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

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Daughter of Sir Edmund Bell left issue three sons Gentlemen of signall accomplishments Heneage Finch Esquire of the Inner Temple London first son a Person of eminent abilities and candid integrity Francis Finch of the same House Barrester at Law second Son and John Finch third son hopefull and ingenious branches of this Noble Family Of this Family is also Sir John Finch Knight sometime Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England created Lord Finch of Fordwich the sixteenth of King Charles living 1659. son of Sir Henry Finch Knight second Brother of Sir Moyle above mentioned The Atchievement of an Earle HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE VIRTVTIS LAVS ACTIO THis Atchievement thus marshalled is here set forth for the peculiar Ensigns of the Right Noble and truly Honourable Thomas Howard Earle of Arundell and Surrey Primier Earle of England Earle Marshall of the same Kingdom Lord Howard Mowbray Segrave Brus of Gower Fitz-Alan Clun Oswaldstre and Mautravers Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter and one of the Lords of his Majesties most honourable Privy Councel which noble Lord beareth Quarterly eight Coats The first whereof is Ruby on a Bend between six crosse croslets fitchee Pearl an Escocheon Topaz thereon a demy Lyon pierced through the mouth with an Arrow within a double Tressure counter-flowred of the first and is the paternall Coat of the noble flourishing Family of the Howards The second is Ruby Three Lyons passant gardant Topaz in chief a File of three points Pearl which was the Coat-armour of the Lord Thomas of Brotherton fifth son of King Edward the first and Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk The third is Checkey Topaz and Saphire which was the peculiar Armoriall Ensigns of the Earls of Warren The fourth is Ruby a Lyon Rampand Pearl Armed and Langued Saphire by the name of Mowbray The fifth is Ruby a Lyon Rampand Or Armed and Langued of the first by the name of Albaney The sixth is Pearl a Chief Saphire by the name of Clun The seventh is Diamond a Fret Topaz by the name of Mautravers The eighth is Pearl a Fesse and Canton Ruby by the name Woodvile all within the Garter And above the same upon an Helme a mantle Ruby doubled Ermine next upon which is placed on a mount Emerald within a Torce Topaz and Ruby a Horse passant Pearl holding in his mouth a slip of an Oake fructed Proper supported on the dexter side with a Lyon and on the sinister with an Horse both Pearl the last holding in his mouth an Oaken slip fructed Proper And for his Motto to make the same Atchievement absolute these words in a Scrole VIRTUTIS LAUS ACTIO This Atchievement is here proposed as instar Omnium for a patern of the Coat-Armours of Earls of which this Noble Lord is the Primier of England and therefore is his Lordships Atchievement the fittest to be here demonstrated besides whose Coat-Armour could more properly challenge a due place in a work of this nature than his who is not onely by his office of Earl Marshall proper Judge of Honour and Arms but also in his affection the most Honoured Maecenas and Noble Patron as of all learning in generall so more particularly of this of Armory which Earl some years since deceasing left these honours to Henry his eldest son who by Elizabeth Sister of James Stuart late Duke of Richmond and Lennox has left a hopefull issue viz. Thomas Earl of Arundel c. Henry second son in whom are concentred the Loyalty Courage Learning Generosity and what has else exalted the reputation of his Ancestors in the Kingdom Philip third son Charles fourth son Edward fifth son Francis sixth son and Bernard seventh son all living 1660. Of Earls The Title of an Earl is very ancient the dignity very honourable their calling being in sign of their greatness adorned with the lustre of a Coronet and themselves enobled with the stile of Princes Comites among the Ancient Romans were Counsellors and near Adherents to their highest Commanders which honour and Title being then but temporary and for life The flowers and points of a Marquess his Coronet are of even height The pearled points of the Earls Coronet are much longer than the intermixt flowers thereof is since by tract of time made perpetuall and hereditary The Saxons called them Ealdermen the Danes Earls they being as may seem at first selected out of the rest of the Nobility for commendation of their Gravity Wisdom and Experience The next degree