must again referr the Reader for satisfaction therein the discourse thereof being altogether impertinent to my intended purpose in this present Work Yet here you must observe that a man being admitted into the Society and Fraternity of any two of the Honourable Orders before mentioned he may in setting forth his Atchievement adorn the samewith the chief Ornaments or Collars of both these Orders whereof he is elected and admitted a Fellow and Companion by placing one of the Ornaments next to his Shield and the other without the same In such manner did the most high and mighty Lord Thomas Duke of Norfolk and Earl Marshall of England bear the chief Ornaments of the Orders of the Garter and of Saint Michael But leaving those peculiar Ornaments of Sovereigns or others I return to those that are communicable by a certain right as well to those called Nobiles majores as to Sovereigns Such are those which are said to be placed on the sides of the Atchievements representing sometimes things living and sometimes dead But these of some Blazoners are termed Supporters whose conceit therein I can hardly approve Quia diversorum diversa est ratio and therefore the Blazon that I would give unto things so different in Nature is that if things be living and seize upon the Shield then shall they be called properly Supporters but if they are inanimate and touch not the Escocheon then shall such Arms be said to be not supported but cotised of such and such things For how can those be properly said to support that touch not the thing said to be supported by them Therefore Nomina sunt aptanda rebus secundum rationis normam To persons under the degree of a Knight Banneret it is not permitted to bear their Arms supported that Honour being peculiar to those that are called Nobiles majores And these Cotises have their name agreeable to the thing whose quality they represent and are so called as we elsewhere shewed of Costa the Rib either of man or beast for it is proper to the Rib to inclose the Entrails of things Animal and to adde form and fashion to the body in like manner do these inclose the Coat-Armour whereunto they are annexed and do give a comely grace and ornament to the same Another ornament there is externally annexed to Coat-Armour and that is the Motto or Word which is the Invention or Conceit of the Bearer succinctly and significantly contrived for the most part in three or four words which are set in some Scroll or Compartiment placed usually at the foot of the Escocheon and as it holdeth the lowest place so is it the last in blazoning Of this word Abra. Franc. writeth in this manner Quod à recentioribus verba quaedom ipsis Armis subjiciantur videtur id nuper inventum ad imitationem eorum quae Symbola à nobis appellantur And indeed the Motto should express something intended in the Atchievement though use hath now received whatsoever fancy of the Deviser and this Motto is of universal use to all Gentry and Nobility of what rank soever Now as touching the blazoning of these Ornaments exteriorly annexed to any Coat-Armour it is to be considered that we are not tied to that strict observation in them as in the blazoning of things born within the Escocheon for these are the essential parts of Coats and those meerly Accidental For the Crest or Timber Wreath Mantle Helm c. saith Ferne are no part of the Coat-Armour but Additions to Atchievements added not many hundred years ago to the Coats of Gentry And therefore when you have aptly set forth all the Fields and Charges and their Colours contained within the Escocheon your Blazon is done so that when we shall describe any of those Exteriour Ornaments we stand at liberty for naming of our Colours and in those it is held no fault to name one Colour twice AN ACCOUNT OF SOME Coats of Arms Omitted in the foregoing SECTIONS VVhich in the next Impression shall be inserted in their proper places The Right Honourable Iohn Fitz-Gerard Earl of Kildare primier Earl of the Kingdom of Ireland beareth for his Lordships Paternal Coat-Armour Pearl a Saltire Ruby He beareth Argent three Cinquefoils Gules by the Name of Darcey This with the Arms of Vlster is the Paternal Coat-Armour of Sir Thomas Darcey of St. Clere-hall in St. Oseth in the County of Essex Baronet He beareth Argent on a Chief indented Gules three Crosses forme of the Field by the Name of Percivale This with the Arms of Vlster is the bearing of Sir Philip Percivale of Burton in the County of Corke in Ireland Baronet descended from the Percivales of North-weston near Bristol in Somersetshire The Family came into England with William