deeds in the possession of the late right honorable Gilbert Earl of Shrewbury doth appear Bernards Inne Beareth party per pale indented Ermin and Sab. a Cheveron Gul. fretty This house was in the thirteenth year of the reign of King Henry the sixth a messuage belonging to one John Mackworth then Dean of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln and in that time in the holding of one Lyonel Bernard who next before the conversion thereof into an Inne of Chancery dwelt there And it hath ever since retained the name of Bernards Inne or Bernards house Staple Inne Port de vert un pacquet de doyne Arg. This House was sometimes belonging to the English Merchants of the Staple as it hath been by ancient Tradition held It is of late adorned with a convenient large Garden-plot to walk in and is at this day rightly esteemed for the most ample and beautifull Inne of Chancery within this Academy Clifford's Inne Reareth Checky Or Azure of fesse Gul. within a bordure of the third charged with a Bezanet This House albeit it followeth in an after rank from the former yet it is worthy to be reputed amongst the formest as being in reputation with the best both for conveniency and quiet situation thereof as for worth and good government It was also sometime the dwelling house of Maccoln de Hersey and came to the King for debts and was after sometimes the house of the Lord Clifford as by Inquisition which was taken that year and remaining on Record doth appeare which hath these words Isabella quae fuit Roberti Clifford 〈◊〉 cum pertinent quod Robertus habuit in parochia Sancti Dunstani West ' in suburb Londini c. tenuit illud demisit post mortem dicti Roberti 〈◊〉 de Bancho pro 〈◊〉 l. per annum c. ut pat per Inquisitionem cap. 18. Edwardi 3. post mortem dict Roberti Clifford This House at this day is the Inheritance of that antient and right honorable family of Cliffords Earls of Cumberland for which there is an annual Rent still rendered to the Earles of Cumberland for the time being Clements Inne Beareth Argent Anchor without a stock in pale proper entertaining a C. for Clement into the body thereof This House sometimes was a messuage belonging to the Parish Church of St. Clement Danes from whence it took its denomination neer to this house is that Fountain which is called Clements Well This Anchor is engraven in stone over the gate of the first entrance into the house and is an Hieroglyphick figuring thereby that Pope Clement as he was Pope was reputed Caput Ecclesiae Romanae for the Roman Priesthood or Anchorage of Christendome figured by the Anchor and by the text C. the Sacerdotal dignity Some hold that the device of the Anchor was rather invented upon this reason of the Martyrdome of Pope Clement as Jacobus de Voragia writeth that he received his Martyrdome being bound to a great Anchor and cast into the Sea by the command of the Emperor Trajane New Inne Beareth Vert a Flower-pot Arg. maintaining Jully flowers Gules This house is so called by reason of its then late or new Creation being in the reign of King Henry the seventh therefore the same is not of late a foundation as some imagine which is that the late dissolution of Strond Inne being by the Duke of Somerset Uncle to King Edward the sixth this house in lieu thereof was instituted for the dispersed Gentlemen Professors and Students of the Common Laws of this Realm It is certain that Sir Thomas Moor Knight Lord Chancellor of England in the reign of King Henry the seventh was a fellow student of this Society and in the reign of King Henry the eighth removed his study into that of Lincolns Inne This house was sometimes called by the name of our Ladies Inne for that the Picture of our Lady was pourtraicted at the doore thereof And in the reign of King Edward the fourth was 〈◊〉 by Sir John Fyncaullxe Knight Chief Justice of England or of the Kings Bench or 6. l. per annum wherein he placed Students and practisers of the Common Lawes who before that time had a house in the 〈◊〉 Bayly called St. Georges Inne the passage thereunto was over against St. Sepulchers Church and by some is reputed to be the first and most ancient of all other Innes of Chancery but the same house at this day is converted into severall Tenements and Garden plots Lyons Inne Beareth Checkie Or and Arg a Lyon Saliant Sab. langued and armed Gules This house received its foundation of modern time and lately before the acquiring thereof it was a dwelling house known by the name of the Black Lyon and in the reign of King Henry the seventh was purchased by divers Gentlemen Students and Professors of the common Lawes The first Treasurer of this Society was one John Bidwell The greatest number of this Society are the natives of the West parts viz Devonshire and Cornwall but for the most part Devonshire Gentlemen Chesters Inne or Strond Inne Beareth Azure within a bordure Gules three garbes Or in a bend of the second In the reign of King Henry the eighth this house for that Sir Bevis St. Marrour Knight Duke of Somerset kept there his Court was an Inne of Chancery called Strond Inne and before that time belonged to the Bishop of Chester after to the Bishop of Worcester and unto the Bishop of Landaffe with the Parochiall Church of St. Maries adjoyning thereunto All which were swallowed up in An Dom. 1549. for to build an ample and spacious Edifice to the use of the said Duke the maternall Uncle to King Edward the sixth The Six Clerkes Office otherwise called Riderminster's Inne Beareth Azure two Cheveronels Or between three Bezants Arg. charged with eight pellets This House though it be not saluted by the name of an Inne of Chancery as the others are which are of like name and nature yet is the same more properly to be called an Inne of Chancery then any of the rest for that the Chancery Officers do there reside namely Attourneys commonly called the Six Clerks of the Chancery and are to this day a society of Gentlemen well learned in the Laws These were at the first Sacerdotall and therefore called Clerks And in those days when the Institution of them was first established they were all of them Church-men This house was acquired and gotten for the society by one John Riderminster Esquire a member thereof who in his time was a very skilfull and well Learned man and both faithfull and just as well to his Client as to his friend It was antiently the Inne or the Mansion of the Abbot of Norton in Lincolnshire and since that time it hath been the dwelling-house of one Andrew Hersfleet and is most proper to be called an Inne of Chancery for the Officers of Chancery only reside there the House is situate in Chancery lane where the causes appertaining to
