and other antiquities hee could finde there Leofricke was sonne to the Earle of Kent and after being chosen to be Archbishop of Canterburie he refused it this Abbot in a time of dearth solde all the Iewels of his Church to buy bread for the poore After him succeeded Alfricke Leostan Frâ—theric Paul In this Abbot were giuen to the Monastery of Saint Albanes the Celles of Wallingford of Tinnemuth of Bealvare of Hertford and Binham Richard who liued in the time of William Rusus when the Cell of Saint Marie de Wymonaham or Windham in Norfolke was giuen vnto this Abbey beeing sounded by William de Albeney father to William de Albeney first Earle of Arundell Gaufridus who founded the Nunnery of Sopwell therby on the other side of the riuer founded and so called vpon this occasion two poore women hauing built themselues a small cabben liued in that place a very austere life praying and seruing God with great deuotion and for that they liued for the most part with no other sustenance saue bread and the water of a Well there wherein they vsed to soppe or dippe their bread it had saith mine Author a Monke sometime of that Abbey the name of Sopwell Then Radulphus Robert Simon Garmus Iohn William c. Off a gaue to this his Abby of Saint Albans these towns following viz. Thei l Edelâ—â—â—â—â— Wiclesfield Cagesâ—o cum suis Berechund Rikeâ—aresworth Bacheworth Crokâ—leie Michelfield Britchwell Watford Bilsey Merdell Haldenham Sprâ—t Enefeild Stâ—â—â—â—â—â— Hâ—â—â—â—â—ted Winelesham Biscopscoâ— Câ—dâ—â—â—dune and Mildâ—â—dune Egelsride his sonne and successour gaue Sandruge and Penefield Alfrickâ— Abbot of this Church after Archbishop Leofrick his brother gaue Kingesbury Câ—ealdwich Westwic Flamsted Nortâ—â—â— Râ—â—â—â—hang Wâ—â—â—â—field Birstan and Vpton AEthelwold Bish. of Dorchester gaue Girshuna Cuicumba Tyme Aegelwin Redburne ThuangnaÌ„ Lingley Grenburga One Tholfe gaue Estune and Oxaw One Sexi gaue Hâ—chamsted One Haâ—dh gaue Newhaâ— and Beandise Therefeld a religious woman gaue Sceanlâ—a Bridel Aegelwina another gaue Batesden Offal and Standune One Aegelbert gaue Craniford Aâ—â—an Cutesham Winsimus gaue Esenden Osulsus and his wife gaue Stâ—dham and Wilsinâ—â— others Walden Cudicote Scephal Bethell with sundry other Celles Churches and goodly possessions of me vnnamed If I should set you downe the inestimable wealth consisting in Plate Iewells Bookes costly Hangings Altar-cloathes and the like which by our English Kings Nobilitie and others haue from the foundation vnto the dissolution with the sundry priuiledges this Abby had I should weary my selfe with writing and you with reading but I omit them hauing onely proposed a mirrour to the eyes not of the Church pillars of ancient but the Church pillers of our times The Auncestors of this Noble family were Frenchmen borne taking their Surname of a Towne in Normandy called Sackuill whereof they were Lords and came into England to the aide of Duke William the Conquerour as appeareth by an auncient Manuscript or Chronicle of Brittaine now in the Custody of Mr. Edward Gwinn where he is called a Chiefetaine and is the seauenth man ranked in a Catalogue of names there for as it may be obserued out of Mr. Camdens Remaines that the better sort about the time of the Conquest began to take vp Surnames so againe they were not setled amongst the common people vntill the Raigne of King Edward the second He moreouer affirmeth that the most ancient and of best account were deriued from places whereof this name of Sackuill is one and to adde yet more vnto it Ordericus Vitalis the Monke in his Normane story saith that Herbrann de Sackuill was liuing in the time of William the Conquerour being father of three Noble Knights Iordan William and Robert de Sackuill and of a vertuous and beautifull Ladie named Auice who was married to Walter Lord of Alfage Hugleuill by whom shee had issue Iordan L. of Alfage Hugleuill that married Iulian the daughter of one Godsâ—all who came into England with Q. Adelize of Loâ—â—ine the Wife to King Henry the first After whose death the said Queene married to William de Albency Earle of Arundell from whom the now Right Honorable Thomas Earle of Arundell and Surry and Earle Marshall of England is descended S. Iordan de Sackuill