produce, manufactures, trade, present state of its principal towns, and a view of the city of Ely / by Eman. Bowen, geographer to His Majesty.

Record ID: 
292971
Accession number: 
MA 665.17
Author: 
Bowen, Emanuel, 1693 or 1694-1767, cartographer.
Published: 
London : printed for J[oh]n Bowles in Cornhill R. Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street, Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, [1727 or later].
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description: 
1 map : col. ; 70 x 51.8 cm
Notes: 

Dedicated at lower right corner "To the Right Hon[era]ble Henry Clinton Earl of Lincoln, Lord Lieutenant & Custos Rotulorum for the County of Cambridge, Gentleman of the King's Bedchamber and Auditor of the Exchequer: This map is humbly Dedicated by His Lordship's most Obed[ien]t Serv[an]t Eman. Bowen."
With red dots painted at 12 sites (matching locations mentioned in the penances of MA 665.1-14, and Cambridge).
Map has been cut into four quarters and mounted onto four subsequent pages in the volume.
Dating: A list of the Earls of Cambridge (printed in the upper center of the map) ends with "1706 George Electoral Prince of Hanover made Duke of Cambridge by Patent, afterwards King George IId." George II succeeded to the throne in 1727.
Part of a collection of 14 penances enjoined upon members of Protestant congregations in the diocese of Ely (MA 665-1-14); 5 maps of Cambridgeshire (MA 665.15-19); and 1 leaf on Ely from Philemon Holland's English translation of William Camden's Britain (MA 665.20). Items are cataloged individually in 20 records.

Summary: 

Showing county boundaries (hand colored with gold, pink or green wash), rivers, parks and settlements. Relief shown pictorially. With a view of men trapping fish in the lower left and a view of the city of Ely in the upper right.

Provenance: 
Purchased by J.W. Ford of Enfield Old Park at a public auction; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1910.
Classification: