behoveth that he be strongly fenced of the Army both before and behind and that he have his being near the great standard in the heart of the battell for the more safety of his person and that he may the better give directions upon all occasions to the whole Army as the necessity of the service shall require The safety of the commander It is a thing very dangerous for a King Prince or other General or whatsoever other their great Commander to be over-forward or venturous to encounter his enemy in battell in his own person It sufficeth such to command and to give direction and never to hazard their persons in battell But if he must needs put his person upon the jeopardy of the uncertain and dangerous events of a Battell it behoveth that he deferre the same to the last conflict for that upon the safety of his person dependeth the hopefull good successe of the batell and the safety of the whole Army Besides so long as the Chief Commander is in life and safety albeit he be foyled and discomfited yet may he repaire his forces and subdue him by whom he was foyled but his person being either slaine or surprised there is no hope of recovery Upon the first Display of the Banner of a King or Prince Place of a â—â—nerall in tiâ— of Battell or of their generall or chiefe Commander it behoveth that some discreet and ancient Counsellor should make knowne publikely the cause why those warres were undertaken to the intent the same may be knowne to be grounded upon lawfull cause and that the King or Prince doth not rashly attempt the same but that he doth it in a lawfull quarrell and upon just cause Which done then should he command the chief Herald to unrole and Display the said Banner and deliver it to him that is appointed to bear the same who before he take the same must receive the order of Knight-hood if he be not before Knighted with a straight charge and command to hold the same fast and to maintain the honour thereof even with the extream hazard of his life and thereupon to advance the same in the Name of God the sole Author and giver of all victory Like as the lawes of Civil Magistracy and government were ordained by God so also were military Lawes and ordinances grounded upon his express commandement uttered by the mouth of the Prophets and Priests As you may see particularly for the exhortation of Priests Deut. 20.1 2. and of other Officers Deut. 20.5 and Jud. 7.3 besides military lawes for Fight Num. 21.21 that the conditions of peace must be offered Deut. 20.11 12 c. for spoyle 20.19 and the division thereof 1 Sam. 30.26 c. 1 Chron. 26.27 Josh 22.8 2 Chron. 28.15 for Victory that it is the duty of Captains and their Armies after victory obtained to ascribe the whole glory thereof to God and with one heart and one voice to magnifie his most glorious Majesty by the example of Judas Maccabeus Thus they went home and sung Psalms and praysed the Lord in Heaven for he is gracious ann his mercy endureth for ever 1 Maccab. 4.24 The skilfull managing of military affaires is a kind of Art neither doth the publick profession of the name of a Souldier nor yet his lofty countenance or change of habit forthwith make a man a Souldier it is a matter of greater consequence and of no lesse secrecy for a Souldier is to be confident in that he undertaketh and to wage battell with an assured hope of victory and to retire himself and his forces if the necessity of the cause so require without fear of reproach or danger For as the common proverb saith A more valorous man is he that wisely flieth than he that foolishly exposeth himself to adventure and hazard Periti enim bellatoris est non minus scire fugiendi artem quam pugnandi for it is a matter of no great difficulty to draw men on to fight but if the Captain in his providence whilst they be in action shall discover some unexpected disadvantage or damage that may befall him and his band and can wisely retire himself with honour and with safety of his souldiers he sheweth himself both valorous in his encounter and wise in his retreat The greatest victories have not been gotten by handy-strokes alwayes but many times for safegard of the effusion of blood either the one part or the other devised some witty unexpected suddain policy or Stratagem to astonish the adverse part that so they might suddenly slaughter them or put them to shamefull flight Large is the field of Stratagems which every Commander hath by particular invention neither hath there beene more victories or trophees gained by any one meanes than by these Stratagems Whatsoever commeth beyond expectation maketh a disturbance or amazment in the Enemy but it must be wrought with this caution that it be no disturbance to our selves Neither is every slight invention fit to be put in practice but such onely as have foresight and circumspection annexed to them He must be Argus that is a Generall or chief Commander he must be eyed behind before in his head in his feet and then shall all things be easily disposed according to Order and take good effect when orderly distribution