This very rare map was first advertised in the Term Catalogues for Trinity Term 1685, published in June. It is not referred to in his 1685 catalogue, but is in that of 1687. It is in two halves, the lower is a detailed map of the island naming all the plantation owners. It bears an inset lower left entitled ‘A New Draught of PORT ROYAL’ by Anthony Williams. The top half is of the region around Jamaica and takes in the Gulf of Mexico and the southeastern portion of North America. A large B. Sp of Santo represents the mouth of the Mississippi River, Florida bears a similarly named river on the west coast, and S Augustine on the eastern shore. At the top of the map Carolina is depicted with the ports of Charles Towne and Port Royall noted. An inset top right entitled ‘THE ENGLISH EMPIRE’ extends the coverage northwards through New England. This map provides an accurate synopsis of the ‘Empire’ as it stood in the mid 1680s. The new colony of Pennsylvania is illustrated and its capital, the quaintly named Philidolphia. The four vessels plying the waters offshore indicate the level of trading activity. There was one unusual publication from this plate. In 1694 Thornton, Morden and Lea collaborated on the extremely rare ‘Hydrographia Gallia’, a small book of pocket maps of the coasts of France. Lea followed this on his own with the ‘Hydrographia Universalis’, c.1696. This was a little work of the harbours and coasts of the world although with a strong emphasis on England and France. Lea masked this plate to print the little inset of the English Empire and include it in the work. Only four examples have been located: British Library, National Maritime Museum and two at the Library of Congress. Philip Lea published a second very similar map of Jamaica most probably in the late 1690s. This is only slightly different in the lower half, but the top half is replaced with little maps of the main islands in the West Indies. A running title across the top states ‘THE PRINCIPALL ISLANDS IN AMERICA BELONGING TO THE ENGLISH EMPIRE VIZ JAMAICA’ … Burden 608 st. 2; Kapp (1968) item 31; Pritchard & Taliaferro (2002) p. 371 no. 74.