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Map The Province of Ulster Surveyed by Sir William Petty. The Province of Ulster Surveyed by Sir William Petty. Divided into its counties and the counties into their severall barronies, wherein are distinguished the archbishopricks, bishopricks, citys, places that return parliament men, also the roads and bridges

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Title

  • The Province of Ulster Surveyed by Sir William Petty.

Other Title

  • The Province of Ulster Surveyed by Sir William Petty. Divided into its counties and the counties into their severall barronies, wherein are distinguished the archbishopricks, bishopricks, citys, places that return parliament men, also the roads and bridges

Summary

  • This map of Ulster (present-day Northern Ireland), published in London in 1689, is based on the Down Survey of Ireland undertaken in 1656--58. As indicated in the subtitle, the map shows the counties and baronies of the province, archbishoprics, cities, roads and bridges, and the distribution of seats in parliament. Relief is shown pictorially. The map has two distance scales, Irish miles and English miles. The Down Survey was the first detailed land survey on a national scale anywhere in the world. Its purpose was to measure lands which, following the calamitous English Civil War, much of which was fought on Irish soil, were to be taken from Irish Catholic landowners and given to English Protestants, many of whom were soldiers who had fought in the war under Oliver Cromwell (1599--1658). The survey was led by Sir William Petty (1623--87), a surgeon-general in the English army. The son of a poor weaver in Hampshire, Petty worked as a cabin boy, hawker, seaman, and clothier, before rising to become a physician, professor of anatomy at Oxford, professor of music in London, inventor, landowner, and Member of Parliament. He wrote several books, including A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions (1662), Political Survey or Anatomy of Ireland (1672), and Five Essays in Political Arithmetick (1687), in which, drawing in part on his work with the land survey, he arrived at profoundly original conclusions about labor, employment, wages, rents, the price of land, and money. For these insights he was called, by Karl Marx and others, the "father of political economy." By gathering detailed statistics on prices, production, and other economic variables, Petty also pioneered the use of empiricism in economics. Because all of its results were "set down" in maps, Petty referred to the survey of Ireland as the Down Survey.

Names

  • Berry, William, 1639-1718 Creator.
  • Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687 Contributor.

Created / Published

  • London : [publisher not identified], 1689.

Headings

  • -  Ireland
  • -  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland--Northern Ireland
  • -  1689
  • -  Administrative and political divisions
  • -  Islands

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Scale 1:500,000"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 map : black-and-white ; 40 x 55 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.
  • -  Content in English.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021668671

Online Format

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Chicago citation style:

Berry, William, Creator, and William Petty. The Province of Ulster Surveyed by Sir William Petty. [London: Publisher Not Identified, 1689] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668671/.

APA citation style:

Berry, W. & Petty, W. (1689) The Province of Ulster Surveyed by Sir William Petty. [London: Publisher Not Identified] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668671/.

MLA citation style:

Berry, William, Creator, and William Petty. The Province of Ulster Surveyed by Sir William Petty. [London: Publisher Not Identified, 1689] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021668671/>.