Ensign of Regall Authority was the Scepter which is every where spoken of both in the Scriptures and profane Stories There is another Ensign of their Authority which is a Globe with a Cross in use amongst us ever since Edward the Confessor which is placed in the left hand as is seen in most of their Coyns the Cross denoting his Faith and the Globe his Empire both by Sea and Land as it is said of Justinian who was the first Emperor that ever had it At the Coronation of the Emperor it is carried by the Count Palatine of the Rhine where they call it Pomum Imperiale This power dignity and state hath been enjoyed by the Female sex as heirs descending by the common right of Inheritance and not onely in our parts but many others as at this day in Swethen when there is not the least punctilio of a diminution in respect of the Sex Besides for an addition to the honor of a King there is the same state allowed to a Queen during the life of her husband as to a Queen absolute almost and is allowed a Crown She is called Queen from the Saxon word Cuningine as King from Cuning onely by variation of the gender as it was their manner in such cases She is permitted to sit in State at the King 's right hand and to keep a Court distinct from the King although she be but the daughter of an Earl But this was in the time of King Edgbert prohibited and so for a long time continued by reason of Eadburgh who poysoned her husband King Brithick of the West-Saxons And if she be the daughter of a King Superior to her husband she may retain the dignity of her father's daughter and in this case the daughter hath preceded the mother And although in these latter times our Monarchy hath been reduced under the circumference of one Crown Imperiall no others having any other substitute Governors crowned Yet formerly both Scotland and Ireland had King's distinct whilst they acknowledged homage to the Crown of England as also the isles of Man and Wight The Kings of Man were first subject to the Kings of Norway then to the Crown of England and after to the Kings of Scotland and since again to the Kings of England Dominus hujus Insulae Rex vocatur cui fas est Corona aurea coronari The Lord of the Isle is called King and it is lawfull for him to be crowned with a Crown of gold Henry the second allowed with the same honor Roderig of Conaght to be King paying a homagery Tribute The Lord Beauchamp Earl of Warwick under Henry the sixth was in the like manner crowned King of the Isle of Wight Which is enough in this place as to the Dignity of a King Of the Emperor THe originall of this Title as it was long amongst the Romans denoted onely a Generall of an Army and not till the time of Julius Caesar translated to an honorary Title who being made perpetuall Dictator took also that of Imperator into his Title which hath continued in his Successors untill this day and became Superior to the Title of King that before was but substitute under it being yearly created in January and ended in September Which great change hapned upon the Victory of Caesar against Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalia This Title was onely taken up to supply that of King which had not long before been thrown out by Brutus and was supposed by the Usurper to be yet fresh in their memories and odious amongst them and it was long after before they used the Title of King though their power were as much and the Ceremonies and Ensignes of Regality the same and the Emperor's Throne at Rome was called Sedile regni But at last it grew to be as one and then the Emperor of Rome having subjected under his Jurisdiction many Kingdoms thought it however a title of more eminence and so retained it And though the title has not been so generally appropriated to our Crown yet our Kings have been styled Emperors and this Realm of England called an Empire So have the Kings of Spain and France But it is more peculiarly allowed or assumed by the Emperors of Germany who suppose that they have a right to the government of the whole world This Empire after it was divided to Constantinople and Rome and then again that Constantinople had lost it to the Turks it was removed to Germany and in the reign of Otho the third the Election granted to seven Princes of Germany the Archbishops of Mentz Trevers Cullen the Count Palatine of Rhine the Duke of Saxony the Marquesse Brandenburgh and the King of Bohemia then called Duke of Bohemia He hath had also the Superiority allowed him by all Secular Princes and whereas other Princes of Regall Authority are crowned with but one Crown he is with three the first of Iron which he receives of the Bishop of Cullen at Aquisgrane the second of Silver which he receives at Modena from the Bishop of Millan the third is of Gold wherewith he is crowned at Rome by the Pope And in latter Ages the title of King of the Romans is given to the Heir or him that is made or chosen Heir of the Empire and he is crowned and Jura Regalia given him though not so absolute as not to have a dependence on the Empire See Mr. Selden part 2. chap 1. The Ensignes of his Imperiall Dignity are a Crosse a Launce and a Sword a Scepter a Mond and a Crown and he is styled 〈◊〉 The Emperor of Russia is not Crowned but is adorned with a rich Cap of Purple neither is the Greek Sultan but vested with a mighty rich Tulipant But there though the Emperor have no Diadem yet the Sultanesse is adorned with a Rich Crown or Diadem Thus have I run through all the degrees of Honor and with as much brevity as so copious a Theam would allow of and for matter of precedency I think the method I have taken will save me the labour and I am unwilling to trouble the brains of the Ingenuous Reader with an unnecessary prolixity onely as to Offices of State because I have omitted them altogether I shall set down their places as in Princely Solemnities they are to be disposed In which those of the Crown are to precede all other of the Nobility that are not except the Blood Royall As the Lord Chancellor Lord Treasurer Lord President of the Privy Councel Lord Privy Seal These six also are placed next the Lord Privy Seal thus according to their state of dignity that is If he be a Baron to sit above all Barons if an Earl above all Earls Lord Great Chamberlain of England Lord High Constable of England Lord Marshall of England Lord Admirall of England Lord Great Master or Steward of the King's House Lord Chamberlain of the King's House So the King 's principall Secretary being a
summoning of the Commons was in the 49. year of Henry the third The style of the Statutes running after this manner The King hath Ordained and Established these Acts underwritten c. First The King willeth and commandeth that c. Signifying the power of enacting to force and penalty was derived from the Volumus of the King not the Vote of the Lords and Commons their consent only making it of more vigour against themselves If it were an Act of Indulgence or relief to the Common-wealth it run thus Our Lord the King of his speciall Grace and for the affection that he bears unto his Prelates Earls and Barons and others of his Realm hath granted that c. And sometimes Our Soveraign Lord the King hath granted and commanded at the Instance of the Nobles of this Realm c. No mention at all being made of the consent of the Lords and Commons Then afterwards thus they run Our Lord the King by the Counsel of his Prelats Earls Barons other great men Nobles of his Kingdom in his Parliament hath Ordained 〈◊〉 c. An. 33. Edward the first 1307. and so along in other Statutes the Commons not at all mentioned in the enacting any Statute but as thus in the beginning of Edward the third At the request of the Commons of this Realm by their Petition made before him and his Councel in the Parliament by the assent of the Prelates Earls and Barons c. Untill the 23. of this Kings reign in a Statute of Labourers I find the Commons not mentioned and then the power of Ordination given to the Statute still by the King as thus It is ordered by our Lord the King by the assent of the Prelates Farls Barons and other great men and all the Commons of the Realm summoned to this Parliament c. And in one Act of the same King the style runs thus The King of his own will without motion