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John Speed's fame today rests, in popular estimation, upon his work as map-maker, but this should not be held separate from his important contributions as a historian, chronologer and scriptural genealogist. Many of his publications reached their definitive form in 1611. The succession of King [[James VI of Scotland]], son of [[Mary Queen of Scots]], to the crowns of England and Wales, and of Ireland, upon the death of Queen [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth]] in 1603, brought the [[House of Tudor|Tudor dynasty]] to a close and inaugurated the [[House of Stuart|Stuart]] monarchy of Great Britain. Speed's historical researches under the patronage of Fulke Greville had been stimulated by his acquaintance with, and guidance by, [[William Camden]] ([[Clarenceux King of Arms]]), Sir [[Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington|Robert Cotton]], Sir [[Henry Spelman]], [[John Stow]], [[Benedict Barnham]] and others, who during the 1580s together formed the Elizabethan [[Proposals for an English Academy#Elizabethan proposals|College of Antiquaries]], predecessor of the [[Society of Antiquaries of London|London Society of Antiquaries]]. Their interests were rooted in early-medieval English antiquities. But (after the abolition of that college by James I in 1607) Speed's work came together, ''Cum Privilegio'', as an instrument of the unification of British kingship in the person of King James, much as the [[King James Version|"Authorized Version" of the English Bible]] (to which Speed contributed his sacred genealogies) was promulgated in the same year of 1611.
John Speed's fame today rests, in popular estimation, upon his work as map-maker, but this should not be held separate from his important contributions as a historian, chronologer and scriptural genealogist. Many of his publications reached their definitive form in 1611. The succession of King [[James VI of Scotland]], son of [[Mary Queen of Scots]], to the crowns of England and Wales, and of Ireland, upon the death of Queen [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth]] in 1603, brought the [[House of Tudor|Tudor dynasty]] to a close and inaugurated the [[House of Stuart|Stuart]] monarchy of Great Britain. Speed's historical researches under the patronage of Fulke Greville had been stimulated by his acquaintance with, and guidance by, [[William Camden]] ([[Clarenceux King of Arms]]), Sir [[Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington|Robert Cotton]], Sir [[Henry Spelman]], [[John Stow]], [[Benedict Barnham]] and others, who during the 1580s together formed the Elizabethan [[Proposals for an English Academy#Elizabethan proposals|College of Antiquaries]], predecessor of the [[Society of Antiquaries of London|London Society of Antiquaries]]. Their interests were rooted in early-medieval English antiquities. But (after the abolition of that college by James I in 1607) Speed's work came together, ''Cum Privilegio'', as an instrument of the unification of British kingship in the person of King James, much as the [[King James Version|"Authorized Version" of the English Bible]] (to which Speed contributed his sacred genealogies) was promulgated in the same year of 1611.


The chronicler [[John Stow]] (died 1605, also a Merchant Taylor), Speed's elder contemporary, from 1562 sought to disentangle the confused order of the English Chronicles, finding much fault in "the ignorant handling of ancient affairs" by [[Richard Grafton]]: Stow's ''Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles'' (and its abridgement) of 1566/67, several times republished, his ''Chronicles of England from Brute unto this present yeare of Christ, 1580'', and his ''The Annales of England'' (1592, 1601, 1605) were the immediate predecessors to Speed's ''Historie'', from the historical aspect, as Camden's ''Britannia'' in the 1607 edition (with county maps) was his chorographical precedent. Stow announced a (much larger) forthcoming History of Britain, ''A Historie of this Iland'', in 1592, but it never saw the light. Editions of [[William of Malmesbury]], [[Florence of Worcester]], the ''[[Flores Historiarum]]'', and Sir [[Henry Savile (Bible translator)|Henry Savile]]'s ''Scriptores post Bedam'' came into print in the same period. The standard available edition of [[Bede]]'s ''[[Ecclesiastical History of the English People|Historia Ecclesiastica]]'' was the text in volume III of the Hervagius (Johannes Herwagen) 1563 ''Opera Bedae Venerabilis''.
The chronicler [[John Stow]] (died 1605, also a Merchant Taylor), Speed's elder contemporary, from 1562 sought to disentangle the confused order of the English Chronicles, finding much fault in "the ignorant handling of ancient affairs" by [[Richard Grafton]]: Stow's ''Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles'' (and its abridgement) of 1566/67, several times republished, his ''Chronicles of England from Brute unto this present yeare of Christ, 1580'', and his ''The Annales of England'' (1592, 1601, 1605) were the immediate predecessors to Speed's ''Historie'', from the historical aspect, as Camden's ''Britannia'' in the 1607 edition (with county maps) was his chorographical precedent. Stow announced a (much larger) forthcoming History of Britain, ''A Historie of this Iland'', in 1592, but it never saw the light. Editions of [[William of Malmesbury]], [[Florence of Worcester]], the ''[[Flores Historiarum]]'', and Sir [[Henry Savile (Bible translator)|Henry Savile]]'s ''Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores post Bedam'' came into print in the same period. The standard available edition of [[Bede]]'s ''[[Ecclesiastical History of the English People|Historia Ecclesiastica]]'' was the text in volume III of the Hervagius (Johannes Herwagen) 1563 ''Opera Bedae Venerabilis''.


