'John Speed', in T. Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England (J.G., W.L. and W.G., London 1662), p. 184 (Internet Archive).
C. M. Clode, The Early History of the Guild of Merchant Taylors of the Fraternity of St John the Baptist, London, 2 vols (Harrison and Sons, London 1888), II: The Lives, p. 332 (Internet Archive).
J.L. Chester, ed. J. Foster, London Marriage Licences 1521-1869 (Bernard Quaritch, London 1887), Col. 1265 (Internet Archive)
"Life of John Speed", in W. West, The history, topography and directory of Warwickshire (R. Wrightson, Birmingham 1830), pp. 36–37 (Google).
'The loving brother of the Mystery, John Speed', in Clode, Early History of the Merchant Taylors, II, at pp. 332-35 (Internet Archive).
1572 in Greenfield's pedigree of Speed: variant sources give 1575. Susanna died in 1628 after 57 years of marriage to John, according to her M.I.
B.W. Greenfield, 'Pedigree of Speed of Southampton', in J.J. Howard (ed.), Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica Series 3, vol. 2.i, March 1896 (London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1898), pp. 18–25 (Internet Archive).
E. Kell, 'On the Castle and Other Ancient Remains at Southampton', Journal of the British Archaeological Association, Ser.1, XXI (1865), pp. 285-93, at pp. 289–290, note 2 (Internet Archive).
'Speed's description of Warwickshire, section (6)', in W. West, The History, Topography and Directory of Warwickshire, pp. 41-45, at p. 43 (Internet Archive)
M. A. E. Green (ed.), Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, Elizabeth, 1598–1601, vol. 267: June 1598 (Longmans, Green & Co., London 1869), p. 62 (Internet Archive)
Clode, Early History of the Guild of Merchant Taylors, II, pp. 332-33 (Internet Archive)
T. Speght (ed.), The Workes of our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed (Adam Islip for George Bishop, London 1598, 1602), frontis. (Internet Archive)
J. Stow, The Annales of England 2nd edition (Felix Kyngston for Ralphe Newbery, London 1601), page views at Internet Archive.
J. Stow, "The race of the Kings of Brytaine after the received opinion since Brute, &c", in The Annales of England (Felix Kyngston for Ralphe Newbery, London 1601), at pp. 11-21 (Internet Archive)
J. Spedding, 'Preface to the History of the Reign of Henry VII', in J. Spedding, R.L. Ellis and D.D. Heath (eds), The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, vol. 6: Literary and Professional Works, vol. 1, New Edition (Longmans & Co., London 1870), at p. 4 (Internet Archive)
"Speed's Address to His Readers", in West, The History, Topography and Directory of Warwickshireat pp. 38–41 (Internet Archive)
See also G. Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine of Chester, 3 vols (Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones, London 1819), II, p. 406 (Internet Archive).
See also J. J. Baddeley, An Account of the Church and Parish of St Giles, without Cripplegate, in London (Author, London 1888), pp. 90-92 (Internet Archive).
'The Remaines', in A. Munday (ed.), The Survey of London; contayning the Orignall, Increase, Moderne Estate and Government of that Citie, begun by Iohn Stow (Elizabeth Purslow for Nicholas Bourne, London 1633), at pp. 776-77 (Internet Archive).
R. Leech, "Documentary evidence - Temple Fee and the Rack Closes", in K. Colls, 'The Avon Floodplain at Bristol: Excavations at Templar House, Temple Way, in Bristol 2004 and 2005', Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society CXXVIII (2010), pp. 73-120 (Society's pdf), at p. 106 p. 35
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A full coloured original set of Speed's British maps, with their descriptive texts in the Latin 1616 edition of the Theatre, can be viewed online at gallica (Bibliothèque Nationale Française).
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"Life of John Speed", The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, July 1782, p. 348 (Google).
K. Macfarlane, 'The Biblical Genealogies of the King James Bible (1611): Their Purpose, Sources, and Significance', The Library, vol. 19, issue 2, (June 2018), pp. 131–158 (academic.oup). See also '3. From Chronology to Genealogy', in K. Macfarlane, Biblical Scholarship in an Age of Controversy: The Polemical World of Hugh Broughton (1549-1612) (Oxford University Press 2021), pp. 85-111 (Google).
A. Kippis, 'John Speed', in Biographia Britannica, 6 vols (J. Walthoe, etc., London 1763 edition), vol. 6 pt 1, pp. 3773–775, at p. 3774, note E (Google).
R. Newcourt, Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense (Bateman, Tooke, Parker, Bowyer and Clements, London 1708), I, p. 356 (Google).
J. Lightfoot (ed.), The Works of the Great Albionean Divine: Renown'd in Many Nations for Rare Skill in Salems & Athens Tongues (London: Nathaniel Ekins, 1662), Preface (Google): cited by Macfarlane.
M.A.E. Green (ed.), Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, James I: 1603-1610 (Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, London 1857), p. 639 (Google).
See, e.g., a 1636 printing bound in with a 1637 Robert Barker bible in the British Library, digitized at Google.
J. Speed, A Clowd of Witnesses and They the Holy Genealogies of the Sacred Scriptures (By John Beale for Daniel Speed, in Pauls Church Yard at the sign of the Blazing Starre, 1616): page views at Google.
J. Speed, The History of Great Britaine under the conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Their Originals, Manners, Warres, Coines, and Seales: with ye Successions, Lives, Acts, & Issues of the English Monarchs from Julius Caesar, to our most gracious soueraigne King Iames, 1st Edition (Imprinted by William Hall and Iohn Beale for John Sudbury and George Humble, cum Privilegio, London 1611), text at Umich/eebo; (1614 reissue), page views at Google.