the Conqueror and were before of Vile near Caen in Normandy He beareth◠Azure a Falcon volant Argent armed jessed and belled Or within a Bordure Ermyn by the Name of Fairborne and is the Paternal Coat-Armour of Sir Palmes Fairborne of Newark in Nottinghamshire Kt. Lieutenant-Governour of Tangier Lieutenant Colonel to the Regiment there residing and Commissary-General of his Majesties Army in Flanders a person of an approved valour and conduct as is evidenced by those worthy exploits performed by him not only in the service of the Venetians in their wars by Sea and Land against the Ottoman Empire but also since his Majesties most happy restauration in the several Trusts committed to his management and commands at Tangier where on the 19th of September 1675. he was commanded by the Right Honourable the Earl of Inchequin Governour thereof to sally out into the Fields of Tangier in order to the securing several Provisions lodged near that place as his Lordship was informed by one Hamett a Moor who made himself a Christian for the carrying on the design with the better success but by the valour and good conduct of the said Sir Palmes he made his retreat from a great body of Moors and having got the outmost Lines of Tangier mist his Reserve by which he did conclude that the said Reserve had come up to his Succour whereupon he advanced the second time near two miles distant from the said Lines where he was attacked Front Flank and Rear with about three thousand Foot and Horse he having not above three hundred in his party which he brought off with the loss only of twelve killed and six and thirty wounded but the Moors had a very great loss to his immortal Fame He also by his great prudence and valour quelled two Mutinies at Tangier He beareth two Coats impaled Baron and Femme first Gules two Barrs Argent by the Name of Martyn and is thus born by Nicholas Martyn of Lincolus-Inn in Middlesex Esq son and heir of Nicholas Martyn of Lincolns-Inn aforesaid Esq deceased who was descended from the Family of the Martyns anciently of Admiston alias Athelhamston in Dorsetshire impaled with Gules an Eagle displayed Or crowned Argent in right of his Wife
under the said King Edward until he was restored to his Estate in Gascoign by the Peace made betwixt the two Crowns Ruby a Lion rampant Pearl was the Coat-Armour of Roger Mowbray a Norman who was made Earl of Northumberland by William the Conqueror He flew in Battel Malcombe King of Scots and his eldest Son but after rebelling against William Rufus was taken prisoner in Northumberland and kept in Winchester prison till the reign of Henry the First and then died without issue after whose decease King Henry the First gave all his Lands and Arms to the Lord Nigell de Albaine whose Son was called Mowbray of whom descended the Mowbrays Dukes of Norfolk And this Coat is now quartered by the honourable and flourishing Family of the Howards Ruby a Lion rampant Topaz is the Coat-Armour of the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Carbery Baron Vaughan of Emblin and Molingar and one of the Lords of his Majesties most honourable Privy Council Saphire a Lion rampant Pearl is the Coat of the Right Honourable Iohn Lord Crew Baron of Stean descended from Eustace Crew who came into England with William the Conqueror and was made Baron of Monthalte Argent a Lion rampant Sable is the Coat-Armour of the Stapletons of Yorkshire Sable a Lion rampant Argent is born by Edmond Lewis Carn-Lloyd in Glamorganshire Esquire and by Edward Lewis of the Van in the said County Esquire As touching the bearing of the Lion after this manner I hold that then he may be truly said to be rampant when he standeth so directly upright as that the crown of his head doth answer to the plant of his foot whereupon he standeth in a perpendicular line and not by placing of the left foot in the dexter corner of the Escocheon as Leigh would have it As the former Example sheweth the gesture of the Lion pursuing his prey so this sheweth his gesture in seizing on it when he hath attained it Ruby a Lion rampant within a Bordure engrailed Pearl is born by the Right Honourable Ralph Lord Grey Baron of Warke of whose Family was Sir Iohn Grey who for his good Service in France was by King Henry the Fifth created Earl of Tanquerville in the said Kingdom This Coat is also born by Sir Roger Mostyn of Mostyn in Flintshire Knight and Baronet and by William Mostyn of Rhyd in the said County Esquire Argent three Lions rampant and a Chief Gules is the Coat-Armour of Sir Henry Yelverton of Easton-Manduit in Northamptonshire Baronet