Speed naturally drew extensively on the work of his predecessors, including [[Christopher Saxton]] and [[John Norden]] as cartographers, William Camden as chorographer (''Britannia'' 1586), and upon Stow and other late chroniclers, in so vast an undertaking (for which Speed considered his own powers quite insufficient), while at the same time revising, improving, verifying and subjecting to scholarly scrutiny all that he could, and where possible obtaining new expert contributions. From the first page of the ''Histories'' it is clear that a new scholarly approach is afoot. Speed dispenses with the entire list of pseudo-historic rulers stemming from [[Brutus of Troy|Brutus the supposed founder of Britain]], drawn from [[Geoffrey of Monmouth]]'s ''History of the Kings of Britain'' and repeated by Stow, and instead merely touches upon the Trojan theory in his discussion of the ''Name of Britain''. Coming into the Saxon narrative, marginal references identify the sources of information from [[Gildas]] (''[[De Excidio Britanniae]]''), Bede, [[Widukind of Corvey]] and many others, presenting an erudition which superseded Stow's approach and laid the foundations of a more modern, discursive historical method, while preserving the structure and chronology relating to the seven kingdoms, and illustrating coins and other materials in true antiquarian fashion.
Speed naturally drew extensively on the work of his predecessors, including [[Christopher Saxton]] and [[John Norden]] as cartographers, William Camden as chorographer (''Britannia'' 1586), and upon Stow and other late chroniclers, in so vast an undertaking (for which Speed considered his own powers quite insufficient), while at the same time revising, improving, verifying and subjecting to scholarly scrutiny all that he could, and where possible obtaining new expert contributions. From the first page of the ''Histories'' it is clear that a new scholarly approach is afoot. Speed dispenses with the entire list of pseudo-historic rulers stemming from [[Brutus of Troy|Brutus the supposed founder of Britain]], drawn from [[Geoffrey of Monmouth]]'s ''History of the Kings of Britain'' and repeated by Stow, and instead merely touches upon the Trojan theory in his discussion of the ''Name of Britain''. Coming into the Saxon narrative, marginal references identify the sources of information from [[Gildas]] (''[[De Excidio Britanniae]]''), Bede, [[Widukind of Corvey]] and many others, presenting an erudition which superseded Stow's approach and laid the foundations of a more modern, discursive historical method, while preserving the structure and chronology relating to the seven kingdoms, and illustrating coins and other materials in true antiquarian fashion.

Revision as of 11:39, 29 June 2022

For other uses, see John Speed (disambiguation).

John Speed
Memorial to John Speed, St Giles-without-Cripplegate
Born1551 or 1552
Farndon, Cheshire
Died1629 (aged 76–77)
St Giles-without-Cripplegate, Cripplegate, London
NationalityEnglish
Scientific career
FieldsCartography, history

John Speed (1551 or 1552 – 28 July 1629) was an English cartographer and historian.[1][2][3] He is, alongside Christopher Saxton, one of the best known English mapmakers of the early modern period.[4][5][6]

Life

Speed was born in the Cheshire village of Farndon and went into his father John Speed's tailoring business later in life.[7][8][9]

Working in London, Speed became a citizen and Merchant Taylor.[10] In 1575, in London, he married Susanna Draper and began to raise a family. Most sources state that they had twelve sons and six daughters, of whom the most famous to reach maturity was the heir John Speed, who studied at Merchant Taylors' School, London and St John's College, Oxford, and attained a doctorate of Medicine.[2][11][12][13][14] It appears that the Speed family was fairly well-to-do.[15]

Speed came to the attention of learned individuals,[16] among whom was Sir Fulke Greville: Greville, "perceiving how his wide soul was stuffed with too narrow an occupation" (as Thomas Fuller has it),[17] thereafter made him an allowance to enable him to devote his whole attention to research.[18] Under the benefit of such patronage, he was able to leave his manual work and to devote his time fully to scholarship.[16]

