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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.
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