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The regal and ecclesiastical antiquities of England : containing the representations of all the English monarchs from Edward the Confessor to Henry the Eighth : together with many of the great persons that were eminent under their several reigns : on sixty copper plates, engraved by the author, the whole carefully collected from ancient illuminated manuscripts (1793)

Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, B. and J. White · London : Printed for Benjamin and John White ... · leaf 157

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nation of Richardthe Second. (See page 32.) The clofe drefs of Conftance is a deep red bound with gold, and a whitebracelet on her arm; the garment (he holds up is a crimfon red; her head-drefs is white, and the four balls are gold : the back ground blue, white,and gold ; the frame blue, the… … ANTIQUITIES OF ENGLAND. 73 No. XXXVII. CHAUCER. Th i s portrait of Chaucer is preferved in a book written by his difcipleOccleve, or Hoccleve, who was fome time keeper of the privy fignetoffice *. He, out of love and refpect to his dead mafter, caufed this portraitto be done, which is pointing to…

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