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A85770	A display of heraldrie: manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge thereof then hath hitherto been published by any, through the benefit of method; / wherein it is now reduced by the study and industry of John Guillim ... Interlaced with much variety of history suitable to the severall occasions or subjects.	Guillim, John, 1565-1621.; Nower, Francis, d. 1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing G2219A; ESTC R177735	251,394	243

Order of the Author and begin with the Ensigns of the Actions of Estate Civill and first with the Highest and Soveraign as in example The cause that moved the Aegyptians to insert a Crown amongst their sacred or Hierogliphicall letters may not impertinently be expressed in this place where we are to handle their divers forms according to the severall dignities and estates to whom they do appertain for as Gamesters make but cold sport when there is no mony at stake so knowledge doth oftentimes faint if it be not seasoned with the Salt of reason In this Hierogliphick we may observe the foure causes of the Law The efficient cause is understood by the head of the King that is adorned with this Crown The finall cause is conceived by the Flowers or by the profitable use of fruit which how great the same in likely-hood will be may be conjectured by the flowers The materiall cause may be gathered by the context or interlaced form and workmanship of the Crown which carryeth a resemblance of the people or Subjects Finally by the Orbicular form of the Crown is understood Justice and amongst Mathematicians the Sphericall form is reckoned the perfectest and most noble Farnes 3.65 The Prince is to the people the author of all goodnesse inasmuch as from him as from a plentifull Fountain doth flow a sweet current of plentifull streams of honour profit and pleasure In regard whereof he is reputed to be the common parent of all his Subjects in that he affordeth unto them whatsoever a Naturall parent oweth to his Children The platting of these flowers in the Crown doth represent the end of the Law which end hath his determinate period in utility Farnes 4.66 for that Tree which beareth no blossomes for the most part produceth no fruit at all Ibid. Crowns in times past have been of great value and sumptuously enriched with precious stones as we may read 1 Chro. 20.2 And David took the Crown of their King from off his head and found it to weigh a Talent of Gold and there were precious stones in it And it was set on Davids head In these latter ages the Emperour elected before his Coronation doth write himself King of the Romans as a Title of lesse esteem and dignity than is the title of Emperour But in ancient times the Romans had three degrees of supream dignity that is to say a King a Dictator an Emperour and of these the dignity of a King was the chiefest and next thereto the dignity of a Dictator was holden the worthiest And after the Dictatorship the estate of an Emperour held the third place as inferiour to both the other Hereof we have a manifest proof in that the Senate and people of Rome minding to give unto Octavian the Emperour being a man well deserving of them some advancement or increase of honour and dignity they purposed to make him Dictator which he reverently bowing his knee refused for that he reputed the same a Dignity more ambitious and of greater esteem and withall more subjected to spite and envy Esteeming the Title of the Emperour to be popular and of small account in comparison of the eminency of a Dictatorship We may easily perceive by this that Julius Caesar that time he was Dictator did affect to aspire to the dignity of a King for which cause he was slain forasmuch as the Citizens could not endure that he should exercise Royall authority over them but well could they suffer him to use the power of a Dictator as a jurisdiction of lesse esteem Leonard Aretini Epistolar Lib. 5. There can be but one King at one time in a Realme whose power must be absolute for the better managing of the estate and affaires thereof for if there be more they will crosse and hinder each other in his government and so destroy the nature of a King in that neither of them can sway the whole weale-publick but each of them should admit a participation in government This do both ancient and modern times manifest unto us by examples for neither Numa nor Hostilius nor Ancus Martius nor any other of succeeding Kings of the Romans could endure any fellow or copartner in government the like also may we observe in Kings of modern times for neither doth England or France admit more than one King at once