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JOHN (1552?-1629).-Historian, _b._ at Farington, Cheshire, and brought up to the trade of a tailor, had a strong taste for history and antiquities, and wrote a _History of Great Britain_ (1611), which was long the best in existence, in collecting material for which he had assistance from Cotton, Spelman, and other investigators. He also _pub._ useful maps of Great Britain and Ireland, and of various counties, etc. In 1616 appeared his _Cloud of Witnesses confirming ... the truth of God's most holie Word_. His maps were _coll._ and with descriptions _pub._ in 1611 as _Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain_.