Inside Out Library · Explore

The Blazon of Gentrie: : Deuided into two parts. The first named The Glorie of Generositie. The second, Lacyes Nobilitie. Comprehending discourses of Armes and of Gentry. Wherein is treated of the beginning, parts and degrees of Gentlenesse, vvith her lawes: Of the Bearing, and Blazon of Cote-armors: Of the Lawes of Armes, and of combats. (1586)

Ferne, John, Sir, d. 1609 · At London, : Printed by John VVindet, for Toby Cooke · leaf 240

An illustration from The Blazon of Gentrie: : Deuided into two parts. The first named The Glorie of Generositie. The second, Lacyes Nobilitie. Comprehending discourses of Armes and of Gentry. Wherein is treated of the beginning, parts and degrees of Gentlenesse, vvith her lawes: Of the Bearing, and Blazon of Cote-armors: Of the Lawes of Armes, and of combats., 1586, leaf 240
etting out of the dignitie of a Pontiffe. And althoughthis infigne was abufed by thofe Prelates,to the ofl:enta-tion of their pompe, rather then to any other regard,yet may the fame be vfedof the Paftors, and chiefe ,__Prelates of Gods word, as a facred and holy emblemeof many good and profitable… … l^hat th^ intmdsih. P. iiij. It ii6 THE GLORY OF it is their office to draw the ftraying and wanderingfoule from out of the by-paths of error, to the truefold of Gods word : wherevpon one faith, that a goodpaftor (hould carrie before his eyes a ftaffe or rod, fixe1 rhtfiaffe fold, that is to…

Lacy family · Lincoln, Earls of · Laski, Albertus, fl. 1583 · Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 · Heraldry

Internet Archive · Boston Public Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from The Blazon of Gentrie: : Deuided into two parts. The first named The Glorie of Generositie. The second, Lacyes Nobilitie. Comprehending discourses of Armes and of Gentry. Wherein is treated of the beginning, parts and degrees of Gentlenesse, vvith her lawes: Of the Bearing, and Blazon of Cote-armors: Of the Lawes of Armes, and of combats.

More like this