to sway the Soveraign state but one alone hath the sole government So that it is a thing meerly repugnant to the naturall Royall Jurisdiction that two persons at one time should exercise Kingly Authority It is in your choice whether you will term the foresaid Crowns Or or not for it sufficeth onely to mention their Forme because it is proper to them to be made of Gold But when they are found to be borne in other kind of Metals or Colours you should in Blazoning make mention whereof they are A Scepter with many nations is holden for an especiall ensigne of Royall Jurisdiction and authority and the extending thereof a speciall note of the placability and Royall favour of the King As we may see Hester 15.14 And he held up his golden Scepter and laid it upon her Neck That the Scepter betokeneth jurisdiction and authority it is manifest by that which is written Baruc. 6.13 One holdeth a Scepter as if he were a Judge of the Country yet can he not slay such as offend him Which is here spoken of the vanity of the Idols before mentioned in the same Chapter Now shall you see in Babylon Gods of Silver and of Gold and of wood borne upon mens shoulders to cause them to fear Hitherto of Honorary Ensignes that serve for a Declaration of the Royall Majesty or function of an Emperour or King and are worne by the persons themselves that do exercise Soveraign Jurisdiction over their Subjects within their Dominions To which Ensigns I hold it not impertinent to adde these few Attires or Ornaments following viz. Garters and Tassels as in example Now of those other Honorary Ensigns that are born before an Emperour or King or Persons that do exercise Soveraign Jurisdiction as their Vicegerents holding place of Supream dignity under them in signification of that their dignity which for brevities sake I will here onely name leaving their examples to be hereafter observed Such are the Sword of Estate the Canopy of Estate the Cap of maintenance the Purse wherein the great Seal is borne the great Mace c. All which shall follow hereafter in place convenient SECT IV. CHAP. II. Ensignes Ecclesiasticall HAving in the former Chapter discoursed of things Honorary representing Estate or Dignity Temporall Let us now consider of such Ornaments as bear a representation of Estate or Dignity Ecclesiasticall according to the distribution thereof of which sort are these ensuing examples In Blazon here you shall not say debruised or oppressed both in respect the Croysier extendeth not to the extremities of the Escocheon as also in respect of the slender substance thereof whereby it may be

Marquess and Earl of Hartford Baron Seymour and Beauchamp invested in the Title of Marquess Hartford by King Charles June the third 1641. in the seventeenth year of his reign Grandchild and Heir to Edward created Earl of Hartford in the first year of Queen Elizabeth by Katharine Daughter and Heir of Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk and Frances his Wife eldest Daughter and Coheir of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk and Mary his Wife Queen Dowager of France second Sister and at last Coheir of King Henry the eighth which Earl Edward was Son of Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset c. Brother to Queen Jane Mother of King Edward 6. to whom he was Protectour He bears six Coats quarterly First Topaz on a Pile Ruby between six Flowers de lis Saphire three Lyons of England which was an Agumentation of King Henry the eighth Secondly Ruby two wings impaled Topaz Milles calls them two wings volant Brook two wings conjoynd in Fesse and another two wings in Lure by the name of Seymour Thirdly Varry by the name of Beauchampe Fourthly Pearl three demy Lyons Rampant Ruby Fifthly per Bend Pearl and Ruby three Roses counter-changed Sixthly and lastly Pearl on a Bend Ruby three Leopards heads Topaz on which a Marquesses Crown thereon a Helmet of the same quality then for his Crest out of a Crown a Phoenix sacrificing her self all proper Mantled Ruby doubled Ermine Supported on the dexter side by an Unicorn Pearl gorged with a Crown chained Armed and Crined Topaz on the sinister side by a Bull Saphire gorged with a Crown and String reflexed Armed and Crined Topaz his Motto Foy pour devoir these have been the ancient quarterings of this noble Family and are continued though they have the same right as above appears to Grey Brandon and the Arms of England also with a due difference FIDEI COTICVLA CRVX THis is the Atchievement of the High and Mighty Prince George Duke Marquess and Earl of Buckingham Earl of Coventry Viscount Villiers and Baron of Whaddon whose Family were of signall note in Leicestershire