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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Title: 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.
Author: Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
Publication: 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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What coats restriall be, and where the Blazer shall beginne to blaze.

There are three coats called restriall in armes, one is when a coat is barry of diuers colors to the point, and what colour the point is, of that colour is the field, and there the blazer shall beginne: the second coat restriall is, when a coate is paly, of diuers colors to the point, then what colour the point is, the same is the fielde, and there shall the Blazer beginne: the the third coat restriall is called in armes when a coat is sentry of diuers colours to the point, and what the point is, that is the field, and so the Blazer shall blaze from that colour to the next colour on the left side of the coate and blaze the colour sentry.