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A48960	Analogia honorum, or, A treatise of honour and nobility, according to the laws and customes of England collected out of the most authentick authors, both ancient and modern : in two parts : the first containing honour military, and relateth to war, the second, honour civil, and relateth	Logan, John, 17th cent.; Blome, Richard, d. 1705.	1677 (1677)	Wing L2834; ESTC R17555	244,594	208

House generally twice a week and keep Courts ●or the negotiation of their Affairs The government of this Company for this present year 1678. is committed to the care of Sir Nathaniel Herne Kt. Governour Major Robert Thomson Deputy-Governour and to the Right Honourable George Lord Berkeley Sir Samuel Barnadiston Sir Iohn Banks Baronets Sir William Thomson Sir Stephen White Sir Iames Edwards Sir Iohn Moore Sir Iohn Lethulier Knights Iosia Child Iohn Iolliff Iohn Bathurst Col. Iohn Clarke Iames Houblon Samuel Moyer Charles Thorold Thomas Papillon Esquires Mr. Christopher Boone Mr. Thomas Canham Mr. Ioseph Herne Mr. Nathaniel Letton Mr. Iohn Page Mr. Edward Rudge Mr. Daniel Sheldon and Mr. Ieremy Sambrook Assistants The Levant or Turky Company of Merchants which by their Discovery made the first Trade into the Seigniory of Venice and then into the Dominions of the Grand Seignior and including the Trade of the East-Indies which as then was undiscovered to us by Sea their goods being brought upon Camels and Ass-negroes to Aleppo and other parts of Turky but since the discovery of the Indies by Sea the Trade of this Company is something eclipsed for those Commodities which are now brought us by the East-India Company The benefit that ariseth to this Nation from this Company besides the imploying so many Ships and Seamen is in the Exporting and Importing of so many rich Commodities and in particular Clothes both died and drest at the least thirty thousand pieces yearly Kersies Lead Tinn Iron Steel Wire Pewter Furrs pieces of Eight Sugar Hides Elephants-teeth Brasill red and white Lead Indico Logwood Couchaniel Callicoes Spices and several Indian Commodities And for these they Import raw Silks of Persia Damascus Tripoli c. also Camblets Grograins Grograin-yarn Mohairs of Angor Woolls Cottons Cotton-yarn of Smyrna and Cyprus Galls of Mosolo and Toccat the Coralls and Oyls of Zant Zeffalonia Morea c. the Drugs of Egypt and Arabia also Turky-Carpets Cordovants Box-wood Rhubarb Worm-seed Sena Cummin-seed with several other rich Commodities This worshipful Company of Merchants was first Incorporated in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth and since confirmed by her Successors and have ample Priviledges and Immunities granted unto them as making of Laws and Orders for the well government of the said Fellowship power of deciding Controversies which arise in the said Company as to their Trade giving Oaths imposing Fines or imprisoning of Offenders according to their discretion the using of a Publick Seal and the bearing of a Coat of Arms as is set forth in the Escocheon of Arms aforesaid And for the better management of the Affairs of this Honourable Company they are governed by a Governour Deputy-Governour and Court of Assistants consisting of 18 who in the Month of February are Annually chosen by a general Consent out of the Members of the said Company and these meet and keep Courts monthly weekly or as oft as their occasions require for the management of the concerns of the said Society as binding and making free electing and sending over Consuls Vice-Consuls Factors and Servants to Constantinople Smyrna Aleppo Cyprus and such places where their Factories are kept The management of the Affairs of this Honourable Company for this present year 1678. is committed to the care and prudent government of the Right Honourable George Lord Berkeley of Berkeley whose worthy parts and great love to Traffick makes him every way so fit for it that the Company for these several years past have by an unanimous consent elected his Lordship their Governour Iohn Buckworth Esq Deputy Mr. Iohn Harvey Treasurer Mr. Thomas Vernon Husband Sir Iohn Lethulier Kt. Charles Thorold Esq Iohn Morden Esq Mr. Thomas Pilkington Mr. Richard Poulter Mr. Henry Griffith Mr. Iohn Morice Mr. Richard Onslow Mr. Thomas Hartopp