and providence and premeditation have made way thereto It is not the length of a mans age or the number of yeares that yeeldeth the Art or Skill of managing Military affaires but a continuall meditation how he may encounter all occurrents and put them in exercise and practise for if a man receive never so many stipends yet is the unexercised man still but a freshwater Souldier notwithstanding There were in former Ages two sorts of dismission or discharge from military service the one named ignominiosa that is to say opprobrious or infamous as when a Souldier for some notorious crime was discharged from his service and disgracefully put out of pay and place as for slothfullnesse cowardize forsaking of his Captaine or such like then he was by the Tribune dismissed of his place and branded with the marke of infamy and reproach if he were so by the Tribune discharged and deprived of his Military ornaments The other was called Causaria missio as much to say as an occasionall dismission or discharge grounded upon good and lawfull cosiderations as when in regard of debility by reason of Age or Sicknesse Wounds or other infirmities possessing a man he was licenced to depart to his home and those that were thus dismissed did most commonly dedicate their Shields Swords and Armour Laribus suis to their houshold-Gods as the heathen termed them by hanging them up upon the Walls in some chief or speciall place or roome of their house for a memoriall of their service performed in defence of their friends and Country High spirited men subject to violent deaths Martiall men are evermore in perill and hazard of life in regard of
Sable a Fesse Engrailed between three Flowers de lis Argent by the name of Ashfield of which is now Sir Richard Ashfield of Netherhall in Suffolk Baronet son of Sir John Ashfield of the same place created Baronet July 27. 1626. He beareth Gules three Flowers de lis Argent a Chief Vaire by the name of Palmes of York-shire and elsewhere He beareth Argent six Flowers de lis Azure a Chief Or being with the Armes of Vlster the Atchievement of the honourable Sir William Paston of Oxnead in the County of Norfolk Knight and Baronet a great Patron and Promoter of Arts and Ingenuity â—olledge of Winchester The Field is Sable three Lillies slipped their stalks seeds blades and leaves Argent These Armes pertain to the Colledge of Winchester founded by the renowned Architect William Wickham Bishop of Winton who contrived those many and most curious Castles and other buildings of King Edward the third and besides this goodly Colledge of Winton built another magnificent Colledge called the New Colledge in the Vniversity of Oxford two such absolute Foundations as never any King of this Land did the like This Wickham having finished the Castle of Windsor caused to be inscribed on the Wall of the Round Tower This made Wickham which caused such as were envious of his high favour to suggest unto the King that he arrogated all the honour of that great Work to himself but he pleasantly satisfied the King saying that he wrote not Wickham made this but This made Wickham because by his service in these Works he had gained his Soveraigns Princely favour Treefoiles slipped He beareth Argent a Fesse Nebule between three treefoiles slipped Gules This Coat pertaineh to George Thorpe of Wanswell in the County of Glocester Esquire one of the honourable band of his Majesties Gentlemen Pensioners The Treefoile is accounted the Husbandmans Almanack because when it shutteth in the leaves it fore-telleth raine The husbandmans calender and therefore the Fesse Nebule representing the rainy clouds is not unaptly joyned with it This Leafe being grassie some may marvell I should reckon it amongst the Coronaries but they must know that in ancient Roman times amongst other sorts of Crowns the Graminea corona or Grassie Crown was of very high honour to the Wearer He beareth Sable a Cheuron between three Treefoiles Or which is the Coat of that worthy Merchant John Lewis Esquire of an ancient Family of that name in York-shire He beareth Argent on a Cheuron Azure between three Treefoiles Parted per Pale Gules and Vert as many Bezants being the Coat of Sir Henry Row of Shakelwell of Colonel Owen Row c. He beareth Or two Cheurons between three Treefoyles Sable which is the Coat of Sir Thomas Abdy of Felphall in Essex Knight and Baronet and Robert Abdy of London Merchant and John Abdy sons of Anthony Abdy sometime Alderman of London He beareth Azure three Quaterfoyles Argent which is the Coat of Sir Francis Vincent of Stoke Dabernon in Surrey Baronet of which Family is also William Vincent Esquire Alderman of London Sheriff 1659. He beareth Argent a Cheuron Sable Columbines slipped between three Columbines slipped Proper by the name of Hall of Coventrie The Columbine is pleasing to the eye as well in respect of the seemly and not vulgar shape as in regard of the Azurie colour thereof and is holden to be very medicinable for the disolving of impostumations or swellings in the throat He beareth Gules a