John Speed Quotes

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Warwickshire (so called from her shire town) is bounded upon the north with the county of Stafford; upon the east with Wailing-street-way, is parted from Leicestershire, and the rest bordered upon by Northamptonshire; the south part is butted by Oxford and Gloucestershires; and all her west with the county of Worcester.

John Speed

So great was the attempt to assay the erection of this large and laborious Theatre, whose only platform might well have expected the readiest hand of the best artist, that even in the entrance of the first draught, as one altogether discouraged, I found myself far unfit and unfurnished both of matter and means, either to build, or to beautifie so stately a project.

John Speed