Collected by Ralph Brooke, York herald, (whose name is written on the cover at the end,) in 1594, and dedicated to Charles, lord Howard of Effingham, one of the commissioners for the office of earl marshal. On the first leaf is an explanatory title or introduction, commencing thus: "This book is collected and made onlye to shewe the alteracon and differences of armes, in formere tyme borne and vsed of the nobilitie of this realme; For proufe, it was usuall that if a baron or…