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Map Notes
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Speed 1611
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NOTES from SPEED'S MAP OF HAMPSHIRE, 1611
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KD1996.16
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These notes are made from a map of Hantshire ie Hampshire by
John Speed, published in the Theatre of the Empire of Great
Britaine, 1611. The map studied is in the Map Collection of
Hampshire CC Museums Service, item HMCMS:KD1996.16.
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map type: HantsMap & Speed 1611
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notes: SPEED8.txt
Brown/Overton edition of the map
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JOHN SPEED
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John Speed was born at Farndon, Cheshire, 1552 and was brought
up in his father's trade, a tailor. In 1598 Speed got
encouragement and help from Sir Fulke Greville; Speed
acknowledges him:-
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Whose merits to me-ward I do acknowledge in setting this hand
free from the daily imployments of a manuall Trade, and giving it
his liberty thus to express the inclination of my mind.
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Speed was introduced by Greville to the Society of Antiquaries
where he came into contact with scholars like William Camden,
Robert Cotton, and William Smith.
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very rare and ingenious capacitie in drawing and setting forthe
of mappes and genealogies ...
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was commended by the Merchant Taylor' Company in 1660. John
Speed's atlas, Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, was
compiled between 1596 and 1610:-
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The / Theatre / of the Empire / of Great / Britaine: / Presenting
/ An Exact Geography / of the Kingdomes of England, / Scotland,
Ireland, / and the Iles adioyning: / with / The Shires, Hundreds,
Cities and / Shire-townes, within ye Kingdome / of England,
divided and / described / By / Iohn Speed. / Imprinted at London
/ Anno / Cum Privilegio / 1611 / and are to be solde by Iohn
Sudbury & Georg / Humble in Popes-head alley at ye signe of ye
white Horse.
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Sudbury and Humble were the first english firm to specialise
as map and print sellers, and were necessary to Speed to
undertake the task of making his ideas a reality.
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Speed refers to:-
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... mine owne travels through every province of England ...
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... my many additions, and dimensions of the Shire-townes and
Cities true platformes ...
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but admits:-
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I have put my sickle into other mens corne ...
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Little of Speed's maps is original; he has copied, adapted,
compiled. His mapping is not entirely copying, the content is
revised, though errors are perpetuated. Historical notes were
added, perhaps taken from Camden's Britannia. Decoration is
added, coats of arms of nobility for example with advice from
William Smith on heraldry. The deer and hounds in the New Forest
of Hampshire are a pretty extra. Speed sent his maps to be
engraved by the best hands, most by Jodocus Hondius the elder in
the Netherlands to whom Speed was introduced by Camden; the
results are a pleasure to view.
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Speed adds hundreds where these were missing from his source;
or the equivalent areas:-
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The Shires divisions, into Lathes, Hundreds, Wapentakes and
cantreds ... I have separated
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If not available on earlier maps the information came from
'the Parlament Rowles' or failing there, 'the Nomina Villarum, in
their Sheriffes bookes'.
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The maps have inset maps, town plans:-
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... some have bene performed by others, without scale annexed,
the rest by mine owne travels, and unto them for distinction
sake, the scale of paces.
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Hampshire's map has a town plan of Winchester, with a scale of
'pases', performed by John Speed himself. This atlas is the first
comprehensive collection of town plans. A town plan of
Southampton is given on the map of the Isle of Wight.
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Descriptive text about counties is printed on the reverse of
the maps with a list of hundreds and an index of parishes showing
what hundred they are in.
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REFERENCES
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Arlot, John (ed): 1953: John
Speede's England: Phoenix House (London):: facsimile in 5 vols;
NLS Map.fac.b.C17.b(1676)
Hodges, C W: 1949: John Speed's
Theatre: Theatre Notebook: 3: pp28-31
Potter, Johnathon: 1991: Theatre of
Empire of Great Britain: Drayton Manor Publishing:: ISBN 0
9511577 3 6; facsimile
Skelton, R A: 1952: Tudor Town
Plans in John Speed's Theatre: Archaeological J: 108: pp109-120
Skelton, R A: 1970: County Atlases
of the British Isles 1580-1850: Carta Press:: p.35 about lat and
long
Smith, David: 1986: Jansson versus
Blaeu: Cartographic Journal: 23: pp 106-14
Tooley: 1949: British Maps and Map
Makers: Batsford (London)
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map type Speed 1611 -- menu of resources |
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map features -- SPD1FTR.txt
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coats of arms -- SPD1ARM.txt
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OLDMAPS.exe results -- SPD1NGR.txt
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descriptive text -- SPD1TXT.txt
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source item -- HMCMS:KD1996.16 -- map |
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list of map notes |
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HantsMap Notes -- SPEED1.txt
MN: 3.11.1997
last edit: 24.7.2003
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