Speed 1611

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	item:- Armitt Library : A6632.42 image:- ©  see bottom of page	click to enlarge
	Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed 1611, 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.85 and 86; text in English. The map has an added coat of arms since the first edition. Included in The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain by John Speed.
		Speed 1611
	map feature:-	picture frame border & swash lettering & strapwork cartouche & coat of arms & heraldic border & descriptive text & compass rose & labelled borders (English) & scale line (with dividers) & sea moire effect & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & woods & parks & county & settlements & inset map
	inscription:-	printed title cartouche, upper right THE / COUNTIE / WESTMORLAND / AND KENDALE THE / CHEIF TOWNE DE- / SCRIBED / With the Armes of such Nobles as have / bene Earles of / either of them.
	inscription:-	printed below the scale line, lower right Performed John Speede, and are to be sold by Thomas / Bassett in Fleet street, and Ric : Chiswell in St. Pauls Churchyard.
	inscription:-	printed reverse, p.85 Book 1. WESTMORLAND. Chap.43. 85 / CHAPTER XLIII. / WEstmorland by soome late Latin Writers called Westsmaria, and Westmorlandia, by some later Westmoria, and in our English Tongue Westmorland. It came to be thus named iin our Language by the situation, which in every part is so plenteously full of Moors and high hills, reaching one to another, that Westmorland (with us) is nothing else but a Western Moorish Country. Having on the West and North-side Cumberland, on the South-part Lancashire, on the East-sdie Yorkshire, and the Bishoprick of Durham. ...
	inscription:-	printed with scale line THE SCALE OF MILES
	scale line:-	9 miles = 91.3 mm
	wxh, map:-	513x389mm (about)
	scale:-	1 to 160000 ? (1 to 158643 from scale line, wrongly assuming a statute mile)

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