. The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere. the counter-seal engraved in Sandfords General His-tory, p. 240, edit. 1677. At the same page in Sandford will be found the seal of Edward Princeof Wales, son of Henry VI., on which is the figure of the Prince on horseback and in armour,his tabard, shield, and the caparisons of his horse, emblazoned with his arms, quarterly Franceand England, over all a label of three points argent. * As the arms on the shield of that figure do not correspond with those we have given liim in tlie heraldic border to theDramatis Personae in tliis Part, it may be
. The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere. the counter-seal engraved in Sandfords General His-tory, p. 240, edit. 1677. At the same page in Sandford will be found the seal of Edward Princeof Wales, son of Henry VI., on which is the figure of the Prince on horseback and in armour,his tabard, shield, and the caparisons of his horse, emblazoned with his arms, quarterly Franceand England, over all a label of three points argent. * As the arms on the shield of that figure do not correspond with those we have given liim in tlie heraldic border to theDramatis Personae in tliis Part, it may be necessary to exphiin that the latter, viz. gules, a saltire argent, a label of threepoints gobony argent and azure, aie his paternal arms of Nevil, and tliat those on his shield, viz. quarterly Montacute andMouthermer, arelhe arms of his maternal grandfather, Thomas Montacute Earl of Salisbury, whose daughter and heiress,Eleanor, liis father married, and through whom he became Earl of Salisbury, being already in right of his wife Earl [Battle of Barnet.] 154 THIRD PART OF KING HENRY VI. In illustration also of the military costume of tlie time, we refer to the engravings which we givefrom the illuminations of a MS. in the library at Ghent, written by a follower of Edward IV. in1471, and presented to Charles the Bold Duke of Burgundy. The first represents the Battle ofBarnet. Edwai-d IV. is seen on a white chcarger, with crimson caparisons, lined with blue andembroidered with golden flowers; his bascinet is surrounded by a crown, and he is in the act ofpiercing with his lance a knight, presumed to be meant for the Earl of Warwick. The second isthe battle of Tewkesbury, wherein Edward is depicted on a brown horse, a crown round his helmet,and the arms of France and England quai-terly on his shield. The subject of the third is the exe-cution of Edmond Beaufcn-t Duke of Somerset after the battle of Tewkesbury. The figure in thelong black robe, witli the white cross of
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