GLOUCESTERSHIRE (C.1611)

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‘Glocestershire’ From The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (1611) by English cartographer and historian John Speed (1552-1629). His historical leanings can be seen in his depictions of the apocryphal meeting of King Canute and Edmund Ironside on Alney Island, and the Battle of Tewkesbury (1471).