R. Gough, Anecdotes of British Topography: Or, an Historical Account of What has been Done for Illustrating the Topographical Antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland (T. Payne and W. Brown, London 1768), p. 42 (Google).
J. Speed, History of Great Britaine Under the Conquests of Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans, Second, Revised Edition (London 1623); page views at Google.
Speed, History of Great Britain (1611/1614), pp. 787-802 (Google); (1623), pp. 1059–1105 (Google).
"In Catalogo Monasteriorum (a Gulielmo Burton (ut accepi) collecto, et apud Spedum edito)...": H. Spelman, Concilia, Decreta, Leges, Constitutiones in Re Ecclesiarum Orbis Britannici, 3 vols (R. Badger, for Ph. Stepani and Ch. Meredith, London 1636), I, p. 215, Note (Google).
W. Nicolson, "J. Speed", in The English Historical Library (Abell Swall and T. Child, London 1696), I, pp. 194-95 (Google).
"Catalogus Religiosarum Ædium ex Anglico Ioannis Speed, Latinus", in N. Harpsfield and E. Campion, ed. R. Gibbon, Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica (Marcus Wyon, Douai 1622), pp. 741-79 (Google).
C. Ivic, "'bastard Normans, Norman bastards': anomalous identities in 'The Life of Henry the Fift'", in P. Schwyzer and W. Maley (eds), Shakespeare and Wales: From the Marches to the Assembly (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2010), pp. 75–82.
C. Hulbert, "The Memoir of John Speed", Cheshire Antiquities, Roman, Baronial and Monastic (C. Hulbert, Shrewsbury and Providence Grove/H. Washbourne, London 1838), pp. 62–65.
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"Speede, John", in J. Foster (ed.), Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (Oxford, 1891), pp. 1394–1422 (British History Online).
W. Lambarde, Archaionomia, sive De Priscis Anglorum Legibus Libri (John Day, London 1568). View Lambarde's Map as re-used by Day in the Acts and Monuments at dhi.ac.uk
J. Strype (ed.), A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster (1720), Book 3, Chapter 6, pp. 85-86 (HRI/University of Sheffield).
"Tomb brass: John Speed (born 1542 [sic], died 1629)", Burrell Collection: European Bronzes and Brasswares (except Statuary), ID 5-6.142. View image and description in Glasgow Museums collections navigator (retrieved 12 July 2022).
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C.L. Kingsford, English Historical Literature in the Fifteenth Century (Clarendon Press, Oxford 1913), p. 268 (Hathi Trust).
"America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings, 1626". View 3 copies at the Library of Congress digital resource
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An Epitome of Mr. John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (London, Printed for T. Basset, and R. Chiswell, 1676), Library of Congress catalog, [1].
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A. Baynton-Williams, 'John Speed': Relocated since 17 Sept 2012 at Mapforum.com as "Biography: John Speed", Jan 2022 (www. mapforum.com).
See Mapforum articles, Issue 03 (Relocated 2022), "John Speed: A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World" (mapforum.com).
K. Macfarlane, 'The Biblical Genealogies of the King James Bible (1611): Their Purpose, Sources, and Significance', The Library, vol. 19, issue 2, (June 2018), pp. 131–158 (academic.oup). See also '3. From Chronology to Genealogy', in K. Macfarlane, Biblical Scholarship in an Age of Controversy: The Polemical World of Hugh Broughton (1549-1612) (Oxford University Press 2021), pp. 85-111 (Google).
D. Wheare, The Method and Order of Reading both Civill and Ecclesiasticall Histories (M. Flesher for Charles Brome, London 1685), Part 1, Section XXXI, pp. 164-168; full text at Umich/eebo.
H. Broughton, A Concent of Scripture (Richard Watkins for Gabriell Simson and William White, London 1588/1589), full text at Umich/eebo.
H. Broughton and J. Speed, A direction to finde all those names expressed in that large table of genealogies of Scripture lately gathered by I.S. whereof the first number serueth for the side margentes, and the later answerable to the highest fygures (London, ?1595), full text at Umich/eebo.
J. Speed, A Clowd of Witnesses and They the Holy Genealogies of the Sacred Scriptures. Confirming unto us the truth of the histories in Gods most holy word, and the humanitie of Christ Iesus. The second addition. (John Beale, London 1620): full text at Umich/eebo.
J. Stow, The Chronicles of England from Brute Unto this Present Yeare of Christ 1580 (R. Newberie and H. Bynneman, London 1580), full text at Umich/eebo.
J. Speed, The History of Great Britaine under the conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Their Originals, Manners, Warres, Coines, and Seales: with ye Successions, Lives, Acts, & Issues of the English Monarchs from Julius Caesar, to our most gracious soueraigne King Iames, 1st Edition (Imprinted by William Hall and Iohn Beale for John Sudbury and George Humble, cum Privilegio, London 1611), text at Umich/eebo; (1614 reissue), page views at Google.
J. Speed, C. Schweitzer, J. Hondius, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine: Presenting an Exact Geography of the Kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Iles Adioyning: with the Shires, Hundreds, Cities and Shire-townes, within ye kingdome of England, divided and described by Iohn Speed (William Hall for Iohn Sudbury & Georg Humble, London 1611/1612); full text (with county descriptions, etc), at Umich/eebo.
T. Fuller, The Church-history of Britain from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the Year M.DC.XLVIII (Iohn Williams, London 1655), Book IV, Section II, Chapter 40, p. 168 (Umich/eebo).
"Published in John Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine' between 1611 & 1676 and Henry Overton's 'England Described' from c.1713 to c.1756",Welland Antique Maps & Prints (2014). (Commercial website)