The Lion saith Farnesius is a lively Image of a good Souldier who must be valiant of Courage strong of Body politick in Counsel and a foe to fear Such a one was the most valiant Prince Richard the Second surnamed Cour de Lion whose renowned Adventures suited with all courage and politick care gave him the eternal Name of the Lion-heart This Coat is also born by the Right Honourable William Herbert Earl and Baron of Powis and by the Right Honourable Edward Lord Herbert Baron of Cherbury and Castle-Island This Coat is also born by the Family of the Progers amongst whom is Charles Proger Herbert of Gwerndy in Monmouthshire Esq one of the Gentlemen of his Majesties Privy chamber By Edward Proger Herbert Esq one of the Grooms of his Majesties Bed-chamber And by Henry Proger Herbert Esq one of his Majesties Ecqueties Ermyn on a Chief Azure three Lions rampant Or by the Name of Aucher and is the Coat-Armour of Sir Anthony Aucher of Bishops-bourn in the County of Kent Knight and Baronet Sable two Lions rampant combatant Or is born by Nicholas Carter of London Dr. in Physick Leigh saith That these were two Lions of sundry Regions which of manhood must combate only for Government For the Lion is as desirous of mastery as a couragious Prince is ambitious of Honour which if it be in a just Title and Claim is a vertue in a King and no way to be disliked For it was a Royal Apothegm worthy that great King Nemo me major nisi qui justior I acknowledge no King greater than my self but he that is juster There are yet other forms of bearing the Lion than are hitherto expressed as in these next Escocheons may be seen This Coat is also born by Thomas Wyndham of Tale in Devonshire Esq one of the Grooms of his now Majesties Bedchamber third Son of Sir Edmond Wyndham of Cathanger in Somersetshire Knight Marshal of his Majesties most Honourable Houshold and lineally descended of the ancient Family of the Wyndhams of Crown-Thorp in Norfolk The Lion beareth his tail after a diverse manner insomuch as we may thereby if not certainly know yet give a near ghess what a mood he is in for the present viz. whether he be furiously bent or peaceable or majestically affected And these qualities are manifestly discerned by the Inversion Eversion or Extension c. of his tail Here may rise a Question Whether the bearing of the tail of the Lion in any of these several manners be a sufficient difference to prevent all causes of challenge For my own part albeit I have not read or seen in Gerard Leigh Boswell Ferne or any other Armorial Writers the state of this Question handled I hold that they be differences sufficient to debarr all challenge My Reasons are these first Sufficit quod inter arma mea tua talis sit differentia qua detur diversitas And again Nova forma dat novum esse rei I hold them not only to be differences secundum quid but simpliciter that is to say absolute and essential differences Furthermore Data una dissimilitudine etiam paria judicabuntur diversa Moreover experience sheweth us That the least addition or subtraction in Armorial signs maketh them cease to be the same that they were Omnia Arma Arithmeticis figuris sunt simillima quibus si quid addas vel subtrahas non remanet eadem species as I have formerly shewed Finally for approbation of these my Opinions I will add this infallible Assertion Ea differunt quorum definitiones differunt These are my Reasons that induce me to be of this Opinion that the diverse manner of bearing of the tail of the Lion as aforesaid are or may be without exception essential differences which nevertheless I referr to the judicious censure of the Learned in this Profession who perhaps may convince me with more forceable grounds But because Demonstration is the best of Arguments to convince the incredulous it is apparent that Buxton's Coat before mentioned differs not from that of Smeres but only in the manner of the bearing of the tail both of them being Argent a Lion rampant Sable only in Buxton's Coat the tail is elevated and turned over the head of the Lion as it more plainly appears before in this present Chapter Now as touching particularizing of the beforementioned assertion I say that the Eversion of the tail of the Lion is an express token of his placability or tractableness as
