Editing John Speed (section)

===Biblical genealogies===
[[File:John Speed's Sacred Genealogies page 1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Opening of the ''Genealogies'', 1611]]
The Puritan clergyman scholar [[Hugh Broughton]] developed his study of Old Testament chronology and concordance in his work ''A Concent of Scripture'' in editions of 1588/89 and 1590, with illustrations said to be engraved by [[Jodocus Hondius]].<ref>H. Broughton, ''A Concent of Scripture'' (Richard Watkins for Gabriell Simson and William White, London 1588/1589), full text at [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A16964.0001.001/1:7?rgn=div1;view=toc Umich/eebo].</ref> John Speed, "by acquaintance with Mr. Broughton, [had] grown very studious in the scriptures" (wrote [[John Lightfoot]]), "and by his directions grown very Skilfull in them". Owing to the censure of puritan doctrines, Broughton recruited John Speed to see the work through the press, and from this collaboration arose the abstract of sacred genealogies first issued in Speed's name in 1592.<ref name=Macfarlane>K. Macfarlane, 'The Biblical Genealogies of the King James Bible (1611): Their Purpose, Sources, and Significance', ''The Library'', vol. 19, issue 2, (June 2018), [https://academic.oup.com/library/article/19/2/131/5040809?login=true pp. 131–158] (academic.oup). See also '3. From Chronology to Genealogy', in K. Macfarlane, ''Biblical Scholarship in an Age of Controversy: The Polemical World of Hugh Broughton (1549-1612)'' (Oxford University Press 2021), [https://books.google.com/books?id=ybdFEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA85 pp. 85-111] (Google).</ref><ref name=Lightfoot>J. Lightfoot (ed.), ''The Works of the Great Albionean Divine: Renown'd in Many Nations for Rare Skill in Salems & Athens Tongues'' (London: Nathaniel Ekins, 1662), [https://books.google.com/books?id=TMPtMgEACAAJ&pg=PP14 Preface] (Google): cited by Macfarlane.</ref> In around 1595 the two men brought out an index to that work.<ref>H. Broughton and J. Speed, ''A direction to finde all those names expressed in that large table of genealogies of Scripture lately gathered by I.S. whereof the first number serueth for the side margentes, and the later answerable to the highest fygures'' (London, ?1595), full text at [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A16970.0001.001/1:1?rgn=div1;view=toc Umich/eebo].</ref> To that period belongs Speed's first [[John Speed map of Canaan|''Map of Canaan'']] (after [[Benito Arias Montano|Montanus]]) in four sheets.

[[File:Speed Portrait Holy Land.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Speed's portrait, from the version of More's ''Map of Canaan'' re-engraved after 1666]]
In October 1610 Speed was granted a royal patent by King James to publish his genealogical work.<ref>M.A.E. Green (ed.), ''Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, James I: 1603-1610'' (Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, London 1857), [https://books.google.com/books?id=IK0J_ZtpJ2cC&pg=PA639 p. 639] (Google).</ref> In 1611, as ''The Genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures according to euery family and tribe with the line of Our Sauior Jesus Christ obserued from Adam to the Blessed Virgin Mary'', it was incorporated into the first edition of the [[King James Bible]]. For many years, this work (which had its own title-page) was bound into all copies of the Authorised Version, and it was reprinted for that purpose many times during the 17th century.<ref>See, e.g., a 1636 printing bound in with a 1637 Robert Barker bible in the British Library, digitized at [https://books.google.com/books?id=xeFmAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP13 Google].</ref> It contained some now-famous illustrations, including an image of [[Adam and Eve]] taking fruit from the forbidden tree in the [[Garden of Eden]], and a tree of the nations of the world arising out of [[Noah's Ark]]. The royal patent enabled Speed to have the profit of it in reward for his various great labours.<ref name=Fuller /> Speed is said to have admitted, for this reason, that "Mr Broughton was a means under God of great Blessings to him, and his Children, for worldly comforts": he also reputedly confessed to having burned a great quantity of Broughton's manuscripts.<ref name=Lightfoot />

This work was not merely an ornamental adjunct to the Bible, but had the serious intellectual purpose of expounding a resolution (or at least an explanation) of the differing descents of [[Jesus Christ]] from [[King David]] as they are recited in the Gospels of [[Gospel of St Matthew|St Matthew]] and [[Gospel of St Luke|St Luke]].<ref name=Macfarlane /> His continuation and finishing of the ''Map of Canaan'' originated by a Puritan scholar, the [[Norwich]] minister and chronologer [[John More (minister)|John More]] (who died in 1592), appeared with the date 1611 in the ''King James Version''. But the version of this map which includes portraits of More and Speed was engraved after the Great Fire of London (1666), in which the original plates were destroyed (according to a text within the later map).

In 1616 Speed developed the genealogies into a longer work, ''A Cloud of Witnesses confirming the Humanity of Christ Ihesus'', with lengthy textual explanations, in twelve chapters, for the descents shown in his diagrams or family trees. The first issue was printed by John Beale for Daniel Speed:<ref>J. Speed, ''A Clowd of Witnesses and They the Holy Genealogies of the Sacred Scriptures'' (By John Beale for Daniel Speed, in Pauls Church Yard at the sign of the Blazing Starre, 1616): page views at [https://books.google.com/books?id=iT-rgYoHMoIC&pg=PP1 Google].</ref> (Daniel was presumably the stationer who had licence to marry Matilda Garrett in February 1617/18).<ref name=Chester /> Beale printed a second edition in 1620, with a dedication to [[George Abbot (bishop)|George Abbot]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] 1611-1633,<ref>J. Speed, ''A Clowd of Witnesses and They the Holy Genealogies of the Sacred Scriptures. Confirming unto us the truth of the histories in Gods most holy word, and the humanitie of Christ Iesus. The second addition.'' (John Beale, London 1620): full text at [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A12716.0001.001/1:1?rgn=div1;view=fulltext Umich/eebo].</ref> and a third appeared in 1628 printed by Felix Kyngston for Edward Blackmore, Speed's son-in-law.<ref>(Worldcat).</ref> Speed's distinctive style of genealogical diagram, with the names contained in circular bubbles linked in chains, later appeared in the royal genealogies in the 1623 edition of the ''History''.