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Chapter II. Of Marshalling. Section I. Of the Disposition of divers Coat-Armours in one Shield (or Escocheon) which is the first Part of Marshalling.
Section I. continued; Section II. Of Things Marshall’d without the Escocheon.
(Ornaments of an Achievement, with pictures of helmets)
Summer
Drawn Picture Frame
2103.—Herstmonceaux Castle.
703.—Walsingham Abbey, Norfolk.
Decorative initial I, Coloured
398.—Norwich Castle
2105.—East Basham, Norfolk
700.—Byland Abbey, Yorkshire.
One scabbed Sheep marrs a whole Flock;  Tread on a Worm and it will turn.
Need makes the old Wife trot;  [woodcut: barefoot old woman hitches up skirts to cross a stream]
As you brew so you shall bake; Every bean has its Black; it is an ill wind that blows no body good
Proferred Service stinks;  The Receiver is as bad as the Thief;  Reckon not your Chickens before they are hatched.
Well begun is half ended;  All is well that ends well.
Brag is a good Dog, but Holdfast is a better;  The Belly has no Ears;  [woodcut: mouse by house perhaps made from candle with snuffer]
All goes down Gutter-lane; As Wise as a Man of Gotham; As good as George of Green; [woodcut: stout man drinks from mug, holds saussage with a fork]
Nothing venture, nothing have; Virtue which parleys is near a Surrender.
It’s neither Rhime nor Reason; What is got over the Devil’s Back will be spent under his Belly.
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Places Shown

Coxwald; Yorkshire; England

Herstmonceaux; East Sussex; England

Norwich; Norfolk; England

Walsingham Abbey; Norfolk; England

Walsingham; Norfolk; England