To alle true christen people thise present tres seing or
hering humble Recomendacion by me Clarensewe king of arms of the South march
seruant of armes. It is soo that many psones been moeved of noble and gentile
to rage to exrcise virtuous ma�s and condiciones by the which wt goddes grace
shall come to the pfeccion of grete honour. Of which psones oone in especial
whos name is John Aleyn of the shire of Buckingham tenderly praying and
requiring me the said Clarensewe king of Armes to serche for the Armes of the
seid John. Where upon I the said Clarensewe king of Armes ate prayer instaunce
and request of the said John have made herein due serche and founde the right
armes of the seid John as his progenitours out of mind hau borne hem that is to
sey quartley in the first quarter siluere & sinoble paled of iiii peeces
iii Cressantes counter-chaunged, in the second quarter Asure iii egles of golde
membered of silue crowned of gowles. Which armes I the seid Clarensewe King of
Armes conferme unto the seid John and wtnesse here that nos psone wtin the
Raume of England ought for to bere hem but the seid John and the heirs of his
body lawfully begaten. In wtnesse wherof to thise tres I have sette my seall of
armes and my signe manuell The viith day of May The xxxii yere of the reigne of
kyng Henry the sext. Claransewe Kynge of Armys
Harleian Society
Publications Volumes 76-77: A Collection of Miscellaneous Grants by Willoughby A. Littledale
(London: J. Whitehead & Son, 1925)
[Source: Fifteenth
Century Patents of Arms]
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