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Wrottesley Arms. Or, three piles sable, a canton ermine. Source.

Lisle Arms. Or a fess between two chevrons sable. Source.

Aragon Arms. Or, four pallets gules. Source.

Lowther Arms. Or, six annulets sable, three, two, one. Source.

Bigod Arms. Or a cross gules. Source.

Manners Arms. Or, two fess azure a chief gules.

Bugge Arms. Or fretty azure. Source.

Mohun Arms. Or a cross engrailed sable.

Butler Arms. Or, a chief indented azure. Source.

Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough

A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'

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Monson Arms. Or two chevronels gules. Source.

Camden Arms. Or, a fess engrailed between six crosses crosslet fitchy sable. Source.

Monthermer Arms. Or, an eagle displayed vert beaked and membered gules. Source.

Chicheley Arms. Or, a chevron between three cinquefoils gules. Source.

Morrison Arms. Or, on a chief gules three chaplets of the first. Source.

Constable Arms. Or three bars. Source.

Nelson Arms. Or, a cross flory sable a bendlet gules. Source.

Daubeney Arms. Or, two chevrons gules three griffin's heads. Source.

Noel Arms. Or, fretty gules a canton ermine. Source.

Earl Fife Original Arms. Or, a lion rampant gules.

Palmer Arms. Or, two bars gules each charged with three trefoils of the first in chief a greyhound currant sable. Source.

Chronicle of Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall

The Chronicle of Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall (Chronicon Anglicanum) is an indispensable medieval history that brings to life centuries of English and European affairs through the eyes of a learned Cistercian monk. Ralph of Coggeshall, abbot of the Abbey of Coggeshall in Essex in the early 13th century, continued and expanded his community’s chronicle, documenting events from the Norman Conquest of 1066 into the tumultuous reign of King Henry III. Blending eyewitness testimony, careful compilation, and the monastic commitment to record-keeping, this chronicle offers a rare narrative of political intrigue, royal power struggles, and social upheaval in England and beyond. Ralph’s work captures the reigns of pivotal figures such as Richard I and King John, providing invaluable insights into their characters, decisions, and the forces that shaped medieval rule. More than a simple annal, Chronicon Anglicanum conveys the texture of medieval life and governance, making it a rich source for scholars and readers fascinated by English history, monastic authorship, and the shaping of the medieval world.

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Fanshawe Arms. Or a chevron between three fleur de lys sable. Source.

Percy Arms. Or, a lion rampant azure. Source.

Fitzwalter Arms. Or, a fess gules between two chevrons of the last. Source.

Portman Arms. Or, a fleur-de-lis azure. Source.

Graham Arms. Or an a chief sable three escallops argent. Source.

Powys Arms. Or, a lion gules armed and langued azure. Source.

Harding Arms. Or, a bend azure three martlets argent.

Preston Arms. Or, a chief sable three crescents or.

Hornby Arms. Or, two chevronels between three bugle-horns sable stringed gules on a chief of the second as many eagle's legs erased of the first. Source.

Redvers Arms. Or, a lion rampant azure. Source.

Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans

Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.

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Lacy Arms. Or, a lion rampant purpure. Source.

Rolle Arms. Or, a fess dancetté between three billets azure each charged with a lion rampant of the first three bezants. Source.

Bayning Arms. Or two bars sable on each as many escallops of the first. Source.

Scott Arms. Or, on a bend azure a mullet of six points between two crescents of the field. Source.

Burgh Arms. Or a cross gules. Source.

NO IMAGE. Or, on a pile gules between six fleur de lys azure three lions of England. Augmentation of honour granted to Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset when his sister Queen Jane Seymour married King Henry VIII of England and Ireland. Source.

Carew Arms. Or, three lions passant in pale sable. Source.

Sidney Arms. Or, a pheon azure.

Courtenay Arms. Or, three torteaux. Source.

Stafford Arms. Or, a chevron gules.

Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke

Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.

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Dunkeld Arms. Or a lion rampant gules armed and langued azure a double tressure flory counter-flory gules.

Stewart Arms. Or a fess chequy. Source.

Gerulfing Arms. Or a lion rampant gules, armed and langued azure. Source.

Stewart Royal Arms. Or a lion rampant gules armed and langued azure within a double tressure flory counter-flory of the second.

Harsick Arms. Or, a chief indented sable.

Sutton Arms. Or a lion rampant vert queue fourchy armed and langued gules. Source.

Lathom Arms. Or, on a chief indented azure three plates. Source.

Vavasour Arms. Or, a fess dancetté sable. Source.

NO IMAGE. Or, a chief indented azure, a crescent for difference. Source.

Verdun Arms. Or, a fret gules.

Dudley Arms. Or a lion rampant vert queue fourchy armed and langued gules. Source.

Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses

Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.

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Vesci Arms. Or, a Cross sable. Source.