The vale-royall of England, or, The county palatine of Chester illustrated : wherein is contained a geographical and historical description of that famous county, with all its hundreds and seats of the nobility, gentry, and freeholders, its rivers, towns, castles, buildings ancient and modern : adorned with maps and prospects, and the coats of arms belonging to every individual family of the whole county
A county history of Cheshire compiled by Daniel King from William Smith's and William Webb's surveys, printed in London in 1656 for gentry readers and antiquaries. The plates are gridded rows of engraved escutcheons, each labelled with a family name and hatched or stippled to indicate tincture, giving designers a stock of simple shield outlines, chevrons, fesses, chequers and small beasts and birds.
