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 June 15, 2024.

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Of armes plaine barred.

As before hath already beene spoken of paled armes, nowe I intend to speake of Armes barred: and you shall vnderstand, that Armes in this sorte may be barred in sundrie manner of wise. But first I doe intend to speake of Armes plaine barred: in the blazing of the which, it is altogether vnnecessa∣ry to say, hee beareth Armes plaine barred. But onely in blazing an other coate, to shew how that differeth from plaine barred armes, for some be bla∣zed with a lion, greyhound, or other beast, and some

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be powdered with crosse crossets, mullets, crescents, small birds or other diffe∣rences.

[illustration] blazon or coat of arms
But blazing the plaine Baron, you shall saie thus, portat arma barrata de argento et nigro, in french, Il port barre d'argent & sa∣ble: in English hee beareth barry siluer and sable.

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