By 1595 Speed published a map of biblical Canaan, and in 1598 he presented his maps to Queen Elizabeth. As a reward for these efforts, Elizabeth granted Speed the use of a room in the Custom House. He was by then a scholar with a highly developed pictorial faculty.[19] In 1611–1612 he published maps of Great Britain, his son perhaps assisting Speed in surveys of English towns.[20][21][22]

At the age of 77 or 78, in July 1629, Speed died.[9] He was buried alongside his wife in London's St Giles-without-Cripplegate church on Fore Street.[11][23][24] Later, a memorial to John Speed was erected behind the altar of the church.[11] According to the church's website, his monument was "one of the few memorials that survived the bombing" of this London church during the Blitz of 1940–1941 ... The website also states that "the niche in which the bust is placed was provided by the Merchant Taylors' Company, of which John Speed was a member".[23] His memorial brass is now on display in the Burrell Collection near Glasgow.[citation needed]

Works

John Speed's fame today rests, in popular estimation, upon his work as map-maker, but this should not be held separate from his important contributions as a historian, chronologer and scriptural genealogist. Many of his publications reached their definitive form in 1611. The succession of King James VI of Scotland, son of Mary Queen of Scots, to the crowns of England and Wales, and of Ireland, upon the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, brought the Tudor dynasty to a close and inaugurated the Stuart monarchy of Great Britain. Speed's historical researches under the patronage of Fulke Greville had been stimulated by his acquaintance with, and guidance by, William Camden (Clarenceux King of Arms), Sir Robert Cotton, Sir Henry Spelman, John Stow, Benedict Barnham and others, who during the 1580s together formed the Elizabethan College of Antiquaries, predecessor of the London Society of Antiquaries. Their interests were rooted in early-medieval English antiquities. But (after the abolition of that college by James I in 1607) Speed's work came together, Cum Privilegio, as an instrument of the unification of British kingship in the person of King James, much as the "Authorized Version" of the English Bible (to which Speed contributed his sacred genealogies) was promulgated in the same year of 1611.

The chronicler John Stow (died 1605, also a Merchant Taylor), Speed's elder contemporary, from 1562 sought to disentangle the confused order of the English Chronicles, finding much fault in "the ignorant handling of ancient affairs" by Richard Grafton: Stow's Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles (and its abridgement) of 1566/67, several times republished, his Chronicles of England from Brute unto this present yeare of Christ, 1580, and his The Annales of England (1592, 1601, 1605) were the immediate predecessors to Speed's Historie, from the historical aspect, as Camden's Britannia in the 1607 edition (with county maps) was his chorographical precedent. Stow announced a (much larger) forthcoming History of Britain, A Historie of this Iland, in 1592, but it never saw the light. Editions of William of Malmesbury, Florence of Worcester, the Flores Historiarum, and Sir Henry Savile's Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores post Bedam came into print in the same period. The standard available edition of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica was the text in volume III of the Hervagius (Johannes Herwagen) 1563 Opera Bedae Venerabilis.

Speed naturally drew extensively on the work of his predecessors, including Christopher Saxton and John Norden as cartographers, William Camden as chorographer (Britannia 1586), and upon Stow and other late chroniclers, in so vast an undertaking (for which Speed considered his own powers quite insufficient), while at the same time revising, improving, verifying and subjecting to scholarly scrutiny all that he could, and where possible obtaining new expert contributions. From the first page of the Histories it is clear that a new scholarly approach is afoot. Speed dispenses with the entire list of pseudo-historic rulers stemming from Brutus the supposed founder of Britain, drawn from Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain and repeated by Stow, and instead merely touches upon the Trojan theory in his discussion of the Name of Britain. Coming into the Saxon narrative, marginal references identify the sources of information from Gildas (De Excidio Britanniae), Bede, Widukind of Corvey and many others, presenting an erudition which superseded Stow's approach and laid the foundations of a more modern, discursive historical method, while preserving the structure and chronology relating to the seven kingdoms, and illustrating coins and other materials in true antiquarian fashion.

Historie of Great Britaine

In the first edition of his Historie of Great Britaine (1611), following the "Proem", the descriptive historical text begins as page 155 of the whole work, to which the maps of that edition are counted as occupying the preceding page-numbers. It is from this point a twin Chorographical and Historical work. In the second, revised and augmented edition (of 1623) the whole work is introduced as being in ten sections, of which the first four (the "Chorographicall Part") are the maps, arranged as:

  • (1) Describing the whole Kingdome in generall, with those Shires, Cities, and Shire-townes which are properly accounted for English
  • (2) Containing the Counties of Wales (13)
  • (3) Scotlands Kingdom in one Generall (1)
  • (4) Containing the Kingdome of Ireland - a general plan, and maps of Munster, Leinster, Connaught and Ulster (5)

