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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

Jonathans whose Lands would not long own them for their Lords did not thy Widows and Daughters portions pay off their encumbrances and clear up those mists which hinder their view of them as their own till they be removed Shew me O ye contemners of Cities and Corporations wherein ye exceed Citizens and the Issues and products of them Is there any part of the World or this Nation more hospitable then London whose Families whose poor are better provided for then Londons where are there any subjects in England that in plenty and variety of entertainments exceed the Maiors and Sheriffs Tables to which all commers that are of fashion and worth though unknown are welcom was not that Table think ye well furnish'd which in one day entertained Edward King of England the Kings of France Scotland Cyprus Edward Prince of Wales with a grand Train of Nobles and was not he a brave subject who then also kept his Hall for welcom of all commers This did Henry Piccard Maior of London in the year 1363. And to make the solemnity more ample his Lady did at the same time maintain a treatment apart for all female Honours of noble degree Are there any charities in England surviving that furious deluge of Hen. the 8th which are more extensive and liberal then those of Londons Fraternities and Hospitalls both in London and other parts of the Nation all which either were founded or augmented by Citizens some few there have bin erected by other persons of great honour charity and worthiness whose devotion therein I doubt not but God has accepted But though I dare not presume to write that the Gleanings of Londons Ephraims are beyond the vintage of those Abiezers yet I may modestly and truly aver that London both in the number and exact care and Government of them according to the Statutes of their foundation is more exact and remarkable then others are and those that trust them shall upon search find them the best executors of trusts mistake me not I am no conjured Creature of Londons wherein truth and Justice Religion and Order defie her I must not justifie her Magna est veritas praevalebit If the faithful City become a harlot if its silver become drosse and its wine be turned to water as once God by his Prophet complained of Jerusalem far be it from me to endeavour her defence But if she when most disfigured and in her least commendable dress has witnesses of Gubernative Honour and Pristine fidelity though she has Apoplectique fits and is under the rigour of storms which role her up and down from Coast to Coast till her Pilots seem to forsake their Compass and her commoners their Sails and Tackle God forbid any Christian any Englishman should wish or hope to see her in ashes God forbid any one that is written man should so indulge the Gourd of his passion and transitory greatness which perhaps came up in a night and may perish in a night as the phrase is Jonah c. 4. v 10. As to repine at Gods merciful sparing of that great City wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right and their left hand and also much Cattle v. 10. O London I wish peace may be within thy Walls and prosperity within thy pallaces that Religion Order Trade Charity may never suffer a finall Eclipse in thee That the riches of thy Citizens which Popes have termed puteus inexhaustus may rather be the delight of Scholars eyes who with Pope Innocent shall desire to see divitias Londini delicias Westmonasterii then of a Ruffians fists who would desire to plunder thee And blessed be God for thy riches and the good provision thy Citizens thrift has made for not onely their Children but for the ample maintenance of the churches and Churchmen in thee for as thou art abundant in sacred edifices so that the great Cambden thy learned Sonne sayes Templis undique aedibus sacris ita fulget ut religio pietas sibi delubrum hic collocasse videatur and those so nobly kept and adorned as little more can be desired to their Ornament unless St. Pauls thy viduated Mother Church might be repaired which in these sad changes by being unchaptred and revenueless is now in a great measure ready to be a colluvies of ruines excepting onely this Venust Monument of Antique Christianities devotion This St. Pauls at London once not inferior to that St. Peters at Rome though now likely to have no long duration but in that paper Monument which a skilful painful and well accomplish'd Antiquary has erected to her perpetuity all the Parish Churches are in a comely dress worthy that orderly Religion the Citizens profess And the Ministers in them maugre all the malice of fanatiques and antiministerial dissenters are better provided for then in most parts of the Nation besides For though some curse the patrimonium Crucifixi and would dip their morsels in potions like that of the Jewes to our Lord yet others more in number weight and worth with holy Moses bless their basket and their store and let their bounties run most fluently to those secondary Apostles as the precious remains of Christ the Churches High Priest which he hath left to negotiate the conversion of souls and to propatage his Gospel till the number of his Elect be accomplished and till he deliver up the Kingdom to God the Father But I return to London which I find of great consequence to her Supremes for when the Lords and great men had her to back the Lord Marshall s words to Walter Alb●net are Bene scitis quam magnum comm●●um est vobis nobis servare civitatem Londoniarum quae est receptaculum nostrum And when King Richard the second favoured her in so unusual a way ●o indulgence as Sir Edw. Cook notes confirming her liberties licet usi non fuerint vel abusi fuerunt it concludes that she has ever been esteemed the darling of her Royal Governour and the Nonsuch of England in supply of accommodations for peace warre So that London so ancient and so magnificent a City so abounding in rich stout grave and well moderated Citizens so dignified with freedoms and franchises of exemption from vassallage so prosperous and contributive to the structure of English Honour being the parental ayre of Princes Prelates Peers Knights Gentlemen and others who in regard of high desert are not unworthy their company must not be omitted in the roll of Honour as she is none of the lowest steps to it For in the Saxons time Estate in Land or money made men pares cum Thayno dignitate And Estates have ever been gainable in London if anywhere And that not onely by ungentle practices such as Mr. Fern termes Doubleness of Tongue violation of faith with the rest of their trumperies and deceits for which saith he they must be contented to stand

