XXV. Enumeration and Explanation of the Devices formerly borne as Badges of Cognizance by the House of York, in a Letter to Matthew Raper, Esq. V.P., F.R.S. from Henry Ellis, Esq. Secretary

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I beg to transmit to the Society of Antiquaries, through your hands, the copy of a document of some curiosity.

While searching among the Digby Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, in the autumn of last year, I discovered an enumeration and explanation of the Devices borne as Badges of Cognizance by Richard Duke of York, the father of King Edward the fourth, written in a contemporary hand, evidently in the Duke's lifetime.