The work then proceeds to the "Historicall Part", Books 5-10, arranged as follows:

  • (5) The Site, Names, Ancient Inhabitants, Manners, Government, Governors, Costume and Appearance of Great Britain and the Ancient British.
  • (6) The Monarchs of Great Britain under the Romans (54 sections).
  • (7) The Saxon Kings and English Monarchs, from the downfall of Britain and the origins and arrival of the Saxons, through the Heptarchy, from Hengest (sect. 13) to Edmund Ironside (sect. 45).
  • (8) The Danish rulers, with their origins and first assaults, and in detail from Cnut to Harold II (7 sections).
  • (9) The Norman rulers and their origins, continued from William I to the end of Elizabeth I (24 sections).
  • (10) "James, our dread Soueraigne".

Observations

Speed drew historical maps in 1601 and 1627 depicting the invasion of England and Ireland, depictions of the English Middle Ages, along with those depicting the current time, with rough originals but appealing, colourful final versions of his maps.[25][26]

It was with the encouragement of William Camden that Speed began his Historie of Great Britaine, published in 1611.[27][28] He is now best-known for his map-making, of which his most important contribution is probably his town plans, many of which provide the first visual record of the British towns they depict.[29] In the years leading up to this point, while his atlas was being compiled, he sent letters to Sir Robert Cotton to ask for assistance in gathering necessary materials.[30]

Speed's atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine was published in 1611 and 1612, and contained the first set of individual county maps of England and Wales besides maps of Ireland and a general map of Scotland.[31][32][33] The collection opened with an Introduction addressed to his "well affected and favourable reader" (framed in terms of his religious cast of mind), in which he admitted the possibility of errors, but declared he had made the atlas as well as he could, and stated his purpose for it:[34]

my purpose... is to shew the situation of every Citie and Shire-town only [within Great Britain]. I have separated... [with] help of the tables... any Citie, Towne, Borough, Hamlet, or Place of Note... [It] may be affirmed, that there is not any one Kingdome in the world so exactly described... as is... Great Britaine... In shewing these things, I have chiefly sought to give satisfaction to all.

With maps as "proof impressions" and printed from copper plates, detail was engraved in reverse with writing having to be put on the map the correct way, while Speed "copied, adapted and compiled the work of others", not doing much of the survey work on his own, a procedure which he acknowledged.[11][35][36] The atlas was not above projections of his political opinions: Speed represented King James I as one who unified the "Kingdoms of the British isles".[37] In 2016, the British Library published a book, introduced by former MP Nigel Nicolson and accompanied by commentaries by late medieval and early modern historian Alasdair Hawkyard, which reprinted this collection of maps of the British Isles. Speed had drawn maps of areas ranging from Bedfordshire and Norfolk in the east to Wales in the west.[38]

Most, but not all, of the county maps have town plans on them; those showing a Scale of Passes being the places he had mapped himself. In 1627, two years before his death, Speed published Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World which was the first world atlas produced by an Englishman, costing 40 shillings, meaning that its circulation was limited to "richer customers and libraries", where many survive to this day.[39][40]

On the back of the maps a text in English appears, describing the areas shown: a rare 1616 edition of the British maps has the text in Latin, thought to have been produced for the Continental market. Much of the engraving was done in Amsterdam at the workshop of the Flemish engraver Jodocus Hondius, with whom Speed collaborated for 14 years, from 1598 until Hondius's sudden death in 1612.[39] Framed copies of his maps of English and Welsh counties, often bordered with costumed figures ranging from nobility to country folk, are often found in homes throughout the United Kingdom.[41]

In 1611, he also published The Genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures according to euery family and tribe with the line of Our Sauior Jesus Christ obserued from Adam to the Blessed Virgin Mary, a biblical genealogy, reprinted several times during the 17th century.[42] Copies of this short pamphlet were for many years bound into all copies of the English bible, for which King James granted to Speed a patent to have the profit of it for himself and his assigns, in reward for his great labours.[17] He also drew maps of the Channel Islands, Poland, and the Americas, the latter published only a few years before his death.[43][44][45][46] On the year of his death, yet another collection of maps of Great Britain he had drawn the year before were published.[47][48]

Described as a "Protestant historian", "Puritan historian" or "Protestant propagandist" by some, Speed wrote about William Shakespeare, whom he called a "Superlative Monster" because of certain plays, the Roman conquest and the history of Chester, and explored "early modern concepts of national identity".[clarification needed][49][50][51][52][53][self-published source][54][55][56] As these writings indicate, he possibly saw Wales as English and not as an independent entity. Speed's historiographic skills are more plainly shown in his use of "theatrical metaphors", and in his employment of medieval mythical content.[57]

