cassocke and affecteth the wearing of the richest iewels the French huge feathers Scarlet and gold lace the English his armes rich and a good sword the Italians pride is in his Neapolitan Courser the Germanes and low Dutch to be dawbed with gold and pearle wherein say they there is no losse except they be lost But herein I giue no prescripon I now come to your diet wherein be not onely frugall for the sauing of your purse but moderate in regard of your health which is empaired by nothing more then excesse in eating and drinking let me also adde Tobacco taking Many dishes breede many diseases dulleth the mind and vnderstanding and not onely shorten but take away life We reade of Augustus that he was neuer curious in his diâ—t but content with ordinary and common viandes And Cato the Censor sayling into Spaine dranke of no other drinke then the rowers or slaues of his owne galley And Timotheus Duke of Athens was wont to say whoÌ„ Plato invited home to him to supper they found theÌ„selues neuer distempered Contrary to our Feastmakers who suppose the glory of entertainment and giuing the best welcome to consist in needelesse superfluities and profuse waste of the good Creatures as Scylla made a banquet that lasted many dayes where there was such excessiue abundance that infinite plenty of victualls were throwne into the Riuer and excellent wine aboue forty yeares old spilt and made no account of but by surfetting and banquetting at last he gat a most miserable disease and dyed full of lice And Caâ—sar in regard of his Lybian triumph at one banquet filled two and twenty thousand roomes with ghests and gaue to euery Citizen in Rome ten bushels of wheate and as many pounds of oyle and besides three hundred pence in mony We reade of one Smyndirides who was so much giuen to feasting and his ease that hee saw not the Sunne rising nor setting in twenty yeares and the Sybarites forbad all Smiths and knocking in the streetes and what thing soeuer that made any noise to bee within the City walls that they might eate and sleepe whereupon they banished cocks out of the city and invented the vse of chamberpots and bad women a yeare before to their feasts that they might haue leisure enough to make themselues fine and braue with gold and Iewels Aboue all learne betimes to auoide excessiue drinking then which there is no one vice more common and reigning and ill beseeming a Gentleman which if growne to an habit is hardly left remembring that hereby you become not fit for any thing hauing your reason degraded your body distempered your soule hazarded your esteeme and reputation abased while you sit taking your vnwholesome healthes vt iam vertigine tectum Ambulet geminis exsurgat mensa lucernis Vntill the house about doth turne And on the board two candles seeme to burne By the Leuiticall law who had a glutton or a drunkard to their Sonne they were to bring him before the Elders of the City and see him stoned to death And in Spainâ— at this day they haue a law that the word of him that hath beene convicted of drunkennesse shall not bee taken in any testimony Within these fiftie or threescore yeares it was a rare thing with vs in England to see a Drunken man our Nation carrying the name of the most sober and temperate of any other in the world But since we had to doe in the quarrell of the Netherlands about the time of Sir Iohn Norrice his first being there the custome of drinking and pledging healthes was brought ouer into England wherein let the Dutch bee their owne Iudges it we equall them not yea I thinke rather excell them Tricongius and the old Romanes had lawes and statutes concerning the Art of drinking which it seemes are reuiued and by our drunkards obserued to an haire It being enacted that he who after his drinks faltered not in his speech vomited not nâ—yther reeled if he dranke off his cups cleanâ—ly seek not his wind in his draughs spit not left nothing in the pot nor spilt any vpon the ground he had the prize was accounted the brauest man If they were contented herewith it were well but they daily inueâ—t new and damnable kinds of carrowâ—ing as that in North-holland and Frizeland though among the baser sort of vpsiâ— Monikedam which is after you haue drunke out the drinke to your friend or companion you must breake the glasse full vpon his face and if you misse you must drinke againe whence proceede quarrelling reâ—iling and many times execrable murthers as Alexander was slain in his drunkennesse and Domitius Nero's father slew Liberius out right because he would not pledge him a whole carrowse and hence arise