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.

Of Armes quarterly borne.

Now to speake of armes quarterly borne, when foure sundry armes or coates be quartered, as heere is shewed,

[illustration] blazon or coat of arms

it shall be saide, in Latin, portat quatuor arma diuersa quarterata, in french, Il port quater armes diuer∣ses quarterlees, in English, he beareth foure coates di∣uersly quartered. And if it be asked how these Armes must be blazed: The Bla∣zer must beginne in the hi∣est part of the right side, first blazing the Armes in the right side, and then to the left: And you must note, that these be plaine Armes quartered.

There is an other maner of bearing Armes quar∣tered when as two Armes quartered be borne quar∣terly: and it is borne most in Armes of Queenes: euen so bare that most Noble Queene of Englande

Queene Anne wife to that royall Prince king Ri∣chard the second which bare the Armes of England and France, and of the Emperour of Almaine quar∣terly in sixteene parts, that is to say, in the right side of the shield: in the first quarter shee bare the armes of France, three flower deluces of golde in a field of azure: in the second quarter three lions of golde in a field of gules: in the third quarter, a splayed Eagle with two neckes: and in the fourth, a blacke lion ramping in a field of siluer: and so changeably shee bare these Armes in sixeteene quarters, which is seldome seene in any Armes.