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A16306	The cities aduocate in this case or question of honor and armes; whether apprentiship extinguisheth gentry? Containing a cleare refutation of the pernicious common errour affirming it, swallowed by Erasmus of Roterdam, Sir Thomas Smith in his common-weale, Sir Iohn Fern in his blazon, Raphe Broke Yorke Herald, and others. With the copies of transcripts of three letters which gaue occasion of this worke.	Bolton, Edmund, 1575?-1633?; Philipot, John, 1589?-1645, attributed name.	1629 (1629)	STC 3219; ESTC S106271	30,252	83

or Monopolies of the citie more worthy of their acknowledgement if where now they are denominated of some particular ware or craft they were named of Eagles Vultures Lions Beares Panthers Tygers or so forth as the seuerall orders of the Noble in Mexico which Iosephus Acosta writes vnder their Emperor yet much better because more truly these fellowships of London cary the names of men as they haue vocations in professions which onely men can execute Or they would peraduenture thinke more noblie of them if those societies were denominated of Eyes eares hands feet or of other members as Philostratus in the life of that impostor Apollonius Tianaeus saith the officers and instruments of a Philosophical King in India were But as those were called of their King his eyes eares and so forth so haue these mysteries some one or other professor in each among them from the higher trade to the lowest eminently designed out with the addition of King as the Kings Mercer the Kings Draper and so forth Againe how much more worthy the whole is then the parts because the parts are in the whole so by that argument it is more honourable to be marshall'd as a man among societies of ciuill men then to be distinguisht by allusions to particular members At leastwise those singular Gentlemen might certainin their most contempt of the City remēber that of Plato Nemo Rex non ex seruis nemo non seruus ex Regibus and that also rare and reall worth may bee in the persons of Citizens themselues seeing Terentius Consul of old Rome with that noble Paulus Aemilius was free of the Butchers company and our Walworth Lord Maior of old London was free of the Fishmongers And they were not onely the Lords Knights and Gentlemen of Rome who had voice in election of their principall yearly Magistrates but euen handycrafts-men and Artificers as is most manifest by that place of Salust in his Iugurthine warre where Marius was chosen Consul by the speciall affection of that sort of Roman Citizens who saith he sua necessaria post illius honorem ducebant preferred his election by their voices before the trades by which they earnd their liuings Finally they may remēber that in the posterity of Citizens many right noble and worthy Gentlemen are often found and that besides the vniuersall mixture with Citie-races thorow the Kingdom it may not be denyed that true nobless shineth often very bright among thē For they are Companies of free Citizens in which soueraigne Maiesty it selfe is incorporated making them at once to be sacred as it were and certainly magnificent For euen as where the Sun is there is no darknes so where soueraign Princes are interressed parties there is no basenes And as the Philosophers Medicine purgeth vilest metals turning all to gold so the operation of Princes intention to ennoble Societies with his personall presence transmetalls the subiect and clearly takes away all ignobilitie Which things as they are most true in London so for that the Emperour Constantinus magnus if our ancient Fitz Stephan reports the right Henry King of England sonne of king Henry the second and that braue great Prince Edward the first and whosoeuer else were borne in the Citie they giue to it the glory of Armes and Ieffrey Chaucer Sir Thomas Moore knight with others borne in London communicate thereunto the glorie of wits and letters To nourish vp both which most excellent titles to reall nobilitie in the Citie the Artillery-yard and Gressam Colledge were instituted 8 Thus this question of Honor and Armes vndertaken at the instance of interessed parties but more for loue to that great Citie and her children being by Gods assistance and as we hope sufficiently discussed the end of all is this that albeit the loue of humane praise and of outward splendor in the markes and testimonies of it are very vehement fires in all worthiest natures yet haue they no beatitude nor so to say felicitation but onely as with referment to this of the blessed Apostle Soli Deo Honor Gloria Amen I haue viewed this booke and perused the same and finde nothing therein dissonant to reason or contrary to the Law of Honor or Armes William Segar Garter princip King of Armes Errata In the Epistle to the Masters For iuice of ingratitude read vice of ingratitude In the Epistle to the Prentises For preying read prying For honourable all read honorable strangers all Page 5 For larger volume read leger volume 17. For discouser read discourser 19. For ciuill Art gouernment read ciuill Art of gouernment ●ad For most an Art of encrease read most ancient Art of encrease 20. For a would read as would 23. For ouer-slaue read ouer his slaue 38. For fasteth read fastest 51. For you are read you as are 55. For controll all read controll of all 57. For Ramme read a Ramme 58. For certaine read certainly

