John Speeds monument in the chancel of St. Giles, Cripplegate. Speed was an Elizabethan cartographer and historian 1551-1629, depicted in lace ruff and doublet, holding a book and skull. Copperplate engraving by John Thomas Smith after original drawings by members of the Society of Antiquaries from his J.T. Smiths Antiquities of London and its Environs, J. Sewell, R. Folder, J. Simco, London, 1791.