The islands of Garnsey and Jersey by Tho. Phillips an. 1680

Bound sheet. Col. ms. Medium: Laid on linen. Physical description Note: Damaged by sea water. Scale: [ca. 1:10 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 310 degrees. Rhumb lines. Scale in English miles. Additional Places: Channel Islands. Contents Note: Compass rose with sixteen directions labelled. Decorated with ships.

Administrative / biographical background
From the bound manuscript report of the survey of the defences of the Channel Islands carried out under the direction of George Legge, Lt. General of Ordnance and later Baron Dartmouth. The volume was said to have been with Legge in the 'Gloucester' frigate when she was wrecked off Cromer and to have been found by a fisherman on the coast.

Record Details

Item reference: P/48(73); MS 9970
Level: PART
Extent: Drawing area 50.5 x 72.5, on sheet same size
Date made: 1680
Creator: Phillips, Thomas
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London