Bend Or in the sinister Chief a Cinquefoyle Ermine this is the Coat of Sir Erasmus de la Fountaine of London Knight whose Lady is Sister to the right honourable Baptist Viscount Camden He beareth Argent a Cheuron Sable in the dexter point a Cinquefoyle Gules and is the Coat of Alderman Ricard of London He beareth Sable a Cheuron Ermine between three Cinquefoyles Or being the Coat of the honourable John Thurloe Secretary of State He beareth Gules a Cheuron between ten Cinquefoiles The Cinquefoile four two one two and one Argent This Coat-Armour pertaineth to the worshipful Family of Barkley of Wymundham which descended out of the right noble progeny of the Lord Barkley This Coat is of an usuall kind of Blazon and therefore I held it the fitter to be here inserted as a pattern for all such Coat-Armours whose Charges are marshalled in this order The Cinquefoile is an Herbe wholesome for many good uses and is of ancient bearing in Escocheons The number of the leaves answer to the five senses in a man and he that can conquer his affections Resemblance thereof and master his senses which sensuall and vicious men are wholy addicted unto he may worthily and with honour bear the Cinquefoile as the signe of his fivefold victory over a stronger Enemy than that three headed monster Cerberus He beareth Argent three Gilloflowers slipped Proper Gilloflowers slipped by the name of Jorney These kinds of flowers for beauty variety of colour and pleasant redolencie may be compared with the choisest attires of the garden yet because such daintinesse and affected adornings better befit Ladies and Gentlewomen than Knights and men of valour whose worth must be tried in the Field not under a Rose-bed or in a Garden plot therefore the ancient Generous made choise rather of such Herbs as grew in the Fields as the Cinquefoile Treefoile c. He beareth Argent a Cheuron Gules between three blew Bottles Blew Bottles slipped proper by the name of Chorley of Chorley an ancient Family in the County Palatine of Lancaster These few examples may suffice to shew that all others of like kind which I for brevity sake voluntarily passe over are to be reduced unto this head of Coronary-Herbs from which we will now proceed to the Physicall whose chief and more frequent use consisteth in asswaging or curing of maladies and diseases And of these some are Aromaticall which for the most part in respect of their familiar and pleasing nature do serve for the corroborating comforting of the inward parts of mans body and for that purpose are oft used in meats of which sort are Saffron Ginger and such like other are meerly Medicinall and such as a man were it not for necessity would wish rather to wear in his Escocheon than in his belly Examples of which kinds I will willingly passe over onely as it were pointing out with the finger unto what head they must be reduced if any such be borne in Armes Of the Plants Trees Fruits and Herbs before mentioned some are forrein and some Domesticall Of Plants Trees c. some grow in Mountains some in Marish and Fenny grounds some by the Rivers some by Sea-coast Concerning their causes natures and effects Phylosophers Physitians and Herbalists do seriously dispute and doubtlesse they are the admirable work of the most Omnipotent God who hath sent as many kinds of Medicines as of Maladies that as by the one we may see our own wretchednesse
sharpenesse and so become lesse able to attach and rend his prey And this property seemeth not to be peculiar to a Lyon but common to all beasts of Rapine as Pliny ascribeth the same property to Leopards Panthers and such other as well as to the Lyon Defective production of beasts of rapine Natures foresight herein Not onely Lyons but also all other beasts of ravenous kind according to Bekenhawb do bring forth their young in some part defective as Lyons do produce their whelps dead Dogges bring them forth blind Beares deformed and shapelesse c. For Nature would not that they should attaâ—â— perfection in the wombe in regard of the safety of their Damme least in their production they should spoyl and rent her wombe by their teeth and tâ—llons Other more particular Rules there are concerning the divers kinds and peculiar actions of beasts of Rapine which shall follow in their more convenient places In the meane time let us proceed to Examples that may give life and approbation to those premised Rules Praecepta enim quantumvis bona concinna mortua sunt nisi ipse auditor variis exemplis ea percipiat Good and fit precepts are but dead unlesse examples give them life Of which opinion was Leo the Tenth when he sayd Plus valent exempla quam praecepta Et melius docemur vita quam verbo Examples are more forcible than Precepts And our lives teach more than our words A like Lyon in a Field Azure was borne by Lewellya aur Dorchock Lord of Yale in Wales Ancestor to Gruffith of Bromfield ap Cadwgan from whom is descended Edward Bromfield Alderman of London Now that Lyons and Lyoncels are borne in Armes the first with interposition of some of the Ordinaries