Leicestershire Old County Map by John Speed
Map Description John Speeds County Map of Leicestershire 1611Leicestershire Old County Map by John Speed
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This county map of Leicestershire 1611 by John Speed is a very interesting historical document. It has a town plan of Leicester, the county town. It was also famous as being the burial ground for Cardinal Wolsey and for Richard III, who was killed at Bosworth, which is marked as 'King Richard's Field' on this map. There is a text relating to the Saxon and Norman noblemen that inhabited the area and the coats of arms of later Earls also a vignette of the battle of Bosworth fought in 1485. John Speed, a tailor's son from Cheshire is, perhaps, the most famous of British cartographers and one of the earliest. Whilst in his 50's, aided by his patron, Sir Fulke Greville, he produced "The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain", a book of county maps to accompany a history of Great Britain.
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