most quarrells among our gallant drunkards vnto whom if you reade a lecture of sobrietie and how in former ages their forefathers dranke water they sweare water is the frogges drinke and ordained onely for the driuing of milles and carrying of boates Neither desire I you should be so abstemious as not to remember a friend with an hearty draught since wine was created to make the heart merry for what is the life of man if it want wine Moderately taken it preserueth health comforteth and disperseth the naturall heate ouer all the whole body allayes cholericke humours expelling the same with the sweate c. tempereth Melancholly And as one saith hath in it selfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a drawing vertue to procure friendship At your meate to be liberall and freely merry is very healthy and comely and many times the stranger or guest will take more content in the chearelinesse of your countenance then in your meate Augustus the Emperour had alwayes his mirth greater then his feasts And Suctonius saith of Titus Vespasians Sonne he had euer his table furnished with mirth and good company And the old Lord Treasurer of England Lord William Burghley how emploied soeuer in State affaires at his table hee would lay all businesse by and bee heartily merry Charles the Great vsed at his meates to haue some History read whereof hee would afterwards discourse And Francis the first King of France would commonly dispute of History Cosmography Poetry His Maiesty our Soueraigne altogether in points and profound questions of Diuinity When I was in Virocht and liued at the table of that Honourable Gentleman Sir Iohn Ogle Lord Gouernour whither resorted many great Schollers and Captaines English Scottish French and Dutch it had beene enough to haue made a Scholler or Souldier to haue obserued the seuerall disputations and discourses among many strangers one while of sundry formes of battailes sometime of Fortification of fireworkes History Antiquities Heraldrie pronunciation of Languages c. that his table seemed many times a little Academic In your discourse be free and affable giuing entertainment in a sweete and liberall manner and with a cheerefull courtesie
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
yet it is an Art nothing seruile and base but noble and free since we know not onely Emperors and Kings but Saints yea our blessed Sauiour to haue cured the sicke as Constantine Adrian Edward the Confessor King of England Mithridates King of Pontus whose Antidote yet beareth his name Artemisia Queene of Caria who first found the vertue of Mugwort bearing her name in Latine Gentius King of Illyricum now Sclauonia who immortally liueth in the herbe Gentiana as also Lysimachus in his Lysimachia Achilles in Achillea or the Yarrow Apollo Podalirius Moses Esay Salomon Ezechias Honor the Phisitian saith Ecclesiasticus then againe All Phisicke or medicine is from God and he shall receiue a reward from the King The skill of the Physitian shall exalt his head c. And as Ptolomy sometime obiected against Zoilus concerning Homer so may I vnto our Lordly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Physicke-haters Which of them all trebble their reuenewes can maintaine so many as one poore Galen or Hippocrates who though dead many hundreds of yeares since feed many thousands of families euen at this present I heere intend no common Chyrurgians Mountebancks vnlettered Empericks and women Doctors of whom for the most part there is more danger then of the worst disease it selfe whose practise is infamous Mechanique and base Fiftly concerning Merchants the exercise of Merchandise hath beene I confesse accounted base and much derogating from Nobilitie except it be exercised vndertaken by a generall Estate or the Deputies thereof Aristotle therefore saith That the Thebanes and Lacedaemonians had a Law that none should bee esteemed and held capable of Honor in their Common-wealth except they had ten yeares before giuen ouer Trading and Merchandise and Valerius Maximus reporteth that among other things the Romanes had to disparage Tarquinius Priscus withall and make him odious to the people was that he was a Merchants sonne Saint Chrysostome vpon that place of Mathew Hee cast out the buyers and sellers out of the Temple gathereth that Merchants hardly and seldome please God And certaine it is that the ancient Romans neuer preferred any that exercised Merchandise to any eminent place or office in their Commonwealthe perhaps agreeing in one with Aristotle who speaking of Merchants and Mechanickes saith Vilis