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Edmund Gibson wrote in preface to this map series: "The
Maps are all new engrav'd, either according to Surveys never
before published, or according to such as have been made and
printed since Saxton and Speed. Where actual Surveys could be
had, they were purchased at any rate; and for the rest, one of
the best copies extant was sent to some of the most knowing Gentlemen
in each county, with a request to supply the defects, rectifie
the positions, and correct the false spellings. And that nothing
might be wanting to render them as complete and accurate as might
be, this while business was committed to Mr. Robert Morden, a
person of known abilities in these matters
Upon the whole,
we need not scruple to affirm that they are by much the fairest
and most correct of any that have yet appeared." Quoted
from Chubb, 1927, pg. 94
Some noteable improvements in this map over earlier maps of
Sussex, namely that:
1)Coastal counties improved by the incorporation of detail
from the sea charts of Greenville Collins, and the modernization
of place-names began with the efforts of Gibson and Morden.
2)However, map is actually "crudely drawn, decoratively
uninteresting, and the delineation of the coastline is a slavish
copy from Speed's map of the county" See Gough's evaluation.
3)Longitude based on the meridian of St. Paul's
Published in Camden's Britanniae, newly translated
into English. Published by Edmund Gibson. London, A. Swalle and
A. and J. Churchill, 1695.
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