above an Earl is a Marquess whose Atchievement I have omitted in respect that the same is chiefly differenced from that of an Earls in this that the Marquess his Coronet is Meslee that is part flowred and part Pyramidall pearled the flowers and points of equall height and the Earles is Pyramidall pointed and pearled having flowers intermixt but much shorter than the pearled points PIE REPONE TE THis is the Atchievement of the Right Honourable Henry Marquess of Dorchester Earl of Kingston upon Hull Viscount Newarke Lord Pierrepont and Maunvers and Herris and is thus blazoned His Lordship bears eight Coats quarterly First Pearle semy de Cinquefoiles Ruby a Lyon Rampant Diamond by the name of the Lord Pierrepont Secondly Pearl six Annulets Diamond by the name of the Lord Maunvers Thirdly Saphire three Hedg-hoggs Topaz by the name of the Lord Herris Fourthly Diamond a Lion Rampant Pearle Crowned Topaz which is the bearing of Lord Segrave Fiftly Ruby a Lion within a bordure Engrailed Topaz by the name of Rees ap Teuder Prince of South-Wales Sixtly Diamond three garbes Pearl being the Coat of the King of Lemster Seventhly Ruby three wheat sheaves Topaz a bordure of Scotland by the name of Coming Earle of Northumberland Eightly Ruby a lion rampant a la double queve Pearle by the name of the Lord Mantfort Earle of Lycester for his Crest on a helmet placed on a Marquesses crowne a Torce or Wreath of his colours thereon a Fox passant Ruby supported by two Lyons Diamond mantled Ruby doubled Ermine his motto PIE REPONE TE This noble Person not more illustrious by his quality then by the Advantages of nature and industry the great assertor of Learning in this Nation decended from a noble family of signall eminence out of which is Robert de Petraponte sive Pierpont who was cal'd by writ among the Peers of England to the Parliament by King Edw. 3. and afterwards in process of time Robert Pierpont was Created Viscount Newarke and Lord Pierpont afterwards Created Earle of Kingston upon Hull after whose death our Soveraign King Charles conferd the honour of Marquess of Dorchester on Henry Earle of Kingston his Son the present Inheritor of these Titles ennobled also by his Mother who was Gertrude Daughter and Coheir of Henry Talbot Son of George and brother to Gilbert Earle of Shrewsbury Lord Talbot Strange Furnivall Verdon and Lovetoft FOY POVR DEVOIR THis is the Atchievement of the Right Honourable William Seymour
their light esteeme of the manifold varietyes casualties and dangerous events of Warres whereunto they do evermore expose themselves for fortune thundereth not her perils more abundantly upon any sort of men than upon those that set her at naught such are high spirited and valourous men And not without cause for as others do labour to shelter themselves from danger and do shunne the violence thereof these contrariwise do lay open themselves to the utmost hazard that may befall them Call to mind the forpassed ages and examine them to the point and you shall find that the valiantest men for the mast part have beene swallowed up with a violent death Victory doth oftentimes make men swell with pride and to insult over others and provoke them to their own destruction as we may see 2 Kings 14.8 Where Amaziah summoned the son of Jehoahaz King of Israel to single combate saying Come let us look one another in the face Who answered him Because thou hast smitten Edom and thine heart hath lifted thee up glory of this and tarrie at home for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt that thou shouldest fall even thou and Judah with thee Some men are of opinion that such as are vanquished in Battell Justnesse of Law of victorie ought not to be captivated to such as had subdued them unless the wars were just and lawfull as Doctor Casius hath observed but Borreus holdeth that albeit the ground or cause of the wars that are undertaken be unjust yet is it not simply unjust that such as are vanquished in battell should be subjected under the power of the vanquisher Quia legislatoris intentio est ut v●rius vincentis sic honoretur The purpose of the Law-maker was that the valour of the vanquisher should be so rewarded Besides it is no ignominious thing for a man to be subdued by a man accounted of valour according to that saying Non tam turpe est vinei quam contendisse gloriosum It is not reckoned a matter so reproachfull to be subdued as it is honourable to have coaped with a magnanimous and valiant man Many men are remunerated for the vertues that are found in them or for the externall