Mr. Walter Conventrey Mr. William Hedges Mr. Iasper Clotterbook Mr. Abraham Wessell Mr. Richard Nicol Mr. Bernard Saltonstall Mr. George Carew The Russia or Moscovy Company of Merchant Adventurers for discovery of new Trades was first Incorporated in the beginning of the Reign of King Philip and Queen Mary upon the Discoveries of Lands Territories Seigniories and Isles by Seas lying Northwards North-eastwards and North-westwards from England and was afterwards confirmed by Act of Parliament in the eighth year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth so that now they enjoy several Immunities and Priviledges as to raise Arms for the subduing of Countreys in the limits aforesaid and to enter thereon and set up the English Standards to make Acts and Ordinances for the good of the said Society so as they are not repugnant to the Laws of the Kingdom to punish Offenders by Fine or Imprisonment to use a Common Seal to bear a Coat of Arms c. as is here depicted The Commodities that this Company Exporteth are woollen Clothes both died and dressed of all sorts Kersies Bayes Cottons Perpetuances Fustians Norwich Stuffs Lace Thread Lead Tinn Pewter Allom Copper much defective Wines and Fruits not fit to be spent in this Kingdom with most sorts of English Goods And for these and the like they Import Pot-ashes Tarr Cordage Cable-yarn Tallow Wax Isinglass several sorts of Hides in the Hair Goat-skins undrest Cordovants tan'd Hides Hogs-brissles raw Silk Linseed Slod Bever wooll and wombs several sorts of rich Furrs Seal-skins Rhuberb Castorum Agarick Train-oyl Flax Hemp Linen Caviare Salmon Stockfish Codfish c. This worshipful Company of Merchants is governed by a Governour four Consuls and Assistants consisting of four and twenty who on the first of March are Annually chosen out of the Members of the said Society and for this present Year 1677. the management thereof is committed to the care of Iohn Iolliff Esq Governour Sir Benjamin Ayloff Baronet Samuel Moyer Esq Charles Thorold Esq Mr. Charles Carill Consuls to Mr. Edward Bell Treasurer and to Iohn Gould Esq Mr. Daniel Edwards Mr. Benjamin Glanvile Mr. Iames Young Mr. Benjamin Colds Mr. George Grove Mr. Francis Pargiter Mr. George Carew Mr. Heritage Lenten Captain Gervase Lock Mr. Edward Grace Mr. Thomas Thursby Mr. Thomas Hancox Mr. Iohn Ashby Mr. Richard Adams Mr. Edward Davenport Mr. Thomas Hawes ● Mr. George Cooks Mr. Gilbert Ward Mr. Ioseph Wolfe Mr. Iohn Porter Mr. Iohn Osborne and Mr. Iohn Penning Assistants The Eastland Company first Incorporated in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth and confirmed by King Charles the Second and by their Charter have ample Immunities and Priviledges granted to them and as large a scope to traffick in including the Trade of the Kingdoms Dominions Dukedoms Countreys Cities and Towns of Norway Swedeland and Poland with the Territories of the said Kingdoms as also in Lettow Liffland and Pomerland from the River Odera Eastwards and likewise in the Isles of Findland Eoland and Ber●tholine within the Sound The Commodities by this Company Exported are Woollen Clothes Perpetuances Kersies Serges Norwich Stuffs Cottons Lead Tinn Pewter Stockins Hats Gloves together with several Southern and Eastern Commodities as Sattins Silks Spices

and Country in process of time obtained the name of Barons and were admitted into the Peerage and had their Titles affixed to them and their Heirs And this was the usuage and custome of the Saxon Kings to consult their Affairs without the election of the Commons as both Ethelred and Edwin did But whether this be a truth or only opinion I leave to others to dispute Certain it is they always retained some Ensigns of Honour equal to the Nobility being allowed to bear their Arms with Supporters which is denied to all others under the Degree of a Baron Also they take place before all Viscounts and Barons younger Sons as also before all Baronets and were of such esteem that divers Knights Batchelors and Esquires have served under them This Order in France was Hereditary but with us only for life to the meritorious person yet esteemed a Glory and Honour to their Family The Ceremony of their Creation is most Noble The King or his General which is very rare at the head of his Army drawn up into Battalia