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 St. Ambrose lib. 1. de Patriarch writeth That the prey of the King of Sodom was in like sort in the power of Abraham that conquered him This custome hath been also observed That to ask leave to bury the slain in the time of open hostility and whilst men are in Arms in the Field or depart the Field after Battel is a kind of yielding of victory for it beseemeth not them that won the Battel to seek any thing of the enemy by way of intreaty Like as also the unwillingness to joyn Battel and protraction or delay of Battel was taken for a yielding of Victory And now we will begin with Examples of bearing such things in Coat-Armour whereby Martial Discipline and Order which we have now discoursed of are preserved whereof some are for shew other for sound Very behoveful are these Ensigns 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 Helm and a skilful 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 Penons 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 Sail. These foresaid Instruments serve for direction on and order to the eye and by shew To these Ensigns thus born in the Field in time of Battel either expected or acted we may add this known Ensign of premonstration of eminent hostile invasion which is the fired Becacon which giveth a sudden 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 Impress 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 Arms of three of these fired Beacons appeareth in this next Example There is manifold uses of the Drum Fife Trumpet and other Musical Instruments used in Martial Affairs inasmuch as they serve not only for the direction of Companies Troops but also of the whole Army in their Marchings Encampings Risings Assaults Retreats c. but also to dead and drown the cries of the maimed and wounded and to stir up valour and courage in the Souldiers to the fierce encountering and assaulting of the Enemy and for these ends was the use of them ordained in wars to which purpose do these Instruments much avil Sonus enim cornuum tubarum in praeliis magnum 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 These Clarions are sometimes described Rests but whether they be understood to be the Rudder or from the Name to be a thing whereon to rest their Launces I know not but am rather induced to believe them to be Instruments used in Battel and Tournaments as we do Trumpets For I find Robert Consul's Coat base Son to Henry the first blazoned Clarions of these very colours And in many old Descriptions of Tilting we find the Knights to come in with Clarions sounding before them CHAP. XIV THE next are such things as serve for execution of order which is the final 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 invasive or offensive others defensive the one to protect our selves the other to impeach our foes And of these invasives will we speak in the first place beginning with those which we call Missilia such as are cast or forced by strength of hand or slight of Engine and after we will come to such as are manual or managed with the hand There are divers sorts of these kind of Guns but I shall only shew you an Example of bear-in of one other sort of them called Chambers of which you may here see three born with an interposition of one Ordinary surmounted of another between them Whether the invention hereof were behoveful and necessary or as others reckon it most pernicious and devillish I will not take upon to dispute but referr you to Sebastian Munster lib. 3. of his Cosmography where he maketh mention of Bertholdus Swartz the Monk that first devised them Anno Dom. 1354. There I tell not the Colour of these Ogresses or Pellets because they be always Sable as shall be more plainly shewed in the conclusion of this fourth Section This Coat is also born by his Lordships Brother by another venter the Right Honourable Iames Lord Norris Baron of Rycot in Oxfordshire c. As also by Capt. Bertue of Secretary to the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Latimer Lord High Treasurer of England This battering Ram was a warlike Instrument much used by the Romans when they besieged any City or Hold with purpose to surprize them Such an Engine amongst divers others did Titus Vespatianus erect against the City of Ierusalem which were by Iosephus and his Associates consumed with fire Such is the force of this Engine as that there is no Tower so strong or Circuit of a Citie so spacious but if that they resist the first brunt thereof through often use they will be subverted Gules three broad Arrows Or feathered and headed Argent by the Name of Hales a Family of good Antiquity in Kent where now resideth Sir Edward Hales of Tunstall Baronet Sir Robert Hales of Beaksborne Baronet and Edward Hales of Chilstone in Bocton-Malherb Esq. The Arrow is called in Latin Sagitta as some do conceit it quasi satis ictus for that it annoyeth and galleth the Enemy farr enough off so as he cannot approach the Archer to endammage him because by the smart delivery of the Bow the Enemy is put to hazard a