of honour yet at that Port probably came in the more generall use of Arms and Banners Military and gentilicial because against them were the great confluences of Christians united and in the expedition against them randevouzed And hence also 't is probable that Arms grew appropriate to Families for either those that were in Command in the Holy Warres and used Arms in their Banners Shields or outward Garments upon their return from that service took those devices or Arms as their due for then it was permitted to every man to take what Arms he would so none bore it in his own Nation and he adds his reason nam sicut 〈◊〉 sunt inventa ad recognoscendum homines ita arma Insignia or else had indulgence from their Soveraigns or his Chieftains to bear them which time and use has improved into a customary legall and rightful appropriation to their Issues and their Descendents and to no other in that Nation without the deserved censure of usurpation for which an action of injury lies tryal by Battel was allowed and performed and was frequently practiced in this Nation and other Countries yet allow it It remains now that somewhat be mentioned of the Origination of Arms Gentilicial and familicall in our own Countrey England which I doubt will prove of a latter date then many of our gay boasters say they have born them in their Families there are some that with those Romans Plutarch speaks of call themselves {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that is elder then the Moon No pedegree pleases them but that which is ab Evandro Arcadibus I am a great admirer of antiquity and honourable Auncestry but reason and History shall sway me beyond any passion or opinion for if consideration be had that for some hundred years this Nation was under the harrass of Warre and in the storm of forraigners assaults and after troubled with the Cholique of civil uncivil Warre there will be little reason to be over confident in matters of Pedegree and Arms much beyond 400 years I have it from the learned Knight who adds too Neseio an ea prorsus antiquitate Yet when ever as about that time I conceive its rise the first users of Arms and the first that had originall right to them were such of the Brittish Nobility and Saxon line as kept their honours fortunes and seats or some of them in the changes of Government They being fortunate and not frown'd upon by the Conquerour and his Sons kept their stations though his Normans had the place and power in Court and Camp and as these grew more and more habituated to his Government and he abated of the rigour of a Victor and made by peaceable Government more calm so these shewed themselves more openly owning their rights with greater freedom From these and from the Lords of the new Model sprang twigs of honour which after became tall of growth in the springs of honour most of the Families of our now ancient Gentry being Issues from them dependants on them or preferred by them yea dignified with badges of trust and honour neerly allyed to those great mens bearings so true is that of Giraldus Cambrensis where speaking of the great men He sayes Clientes hos suis quasi armis instructos armigeros suos forte vocant Militum foeda cum armis suis suis armigeris dedisse Thus as the Romans of old called their best and most noted Servants Gentiles as we read of Bruti Cassii Ciceronisque gentiles as Tully himself calls servius Tullius after King of the Romans Gentilem suum which I take to be as much as Pliny meant by Marcipores Lucipores which were the Servants of Marcus and Lucius It being the honest and just custom of Antiquity not onely amongst us and the Romans but even in the primitive Jewish times to account faithful and worthy Servants next to Children and accordingly to reward them as appeares in that passage of the Patriarch Abraham where Eleazar of Damascus his Steward is by him declared his Heir he being childless nor must it seem strange for who merit so great respect next to those a man begets as faithful Servants that attend them and theirs with love and trust Mr. Cambden tells us of Ja. L. Audley who attending the black Prince at the Battel of Poictiers was there sorely wounded the Prince rewarded him with a gift of 400 marks of yearly rent who presently gave the Princes gift to his four Esquires saying dutifully to the Prince Sir It is meet that I do well for them who deserved best of me These my Esquires saved my life amongst my Enemies and God be thanked my Ancestors have left me sufficient Revenues to maintain me in your service And if it be usual in story to read of brave Spirits remunerating valour even in Enemies as Edward the third did Sir Eustace Ribamont a French Knight who personally encountred the King and held him tack a long while till the King twice beat him on his knees at last the King took him prisoner with these words Sir You are the Knight in the world that I have seen most valiant either in assault of Enemies or defence of himself whereupon he gave him the Chaplet of Pearl he had from his Head for which cause the said Sir Eustace gave 3 Chaplets garnished with Pearl If Friends have been rewarded as was R. Steward D. de Aubigny Marshal of France by Lewis the 11th who had given him the royal Arms of France with Buckles Or in a bordure Gules as Cambden instructs me and as Albeney was by H. 1. to whom he gave 140 Knights fees in England and 120 in Normandy Why is not the merit of Servants and Dependants who spend their youth in faithful drudgery and own no parts or worth but what is at their Lords devotion to be amply repayd them where Masters have opportunity and power Truly I see no reason but it so should be and so accordingly did our Honourable An ceors now with God do and by this grateful bounty of theirs have the Families of the lesser Nobility in a great measure been increased No man acquainted with Story but knowes that of old most of the great Estates and Commands in England were in the hands of such favourites of the Conquerour and his Issue as they granted them to who by tenure in their persons and with their Tenants Servants and dependants were to attend their Soveraigns in their Warres these Great Men granted parts of their Tenures to persons either related to them by match service or affection upon such termes as they themselves either were obliged to the first grantor of them or else on other conditions of advantage to them giving them also Coat-armour either parts of their own or some other as to them seemed meet Thus did many of the great Houses of Cheshire grow from the Earls of Chester who had