THE CITIES ADVOCATE IN THIS CASE OR QVEstion of Honor and Armes Whether Apprentiship extinguisheth Gentry Containing a cleare Refutation of the pernicious common errour affirming it swallowed by Erasmus of Roterdam Sir Thomas Smith in his Common-weale Sir Iohn Fern in his Blazon Raphe Broke Yorke Herald and others With the Copies or Transcripts of three Letters which gaue occasion of this worke Lam. Ierem. cap. 3. ver 27. Bonum est viro cum portauerit jugum ab adolescentia sua LONDON Printed for William Lee at the Signe of the Turkes Head next to the Miter and Phoenix in Fleet street Monsieur FLORENTIN de THIERRIAT Escuyer Seigneur de LOCHEPIERRE LONOVET SAINCT NAVOIR RAON AV. BOYS c. De la Noblesse de Race Num. 99. En matiere de Noblesse il faut obseruer la Coustume du lieu et les moeurs des peuples dautant que les uns estiment une chose honneste et Noble que les autres tiennent pour sordide et dishonneste Num. 118. Les choses que derogent a la Noblesse qu'il faut tousiours mesurer sur les Coustumes des lieux parce qu'un peuple approuue souuent un exercice pour honneste qu'un autre defend et prohibe comme sordide et uicieux au Gentilhomme HONORATISSIMO SENATVI POPVLO QVE AVGVSTAE VRBIS LONDINENSIS RIGHT HONORABLE THe Author of this work styling himselfe according to the nature of his part therein THE CITIES ADVOCATE after tenne or twelue yeares space from the first date of the accomplishment resoluing at last to permit the edition doth reuerently here aduance and present to the honorable good acceptance of your Lordship of all the Lords and other the worthy persons to whom in the qualitie of the cause the consideration reacheth The cleare refutation of that pestilent error which hauing some authority for it and many iniurious partakers layes vpon the hopefull and honest estate of APPRENTISHIP in LONDON the odious note of bondage and the barbarous penaltie of losse of Gentry to the great reproach of our Kingdomes policie and to the manifold damage of the publike In this one act of his the Aduocate therefore doth not onely seeme to be the Patron or Defendor of birth-rights and of the rights of fortunes but the Champion also of ciuill Arts of flourishing Industrie among you the sinewes and life it selfe of Common-weale The occasion which induced him to enter the lists single against a multitude in this good quarell was priuate as appeares by the Letters at the end of the worke but the cause is absolutely such according to his best vnderstanding as he should not refuse to abett second with his sword the strokes of his pen to that purpose For though the Schooles and Camp are most proper for Honor and Armes yet the ancient wisedome and the like ancient bounty of our Sages did euer leaue the gates of Honor open to City-Arts and to the mysteries of honest gaine as fundamentall in Common-weale and susceptiue of externall splendor according to the most laudable examples of rising Rome vnder her first Dictators Consuls By which their such moderation and iudgement they happily auoided two opposite rockes tyrannicall appropriation of Gentry to some certaine old families as in Germanie and the confusion of allowing hereditarie Noblenesse of Gentry to none at all as vnder the Sultan in Turkey With how true and entire a good will this free seruice is performed by the Author may easily be gathered from hence that hee willingly giues the obliuion of his owne name into the merit conscience of the fact sufficing Now for him to informe your Lordships and the rest out of the title de origine iuris in Caesarean Lawes how the noble people of oldest Rome accepted the booke which Gnaeus Flauius dedicated to their name and vses what were it else but inofficiously to dictate your part and not humbly to offer his owne which neuerthelesse here he most officiously doth being truly able to say vpon his owne behalfe that he hath purloined no mans labours as that Flauius did but is through all the true and proper owner The Author is your humble seruant Valete in Christo Iesu. XI Cal. Nouember MCICXXVIII To the Gentlemen of ENGLAND in generall BE not displeased with this bold enterprise as if it were in fauour of the euill manners