City Maps of Olde England

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Text on card: City Maps of Olde England. Ipswich. Speed seems to have had a special regard for Ipswich. He placed on this map a rising sun, and he praised the town and its surrounding region as possessing beauties "many and great, whereof the chiefest consist in corn, cattle, cloth, pasturage, woods, sea-fish and fowls". He recorded that - like many other east coast towns - Ipswich was sacked by the Danes, who "laid the streets desolate and the houses in heaps."

Note: This map was the work of John Speed (1542–1629), an English historian and cartographer.