of the Great men or Commons hath granted and Ordained in ease of his people c. And then to signifie the Constitution of the Commons in Parliament See the 37. of Edward the third where the Statute runs thus The King at his Parliament c. at the request of the Commons and by the assent of the Prelates Dukes Earls and Barons and other Great men there assembled hath Ordained c. and at the prayer of the Commons c. In which style most of the Statutes run untill Henry the eight And for provision of the choyce of the Commons in a Statute of the 23. of Hen. 6. is set down the form of Writ by which they are summoned where it is also enacted That the Knights of the Shires for Parliament hereafter to be chosen shall be naturall Knights or otherwise such naturall Esquires or Gentlemen of the same County as shall be 〈◊〉 to be Knights And every Knight that is elected ought to be a resident of the place for which he is elected and every man that is an Elector ought to have forty shillings of free-hold within the said County and for the security of it the Sheriffe hath power to put them to an Oath upon the Evangelist and the Election ought to be betwixt the hours of eight and nine in the Forenoon and so of Burgesses The form of the Writ is this Rex Vic' c. Salutem Quia nostri 〈◊〉 pro quibusdam arduis ur gentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernent ' quoddam Parliamentum nostrum Westm. 12. die Novemb. proxim ' futur ' teneri Ordinavimus ibidem 〈◊〉 Magnatibus Proceribus domus regni nostri colloquium habere tractare Tibi praecipimus firmiter injungentes quod facta Proclamatione in proximo tuo post receptionem hujus literis nostris tenend ' die loco predicto duos milites gladiis cinctis magis idoneos discret ' Com' praedict ' c. electionem illam in distincte apertè sigillo tuo sub sigillis eorum qui electioni illi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bis in Cancellaria nostra locum certisices 〈◊〉 And still before they came up to the House they signed Indentures to be true and faithfull to their King and Country and the service thereof upon a penalty even to the last long Parliament of eternall infamy And in the third of Queen Elizabeth it was enacted in full Parliament for the safety of the Queen's Majesty her Heirs and Successors and the dignity of the Imperiall Crown of England for the avoiding both of such hurts perills dishonor and inconveniencies as have before time befallen that not only all persons should take the Oath of Supremacy upon divers penalties in that Act specified But also every Knight Citizen and Burgesse of the Parliament should take the said Oath before he entred into the said House or had any voyce there else he should be deemed no Knight Citizen or Burgesse for that Parliament nor have any voyce but shall be to all intents constructions and purposes as if he had never been Returned nor Elected for that Parliament and shall suffer all pains and penalties as if he had presumed to sit in the same without Election Return or Authority And by King James the Oath of Allegiance was added Yet notwithstanding all this limitation upon the Commonalty Parliaments in England were ever esteemed since Magna Charta the greatest liberty of the Subject none else indeed being dreamt of And as it is as great a flower of the Crown to summon Parliaments as foedera bellum indicere to make War and Leagues which is so absolute that it is resolved by all the Judges of the Land that the King may before he is Crowned if by descent the Crown be his right summon a Parliament or within age as was seen in King Henry the sixth who summoned divers Parliaments in his 1 2 3 4 5 6. years of his reign yet was not Crowned till the eighth He being then essentially King without any Ceremony or Act ex post facto and Coronation but a Royall Ornament So the priviledges of Parliament and of the Common-wealth by Parliament are as great for though we thus see the great Prerogative of a King yet many things there are which a King in his own Kingdome cannot do without a Parliament by the Laws by which he hath bound himself as the making any man hereditable or the altering the Common Law or Customs of the Realm though by his absolute authority he may commit any man to Prison during his pleasure Therefore every Parliament-man during the time of the Parliament is priviledged from all disturbance of arrest for debt or the like and the servants of any Parliament man as much as the Kings are And to this Parliament for the further security of the good of the Common-wealth were ever admitted certain Judges of the Land though
very great and plain for in some places they say it was the Queen's Garter and if so what needed then the Motto But most commonly they say it was the Countesse of Salisburies ' whom they name sometimes Alice and sometimes Joan when her name was Katherine and Mistris and after wife to the Black Prince Son of the said King as is well observed in Heylyn's History of St. George By which Froysart's error must appear very perspicuous who was the first and most eminent Author of this mighty fable Mounsier Favin in his Theater of Honor quotes Froysart and Polydore Virgil for the like account But I am apt to collect another reason from Mr. Selden's discourse an authority that I think needs no Apology and to think Edward the third being to engage a field gave St. George for the word long time before the Patron-Saint of England in which battail he gained a great victory which was about the year 1349. and at his return in the year one thousand three hundred and fifty established thisOrder to the honor of St George which agrees with the black Book of Windsor that Chronologizes it on the three and twentyeth day of April in the year one thousand three hundred and fifty being the three and twentyeth of that King's Reign And I understand not but that the addition of the Gartet might be after added to the Ensignes of the Order for the firstEnsign together with the Robes was the Crosse of Saint George yet in use amongst them And some do adde that the Garter was from a Martiall rise also as that a leather-garter upon the left leg was a mark given to some of the eminent Commanders with promise of enriching it on those that performed honorably in the charge For the account of the time according to other Authors it is left disputable Mr. Selden takes notice of some of the French Authors that affirm it to be erected in Anno 1344. yet after his victories as in the relations of the same Froysart and Thomas of Walsingam And Polydore Virgil to whom Favin subscribes will have it in An. 1347. Yet in another place he sets it down in the year one thousand three hundred and forty four Oportet mendacem memorem esse And one other observation I collect from some of these Authors that the Order was established before either of these passages only as a Seminary to draw other Knights of the world into these parts which caused the French King to do the like the same year of another Order by way of prevention this is averred by some Which is I conceive by other circumstances a mistake upon a Just or Turnment proclaimed by the said King Edward about the year one thousand three hundred forty and four in all places beyond the Seas to be held at Windsor about which time he caused to be built a very large round table for the entertaining of such Princes and Persons of great quality as should repair thither when the Earl of Salisbury was so bruised at the Justing that