after a Victory under the Royal Standard displayed attended with all the Field Officers and Nobles af the Court receives the Knight led between two renowned Knights or valiant Men at Arms having his Pennon or Guydon of Arms in his Hand and before them the Heralds who proclaim his valiant Atchievements for which he deserves to be made a Knight Banneret and to display his Banner in the Field then the King or General says unto him Advances toy Banneret and causeth the point of his Pennon to be rent of and the new Knight having the Trumpets before him sounding the Nobles and Officers accompanying him is remitted to his Tent where they are nobly entertained To this degree of Knighthood doth belong peculiar Robes and other Ornaments at their Creation A Banneret thus made may bear his Banner displayed in an Army Royal and set his Arms thereon with Supporters as may the Nobles Of this Order there is at present none extant and the last I read of was Sir Iohn Smith made so after Edghill fight for rescuing the King's Standard from the Rebels in that Battel who was afterwards flain in his said Majesties Service at Alresford in Hantshire To this degree of Honour Sir William de la More Ancestor to the present Edward More of More-hall and Bank-hall in Lancashire Esq was advanced by Edward the black Prince for his eminent Service done at the Battel of Poictiers in France The Portrature and Coate Armour of Sr. William de la More Ancestor of ye. present Sr. Edw. More of More●hall and Banke●hall in Lancashire Baronet wch sd. Sr. Will was made Kt. Banneret by Edw ye. Black Prince at ye. Battle of Poictiers in France The Rt. Honoura●le Sr. George Ca●teret of Nawnes in Bedford shire Kt. Baronet Vice Chamberlaine of his Majestys Household and one of his Majestys most Honourable privy Councell c a. the 45● Bart. by Creation The honble Sr H●rbotle Grimston of Gore ham bury in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Baronet Speaker of the honble house of Comon 〈◊〉 ●irst Parliament vnder his Majesty King Ch●●●e●●he 2d and at present Master of the Roll● the 87 Bart. by Creation Sr. Edmund Bacon of Redgrave in Suffolk Primier Bart. of England the first Bart. by Creation Sr Francis Radcliffe of Dilston in Northumberland Bar t of which Family● there haue been six Earle● of S●●r●x fiue of them were Kt● of the Garter besides S ● Iohn Radclyffe Kt. of ye. Garter t●m̄ps K. Hon 6th ●● 〈◊〉 Rodclyffe al●oe Kt. of ye. Garter tem̄ps K. Rich. 3d. q. 18 Bart. by Creation Sr. Richard Atkins of Much Haddam in the County of Hertford Knight and Baronet The 4 S● Bart. by creation Sr. Francis Gerard of Harrow Hill in Middlesex and of Aston Clinton in the County of Buckingham Knight and Baronet The 126. Bar ● by creation Sr. Tho. Mauleverer of Allerton-Mauleverer in the West rideing of York shire Barnt now maried to Katherine sole daughter heyre of Sr. Miles Stapleton of Wihill in ye. Sd. rideing of Yorkshire Kt. deceased The Barnt by creation Sr. Iohn Wittewronge of Rothamsted in the parish of Harpenden in the County of Hertford K ● and Bart. descended from the Wittewronges in Flanders whose Grandfather Iaques Wittewronge of Gaunt in the sd. province did thence transplant himselfe and family into this Kingdome Anno. 1564. The Bart. by creation Sr. Tho P●yton of Knowlton in the County of Kent Bart. descen●d from the Peyton's of Peyton Hall● Suffolk who had by his first wife Margaret daughter and heyre of Sr. John Bernard of J●esham in Cambridg shire much land and many children from whom are descended the Peyton's of Suffolk Cambride shire Kent and the Isle of Eley his second wife was Margaret daughter and Coheyre of Sr. Hugh Francie s by whome he had also much land and many Children and from whome are descended the Peyton's of Sr. Edmondsbury Warwick shire Worcester shire and Glocester sh. the 61. Bar. by creation Sr. Anthony Craven of Sparsholt in Berkshire Knight and Baronet of the name and family of the Right Honourable William Earle of Craven ct The 648. Bart. by creation Sr. Henry Puckering alias Newton of the priory near the Borough of Warwick in Warwickshire Bart. now maried to Elizabeth daughter of Tho. Murrey Esq. ● secretary to King Charles the first wh●●●rince of Wal●● The ●24 Bart. by creat●●n Sr. Phillip Mathei●s of Edmonton in Middx. Bart. Now Maried