A guest post by Nigel Ramsay
For many visitors to the Folger’s Heraldry exhibit, “Symbols of Honor,” the stars will be the three original draft grants on paper of Shakespeare’s coats of arms. These belong to the English heralds’ long-established institution, the College of Arms in London, and they have never before been out of England.
The Shakespeare grants can be seen to be in the hand of the herald William Dethick.… Continue Reading