A display of heraldry : manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge thereof than hath been hitherto published by any, through the benefit of method (1679)

Guillim, John, 1565-1621 · London : Printed by S. Roycroft for R. Blome, and are sold by Francis Tyton, Henry Brome, Thomas Basset, Richard Chiswell, John Wright, and Thomas Sawbridge · leaf 277

An illustration from A display of heraldry : manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge thereof than hath been hitherto published by any, through the benefit of method, 1679, leaf 277 — .ch is. written in a Title of Garter. hand of that time, or He beareth Gules, a very near. And-thefe Fefs between three Wa- Examples may fuffice ter-bowgets, Ermyn, for W ater-bowgets. by the Name of Meres; and is the bearing of Sir Thomas Meres of Lin- Sable, three Cups co- coln, Kt. vered,… … And is born by ‘Fohx inhis Accédence of Armory, pag. 127. calleth Butler D.D. Chaplain thefe Water-bowgets, and pag. 176. he term- in Ordinary to his Maje- eth this kind of Charge a Gorge. fty King Charles the Second, and Canon of Windjor. This Coat is alfoborn by Nicholas Butler of London, Dr. in…

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