English ships of the reign of King Edward IV, 1482. Warship with four masts, square main sail with coat of arms of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, high forecastle and poop, three cannon ports. From the Cotton MS Julius E iv by John Rous. Handcoloured copperplate engraving etched by John Augustus Atkinson after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his own Selections of Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland, Colnaghi and Co., London, 1814.

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