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Revision as of 09:58, 26 August 2016
A facsimile of this item was featured in a temporary display in the Founders' Room during the installation of Age of Lawyers, one of the Exhibitions at the Folger.
More information about this manuscript and others from this collection can be found in the Guide to the Bagot Family Papers.
Item Label
The item label was written by Caroline Duroselle-Melish, the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Early Modern Books and Prints at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Sketch Map, Derbyshire
Ca. 1550
Facsimile of L.e.144
This pen and ink sketch map was likely drawn in the 1550's as part of two lawsuits involving Sir Humphrey Bradbourne (b.1513-d.1581) over the use of a brook in Derbyshire. Both of these lawsuits arose from repeated altercations between several generations of the Bradbourne and Beresforde families over propriety rights to water usage from the watercourse represented in the map.
Bradbourne asserted that he held exclusive
Bradbourne The draftsman of the map depicted the brook in question with a wider inked line running lengthwise along two