Sir William Beauchamp, Knight of the Garter, Lord Bergavenny, Captain of Calais, 1392. In state habit of crimson hood, ermine-lined purple robe, rich girdle, belt of gold and gems on his shoulder. From the stained glass in York Minster by John Thornton. View of Calais from a print by Wenceslaus Hollar. Handcoloured copperplate engraving etched by John Augustus Atkinson, aquatinted by Robert Havell, 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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