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Images above, left to right: Heather Wolfe; College of Arms MS Dethick’s Grants X f 284. Reproduced by the Permission of the Kings, Heralds and Pursuivants of Arms; Scrapbook of heraldic and genealogical items of 16th and 17th centuries. Manuscript, ca. 1700. Folger Shakespeare Library; Contemporary copy of armorial by William Smith, Rouge Dragon, with the coat of arms of "W[illia]m Shakespare". The Book of Coates & Creasts. Promptuarium armorum. Begonne the 28 of May 1602. P[er] W[illia]m Smith Rougdragon begun 1602. Harley MS 5807, f.82r. Image courtesy of The British Library; Promptuarium Armorum, Harold Bowditch Collection, Mss 1180, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society, www.AmericanAncestors.org. Image courtesy of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
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Newly found: Early example of Shakespeare’s coat of arms in America
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