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CHESHIRE HERALDRY
THE VISITATIONS OF
1533 TO 1580
This volume features 350 colour illustrations
of the armorial bearings recorded at the Heralds' Visitations of
Cheshire in the years 1533, 1566 and 1580 along with a fragment of the
records of the Visitation of the City of Chester in 1591 as published
in 1882 by the Harleian Society. The book published by the Harleian
Society contains few illustrations and those that are included are in
black and white.
Although the visitations contained a collection of pedigrees of
families with the right to bear arms this work confines itself to their
armorial bearings alone. The author has simply attempted to turn the
written description of the arms (the blazon) into a coloured
illustration for every relevant entry.
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