John Speed
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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 draw
Memorial to John Speed, St Giles-without-Cripplegate
Sir Fulke Greville
John Speed, by Salomon Savery (1594-1683)
Opening of the Genealogies, 1611
William Camden
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William Camden was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of Britannia, the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland that relat
William Camden
Hand-coloured frontispiece and title page of the 1607 edition of Britannia
Camden at centre as Clarenceux King of Arms in the funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth I, 1603
Frontispiece and title page of a 1675 edition of the Annales