Knight the eldest sonne was Sewer of England by the gift of the said Conquerour but liued and died in Normandy S. Robert de Sackuill Knight the yonger sonne liued in England and gaue together with his body the Mannor of Wickham in Suffolkeâ— to the Abbey of Sâ— Iohn Baptist in Colchester leauing issue a son named Sâ— Iordan de Sackuill a very eminent man in the time of King Richard the first as appeareth by a Charter of the said King made to the Monkes of Bordesâ—ey in Buckinghamshiere Sâ— Iordan de Sackuill that obtained of King Iohn a Friday Market weekely and a Faire once a yeare in his Towne of Sackuill in Normandy as saith the Kings Publike Records in the Tower of Lâ—â—don Holiinshed fol. 186. doth there ranke Iordan de Sackuill as a Baron calling him one of the assistants to the 25. Peeres of this Realme to see the Liberties of Magna Charta confirmed And for further proofe that they were men of no meane â—anke it is apparent in the Red booke of the Excheaquer in the 12. and 13. yeeres of the said Kings Raigne in these words Hubertus de Anestie tenes 2. food in Anestie parua Hornmcad dimid 〈◊〉 in Anestie de Honore Richardâ— de Sackâ—yle Agaiâ—e Sâ— Iordan de Sackuill Knight grandâ— childe to the said Iordan de Sackuill was taken prisoner at the battaile of Eâ—esham for siding with the Barons against King Henry the third in the 49. yeare of His Raigne whose sonne and heire named Andrew Sackuill being vnder age at the time of his fathers death and the Kings Waâ—d was like wise imprisoned in the Castle of Deuer Ann. 3. Eâ—n 1. and afterward by the speciall command of the said King did marry Ermynâ—â—de an Honourable Ladie of the houshold to Queene 〈◊〉 or whereby he not onely gained the Kings fauour but the greatest part of his Inheritance againe From whom the aforesaid Richard Earle of Dorset with Sâ— Edward Sackuill Knight of the Bathe his brother and others are descended one of whose Auncestors by marrying a daughter and co-heire of Rase de Denn sonne of Rodbert Pincerna that held the Lordship of Buckhurst with diuers other Mannors and Lands in Sussex about the time of the Normain Conquest In right of which marriage they haue euer since continued Lords of the said Mannor of Buckhurst with diners other Manors and Lâ—nds in Sussex c. Which William Earle of Devonshâ— was sonne of Sâ— William Cavendish of Chattesworth in the said Countie of Derby knight Treasurer of the Chamber to King Henry the eight Edward the sixt and Queene Marie by his wife Elizabeth daughter of lohn Hardwick of Hardwick Esquire The Auncestors of this Noble Familie called themselues Gâ—râ—ms whose issue
in Poesie was most rich and his sweetnesse and facilitie in a verse vnimitably excellent as appeareth by that Master peece his Psalmes as farre beyond those of B. Rhenanus as the Stanza's of Petrarch the times of Skelton but deseruing more applause in my opinion if hee had fallen vpon another subiect for I say with one Mihi spiritus diuinus eiusmodâ— places quo scipsum ingessit a Patre illoruÌ„ piget qui Dauid Psalmos suis calamistris inustos sperarant efficere plausibiliores And certaine in that boundlesse field of Poeticall inuention it cannot be auoided but something must be distorted beside the intent of the Diuine enditer His Tragedies are loftie the stile pure his Epigrams not to be mended saue heere and there according to his Genius too broad and bitter But let vs looke behinde vs and wee shall finde one English-bred whose glorie and worth although Cineri suppôsta doloso is inferiour neither to Buchanan or any of the ancients and so much the more to be valued by how much the brighter he appeared out of the fogges of Barbarisme and ignorance in his time that is Ioseph of Exeter who liued vnder Henrie the 2. and Richard the first who wrote that singular and stately Poeme of the Troian warre after the Historie of Dares Phrygius which the Germanes haue printed vnder the name of Cornelius Nepos He died at Bourdeaux in France where he was Archbishop where his monument is yet to bee seene After him all that long tract of ignorance vntill the daies of Henrie the 8. which time Erasmus calleth the Golden Age of learning in regard of so many famously learned men it produced more then euer heretofore flourished