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This sumptuous large-format book (252 by 197 mm) of 352 pages is printed throughout in glorious colour on high-quality art paper. It is about the survival of heraldry in the post-Reformation world, contains essays by leading armorialists, two of them heralds at the College of Arms. The period was one of unprecedented enthusiasm for heraldry. By conducting heraldic funerals and visitations, researching family trees, and by granting coats of arms, heralds earned substantial incomes. Together they formed the College of Arms, subject only to the Crown and the Earl Marshal. The contents are: Simon Adams ‘The Heralds and the Elizabethan Court: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester as Deputy Earl Marshal’ (1–25); Nigel Ramsay ‘William Smith, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant’ (26–45), an edition by Ann Payne of Smith’s ‘Abuses Committed by the Painters and Others to the Detriment of the Heralds’ (45–67); Clive Cheesman ‘Grants and Confirmations of Arms’ (68–104); Adrian Ailes ‘A herald, Kate? O put me in thy books: Shakespeare, the Heralds’ Visitations and a New Visitation Address’ (105–24); Sir John Baker ‘Tudor Pedigree Rolls and Their Uses’ (125–65); Roger Kuin ‘Colours of Continuity: the Heraldic Funeral’ (166–89); Richard Cust ‘Heraldry and the Gentry Community in Shakespeare’s England’ (190–203); Tara Hamling ‘Wanting Arms: Heraldic Decoration in Lesser Houses’ (204–19); Karen Hearn ‘Heraldry in Tudor and Jacobean Portraits’ (220–35); Beatrice Groves ‘Heraldic Language and Identity in Shakespeare’s Plays’ (236–65); Kathryn Will ‘Literary and Dramatic Heraldry’ (266–82); Alan R. Young ‘Heraldry and Alternate Emblematic Forms in the Age of Shakespeare’ (283–307; Peter O’Donoghue ‘Afterward: From the Late Seventeenth Century to the Present Day’ (308–21). Full bibliography and index.