Family

The pedigree for 'Speed of Southampton', as prepared by the antiquary Benjamin Wyatt Greenfield in 1896, has the marriage of John Speed and Susanna daughter of Thomas Draper, Esq., of London, at its head, and shows the descendants of their son John. Although stating that Speed was born in 1542, and giving other dates which conflict with variant sources, it presents the names of six children. They are shown as:[12]

  • John Speed (1595-1640), M.D. (1628), studied at Merchant Taylor's School (1603-04), and was Scholar (1612), B.A. (1616), M.A. (1620) and Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. He married Margaret, daughter of Bartholomew Warner, M.D., of St John's College (Professor of Physic), and their son Samuel Speed, D.D. of Christchurch, Oxford, died in 1674. John (died testate in 1640[58]) is buried in the chapel of St John's College.
  • Samuel Speed, of London, who married Joan, daughter of Richard Joyner, alias Lloyd, of Abingdon, and had a son Samuel who died in 1633
  • Nathan Speed
  • Joan Speed, who married John Hayley, Esq., of London
  • Sarah Speed, who married Edward Blackmore, Esq., of London
  • Anne Speed, who married Benjamin Wesley, citizen and Merchant Taylor of London

His arms, granted by William Camden, are: Gules, on a chief or, two swifts volant proper. Crest: On a wreath or and gules a swift volant proper.[12]

From their funeral monument, it appears that John and Susanna Speed had 12 sons and 6 daughters in all.

Monument and epitaph

Richard Newcourt recorded the monument to John Speede at St Giles, Cripplegate. '...the famous Chronologer and Historiographer John Speed, lies buried here, and hath a Monument on the South-side of the Chancel, with this inscription on one side for him, and on the other for his Wife:

"Piæ Memoriæ Charissimorum Parentum - Johannis Speed, Civis Londinensis Mercatorum Scissorum Fratris, servi fidelissimi Religiarum Majestatum, Eliz., Jacobi & Caroli nunc superstitis : Terrarum nostrarum Geographi accurati, & fidi Antiquitatis Britannicæ Historiographi, Genealogii sacræ elegantissimi delineatoris, qui postquam Annos 77. superaverat, non tam Morbo confectus, quam Mortalitatis taedio lassatus, Corpore se levavit, Julii 28. 1629. & jucundissimo Redemptoris sui desiderio sursum elatus carnem hic in custodiam posuit, denuo cum Christus venerit recepturus".'
(To the Pious Memory of Most Beloved Parents - [that is to say,] of John Speed, Citizen of London of the Brethren of Merchant Taylors, a very faithful servant of their Devout Majesties Elizabeth, James and Charles that now is : the accurate Geographer of our Lands, reliable Historiographer of the Antiquity of Britain, and most elegant delineator of the sacred Genealogies, who, after he had lived 77 years, not so much defeated by illness as wearied out by the burden of Mortality, arose from the Body on 28 July 1629, and, being lifted aloft by the joyous desire of his Redeemer, he laid down his flesh here in keeping, to be received anew when Christ shall come.)[59]

From the inscription on the other side for his wife, Newcourt observed only that she brought her husband 12 sons and 6 daughters; and after she had lived with her husband for 57 years, she died in the 70th year of her age, on March 28, 1628.

Legacy

Since his maps were used in many circles, Speed's legacy has been long-reaching. After his death, in 1673 and 1676, some of his other maps on the British isles, the Chesapeake Bay region, specifically of Virginia and Maryland, the East Indies, the Russian Empire then ruled by Peter the Great, Jamaica, and Barbados, among other locations.[clarification needed][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70] With these printings and others, Speed's maps became the basis for world maps until at least the mid-eighteenth century, with his maps reprinted many times, and served as a major contribution to British topography for years to come.[20]

In later years, Robert Sheringham (who recited Speed's text to his map of the Isle of Wight) referred to him as "summus et eruditus Antiquarius" (a foremost and erudite antiquary),[71] and he was called "our English Mercator";[72] "a person of extraordinary industry and attainments in the study of antiquities" (by William Nicolson);[73][74] an "honest and impartial historian... who was furnished with the best materials from some of the most considerable persons in this kingdom" (by Stephen Hyde Cassan),[75] a "faithful Chronologer" (in a text of 1656),[76] and "our Cheshire historian...a scholar...a distinguished writer on history" (by Charles Hulbert).[77] Richard Newcourt called him a "celebrated chronologer and historiographer".[78]

Even today, prints of his "beautiful maps" are in high demand.[79] Additionally, some use John Speed's maps, and connected commentary, to interpret William Shakespeare's plays; however, Speed did not like Shakespeare in the slightest, and called him a "papist".[54][80][81][82]

