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item:- Armitt Library :
A6632.40
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Map, uncoloured engraving, The North and East Ridins of
Yorkshire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed
1610, published by Thomas Bassett, The George, Fleet Street,
and Richard Chiswell, The Rose and Crown, St Paul's
Churchyard, London, 1676.
Inset maps of Hull and Richmond.
The reverse of the map is pp. 81 and 82; text in English.
Included in The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain by
John Speed.
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Speed 1611
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map feature:-
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picture frame border & scroll cartouche & swash
lettering & coat of arms, royal & coat of arms &
heraldic border & inset map (RICHMOND) & inset map
(HULL) & labelled borders (English) & up is N &
relief & hillocks & woods & parks & county
& hundreds (warpontakes) & settlements
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inscription:-
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printed title cartouche
THE NORTH / AND EAST / RIDINS OF / YORKSHIRE
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inscription:-
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printed lower middle
Performed by John Speede. / And are to be sold by Tho :
Bassett in Fleetstreet, / and Richard Chiswell in St. Pauls
Church : yard.
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inscription:-
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printed with scale line
THE SCALE OF MILES
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scale line:-
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13 miles = 82.0 mm
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wxh, map:-
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517x382mm (about)
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scale:-
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1 to 250000 ? (1 to 255140 from scale line, wrongly assuming
a statute mile)
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