Sir Thomas More sometime Lord Chancellor of England a man of most rich and pleasant inuention his verse fluent nothing harsh constrained or obscure wholly composed of conceipt and inoffensiue mirth that he seemeth ad lepôres fuisse natum How wittily doth hee play vpon the Arch-cuckold Sabinus scoffe at Frenchified Lalus and Herney a French cowardly Captaine beaten at the Sea by our English and his shippe burned yet his victorie and valour to the English disgrace proclaimed by Brixius a Germane Pot-aster What can be more loftie then his gratulatorie verse to King Henrie vpon his Coronation day more wittie then that Epigramme vpon the name of Nicolaus an ignorant Phisitian that had beene the death of thousands and Abyngdons Epitaph more sweete then that nectar Epistle of his to his daughters Margaret Elizabeth and Cicelie But as these ingenious exercises bewraied in him an extraordinary quicknesse of wit and learning so his Vtopia his depth of iudgment in State-affaires then which in the opinion of the most learned Budaus in a preface before it our age hath not seene a thing more deepe accurate In his yonger yeeres there was euer a friendly and vertuous emulation for the palme of inuention and poesie betweene William Lillie the author of our Grammer and him as appeareth by their seuerall translations of many Greeke Epigrammes and their inuention tried vpon one subiect notwithstanding they lou'd and liu'd together as deerest friends Lillie also was beside an excellent Latine Poet a singular Graecian who after he trauelled all Greece ouer and many parts of Europe beside and liued some foure or fiue yeeres in the I le of the Rhodes he returned home and by Iohn Collet Deane of Paules was elected Master of Pauls Schoole which he had newly founded Shortly after began to grow eminent aswell for Poesie as all other generall learning Sir Thomas Challoner Knight father to the truly honest and sometime louer of all excellent parts Sir Thomas Challoner who attended vpon the late Prince borne in London brought vp in Cambridge who hauing left the Vniuer sitie and followed the Court a good while went ouer with Sir Henry Knyuet Embassadour to Charles the fift as his friend and companion what time the Emperour being preparing a mightie fleete against the Turkes in Argier the English Embassadour Sir Thomas Challoner Henry Knowles M. Henry Isam and others went in that seruice as voluntaries with the Emperour But the Galley wherein Sir Thomas Challoner was being cast away by foulenesse of weather after he had laboured by swimming for his life as long as he was able and the strength of his armes falling him he caught hold vpon a cable throwne out from another galley to the losse and breaking of many of his teeth and by that meanes saued his life After the death of King Henry the 8. he was in the battaile of Muskleborough and knighted by the Duke of Sâ—mmerset And in the beginning of the raigne of Queene Elizabeth hee went ouer Embassadour into Spaine where at his houres of leisure he compiled ten elegant bookes in Latine vers de Ropub Anglorum instauranda superuised after his death by Malim and dedicated to the old Lord Burghley Lord Treasurer Being sent for home by her Maiestie he shortly after died in London and was buried in Paules neere to the steppes of the Quire toward the South-doore vnder a faire marble but the brasse and epitaphe written by Doctor Haddon by sacrilegious hands is since torne away But the Muse and Eternall Fame haue reared him a monument more lasting and worthy the merit of so excellent a man Of English Poets of our owne Nation esteeme Sir Geoffrey Chaucer the father although the stile for the antiquitie may distast you yet as vnder a bitter and rough rinde there lyeth a delicate kernell of conceit and sweete inuention What Examples Similitudes Times Places and aboue all Persons with their speeches and attributes doe as in his Canterburie-tales like these threds of gold the rich Arras beautifie his worke quite thorough And albeit diuers of his workes are but meerely translations out of Latine and French yet he hath handled them so artificially that thereby he hath made them his owne as his Troilus and Cresseid The Romant of the Rose was the Inuention of Ithan de Mehunes a French