Maps

  • Speed's 1610 map of Wales
    Speed's 1610 map of Wales
  • An example of an inset image in Speed's 1610 map of Wales
    An example of an inset image in Speed's 1610 map of Wales
  • The Countie Pallatine of Lancaster described and divided into hundreds, 1610
    The Countie Pallatine of Lancaster described and divided into hundreds, 1610
  • 4 Page wall map of Canaan, 1595
    4 Page wall map of Canaan, 1595
  • Wilshire, 1610 with a townplan of Salisbury and a view of Stonehenge
    Wilshire, 1610 with a townplan of Salisbury and a view of Stonehenge
  • Northamptonshire, 1610
    Northamptonshire, 1610
  • A New Mape of Ye XVII Provinces, 1626 (The Netherlands)
    A New Mape of Ye XVII Provinces, 1626 (The Netherlands)
  • The Kingdome of China, 1626
    The Kingdome of China, 1626
  • A New And Accvrat Map of the World, 1646 miniature edition
    A New And Accvrat Map of the World, 1646 miniature edition
  • Jamaica, 1676
    Jamaica, 1676
  • James VI, depicted in Speed's 1610 Royal Map of Scotland.
    James VI, depicted in Speed's 1610 Royal Map of Scotland.
  • Speed's 1611 map of York
    Speed's 1611 map of York

Town inserts

Published works

  • The Theatre of The Empire of Great Britaine, Presenting an exact geography of England, Scotland, and Ireland (London 1611–12).
  • Theatrum Imperii Magnae Britaine, Latin Edition (London 1616).
  • History of Great Britaine Under the Conquests of Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans, 1st Edition (London 1611), text at Umich/eebo. Second, Revised Edition (London 1623), page views at Google.
  • The Genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures according to euery family and tribe with the line of Our Sauior Jesus Christ obserued from Adam to the Blessed Virgin Mary (London 1611). 1636 printing bound into 1637 Robert Barker bible, page views at Google.
  • A Cloud of Witnesses: and they the holy genealogies of the sacred scriptures. Confirming unto us the truth of the histories in Gods most holie word; and the humanitie of Christ Iesus 1st Edition (London 1616). Second Edition (London 1620), text at Umich/eebo.
  • England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland: Described and Abridged with Ye Historic Relation of Things Worthy Memory: from a Farr Larger Voulume (London 1627) The "Farr Larger Volume" is The Theatre of The Empire of Great Britaine.
  • A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World (London 1627)

