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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Subject terms
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 May 1, 2024.
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The diuers maners of gentlemen.
There are foure maner of gentlemen, to wit, one of auncestrie which must needes bee of blood, and three of coate-armour, and not of blood: as one a gentleman of coate-armour of the Kings badge, which is of armes giuen him by an Herauld: an o∣ther is, to whome the King giueth a Lordeshippe, to a Yeoman by his letters pattents, and to his heires for euer, whereby hee may beare the coate-armour of the same Lordeshippe: the Hinde is, if a Yeo∣man kill a gentleman, Pagan, or Sarazen, whereby he may of right weare his coate-armour: and some holde opinion, that if one christian doe kill an o∣ther, and if it be in lawfull battell, they may weare eache others coate-armour, yet it is not so good as
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where the Christian killes the Pagan. And againe if the King make any yeoman knight, that same knight is a gentleman of blood by the royaltie of the king and knighthoode.
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