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'A Copie of a Design for the Rebuilding the City of London done the 11th of September 1666' [and] ‘Londinium Redivium or London Restored’ By John Evelyn'. Fols. 147r-153v.

Reference code
SAL/10/09/49
Title
'A Copie of a Design for the Rebuilding the City of London done the 11th of September 1666' [and] ‘Londinium Redivium or London Restored’ By John Evelyn'. Fols. 147r-153v.
Date
11 September 1666
7-21 June 1744
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Read 7, 14, 21 June 1744: Minute Book IV, fols. 198-9 (SAL/02/004/210-212). Also transcribed in ‘Register of Antiquitys’, pp.263-77 (SAL/10/10/046, which includes the original drawing by Evelyn).
A copy of Evelyn's plan, made by Joseph Ames, 1744, with a transcript of Evelyn's commentary. John Nickolls brought the original plan to the meeting of the Society on 14 June 1744; Sir John Evelyn, grandson of John Evelyn, brought other drawings or plans and a longer account by Evelyn of the project to the meetings of 7 and 21 June 1744.
Creator
Evelyn, John (1620-1706), diarist and author
Ames, Joseph (1689-1759), bibliographer and antiquary
Evelyn, John (1682-1763), 1st Baronet of Wotton, politician and antiquary