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XII. Copy of a Manuscript Tract addressed to Lord Burghley, illustrative of the Border Topography of Scotland, A.D. 1590; with a Platt or Map of the Borders taken in the same Year, both preserved in one of the Royal MSS. in the British Museum: Communicated by Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary, in a Letter addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, K.T. President

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Among the Royal Manuscripts in the British Museum is a Volume of Saxton's Maps, published in 1579: upon the Margins of which the names of the Justices of Peace in England at that time, or soon after, are written, with occasional miscellaneous Remarks. Several manuscript Maps and Draughts of Sea-ports, Towns, &c. are added in different places of the Volume, likewise accompanied by Memoranda in the hand-writing of Lord Burghley, to whom the Volume at one time belonged.

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Archaeologia , Volume 22 , 1829 , pp. 161 - 171
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1826

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page 161 note a Bibl. Reg. 18 D.III.

page 161 note b Seethe fol.70.

page 161 note c See Pl. XXI.