A prospect of the most famous parts of the vvorld Viz. Asia, 3 Affrica, 5 Europe, 7 America. 9 With these kingdomes therein contained. Grecia, 11 Roman Empire, 13 Germanie, 15 Bohemia, 17 France, 19 Belgia, 21 Spaine, 23 Italie, 25 Hungarie, 27 Denmarke, 29 Poland, 31 Persia, 33 Turkish Empire, 35 Kingdome of China, 37 Tartaria, 39 Sommer Ilands, 41 Civill Warres, in England, Wales, and Ireland. You shall find placed in the beginning of the second booke marked with these [3 asterisks in triangle formation] and (5) together with all the provinces, counties, and shires, contained in that large theator of Great Brittaines empire. / Performed by John Speed.

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A prospect of the most famous parts of the vvorld Viz. Asia, 3 Affrica, 5 Europe, 7 America. 9 With these kingdomes therein contained. Grecia, 11 Roman Empire, 13 Germanie, 15 Bohemia, 17 France, 19 Belgia, 21 Spaine, 23 Italie, 25 Hungarie, 27 Denmarke, 29 Poland, 31 Persia, 33 Turkish Empire, 35 Kingdome of China, 37 Tartaria, 39 Sommer Ilands, 41 Civill Warres, in England, Wales, and Ireland. You shall find placed in the beginning of the second booke marked with these [3 asterisks in triangle formation] and (5) together with all the provinces, counties, and shires, contained in that large theator of Great Brittaines empire. / Performed by John Speed.
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Speed, John, 1552?-1629.
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London :: printed by John Legatt, for William Humble. and are to be sold at his shop in Popes-head Pallace,
1646.
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"A prospect of the most famous parts of the vvorld Viz. Asia, 3 Affrica, 5 Europe, 7 America. 9 With these kingdomes therein contained. Grecia, 11 Roman Empire, 13 Germanie, 15 Bohemia, 17 France, 19 Belgia, 21 Spaine, 23 Italie, 25 Hungarie, 27 Denmarke, 29 Poland, 31 Persia, 33 Turkish Empire, 35 Kingdome of China, 37 Tartaria, 39 Sommer Ilands, 41 Civill Warres, in England, Wales, and Ireland. You shall find placed in the beginning of the second booke marked with these [3 asterisks in triangle formation] and (5) together with all the provinces, counties, and shires, contained in that large theator of Great Brittaines empire. / Performed by John Speed." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61053.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.

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L
Henry Lacy Earle of Lincolne, his onely sonne drowned in a Well,
119.7
Lactorodum. See Stonystrat∣ford,
Laford, i. Lord, what it impor∣teth,
47
Lagetium. See Casterford.
Lagman King of Man,
92.4
He taketh the badge of the Crosse of Ierusalem,
92.4
In his journey dieth,
ibid.
His crueltie to his brother Harold.
92.4
Lambeth commended,
11.7
Lampe burning many ages,
78.11
Llanbadarn vaur an Episco∣pall See,
113.7
Lancaster Countie Palatine,
7.1
How confined,
ibid.
The forme and dimension of it,
75.2
The soile and commodities thereof,
75.4
Hundreds and Townes therein,
76
By whom anciently inhabi∣ted,
75.5
Lancaster Towne,
75.6
The position of it,
ibid.
How governed,
ibid.
Lancaster House and Yorke conjoyned,
75.9
Lancastrians put to flight,
78.10
Llandaff city how sited,
105.5
An Episcopall See,
ibid.
Llandevi breve, why so called,
113.7
Langley in Hertford-shire.
39.6
Lath what it is,
4.6
Lawes, i. great stones,
89.13
Lawes of three sorts in Eng∣land,
4.8. & 5.3.
Law-troubles none in the Isle of Man,
91.5.

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Lawes ought to bee written and certaine,
5.3
Law-land men,
2.12
Lavatrae. See Levatre,
Saint Laurence Island,
1.2
Lead-Mines in Darby-shire,
67.5
Lead-blacke in Cumberland,
87.4
Leet whence it tooke name,
4.6
Legeolium. See Casterford.
Leicester-shire how bounded,
61.1
The Commodities and aire thereof,
61.2. & 3
What Religious Houses therein,
61.8
Hundreds and Townes therein,
62
By whom inhabited in old time,
61.4
Leicester Citie or Towne the Center of the Shire,
61.5
The position of it,
ibid.
What names it had beside,
61.1
An Episcopall See,
ibid.
Built long before Christs Nativitie,
ibid.
Well traded, and as well walled in times past,
ibid.
The graduation thereof,
61 5
Destruction thereof,
61.6
Leinster Province in Ireland, how called,
141.1
How bounded,
ibid.
The forme and dimension thereof,
141.2
The ayre, soyle, and Com∣modities,
141.3. & 5
By whom inhabited in old time,
141.4
Religious Houses therein,
141.14
Irish therein mischievous one to another,
141.2
Countries and Townes therein,
142
Lonn or Linn an ancient Borrough,
35.6
Made a Corporation,
ibid.
Lenn Episcopi,
35.6
Lenn Regis,
ibid.
Laeth what it is,
4.6
Lettustan Hundred in Hun∣tingdon-shire,
58.9
Le-trim Countie, plentifull of grasse,
143.4
Levatrae. See Bowes.
Lewes Battell in Sussex,
9.7
Llewellin Prince of Wales, where slaine and beheaded,
111.5
Lichfield Citie, why so cal∣led,
69.8
Lichfield Armes,
ibid.
An Archiepiscopall See.
ibid. 6.8
What Bishops subject to it,
6.8
The Minster built and new reared by whom,
ibid.
Limericke the principall Citie in Mounster,
139.6
An Episcopall See.
ibid.
By whom possessed,
ibid.
Fortified by whom,
ibid.
The position thereof,
ibid.
Lieutenant in every Coun∣tie called Custos or Earle,
4.11
Lin. See Lenn.
Lincoln-shire, how bounded,
63.1
The dimension and ayre of it,
63.2
Forme thereof,
63.4
Full of Fish and Fowle,
63.5
Other commodities there∣of,
63.6
Hundreds, Wapentakes, and Townes therein,
64
Lincolne Citie what names it hath,
63.8
How ancient and popu∣lous,
ibid.
How governed,
ibid.
The position and situation of it,
ibid.
Full of Religious Houses,
63.9
How divided,
63.10
Lindisfarne Island, why cal∣led the Holy Island,
93.1
How it is situate,
ibid.
The forme and dimension thereof,
93.2
The Ayre and soyle of it,
93.3. & 4
In it an Episcopall See,
93.6
Lindsey a third part of Lin∣colne shire.
63.10
Llinsavathan a strange Meere neere to Brecknock towne.
109.4
Supposed to be Loventri∣um,
ibid.
Liquorice growing at Workesop,
65.4.
Lithancraces,
89.6
Little-Chester in Darby-shire, a Colony of Romans,
67.6
Load-stone in Devon-shire,
195
Longovicum. See Lancaster.
Loughburrough,
61.7
Lough-Lomund, in Scotland, most raging in calmest weather,
132.15.
Lhoyger, i. England, how it is bounded,
99.1
Luceni, ancient people in Ire∣land, where planted,
139 4
Lutterworth,
61.7
London, what names it had,
29.7
Walled by Constantine, the great,
ibid.
London-stone, a Mile-mark,
ibid.
Churches therein,
ibid.
Wards thereof,
ibid.
How governed,
ibid.
An Arch-bishops See,
6.5
Made subject to Canterbu∣ry,
ibid.
In what graduation,
29 8
London-Bridge.
ibid.
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