to Ann eldest doughter of Sr. Tho Wolstonholme of Minsingden in ye. Sd. Parish of Edmonton Bart. the 6●4 Bart. by Creation Sr. Thomas Tempest of Stelle in the Bishoprick of Durham Bart. the ●99 Bar t by Creation Sr. John Molinevx of Teversa●● in ye. County of Nottingham Bart. the 3● Bart. by Creation ●r. William Walter of Sarsden in Oxfordshire Bart. ●●●ended from ye. antien●family of ye. Walters of Warwi●●●●●re whose late wife was ye. Lady Mary Tuston dau● 〈◊〉 ye. Rt● honble Nicholas Earle of Thanet decea●e● ye. 352 Bart. by Creation S● Iohn Osborn of Chick●ands in ye. County of Bedford Baronet the 468 Bart. by Creation Sr. Robert Vyner of ye. Citty of London K ● Baro ● And Lord Major thereof Anno. Domini 1675 ye. 658 Bart. by Creation Sr. Thomas Wolstenholme of Minsingden in ye. Paris● of Edmunton in the County of Middlesex Baronet the 747 Bart. by Creation Sr. Peter Gleane of Hardwick in ye. County of Norfolk Baronet ye. 770. Bart. by Creation Sr. Robert Iason of Broadsomerford in Wiltshire Baronet now maried to Ann daughter of George Dacres of Cheston in the County of Hertford Esq. y● 672 Bart. by Creation Sr. Thomas Wilbraham of Woodhey in ye. County of Chester Baronett now maried to Eliz● sole Daug●ter heyr of Edward Mitton of Weston vnd●● Lozzardin̄ ye. County of Stafford ● Esq ye. ●4●8 Bart. by Creation Sr. Thomas Myddelton of Chirk ● Castle in Denbighshir Bart. first Maried to Elizabeth daughter of Sr.

Office of a King to fight the Battels of his people and rightly to judge them 1 Kings 8. And the Prophet David saith Be ye learned you that judge the Earth Whereto if they also would endeavour to have knowledge in the Principles and Grounds of the Laws of their own Country which they in due time inherit they shall be much the more enabled to govern their Subjects and it is a point of Wisdom in such to acknowledge that Rex datur propter Regnum non Regnum propter Regem And to move the Princes to these things there is an excellent Book Dialogue-wise between a Prince a King's Son of this Realm and Sir Iohn Fortescue a Judge entituled De laudibus Legum Angliae Many that have been Heirs apparent to the Crown of England ever since the Norman Conquest have been taken away either by their natural deaths or by violence during the life of their Ancestors so that they have not attained to the Crown William the only Son of Henry the First was drowned in his passage from Normandy his Father reigning Eustace King Stephen's only Son died mad to the great grief of the King his Father William the eldest Son of King Henry the Second died in the Fourth year of his Age and in the Third year of his Fathers Reign King Henry the Second's Son called Curt-Mantel was in his Father's life time crowned King by the Name of King Henry the younger but died in the life time of his Father Geffrey the fourth Son of the said King died during the Reign of Richard Coeur de Leon his third Brother which King Richard had no Son and so Geffrey was Heir apparent to the Crown King Edward the First had Issue Iohn Henry and Alphons but all three died in their Childhood in their Father's life Edward the Black Prince of famous memory eldest Son to King Edward the Third died before his Father Richard the Third had Issue only one Son named Edward who died without Issue Arthur the eldest Son and Heir apparent to King Henry the Seventh died in the life time of his Father Henry Prince of Wales eldest Son to King Iames also left the World before his Father These Examples may serve as a Mirror for all succeeding Princes and others to see how transitory the Glory of this World is whereof the saying of the Princely Prophet David may never be out of remembrance Psal. 82. I have said ye are Gods and ye are all the Children of the most High but ye shall die like men and ye Princes like others Also divers other Heirs apparent and those that have been in possession of their Crowns have been defeated by Usurpers And namely Robert Duke of Normandy eldest Son to William the Conqueror was defeated of his Birth-right by his two younger Brethren William Rufus and Henry successively one after another and after Six and twenty years Imprisonment having both his Eyes put out died in the Reign of his Brother Henry Maud the sole Daughter of the said King Henry was defeated of her Birth-right