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A28613	The cities great concern in this case of question of honour and arms whether apprentiship extinguisheth gentry discoursed : with a clear refutation of the pernicious error that it doth.	Bolton, Edmund, 1575?-1633?; Philipot, John, 1589?-1645.	1674 (1674)	Wing B3505; ESTC R37123	30,025	126

shineth often very bright among them as it did a little before his Majestie 's happy Restoration when a great number of Apprentices probably the Sons of Gentry and such as would not forget the accustomed Loyalty of their Progenitors due at all times to their Soveraign when these threatned the Lord Mayor to pull him off his horse if he would not declare for the King for even as where the Sun is there is no darkness so where Soveraign Princes are interessed Parties there is no Baseness And as the Philosopher's Mercury purgeth vilest Metals turning all to Gold so the Operation of Princes Intentions to ennoble Societies with their personal Presences transmettals the Subject and clearly takes away all Ignobility Which things as they are most true in London so for that the Emperour Constantius Magnus if our Ancient Fitz Stephen reports the right Henry King of England Son of King Henry the second and that brave Prince Edward the first and whosoever else were born in the City they give to it the glory of Arms. And Jeffery Chaucer Sir Thomas Moore Knight with others born in London communicate thereunto the Glory of Wits and Letters To nourish up both with Excellent Titles to reall Nobility in the City the Artillery-yard and Gresham Colledge were instituted And however some of the Rebel-rout and Factious part of the Citizens of London made themselves unworthy of the Freedom and Liberties thereof by the late Horrid and Devilish Rebellion yet it cannot be denied but that many Loyal and Worthy Citizens were not only deluded over-awed and kept under by a false Authority of Parliament but plunder'd sequestred and undone for their Allegiance to the King Mr. Chaloner hanged Sir Richard Gourney Knight and Baronet Lord Mayor of London imprisoned in the Tower of London for not acting against the King and the Rebellious Party commanded Sir George Whitman Knight formerly Lord Mayor and chosen locumtenens for the Remainder of Sir Richard Gourney's year to be sent Prisoner to Yarmouth for the like Loyalty and James Bunch an Alderman of London now Sir James Bunch Knight and Baronet imprisoned in the Tower of London had all his Estate real and personal plundred sequestred and sold and ordered by the usurping Powers to be exempted from Pardon and forced to fly into the parts beyond the Seas to His now Majesty with whom he continued until His Majesty's happy Restauration And Sir Abraham Reynardson Lord Mayor of London in the time of that Rebellion was imprisoned and fined 2000l for refusing to publish the Proclamation of those Contrivers of all manner of wickedness for the abolishing of Kingly Government The worthiness of the City is now visible being not disheartned by the late Correction and Loss of Pestilence and Fire which after their humble Acknowledgment to God of their deserving have reedified the Devastation with greater Splendor and Beauty Their Industry we may compare to the Bees which Virgil describes Quò magis exhaustae fuerint hoc acrius omnes Incumbent generis lapsi sarcire ruinas Complebuntque foros floribus horrea texent How much by fortune they exhausted are So much they strove the ruins to repair Of their fall'n Nation and they fill the Exchange Adorning with the choicest flowers their Grange Sir John Fitzwater's Pallace was that Noble Pile named Baynard's Castle neer St. Paul's Wharf lately burned down from whence in great respect to him the Lord Mayor takes water attended with Barges of the several Companies to Westminster where he takes his Oath of Mayoralty and so returns in Triumph to Guild-Hall to his Feasting Thus this Question of Honour and Arms undertaken for affection to that great City and their Children being as we hope sufficiently discussed the End of all is this That albeit the love of humane Praise and outward Splendor in the marks and testimonies of it are very vehement fires in all worthiest Natures yet have they no Beatitude nor so to say Felicitation but only as with reference to this of the Blessed Apostle Soli Deo Honor Gloria AMEN FINIS The Case in Question Except

denominates the Action and proves Apprentiship not to be base The contrary Opinion pernicious to Manners and good Common-wealth among us chiefly now The different face of both Opinions in daily Experience Whether APPRENTISHIP extinguisheth GENTRY THE FIRST PART THE present Question whether Apprentiship extinguisheth Gentry being now not so much a Paradox as grown in secret to be of late a common Opinion I am bold to call it a weighty and important Question unjustly grounded upon the learned folly of Erasmus of Roterdam and the incircumspection of Sr. Thomas Smith Knight in his Book de Republica Anglorum and out of certain wandring conceits hatcht among Trees and Tillage as shall appear hereafter Weighty and Important I call it and it is so because in looking out upon the concernings of the Case I find that prospect so specious that within the compass thereof as well the greater as the lesser Nobility of England are very notably and very inexplicably enwrapped what do I say of the subalternate Nobility when the Royal Name it self was deeply interessed in the Proposition For Queen Elizabeth though a free Monarch and chief of the English in her turn was a Party to the