Speed 1611

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	item:- Carlisle Library : Map 306
	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, ... p.87
	inscription:-	printed rev ... / A TABLE / of all the Towns in Cumberland. / ... p.88
	scale line:-	10 miles = 64.7 mm
	wxh, sheet:-	52x40.5cm
	wxh, map:-	506x382mm
	scale:-	1 to 250000 ? (1 to 248739 from scale line, wrongly assuming a statute mile)

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