. The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere. 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 t
. The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere. 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 his order, (now Maltese,) is that of John Lanstrother, Priorof St. John of Jerusalem, who suffered with the Duke. Tiie decoration bestowed by Edward IV. upon his followers was a collar composed of suns androses, (badges of the house of York,) to which was appended the white lion of March. FideEfligies of Sir John Crosby and Lady, engraved in Stothards Sepul. [Expnition oftlio Diikp of Somerset.] E^jM^ji* A*
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