for many hundred years whose Marshallings are thus blazoned He bears six Coats quarterly First Pearl on a Cross Ruby five Escallops Topaz which was an Augmentation as I am inform'd conferd upon one of this Family for service in the holy Land as appears by the bearing Secondly Diamond a Fesse between three Cinquefoyles Pearl by the name of Villiers Thirdly Topaz two Bars Saphire a Chief quarterly two Flowers de lis of France and a Lyon of England by the name of Manors Fourthly Ruby three Waterbougets Pearl Fifthly Saphire a Catherne Wheele Topaz Sixthly Topaz two Cheurons and a Border Ruby by the name of Trusbut a Martlet for a difference which foure last Coats are borne by his grace as the principall of many he may quarter in right of his Mother Katharine Daughter and sole heir of Francis Manors sixth Earl of Rutland Lord Roos of Hamelake Belvoir and Trusbut c. And for his Crest on a Crown Ducall and Helmet befitting that degree a Lyon Rampant Pearl Crowned Topaz standing on a Wreath or Torce of his colours Mantled Ruby and Ermine supported by a Horse on the dexter side daple Grey and on the sinister by a Stag Pearl Attired Proper his Motto Fidei coticula Crux The chief Attributes of God are his Power Wisdome Goodnesse in all which the nearer any King cometh to the imitation of that prime Idea the more truly doth he deserve that glorious name and expresse the noble nature of a King Which all Countries in part have shewed by the severall Titles given to their Soveraigns most Nations calling them Reges for government which cannot be as it should be without the said three Regall properties and the Saxons our ancestors call them Kings of Cynning a word signifying both cunning or wisdome and also Power whereby all Kings can do much more than good Kings will do The beginning of Kingly power was from the first created man who was made an absolute but fatherly Soveraign over all and the necessity of such a Chief was so great even in the eye of Nature that as there are no flocks or heards of beasts but have one leader of their own kind so there is no Nation so brutish or barbarous but have found the necessity and use of having a King over them to rule them and administer justice to them which is the prime office of a King and that such hath alwayes been the office of Kings of this our Island our own ancient and learnedst Lawyers testify For Rex saith Bracton non alius debet judicare si solus ad id sufficere posset c. Whence a latter learned Lawyer gathereth most truly that though the King substitute other to minister justice under him yet himself is not discharged of that authority when himself please as often as our Kings have done in person to sit and take notice of causes and likewise the Royall Oath at his Coronation runneth Facies fieri in omnibus judiciis tuis aequam certam justitiam c. And that such was the Kings absolute Jurisdiction in this Kingdom before the Conquest also the same Author so copiously proveth that it is ignorance to deny it and folly to enlarge the proof of it And yet saith Aeneas Silvius It is the manner of Kings in writing to use the plurall number as Mandamus Volumus Facimus c. As appeareth Epist 105. where he saith Reges cum scribunt etsi dominatum habent ut quicquid placet Legis vigorem habeat ea tamen moderatione utuntur cum scribunt ut aliquid praecipientes non se solos videri velint fecisse sed cum aliorum consilio They do temper their Soveraign Jurisdiction with such moderation that it may appear they prescribe and command not without counsell and advice of others Touching the greatnesse of the Kings of this Island and precedence before any other Kings these are two main reasons First that the King of this Land Lucius was the first Christian King of the world as also Constantine the first Emperour publickly planting Christianity Secondly for that of all Kings Christian the King of Britain is the most and indeed onely absolute Monarch he being no way subordinate to any Potentate Spirituall or Temporall in causes either Ecclesiasticall or Civill as other Kings are through their own default Moreover the King of England is both Anointed as no other King is but onely the French of Sicilie and of Jerusalem and he is also crowned which honour the Kings of Spain Portugall Arragon Navarre and many other Princes have not God grant that as our Country hath been blessed with prerogatives above all other Kingdoms and with the blessing both of all earthly felicities and Heavenly graces beyond any other and with more puissant victorious learned religious Kings than all the people whatsoever as the world seeth at this day so we may go beyond all Nations in thankfulnesse to so