Detail View: Charting The Nation: Map of the marches between Newhal & Brunston as they go from ye foot of ye coalsyke to monksburn [1 of 1]
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Work Record ID:
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0043911
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Shelfmark:
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RHP3840
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Holding Institution:
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National Archives of Scotland
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Title:
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Map of the marches between Newhal & Brunston as they go from ye foot of ye coalsyke to monksburn
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Creator:
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Clerk, John, Sir of Penicuik
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Creator Role:
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Landowner
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Creator:
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Forbes, David of Newhall (active 1713)
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Creator Role:
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Landowner
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Date:
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1518-1713
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Description:
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This map was apparently drawn a month after the sketch map in image 00002145, which had been done by the 'sone' of Sir John Clerk, first baronet of Penicuik (d.1722), to support Sir John's claims in the dispute he was having with his neighbour, Sir David Forbes of Newhall, over the boundary lines of the two properties. This map seems to have been drawn up by 'on of [John Adam's] scolar', presumably working from the sketch map, but the extensive notation on this is written by Sir John Clerk himself. There is an 'abstract', transcribed in the original Latin, of part of the document from 1518, which records in meticulous detail the walking of the marches in that year, which supposedly settled the boundaries. Sir John emphasises the age of the document and thus of the agreed boundaries, which was legally important. There are also extensive notes relating to letters on the map, asserting that the boundary as laid down in the 1518 document, runs up 'ye Coalsyke or Coalcleugh', and not further to the north east, as asserted by 'Sr D'. Apparently Sir David had made two claims over the boundaries - 'at first Sr David cravd ye line BC to be ye march qch being refusd he cravd H.C. to be ye marches'. The second claim giving him even more Clerk land than the first, Sir John notes ' he is now craving ten times more yn he did at first if not twentie times'. The cause of the dispute is presumably the seam of coal (stated to be '6 foot thick' on two later maps) which runs across both Sir David's and Sir John's properties, and which the map in image 00002145 shows that Sir David has started to mine. If his boundary lines are accepted, he gains more of the seam. Sir John Clerk had had other disputes with neighbours as to the ownership of, or access to coal seams (see map on image 00002135). This map shows the two farms at Nine Mile Burn, 'ye kings high way' to Edinburgh, the Monksburn running into the North Esk, Newhall House, Moorfield House and its loch (now Marfield House and farm), the Kow Craig, and the vital Coalcleugh (or Coalsyke). The two later maps concerning this dispute are dated 1717, and are in images 00001750 and 00002242.
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Work Type:
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Manuscript map/plan
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Measurement:
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40.2 x 30.7cm (1' 3 13/16" x 1' 1/16")
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Material:
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Paper
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Technique:
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Pen and ink
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Subject Place:
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Brunstane
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Subject Place:
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Marfield House
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Subject Place:
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Midlothian
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Subject Place:
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Monks Burn
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Subject Place:
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Newhall
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Subject Place:
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Newhall House
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Subject Place:
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Nine Mile Burn
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Subject Place:
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North Esk
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Subject Place:
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Penicuik
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Subject Place:
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Scotland
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Subject Category:
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Boundary disputes
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Subject Category:
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Mines and mineral resources
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Reference:
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Sinclair, John, The Statistical Account of Scotland, v.10, Edinburgh, 1792, pp.419-32.
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Rights Statement:
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Courtesy of the Keeper of the Records of Scotland
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Repro File Type:
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Cropped Tiff
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Repro File Size (bytes):
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79303158
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Repro Title:
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Map of the marches between Newhal & Brunston as they go from ye foot of ye coalsyke to monksburn [1 of 1]
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Repro Display Measurement (pixels):
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7072 x 7072
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Repro ID Number:
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0043911c.tif
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Repro Old ID Number:
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00002255
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Repro Capture Date:
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16/02/2001 11:26:00
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