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Well, first, that guy doesn’t know where Wales is

Second, there should be a tight cluster where London is. In Henry VI part 2, the rebel Jack Cade says:

Now is Mortimer lord of this city.
And here, sitting upon London Stone,
I charge and command that, of the city’s cost,
the Pissing Conduit run nothing but claret wine
this first year of our reign.

There had to be more than one.

I’m gonna say I really don’t want to know what a public toilet in 1540 looked like.

Wait….
They had dimes in 1540?

The Irish must be pretty pissed at all that Welsh shit.

@Uncle Al
My Flemish ancestor went from Wales to help make Ireland safe for the Normans.
While he and his heirs did some other things that probably made the Irish mad, I’m fairly sure they weren’t party to that rename.

I am always fascinated by obsessive compulsive (I guess) autistic personality type. Imagine the work that must have gone into creating this map, at ANY point in history. Todays it would require poring over thousands and thousands of pages of ancient tests; in that era it would have been …impossible.

Quite seriously, this map is obviously intended as a joke;

“The first important engraved map of England, apart from those in editions of Ptolemy’s Cosmographia, was one of Great Britain and Ireland published in Rome during 1546. The author was George Lily, a member of the household of the exiled Cardinal de la Pole…”

However
It led me down a fascinating rabbit hole about the history and reasons behind English map-making that made for a pleasant halt-hour’s reading; if you have a little time, I recommend it.

https://oldmap.co.uk/old-english-maps-the-1500s/?srsltid=AfmBOoprglHdF8a4qlOyM7UwFSsgeopYnlzdtPgB_Z_H7iBMxijUnPvD

Did you notice someone(s) knew there’d eventually be a map made so they didn’t build any in the part of the map where the word ENGLAND would go?

I think this is the final proof we need to validate my time travel hippopotamus.

Finding the precise locations, and seeing what is there, now…

You could write a book!