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Carlisle Library : Map 21

Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by J Sudbury and George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
From the Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain, by John Speed. The map of Carlisle is an inset map, a bird's eye view, at a larger scale.
The reverse of the map has pp.87, 88; a gazetteer of places on the map or in the accompanying text, and the first page of the accompanying text, in English.
   Speed 1611
inscription:- printed title cartouche, upper left
CUMBERLAND / AND THE ANCIENT CITIE / CARLILE DESCRIBED / WITH / MANY MEMORABLE AN / TIQUITIES THEREIN / FOUND OBSERVED
inscription:- printed lower right of centre
Performed by John Speed, and are to be / sould in Popes. head Alley, by the exchan : / ge by J. Sudbury and Georg. Humble. / Cum Privilegio Anno Domini 1610.
inscription:- printed rev
CUMBERLAND. / CHAPTER XLV. / Cumberland, the furthest North-west Province in this Realm of England, confronteth upon the south of Scotland, and is divided from that Kingdome by the river Kirsop, then crossing Eske, by a tract thorow Solome-Mosse, untill it come to the Solwaye Frith, by Ptolemie called the Itune Baye, ...
scale line:- 10 miles = 64.2 mm
wxh, map:- 506x382mm
scale:- 1 to 250000 ? (1 to 250677 from scale line, wrongly assuming a statute mile)