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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Of the hemmed or borde∣red crosse.

There hath risen some question, amongst he∣raldes of the difference betwixt this crosse fimbra∣ted or bordered as heere appeareth, and the foresaid crosse vmbrated, because they are so much like, and at the first sight seeme to bee all one.

[illustration] blazon or coat of arms

But if a man behold them well he shall finde great difference, for the border of this crosse is varied as well from the colour of the Crosse, as from the colour of the field. And therefore it shall be said of him which beares these armes in latine, portat crucem nigram per∣foratam floridam patentem fimbriatam siue borduratam cum argento in campo Rubeo: in french, Il port de Gules vn

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crois floritee patee percee de sable bordure d'argent: in English, he beareth gules with a crosse floury pa∣tent pearsed of sable bordered with siluer.

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Of the hemmed or borde∣red crosse.

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