Cause which she ingenuously and openly acknowledged calling Sir Martin Calthrope Kinsman as indeed he was being at that time Knight and Lord Mayor of London as also Sir Godfrey Bullen Knight and Lord Mayor of London was lineal Ancestor to Queen Anne Mother to Queen Elizabeth no longer before than in the Reign of Henry the sixth King of England Both which Knights being also Gentlemen born and of right worthy Families ascended by due degrees from the condition of Apprentices to the greatest Annual Honour in this Kingdom It is Weighty and Important because without much impropriety of speech it may be called Quaestio status which in the ancient phrase of the Emperor Justinian is as much as to say a Tryal whether one is to be adjudged bond or free servile or ingenuous and implieth that odious and unnatural sequel which by Textuists is named Capitis diminutio whereof though the Roman Laws make a threefold division yet in this our question is but only whether the third and lowest degree were incurred which happeneth cum qui sui juris fuerunt coeperunt alieno juri subjecti It is weighty and important and can appear none other because it directly tends to darken and as it were to intercloud the luminous body of that beautious Planet Honour with foul and lasting Spots For what can lightly be a more disparagement than for the Free-born to become a kind of Bond-men or to come of such nay there is nothing without it which can be of so great disparagement Finally it is weighty and important for very many other reasons and particularly because it is not only fit that states of Opinions should be rectified in this kind as breeding bad affections among people of this Nation from whence great mischiefs often arise even to hatred quarrels and homicides but that such also as through vanity or other distempers of the wit or judgment disdain to seem either City-born or bred or to own any thing of their Worship or Estate either to the City or Citizens may understand their own place and true condition lest they be convinced to be among them who are unworthy of so honest either Original or Accession as the City yeildeth 2. But let us first behold the Cities Honour in Arms as it stands displayed in Ancient Heraldry and as it is commented upon out of Authentick Monuments in that commendable Survey of London comprised by its Chronologer and Citizen Stowe The present figure with the same words as here they stand is a copy of that which an old imperfect Legier volumn at the Office of Arms containeth There needeth no greater demonstration of the Cities ancient Honour and of her peoples free quality than this that a principal Baron of the Realm of England was by Tenure her Standard-bearer being the Lord Fitz-Water from whence the now Lord Fitz-Water is descended The figure of St. Paul advanced it self in the Standard and upon the Shield those famous well known Armouries of the Cross and Weapon The like Picture of which Apostle was also embroidered in the Caparisons of that Horse of War which for the purpose of the Cities Service he received of Gift at the hands of the Lord Mayor Upon the Standard-bearers Coat Armour are painted the Hereditary Ensigns of his own Illustrious Family viz. Or a Fesse between two Cheverons Gules Which kind of Field the Ancients called Clauric perhaps à claritate because such Fields as were all of one colour made their Charges more cleerly seen and perspicuous And as they gave to that species of Blazon a peculiar Name for the Dignity so did they also assign to this manner of bearing two Cheverons the term Bialle or a Coat Bialle à numero binario In which brave times had that noble Gentleman but slightly and far off suspected that he displayed that Banner for a kind of Bondmen or as for their Service his great Heroick spirit would rather have troden such an offer under foot In good Assurance therefore of this common Causes justice we proceed 3. Sound Opinion meaning Doctrine is the Anchor of the World and Opinion meaning a worthy conceit of this or that person is the principal Ingredient which makes words or actions rellish well and all the Graces without it are little worth To take the fame from any man that is a Gentleman born is a kind of disablement and prejudioe at least wise among the weak who consider no farther than Seemings that is among almost all consequently a wrong and if a wrong then due to be redressed To find the Injury we must first enquire Whether Apprentiship extinguisheth Gentry 4. The main reason certainly the most generally used to prove it doth is That Apprentiship is a kind of Bondage and Bondage specially voluntary in which case the Imperial Law-rule Non officit natalibus in servitute fuisse may be perhaps defective doth not extinguish Native-Gentry But I deny that Apprentiship is either vera servitus Or omnino servitus For explanation of this difficulty I will set before your eyes the Case as it is A Gentleman hath a Son whom he means to breed up in an Art of thrift not rising meerly out of a stock of Wit or Learning but out of a stock of Money and Credit managed according to that Art and for this cause he brings his Child at fifteen or sixteen years of age more or less to the City of London provides him a Master and the Youth by his Father's counsel willingly becomes an Apprentice that is he interchangeably seals a written Instrument that he for his certain years of true and faithful Service shall learn that precious Mystery of how to gain honestly and to raise himself Let the legal and ordinary form of that Instrument extant in Wells's Presidents and familiar every