he dyed At the news of which meeting the French King sodainly after did the like to obstruct the concourse of great soldiers and honorable Personages that this would have produced The patron of this order is St. George who suffered Martyrdome at Nicomedia and was buryed at Lydda in Capadocia according to Dr. Heylin but Mr. Selden sayes he suffered at Lydda under Diocletian about the 〈◊〉 of Christ one hundred and ninty Whose fame was so great in the world that many Temples were built to his name as that of Justinian in Armenia and in Venice the chief Church for the Grecians Jo. Eucaitensis built a Monastery to the honor of St. George in the time of Constantine Into which the Emperors after were wont to make a solemn procession every Saint Georges day In Carinthia there is an Order of Knighthood of St. George in very much esteem And Eusebius speaks also of another Order of St. George among the Greeks whose Ensign is a red Crosse with this Motto Sub hec signo vinces begun by Constantiue the Great When first it came into this Nation is by the best Antiquaries left disputed but that he hath been long honored as Patron-Protector of England is proved by all and by Mr. Selden before the Conquest The three and twentyeth day of April being constantly celebrated to his memory And it is no marvail saith the same Author that so warlike a Nation should chuse to themselves the name of such a souldier Saint known by the particular name of Tropheophorus and of greater eminence in both the Eastern and Western Churches then any other Souldier-Saint The Soveraign of this order is the King of England the number of the Fellowship is twenty six besides the Soveraign of which when any of them dye the place is to be supplyed by another elected by the Soveraign with the consent of the Fraternity as it was antiently chosen and estalled at Windsor but since it is referred to the entire disposing of the King They have many Articles confirmed to which all that are enstalled subscribe and have an oath to which they swear that to their power during the time they shall be fellows of the Order they will defend the honor quarels rights and Lordships of the Soveraign and that they will endeavour to preserve the honor of the said Order and all the Statutes of it without fraud or covin Quinam perjurati The Officers of the Order are a Prelate which is alwayes the Bishop of Winchester a Chancellor Register a King of Arms called Garter and an Usher called the Black Rod added by Henry the eighth Their habit is a Cassock of Crimson Velvet and a Mantle of Purple Velvet lined with white Sarcenet on the left shoulder whereof is an Escutcheon of S. George embroydered within a Garter with the Motto the Escutcheon is Argent a plain Crosse Gules Above all about the neck they wear a collar of the Order weighing thirty ounces of Gold Troy weight composed of Garters and Knots enamel'd and with Roses red and white and since the coming in of King James there hath been an intermixture of Thistles At this collar hangeth the Image of St. George on horseback enriched with precious stones And about the left leg they wear a Garter enamelled and enriched with gold pearl and stones of great value with the same Motto of Hony soit qui mal y pens For their ordinary Ensign they wear a blew ribbon over their left shoulder and another on their left leg and a Star of silver embroy dery on the same side of their cloak with the Scutcheon of St. George in the Center of it And sometimes at their Ribbon a George also and then they wear it about their necks Their feast is yearly at Windsor Castle on St. Georges day In which place upon the foundation of it was a Church erected with Dean and Prebends as also thirteen poor
challenge him he should first right the Lady and then perform the 〈◊〉 or if a chalenge preceded such other accident it was at their pleasure which to undertake first and many more such which would be too tedious for this place They are at large in Mauchaut Sieur de Roman ville his history of Boucicat Of Military Orders in Spain Of the Order of the Lilly THis Order was erected in 〈◊〉 by Garcia the sixth of the name surnamed Naiera in honor of the Virgin Mary and upon a miracle so great as might make this Lilly one of the primest flowers in her little garden The substance of it this The King having been very sick in the extremity of his disease sent to St. Saviour de Leyra and other places of devotion that prayers and interercessions might be made for his recovery In which time was discovered in the City of Naiera where ordinarily he kept Court the Image of the Virgin Mary issuing out of a Lilly holding her Son berwixt her arms And suddenly after the discovery of this the King recovered his health and many other miracles were done on diseased people in that place as supposed by vertue of the Virgin Mother whom they tearmed the Lilly of the Vallyes In honor whereof the said King erected this Order and made himself Soveraign of it and his Sucessors after him These Knights did wear on their breasts a Lilly embroydered in silver and on festivall dayes a double chain of gold interlaced with letters M after the manner of the Gotish letter with an Oval meddal hanging at it with a Lilly enamelled Knights of San Jago or St. James THis was erected by the resolution of Gentlemen being either Barons or men of great quality that jupon the conquering of their Country by the Arabians retired into the Mountains of Asturia and residing there made an engagement of War against the Moors agreeing upon religious Rules of Knighthood yet reserving to themselves liberty of marriage but this Order Favin speaks to be erected by Alphonso the ninth an 1158. and that it was confirmed in 1175 by Pope Alexander the third Their Governor is called great Master their feast is on All-Saints day when they meet in very great magnificence having very great revenues their Ensign a red Crosse shaped like a Sword with an Escollop's shell on it in imitation of the badge of the Pilgrims that go to Jerusalem and to the Sepulchre of St. James the Apostle Now the great Master of this Order hath alwayes neer him thirteen Knights where ever he goes for his aid and Councill and so all the other Orders in Spain Of the Order of Calatrava THis was begun an 1158. in imitation of that of St. Jago by Don Sanctio the third King of Toledo and it takes it name from the place of its establishment their habit is a black garment and on the breast thereof a red Crosse they have many great priviledges and possessions in Spain the form of their Crosse is set down in the end of this discourse which if we will believe Monsieur Favin and Aubertus Maereus is quite another then that which Sir William Segar describes Knights of Alcantara THese also derive their denomination from the place of their institution and living under the same orders with those of Calatrava doe wear the same fashioned Crosse only the Colour is green They have a very glorious Church at Alcantara in Castiglia upon the river Tago endowed with rich possessions where their great meetings are These were first of the order of St. Julian called the order of the Pear-tree Ferainando the second King of 〈◊〉 and Gallicia being the first great Master 1176. Knights of the Band. SIR William Segar attributes the originall of this Ordsr to Alphonso King of Spain an 1268. But Favin sets it down in an 1330. from the testimony of Don Antonio de Guevara Bishop of Mondognedo But by the same person