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Print, hand drawn facsimile, lithograph, initial letter of the charter to Carlisle, Cumberland, from Edward II, 1316, published by Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, and Elliot Stock, London, 1894.
The decorated letter illustrates the defence of Carlisle by Sir Andrew de Harcla against the Scots under Robert the Bruce, 1315; along with arms and armour, the beseigers have seige ladders and a trebuchet, the defenders an arbalast or springold.
Sir Andrew, on the bastion tower, carries a shield with his coat of arms - argent a cross gules in dexter chief a martlet.
Tipped in oppposite p.13 of The Royal Charters of the City of Carlisle, edited by R S Ferguson.
inscription:- printed lower left
Drawn in facsimile by Albert Hartshorne.
wxh, sheet:- 21.5x14cm
wxh, image:- 194x116mm