in Middlesex Gent. As touching such Coat-Armour of Partition as are charged all over these few Examples may suffice I do blazon this Coat-Armour by precious stones in respect the Bearer hereof is ennoblished by his rare vertues and approved loyal Services done to Queen Elizabeth of blessed memory and to the King's Majesty late deceased as also in regard of his so many learned and judicious works publickly manifested in sundry Volumes extant and approved by men of best judgment in that kind This Coat with a due difference is born by Colonel Thomas Sackvile of Selscome in Sussex a person that served King Charles the First in all his Civil Warrs and was one of the Captains of his Life-guards at the Battel of Edg-hill He was Son of Sir Thomas Sackvile of the said place Knight of the Bath and is now married to Margaret Daughter of Sir Henry Compton of Brambletye in the aforesaid County also Knight of the Bath by his first wife the Lady Cicely Sackvile Daughter to Robert Earl of Dorset As these last mentioned Coats are framed of straight lines of Partition so shall you find others composed of sundry lines before spoken of in the beginning of the second Section of this Book as well of those sorts that I call cornered lines as of those that are bunched And as these last handled do utterly exclude all mixture of the Tinctures whereof they are formed by reason of the straightness of the lines wherewith they be divided so contrariwise those Arms that do consist of those other sorts of lines do admit participation and intermixture of one colour with another for which cause they are of Leigh termed Miscils à miscendo of mingling to whom I will referr you touching Coats of that kind for that he hath exemplified them at large in his Accidence of Armory CHAP. II. IN the former Chapter are comprehended such Coat-Armours as consist of single and manifold lines as well charged as simple Now shall be handled such other kinds of hearing which albeit they consist of lines of Partition as the last spoken of do yet by reason of the variable apposition of some one or omore lines of Partition they do constitute another form of bearing and receive also a diverse denomination being called Coats counterchanged or transmuted All which shall brieflyâ— yet plainly appear by the few Examples following Counterchanging or transmutation is an intermixture of several Metals or Colours both in Field and Charge occasioned by the apposition of some one or more lines of Partition Such Coat-Armours may be fitly resembled to the party-coloured-garements so much esteemed in ancient time as they were held meet for the Daughters of Kings during the time of their virginity So we read of Thamar the Daughter of King David Erat induta tuâ—ica verse-colore sic enim vestiebantur filiae Regis virgines pallis and so we read that Ioseph the special beloved Son of Israel was by his Father clad in a Coat of divers colours Touching the high estimation of which kind of garments we find where the Mother of Sisera discoursing with her Ladies touching her Son 's over-long stay after the Battel against the Israelites said Partiuntur praedam puellam â—uamâ— imo duas in personam quamcunque praeda versicolorum est Siserae praeda versicolorum Phrygioncium opus c. Bends saith Sir Iohn Ferne or any other principal Charges Ordinary may be parted of two colours on more And such bearing is no novelty in Arms but are as ancient as the Norman Conquest and before so as they are both honourable and ancient Of which sort of bearing you shall in part see in these next ensuing Escocheons Sometimes you shall find Coat-Armours parted per Pale indented and counterchanged as in this next Escocheon As there is counterchanging as in these precedent Examples so also may you observe the like bearing Barr-ways as in this next Escocheon CHAP. III. THERE are certain other kinds of bearing of Arms having no colour predominating and are named of the several things from whence they are derived for such are abstracted either from Charges ordinary or common Of the first sort are such as being derived from some of the Ordinaries intreated of formerly have their derivation either manifest and do keep their name or else obscure and do lose their name Those are said to have a manifest derivation whose Original is apparently discerned to be abstracted from some of the said Ordinaries as from Pale Bend Fess Barr c. Such are these that follow and their like