Draft Maps of Galway and Coventry for John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine

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Notes

John Andrews was formerly associate professor of geography at Trinity College, Dublin. Sarah Bendall is fellow and development director at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

1. Sarah Bendall, ‘Draft town maps for John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine’, Imago Mundi 54 (2002): 30–45. The original volume is in Merton College Oxford, shelfmark MS D.3.30.

2. J. H. Andrews, ‘The oldest map of Dublin’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 83C (1983): 205–37, at 208.

3. No Humphrey Fenn is recorded in Sarah Bendall, Dictionary of Land Surveyors and Local Cartographers of Great Britain and Ireland, 1530–1850 (London, The British Library, 1997), and no one of this name is recorded in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum.

4. Jan Broadway, ‘Fenn, Humphrey (1543/4–1634)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004), <http: www.oxforddnb.com/view/article 9280>, accessed 15 December 2004.

5. Mr R. E. Fenn of Caterham, Surrey, kindly supplied this and many other facts about persons named Fenn. For a Humphrey Fenn in Norfolk, see also Calendar of Patent Rolls, Elizabeth I, 1578–80, p. 30.

6. Paul Walsh, ‘The topography of the town of Galway in the medieval and early modern periods’, in Galway, History and Society: Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County, ed. Gerard Nolan (Dublin, Geography Publications, 1996), 27–96 at 51.

7. Other Irish maps in this category are those signed by Baptista Boazio (Ulster c.1603, British Library, Cotton MS Augustus, I, ii, 30); Francis Candell (Cork and Kinsale harbours 1587, National Library of Ireland, MS 2656, xx); Morgan Colman (Askeaton c.1580, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 597, fol. 304); Robert Cotton (Blackwater Fort, co. Armagh 1600, British Library, Cotton MS Augustus, I, ii, 32); and John Dunstall (Carrickfergus 1612, British Library, Cotton MS Augustus, I, ii, 41).

8. Map of Galway town c.1625–1626 (Trinity College, Dublin MS 1209/72); Plans of St Augustine's Fort, early seventeenth century (British Library, Cotton MS Augustus, I, ii, 34; Trinity College, Dublin MS 1209/71; and British Library, Add. MS 24200, fols. 29–30).

9. Bendall, ‘Draft town maps’ (see note 1), 37.

10. R. A. Skelton, County Atlases of the British Isles, 1579–1850 (London, Carta Press 1970), 36.

11. Heather Lawrence, ‘Permission to survey’, The Map Collector 19 (1982): 16–20 at 19–20.