The gentlemans academie. Or, The booke of S. Albans containing three most exact and excellent bookes: the first of hawking, the second of all the proper termes of hunting, and the last of armorie: all compiled by Iuliana Barnes, in the yere from the incarnation of Christ 1486. And now reduced into a better method, by G.M.

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The gentlemans academie. Or, The booke of S. Albans containing three most exact and excellent bookes: the first of hawking, the second of all the proper termes of hunting, and the last of armorie: all compiled by Iuliana Barnes, in the yere from the incarnation of Christ 1486. And now reduced into a better method, by G.M.
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Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
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London :: Printed [by Valentine Simmes] for Humfrey Lownes, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules church-yard,
1595.
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Falconry -- Early works to 1800.
Hunting -- Early works to 1800.
Heraldry -- Early works to 1800.
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"The gentlemans academie. Or, The booke of S. Albans containing three most exact and excellent bookes: the first of hawking, the second of all the proper termes of hunting, and the last of armorie: all compiled by Iuliana Barnes, in the yere from the incarnation of Christ 1486. And now reduced into a better method, by G.M." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16401.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 3, 2024.

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Of the nine inestimable reioynings in armes.

These are the nine inestimable reioynings in armes, first is, for a gentleman to bee made a knight in the field at battaile, the seconde is, liuelyhood of him to receiue after manhood, the third is, chiualrie to do before his soueraigne, the fourth embassage to be put vnto him for wisdome, the fift is prowesse of knighthood done before aliens in honor of renown, these in armes as called the fiue authentique, nowe followe the foure ending stremitalles personall, the first, a poore knight to be married to the blood roy∣all, the second is, to haue thankes of his soueraigne perpetuall, the third is, to keepe his coate armor vn∣shamed

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in triall, and the fourth is to keepe all the pointes of his knighthoode, as Gesta royanorum declareth.

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