to the Crown by Stephen the Son of her Fathers Sister Arthur the only Son and Heir of Geffrey the fourth Son to Henry the Second was next Heir to the Crown after the death of his Uncle Richard the first King of that Name who died without Issue his Father being dead before but his Uncle Iohn Son to the said Henry the Second defeated him not only of his right to the Kingdom but also of his Life and that by starving him King Edward the Second was deposed by his eldest Son who in the life time of his Father took upon him to be the King of England Richard the only Son to Edward the black Prince and next Heir to the Crown after the death of his Grandfather King Edward the Third was defeated both of his Crown and Life by Henry of Lancaster Son to Iohn of Gaunt who was but the fourth Son of King Edward the Third yea although Lionel the third Son of the said King Edward had Issue Philip his only Daughter who by consequence was next to the Crown before the Issue of Iohn of Gaunt which Philip was married to Edward Mortimer Earl of March from whom the House of York by the name of Edward the Fourth are lineally descended For William of Hatfield second Son to King Edward the Third died young without Issue King Henry the Sixth having but one Son named Edward he was slain in the life time of his Father and the King himself deposed by Edward the Fourth and murthered in the Tower So the Act of Parliament made between them for an indented Peace exemplified in our Books of Law Edward and Richard the two only Sons to Edward the Fourth after the descent of the Crown and before the Coronation of Prince Edward were both of them murthered in the Tower by their Uncle Richard Duke of Glocester who thereupon took upon him the Crown although there were remaining alive divers Daughters of the late King Edward the Fourth During these troublesome and tragical times each of the Kings prevailing attainted the other their Adversary of High Treason by Act of Parliament intending utterly to disable them and make them to be incapable by the Law of the Crown And it is a matter worthy of Observation how the Hand of God did not forget to pursue Revenge in these Cases for William Rufus died without Issue Henry his Brother had a Son and one Daughter but his Son died an Infant and his only Daughter Maud was defeated of her Birthright by Stephen King Iohn who defeated Arthur his Nephew of his Birthright and Life lived in continual Wars never enjoyed Peace but was driven to submit himself and subject his Kingdom to the Pope In his time Normandy which King William the First brought with him and which in five Descents continued in actual Obedience of the Kings of England was in the sixth year of his Reign lost until King Henry the Fifth recovered it again and left it to King Henry the Sixth who again lost it in the Eight and twentieth year of his Reign as doth appear both in our Chronicles and in our Books of Law Concerning the violence done to King Henry the Second albeit Edward his Son enjoyed a long and prosperous Reign yet his Successor King Richard was in the like violent manner imprisoned deprived and put to death King Henry the Fourth by whom King Richard was deposed did exercise the chiefest Acts of his Reign in executing those who conspired with him against King Richard His Son had his Vertue well seconded by Felicity during whose Reign by the means of Wars in France the humour against him was otherwise imployed But his next Successor King Henry the Sixth was in the very like manner deprived and together with his young Son Edward imprisoned and put to death by King Edward the Fourth This Eward died not without suspicion of poyson and after his death his two Sons were likewise

