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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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