tokens of vertue that are observed in their outward carriage Hereupon is that law grounded Quod capti bello victoribus subserviant not for that the Conquerors are alwayes the better men but in regard that in them the signes and tokens of vertue and valour are more apparent than in those that are subdued It is a just dominion or superiority Law milit● and agreeable to the order of Nature that the more powerfull should predominate over the weaker sort And the lawes do seem to approve the same Cum velint victum captum in bello victoris servum fieri It is a Law of perpetuity saith Zenophon observed amongst men that when a Town or City that held out the Assailants is surprised whatsoever is found therein is due to them that took the same as well the persons as their whole substance whose opinion herein Aristotle followeth Polit. 40. And Saint Ambrose lib. 1. de Patriarch writeth that the prey of the King of Sodome was in like sort in the power of Abraham that conquered him This custom hath been also observed that to aske leave to bury the slain in the time of open hostility and whilst men are in Armes in the field or depart the Field after battell is a kind of yeelding of victory for it beseemeth not them that wan the Battell to seek any thing of the enemy by way of intreaty Like as also the unwillingnesse to joyne battell and protraction or delay of battell was taken for a yeilding of victory And now we will begin with examples of bearing such things in Coat-Armour whereby Martiall Discipline and Order which we have now discoursed of are preserved whereof some are for shew other for sound Very behovefull are these ensignes for every particular band of Foot and troop of Horse to the end they may know whither to draw together in expectance of the command of their Captain for the performance of all occasions and that they may by them be directed after any conflict or skirmish whither to retire themselves without danger they also serve for the manifest distinguishing of Bands and Companies And by these they are all directed in their services as a Ship is guided through the forcible and violent surges of the Seas by the benefit of her Helme and a skilfull Pilot guiding the same The Ensigns that the Romans anciently used were of divers shapes the Eagle fixed on the top of a pike or pole was the chief but that they had Pennons or Flags also appeareth by Lazius who saith they were called vexilla à velis navium from the Sails of Ships which they resembled being so named tanquam minus velum as it were a little Saile These foresaid Instruments serve for direction and order to the eye and by shew To these Ensigns thus borne in the Field in time of battell either expected or acted we may adde this known Ensign of premonstration of eminent hostile invasion which is the fired Beacon which giveth a suddain warning of instant intended attempt or invasion of enemies the notice whereof giveth occasion of the firing of the Beacon whereupon a Gentleman of good reputation chose to bear for his Imprese upon a mount a Beacon fired with this Motto annexed Sic periisse juvat meaning to die for his Countries safety was his desire The bearing in Armes of three of these fired Beacons appeareth in this next example There is manifold uses of the Drum Fife Trumpet and other musicall instruments used in martiall affaires in as much as they serve not onely for the direction of Companies and Troops but also of the whole Army in their marchings encampings risings assaults retraits c. but also to dead and drown the cryes of the maymed and wounded and to stir up valour and courage in the Souldiers to the fierce encountring and assaulting of the Enemy and for these ends was the use of them ordained in wars to which purpose do these Instruments much availe Sonus enim cornuum Tubarum in preliis magnam vim habet ad spiritus sanguinem evocandum For it is not with men as it is with beasts which can stir up courage in themselves as I have before shewed for men in respect of fear and faint courage are hardly provoked to fight therefore had they need to be drawn on and provoked thereto SECT IV. CHAP. XIV THE next are such things as serve for execution of order which is the finall end for which Military profession is instituted viz. propulsation or revenge of wrong or for foiling the wrong-doer refusing to give satisfaction to the party grieved and as in the Law politick so in this Law military Execution is reckoned the soul thereof To the accomplishment of Execution of order sundry sorts of weapons are requisite some