Richard Newcourt (cartographer)

He was the second son of Philip Newcourt of Tiverton, Devon, and his wife Mary (née Tucker).

[1] In 1633 he is recorded as having been granted admonition of the will of Sir Edward Hext, his father's half-brother, and in 1657 he received permission to act in the same capacity for Hext's daughter Elizabeth, the widow of Sir John Stawell of Cothelstone, Somerset.

[1] In November 1652, Parliament resolved that Newcourt's name should be inserted into the "Additional Bill for Sale of several Lands and Estates forfeited to the Commonwealth for Treason.

Although drawn as a "view map," it offers little information about individual buildings, the representations being largely conventional.

A wharf, 60 yards wide would have run along the river, lined by an unbroken row of buildings raised on arches.