One of the hidden treasures that has rewarded my browsing in The Ancestor (of which I recently bought a set of all twelve volumes in their original publisher’s bindings), is a handsome set of cuts made after fourteenth-century encaustic floor tiles from Tewkesbury Abbey. See Hal Hall, “Notes on the Tiles at Tewkesbury Abbey,” The Ancestor 9 (1904), 46-64. The digital copy of the journal (linked here) contains fine scans of these, of which the following sample set of eight (there are several others) are reduced in size and flattened nearly to black-and-white. The captions here are as given in the article. Excellent source of dingbats for a heraldry blog!
Arms of Somerville of Gloucestershire
Beauchamp of Holt and an uncertain shield
Arms attributed to Robert Fitz Hamon, impaled with the Cross of the Abbey
Newburgh and Despenser
Arms of Newburgh Earls of Warwick, with the Badge of the Chained Bear
Tiles made up of fragments of the arms of Despenser and Beauchamp, with others
Beauchamp of Holt and Beauchamp of Powyck
Arms of Cobham or Peyvre
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