Alphonso the eleventh of which Order that it might receive the more reputation he enrolled himselfe and his Son And yet as Favin sayes None were to be admitted but younger brothers and mean Gentlemen of poor and slender sufficiency who must have been ten years followers of the Court or at the least had fought three times against the Moors They wear a red Scarfe or Ribon crosse the left shoulder like our Knights of the Bath the breadth of three inches Their articles are too many to be inserted here Sir William Segar and Favin have them at large D' Avis in Portugal THere was an Order in Portugal erected in the year 1147. called D' Avis by Alphonso the first who were seatrd in the City Ebora and so called from the Virgin Mary being Patronesse of the City They had a great Master and were called Fratres and the place of their convention was called Frieria Their Ensign is the same Crosse with Calatrava vert and in the centre of it a Pear-tree Of the Order of Jesus Christ. SInce in the year 1320. was erected another Order of more esteem amongst the Portugals called of Jesus Christ by Dionysius King of that Country and nephew to Alphonso the tenth of Castile to which Order was given much of the revenue of the Knights Templars that lay in that Countrey the Kings of Portugal are ever the Soveraigns of the Order to this day The Ensign of the Order is a red crosse surmounted or intersected with another white on a black vestment and they have many priviledges and Articles amongst them Of this order was Don Pantaleon Brother to the Portugal Embassadour who was beheaded at Tower-Hill July 10. 1654. Knights of Montesia THis order was much about the time of those of Calatrava and received their name from the place of their residence in Valentia and do wear for their Ensign a plain crosse Gules This order was established in the year 1317. and had much of the revenue of the Knights Templars also setled on them Knights of Redemption THese Knights called of Redemption were erected by James King of Aragon upon the conquering the Islands of Majorica in the year 1212. Their Articles are many but the chief is they are to redeem prisoners from whence their title is derived their habit is a white garment with a black crosse and their Governour is alwayes resident at Barcco na D'Espuella D' Orada or Of the Goldeu Spnr. THere is another Order in Spain of far more honor called 〈◊〉 D' Espuella D' Orada Which was created with much ceremony as bathing like our Knights of the Bath then being laid on a rich bed after brought to the Chappel or Church where he performs his Vigils confesses and supplicates for power to observe the duty belonging to the order then his gold spurs are put on and a sword girt about him and the sword being drawn is delivered into his right hand in which posture standing he takes an Oath never to refuse to dye
much honor of all men and maintained out of the Publique Treasury In Rome and most other places they carryed as Ensignes of their Office 〈◊〉 Rods in imitation of the Poeticall fiction of Mercury who is styled the Herald of the Gods those of Rome wreathed with two Serpents and the ancient Druides of wreaths of Vervine imitating the same In France where a long time this office hath been in much honor not only 〈◊〉 St. Dennis the principal King of Arms but the other Heralds and Pursevants are to be of noble 〈◊〉 and Mountjoy to be of three descents as well of his Fathers as of his Mothers side of Noble linage and Coat-Armor Their Office or Colledge is in the Church of St. Anthony the lesse in Paris And they are allowed the priviledge of entrance into any Prince's Court and an injury offered to them is a publique injury in all parts of the world But I do not finde they were in this 〈◊〉 and establishment till the time of Philip de Valloys The revenues of them in France was very great as to Mountjoy in particular 2000. l. Lands in free tenure and 1000 pound per annum stipend as Favin relates And the others 1000 pound per annum stipend besides other profits and they are many besides their priviledges are very great which in the same Author are at large set down in which Author I cannot but observe the ridiculousnesse of their humor in the christening of their Pursevants for they call it christening and the Ceremony is performed with the powring a pot of Wine on their heads they name them at their own pleasure and some they call Plain-way Jolly-heart No-lyar Tell-troth Chearfulnesse Fair-seeming Loftyfoot and the like But to come neerer to our own concernment I think to proceed with the same Office in our own Nation where they are now in lesse esteem I confesse then they have been in former ages yet have ever been honored with messages between Potentates for matter of Honor and Arms. Ceremoniarum Ministri as in the Coronation of Kings and Queens enstalment of Princes and creation of Noble dignities of honor in Triumphs Justs Combats Marriages Christenings Interments and to attend all solemn Assemblies of State and honor and by some of them ought the proclamations of all great matters of State to be promulged causes of Chivalry and Gentility are referred to their care as in the right of bearing of Arms in Shields Scutcheons Targets Banners Penons Coats and such like correcting of Arms in visitations and observing descents and pedigrees of Noblemen and Gentlemen They are the Protonotaries Griffiers and Registers of all acts and proceedings in the Court of the High 〈◊〉 and Lord Marshall of Engiand or of such as have their authority and in their books and Records they are to preserve to perpetuall memory all facts and memorable designments of honor and Arms. They have been long establisht in England but I find not that they were incorporated into a Collegiate Society till Richard the third's time when they were incorporated by Charter and placed at Coleharbor from whence they often removed untill they became setled where now at this time they are placed by the honorable endeavour of that Illustrious family of the Howards formerly Dukes of Norfolk and Earls Marshals of England the house being before called Darby house Which was established to them in the time of King Philip and Queen Mary and in these tearms incorporated by the names of Garter King of Arms of England Clarenceux King of Arms of the South parts and the Heralds and Pursevants for ever and to have and use a common Seal to purchase Lands to sue and be sued by Edward the sixth in his third year granted them many priviledges viz. In these words Forasmuch as sundry records and testimonies of great antiquity and of no lesse credit have now lately reduced to our perfect knowledge the Kings of Armes Heralds and 〈◊〉 of Arms elected as persons vertuous and for their good qualites knowledge and experience to serve in the affairs of the Common-wealth have been alwayes heretofore by Emperors Kings and Princes of Christian Realms upon most worthy and just considerations not only maintained and supported as well with yearly stipends and pensions as daily profits advantages and commodities sufficient to the necessity of the decent and convenient living of them and theirs in honest state Which daily profits advantages and commodities are now lately much decayed to their hindrance especially in this our Realm but also have been by the said Emperors Kings and Princes enriched and adorned time out of mans memory with divers kinds of priviledges liberties and franchises as among others that they and