English cartographer and historian (1551/52-1629)
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Map of Ireland, showing Scottish and Welsh coasts. Engraving after J. Speed, 1610.
John SpeedDate: Anno Domini 1610Reference: 576766i- Books
The theatre of the empire of Great-Britain : presenting an exact geography of the Kingdon of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the isles adjoyning, with a chronology of the civil wars in England, Wales and Ireland / Together with A prospect of the most famous parts of the world, viz. Asia, Africa, Europe, America. By John Speed. In this new edition are added, in The theatre of Great Britain, the principal roads in England and Wales, the market towns, a continusation of all the battels, the arms of all the dukes and earls, the descriptions of his Majesty's dominions abroad; with a map fairly engraven to each description, viz. New England, New York, Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Mary-Land, Jamaica, Barbadoes. In the Prospect of the world, the empire of the Great Mogul, with the rest of the East-Indies, Palestine, the empire of Russia.
John SpeedDate: 1676- Books
The history of Great Britaine under the conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Their originals, manners, habits, warres, coines, and seales, with the successions, lines, acts, and issues of the English monarchs, from Ivlivs Cæsar, to ovr most, gratious soueraigne King Iames / [John Speed].
John SpeedDate: 1650