of a multitude who passe vnder the title of APPRENTISES For neither the incorrigibly vicious who are pestilent to morall and ciuill vertue nor the incorrigibly forgetfull of their betters whom insolencie maketh odious haue any part herein at all For first it wholly belongs to such among masters or Citizens as are generously disposed worthily qualifide men who say with Publius Syrus Damnum appellandum est cum mala fama lucrū and then to such among Apprentises as resemble Putiphars chaste Ioseph or Saint Pauls conuerted Onesimus yongmen who say with Statius Caecilius in his Plotius Libere seruimus salua vrbe atque arce meaning by the Citie and the Citadel the bodie and the head of man Valete To the happie Masters of Laudable Apprentises in LONDON RIght worthy Citizens you shal not for this worke finde your honest seruants the lesse seruiceable but the more For in good bloods and good natures praise and honor preuaile aboue rigour and blowes And because your selues for the most part were Apprentises once you may therefore behold herein with comfort the honesty of your estate when you were such and the splendour of what you are now in right The vnthankefull if any such should happen to rankle among you may be warn'd that the iuyce of Ingratitude doth forfeit libertie and that they are truly bondmen if not according to the letter nor in their proper condition yet according to the figuratiue sense and in their improper basenesse VALETE TO THE MODEST APPRENtises of LONDON Schollars and Disciples in Citie-Arts during their seuen or more yeares Nouiceship THe principall obiection against publishing either this or any other booke of like argument hath alwayes beene grounded by the most wise and noble vpon a feare that the insolencies of the youth and irregular frie of the Citie would thereby take encrease which hauing heretofore beene intollerable in common pollicie and in no little measure scandalous to the Kingdome were hatefull to cherish or to giue the least way vnto But it hath alreadie beene elsewhere answered that those Apprentises are of the dreggs and branne of the vulgar fellowes voyd of worthy blood and worthy breeding and to speake with fit freedome no better then meerly rascall the ordinary balls plaid by the hand of Iustice into the Bridewells in or about the Citie yea perhaps not Apprentises at all but forlorne companions masterlesse men tradelesse and the like who preying for mischiefe and longing to doe it are indeed the very Authors of all that is vile discourteous to honorable all trauelling strangers ought to be generally vsed as such rude towards Natiues seditious

same Nor is it a new thing in our Commonweale that speciall Citizens not borne to armories but the sonnes of yeomen or not of Gentlemen should haue armes assigned them For there is perhaps scarce any record of Armes granted in England more ancient then testimonies in the Halles of London that speciall Citizens haue bin honourd with particular bearings And these are aduanced vpon the Lord Maiors day by the speare-men of that companie of which his Lordship is a member not all of them specially giuen of old but some vndoubtedly borne by right of blood as descendents of Gentlemen but other againe as vndoubtedly assigned for excellency in City-Arts Of which number there are at this day not a few whose seri nepotes whose great-grand-childrens children are reputed amōg the oldest and best families of their Shires without any relation to London which notwithstanding raised them Hence it followes that as an Apprentise being a Gentleman-borne remaineth a Gentleman which addition of splendor and title as God blesseth his labours so a worthy Citizen is capable of honor and Armes notwithstanding his Apprentiship And by this distinction made betweene a Citizen meerely as a Citizen and of a Citizen as hee may also be a Gentleman that obiection which some bring out of a Statute enacted vnder one of our Kings which forbidding the disparagement offered by the Guardian to marie the Ward borne gentle to a Burgensis may easily bee salued and answered For in that Statute the word Burgensis is spoken in the natiue and more narrow sense thereof that is of one who is simply Burgensis without any consideration of him as hee may otherwise bee a Gentleman Esquire or Knight which in some places happens as in the famous corporation of Droit Wiche in Worcestershire But howsoeuer cerainely Burgensis here nothing concernes Citizens of London who by an excellency of their calling had the honor in antiquity to beare the name of Barons and were styled so and weighing that the Citizen is a distinct degree from Burgensis and aboue it and therfore that law concernes them not For the proofe of their title to the appellation of Barons by way of Hexoche as