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Pictures and short extracts from The National and Domestic History of England Volume I (A.D. 1399 – 1603), by William Hickman Smith Aubrey (1858 – 1916). The book is undated, but is probably 1878, since I found someone selling a copy with an inscription dated 1879.
In 2015 I bought the three-volume set from Bookends of Fowey in Cornwall, UK. Previously I had only Volume II and part of volume III.
Title: The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 1)
City: London
Date: 1878
Total items: 12
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Arrest of the Duke of Gloucester]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Aubrey-HistoryOfEngland-Vol1/wm/big/773-arrest-of-duke-of-gloucester-q75-259x200.jpg "[picture: Arrest of the Duke of Gloucester]")
Arrest of the Duke of Gloucester
On a grassy knoll, with trees, outside a castle, the King’s soldiers arrest the Duke of Gloucester on his horse. You can tell the King on the right by his crown and the royal coat of arms just visible on his horse’s caparison; the duke of Gloucester is identified by his robe, which is drawn using the heraldic convention for ermine. A boat is parked [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Costumes, A.D. 1380.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Aubrey-HistoryOfEngland-Vol1/wm/big/755-costumes-of-the-fourteenth-century-q45-267x200.jpg "[picture: Costumes, A.D. 1380.]")
The coloured plate apears to be showing a queen, in blue satin with gold, accompanied by a young man who might be her consort and who is holding her hand, but who is on her left-hand side. Behind the wheen are two women, and in front two men, one bowing, the other holding one of two horses; perhaps the queen is going on a jounrey but one has to imagine [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Rustic full-page border of twigs in four sections]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Aubrey-HistoryOfEngland-Vol1/wm/big/756-costume-border-q60-128x200.jpg "[picture: Rustic full-page border of twigs in four sections]")
Rustic full-page border of twigs in four sections
This steel-engraved border is made up of twigs which divide the page into four areas. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Magna Carta]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Aubrey-HistoryOfEngland-Vol1/wm/big/338-magna-carta-q50-267x200.jpg "[picture: Magna Carta]")
![[picture: Male and Female Costume, Time of Richard II.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Aubrey-HistoryOfEngland-Vol1/wm/big/757-male-and-female-costume-14th-century-fashion-q75-279x200.jpg "[picture: Male and Female Costume, Time of Richard II.]")
Male and Female Costume, Time of Richard II.
King Richard II of England reigned from 1377 to 1399. So this picture shows people dressed for court in the end of the fourteenth century. [more...] [$]
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