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A96070	A discourse and defence of arms and armory, shewing the nature and rises of arms and honour in England, from the camp, the court, the city: under the two later of which, are contained universities and inns of court. / By Edward Waterhous Esq;.	Waterhouse, Edward, 1619-1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing W1044; Thomason E1839_1; ESTC R204049	70,136	238

therefore spightful high shows and Sots of yesterday declaym against Nobility and Gentility yet all sober men and times have made it a great step to trusts and commands the Roman Salii or Priests to Mars were men of greatest authority and of most leading note such as Appius Claudius Scipio Africanus L. Bibaculus Antoninus and sundry others of the grandest renown yet these were to be ex patriciis Liberi Cives qui neutro Parente Orbati essent And when to this advantage of blood they joyned that other of personal vertue making that a conspicuous Plume in the Cap of generosity {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Such an one deserves prayse for his advantagiousness to mankind The Poet tells us that vertue is the merit of fame Non census non opes nec clarum nomen avorum Sed probitas Magnum ingeniumque facit And Tully vindicates himself against Salust thus Sanctius est me meis gestis florere quam Majorum auctoritatibus inniti ita vivere ut sine posteris meis Nobilitas initium virtutis exemplum yea when envy and ill will has spit out her poyson worth will have compurgators from the breasts of Enemies Photius Leostenes when his detractors spitefully asked him what good had betided the common-wealth in his Pretorship replyed {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ye have replyed he saved your breath and spent none of it in sad Orations bewayling mens unfortunate deaths but every man has been buryed {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} with their Fathers not forced to abandon their houses and live and dye strangers to their own Land but preserved in peace and justice to a sober and sacred Serenity of life which is the Crown of Government and the commendation of the Governours No doubt then but there are vertues suitable to particular Persons and Callings as Piety to a Divine Fortitude to a Souldier Industry to a Tradesman Learning to a Philosopher Memory to an Orator Justice to a Magistrate but to a Gentleman well born and well bred all or most of these are in some degree or other requisite And the Law of honour in all Nations as it qualifies a Gentleman for any conferrable honour the greatest title of honour being but an Improvement of Gentility so it requires the choyce of men to fill up that roll out of which the select Jewels of Nobility are extracted Nihil aliud est vera Nobilitas quam vita humana clara virtutibus per Electionem et habitum animae intellectualis exterius operantis saith Vpton Therefore all Supremes in their Patents and grants of Dignity have these or suchlike passages regalis nostrae dignitatis fastidium non solum ornari sed augeri etiam prospicimus dum viris virtutibus claris et in rebus gerendis strenuis honorum titulos dispensaremus Or after the mention of the justness to reward Vertue praesertim quos parentum praeteritorum nobilitavit memoria propriarum virtutum merita clara obedientia condecorant ut praemiata virtus roboretur intrinsecus multos alliciat ad virtuosos actus to shew to the World that they hold none meet subjects of honour who have not vertuous minds as well as great Estates therefore Budaeus out of Aristotle calls {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and proposes three contenders laying claim to it Liberty Riches Vertue some will have them in other terms Riches Lineage Vertue Science so Mr. Leigh I shall consider honour in England as having this threefold rise The Camp the Court the City these with their Appurtenances have been the Trojan-Horse out of which have appeared the great Actors on the Stage of Nobility For unto eminent persons arising from these is Honour due and to such there will honour be ever given For God forbid either the mean Originalls of brave men should betray them to a stupid neglect of concurring with that providence which may open the Prospect to their future felicity Tullus Hostiliur wore out his swadling clouts in a poor cottage and spent his youth in tending cattel Et validior aetas Romanum rexit Imperium Or the heroique spirits of men well born and nobly set out to display their merit should not have encouragements {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to make them contemn danger which Polybius sayes wrought so mightily with the Roman Youth that they expressed more joy to hear their General recite at the head of the Army their valiant acts and be themselves beheld as deservers of their Coronae Hastae Armillae Torques Phalera Spolia and the rest of their manly renumerations then fear of danger or death in those atchievements they undertook Honour there is no doubt is the reward of vertue and vertue the stimulation to valour Learned men have spent long treatises in the definition and prayse of honour as that Golden Fleece which attended by Dragons will be assaulted by magnanimous Jasons 'T is the great minds Dalilah and Sampsons of courage will buy it at the price not onely of many other mens but of their own lives Sabellicus makes Fame the tinder which kindles sparks of mettle into flames of action This roused up those early Knights Romulus and Numa to shew themselves ambo sperarunt diversum a mortalitate yea and of Hercules he writes Haec illi vel noverca infestior quae nunquam passa esteum quiescere haec durior quam ille imperiosus Eurysteus per quem tam varie exercitatus est Alcmenae filius deinque fuisset ille nunquam tantus si spem de immortalitate famae nunquam animo concupisset O honour thou art the wind in the sailes of Industry which brings it to its Port Thou art the Musique of the Spheares the sweet notes whereof those early queristors onely hear who are by the prayses of Myltiades kept alwayes waking Thou art the mortall moveable Heaven for which men contend to and comfort themselves in death Collige●te Hieronime stabit vetus memoria facti mors acerba fama perpetua was spoke like a Roman In a word Honour branch'd out into Divine Moral Politique is a large field Histories abound in Instances of it coming in upon the spring tydes of opinion and carried aloft upon the wing of Providence the arbiter of this Universe some we read courting honour as their chief good and bayting all the hooks they ●●ve to catch advantages when they are but nibling and smile upon them onely with a half face Valour beauty learning fidelity temperance justice and all sorts of excellencies have been exchang'd for fame yea some Artizans have been so transported with the thoughts of renown that they have coveted no better pay then perpetuity for a Master-piece in which they have expended the flower of their lives Egnatius tells us that the Venetians being to build that famous Church to St. Mark invited with great promise of

