John Speed, The History of Great Britain (1611)
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Date
1611
Author
John Speed Note: 13/10/2005
Lexicon title
The Names that have beene Attribvted vnto this Iland of Great Britaine
Book title
The History of Great Britaine Under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Their Originals, Manners, Warres, Coines & Seales with the Successions, Lives, acts & Issues of the English Monarchs from Iulius Caesar, to our most gracious Soueraigne King Iames
Publication place
London
Publisher
John Sudbury and George Humble
Transcription source
British Library G.7885
Text type
printed book
Genre
Proper and place name indexes
Subject area
place name
Summary
Etymological explanations of Albion (p. 158), Britain (pp. 158-160), Angle-land (pp. 160-61). "Albion is called the White Land." (p. 158, marginal note); "Britaine the name of this iland thought to take his name from Brute" (p. 158, marginal note); and "This Iland named Angle-lond of a place in Denmarke called Engloen" (p. 160, marginal note).
Extent
157-61 [book starts at page 151]
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: other
sample: Other names hath this Iland beene termed by, and that either by way of note for her situation, as Insula Caeruli, the Iland in the Sea, so written in the sonet or parodia made against Ventidius Bassus, and by Claudian confirmed, whose sides (saith hee) the azure Sea doth wash.
sample: Other names hath this Iland beene termed by, and that either by way of note for her situation, as Insula Caeruli, the Iland in the Sea, so written in the sonet or parodia made against Ventidius Bassus, and by Claudian confirmed, whose sides (saith hee) the azure Sea doth wash.
Schafer
1611 S
STC
23045
Facsimiles
Speed, John. England: A Coloured Facsimile of the Maps and Text from The theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, first edition, 1611. Ed. John Arlott. London: Phoenix House, n.d. view record
