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 17, 2024.

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Sabbath day Market,
111 6
Saffran a Commoditie of Essex:
31.6
Salisbury plaine,
25.4
Salisbury Citie,
25.7
The Cathedrall Church,
ibid.
Earles thereof,
ibid.
The situation there,
25 8
Old Salisbury,
25.8
Salmons great and plentifull in Scotland,
103.5 & 132.14
Salmons leape,
113.3 & 145.9
Salt, how made in Lancashire,
75.7
Salt comming from stones,
83.8
Saltry Iudeth why so called,
52.8
Saltry Monastery,
ibid.
Sand a part of Nottingham-shire.
65.7
Sangue lac in Sussex,
9.7
Sarnia. See Garnsey,
Saxons Heptarchie whence it first began,
3.1
The seven severall King∣domes how named,
3.1
The Heptarchies Northern limit,
3.2
Saxons states severally how at first divided in England,
3 3
Saxons government in Eng∣land how long it continued,
4.11
Saxons first seaven Kings Pa∣gan,
4.12
Saxons first seaven Kings Christian,
ibid.
Sceafull Mountaine in the Isle of Man,
91.7
Scope of the Authour in this Worke or Theatre,
1.1
Scotland how bounded,
99.1 & 131.4
How divided,
129
The forme of it,
131.2
The Commodities thereof,
ibid. & 131.14
The feature and nature of The Scots,
ibid.
Scotland adorned with three Vniversities,
ibid.
The position of Scotland,
131.9
Scotland how divided into Countries or Sheriffedoms, Stewardships, and Baili∣wickes,
191.10
In Scotland Arch-bishops Metropolitan,
2. & 132.11
Scots Southerne of one origi∣nall with the English,
131 4
Scots naturall whence descen∣ded and named,
131 5
Scots vanquish the Picts, and raise their name,
131 8
Scythians come into Spaine,
138.7
Sea-coales,
89.6
A Sea-man taken,
33.7
Sea-sand making the soil fruit∣full,
21.3
Seffrid Bishop reedefied Chi∣chester Cathedrall Church,
9.6
Segontium, now Caernarvon,
123.6
Segontians where they inhabi∣ted,
13.6
Selby the birth-place of King Henry the first,
63.7
Selby Abbey,
77.7
Selonae, now Sandie,
41.4
Sessions foure times in the yeare ordained,
5.3
Severne a noble River,
47 3.
The head thereof,
115.2
Whence it tooke name,
115.3
Severus the Emperour died at Yorke,
ibid.
The manner of his fune∣rall,
ibid.
Sexwolfe Bishop of Leicester,
61.6
Shaftesbury,
6
Sheriffes whence they came,
4.6
Shatland Isle,
132.22
Shirburne a Bishops See,
17 7
Translated to Salisbury,
27 8
Shire whence it cometh,
3 4
Shires how many in England at sundry times,
4.8 & 9
Shrewsbury chiefe Towne of Shrop-shire,
71.8
The building, site, trade, and strength thereof,
71 8
How governed,
ibid.
Shrop-shire how limited,
71 1
The forme, soile, and ayre thereof,
71.2.3.4
Castles 32. therein,
71
Hundreds and towns there∣of,
72
Sicicle why so called,
15.1
Sidre in Garnsey what drinke,
94.4
Sigebert King of South-Saxons skin,
9.4
Silcester, sometimes Caer-Se∣gonte,
13.6
How ancient,
13.10
Destroyed,
13.10
Silures where they inhabited,
47.4. & 493. & 107.4 & 109 4. & 111.5
Described,
49.3
Their valour,
ibid. 63.7
Subdued by Vespasian,
49 3
Simon a Monke of Swinstead poysoneth King Iohn.
Sisters three, what Rivers in Leinster,
141.6
Slege County in Ireland what Commodities it yeeldeth,
143.4
Smyris. See Emeryll.
Snowdn Hill,
123.4
Soland Geese their use,
132.14
Solemne-Mosse field,
87.5
Somerset-shire how bounded,
23.1
Whence it tooke name,
ibid.
The forme and dimension of it,
23.2
The ayre and soile,
23, 3 & 4
The ancient Inhabitants,
23.5
The profit it affordeth,
23 6
Memorable for sundry E∣vents,
23.8
Religious houses,
23 9
Hundreds and Townes thereof,
24

Page [unnumbered]

Somersham annexed to the Crown,
57.7
Southampton described,
13.10
South-Wales divided into sixe parts,
100.16
Spring of Salt-water at Lea∣mington in Warwick-shire,
53.7
Springs that ebbe and flow,
78.11
Stafford shire how bounded,
69.1
The forme and dimension of it,
69.2
By whom anciently inha∣bited,
69.5
Commodities thereof,
69.6
What houses of Religion it had,
69.9
Hundreds and Townes therein,
70
Stafford Town described,
69.7
How governed,
Ibid.
The site or positure of it,
Ibid.
Sir Hubert Saint Clare his death to save King Henry the second,
7.6
Stamford sometime an Vni∣versitie,
59.8
Stamford bridge Battaile,
92.1
Stanneries or Stanniers,
21.3
Stibium in Darby-shire gt∣ten,
67.5
Stock-Chappell in Norfolke why so called,
35.8
Stock-fish gainfull to King∣stone men upon Hull,
81.4
Stones like Serpents,
81.6
Stony Serpents found within round stones,
81.6
Stoney-Stredford,
4.3 6
The Crosse there,
Ibid.
Stones resembling Shell∣fishes,
47.10
Stoneheng described in the Mappe of Wilt-shire.
Stoneley Priory in Hunting∣don-shire,
58.9
Suffolke how bounded,
33.1
The ayre thereof,
33.2
The forme of it,
Ibid.
The dimension thereof,
33.3
By whom possessed in old time,
33, 4
What Commodities it yeeldeth,
33.5
How divided,
33.9
Hundreds and Townes therein,
34
Sumatra thought to be the Isle Taprobana,
1.2
Summerled, Prince of Herer∣gaidel slaine,
92.6.8
Sunning, an Episcopall See, translated to Shirburne,
27.8
Surrey or Suthrey how it is bounded,
11.1.
Whence it took name,
11.4
The forme of it,
11.2
The length thereof,
Ibid.
The breadth of it,
Ibid.
The circumference there∣of,
ibid.
By whom inhabited in old time,
11.4
Principall places in it,
11.5 & 6.8
The graduation of it,
11.6
Religious Houses in it,
11.9
What Castles are in it,
11.10
How divided,
ibid.
Hundreds and Townes in it,
12
Sussex what memorable pla∣ces it hath,
9.8
What commodities it yeil∣deth,
9.9
Religious Houses built and suppressed,
9.10
How bounded,
9.1
How divided,
9.10
Rapes, hundreds, & towns in it,
10
Why so named,
9.1
The forme of it,
9.2
The length thereof,
I∣bid.
The breadth thereof,
I∣bid.
The ayre of it,
9.3
Havens in it uncertain and dangerous,
9.3
Nature of the soyle,
9.4.
Swale River,
79.3
Swale dale,
ibid.
Swords Delfe why so called,
58.8
Synode at Colne about Priests Marriage,
25.6
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