Selections of A brief discourse of the right use of giving arms, with the late abuses about that matter and the best mean by which they may be reformed orderly, ca. 1598 [manuscript], copied ca. 1620.

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Northampton, Henry Howard, Earl of, 1540-1614. Selections of A brief discourse of the right use of giving arms, with the late abuses about that matter and the best mean by which they may be reformed orderly, ca. 1598 [manuscript], copied ca. 1620.

Selections of A brief discourse of the right use of giving arms, with the late abuses about that matter and the best mean by which they may be reformed orderly, ca. 1598 [manuscript], copied ca. 1620.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/689164210

Contains portions of treatise on Heralds and the Office of Earl Marshal including: "What inconueniences & abuses haue falne out by suffringe the kings att Armes to giue Coats" and "An answere to such reasons as some Heraults haue pretended in defence of ther usurped interest to giue armes." (These are chapters 3 and 4 in Folger MS V.b.7, p. 34-69).

8 leaves ; 30 x 20 cm.

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