Petition from John Norden to Sir Henry Hobart and others for payment for surveying activities [manuscript] : autograph signed manuscript, October 1620.
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Petition from John Norden to Sir Henry Hobart and others for payment for surveying activities [manuscript] : autograph signed manuscript, October 1620.
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1 item ; 20 x 30 cm
Associated name
Norden, John, sender.
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
X.d.770
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The Charles W. Engelhard Acquisitions Fund. From dealer's description: "Autograph manuscript, signed (twice), ink on paper. Folio (approx. 20 x 30cm) [1] page penned on bifolium, signed at foot by 5 commissioners of the prince of Wales’s council, verso of second leaf with contemporary endorsements including notice of receipt 28 October 1620, a few patches of dustiness not affecting legibility of text, old folds. A scarce example of an autograph document signed by the prominent cartographer, surveyor and devotional writer John Norden (c.1547-1625) whose career spanned the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. This “petition ... for his allowance” written in Norden’s own hand serves as a bill recording his official surveying activities over 74 days between July and October 1620 in Kent (Malling), Buckinghamshire (Princes Risborough), Oxfordshire (Sutton Courtenay), Hertfordshire (Hitchin, Hertford, Great Munden) and Middlesex (Poplar & Bromley). In addition to Norden’s own signature appearing twice (secondly on his endorsement certifying receipt of payment 8 November 1620) are found five signatures of members of the prince of Wales’s council, inluding those of the prominent lawyer and judge Sir Henry Hobart (c.1554-1625) in his capacity as chancellor to the future Charles I, the judge and politician James Ley, first earl of Marlborough (1550-1629), Sir James Fullerton (c.1563-1631) and Sir Thomas Trevor (c.1573-1656) judge and solicitor-general to prince Charles." Ordered from Samuel Gedge, D 9208, 2018-05-22, catalog 26, item 66.
Folger accession
270703