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'Siege of Berwick' in St. Albans Chronicle, St. Albans, England, c. 1470.
Lambeth Palace Library MS 6, f.174r.
Collection name: Manuscripts
Identifier: MS6f174r_[1]
Title: ST ALBAN'S CHRONICLE
Description: Siege of Berwick; with red-cross surcoats, archers, and a drawbridge.
Date: 15th century
Source: Lambeth Palace Library
MS 6 dates from the last quarter of the fifteenth century and was probably written by an English scribe; the text interspersed with illuminations relating to the action of the narrative probably produced in Bruges.
Source: lambethpalacelibrary.wordpress.com
illustrated by a Flemish artist in about 1470.1, 2 & 3
St. Albans Chronicle is used as the source for figure 18. ENGLISH ARCHER c.1450 in Armies of the Middle Ages, Volume 1 by Ian Heath
This appears to be the earliest of the many 15th century mss. which actually show the uniform of red cross on white. French mss., such as the ‘Vigiles’ and ‘Chroniques de Charles VII’, continue to depict English soldiers wearing surcoats of all kinds of colours, though still almost invariably with the red cross on the breast and back