every of them be free exempt quite and discharged not only from subsidies dismes fifths tenths reliefs contributions taxes profits grants benevolences and generally from all other manner of charges as well in time of War as Peace in all such Realms and Dominions wherein they made their demour but also in all Market Towns and all other places from Tolls Fines Customes Impositions and Demands and aswell from Watch and Ward in all Cities Towns and Castles Borroughs and Villages and from the election or appointment to any Office of Mayor Sheriff Bayliffe Constable Scavenger Church-warden or any other publick Office in Citties Towns Castles 〈◊〉 and Villages whatsoever And forasmuch also as we understand all Kings of Arms Heralds c. have alwayes heretofore from the beginning of the Office of Arms enjoyed and do presently enjoy all and singular the priviledges liberties and franchises aforesaid with many other in all Christian Realms without any disturbance 〈◊〉 or molestation We therefore considering the same and earnestly minding as well the advancement of the said Office of Arms as the quiet and honest supportance of our Servants and Ministers thereof do of our speciall Grace certain knowledge and meer motion by the advice and consent of our most dearly beloved Uncle Edward Duke of Somerset and our Protector of our Realms and Dominions and Subjects and of the rest of our Councel by these 〈◊〉 not only confesse and generally approve give grant and confirm to the said Kings Heralds c. and to every of them and their successors for ever for us and our Successors all and singular the premises before recited although here not recited as have been of honorable antiquity upon just 〈◊〉 to them granted by Emperors Kings and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 right famous memory heretofore But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 especially by these presents pardon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 utterly for us and our heires release the said Kings of Arms Heralds c. aswell all 〈◊〉 sums of money and demands whatsoever 〈◊〉 assessed c. The Officers are thus distinguished Kings of Arms Garter General indefinite Of the south p. of Eng. Beyond Trent northw 〈◊〉 Norroy Heralds York sometimes styled Dukes of Arms. 〈◊〉 Windsor Lancaste Richmond Chester Pursevants Portcullis  Blewmantle  Raugh dragon  〈◊〉 croixe Â
several by distance of place yet held to be but one entire Society or Confraternity by the name of Brethren The Arms of these two Innes of Judges and Serjeants First Gules two Garbs in Saltyre Or bands Azure The Second Or an Ibis proper which is a bird neer the colour of a Jay Next to the two Serjeants Innes in order are the four Innes of Court that is to say Inner Temple Middle Temple Lyncolns Inne Grayes Innne And first of the two houses or Societies which are called by the name of Temples or the Templars Inne The Middle Temple beareth for distinction Argent on a plain crosse Gules the holy Lamb 〈◊〉 The said two Temples or the Templars Inne are of any other of the Innes of Court the the most renowned and famous for antiquity They were at the prime and in their original but one entire foundationand body But in processe of time became divided at first founded by a religious and devout Order of Souldiers called Templarii that is to say Templars Which Knights within the Kingdome of England purchased to themselves certain Lands in Fleetstreet bordering upon the shore of the River Thames and thereon wit hin a short time built a large Edifice and withall a round Synagogue like unto a Chappel or Temple as it is now standing and was by Heraclius Patriarch of Jerusalem Anno Dom. 1185. dedicated to the service of God In which place these Templars by the space of one hundred years lived in great honor and opulency enjoying large possessions and those situate in the best places of the Realm the like they had in other places the Prelate of which Order was ever a Baron of England Now after the suppression of these Knights Templars their Colledge or Hostel came to the hands of Thomas Plantagenet Earl of Lancaster who being attainted for Disloyalty and Treason the same became invested to the Crown And afterwards the Earls Hugo le Dispencer Earl of Chester obtained the possession of the same house who for the like transgression was justly attained also and then it came to Damare de Valence Earl of Pembrook the Lusignian family in France who lodged therein but for a small season so that in the reign of Edward the third the Sages and worthy professors of the Common Laws of this Realm obtained a long lease of this house for 10. l. per annum A third part whereof called the outward Temple one Doctor Stapleton Bishop of Exeter in the dayes of King Edward the second procured for a residing Mansion to him and his successors Bishops of that See and it was called Exeter Inne And so continued untill the dayes of Queen Mary when the Lord Paget her principal Secretary of State and obtained the said third part called Exeter house to him and his heirs and did re-edifie the same After whom the said house or the third part of the said Templars house came to Thomas late Duke of Norfolk and was by him conveyed to Sir Robert Dudley Knight al. Sutton Earl of Lieoester who bequeathed the same to Sir Robert Dudley Knight his Son and lately came by purchase to Robert Devoreux late Earl of Essex that dyed in the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth and it is called to this day Essex house And not to omit what is written touching the antiquity of the Coat of Arms belonging to this house it is warranted by the same was and yet is to be seen purtraicted in an old Manuscript written many years since concerning the foundation of that Order and which Manuscript now is or of late was in the custody of the Right Honorable Lord William Howard a lover of Nobility and honorable Arms. It is to be understood that before the Order of Knight Templars assumed to themselves the said Coat Armour they now wear that they did embrace as to them appropriate this Ensign A Horse galloping with two Men on his back The which Ensign was usually engraven on their Signet or Common Seal It hath been conjectured that the significancy thereof was that the Originall of this Order began in poverty and want So that when they were to undertake any expedition of Christian service they were enforced for want of ability to ride two of them upon one horse But it is more truly conceited that the same was rather an 〈◊〉 of Love and Charity and was a true Hieroglyphick of an ingenious disposition and of a 〈◊〉 kindnesse used amongst noble and free-hearted Souldiers whereof none were of greater note then this Order Who being professed 〈◊〉 and honorable spirits when they should come to the rescue of a Christian Souldier who might happen to be wounded or sick and comfortlesse in the field they would relieve him and set him behinde one of them upon his own horse and by that means conveigh him to some place of safety where they should likewise take some speedy course for his relief Neither was this work of Chariy only practised by the Christian Knights in those ages but it was used by the very Infidels and Pagans who also usually were exercised in the same works of Charity as may be observed and read out of the famous and renowned Poet Ariosto who relates that Reginaldo and Fernand two Knights Charlemaine did fight together and each of them was mortally wounded