Burgundy The set number of these Knights were Six and twenty of which himself and his Successors Dukes of Bourbon were chief Their Habit was a Mantle of Skie-coloured Damask lined with red Satin with broad Welts of Gold embroidered on the Collar The Bonnet was of green Velvet with a Tassel of Gold and crimson Silk hanging on the Band Their great Collar was of Gold wrought and enameled with green at the bottom whereof in an Oval hung the figure of their Patroness the blessed Virgin as also the head of a Thistle enameled green and white And these Knights were obliged daily to wear a Girdle or Belt of watchet Velvet embroidered with Gold in the midst of which was wrought the word Esperance Knights of the Porcupine THIS Order was instituted by Monsieur Lewis of France Duke of Orleans in Anno 1393. for the further honouring the Baptism of his eldest Son Charles which he had by Valentina Daughter to Iohn Galeas Duke of Millan and he made choice of this Device of the Porcupine with the words Cominus Eminus for his Epigraph which intimated as well something of Revenge which he bore to his inveterate Enemy Iohn Duke of Burgundy as the great hopes he had of this Child Of this Order were Four and twenty besides the Founder Their Habits were Surcoats of violet Velvet over which were Mantles of watchet Velvet lined with carnation Satin and their Collar was formed of Gold chains whereto hung the figure of a Porcupine of Gold upon a hillock of Grass and Flowers enamelled Knights of the Croissant of Anjou RENE Duke of Anjou King of Ierusalem and Sicily instituted this Order in the City of Anjou in Anno 1464. in honour of God the support of the Church and exaltation of Knighthood Their Patron was St. Maurice himself and his Successors were Chiefs Their Ensign which they wore on the right side of their Mantle which was crimson Velvet was a Golden Crescent whereon was the word L'oz enameled and to this Crescent was fastned as many small pieces of Gold fashioned like Columes and enameled red as the Knights had been present in Battels and and Sieges The Order of the Ermine in Bretagne THIS Order was instituted in Anno 1450. by Francis the First Duke of Bretagne in memory of his Grandfather Iohn Surnamed the Conqueror and consisted of Five and twenty of which himself was the Chief The Habit by him appointed them was a Mantle of white Damask lined with carnation with a Mantlet of the same The great Collar was of Gold composed of Ears of Corn in Saltier and at the end thereof hung the Ermine or Mus Ponticus passing over a Turf of Grass at the edge of which was this Epigraph A mavie But this Order expired when the Dukedom of Bretagne became annexed to the Crown of France DEGREES OF KNIGHTHOOD IN ITALY Knights of St. Mary the Glorious IN the life of Pope Vrban when there was great War amongst the Italian Princes which was about the year of our Lord 1233. there were certain rich Gentlemen of Modena and Bologna who being fearful of the Troubles and to be exempt from the Publick Charges moved the Pope to permit them to live in contemplation and to erect a new Religious Order of Knighthood which for a sum of Money they obtained Their Habit was a white Cassock and a Mantle of a russet Colour and for their Badge they wore a purple Cross Pattee on their Breasts They are commonly called Cavaleri de Madona and because they had no Monasteries but dwelt at their own Houses with their Wives and Children at ease and plenty they were termed Fratres Gaudentes They were obliged to fight against Infidels and to protect Widows and Orphans Knights of the Holy Ghost in Saxia at Rome THE chief Seat of these Knights is the stately Hospital of the Holy Ghost founded by Pope Innocent the Third about the year of our Lord 1198. Before their admittance they are obliged to bring Certificate of their Gentility They profess Obedience Chastity and Poverty They live under the rule of St. Augustine and have a Master Their Ensign is a white Patriarchal Cross with twelve points sewed on their Breast and on the left side of their black Mantle The Revenue belonging to this Hospital is 24000 Ducats daily with which they do works of great Charity as nursing and educating of exposed Children the curing of Diseases relieving the poor and entertainment of Strangers for three days The Constantinian Angelick Knights of St. George which was formerly in Greece THIS ancient Order of Knighthood is said to take its beginning from Constantine the Great ●or that he saw by an Angel from Heaven a Cross with this Inscription In hoc signo vinces and the patern of the said Cross presented to his view in the Skie he caused to be made of Gold and precious Stones and to be carried before his Army instead of their golden Standard formerly used And this Cross was also to be engraven upon the Armour of his Legionary Souldiers And for the further adoration of the Cross after his Triumphal Entrance into