not flag For when Gods time is come he will arise and plead his own cause and from him as the onely Judex legitimus there will be no appeal And so the fifth part of the description comes next to hand the objects to whom Arms are principally directed Militibus to Souldiers But of Souldiers I have written somewhat in the preceding sheets that which remains is onely two limitations 1. Though Arms and Honour be the proper reward of Souldiers yet not onely of Souldiers 2. Though they be the rewards of Souldiers yet not of all Souldiers First Though of Souldiers yet not of all Souldiers For if as great designs of Conquest and conservation of dominion has been effected by Counsel as by force then are the remunerations Military to be divided between the Co-heires of merit Courage Councel The Souldiers indeed as the elder is to make first choyce of the divident but the Gown man is to have his allowance as equal as Justice can apportion it When Nimrod first forged his Engine of oppression by which he became as terrible to men as the hunter is to the pursued beast then was there no rival with no counterpoyse to power but after when Councel made snares and fixed harping Irons in Leviathans of rule then was Councel owned as a conservator of the peace of Nations Then Princes appeared in Robes and vests of calmness distributing their favours under representations of peace the Daughter of Counsel and Prudence rather then in tokens of warre and ferocity deriving Dominion from the Lawes of learned Justice and not from the form of armed strength 'T is fit indeed fortitude should be encouraged all ages and Nations have need of it and are made happy by it therefore ought to reward it and so have done and so for example sake will do but other vertues of equal merit must not be exhaeredated or become spurious to advance its legitimation It was a brave spirit of Numa Popilius to promise Mamurius that famous Artist who made brasen Shields like that which fell from Heaven on which was inscribed the Roman fate that he would give him whatever he could wish or would desire of him and 't was as bravely requited by a modest and candid request ut a Saliis sacerdotibus martis cum jam saltantes canerent in fine Carminis Mamurii artificis nomen etiam pronunciarent Some mens virtues vigorously confront the ghast looks of Death and judge no bed of Honour no manner of dispatch like that of a cannon shot or an Instrument of steel Others resolving to adorn their lives with actions contributive of good to men study not onely their own but other mens preservations inclining actions to peace the Halcyon dayes of art and the spring of Learnings verdure and slourishing Both these are good Stewards of their ●alents and deserve Euge's from and shares in the joyes of their Lords If then the scale of favour and the evidence of approbation incline to any one where it ought to be equilibrious and impartial there would be too much ground of outcry on injustice Let then the Souldier be rewarded let him have the Trophies proper to him The Gownman onely claims such a share in this worlds lustre as is commensurate to the officiousness he to publique good expresses And if he upon the Crabstocks of emnity grafts the Cyons of concord and serve a Gospel reformation by accomplishing as much as rests on mans part to endeavour that promise which points out civil as well as Religious prosperity They shall beat their Swords into Plow-shares and their Speares into Pruning-hooks Nation shall not lift up Sword agai●st Nation neither shall they learn warre any more c. And if this be done by Gownmen without blood force violence the unavoidable methods of Warre and the pleasure of Camps as great a portion and as notable a fee of Arms and honour is to be imparted to the Scholar as Sword-man For incruent Victories are least offensive to God and man since they are rather well studied and thorowly improved providences then acts of vehemence or compulsions of a bruital and irrational contexture And were not encouragements to sober diligence and vertuous industry suitable to those of Centaurean fierceness Men of great spirits and noble mindes would either become the prey and spoil of salvages or die under the discontent to be overdripp'd by such as are first Tigres and Lyons in their natures and then act as such against all whom God and nature have polish'd to a more pleasing complyance with humanity and civil conversation the onely soder of friendship and the contentful harmony of life Though therefore Arms and Honour be primarily the right of Souldiers yet not only and exclusively their right others are fellow Commoners and of the Messes of Honour with them No nor secondly are all Souldiers included in this beneficence of the Fountain of Honour which the learned Knight calls Judex Legitimus for there are some that creep into the wedding feast who having not the wedding Garment ought to be asked how they came in thither such Souldiers as Marcellinus and Vo●iscus calls milites ordinarios quos excitabant inopia feritas are not within the care of our Judex Legitimus for he respects onely those that are Milites Legitimos because engaged in militia legitima the lawful expression of merit which is to be rewarded by the lawful Judge being onely in a lawful warre St. Bernard giving encouragement to the Christians undertaking against the Infidels writes thus Cum occidit malefactorem non homicida sed ut ita dixerim malicida plane Christi vindix in his qui male agunt defensor Christianorum reputatur And therefore though there be much daringness expressed by men that rush into action like the Horse into the battel not caring what side they take arms for yet advised and pious souls consider the cause and resolve to stand by the Crown of glory though it be fixed to a rotten post all the ignominies that this wretched world entails to the good fight of faith Christs faithful Souldier servant contemns The forecited Father has this passage to the Knights Templers si bonafuerit causa pugnantis pugnae exitus malus esse non poterit sicut nec bonus judicabitur sinis ubi causa non bona intentio non recta praecesserit si in voluntate alterum occidendi potius occidi contigerit morieris homicida quod si praevales voluntate superandi vel vindicandi forte occidis hominem vivis Homicida so that Father a notable quel to the rash engager who neither a victor or a looser is guiltless The Souldiers then that fight for honour must fight according to the Lawes and for the well-being of Honour And then they will deserve primum locum in acie occupare ante signa cum Principibus stare As did the Roman Antesignani yea and be accounted