and therefore they agreed to adjourne the Combate till another day And that during the space of the Parly Reginaldo's Palfrey strayed away and could not be found whereupon Fer nand proffered Reginaldo a part of his horse to ride upon and willed him to mount up behind him with assurance he would convey him safe to the place he desired which Reginaldo accepted and Fernand performed This History is writ by Ariosto in the Italian language and not unworthy observation to this intent The Knights Templars took their originall about the year of Grace 〈◊〉 and upon this occasion many Noble men who were religiously bent obliged themselves by speciall vows to serve Christ as regular Cannons in Chastity and Obedience and to renounce their own proper will for ever The first of that Order was Hugo Paganus and Godfrido de Sancto Hadomaro Their habit was prescribed by Pope Honorius to be a white habit and after by order from Pope Eugenio these Knights had their first habitation appointed them by Baldwin King of Jerusalem neer unto the holy Temple there they were ever after saluted by the names of Knights Templars This Order in processe of time did grow so universally great that many great 〈◊〉 and Townes of Christendome received their Order of the Knights Templars as well in this our Nation as in other parts where they enjoyed fair revenewes and large possessions for in England this University called the Temple was the feat and habitation of divers Knights of that Order But it hath of late by the Princely donation of King James our late Soveraign been confirmed to the professors of the Common Law under the great Seal of England The Society of
said the Inner Temple hath lately assumed to themselves a Pegasus whereof in particular I spare to relate any more for the same is vulgarly known to all To the Inner House was also appropriated divers learned Legists from time to time which in number continuance and gifts of Nature did exceed every other of the said Innes of Court And therefore was anciently tearmed Inner Temple Boun Pleader Which continueth to this very day and it is withall much esteemed of beautified and graced with a special Garden plot famous for its situation neatnesse and nearnesse of the River The Ensign is Azure a Pegasus Argent Lincolns Inne This House owning a right to the Arms as well as name of the Lacyes Earls of Lincolne have set up over the Gate the Lyon Rampant purpure committing a great mistake in that if Sir John Fern's account of that Familie of the Lacyes be true which hath passed for authentick for he tels us that Or a Lyon Rampant purpure was his right but it was only a quartering and not the paternall Coat for his first and principall bearing was party per Crosse Gules 〈◊〉 a bend Sables over all a file or three Labels Arg. and this was the proper Coat of those Lacyes the other was the Coat of the Lord Nigeld or Neal Baron of Halton This Society of Lincolnes Inne the next for antiquity and ancient Ally to the Middle Tenple is situate in a Street or Lane known formerly by the name of New-street and now Chancery lane being once the mansion-Mansion-house of a Gentleman called William de Havershall Treasurer to King Henry the third who for disloyalty to his Soveraign was by the said King attainted of Treason so that thereby his house and lands became annext to the Crown And thereupon the King gave this house to Ralph de Nova villa vulgo Nevill Chancellor of England as appeareth by an ancient Record Who also was Bishop of Chichester and kept his habitation or place of abode in that place This House came afterwards to the hands of Henry Lacy Earl of Lincoln by reason whereof it was called Lincolns Inne and keepeth the style to this day This Earl Henry deceased in that house about the year of our Lord 1310. Neverthelesse this house did afterwards continue to the Bishops of Chichester untill the 〈◊〉 of King Henry the eighth and the interest thereof came by conveyance to Justice Gullyard and other Feoffees who during his life and after him his posterity held it untill the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth and then Sir Edw. Gullyard Knight to whom the same did successively descend by Inheritance sold the same with the Inheritance thereof to the Benchers and Society thereof There is no memory of any florishing Estates of the Students and professors of the Common Lawes resident in this Colledge until the reign of King Henry the sixth when it appeareth by the Rolls and remembrances of that house that the same became somewhat to be famous But now of late time this house hath been much enlarged and beautified with ranks of goodly Edifices and also with a fair and goodly Chappel The first of the chiefest buildings thereof was begun at the cost of Sir Thomas Lovell Knight then or before a fellow of that Society who erected that fair Gate-house into Chancery lane of brick and free stone whereupon is engraven the Arms of Lacy Earl of Lincoln together with his own The said Chancery lane is so called for that King Edward the third in the fifteenth year of his reign annexed the house of Covents by Patent to the Office of Chancery now called the Rolls Grays Inne Beareth Sables a Griffin Rampant Or. This house was sometimes the abiding Mansion of the Noble Family of Gray from whence the name of the house is deduced It is situate within the Mannor Poorpoole a Prebendary antiently belonging to the Cathedral Church of St. Paul London In the reign of King Edward the third the Gentlemen Students of that Society as is confidently affirmed took a Grant of this house from the said Baron Gray who lived in those dayes And it is held probable that the Grayes Armes have been anciently by this fellowship maintained and are still taken up and kept as the proper and peculiar Ensigne of that Colledge or house and thus the same is found portraited Barry of six Arg. Azure a bordure quarterly Or and of the second But now of late yeares this honorable Society have assumed for their proper Coat Armor or Ensign of honor A Griffin Or in a field Sables Thavies Inne Beareth Azure two Garbes Or on a bend Gules On a Chief Sable a letter T. Arg. Hereafter ensue the inferior Hostels ordained for Students that professe the practice of the Common Law of this Realm to the end they may the better obtain unto themselves the understanding of the Principles grounds of the same Laws and be thereby the better prepared for to manage the causes of the Subjects in the severall Courts of Justice within the Dominions whether at Westminster or elsewhere and also by their labour and Industry to become graduates and be the better enabled to be entred into the Innes of Court These inferior Courts being Nurseries and are entituled Inns of Chancery And first for this Thavies Inne It is probable that the house by all conjecture is the most ancient of all others of that nature and it doth in that regard challenge the precedency in this rank This house was in the raigne of King Edward the third as is by 〈◊〉 to be found the dwelling and mansion house of one John Thavye Citizen and Armourer of London and was by the then Apprentices of the Law held of him at a certain Rent annual as by a Record yet to be seen in the Husting Courts of London doth appeare and may be verified for antiquity But since that time the House hath been purchased by the Benchers or the Antients of Lincolns Inne which about the raign of King Henry the seventh to the end that there might be entertained in that place a Society of Students practisers and Professors of the Common Laws of this Realm And this house still retaineth the name of the said Thavies who was the first owner of it as is before mentioned Furnivals Inne Beareth Arg. a bend betwixt six Martlets within a bordure Azure This house was sometime the Mansion of Sir William Furnivall in the raign of King Richard the second as by Record appeareth He was afterwards Lord Furnival his heir general married to Sir John Talbot created Earl of Shrewsbury by King Henry the sixth by reason whereof this Mansion house came to the family of the 〈◊〉 Earls of Salop and afterwards of later years in the raign of Queen Elizabeth the same house was by the Benchers or the Ancients of Lincolns Inne purchased for the serting into the same a Society of Students of the Common Lawes from George Lord Talbot Earl of Salop as by sundry