Poet whereof he translated but onely the one halfe his Canterburie-tales without question were his owne inuention all circumstances being wholly English Hee was a good Diuine and saw in those times without his spectacles as may appeare by the Plough-man and the Parsons tale withall an excellent Mathematician as plainly appeareth by his discourse of the Astrolabe to his little sonne Lewes In briefe account him among the best of your English bookes in your librarie Gower being very gracious with King Henrie the 4. in his time carried the name of the onely Poet but his verses to say truth were poore and plaine yet full of good and graue Moralitie but while he affected altogether the French phrase and words made himself too obscure to his Reader beside his inuention commeth farre short of the promise of his Titles He published onely that I know of three bookes which at S. Marie Oueries in Southwarke vpon his monument
it vp c. Neither hath humane knowledge beene the onely subiect of this Diuine Art but euen the highest Mysteries of Diuinitie What are the Psalmes of Dauid which S. Hillariâ— so aptly compareth to a bunch of keies in regard of the seuerall doores whereby they giue the soule entrance either to Prayer Reioycing Repentance Thanksgiuing c. but a Diuine Poeme going sometime in one measure sometime in another What liuely descriptions are there of the Maiestie of God the estate and securitie of Gods children the miserable condition of the wicked What liuely similitudes comparisons as the righteous man to a baiâ— tree the Soule to a thirstie Hart vâ—itie to oyntment and the dew of Hermon What excellent Allegories as the vine planted in Aegypt what Epiphonema's prosopopoca's and whatsoeuer else may be required to the texture of so rich and glorious a peece And the song of Salomon which is onely left vs of a thousand is it not a continued Allegorie of the Mysticall loue betwixt Christ and his Church Moreouer the Apostles themselues haue not disdained to alledge the authoritie of the heathen Poets Aratus Meâ—ander and Epimenides as also the fathers of the Church Nazianzen S. Augustine Bernard Prâ—demius with many others beside the allowance they haue giuen of Poetrie they teach vs the true vse and end thereof which is to compose the Songs of Sion and addresse the fruite of our inuention to his glorie who is the author of so goodly a gift which we abuse to our loues light fancies and basest affections And if Mechanicall Arts hold their estimation by their effects in base subiects how much more deserueth this to be esteemed that holdeth so soueraigne a power ouer the minde can turne brutishnesse into Ciuilitie make the lewd honest which is Scaligers opinion of Virgils Poeme turne hatred to loue cowardise into valour and in briese like a Queene command ouer all affections Moreouer the Muse Mirth Graces and perfect Health haue euer an affinitie each with either I remember Plutarch telleth vs of Telesilla a noble and braue Ladie who being dangerously sicke and imagined past recouerie was by the Oracle aduised to apply her minde to the Muse and Poetrie which shee diligently obseruing recouered in a short space and withall grew so sprightly couragious that hauing well fortified Argos with diuers companies of women onely her selfe with her coÌ„panions sallying out entertained Cleomenes K. of the LacedamoniaÌ„s with such a Camisade that he was faine to shew his back leauing a good part of his people behinde to fill ditches and then by plaine force of Armes draue out Demaratus another king who lay very strong in garrison within Alexander by the reading of Homer was especially mooued to goe thorough with his conquests Leonidas also that braue King of the Spartanes being asked how Tiâ—taus who wrote of warre in verse was esteemed among Poets replied excellentlyâ— For my souldiers quoth he mooued onely with his verses runne with a resolute courage to the battaile fearing no perill at all What other thing gaue an edge to the valour of our ancient Britons but their Bardâ—s remembred by Athenaus Lucan and sundry other recording in verse the braue exploits of their nation and singing the same vnto their Harpea at their publike â—easts and meetings amongst whom Taliessiâ— a learned Bard and Master to Merlin sung the life and actes of King Arthur Hence hath Poetry neuer wanted her Patrones and euen the greatest Monarches and Princes as well Christian as Heathen haue exercised their Inuention hereinâ— as that great Glorie of Christendome Charlemaine who among many other things wrote his Nephew Roulands Epitaphe after he was slaine in a battell against the Sarracens among the Pyrenaan hills Alphonsiu King of Naples whose onely delight was the reading of Virgil Robert King of Sicilie and that thrice renowned and learned French King who finding Petrarchs Toombe without any inscription or Epitaphe wrote one himselfe which yet remaineth saying Shame it was that he who sung his Mistresse praise seauen yeares before her death and twelue yeares should want an Epitaphe Among the Heathen are eternized for their skill in Poesie Augustus Caesar Octanius Adrian Germanicus Euery child knoweth how deare the workes of Homer were vnto Alexander Euripides to Aâ—yntas King of Macedon Virgil to Augustus Theocrâ—us to Ptolomey and â—â—vâ—nicâ— King and Queene of Aegypâ— the stately Pindar to Hiere King of Sicilie Ennius to Scipie Ausonius to Gratian who made him Pro-consull in our owne Countrey Chaucer to Richard the second Gower to Henrie the fourth with others I might alledge The Lady Anne of Bretaignâ— who was twice French Queene passing through the Presence in the Court of France espying Chartier the Kings Secretarie and a famous Poet leaning vpon his elbow at a Tables end fast asleepe shee stooping downe and openly kissing him said We must honour with our kisse the mouth from whence so many sweete verses and golden Poems haue proceeded But some may aske me How it falleth out that Poets now adaies are of no such esteeme as they haue beene in former times I answere because vertue in our declining and worser daies generally findeth no regard Or rather more truly with Aretinâ— being demaunded why Princes were not so liberall to Poesie and other good Arts as in former times Because their conscience telleth them how vnworthy they are of the praises giuen them by Poets as for other Arts they make no account of that they know not But since we are heere hauing before ouer-runne the Champaigne and large field of Historie let vs a while rest our selues in the garden of the Muses and admire the bountie of heauen in the seuerall beauties of so many diuine and fertile wits We must beginne with the King of Latinâ— Poets whom Nature hath reared beyond imitation and who aboue all other onely deserueth the name of a Poet I meane Virgil In him you shall at once finde not else-where that Prudence Efficacie Varietie and Sweetnesse which Scaliger requireth in a Poet and maketh his prime vertues Vnder Prudence is comprehended out of generall learning and iudgement that discreete apt suting and disposing as well of Actions as Words in their due place time and manner which in Virgil is not obserued by one among twentie of our ordinary Grammarians Who to vse the words of the Prince of learning hereupon onely in shallow and small Boates glide ouer the face of the Virgilian Sea How diuinely according to the Platonickes doth he discourse of the Soule how properly of the Nature number of winds seasons of the yeare qualities of Beasts Nature of Hearbs What in-sight into ancient Chronologie and Historie In briefe what not worthy the knowledge of a diuine wit To make his Aentas a man of extraordinary aspect and comlinesse of personage he makes Venus both his mother and Ladie of his Horoscope And forasmuch as griefe and perpetuall care are inseparable companions
a qualitie resulting of an lementarie composition it beeing created before all mixed bodies yea with Aristotle I rather affirme blacke properly to be no colour at all as partaking of the pure Elements nothing at all for he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Elements mingled together as earth water aire not yet reduced to their proper substance as wee may see in charcoales all bodies consuming but not consumed whereupon it is called Niger of the Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth dead as a colour proper to dead things The colours to say truth immediately proceeding from the Elements are yellow and white yellow beeing an effect of the fire and all heate as we may see in gold begotten by the heate of the Sunne by the mixture of the clearest and most pure quicke-siluer and the finest red brimstone in fruite and corne ripened by the heate of the same in choller vrine lie boyled the bellies of hot venemous Serpents and the like The white is proper to the water and earth as we way see in all watery bodies congealed as Ice Snowe Christall glasse pretious stones beaten into to powder also the most rootes the pulpe of apples peares and the like of watry substance of earth in the ashes of wood and stones burned all which turne white being by the fire purged from water and aire Concerning the aire it selfe it hath no colour at all Now after your two Mettals yealow and white Gold or Siluer which in Armory we cal Or Argent you haue foure principall colours viz. Sable or blacke Azure or Blew Gules or Red Verd or Greene. There are others as Purpure sanguine Tennâ— which are in more vse with the French and other Nations then with vs in England From simple colours and diuision by bare lines they came to giue their charges quicke and liuing things such as sorted best with their fancies and humours neyther without reason The Alani a warlike people and extreame louers of their liberty gaue in their Ensigne a Cat a beast which of all other cannot brooke boâ—â—â—ge The Gothes to expresse their crueltie with their ranging resolution gaue a Beare the Romanes gaue the Eagle which euery Legion seuerally bare The reason whereof Iosephus giueth Quòd vniuersarum anium regnum habeat sit valentistima So did the Thebans and Persians as Forcatulus reports beside Xenophon saith he remembreth he saw in the armie of Cyrus a golden Eagle displayed borne vpon a long speare as his ensigne Yet generally Plinie saith the charges of their ensignes were of Siluer because that mettall was most sutable to the day light and was to be discerned farther so Portius Latro telleth Catiline of his siluer Eagle borne before him as the ensigne of his rebellion and furie Besides the Eagle the Romanes vsed to beare in their banners the Wolfe in memorie of Remus and Romulus fed by the milke of a shee-wolfe as Livie sheweth When they vndertooke any expedition wherein great secrecy was to be vsed then they aduanced the Minotaure in their standards to shew that the counsaile of Commanders ought to be no lesse kept secret then the Labyrinth which was the abode of the Minotaure Withall they bare the Horse as the most Martiall beast and seruiceable in the warre being full of furie and desirous of victorie and in the Ides of December a Horse was sacrificed to him who had broken the right wing of his enemies battaile Lastly they bare a Hogge in their ensignes because the warre being finished they vsed to make a truce by sacrificing a young Swine which whosoeuer violated or went backe from ought forth with as a Hogge to be stoned to death hereupon they had a forme of Battaglia which they tearmed the Hogges face But all these the Eagle onely excepted were by Caius Marius turned out of vse but I shall haue elsewhere occasion to write more at large of these and the like Imperiall badges The kings of Portugall bare in a field Argent fiue escotcheons Azure each charged with as many Plates on a bordure Gules tenne Castles or in remembrance of fiue kings whom each seuerally leading a mightie army Alphonsus the first king of Portugall ouerthrew neere to the City of Scallabis in Portugal now called Trugillâ— there appearing at the same time saith Osorius Christ crucified in the heauen whose fiue wounds those fiue plates represent Those Castles are his holds in Barbary which he wonne from the Moores The Dukes of Bavaria haue anciently borne their Armes Palie Bendy arg and Azure for that it resembled the party coloured Cassocks of the ancient Bâ—ij who were those Gaules that attempted the Surprise of the Capitol whom Virgil describing as by night saith Virgatis lucens Sagulis which hee vnderstandeth by the white as most easily to bee discerned in the night time The towne of Dort or Dordrecht in Holland from a ciuill broile that long since occasioned much slaughter staining the streetes being onely two aboue a mile in length the riuer running in betweene with blood bare in