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Nicholas Lane was an English surveyor and cartographer, active in the early part of the seventeenth century, rising to prominence in his works for King Charles I. Lane's early work included a plan of Oxdownes, Cobham, Surrey dated 1618, a copy of which is held in the Surrey History Centre.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Surrey History Centre Archives Index: Zs/126/1 )〕 In the 1620s he mapped land at Chessington belonging to Merton College, Oxford.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=HER 4263 – Park Pale )〕 The area was the subject of a long running manor boundary dispute between the College's land and Royal land of Nonsuch Great Park the part of which that subsequently became known as Worcester Park. Lane's map of 1627 documents the final resolution of the dispute, a decision subsequently re-confirmed by Charles I in 1633. Charles I commissioned Lane to map the proposed site of his new hunting park at Richmond. This pre-enclosure map of Richmond Park, surveyed in 1632 but completed in 1637/8, depicts the mixture of common land and private holdings and the route of the projected wall to surround the new park. Annotations on the map are believed to be in the hand of Charles I.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Surrey: Richmond. Map of Richmond Common, Petersham Common and Mortlake Common, with parts of Roehampton, Kingston, Wimbledon and Combe, showing the extent of the 'New Park' Charles I subsequently commissioned Lane for the design of the Longford River in 1638–39.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History and Architecture )〕 Lane's noble clients included Francis Browne, 3rd Viscount Montagu, who, in 1635, commissioned Lane to survey his holdings at Cowdray, Easebourne Priory and Verdley.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=EASEBOURNE COWDRAY/1627 1635/6 )〕 In 1637 Lane produced several maps of areas of fenland including Great Common Fen at Wisbech, others between Crowland and Eye and a sketch map of Laddus Fen near Upwell.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cambridgeshire: Wisbech. Map of Great Common Fen and its surroundings, showing drains and dikes )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cambridgeshire; Lincolnshire; Northamptonshire. Map of the Fens in an area between Crowland and Eye )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sketch map of part of Laddus Fen, showing Elm Leame )〕 He also surveyed fens around Ramsey belonging to Oliver Cromwell.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sketch map showing 'Wigging Moore', 'Wigging: Sir Oliver Cromell's', 'Abbotts Pingle' and common belonging to Ramsey. )〕 Lane's surviving work provides a valuable resource for historians. For example, Lane's 1636 plan of Putney, combined with the 1665 hearth tax list provided a key source required to reconstruct a detailed view of life in the London suburb in the late seventeenth century. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nicholas Lane (cartographer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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