the other charged upon Ordinaries the following examples will make it manifest and in Blazoning of such Coat-Armours care must be taken to observe and remember what concerning this point of their difference I have even now delivered Now I will shew unto you one other Lyon Rampand which in regard of the Pale upon which he is charged is worth your observation In a very old Roll in my custody about the time of Henry the third or Edward the first I find one Sir Robert Pierpound doubtlesse of this Family for his Armes are Argent Semy de Roses or thus Argent within an Orle of Roses Gules a Lyon Rampant Sable Now that Roses for Cinquefoiles è contra are promiscuously used is very obvious perhaps it s sometimes Vitium pictoris There are yet other formes of bearing the Lyon than are hitherto expressed as in these next Escocheons may be seen A Lyon Jessant borne in Coat-Armour is where the Coat is first charged with a Chief or other Ordinary and after by some occasion some Animal is added thereunto but is not subjected to the primary charge but is borne over both the Field and Charge and is therefore called a Lyon Jessant à jacendo because of such lying all over Some Blazon this Coat Azure a Chief Gules over all a Lyon Rampand his tail forked Or. The Lyon beareth his Taile after a diverse manner insomuch as we may thereby if not certainly know yet give a near guesse what a moode he is in for the present viz. whether he be furiously bent or peaceable or majestically affected And these qualities are manifestly discerned by the Inversion Eversion or Extention c. of his Taile Here may rise a question Whether the bearing of the Taile of the Lyon in any of these severall manners be a sufficient difference to prevent all causes of challenge For my own part albeit I have not read or seen in Gerard Leigh Boswell Ferne or any other Armoriall Writers the state of this question handled I hold that they be differences sufficient to debar all challenge my reasons are these first Sufficit quod inter Arma mea tua talis sit differentia qua detur diversitas And again Nova forma dat novum esse rei I hold them not onely to be differences secundum quid but simpliciter that is to say absolute and essentiall differences Furthermore Data una dissimilitudine etiam paria judicabuntur diversa Moreover experience sheweth us that the least addition or substraction in Armoriall signes maketh them cease to be the same that they were Omnia Arma Arithmeticis figuris sunt simillima quibus si quid addas vel subtrahas non remanet eadem species as I have formerly shewed Finally for approbation of these my opinions I will add this infallible assertion Ea differunt quorum definitiones differunt These are my reasons that induce me to be of this opinion that the diverse manner of bearing of the Taile of the Lyon as aforesaid are or may be without exception essentiall differences which neverthelesse I referre to the Iudicious censure of the learned in this profession who perhaps may convince me with more forceable grounds But because demonstration is the best of Arguments to convince the incredulous it is apparant that Buxtons Coat before mentioned differs not from that of Smeres but only in the manner of the bearing of the tail both of them being Argent a Lyon Rampand Sable onely in Buxtones Coat the taile is elevated and turned over the head of the Lyon as it more plainly appeares before in this present Chapter Now as touching particularizing of the before-mentioned assertion I say that the Eversion of the taile of the Lyon is an expresse token of his placabilitie or tractablenesse as contrariwise the Inversion of his taile is a note of his wrath and fury especially if he doe beate the backe therewith and doe roare withall of this property of the Lyon Catullus maketh mention in these words Age coede terga cauda tua verbera pateant Face cunctá mugienti fremitu loca retonent The gate of a Lyon when he is passant is an apparant note of his jurisdiction and regall authoritie and Soveragnitie wherewith the extension of his taile doth fitly quadrate and agree inasmuch as when hee hunteth after his prey he roareth vehemently whereat the Beasts being astonished doe make a stand whilest hee with his taile maketh a circle about them in the sand which circle they dare not transgresse which done out of them he maketh choise of his prey at his pleasure Thus ending with the Wolfe I will perclose this tract of beasts of fierce nature comprehending all others of this kind as Ounces Lynxes Hyenaes Panthers c. under these before handled Forasmuch as the greatest part of the generall Rules as also of the sundry formes of bearing attributed unto Lyons and Wolves may be aptly applyed to all or the greatest part of other Beasts of like nature SECT III. CHAP. XVI HAving given examples of Ravenous and Fierce kind that by main force do prosecute and obtain their prey I will now proceed to the handling of beasts lesse Fell and harmfull of which number some are Wilde and Savage
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