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.

Now that we haue spoken suffici∣ently of Crosses (as before) it fol∣loweth that we intreate of diuerse Armes quartered as heereafter shall be shewed.

ANd to speake of armes quartred, there be some Armes quartered plaine, some engraded, some irrazed, some inuecked, some indented, of the which we wil speake as they fall in their places: and first of armes quartered plaine.

Armes may be quartered three manner of wayes, the first manner is open, when two diuerse Armes are borne quarterly, as may be seene here in the Armes of France and England,

[illustration] blazon or coat of arms

of which it may be saide, Por∣tat arma regis Franciae et An∣gliae quarterata, in Frenche, Il port les armes de Francie e d'Angleterre quartelees, in English, Hee beareth the armes of France and England quarterly: And it shal

not be offensiue to any man, that Fraunce is put be∣fore England in blazing, for we haue a generall rule, that whensoeuer in armes two colours or more bee in the point of the shield, then you shall not begin at the point to blaze them, but in the right side or part of those armes, though it be not the most wor∣thiest coate, but because of the place you shall begin to blaze there.

Of Armes quarterly borne.

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

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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.

Of Armes quartered and en∣grailed.

Now to speake of Armes quartered and engrai∣led, that is to say, when any Armes in his quarter is engrailed, as it appeareth in this coate here set downe,

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and it shall be saide of him which beareth these Armes thus, in Latine, Portat de ••uro et rubio arma quarterata et ingradata, in French, Il port d'or et gules quarti∣lee engralee, in English, He beareth gold and gules quarterly engrailed: and they are called Armes en∣grailed, because they bee of two colours, yet thus runne one into an other, as you see in this coate.

Of Armes quartered and irrazed.

Of these Armes quarte∣red and rased, as by this coat appeareth, they be so cal∣led razed, bicause the colors be irrazed, as one colour in blazing were taken awaie from another.

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And it shall be saide of him which doth beare these armes thus: in Latine, Portat arma quarterata irrasa de albo et nigro, in French, Il port d'argent et sable quarterlee irra∣see, in English, hee beareth siluer and sable quarter∣ly irrazed.

Of armes quartered and inuecked.

There be armes quarterly inuecked, or as some say, they be armes quartered of colours enuecked, as here appeareth, for in them are two colours quarterly put the one into the other, and so one colour inuecked within an other:

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therefore it is saide of him that beares these armes, in Latine, por∣tat quarteratum de asurio et au∣ro inuectis, in French, port quartrelie verre d'azure & d'or, in English, Hee beareth quarterly inuecked azure and golde.

Of Armes quartered indented.

There be diuers Armes which be quartered in∣dented the two colours one indented into the other, as is shewed you in this shield:

[illustration] blazon or coat of arms

and thus you shal blase such Armes, Portat arma quartera∣ta indentata de rubio et auro, in French, Il port quartilee indentee de gules & d'or: in English, he beareth quar∣terly indented gules and golde.