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The Illustrations, mainly derived from the trustworthy sources of coins, great seals, and monuments, will be found to present a tolerably complete series of the portraits, arms, and devices of each ruler, and may indicate the importance of some acquaintance with heraldry as an aid to the study of history.

The work, as its name implies, is mainly devoted to the affairs of England, but notices are given at suitable times of the course of events in Scotland and the Isles, in Wales, and in Ireland; these are necessarily brief, but being drawn from the cotemporary Annals, Chronicles, and Laws of each country, they may perhaps be sufficient to shew what degree of connexion formerly existed between the long independent and often hostile States which now happily unite to form the British Empire. Esto perpetua!

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Ethelwulf's Ring

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Gold and Brass Coins of Allectus

Figure of St. Alban, from a brass in St. Alban's Abbey
Roman Masonry, from the Jewry Wall, Leicester
Gold Coin attributed to Edward the Confessor
Statue of St. Cuthbert, with St. Oswald's head
Northman's Armlet

Arms ascribed to Egbert

Edmund of East Anglia; from a painted panel of the

Alfred's Jewel, obverse and profile

Arms ascribed to Edward the Confessor

Armour of the Norman era.

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William I., from his Great Seal, and Arms ascribed to,
William II., from his Great Seal, and Arms ascribed to,
Arms of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

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Henry I., from his Great Seal, and Arms ascribed to,

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Stephen, from his Great Seal, and Arms ascribed to,

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Arms of Geoffrey, earl of Anjou .

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The Escarboucle and Planta Genista

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Henry II. and Eleanor of Guienne, from their Monuments

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Isabella of Angoulême, from her Monument at Fontevraud
Arms of Richard, earl of Cornwall

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Arms and Badge of John

Arms of Robert Fitz-Walter

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Henry III., from his Monument in Westminster Abbey. 295

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Edward II., from his Monument in Gloucester Cathedral

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Seal of Bohun, earl of Hereford

Edward III. and Philippa of Hainault, from their
Monuments, Westminster Abbey

Edward the Black Prince, from his Tomb at Canterbury 377
Arms of John of Gaunt

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Richard II. and Anne of Bohemia, from Monuments,

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