References

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  3. ^ John Speed, Nigel Nicolson (introduction), The Counties of Britain: A Tudor Atlas, Thames & Hudson (1989): ISBN 0-500-25104-5; Pavilion Books (1992): ISBN 1-85145-131-5 (pbk, 1995): ISBN 1-85793-612-4.
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  5. ^ Intriguing History, "John Speed Maps Online", 2017.
  6. ^ Hewitt, Rachel (2010). Map of a Nation. London: Granta Publications. pp. xxvi. ISBN 978-1-84708-254-1.
  7. ^ Palmer, Alfred Neobard (1907). "The Town of Holt, in County Denbigh". Archaeologia Cambrensis. 6th ser. 7: 389–434 (425).
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  10. ^ 'The loving brother of the Mystery, John Speed', in C.M. Clode, The Early History of the Guild of Merchant Taylors of the Fraternity of St John the Baptist, London, 2 vols (Harrison and Sons, London 1888), II: The Lives, at pp. 332-35 (Internet Archive).
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  18. ^ 'Speed's description of Warwickshire, section (6)', in W. West, The History, Topography and Directory of Warwickshire, pp. 41-45, at p. 43 (Internet Archive).
  19. ^ Walter Goffart, 'The First Venture into "Medieval Cartography"', in J.A. Roberts, J.L. Nelson and M. Godden (eds), Alfred the Wise: Studies in Honour of Janet Bately on the Occasion of her Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Woodbridge, UK: D.S. Brewer, 1997), at pp. 57–58.
  20. ^ a b The Maps of John Speed Archived 12 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Shakespeare's England, 10 August 2010.
  21. ^ The King James Version at 400: Assessing Its Genius as Bible Translation and Its Literary Influence, ed. David G. Burke, John F. Kutsko, and Philip H. Towner (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2013), vi, 102, 104–119, 121, 159, 182.
  22. ^ Tiffany J. Werth, The Fabulous Dark Cloister: Romance in England after the Reformation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), 49.
  23. ^ a b "Heritage". St Giles' without Cripplegate. Retrieved 17 September 2012.
  24. ^ Hibbert, Christopher; Ben Weinreb; John Keay; Julia Keay (2010). The London Encyclopaedia. London: Pan Macmillan. p. 762. ISBN 978-0-230-73878-2.
  25. ^ Goffart, Historical Atlases, pp. xi, 38, 54, 80–81, 83, 105, 112, 123, 201, 203, 443, 471.
  26. ^ Gough, Anecdotes of British Topography, 595, 608.
  27. ^ "Speed, John" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  28. ^ John Speed proof maps, Cambridge University, Accessed 5 April 2017.
  29. ^ Nigel Nicolson, "Introduction" within John Speed, Britain's Tudor Maps: County by County (London: British Library, reprint, 2016, originally published in 1988), pp. 7–15.
  30. ^ 'XXXI: John Speed the Historian to Sir Robert Cotton' (etc.), in H. Ellis (ed.), Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men (London: Camden Society, 1843), 104, 108–113.
  31. ^ Speed, Britain's Tudor Maps, pp. 9–10, 13, 15–16. Nicolson's introduction goes from pages 7 to 15. Speed took a number of existing maps as his models, crediting five of the maps to Christopher Saxton, five to John Horden, two to William Smith, one to Philip Symonson and others to John Harington, William White, Thomas Durham, James Burrell, and Geradus Mercator. For these maps, his engraver was a Flemish man by the name of Jodocus Hondius, major engraver at the time, his printers were William Hall and John Beale, and his map-sellers were John Sudbury and George Humble.
  32. ^ Andrew, "Speed maps now in the Cambridge Digital Library", Cambridge University Library Special Collections, 23 March 2015.
  33. ^ Gough, Anecdotes of British Topography, 42.
  34. ^ 'Speed's Address to His Readers', in West, The History, Topography and Directory of Warwickshire, at pp. 38–41 (Internet Archive).
  35. ^ Andrew McRae, God Speed the Plough: The Representation of Agrarian England, 1500–1660 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002, reprint), pp. xi, 231–232, 238.
  36. ^ Nicholas Canny, "The Origins of Empire: An Introduction", The Oxford History of the British Empire series, The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, Vol. I, ed. Nicholas Canny (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, reprint), 1. Speed was the one to use the phrase "the Empire of Great Britaine" which differed from another phrase used, by Thomas Blennerhasset, at the time: "great Brittaines imperial crowne".
  37. ^ British Identities and English Renaissance Literature, ed. David J. Baker and Willy Maley (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002), ix, 135, 138, 141, 150, 162, 248.
  38. ^ Speed, Britain's Tudor Maps, pp. 6–152. Speed's maps were of areas including the British Isles, England, the Saxon Heptarchy, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Devonshire, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingtonshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Monmouthshire, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Westmoreland, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire (different parts), Holy Island, the Farne Islands, the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Wales, Anglesey, Breconshire, Caernarfonshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Glamorganshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire, Scotland, Ireland, Connaught, Leinster, Munster, and Ulster.
  39. ^ a b Nigel Nicolson, "Introduction" within Speed, Britain's Tudor Maps, p. 15.
  40. ^ Marion Wynne-Davies, Sidney to Milton, 1580–1660 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), pp. 138–141, 171, 179–180, 197.
  41. ^ Speed, Britain's Tudor Maps, pp. 18–21.
