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 armes paly bended.

And certainely the best manner of bearing of sun∣dry armes in one shielde, is in these bends especially for him that hath a patrimony left him by his father, and other lands descending to him by his mother, to which lands of his mother armes are appropriate of olde time, and that the Armes with lande fall to her by discent, then maie a man beeing heire if hee will, beare the armes of his father in his shielde, and in such a bend beare his mo∣thers armes, in such forme as appeares in this,

[illustration] blazon or coat of arms

and it shall be saide of him which beares these armes, in latin thus, Portat arma palata de argento et reubio cum vna benda de nigro, Il port palee d'argent & de gules & vn bend du sable: he beareth palee of siluer and gules, with a bend of sable.

And sometimes we find these bends charged with three mascules or mullets of gold.