Barry of six pieces Or and Azure by the Name of Constable These were anciently the Arms of one Fulco de Oyry a noble Baron of this Realm whose Daughter and Heir the Ancestor of these Constables had married and bore the Arms of the said Fulk according to the usual custome of that Age. Sometimes you shall find a Coat-Armour composed of more than of six of these pieces as in this next Example Note that these and such others are no less subject to charging both in part and all over than those last exemplified as by the ensuing Examples is apparent This Coat with the Arms of Vlster is now born by Sir Robert Shirley of Staunton-Harold in Leicestershire of Chartley in Staffordshire of Ettington in Warwickshire and of Shirley Brailsford and Edneston in Darbyshire Baronet CHAP. IV. HAVING given Examples of Coats abstracted from Ordinaries by a manifest derivation now followeth in order to speak of such as have their derivation from them after a more obscure manner as in Example Now I will shew you a Coat-Armour which although it be of this kind yet doth it much differ from the former This shall suffice for Coat-Armours having an observe derivation from some of the Ordinaries and do keep their name Of such as do lose the name of their Ordinaries whereof they are composed I find only one sort which is checky And this form of bearing is also chargeable both in part and all over as shall appear by these next Examples wherein I do omit to exemplifie the single sort of bearing because the same is manifestly and universally known but will explain the compound only as followeth Of this Family of the Cliffords have been many Persons eminent in their Generations both in Peace and Warr and of late years George Earl of Cumberland famous for his many Services under Queen Elizabeth especially his taking Porto Rico in America from the Spaniards and since him Thomas Lord Clifford Baron of Chudleigh in Devonshire late Lord High Treasurer of England under his Majesty King Charles the Second Concerning Coat-Armours having no colour predominating and are derived from Ordinaries that which hath been spoken is sufficient I will now conclude with two Examples of such as are abstracted for common Charges viz. from Fusils Mascles and Lozenges which being born all over the Field are termed in blazony Fusily Lozengy Masculy that is Fusil-ways Lozenge-ways Mascle-ways These also are found charged
Accidents should have such power in them For Aristotle Physicorum 1. saith Accidentia possunt miraculose non alias mutare subjectum Accidents change not their Subject but by Miracle Addition doubtless and Subtraction are of greater force than Transmutation or Location yet is there no such power in them as that they can alter the essence of any thing Quia augmentum vel diminutio saith Chassanaeus circa accidentia contractuum non reponunt contractum in diverso esse neque per ea intelligitur ab eo in substantialibus recessus the adding or diminishing of Accidents makes not the thing lose the nature of his being This Coat with the Arms of Vlster is born by Sir Iohn Molineux of Teversal in Nottinghamshire Baronetâ— and with the Arms of Vlster with a due difference is born by Darcy Molineux of Mansfield in the said County Esq Nephew to the said Sir Iohn Leigh in Blazoning of this form of Cross maketh no mention at all of the piercing thereof perhaps because it resembleth the Ink of a Mill which is evermore pierced This is termed Quarter pierced quasi Quadrate pierced for that the piercing is square as a Trencher The Augmentation born on the Bend was granted unto the Right Noble Thomas Duke of Norfolk and to his Descendants by King Henry the Eighth for his signal Service as General of the Army which gave that remarkable overthrow at Floding to King Iames the Fourth of Scotland which said Duke was by King Henry the Seventh created Knight of the Garter and made Lord High Treasurer of England So much of the Cross with the Accidents thereof Now of that other Ordinary that is framed also of a fourfold Line that is to say a Saltire A Saltire is an Ordinary consisting of a fourfold Line whereof two are drawn from the Dexter chief towards the Sinister base corners and the other from the Sinister chief towards the Dexter base points and do meet about the midst by couples in acute Angles I know the Learned Geometer will find many more Lines here than I do mention but as I said of Lines in the Cross this our description greeth best with Heralds and our purpose Azure a Saltier Argent is the Coat-Armour of Sir William York of Burton-Pedwardin in Lincolnshire Knight Sable