Chancery are only handled and discust Cursitors Inne Beareth Gules on a chief Arg. two Mullets Sables within a bordure Compone Or and Azure This Edifice was in 〈◊〉 dayes of Queen Elizabeth of famous memory built by the Right Honourable and Grave Counsellor of State Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord keeper of the Great Seal of England for the benefit and decency of a new contrived Office now called Cursitors therein to lodge and to keep their severall Offices These Cursitors have the making of all Originall Writs according to the Register which are sued out and taken forth in causes commenced by the Students at the common Law In times past the chiefe Officer of the Court of Chancery was ever a Bishop and termed Cancellarius because he sat in Cancellis that is to say in Chancels or places letticed after the manner of Chancels in Churches as Petrus 〈◊〉 a learned writer hath left to posterity The Masters of this Court were for the most part Doctors of Divinity and had Prebendaries in Churches and other dignities and promotions The Cursitors or rather the Choristers as it befitteth a Chorus there being no honourable Cathedrall or Collegiate Church la Esglise which can be vvell without them And in former dayes both antient and modern the Ghostly Fathers or Confessors were examiners in Chancery as men held most conscionable and thereupon fittest for that function But fince in those dayes all the former Ecclesiasticall persons are become meerly lay-men and yet no doubt held to be as Godly Conscionable and Honest as any provided ever that they be men of skill persons who are of great Integrity and able of understanding Nam ad pietatem requiritur Scientia The Colledge called Doctors Commons Beareth Gules on a bend Argent three treefoils within a bordure Vert. The Professors of the Civil Law or the Imperial being also in some sort Canonists and professors of the Laws 〈◊〉 have their Hostels or residing place upon St. Bennets hill neer Pauls Chain This house was by the industry and cost of Mr. Henry Harvey Doctor of the Civil or Canon Law and at that time Master 〈◊〉 Trinity 〈◊〉 in Cambridge and Dean of the Arches instituted for the Company and Society of the said Doctors professors of the same study Gresham Colledge Beareth Argent a 〈◊〉 Erminoys between three Mullets Sables This famous work and most worthy Colledge scituate in Bishopsgate street had its foundation laid by that worthy Merchant Sir Thomas Gresham Knight about the year of our Lord 1579. who ordained therein seven Lectures of seven severall Arts to be there publickly read 〈◊〉 Divinity Civill Law Phyfick Rhetorick Astronomy Geometry Musick And this to be performed by seven severall persons learned professors thereof only in the time of the Terms at Westminster The annual stipendary to every Lecturer is 50. l. by annual pay and each of the Lecturers hath a convenient lodging provided for his use there in the same Colledge The Office of the Remembrancers of the Exchequer at Westminster Beareth Or a Cheveron Gules and a Canton Ermin in a bordure Compony Argent and Azure This house wherein now the Kings Remembrancer keepeth his Office was sometimes antiently the Inne belonging to the Barons of Stafford was in former time called Staffords Inne which said house and that other in Ivie-lane where Mr. Osborn the King's Remembrancer keepeth his Office or rather the Lord Treasurers Remembrancer and the house called Hospitium Johannis de 〈◊〉 Laurentio wherein 〈◊〉 Brainthwait Serjeant at the Law 〈◊〉 his abode and dwelling in Amen-Corner the Bishop of Elyes house now Stationers-hall the Three Tuns Tavern the Bull-head Tavern the Chamber belonging to Diana the next house to Doctors Commons called the old Camera 〈◊〉 were of antient times the lodging for the Residents and Canons and Prebends of St. Pauls who belonged unto that famous Cathedrall Church of St. Paul St. Katherine's Hospitall Beareth party per fesse Gules and Azure in 〈◊〉 a Sword bar-wise Argent pomelled and hilt Or in poynt a demy Catharine wheel of the fourth By the Licence of the Prior of the Covent and the Society of holy Trinity in London the said Hospitall called St. Katherines was founded by Queen Matilda wife to King Stephen The ground whereon this Hospitall is 〈◊〉 was then the proper inheritance of the said Prior and Covent and the said Hospitall was after enlarged by Queen Elianor Wife to Edward the first and after Philippa Wife to Edward the third founded there a Chancery and it hath been of late a free Chappell or Hospital for poor sisters FINIS ERRATA Page 41. l. 4. a mistake in the last quarter of the cut p. 52. a mistake in the cut the eighth quarter should have been the last Fern. Glo. Gen. p. 4. Seg. Hon. mil. civ l. 4. c. 5. Bartol de Dig. l. 12. Seld. 〈◊〉 of Hon. c. 〈◊〉 p. 4. Drus. observat lib. 3. cap. 19. Psal. 49. 2. Fern. l. gen p. 9. Pro. 17. 6. Fern p. 13 Fern. Selden p. 856 Aristot. l. 4. de pol. Fern. p. 14 Segar l 4. p. 226. Bart. l. 1. cap. de dig 12. Seg. p. 〈◊〉 Ibid. Fern p. 1. Noble by Merit Nobility mixt Sir J. Fern. Segar l. 4 c. 15. Seld. Tit. of Hon. c. 8 p. 853. p. 832. Rot. Vasco 24 Hen. 6. M. 7. N. 3. Sel. p. 870. C. Theod. l. 6. 〈◊〉 21. l. 1. Sir J. 〈◊〉 Form l. 3. p. 382. Edit Rom. 1621. Seld. Tit. of Hon. c. 〈◊〉 f. 858. Seld. Tit. of Hon. pag. 862. pag. 864. Ibid. p. 865. Sir John 〈◊〉 p. 37 Ibid. p. 36. Aug. de Civ Dei lib. 4. cap. 4 Cypr. lib. de 12. Abusionibus Sir John Fern. Ibid. Poetrie Ibid. Painting Vid. Paul Lomazzo p. 14. History Sir John 〈◊〉 Ferne. Ibid. Sir John Ferne. p. 61. Ibid. Bart. in l. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. li. de capitu Ferne p. 86. 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 Vid. Fortescue de laud. Ang. cap. 49. Sir John Feine p. 95. M. Seld. Tit. of Ho. p. 555. * Cam. fol. 176. †lib. 4. p. 507. Ad 〈◊〉 Brit. Art 88. Verst p. 322. Sir Tho. Smith de Rep. Aug. * p. 667. 〈◊〉 Sir John Ferne. p. 100. Camb. de Ordin p. 117. de reliquiis p. 23. Spel. Glos. p. 51. Segar p. 224. ibid. Spelm. p. 10. c. 2. ibid. Segar Ferne. Spel. p. 51. Segar l. 4. p. 246. Seld. Tit. Ho. p. 769. Camb. Brit. p. 170. Segar ch 1 p. 51. Will. of Malmsb. de gest Reg. l. 〈◊〉 c. 6. Seld. 〈◊〉 of Hon. p. 773. p. 778 Ibid. p. 779 Bract. 〈◊〉 36. Cook 5. Jacobi part 6. Selden p. 772. Mat. Patis Sir 10. Fern Glo. of Genere Cam. Brit. p. 74. pag. 175. Vid. Stat. de An. 23. H. 6. c. 15. Seg. lib. 2. lin 2. Vid. Mills fol. S 〈◊〉 4 Ed 4. 20 See Stow in Anal. p. 693. 694. edit vet in 4. Dor. Cl. 〈◊〉 20 Hen 7. 20 Sep. For K. of the Bath see Far. f. 65. 5 Book Mr. Seld. fol. 790.