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Armitt Library : ALMC2008.14.97
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Table of distances, uncoloured engraving, Westmerland ie Westmorland, with a thumbnail map, scale about 42 miles to 1 inch, by Mathew Simons, published in A Direction for the English Traviller, 1635.
The county map is in the bottom right part of the page, below and beside the triangular distance table.
   Simons 1635
map feature:- up is N & scale line & rivers & settlements & county
scale line:- 10 miles = 6.0 mm
inscription:- printed top left of table
Westmer / land
wxh, sheet:- 14.5x143cm
wxh, plate:- 103x104mm
wxh, map:- 25x26mm (approx)
scale:- 1 to 2700000 ? (1 to 2682240 from scale line wrongly assuming statute mile)