1. A sixteenth-century image of an ancient British maiden, intended to illustrate the perceived similarities between the ancient Britons and the inhabitants of the New World.
  2. A depiction of sixteenth-century Wales, by the Welsh cartographer Humphrey Lhuyd.
  3. A page of the Nugent Manuscript, a sixteenth-century collection of Irish poetry.
  4. Irish Feast. From John Derricke, The Image of Irelande (1581).
  5. The frontispiece of Derricke's Poly-Olbion (1612).
  6. Edmund Spenser.
  7. A British alehouse with chickens roasting on a spit.
  8. Mary, Queen of Scots, the object of England's "Rough Wooing."

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