est huiusmodi vita virtuti aduersa The kind of life is base and contrary to vertue But some may obiect vnto me the great Estates of Venice Genoa Florence Luca c. where their Nobilitie is nothing disparaged by the exercise of Merchandise I answer as their Coines at home they may raise themselues high or lower at their pleasure but abroad like Citie Maiors in other Countries they fall vnder value and a great deale short of their reckoning But if the owner of the Earth and all that therein is hath so bestowed and disposed of his blessings that no one Countrey affordeth all things but must be beholden not onely to her neighbours but euen the most remote Regions and Common-wealths cannot stand without Trade and Commerce buying and selling I cannot by the leaue of so reuerend iudgements but account the honest Merchant among the number of Benefactors to his Countrey while he exposeth as well his life as goods to the hazzard of infinite dangers sometime for medicinall Drugges and preseruatiues of our liues in extremitie of sicknesse another for our food or cloathing in tâ—mes of scarsitie and want haply for vsefull necessaries for our vocations and callings or lastly for those Sensus animi oblectamenta which the Almightie prouidence hath purposely for our solace and recreation and for no other end else created as Apes Parrots Peacockes Canarie and all singing Birds rarest Flowers for colour and smell pretious Stones of all sorts Pearle Amber Corall Cristall all manner of sweete odouâ—s fruites infinitely differing in forme and taste Colours of all sorts for painting dying c. but I proceed Sixt and lastly touching Mechanicall Arts and Artists whosoeuer labour for their liuelihood and gaine haue no share at all in Nobilitie or Gentry As Painters Stage-playersâ— Tamblers ordinary Fidlers Inne-keepers Fencers Iuglers Dancers Mountebancks Bearewards and the like except the custome of the place determine the contrary as Herâ—dâ—tus and Xenophon witnesse to haue beene obserued both among the Aegyptians Scythians and Corinthians The reason is because their bodies are spent with labour and trauaile and men that are at their worke Assidui accibui vmbratiles esse cogumur Yea if a Noble man borne in captiuitie or constrained through any other necessitie shall exercise any manuall occupation or Art hee by the opinion of some loseth his Nobilitie Ciuill but not Christian and shall at his returne bee restored Where I said the custome of the Country I intend thus by the law of Mahomet the Grand Signior or great Turke himselfe is bound to exercise some manuall Trade or Occupation for none must be idle as Solyman the Magnificent that so threatned Vienna his trade was making of Arrow-heads Achmat the last horne rings for Archers and the like From the roote and branches let vs taste the fruite which fall not like the Apples of Sodoms with a light touch into nothing but are as those of Hesperides golden and out of the vulgar reach First Noble or Gentlemen ought to bee preferred in Fees Honors Offices and other dignities of command and gouernment before the common people They are to be admitted neere and about the person of the Prince to be of his Counsel in warre and to beare his Standard We ought to giue credit to a Noble or Gentleman before any of the inferior sort He must not be arrested or pleaded against vpon cosenage We must attend him and come to his house and not â—e to ours His punishment ought to be more fauourable honorable vpon his tryall and that to bee by his Peeres of the same Noble ranke He ought in all sittings meetings and salutations to haue the vpper hand and greatest respect They must be cited by Bill or Writing to make their appearance In criminall causes Noblemen may appeare by their Arturney or Procurator They ought to take their recreations of hunting hawking c. freely without controule in all places Their imprisonment ought not to bee in base manner or so strict as others They may eate the best and daintiest meate that the place affordeth to weare at their pleasure Gold Iewels the best apparell and of what fashion they please c. Beside Nobilitie stirreth vp emulation in great Spirits not onely of equalling others but excelling them as in Cimon the elder Scipio Africanus Decius the sonne Alexander Edward our Blacke Prince and many others It many times procureth a good marriage as in Germany where a faire Coate and a Crest is often preferred before a good reuenew It is a spurre in braue and good Spirits to beare in mind those things which their Ancestors haue
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