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 a plaine crosse straight.

There is an other crosse equaller straight in the middest then in the ends, as in this coate with open corners, and not touching the border and vtmost part of the sheeld in any part, and it is called a crosse patent.

[illustration] blazon or coat of arms

And you shall blaze it in this maner in La∣tine, Ille portat vnam crucem argentatam patentem in campo nigro: in French, Il port de sable vn cros pate d'ar∣gent, in English, he doth beare sable a crosse paty of siluer.