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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

various successions of ages high account has bin made of this Officer his dignity will thence receive some addition In King Johns raign when things were much out of order an agreement was that certain great persons should be intrusted to inspect the actions of that King and secure the peace of the Nation The Major of London was one in Rich. the seconds time when Persons of all ranks were to be rated according to their degree The Lord Maior was put at 4 l. the rate of an Earl and every Alderman at 40 s. the rate of a Baron and when Rich. the first in Captivity was to be ransomed the Lord Maior was one of the five Trustees for dispose of the monies levied to redeem him Yea when the death of Qu. Elizabeth and King James his absence here had made a kind of Interstitium in Government and it was thought fit by the great men of the Realm who being Officers by Commission abated by the death of their appointer to make a publication of their fidelity to King James and to notifie to the Nation whom they should expect and ought to pray for as their Lord and Master To this publication solemnly proclaimed the first subscriber was Ro. Lee Maior and after him John Cantuar Tho. Egerton C. Sigill Tho. Buckhurst Treasurer and so in order the rest of the great men as no doubt conceiving the Lord Maior the most fixed and conspicuous Magistrate in revolutions and changes And as the Maior hath been thus honoured with high esteem and had for a long time the reward of Knighthood if not a Knight before at the expiration of his yearly office so have also the Sherifs and Aldermen his Peers as it were For the Maior Sheriffs and Aldermen are by the Stat. of 11 Ed. 3. c. 10. said to have the Government of the City bin reckoned non inter milites gaudentes milites histriones as Bartholus termes some Qui non sunt nobiles but deservers of Knight-hood upon that accompt that Salust gives of Pompey who did cum alacribus saltu cum velocibus cursu cum validis valide certare Thus did 1● of them obtain Knight-hood from E. 4. William Walworth and five more from R. 2. Eastfield and others from H. 6. Horn ●ate Astrey from H. 7. and others of them have bin made councellors to their Princes so was Feilding to H. 6. and Ed. 4. William Fitzwilliams and Sir John Allen to H. 8. Yea and the Grandfather of that Virgin Lady and the mirrour of her Sex Queen Elizabeth the once glorious Mistress of these Islands Sir Jeffry Bullen descended from the famous House of Norfolk was in Anno 1457. Lord Maior of London And then is said to have to wife one of the Daughters and Heires of Thomas Baron of Hoo and Hastings Knight of the honourable Order of the Garter Further as to the Maior Aldermen and Sheriffs of London all Citizens these largesses of bounty have been expressed so has time and common approbation admitted other Members of the City into title of Gentility as well as Grandees in Law or Schools For as to those that either have held the place or fined for Aldermen the title Esquire is given So to all Citizens of London though in the City the addition of their mystery is most usual yet the title Gentleman where natively they are not such for there are many of both base and noble Origen is by the national courtesie given to such of them as are of creditable professions and fortunes which civility and grateful goodness of the royal Government of this Nation has been repayed by the City in all ages No part of the Land affording more brave free and well advised spirits then here have bin born bred and provided for To spring from a thriving younger Brother who has an elder Brothers fortune when he has prodigally wasted it Or to be the first of a Stock whose rise is not by blood and baseness is no lesse honourable then to descend from Hercules and want the noble qualities of his Issue And yet London alwayes had and yet has more defiances from the Issue of her Citizens the more is the pity and their shame then from all persons of high blood and honourable Ancestry Yea though she has had many profitable Offices to give by which many have lived plentifully and raised great Estates and had good Opportunities of requiting her by publication of her lustre and renown yet none of them that I know of have publiquely done it Bale and Pits indeed mention one Robert Bale or Balaeus Senior a Citizen born who did omnem suam operam omne studium eo dirigere ut ejus splendorem magis magisque illustraret But the works that he is said to write for Londons honour are lost Nor does London encourage any of her own to appear this way in publique for her many Monuments of antique honour and order undoubtedly she has which neither any abroad nor she her self knowes of That Sword of Goliah is wrapped up in a repertory of secrecie lying by the walls as a meet companion for dust and Cobwebs O London Thou hast ever been the glory but the envy the Oxe that has been muzled yet ever hast trod out the Corn of profit to the Nations advantage Thou hast bin the Candle that hast lightned others out of the dark of obscurity into the morning brightness and yet hast bin condemned as dulsighted to the perception of thine own interest and the glory that attends the due and devout improvement of it Men say thy purse predominates thy Councel and when they look upon thy wit they wonder at thy wealth This is thy censure from thy detractors but for all these speeches of anger and mordacity London has bin I hope yet will be London flowrish with that crowning mercy of orderly and peaceable Government when her enemies shall be cloathed with shame Gods blessing and the River of Thames are such demesnes about this Capital City as will supply her maugre the ill will of all her Opponents Thy name O beloved City has bin too much acclamated thy officiousness to general good too much anciently owned to suffer a final and total infamy for some demeritings Let thine accusers first prove themselves innocent before they cast the stones of punishment on thee And while thou hast the merit of thy predecessors valour of thy Magistrates bounty of thy Citizens riches and of their posterities flourishing in all parts of the Nation who are not lesse fortun'd and bred in points of honour then becomes the Condition of Gentry keep thy spirits about thee to recriminate thy reproaches and if thou couldst keep thy purse and match within thy self those that revile thee would soon be deeply in debt and hopeless how to rid themselves from danger For it is the honey drops of thy Wealth which enlightneth the eyes of many well descended

reward a famous Artizan of Constantinople a Greek born to be their Architect He promised to do it for no other reward then this That he might have his Effigies in Marble set up in oculatissima Templi parte ad aetern●● sui memoriam which he had yea Eudoxus was contented to be burned in the body of the Sunne if he might be permitted to come so near it as but to take the Scheme of it to leave to after-ages No wonder then the Philosopher calls it externorum bonorum maximium and that Lawyer Cunctis rebus praeferendus nummario precio non aestimandus no wonder though Scipio find it so speedy a Scalado to Spains Carthage when it is the Circaean Cup that enchanteth all men and leads them upon attempts of gaining it though never so desperate and improbable To these ancient marks of honour the visible Emblem are Arms which is chiefly due to the Souldier as being the first born of merit Honour sprang originally from the Field for it being the effect of Power and Power creating right of Empire Honour must be concluded to be purchased by venture and a high mettled Courage like that of Nimrod who is called a mighty Hunter before the Lord It being usual in Scripture as to call men of savage and tyrannous Natures Men of the field as is Esaw from whom those many Dukes mentioned in Gen. 36. are said to be descended so to describe their recreation and imployment of life to be hunting of beasts with Bow and Arrow rather then with snare and catch that thereby they might be the more active and better trained to the domination and overcoming of men and the greatest Conquests and first Empires of power were those Asian ones the weapons of which for a long time were and yet in some degree are according to the use of Hunters Bow Arrow short sword Dart and in those times as to the most valiant the right of power fell so to such as had any degree of eminency above the vulgar were rewards apportioned All could not be Kings {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} all could not be Captains of the Hoast all could not be Princes Standard-bearers all could not attain Scylla's honour to have a statue of gold in publique inscribed Cornelio Scyllae Imperatori fortunato but all that merited might have rayes of dignation even in Israel there was a Kings Daughter in mariage and making an obscure house splendid and free offered by Saul to him that durst encounter Goliah which David by Gods spirit entertained and for which He had with the Kings Daughter her Fathers Kingdom so amongst the Greeks in their Certamina Olympica and their athletary agonies there were vast and various rewards The Romans also had their encoragements to worth for though they admitted no mean man to Magistracy till he were Emeritus and had attained 50 years of age when they were permitted till they were rewarded with Commands or Pensions to be sub indulgentiori militia sub vexillo as Budaeus his words are though in ordinary Cases they gave no testimonies of acceptation but upon great experience yet did they with all freedom venerate the Senatorian eminence in their Issue whom after their deaths they call'd Patricians Descendants from the first Senators who were called Dii majorum gentium as those that were from Tarquins time chosen into place were Dii minorum gentium They had their Equestris Ordo which consisted of chosen men of singular fidelity and fortune illi vetustissimi proprie Soli equites Olim dicti saith Pliny lib. 33. c 1. Nobiles qui vadunt in equis so Upton Or as Varro miles quasi millessimus quisque so Connanus Such were these that not onely the fourteen Orders of the Theatre was under their correction as was the Orchestra within the Senates Charge but they had their Rings and chaines of Gold as before has bin remembred at large to be their vouchers where ever they came In place whereof Our Eques auratus at this day is which is our Knight Bachilor possibly the same which Olimpiodorus mentions in Honorius his time to be called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Bucellarii men of merit not only Romans but other Souldiers of stoutness activity in amity with them for though our common Law use Miles rather then Eques auratus yet because Knight-hood is properly a Horse dignity and duty and miles tam gregarium calligatumque peditem significat quum equo militantem honoratum many judge Eques auratus more proper to signifie a Knight for as the great Estates of England were held in Escuage and Knights service so that service is most performed on horseback and those that found Horses of Warre were to be men of Gentility and value Our English Papinian Sir Edw. Cook tells us Lex angliae nullum sentagium aut servitium militare de Socmanis aut Burgensibus expetit therefore the better to enable the Gentry to perform the service of their Tenure Lands in Knights service were never in Gavelkind or socage nor could they be chargable with what should disable the Tenurer to do his service because those Lands by Original designation were not in servitium Socae sed belli till by the 31 H. 8. c. 3. some alteration was made nor till near H. the fifths time were Gentlemen distinguished by any title or addition but by their forinsecum servitium which was Knights service To omit then the account of that military honour called Knight-hood which forraign Nations have and what Cassanaeus Bocerus Patricius Bartholus Bara Lazius Vpton and the rest say of them together with the annumeration of their priviledges and qualities which Mr. Fern out of them mentions at large I shall onely touch upon the dignity of it as in our Nation and by Our Law and Custom it is acknowledged for that is the best rule of every place illud quod in observantia moribus utentium observatur est tantae efficaciae quod tollit statutum in contrarium saith Jasius The prementioned Oracle of our Law Sir Edw. Cook agrees Knighthood to be a name of dignity and Fern a dignity of regality a reverend order and an honourable Milites and Principes in elder times were accounted almost Synonomous in King Stephens raign when David King of Scots came into the Northern parts Brompton tells us Milites Principes Angliae Boreales animo si cum insigni Comite de Albemar lviriliter restiterunt Britton also termes a Kt. noble and in the Record of 9 Ed. 1. Sir J. Acton hath the addition of Nobilis and nobiles sunt qui arma gentiliciae antecessorum suorum proferre possunt therefore though the Order or Statute of 1 Ed. 2. did call every man that had 20 l. a year in fee or for terme of life to Knighthood which was ad arma militaria