Editing John Speed (section)

=== Appreciation ===
In later years, [[Robert Sheringham]] (who recited Speed's text to his map of the Isle of Wight) referred to him as "summus et eruditus Antiquarius" (''a foremost and erudite antiquary''),<ref>R. Sheringham, ''De Anglorum Gentis Origine Disceptatio'' (Edward Story, Cambridge 1670) pp. 42-43.</ref> and he was called "our English [[Gerardus Mercator|Mercator]]";<ref>T. Park, "Edward, Lord Montague", ''A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland'', vol. 3 (London: John Scott, 1806) pp. 265-66</ref> "a person of extraordinary industry and attainments in the study of antiquities" (by [[William Nicolson]]);<ref>W. Nicolson, ''The English Historical Library'' (Abel Swall and T. Child, London 1696) p. 13.</ref><ref>''A new and general biographical dictionary'' vol. 10 (London: Printed for multiple individuals, 1762), pp. 454–455.</ref> an "honest and impartial historian... who was furnished with the best materials from some of the most considerable persons in this kingdom" (by [[Stephen Hyde Cassan]]),<ref>S. H. Cassan, ''The Lives of the Bishops of Winchester from Birinus'', vol. 1 (London, C. and J. Rivington, 1827) p. 513.</ref> a "faithful Chronologer" (in a text of 1656),<ref>T.B. Howell ''A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Misdemeanors'' vol. 5 (London: T. C. Hansard, 1816), 827.</ref> and "our Cheshire historian...a scholar...a distinguished writer on history" (by [[Charles Hulbert]]).<ref name=Hulbert>C. Hulbert, "The Memoir of John Speed", ''Cheshire Antiquities, Roman, Baronial and Monastic'' (C. Hulbert, Shrewsbury and Providence Grove/H. Washbourne, London 1838), [https://books.google.com/books?id=o8UHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA62 pp. 62–65].</ref> [[Richard Newcourt (historian)|Richard Newcourt]] called him a "celebrated chronologer and historiographer";<ref>J. Entick, [https://archive.org/details/anewandaccurate04entigoog ''A new and accurate history and survey of London, Westminster, Southwark, and Places Adjacent''] (London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1766), 139.</ref> [[James Granger]] observed, "his History of Great Britain was in its kind incomparably more complete than all the histories of his predecessors put together."<ref>J. Granger, ''A Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution'', 3rd Edition, with additions and improvements (J. Rivington and Sons, etc., London 1779), vol. 2, p. 320.</ref>

"And thus" (says Thomas Fuller), "we take our leaves of Father Speed, truly answering his name, in both the acceptions thereof, for ''celerity'' and ''success''."<ref name=Fuller />