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Title: The Handbook to English Heraldry

Author: Charles Boutell

Editor: Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Illustrator: R. B. Utting

Release date: October 24, 2007 [eBook #23186]

Language: English

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Seal of Sir Richard de Beauchamp, K.G., Fifth Earl of Warwick: died A.D. 1439. No. 448.—See pages 208, 321.

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Seal of Sir Thomas de Beauchamp, K.G., Third Earl of Warwick: died A.D. 1369. Date of the Seal, 1344. No. 446.—See No. 447, page 320, also see page 321.


“To describe ... emblazoned Shields.” —Milton

THE HANDBOOK TO

ENGLISH
HERALDRY

BY

CHARLES BOUTELL, M.A.

AUTHOR OF “THE MONUMENTAL BRASSES OF ENGLAND,”
EDITOR AND PART AUTHOR OF “ARMS AND ARMOUR IN ANTIQUITY
AND THE MIDDLE AGES,” ETC.
WITH

NEARLY FIVE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS

Drawn and Engraved on Wood by Mr. R. B. Utting and Others
ELEVENTH EDITION
THOROUGHLY REVISED WITH AN ADDITIONAL CHAPTER BY

A. C. FOX-DAVIES

OF LINCOLN’S INN   BARRISTER-AT-LAW

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Royal Arms (1340-1405)

LONDON: REEVES & TURNER
1914

Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh