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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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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Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
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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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Falconry -- Early works to 1800.
Hunting -- Early works to 1800.
Heraldry -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16401.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.

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Of Fountaines and Welles borne in armes.

There be certaine other round figures borne in armes, of white mixed sometime with azure, some∣time with sable vndated, or after the manner of waues, which markes or figures be called fountaines or welles: and therefore ca∣ry the colour of that which they represent, like water troubled with the winde:

[illustration] blazon or coat of arms
And of him which beareth these armes thus it shall be saide, Portat tres fontes in

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campo viridi, Il port di vert et trois fountains: he bea∣reth vert three fountaines.

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