Rome upon his Victory over Maxentius he erected many Crosses with Inscriptions and in the principal part of the City he caused his Statue to be set up holding a Banner of the Cross with an Inscription Their Ensign was a Collar of Gold to which was fastned a Cross of the same form and thereunto the figure of St. George Of this Order Constantine elected Fifty of the Noblest Persons in his Empire to whom he gave the Standard of the Labarum and likewise a Collar of Gold and constituted several Laws to be observed by the said Fraternity which were confirmed by Pope Leo the First who assigned to them the Rule of St. Basil Anno Dom. 456. which said Order hath been since confirmed by divers succeeding Popes and Emperors The Great Masters of this Order have now their Convent at Brianno near the City of Venice and live in great Grandure being persons of Eminency are subject to no Prince have the power of coyning Money restoring of Honours giving Degrees with the Title of Doctors creating of Poet Laureats legitimating of Bastards and are priviledged to sit at the Table with the Pope The Patron of this Order is St. George and the blessed Virgin Mary their Protectress Their Habit is a white Garment on the left side of which is affixed a red Cross flory made of Velvet in the midst of which is the Labarum embroidered after the form of the Letter X with the Letters Ω upon the one Arm of the Cross and A upon the other Knights of St. Peter at Rome THIS Order was instituted in Anno 1520. by Pope Leo the Tenth to defend the Sea-Coasts and to fight against the Turks Their number was Four hundred who were assigned to wear in an Oval of Gold the Figure of St. Paul Knights of St. George at Rome THIS Order was instituted by Pope Alexander the Sixth

is the Bishop's Palace This City is governed by a Mayor seven Masters sixteen Burgesses a Recorder Town-Clerk c. and hath the election of Parliament men It offers to view amongst other remarkables four Steeples and three Churches whereof two are Parochial viz. Trinity and St. Michaels that an ancient well built Church in form Cathedral which being impaired by a late fall of its beautiful Spire is since restored to its former lustre at a vast expence and charge this a stately large and brave inlightned Fabrick a curious Shell whose Content is one hundred yards in length and seven and twenty yards in breadth besides several Isles and Chappels both on the North and South sides thereof supported by neat and slender Pillars with five Isles whose Steeple for tower and lofty tapering Spire gives place to none in England Bablack Church one of the three is a solid Antique Structure its form Collegiate where Divine Offices are performed but at some Festivals in the year It hath gloried in a matchless Wall and though its form was irregular for a defensible Fortification yet was it built strong broad high and large in circumference now only guessed at by its ruins and its twelve lofty Ports o● Gates yet standing No place compares with this City for a most beautiful Cross of large dimensions and height adorned with variety of Statues Figures and Sculptures richly laid over with Gold and set off with becoming Colours It hath among others one magnificent Hall called Aula Sanctae Mariae fit for a celebrious Congress or Assembly Here is a fair Grammar School founded by Iohn Hales Esquire yet styled Schola Regis Henrici Octavi and another School of late erection for poor Children by Mr. Christopher Davenport late Alderman Appendant to both is a Library with learned Authors both Print and Manuscripts of which Schools the Mayor and Aldermen of this City are Visitors The Hospitals are 2 well and plentifully providing for twenty Blue-Coats eleven poor men in black Gowns and two Nurses in the one and eight other married Couples in blue Gowns in the other and a Nurse To it is annexed very large and rich Commons great Annual Loans and G●fts distributed amongst poor young and hopeful Tradesmen together with frequent remembrances of some noble Benefactor or other who intrustred the City to dispose of their bounty to others as among themselves viz. forty pounds per Annum to St. Iohns Colledge in Oxford and forty pounds per Annum to several other Cor-Proporations Also near the said City at a Pool called Swanswell is a Spring which