a field gules a pale argent The City of Collen in regard it can shew the monuments of the three kings who offered to our Sauiour beareth Argent on a chiefe gules three crownes Or. The City of Andwarpe in Brabant for that sometime a Tyrant Prince was Lord of that place and punished offenders in cruell manner by cutting off their hands whose pourtraiture cut in stone to the life stands erected ouer one of the Ports toward the Sceld with a sword in one hand and a mans hand smitten off in the other beares foure hands Couptè in Salteir an Eagle double necked displaied in chiefe to signifie that it is an imperiall Citie and hence had it the name of Antwerpe as much to say as Handâ—werpen which in Dutch signifieth to cast or throw away the hand The Stoute and warlike Henry Spencer Bishop of Norwich who supprest by his courage and valour that dangerous rebellion and about Nerthwalsham ouerthrew Litster the Captaine hath as it is to bee seene vpon his monument in the body of the Quiâ—e of Christ-Church in Norwich ouer his proper coate of Spencer vpon an helmet his Episcopall Miter and vpon that Michaell the Arch-Angell with a drawne sword Marie Coates are conferred by the Prince or State vpon merit and desert for some honourable act performed to the Common-wealth or honour of the Prince as that deuice vpon Sir Francis Drake which was Q. Elizabeths owne now vsurped and borne the colour of the field changed sioÌ„ Sable into Azure by Oliuer à Noert of Vtrecht who also of late yeares sailed about the earth And at my last being in the Low Countries was Captaine of a foot Company of Dutch in Huysden The said Coate fairely cut in stone standeth ouer a Porch at the entry of his house there The Mound or Ball with the Crosse was by Charles the fifth added by way of
Shield within a Bordure Componeè Or and Gules before the Armes of Ferrara in recognisance of the league and fidelitie wherein hee promised to stand bound to serue the King at his own charges And for the like respect Lewis the eleuenth in May 1465. allowed Pietro de Medici to beare three Flower-de-luces in his shield which I haue seene borne in cheife vpon one of his sixe Lozenges Of Difference by the Labell A second difference is by the Labell borne chieefely as the difference of the elder Brother As Edward the blacke Prince and all our Princes of Wales eldest sonnes to the King beare their Fathers Soueraigne Coate with a Labell of three points Siluer Iohn of Gauns had his Labell Ermin Edmond of Langley Duke of Yorke on his Labell Siluer nine Torteauxes Edmond Plantagenes sonne and heire of Richard Duke of Yorke Earle of Ruâ—land who being a Child scarce twelue yeares of age was stricken to the heart with a Dagger by the Lord Clifford at the battaile of Wakefield had vpon his Labell of fiue points Argent two Lionceaux Gules with nine Torteauxes The Coate of Vlsâ—er and Mortimâ—r being â—mpaled with his owne as may be seene in the windowes of Fâ—deringhay Castle the mansion house of the Duke of Yorke where by his father Richard Duke of Yorke and Cicely Nevill his mother hee lyeth buried whose bodies remoued out of Fâ—deringhay Church-yard for the Chancell in the Quire wherein they first were laid in that fury of knocking Churches and sacred Monuments in the head was also felled to the ground lapped in Lead were buried in the Church by the commandement of Queene Elizabeth and a meane Monument of Plaister wrought with the Trowell erected ouer them very homely and farre vnfitting so Noble Princes I remember Master Creuse a Gentleman and my wâ—rthy friend who dwelt in the Colledge at the same time told me that their Coffins being opened their bodies appeared very plainly to be discerned and withall that the Dutchesse Cicely had about her necke hanging in a Silke riband a pardon from Rome which penned in a very fine Romane hand was as faire and fresh to be read as it had beene written but yesterday Of Difference by the Bend. A third difference is by the Bend Baston c. as the house of Burâ—â—â— beareth Frâ—â—â—â— with a Bâ—tune Gules though the proper and true Coate of 〈◊〉 is Of a Lyon Gules within an Orle of Escallops Azure Lewis Earle of Eureux in Normandy brother to Philip le Bâ—ll bare Seme de France with a Batune Componeè Argent and Gules