  42. ^ See, e.g., a 1636 printing bound in with a 1637 Robert Barker bible in the British Library, digitized at Google.
  43. ^ Library of Congress, America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings, 1626.
  44. ^ Library of Congress catalog, The ilands, London. Are to be solde in Popes Heade Alley by Iohn Sudb. and G. Humbell, 1610.
  45. ^ Library of Congress catalog, newe mape of Poland, 1611.
  46. ^ Francis J. Bremer, John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 206.
  47. ^ Library of Congress catalog,A prospect of the most famovs parts of the vvorld, London, Printed by John Dawson for G. Humble, 1627.
  48. ^ Thomas Suarez, Early Mapping of Southeast Asia: The Epic Story of Seafarers, Adventurers, and Cartographers Who First Mapped the Regions Between China and India (London: Tuttle Publishing, 2012), 512.
  49. ^ Herbert Jack Heller, [Penitent Brothellers: Grace, Sexuality, and Genre in Thomas Middleton's City Comedies](https://books.google.com/books?id=osKRuBKU344C) (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2000), 181.
  50. ^ Boudica: Historical Commentaries, Poetry, and Plays, ed. Charles Aleks Matza Jr. (USA: XLibris, 2010), pp. 83–90.
  51. ^ Christopher Ivic, "'bastard Normans, Norman bastards': Anomalous Identities in The Life of Henry the Fift", Shakespeare and Wales: From the Marches to the Assembly, ed. Philip Schwyzer and Willy Maley (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2010), pp. 75–82.
  52. ^ Charles Hulbert, Cheshire antiquities, Roman, baronial, and monastic: a re-publication of genuine copper plates (Schrewsbury and Providence Grove: C. Hulbert, 1838), pp. iii–iv, 56–61.
  53. ^ John Waterfield, The Heart of His Mystery: Shakespeare and the Catholic Faith in England Under Elizabeth and James (New York: iUniverse, 2009), 4, 643.[self-published source]
  54. ^ a b Theatre and Religion: Lancastrian Shakespeare, ed. Richard Dutton, Alison Gail Findlay, and Richard Wilson (Oxford, UK: Manchester University Press, 2003), 116, 127, 128, 236.
  55. ^ English Comedy, ed. Michael Cordner, Peter Holland, and John Kerrigan (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006 reprint), 85, 98.
  56. ^ Richard Hingley, The Recovery of Roman Britain 1586–1906: A Colony So Fertile (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 17, 21, 23, 36, 40, 44–53.
  57. ^ Igor Djordjevic, King John (Mis)Remembered: The Dunmow Chronicle, the Lord Admiral's Men, and the Formation of Cultural Memory (New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. 43, 61, 86, 117, 122.
  58. ^ Will of Doctor John Speede, Doctor of Physic, Doctor in Medicine of University of Oxford (PCC 1640, Coventry quire).
  59. ^ R. Newcourt, Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense (Bateman, Tooke, Parker, Bowyer and Clements, London 1708), I, p. 356 (Google).
  60. ^ Gough, Anecdotes of British Topography, 43.
  61. ^ 1676 John Speed and F. Lamb Map of Virginia and Maryland (Chesapeake Bay), Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, 2017.
  62. ^ Antique Maps Online, John Speed Maps – Antique 17th Century, 2017.
  63. ^ Heritage Publishing, "John Speed Maps", 2017.
  64. ^ Welland Antique Maps & Prints, "[Published in John Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine' between 1611 & 1676 and Henry Overton's 'England Described' from c.1713 to c.1756](http://wellandantiquemaps.co.uk/catalog/john-speed-maps)", 2014.
  65. ^ Mapseeker, John Speed County Maps Archived 6 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine, 2014.
  66. ^ Ebth, "John Speed Original 1676 Map "The Province of Mounster"", 2013–2017.
  67. ^ Baumann Rare Books, "Map of Huntington both Shire and Shire Towne", 2017.
  68. ^ Charles Edwin Puckett, ""A Map of Russia", c.1676 – John Speed", 1676.
  69. ^ Library of Congress catalog, An epitome of Mr. John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain, London, Printed for T. Basset, and R. Chiswell, 1676.
  70. ^ Library of Congress catalog, An epitome of Mr. John Speed's Theatre of the empire of Great Britain, London : Printed for Tho. Basset ... and Ric. Chiswell ..., 1676.
  71. ^ R. Sheringham, De Anglorum Gentis Origine Disceptatio (Edward Story, Cambridge 1670), pp. 42-43 (Google).
  72. ^ Thomas Park, 'Edward, Lord Montague', A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Vol. 3 (London: John Scott, 1806), pp. 265-66.
  73. ^ W. Nicolson, The English Historical Library (Abel Swall and T. Child, London 1696), p. 13 (Google).
  74. ^ A new and general biographical dictionary, Vol. 10 (London: Printed for multiple individuals, 1762), pp. 454–455.
  75. ^ Stephen Hyde Cassan, The Lives of the Bishops of Winchester from Birinus, Vol. 1 (London, C. and J. Rivington, 1827), p. 513 (Google).
  76. ^ T.B. Howell, A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Misdemeanors, Vol. 5 (London: T.C. Hansard, 1816), 827.
  77. ^ Charles Hulbert, 'The Memoir of John Speed', Cheshire Antiquities, Roman, Baronial and Monastic (C. Hulbert, Shrewsbury and Providence Grove/H. Washbourne, London 1838), pp. 62–65.
  78. ^ John Entick, A new and accurate history and survey of London, Westminster, Southwark, and Places Adjacent (London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1766), 139.
  79. ^ Steven Morris, John Speed's atlas could take auctioneer into uncharted territory, The Guardian, 19 July 2011.
  80. ^ Velma Bourgeois Richmond, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and Romance (New York: Bloombury Publishing, 2015), 13.
  81. ^ Graham Holderness, The Faith of William Shakespeare (UK: British Library, 2016), 47.
  82. ^ Harold Bloom, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (New York: Infobase Publishing, 2009), 75.

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