filleth a seven Inch Diameter of which water the quantity of five Tun an hour is daily raised to the top of a Turret six and thirty foot high by a stream out of the said Pool containing nine cubical Inches which moveth an overshot Wheel and a triangular Crank with Ballances and Buckets being an heaving or lifting Engine from hence the water is conveyed into the Streets of the City and Houses of such Inhabitants as will and do take the said water at an Annual Rent This Water-work was begun by Thomas Sargenson Mason and Bartholomew Bewley Plumber in the year 1630. and hath been since altered and put into the form it now worketh in the year 1658. and so continued by Thomas Bewley Son of the said Bartholomew who is the present prietor The City is owner of a rich Delf or Mine of Coles near adjoyning to it which is hoped will in a little time add much to its Revenue the present Undertakers using that method for the mastering of the Water which the inadvertency of former Undertakers either could not contrive or at least not effectually prosecute The staple Commodity of the place is Cloth but to how low an ebb that trade is now come to every place can report and competently judge as well as this City It s Government consists of Annual Officers ten Aldermen or Justices with two standing Councels viz. the Upper the Second or Common-Councel The Annual Officers are the Mayor Recorder two Sheriffs Steward Coroner two Chamberlains tow Wardens and some other Attendant and Ministring Officers The Mayor is the eye of the Body the King 's immediate Lieutenant having the precedency of all Prince Henry himself when in Coventry refused to take the better hand of him when modestly the Mayor offered it saying He would not resume a right of his Fathers Graunts This Authority is Solitary or Social Solitary as to be Clerk of the King's Market Steward and Marshal of the King's House to be in Commission for Arrays and Head of the twelve Companies Social in the upper Councel which consists of Aldermen and some Candidates for the Majoralty where he orders and manageth the particular Affairs and Revenues of the City distributes the bounty of Benefactors sometimes calling in the Assistance of the second Councel arbitrarily chosen by him and his Brethren out of the wealthiest and discreetest Citizens and consisting of five and twenty who are as Witnesses of their just administrations as well as Advisors in all Alienations of City Lands and Grants of other nature The Aldermen are Justices of the Peace in as full Latitude as any other having ten Wards or Precincts assigned them with an Appropriation of a Ward to each Alderman as to some respects though otherwise every one is Justice throughout both as to the City and County of the City which is of large extent Of these Justices there are of the Quorum four viz. the Mayor Recorder and two eldest Aldermen The Mayor's Insignia are a Sword a Hat of Maintenance a great Mace and six smaller with a Tip-staff the Robes black lined with Furr and on solemn and festival days Scarlet lined with Foins The present Aldermen and Justices for the year 1676. are William Ielliff Alderman now Mayor the second time the Right Honourable Iames Earl of Northampton one of his Majesties Privy Council Recorder Ioseph Chambers Iames Nailer Iulius Billers William Vale Ralph Phillips Nathaniel Harryman Thomas King Thomas Bewley Abell Brooksby Humfry Burton Coroner Sir Richard Hopkins Kt. Serjeant at Law Steward As to the Rights Immunities Priviledges when and by whom granted together with all other things coincident to this City from its first appearance to its ascending Grandure and Declining or Cadency they are most amply and learnedly mentioned to our hand by the Pen of the learned Mr. Dugdale Norroy King of Arms to whom we referr the Reader The Arms belonging to this City are parted per Pale Gules and Vert an Elephant Argent on a Mount proper bearing a Castle on his back Or. WARWICK the Shire-Town of good account being the place where the Assizes and general Sessions for the County are kept it is indifferent large containing two Parish Churches besides some demolished its Houses are well built its Streets spacious and good is a place well inhabited and enjoyeth a good trade especially for Mault It is governed by a Mayor twelve Brethren four