Iohn Earle of Lâ—â—â—aster and Brother to Richard the first afterward King bare for his difference a Batune Azure If the mother be of the ligne Royall many times her Coate is preferred into the first quarter as Hâ—nry Earle of Dâ—â—â—nshire and Marquâ—sse of Exeter â—â—re his mother Kâ—tharines Coate who was daughter to King Edward the fourth And the like Humphrey Stafford who was the first Duke of Buckingham by Anne Platagâ—nâ—â— his mother â— the Coate of Thomas of Woodstocke whose daughter she was This Coate I remember standeth in the great Chancell window in the Church of Kimbaltâ—n In France it hath beene and it yet a custome among the Nobilitie to 〈◊〉 their owne proper Coates and take others as perhaps their Wiâ—es or the Armes of that Srigâ—â—â—â— whereof they are Lords or whence they haue their Titles as Mons. Hugues brother to King Philip marrying the daughter and heire of Herbere Earle of Verâ—â—â—dâ—â—â—s forsooke his proper Coate and bare his Wiues which was Checky Or and Azure onely three Flower-de-luces added in chiefe to shew he was of the blood And Robert Counâ— de Dreux albeit he was brother to King Lewis 〈◊〉 bare Checky Azure and Or with a Bordure Gules Robert Duke of Burgogne brother to Henry the first tooke for his bearing the ancient Armes of the Dukes of Burgogne which was bendy Or and Azure within a Bordure Gules giuen by Charlemaigne to Sanson Duke of Burgogne And whereas we in England allow the base sonne his Fathers Coate with the difference of a bend Batune sinister or bordure engrailed or the like it was in France a long time forbidden I thinke vnder the Capets to the Princes of the blood as 〈◊〉 Earle of Mâ—mfort base sonne to King Robert was forced to leaue his Fathers Coate and beare Gules a Lion à la queue fourcheè Or passeè per à lentour Argent for Le maison de France â—â—â—â—tant les bastardes no leur endurè son armeirè c. saith Tillet The last and least obseruation is of Crests the Helmet the Mantle and doubling thereof which according to the manner of diuers Countries are diuersly borne In Germany they beare their Beauers open with Barres which we allow in England to none vnder the degree of a Baron in some places they haue no Crests at all If you would farther proceed in Nobilitie or Heraldry I would wiâ—h you to reade these bookes of 〈◊〉 obâ—â—itie in generâ—â—â— Simon Simonius de Nâ—â—ilitâ—â—e 〈…〉 at Leipsig 1572. Chassanâ—â—â—â— his Catalogus Gloria munâ—â— Hippolitus à Collibus his Axumata Nobilitatis Conclusiones de Nobilitate Doctorain published by one of Meckleburg who concealeth his name printed 1621. dedicated to the Archbishop of Breme Petrus Eritzius Counâ—â—â—â—er to the Elector of Brandenburge published Conclusiones de Nobilitate in quarto Lionellus De pracedentia â—omiâ—um Of the Spanish Nobilitie these Authors haue written Ioannes ab Arce Offalora in folio Priuilegios y Franquezas y libertades des bijos dâ—algos De Senniorio de Vizcaia c. in fol. Ludovicus de Mollâ—â—a De primogâ—niorâ—m Hispanicorum iure c. in fol. Iosephus de Sesse in Decis Aragon Decis 8. 9. 10. c. Gonzales de Câ—rte his Nobliza del Andaluzia in fol. Of Italy Sicily Naples c. Scipie Mazzella nelle Neapoli Illustrata in quarto Paulus Merula in Cosmograph lib. 3. pt 3. in Italian Of France The Workes of Tillet Ferâ—â— Charles L'Oisâ—â—â— Choppin Theatre d'Honneur Of Germany or the Empire Fran. Contzen his Politiques in fol. The Collections of Goldastus with some others The practise of Blazonrie Willeged the first Abbot dyed the same yeare that Off a did of very griefe it was thought for the death of his king and kinsman whom he dearely loued Anno 8â—8 After him succeeded these in order Eadricke Vulsigus Wulâ—â—â—us Eadfrithus Wulsinus Who built Saint Peters Church Saint Michaels and Saint Stephens and made a faire market place in the towne Alfricke Aldredus Who digged vp and searched the ruines of Verlam-cesire which in his time were dens of theeues and whores saued all the tile and stone for the repaire of the Church and in digging vpon the North side in the vale found oaken plankes pitched Shelles peeces of oares and a rusty Anchor or two Eadmer after his death being a religious and a good man imitating his predecessour saued all the ancient coines vrnes