artists in eloquence call it most famous is that place in the Histories of Mathew Paris where speaking of the Londoners of his time vnder King Henry the third these words are eminent in him Londonienses quos propter ciuitatis dignitatem ciuium antiquitatem Barones consueuimus appellare As for the distinct degree of a Citizen from a Burgensis that appeares in this that the City of London doth not send Burgesses to the Parliament but Knights or Citizens and the enumeration of the rankes is cleare in a Statute of King Richard the second enacted the fift yeare of his raigne and the fourth Chapter of the same where they are Count Baron Banneret Cheualier de Counte Citizen de Citie Burgeis de Burgh The Princes before that time but specially the Princes following as the worthinesse of Citizens inuited did ennoble them exceedingly and continue more and more so to doe Yet in conferring Armes and arguments of honor vpon Cizens not borne Genlemen reason requireth that they should not haue coats of the fairest bearing assigned to them but such as either in Canton Chiefe Border or otherwise might carie some testimonie marke or signe to shew the Art by which they were aduanced as Merchant-Aduenturers to beare Anchors Grocers Cloues Clothworkers a Tezel Merchantaylors a robe and so forth which those Gentlemen ought in honestie and thankfulnesse to choose and not only to accept and rather striue to match the best in goodnesse and worth of spirit then in the silent tokens of it Posteritie thriuing there may then some change be also made in the coat for the better Specially considering what pretty riddance hath beene in our times made of surcharges in armories granted about the end of King Henry the eight what encroachments vpon old Gentlemens rights by new ones because their names onely haue beene the same and many other inuentions to blanch or beautifie newnesse According to which notion and dictamen coats of Armes haue beene deliuered from their originall deformities surfets and surcharges by their proper Physitian the prouinciall King of Armes So Sir Thomas Kitsons of Suffolk whose Chief now simply gold was heretofore ouerladen with three ogresses and they with an Anchor the badge or argument of the originall and two Lyons rampant argent as at this houre is publikely extant to be seene in Trinitie Hall at Cambridge whereunto he was a benefactor and besides that Gentlemans the coat armours of some of the Peeres of this land and of others also not a few very many more needing the like reliefe or remedie The rule of proportion seemes diligently obserued in antiquitie among vs where the principall and most noble charges and formes of Armories were not appropriated but to analogicall competencies of honourable qualitie 3 Such therefore being the nature of Apprentiship and such the condition of Citizens estate as to the purposes of honor and armes let Fathers who are Gentleman put their children who are not rather inclining to Armes or letters to Apprentiship that is to say to the discipline and Art of honest gaine giuing them a title of being somewhat in our Countrey For it is a vocation simply honest and may proue a stay to posteritie and giue credit to their names when licentious and corrupted eldest sonnes haue sold their birth-rights away For albeit many Citizens thriue not but breake yet those fathers or such who are in place of Fathers worke more probably who put their children or Orphans into a certaine method of life then others who leaue them at large And as some riotous foolish or vnfortunate Citizens miscarrie so ten to one more yonger brethren in the Country And fathers such of you are not gentlemen put your children to be Apprentises that so as God may blesse their iust true and vertuous industrie they may found a new family and both raise themselues and theirs to the precious and glittering title of Gentlemen bearing Armes lawfully For which cause no Lord nor Peere of this Land who may perchance owe his worldly estate and as well the completiue as the fundamentall greatnesse or amplitude of meanes to such as haue beene Citizens of London nor those other whose originalls were from cheualrie and martiall seruice the most pure and proper Noblesse of all as to the purpose of bearing Armes and yet since haue beene mixt with Citie-races ought to thinke it the least disparagement to owne their benefactors and ancestors Citizens of London On the other part it will worthily well become them freely and thankfully to acknowledge so honest originalls and accession to originalls as all this Realme from thence is filled with Because among them the vertues of commutatiue iustice and of commendable industrie flourish and the sinewes of warre and peace abundance of treasure are stored vp as in the Chamber of the