a Saltier Argent is born by the name of Ducket of Steeple-Morden in Cambridgeshire In old time saith Leigh this was made of the height of a man and was driven full of Pins the use whereof was to scale the Walls therewith to which end the Pins served commodiously In those days saith he the Walls of a Town were but low as appeareth by the Walls of Rome which Rhemus easily leaped over and the Walls of Winchester which were overlooked by Colebrand the Chieftain of the Danes who was slain by Guy Earl of Warwick who was Champion for King Athelstane Argent a Saltier engrailed Sable by the Name of Middleton This with the Arms of Vlster is the Coat-Armour of Sir George Middleton of Leighton near Warton in Lancashire Baronet CHAP. VIII HAving hitherto shewed at large the several forms of making of such Charges as we call honourable Ordinaries Order requireth that I should now shew their diverse manner of Bearing according to our prefixed Distribution These are born Simple Compound Those are said to be born Simple when only Ordinaries do appear in the Field These Ordinaries comprehend One sort Divers sorts Ordinaries are said to be of one sort when only one kind of them is born in the Field without mixture of any other Whose bearing is Single Manifold By single Bearing I understand some one Ordinary born alone in the Escocheon such are these precedent Examples before handled By manifold bearing of Ordinaries I mean the bearing of divers Ordinaries of the same kind whether the same be born of themselves alone or else conjunctly with some of their Subdivisions Which form of bearing is twofold viz. One upon another One besides another What is meant by the bearing of Ordinaries of one kind one upon another may be easily conceived by these four Escocheons next following Proceed we now to Examples of Ordinaries of the same kind born one besides another such are these next following and their like The Field is Argent two Bends Gules This Coat-Armour I find in an ancient Manuscript of Collection of Englishmens Arms in Metal and Colours with the Blazon in French of the time of our Henry the Sixth as it is apparent by the Character of the Letter over which Coat-Armour is there written the Bearers name viz. Monsieur Iohn Haget from whom Mr. Bartholomew Haget late Consul of Aleppo deriveth his descent This Book at this present remaineth in the custody of a worthy Friend of mine a curious Collector and careful Preserver of such ancient Monuments Gules two Bends the upper Or and the lower Argent was born by Milo Fitz-water who by King Henry the First was made Earl of Hereford and Constable of England and Lord of the Forest of Dean in right of his Wife Daughter and Heir of Bernard Newmarch Lord of Brecknock This Coat is now quartered by Sir Ralph Verney of Middle Claydon in Buckinghamshire Mr. Boswell in his Works of Armory observeth That the Bearer of such Bends as these or of the like Coat-Armour may be thought to have done some great enterprise upon the Seas worthy of perpetual commendation As for Ordinaries of other sorts born likewise one besides another of the same kind behold these next Examples Now from Ordinaries of the same kind born one upon another with their extracted Subdivisions proceed we to Ordinaries of divers kinds and their Diminutives abstracted from them eftsoons found likewise born both one upon another and one besides another Such are these next following and their like Now for Ordinaries of divers kinds born one besides another you shall have these Examples ensuing Robert Lisle who was a Baron in the times of King Edward the Second and Edward the Third bore the same Coat-Armour And divers ancient and eminent Nobles of this Kingdom do rightfully quarter these Arms being descended from the Heirs generally of the Family of Lisle Or a Fess between two Chevrons Gules was the Coat of Anselme Lord Fitz-water in the time of the Conquest of whom did descend Walter Fitz-water who had a Daughter and Heir that married to Robert Radcliff Father of Robert Radcliff Lord Fitz-water of whom descended Robert Radcliff Earl of Sussex and Viscount Fitz-water of which Family of Sir Francis Radcliff of Dilston in Northumberland Baronet now living 1675. The End of the Second Section Naturalia sunt specula eorum quae non videntur THis Third Section beginneth to treat of such Charges of Coat-Armours as are called Common Charges whereof some be Natural and meerly formal such are Angels and Spirits and others are both Formal and Material as the Sun Moon Stars as also such Natures as are Sublunary whether they be living after a sort as all