The Great Offices of State and The Savoy

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The Traveller's Guide through London, Westminster, and Borough of Southwark; with their Liberties:

Exhibiting the Streets, Roads, Churches, Palaces, Public Buildings, &c., as they have been lately extended and improved, By Act of Parliament.

BOWLES, Carington
London,
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard,
31st Augt. 1770.
Engraved plan on three sheets, joined, original hand-colour in outline, trimmed to neatline with some loss to old folds skilfully repaired.
450 by 900mm (17.75 by 35.5 inches).
1480

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The plan has numerous tables, which contain information on the Great Offices of State, such as the master of the horse and the Board of Green Cloth; the Chief Magistrates of Westminster; and most interestingly the Parishes in Surrey and Middlesex which were in and outside the boundaries of the Bills of Mortality. The Bills of Mortality were set up at the end of the sixteenth century, in response to an outbreak of the plague. They initially recorded the number of deaths upon...

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