Paternall coat And that he honoured the same with this chief to acknowledge his education in the Colledge of Eaton to which the Lilies do belong His words are these A parentibus saith he accepit hujus vitae usuram à collegio decus dignitatem utrique pro eo ac debuit respondendum fuit Gessit idcirco in eodem clypeo utriusque insignia Rombos cum liliis And thus briefly concluding this fifth Section comprehending examples of Coat-Armours having no Tincture predominating in them and withall shewing their sundry forms of Partition Transmutation and counter-changings I will address my self to the sixth and last Section The End of the fifth Section Artis progressio velocius clauditur quam inchoatur THis sixth and last Section doth demonstrate the manner of Marshalling divers Coat-Armours pertaining to distinct Families in one Escocheon as well of those that by occasion of some adventitious Accident are annexed to the Paternall Coat of any Gentleman as of those that by reason of entermarriage of persons descended of severall Families are therein to be conjoyned The Table of the Sixth Section Marshalling is an orderly bestowing of things Within the Escocheon by a disposition of Coat-armours of distinct Families Manifest betokening Marriage Single as when two Coat-Armours of distinct Families are conjoyned in one Escocheon palewayes in one Escocheon which we may call Baron and Fem. Hereditary signified by Bearing the Coat of the Femme Upon an Inescocheon by the Baron after issue received Quarterly by their Heire Gift of the Soveraign in respect of Speciall favour Remuneration of service Obscure as when persons of distinct Families conjoyned in Marriage have their Coat-Armours so marshalled as that they cannot be conceived thereby to signifie a Matrimoniall conjunction Without the Escocheon to wit Above the Escocheon such as are the Helme Mantle Crown Chapeau Wreath or Torce and Crest About â—he Escocheon such are the severall orders founded by persons of Majesty as Emperours Monarchs Kings Such are the most Honourable Orders of the Garter of Saint Michael Saint Esprite c. Inferiour Dignity as the Orders of the golden Fleece and of the Annunciation In some place neer to the Escocheon On the sides of the Escocheon which being Living things the Arms are said to be supported by them Dead things the Arms are properly said to be cottised of or with such things Underneath the Escocheon such are the compartments or Escrole containing the Motto Conceit or word of the Beares SECTION VI. CHAP. I. FRom our first ingress in this Book What hath been hitherto handled hitherto hath been handled at large the first part of the Division of this whole Work under the generall Head of Blazoning wherein have been confined and illustrated Examples of the diverse and variable kinds of bearing of all manner of Coat-Armours of whatsoever substance form or quality consisting together with the generall and particular rules in their proper places for the better instruction of the regardfull Reader What now to be handled It now succeedeth in order to explain that our generall Head being the second part of the first Division termed Marshalling Which term I am not ignorant of how far extent it is not only in ordering the parts of an Armie but also for disposing of all persons and things in all solemnities and celebrations as Coronations Interviews Marriages Funerals Triumphs and the like The large signification of the word Marshalling in which the office of an Herald is of principall use for direction of others and therefore his learning judgement and experience ought to be able to direct himself in so weighty affairs But that noble part of marshalling is so absolutely already performed by the industrious Pen of the judicious Sir William Segar Knight now Garter and principall King at Arms Honour Military and Civil in his Book of Honour military and civil The scope of the Author as that it were but arrogancy joyned with ignorance for me to intermeddle in an argument so exactly handled neither is here my purpose other then to confine my self to Armoury only Marshalling what and so far only to speak of Marshalling as it concerns Coat-Armours This marshalling therefore is an orderly disposing of sundry Coat-Armours pertaining to distinct Families and of their contingent ornaments with their parts and appurtenances in their proper places Of these things some have their place within the Escocheon some without and of those within the Escocheon some have their occasions obscure other some manifest as are those whose marshalling according to ancient and prescript forms do apparently either betoken marriage or some gift of the Soveraign Such as betoken marriage do represent either a match single or hereditary By a single match I mean the conjoyning the Coat-Armour of a man and a woman descended of distinct Families in one Escocheon Pale-ways as by examples following shall appear Impaling divers And this form of impaling is diverse according to the severall functions of persons whether Ecclesiastical or Temporall Such as have a function Ecclesiastical and are preferred to the high honour of Pastoral jurisdiction are reckoned to be knit in nuptial bands of love and tender care to Cathedrall Churches whereof they are superintendents insomuch as when a Bishop deceaseth ejus Ecclesia dicitur viduata Paternal coat on the left side And therefore their Paternal Coat is evermore marshalled on the left side of the Escocheon giving the preheminence of the right side to the Arms of their Sea ob reverentiam dignitatis Ecclesiae for the honour due to Ecclesiasticall dignity as also in respect that the Arms of such severall Sees Baron and Femme Ecclesiastical have in them a kind of perpetuity for that they belong to a Political body which never dieth An example of such impaling is this which followeth and this manner of bearing we may aptly call Baron and Femme The most Reverend Father in God Doctor William Lawde Lord Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace Primate of all England and Metropolitan Chancellor of the Vniversity of Oxford and one of the Lords of his Majesties Most Honourable Privie Councel To these with the Readers patience shall be added one other example which in regard it is invironed with the Garter of the Order merits observation Now because the Kings of Arms do sometimes in like manner as Bishops use impale the Arms peculiar to their severall Offices together with their own Paternall coats as Baron and Femme but alwayes in such case marshalling the Paternall on the left side I will insert one of their impalements as in example To the end it may be the better conceived what is meant by the right and left sides of an Escocheon or Coat-Armour born impaled after this manner you may imagine a man to be standing before you invested in a coat depicted with the Arms of two severall Families thus conjoyned in pale and then that part that doth cover his right side will answer
Daughter of Sir Edmund Bell left issue three sons Gentlemen of signall accomplishments Heneage Finch Esquire of the Inner Temple London first son a Person of eminent abilities and candid integrity Francis Finch of the same House Barrester at Law second Son and John Finch third son hopefull and ingenious branches of this Noble Family Of this Family is also Sir John Finch Knight sometime Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England created Lord Finch of Fordwich the sixteenth of King Charles living 1659. son of Sir Henry Finch Knight second Brother of Sir Moyle above mentioned The Atchievement of an Earle HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE VIRTVTIS LAVS ACTIO THis Atchievement thus marshalled is here set forth for the peculiar Ensigns of the Right Noble and truly Honourable Thomas Howard Earle of Arundell and Surrey Primier Earle of England Earle Marshall of the same Kingdom Lord Howard Mowbray Segrave Brus of Gower Fitz-Alan Clun Oswaldstre and Mautravers Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter and one of the Lords of his Majesties most honourable Privy Councel which noble Lord beareth Quarterly eight Coats The first whereof is Ruby on a Bend between six crosse croslets fitchee Pearl an Escocheon Topaz thereon a demy Lyon pierced through the mouth with an Arrow within a double Tressure counter-flowred of the first and is the paternall Coat of the noble flourishing Family of the Howards The second is Ruby Three Lyons passant gardant Topaz in chief a File of three points Pearl which was the Coat-armour of the Lord Thomas of Brotherton fifth son of King Edward the first and Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk The third is Checkey Topaz and Saphire which was the peculiar Armoriall Ensigns of the Earls of Warren The fourth is Ruby a Lyon Rampand Pearl Armed and Langued Saphire by the name of Mowbray The fifth is Ruby a Lyon Rampand Or Armed and Langued of the first by the name of Albaney The sixth is Pearl a Chief Saphire by the name of Clun The seventh is Diamond a Fret Topaz by the name of Mautravers The eighth is Pearl a Fesse and Canton Ruby by the name Woodvile all within the Garter And above the same upon an Helme a mantle Ruby doubled Ermine next upon which is placed on a mount Emerald within a Torce Topaz and Ruby a Horse passant Pearl holding in his mouth a slip of an Oake fructed Proper supported on the dexter side with a Lyon and on the sinister with an Horse both Pearl the last holding in his mouth an Oaken slip fructed Proper And for his Motto to make the same Atchievement absolute these words in a Scrole VIRTUTIS LAUS ACTIO This Atchievement is here proposed as instar Omnium for a patern of the Coat-Armours of Earls of which this Noble Lord is the Primier of England and therefore is his Lordships Atchievement the fittest to be here demonstrated besides whose Coat-Armour could more properly challenge a due place in a work of this nature than his who is not onely by his office of Earl Marshall proper Judge of Honour and Arms but also in his affection the most Honoured Maecenas and Noble Patron as of all learning in generall so more particularly of this of Armory which Earl some years since deceasing left these honours to Henry his eldest son who by Elizabeth Sister of James Stuart late Duke of Richmond and Lennox has left a hopefull issue viz. Thomas Earl of Arundel c. Henry second son in whom are concentred the Loyalty Courage Learning Generosity and what has else exalted the reputation of his Ancestors in the Kingdom Philip third son Charles fourth son Edward fifth son Francis sixth son and Bernard seventh son all living 1660. Of Earls The Title of an Earl is very ancient the dignity very honourable their calling being in sign of their greatness adorned with the lustre of a Coronet and themselves enobled with the stile of Princes Comites among the Ancient Romans were Counsellors and near Adherents to their highest Commanders which honour and Title being then but temporary and for life The flowers and points of a Marquess his Coronet are of even height The pearled points of the Earls Coronet are much longer than the intermixt flowers thereof is since by tract of time made perpetuall and hereditary The Saxons called them Ealdermen the Danes Earls they being as may seem at first selected out of the rest of the Nobility for commendation of their Gravity Wisdom and Experience The next degree above an Earl is a Marquess whose Atchievement I have omitted in respect that the same is chiefly differenced from that of an Earls in this that the Marquess his Coronet is Meslee that is part flowred and part Pyramidall pearled the flowers and points of equall height and the Earles is Pyramidall pointed and pearled having flowers intermixt but much shorter than the pearled points PIE REPONE TE THis is the Atchievement of the Right Honourable Henry Marquess of Dorchester Earl of Kingston upon Hull Viscount Newarke Lord Pierrepont and Maunvers and Herris and is thus blazoned His Lordship bears eight Coats quarterly First Pearle semy de Cinquefoiles Ruby a Lyon Rampant Diamond by the name of the Lord Pierrepont Secondly Pearl six Annulets Diamond by the name of the Lord Maunvers Thirdly Saphire three Hedg-hoggs Topaz by the name of the Lord Herris Fourthly Diamond a Lion Rampant Pearle Crowned Topaz which is the bearing of Lord Segrave Fiftly Ruby a Lion within a bordure Engrailed Topaz by the name of Rees ap Teuder Prince of South-Wales Sixtly Diamond three garbes Pearl being the Coat of the King of Lemster Seventhly Ruby three wheat sheaves Topaz a bordure of Scotland by the name of Coming Earle of Northumberland Eightly Ruby a lion rampant a la double queve Pearle by the name of the Lord Mantfort Earle of Lycester for his Crest on a helmet placed on a Marquesses crowne a Torce or Wreath of his colours thereon a Fox passant Ruby supported by two Lyons Diamond mantled Ruby doubled Ermine his motto PIE REPONE TE This noble Person not more illustrious by his quality then by the Advantages of nature and industry the great assertor of Learning in this Nation decended from a noble family of signall eminence out of which is Robert de Petraponte sive Pierpont who was cal'd by writ among the Peers of England to the Parliament by King Edw. 3. and afterwards in process of time Robert Pierpont was Created Viscount Newarke and Lord Pierpont afterwards Created Earle of Kingston upon Hull after whose death our Soveraign King Charles conferd the honour of Marquess of Dorchester on Henry Earle of Kingston his Son the present Inheritor of these Titles ennobled also by his Mother who was Gertrude Daughter and Coheir of Henry Talbot Son of George and brother to Gilbert Earle of Shrewsbury Lord Talbot Strange Furnivall Verdon and Lovetoft FOY POVR DEVOIR THis is the Atchievement of the Right Honourable William Seymour
mercifull a God and in dutifulnesse to so gracious a Soveraign whose Crown let it flourish on his Royall head and on his Posterities till the Heavens leave to move and Time be no more Amen FINIS To the Generous Reader My Task is past my Care is but begun My pains must suffer censures for reward Yet hope I have now my great pains are done That gentle Spirits will quite them with regard For whom my love to Gentry here they find My love with love they must requite by kind But if th'ungentle Brood of Envies Grooms Misdoom my pains no force they do their kind And I 'le do mine which is to scorn their Dooms That use unkindly a kind wel-willing mind Thus I resolve Look now who will hereon My Task is past and all my Care is gone A Conclusion BUt He alone that 's free from all defect And onely cannot erre true Wisedomes Sire Can without error all in All effect But weake are men in acting their desire This Worke is filde but not without a flaw Yet filde with Paine Care Cost and all in all But as it were by force of Natures Law It hath some faults which on the Printers fall No Book so blest that ever scap't the Presse For ought I ever read or heard without Correctors fulst of Art and Carefullnesse Cannot prevent it Faults will flee about But here 's not many so the easier may Each gentle Reader rub away their staines Then when the verdall Blots were done away I hope their profit will exceede their paines Besides it may be thought a fault in me To have omitted some few differences Of Coronets of high'st and low'st degree But this I may not well a fault confess For twixt a Duke and Marquess Coronets Is so smal But now in Mr. Garters Book of honor Military and Civill the difference such as it is doth appear to which I refer the Reader ods as it is scarce discern'd As here i' th Earl and Vicounts frontilets May by judicious Artists now be learn'd Then these are faults that Reason doth excuse And were committed wilfully because Where is no difference there is no abuse To Grace Armes Nature order or their Lawes This breakes no rule of Order though there be An Order in Degrees concerning This If Order were infring'd then should I flee From my chiefe purpose and my Mark should miss ORDER is Natures beauty and the way To Order is by Rules that Art hath found Defect and excesse in those Rules bewray Order's defective Nature 's much deform'd But ORDER is the Center of that GOD That is unbounded and All circumscribes Then if this Worke hath any likelyhood Of the least good the good to it ascribes In Truth Grace Order or in any wise That tends to Honour Vertue Goodness Grace I have mine ends and then it shall suffice If with my Worke I end my vitall Race And with the Silke-worme worke me in my Tombe As having done my duty in my Roome Finis Coronat Opus JOH GVVILLIM Errata PAge 60. l. 27. read of John Highlord p. 71. l. 9. r. Azure on 2 bars Or. 6 Martlets Gules p. 81. l. 22. r. Alleyn p. 84. l. 1. 11. r. Croslets p. 84. l. 17. r. Theobalds p. 86. l. 1. Cromwel p. 114. l. 10. r. chief indented Sable p. 120. 121. the cut of Bacon St. John are one mistaken for the other p. 134. l. 22. r. Agincourt p. 183. the cut in L'estranges Coat should be with the Lions passant not gardant p. 186. l. 9. omitted which r. by John Churchill of Grays Inne Esq and also of Winston Churchill of Mintern in Com. Dorcet Esq p. 188. l. 6. r. Parliament sitting p. 188. l. 32. r. Henry p. 189. l. 27. r. Edmond p. 190. l. 2. r. armed and langued Gules p. 351. l. 6. r. Poplers p. 379. l. 18. r. Cheveron p. 381. l. 9. r. for this brief to brief p. 386 l. 8. r. Sole daughter and Co-heir p. 386. l. 22. 28 r. Staresmore FINIS AN EXACT REGISTER Of all the KNIGHTS of the GARTER together with the Blazons of their severall Coats from the first Installment to the last AS ALSO An Account or Register of the Names and Arms of all the BARONETS OF ENGLAND From the first Institution to the last TO The most illustrious and truly noble the Right Honourable ALGERNON PERCY Earl of Northumberland Lord PERCY LUCY POININGS FITZPAYN BRYAN and LATIMER Companion of the noble Order of the Garter formerly Lord high Admirall of ENGLAND Generall of all the Forces in the Expedition 1640. and one of the Privy Councell to his late Majesty c. This view of the Names and Armes of all the Knights of that Noble Order in whose Registers your Lordships Ancestours have been so eminent and are so frequently Recorded is humbly dedicated to your Honours acceptation by my Lord Your most humble Servant Richard Blome THE Fellowship of the Order of the Garter is of all others by far the most honourable making Knights and sometime those of the lesser Nobility not onely equall to Noble men at home but Companions to Kings themselves and Emperours A fellowship of all the Orders of the Christian World most ancient and famous Encircling all Titles and Degrees of Nobility from the Throne downward as will appear by the following account which Order was first establisht by that victorious Prince King Edward the third in the 23 year of his reign and by him called the blue Garter but commonly the Garter appointing his successours the Kings of England as chief and 25 Knights which he called Fellowes or Companions of the Order of the Garter or St. George whose day viz. 23. April was by them celebrated with much grandeur and magnificence at Windsore the birth-place of that great Prince To omit their Rights and Ceremonies their Statutes and Habits I shall onely note beside their grand Coller they on ordinary dayes are distinguisht and known by a blue Garter whereto on their brest is affixt the figure of Saint George and the Dragon and about their left leg they weare a blue Garter or Band with studs buckles and these French words of Gold HONI SOIT QVI MALY PENSE Much may be said in honour of this great Dignity but let the worth and estimation it had in Europe appear in the following Register by the eminence of the Companions of this great Order An account of whose names and Coat-Armours I shall adventure to give the world as faithfully as I can although there be many whose abilities and name would have been more advantagious to the Work then Fr. Nower AN EXACT REGISTER OF All the KNIGHTS of the GARTER 1. EDWARD the third King of England and France Quarterly France and England viz. Azure semy de Flower de lis Or and Gules three Lions passant gardant Or. 2 Henry Plantaginet sirnamed of Monmouth Duke of Lancaster and the first Duke that ever was created in England England a Label
are Exactly compounded of both Simples Declining more to the one than to the other in an unequal proportion Purpure Colour hath some resemblance of a withered Red-Rose which after long gathering the glorious lustre thereof fading it becometh somewhat blackish as if it were a proportionable commixture of Red and Black together This Colour hath his Denomination of a certain Fish called in Latine Purpara a kind of shell-fish whereof in times past great store have been found near to that famous City of Tyrus scituated next to the Sea coast in the Country of Phoenicia this kind of fish hath in the mouth of it an excellent and precious liquor or juyce of singular use in dying of cloathes the invention and use whereof was first found out by the Tyrians for which cause this Colour is called Tyrius Color They must be taken alive and that chiefly in the Spring season at which time this juyce is most plentifull in them at other seasons it is more scarce They are gathered alive and cast together on a heap that so by their continuall motion they may vent out this rich liquor together with their spirit which done in some near place or other provided for the clean keeping thereof it is taken up and spared for necessary purposes This Colour in ancient time was of that precious esteem as that none but Kings and Princes and their favorites might wear the same as we may see Dan. 5.16 Now if thou canst read the writing and shew me the interpretation thereof thou shalt be cloathed with Purple and shalt have a chain of gold about thy neck Also 1 Macchab. 10.20 And Alexander sent Jonathan a Purple Robe and a Crown of gold And again When his accusers saw his honour as it was proclaimed and that he was cloathed in Purple they fled all away Hereof perhaps it cometh that this Colour is found of so rare use in armoriall signes Moreover it is said And the King commanded that they should take off the garment of Jonathan and cloath him in Purple and so they did 1 Macchab. 10.62 I have purposely for the avoiding of prolixity omitted here to speak of the Elements vertues and complexions which every one of these Metals and colours are respectively resembled unto because Ferne in his Blazon of Gentry hath a large discourse of the same subject to which I refer the Reader SECT I. CHAP. IV. HItherto of Colours and Metals Now of Furs according to the series and course of our distribution before delivered pag. 15. Furres Furres used in Armes are taken for the Skins of certain beasts stripped from the bodies and artificially trimmed for the furring doubling or lining of Robes and Garments serving as well for state and magnificence as for wholesome and necessary use And these thus trimmed and imployed are called in Latine pellicei à pellendo of driving away quite contrary in sense Why called Pellicei though like in sound to pellices à pellicendo for drawing all to them because they doe repell and resist the extremities of cold and preserve the bodies that are covered with them in good temperature Use These are used as well in doublings of the Mantles pertaining to Coat-Armours as in the Coat-Armours themselves Furres do consist either of One colour alone or More colours than one Furres consisting of more than one Colour are either of Two Colours or More than two Such Furres as are compounded of two Colours only are sorted either with Black and are either Black mixt with White as or Ermyne and Ermynes Black mixt with Yellow as Emynois and Pean or without Black such are according to Leigh Verrey scz A. and B. and Verrey Or and Vert Knowledge is no way better or more readily attained than by demonstration Scire enim est per demonstrationem intelligere Ermyne Rule saith Aristotle I will therefore give you particular example of their severall Bearings Master Boswell is of this opinion that Ermyne and Ermynes ought never to be sorted in Armes with the metall of their colour because saith he they are but Furres and have no proper blazon with any metall Yet doth he particularly blazon the Coat of Walcot fol. 106. in the Atchievement of the Right Honourable Lord Sir William Cecil Knight late Lord Treasurer of England where he might fitly have taken exception against such bearing if he could have produced any good ground for warranting such his opinion in default whereof he there passeth the same over with silence knowing that Antiquity and Custome which hath the vigour of a law where there is no law written are powerfull in things of this nature he secretly relinquisheth his opinion forasmuch as it is manifest that not onely Walcot but Kingsmell and many others both ancient and modern hath used such bearing without contradiction There are other sorts of Furs or Doublings consisting also of two onely colours Other Furres which as they are much different in form so doe they also receive a diverse blazon from these before specified which are these that follow and their like Sometimes it was permitted to men grown to years to use a kind of short cloak called Penula in time of wars though it were in substance but sleight and thin For Alexander Severus the Emperour in favour of aged men did grant them a priviledge for wearing of this kind of garments Wolf Lazius lib. 8. The garments of the Tribune of the people and of the Plebeian sect was most commonly this Penula before mentioned like as also was Sagum which was a souldiers Cloak or Cassock and Endormis which was an hairy garment much like an Irish mantle and hood These were apt garments for repelling of cold These were not habits beseeming an Emperour or chief Commander to wear nevertheless we read that Caligula ware oftentime Depictas penulas Alex. lib. 5. Amongst the rest this is to be observed that Consuls were habited sometimes in Coat-Armours called Paludamenta and sometimes in Kirtles called Trabeae which was a kind of garment worn by Kings under their Mantles of State So that they were sometimes said to be Trabeati somtimes to be Paludati according to these severall habits Also the Lictores were Officers that usually attended these Consuls and were like unto Sergeants or Ministers appointed to inflict corporall punishment upon offenders and were most commonly in number twelve These also attended the Consull to the wars invested also with Coat-Armour Concerning those Depictae penulae formerly mentioned they are said to have been in use with Emperours of later ages that were addicted to wantonness and delicacie whereof Tranquillus in Caligula writeth in this manner Vestitu calceatuque caetero habitu neque patrio neque anili ac ne virili quidem ac denique non humano semper usus est saepe depictas gemmatasque Penulas indutus Wolf Lazius in Comment Reip. lib. 8. 857. If you observe the proportion of this vaire you shall easily discern the very shape
markes by the said additions And very seldome should you see in those times Crescents Mollets or such small things borne for a difference or if any such were they were made so large that they might easily be discerned by the distance of forty foot Furthermore the Soveraign estate and dignity being compared with the quality of any Subject the difference will be found so great between them and the one so far surmounting the other of them as that reason it self willeth that so great a difference should be put between the Royall Ensignes and the Armes of a Subject as there is between their estates and degrees sith those Ensigns are the marks of their worthinesse and esteem For these and other respects it hath been and yet still is in use Honorable Ordinaries used for differences that in addition of differences to the Armes of Kings younger children the skilfull Heralds have given some of the Honourable Ordinaries for more apparent distinctions as a Fâ—sse Chief Bend Pile Bordure and such like as we may manifestly see in divers ancient Coats borne by such noble Personages as have descended from the collaterall lines of the Kings of England France Scotland c. Concerning those modern differences before expressed in the form of six rancks page 36. viz. Crescents Mollets Martlets c. Crescents Mollets c. notwithstanding their institution was ingenious yet hath tract of time discovered their use to be dangerous especially in Martiall affaires by reason of their darkness and unapparent formes occasioned by imposition of one difference upon another the perill whereof hath not a little extenuated their estimation Nevertheless their invention is not therefore to be condemned in as much as the events have not fallen out answerable to the intention of their first Deviser Neither can it be therefore justly said to be done without ground of reason as a certain Author noteth Si finis in intellectu operantis sit rationabilis etiamsi non sequatur quod intenditur non idcireo dicitur irrationabiliter operari Here it is to be observed Note No differences for daughters that differences doe in no wayes appertain unto Sisters for that they are reputed to be separated and divided from the Family whereof they are descended in as much as when they are once married they doe lose their own surname and doe receive their denomination from the Family whereof their Husbands are descended And so much doth the word Soror notifie unto us as Sosinus saith Soror est quasi seorsim nata à familia separata Armes of Daughters Why Daughters are not allowed differences To Daughters it is permitted to bear the Armes of their Father even as the elder brother doth after his Fathers decease without any scandall or challenge of their elder brother for that to daughters never were any differences allowed and that for three causes First because their Coats are never or very seldome advanced in the Field forasmuch as to that sex war is reputed odious Secondly for that the Coat-Armour is no longer borne by them than during their life for the same extendeth not to their Issue Lastly because so long as Issue continueth of any of the Brethrens Lines they are debarred from the inheritance Yet in some cases they shall bear the Coat-Armour to them and their heirs as in example If all the issue of the Brethren happen to become extinct then the Daughters shall Inherit the Land of their Ancestor In which case they may therewithall assume his Coat-Armour and bear the same by themselves and their heirs for ever But betwixt those Sisters be allowed no differences or badges of Pedegrees the reason whereof is for that sithence by them the Name of the House cannot be preserved therefore they are admitted to the Inheritance equally and are adjudged but one Heir to all intents and purposes in Lawes as well Martiall as Civill without any eminent prerogative either of Honour or Possesion betwixt Elder and Younger SECT I. CHAP. VII SO much of the Accidents of Armes viz. Tincture and Differences comprehended in the first part of our premised distribution Now of the second member thereof viz. Parts of Armes The parts of Armes are the Escocheon Ornaments without the Escocheon An Escocheon is the form or representation of a Shield of what kind soever and is so called of the Latine word Scutum which hath the same signification whence also an Esquire or Page takes his name of Scutiger signifying primarily a Target bearer And the Target is not unaptly deduced from the Latine word tergus a beasts hide whereof at first Shields were made whereupon Pliny saith Tergus ad scuta galeasque impenetrabile An impenetrable hide fit to make a Shield And the Poet Statius caesis clypeos vestire juvencis With bullocks hides they clad their Shields Whence Virgil calls Ajax his Buckler Septemplex for the seven-fold doublings of leather Camden Brittan as elsewhere he describes a Target-duo taurea terga made of two Oxe hides But the clearest star of our Profession Mr. Clarenceaux takes it from the British word Tarian and that from the French Thireos which Pausanius saith is the Buckler in use amongst the old Gaules If any here should ask me why then Escocheons should be used in Heraldry sith other men are invested with Ensignes of honour besides Martiall men I answer them that as to Military men that token is proper for reward of that kind of service so if others by their Vertues Arts or Actions Escocheon an Hieroglyphike of defence advance either the honour or the welfare of their Countrey their service is as behoovefull as the others and themselves as Defenders or Preservers of their Countries peace and happiness as I have formerly shewed deserve likewise the reward of the Escocheon being the Hieroglyphick or Emblem of defence and preserving In which respect that good Prophet Eliah was called The Chariots and Horsemen of Israel And by the Civill Law Imp. in L. Advoc. C. de Advoc. an Advocate is sayd to be Miles a martiall man and to have the same prerogatives in that they doe civium vitam patrimonium defendere defend the life and livelihood of the Subjects Advocate termed Miles Touching the divers formes of Shields I will not here speak every Country almost having their diverse makings amongst which the smallest were in use amongst our old Britans as being most manageable the greatest amongst the Romans and Grecians as may appear by Alexander who being to passe a river used his Sheild for his Boat and his Spear for his Ruther to guide himself over And it was ever held more dishonorable for a man to lose his Buckler than his sword in field because it is more praise-worthy to defend a friend than to hurt a foe as a Noble Generall once said Mallem unum Civem c. I had rather save one good Subject than kill an hundred enemies The Accidents in this Escocheon are Points
three Waterbougets Argent Bingham Thirteenth Argent a Crosse patee Azure Mâ—lpas Fourteenth Sable three Saltiers engrailed Argent Lexington Fifteenth Argent on a Crosse Gules five Mullets Sable Bodenham Sixteenth Sable three Pick-axes Argent Pigot Seventeenth Argent a Crosse patee Azure a Label Gules Bevercote Over all in an Escocheon of pretence France a Lyon Rampant Or a Cressent for a difference by the name of Beaumont Hereon three Crests first on a Wreath or Torce Or and Azure a Dragons head erased Sable mantled as the Wreath Secondly or middlemost a plume of Feathers Argent and Sable on a Wreath Argent and Azure mantled Azure doubled Argent Thirdly a Foxes head erased Gules on a Wreath Argent and Sable mantled Sable doubled Argent set on three open Helmets befitting the degree of a Knight Motto Fe mid un buen hidalgo being an Anagram of his name thus englished Faith measures a good Cavalier This is the Atchievement of Sir Wingfield Bodenham son of Sir Francis Bodenham son of Sir William Bodenham of Ryhall in the County of Rutland Knights descended of a younger son of Sir John Bodenham of Nonington in the County of Hereford Knight Here you may observe the difference betwixt the Helmet of an Esquire and a Knight being the third degree of Gentry OMNIA DESVPER THe next in order and degree of precedency is an hereditary honour entituled Baronets quasi Petit Barons of whose creation priviledges and other concernments you may be more fully satisfied in a supplement to this Book being a peculiar account of this Order He beareth two Coats quarterly First Or two Lyons Passant Gardant Gules Secondly Or a Fesse Varry between three Cinquefoyles Gules and are both borne by the name of Ducy An Inescocheon with the Armes of Vlster or Tyrone viz. Argent a sinister hand coupee Gules the Crest on a Helmet befitting a Baronet a Chapeau Gules lined Ermine thereon an Estrich rowsant Or Mantled Gules doubled Argent which is the bearing of the Honourable Sir William Ducy of Tortworth in the County of Glocester Baronet heir to his Brother Sir Richard Ducy Baronet deceased sons of Sir Robert Ducy Lord Mayor of London 1630. created Baronet 1629. Nov. 28. Knighted 1631. who by his wife Elizabeth Daughter of Richard Pyot Alderman of London had issue beside the said Sir Richard and Sir William Ducy Robert third son Hugh Ducy fourth Son and John Ducy fifth Son deceased DE BON VOVLOIR SERVIR LE ROY THis is the Atchievement of the Right Honourable William Grey Baron Grey of Warke in the County of Northumberland who was by King James created Baronet June 15. 1619. Son of Sir Ralph Grey of Chillingham in the said County Knight extracted from a long continuation of Knights of eminence and large estates in that County one of whom Sir John Grey was by King Henry the fifth for his good service in France created Earle of Tanquerville there see Vincent This Noble Gentleman was by the said King created Lord Grey of Warke to him and his heirs males 11. Feb. 1623. and is living 1660. he married the virtuous Lady Cecilia eldest Daughter and Co-heir of Sir John Wentworth of Costiel in Suffolk Knighted 1603. created Baronet 1611. by Katharine Daughter of Sir Moyle Finch and Elizabeth Countess of Winchelsey by whom he hath issue living the Honourable Thomas Grey Esquire eldest son Ralph second son and two Daughters Elizabeth and Katharine He beareth Ruby a Lyon Rampant within a Bordure engrailed Pearl by the name of Grey a Scocheon of pretence Diamond a Cheuron between three Leopards heads Topaz by the name of Wentworth For his Creast on a Barons Helmet and Wreath of his colours a Scaling Ladder Topaz the Grapple or iron Hooks Saphire his Supporter on the dexter side a Lyon gardant Purple purfled and crowned Topaz on the sinister side a Cat-a-mountain Proper viz. greyish erect on a Scroll therein his Lordships Motto De bon Vouloir Servir Le Roy. DIEV DEFENDE LE DROIT THis was the Atchievement of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Spenser Knight Baron Spenser of Wormeleiton in the County of Warwick deceased father of William now Baron Spenser which Robert Lord Spenser was most worthily advanced to that degree by our late Soveraign Lord King James Anno regni sui primo in regard of his Lordships many Noble vertues be fitting that Dignity who bare eight Coats marshalled in one Shield as followeth viz. First quarterly Pearle and Ruby the second and third charged with a Fret Topaz over all on a Bend Diamond three Escalops of the first being the ancient Coat belonging to this noble Family as a branch descended from the Spensers Earles of Gloucester and Winchester The second is Saphire a Fesse Ermine between six Sea-mewes heads erased Pearl born also by the name of Spenser The third is Ruby three Stirrops leathered in Pale Topaz by the name of Deverell The fourth is Topaz on a Crosse Ruby five Stars Pearl by the name of Lincolne The fifth is Pearl a Cheuron between three Cinquefoiles pierced Ruby by the name of Warsteede The sixth is Ermine on a Cheuron Ruby five Beisants a Cressant in chief of the second by the name of Graunt The seventh is Pearl on a bend between two Lyons Rampand a Wiverne with the wings overt of the first by the name of Rudings The eighth and last is party per Cheuron Saphire and Topaz three Lyoncels passant gardant counter-changed a chief Pearl by the name of Catlyn all within the Escocheon And above the same upon a Helmet fitting the degree of a Baron a Mantle Ruby doubled Pearl thereupon within a Crown Topaz a Griffons head with wings displayed Pearl gorged with a Gemew Ruby And for his Supporters on the Dexter side a Griffon parted per fesse Pearl and Topaz gorged with a Collar Diamond charged with three Escalops Pearl whereunto is affixed a Chain reflected over his loynes Diamond Armed Ruby And on the Sinister side a Wiverne Pearl gorged also with a Collar whereunto is affixed a Chain reflexed over the hinder parts Diamond His Motto DIEV DEFENDE LE DROIT God defend the right being a worthy testimony both of his own honourable affection to right and equity and also of his Lordships repose and confidence not in the assistance of earthly honour and wealth but in the only providence of the all-righteous and all-righting God This noble Lord was a president and patern of all honourable vertues munificence and affection to Heroick profession and knowledge I out of the obligation of my devoted mind thought it best to produce his Coat-Armour as â—e patern of all other Atchievements of that degree Of Barons THe reason of the name of Barons is not so well known in England as is their greatness Some derive it from a Greek word Baru signifying Gravity as being men whose presence should represent that which their Title doth imply The French Heralds take Barons to be Par-homines Peeres or men of equall dignity