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John Speed

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John Speed 1552?–1629, English historian and cartographer. He abandoned his trade as a tailor to engage in mapmaking. Many of his maps of parts of England and Wales were published in The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (1611). His major work, The History of Great Britain, and his Genealogies Recorded in Sacred Scripture were published c.1611; they are based largely on earlier work.

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Speed, John (?1552–1629), historian and cartographer, made various maps of English counties, and was encouraged by Camden, Cotton, and others to write his History of Great Britaine (1611). The maps were far more valuable than the history; they began about 1607, and an atlas of them appeared in 1611.

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