Editing John Speed (section)

===Death===
John Speed died in July 1629 at the age of 77 or 78.<ref name=Newcourt /> He was buried alongside his wife (who had died in the previous year) in London's [[St Giles-without-Cripplegate]] church on [[Fore Street, London|Fore Street]].<ref name="Taylor" /><ref name=churchweb>{{cite web |title=Heritage |url=https://www.stgilesnewsite.co.uk/history/ |publisher=St Giles without Cripplegate |access-date=17 September 2012}}</ref><ref name=EncylLon>{{cite book |author1=Christopher Hibbert |author2=Ben Weinreb |author3=John Keay |author4=Julia Keay |title=The London Encyclopaedia |year=2010 |publisher=Pan Macmillan |isbn=9780230738782 |page=762}}</ref> According to Fuller, his funeral sermon was delivered by [[Josias Shute]].<ref name=Fuller /> A monument to John Speed was soon afterwards erected on the south side of the chancel of the church.<ref name="Taylor" /> (See [[#Monument and epitaph|Monument and epitaph]] below.)