John Speed
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title:
John Speed
text:
John Speed was an English cartographer, chronologer and historian of Cheshire origins. The son of a citizen and Merchant Taylor in London, he rose from his family occupation to accept the task of drawing together and revising the histories, topographies and maps of the Kingdoms of Great Britain as an exposition of the union of their monarchies in the person of King James I and VI. He accomplished this with remarkable success, with the support and assistance of the leading antiquarian scholars of
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English cartographer and historian
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Speed
date created:
2002-10-11T14:34:26Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T12:48:41Z
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