157:. In the introduction he acknowledges Nowell's contribution. This publication included a woodcut map depicting the seven kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, which is thought to be the first map of any sort ("Lambardes map") to have been designed, printed and published in England, and which is very likely to have been the work of Laurence Nowell.
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Archaionomia, siue de priscis anglorum legibus libri: sermone
Anglico, vetustate antiquissimo, aliquot abhinc seculis conscripti, atq nunc demum, magno iurisperitorum, & amantium antiquitatis omnium commodo, è tenebris in lucem vocati. Gulielmo Lambardo interprete. Regum qui has leges scripserunt
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Shannon makes the claim that Nowell had "a butterfly mind", and fell into the scholar's trap of rarely finishing a project or publishing anything. Despite this, he also makes the claim that "Nowell was a pioneer in the Anglo-Saxon language, in place-name studies, and in map-making, and that he can be
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Nowell devoted much effort in the 1560s to a large-scale atlas of Anglo-Saxon
Britain, though he never completed the work. For Cecil, he made the first accurate cartographic survey of the east coast of Ireland, as well as presenting him, in 1563/64, with a small, accurate pocket-sized map of Britain,
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Nowell, probably realising that he was not going to be given the preferment he sought from Cecil, decided to visit the
Continent to study (and possibly to become a diplomat) in 1568, and died there between 1570 and 1572. His books and manuscripts passed into the possession of William Lambarde.
94:, where he received an M.A. in 1552. He travelled to Paris, in 1553, then to Rouen, Antwerp, Louvain, Geneva, Venice, Padua and Rome by 1557/58. Another round of extensive travelling ensued, this time around England, Ireland and perhaps Wales, in the company of
213:'s analysis of a 1571 court case made it clear that there were two different Laurence Nowells, and their biographies have since been partially disentangled. A Laurence Nowell appointed master of
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Hill, David (2004). "Laurence Nowell, Cartographer, Linguist, Archivist and Spy, and his Anglo-Saxon Atlas of 1563." Paper read before the
Society of Antiquaries of London, 12 February 2004.
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Shannon, William D. (2014). "Laurence Nowell of Read Hall, Lancashire (c.1530-c.1569): lexicographer, toponoymist, cartographer, enigma". In
Stringer, Keith J. (ed.).
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Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England: Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the study of Old English
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Nowell also collected and transcribed Old
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Black, Pamela M. (1982). "Some new light on the career of Laurence Nowell the antiquary".
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in 1559 has been tentatively identified, but without any firm evidence, as the antiquary.
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The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry: an edition of Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501
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North-West England from the Romans to the Tudors: essays in memory of John Macnair Todd
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Harris, Oliver D. (2022). "The Laurence Nowell enigma: the enquiries of Anthony Wood".
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Berkhout, Carl T. (1998). "Laurence Nowell (1530–ca.1570)". In Damico, Helen (ed.).
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The History of the University of Oxford, Vol. III: The Collegiate University
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Lazarus, Micha (2024). "Laurence Nowell, schoolmaster of Sutton Coldfield".
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Berkhout, Carl T. (1985). "The pedigree of Laurence Nowell the antiquary".
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In 1568 Lambarde, with Nowell's encouragement, published a collection of
54:) was an English antiquarian, cartographer and pioneering scholar of the
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nomenclationem, & quid præterea accesserit, altera monstrabit pagina
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claimed with justification to have single-handedly invented the idea of
496:(1935). "Laurence Nowell and the discovery of England in Tudor times".
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Hahn, Thomas (1983). "The identity of the antiquary Laurence Nowell".
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A general description of England and Ireland with the costes adioyning
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This article is about the antiquarian. For his cousin the priest, see
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