Speed 1611
|
|
|
|
item:- Armitt Library : A6632.3 image:- © see bottom of page |
click to enlarge |
|
|
Map, uncoloured engraving, The Kingdome of England, scale
roughly 22 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed engraved by
Abraham Goos, Amsterdam, Netherlands, based on Christopher
Saxton 1579, published by Thomas Bassett, The George, Fleet
Street, and Richard Chiswell, The Rose and Crown, St Paul's
Churchyard, London, 1676.
The reverse of the map is pp.5 and 6; text in English. Included in The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain by John Speed. |
||
|
Speed 1611 | |
| map feature:- | scroll cartouche & swash lettering & table of data (county statistics) & vignettes (costume figures) & coat of arms, royal & labelled borders & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (trapezoidal or conical projection) & sea moire effect & galleons & sea monsters & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & county & settlements | |
| inscription:- |
printed scroll cartouche, upper middle
THE KINGDOME / OF / ENGLAND |
|
| inscription:- |
printed lower right
Described by Christopher Saxton augmented / by John Speed and are to be solde by Tho : Bassett / in Fleet street and Richard Chiswell / in St. Pauls Churchyard. |
|
| inscription:- |
printed lower left
Abraham Goos Amsteloda / mensis sculpsit Anno 1646 |
|
| inscription:- |
printed table, upper right
Catalogue of all the Shires, Cities, Bishopricks, Market-Townes, Castles, Parishes, Rivers, Bridges, Cahses, Forrests, and Parkes conteyned in every particular shire of the Kingdome of England / Shires . Cities . Bishopricks . Mark Townes . Castles . Parrish Church . Rivers . Bridges . Chases . Forrests . Parkes / ... / Westmoreland . - . - . 4 . 6 . 26 . 8 . 15 . - . 2 . 10 / Cumberland . 1 . 1 . 8 . 15 . 58 . 20 . 33 . - . 3 . 8 / ... |
|
| inscription:- |
printed reverese, p.5
THE TYPE OF THE FLOURISHING KINGDOM OF ENGLAND, WITH THE General Description of it, as it was from the time of the NORMANS. / THE Saxons glory now near to expire, by his appointment who holdeth both times and Kingdoms in his all-ordering hand, their own swords being the Instruments, and the Danes the maules that beat their beautiful Diadem into pieces; the Normans, a stirring Nation, (neither expected, nor much feared) under the leading of William their Duke, and encouragement of the Roman Bishop, (an unusual promoter of broken titles) made hither suddenly into England, who in one only battel, with the title of his sword and slaughter of Harold, set the Emperial Crown thereof upon his own head ... |
|
| inscription:- |
printed with scale line
The Scale of Miles |
|
| scale line:- | 40 miles = 45.5 mm | |
| wxh, map:- | 515x386mm (about) | |
| scale:- | 1 to 1400000 ? (1 to 1414808 from scale line, wrongly assuming a statute mile) | |