V.a.163, folio 89 verso-90 recto
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Title: A list of gentlemen and their coats of arms and crests [manuscript]
Date: ca. 1677
Repository: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, USA
Call number and opening: V.a.163, fol. 89v-90r
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Title: A list of gentlemen and their coats of arms and crests [manuscript]
Date: ca. 1677
Repository: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, USA
Call number and opening: V.a.163, fol. 89v-90r
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[p. 89]
Coats & Crests.
bare Azure: a fes between 3 Cressantes
Argent /
And for his Crest, Vpon a Torce
of his Colours, a Demy Black-
Moore, with a Wreath about
his head, and a Dart in his hand./
Sir Charles Smith, of Wotten Wa
wen, Now Lord Carington, beare
Argent a + Gules between 4 Peacocks
heads Erased with Necks Proper/
And for his Crest, Vpon a Torce
of his Colours a Like Peacocks head
Erased Gorged with a Coronett Or/
Shakespear, the great Poet
and Commedian, bare [Or]: on a
Bend [Sable]: a Spear [Argent]./
And for his Crest, Vpon a Torce
of his Colours, a Doue Volant
or Eagle/
[p. 90]
Coats & Crests.
Turvile, Gules a + Vaire between
3 Mullets Argent piersed./
And for his Creast, see Warwick
shier Illustrated by William Dug-
dale Esquire, Now Norroy King of
Armes, pa: 27./
Boug, of Ashby de la Zouch
in Leicestershier, beareth
Or, frette Sable on every ioynt
a + Croslet fitche Sable./
And for his Crest a Batt[?] or
Reare Mouse Argent/
Baldwin Bug Esquire of Shep-
pey Magna beare the same Coat./
Brokesby of Ashby de la Zouch,
Nubile, Barry of 6 Argent and Sable a
Canton Gules
And
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