Old Map of Monmouthshire, Wales in 1611 by John Speed - Abergavenny, Caldicot, Chepstow, Monmouth, Magor Size:70x100 cm - UNFRAMED lake house owners

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Old Map of Monmouthshire, Wales in 1611 by John Speed - Abergavenny, Caldicot, Chepstow, Monmouth, Magor Size:70x100 cm - UNFRAMED lake house ownersFor close to four centuries, officials and antiquarians disagreed over whether Monmouthshire properly belonged to Wales or to England, an argument that began when the Laws in Wales Acts of 1535 and 1542 created the county and then, in the second act, left it off the official list of Welsh shires. John Speed's map, engraved by Jodocus Hondius in Amsterdam and published in 1611 as part of the Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain, sidesteps the dispute