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1603Sir Walter Raleigh's notes
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1604First English dictionary
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1605Letter about Guy Fawkes
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1605Gunpowder Plot conspirators
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1608Shakespeare's King Lear
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1610The Globe Theatre
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1611King James Bible
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1617Surgeons' tools
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1623Chinese globe
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1623Shakespeare's First Folio
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1636Lotus Sutra
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1640Witch hunting
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1643English Civil War scenes
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1644Agreement of the People
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1649Execution of Charles I
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1649Charles I's executioner
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1650Early A - Z of London
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1650Advert for a quack doctor
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1660Oliver Cromwell as the Devil
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1665A cure for the Plague
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1665Robert Hooke, Micrographia
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1666Great Fire of London map
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1666Great Fire of London
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1666Wren's plans after the fire
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1669Theatrical figures
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1674Games and pastimes
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1679Habeas Corpus Act
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1679Map of the moon
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1684A London Rhinoceros
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1685Henry Purcell
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1690Locke's Two Treatises
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1693East India Company
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1693Account of a shipwreck
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1698Map of South America
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Intro
The information provided by maps can be amazingly powerful. In 1680 the captain of the Spanish ship the Rosario, threw his valuable collection of maps into the sea. You may ask why any sane sea captain would do such a thing?
The Captain’s maps showed the Pacific coast of Central and Southern America, and included details previously unknown to the English. The Rosario had been captured by an English ship, and the Captain believed it was better to destroy the maps than to allow the English to obtain such valuable information. But the English managed to recover the maps, and to return them safely to London. This map of the west coast of South America is by William Hack. It is one of a series of maps copied from those saved by the English ship.
Shelfmark: Maps 7.Tab.122(1)
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