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The Galloway Roll is an English
roll of arms A roll of arms (or armorial) is a collection of coat of arms, coats of arms, usually consisting of rows of painted pictures of shields, each shield accompanied by the name of the person bearing the arms. The oldest extant armorials date to the m ...
dating from the reign of King
Edward I of England Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots (Latin: Malleus Scotorum), was King of England from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he was Lord of Ireland, and from 1254 ...
, drawn up during his Scottish campaign of 1300, containing 259 coats with
blazon In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct an accurate image. The verb ''to blazon'' means to create such a description. The visual d ...
s.Keen, p/94. It does not include the Earl of Warenne's division nor the king and his son.


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* Keen, Maurice. ''Orders and Hierarchies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe''. University of Toronto Press, 1999. *Simpkin, David. "The Galloway Roll (1300): Its Content, Composition and Value to Military History". ''Historical Research'', Volume 82, Issue 218 (November 2009), pp. 613–634. Rolls of arms Illuminated heraldic manuscripts 14th-century documents 1300s works