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 3, 2024.

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Of Frets borne in armes.

A certaine noble man, the lord Awdeley of Eng∣land bare in his armes a frect, which frects in like ma¦ner

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are borne of diuers gentlemen of great houses in all colours, as in red, in blacke, in golde, other∣whiles single, otherwhiles double, and sometimes triple, and sometimes ouer all the sheeld:

[illustration] blazon or coat of arms
and you shall find great differēce betwixt armes bended, & these frets wherefore it is to be noted, that in bended armes the co¦lours equally are diuided: but in these frets the field e∣uer abides whol, as in these armes of the L. Awdley: Portat arma frectata de auro in campo reubeo, in French, Il port de gules vn frect d'or, He beareth gules a frect of golde.

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