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land_n	east_n	south_n	southeast_n	2,434	5	13.2952	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11863	Honor military, and ciuill contained in foure bookes. Viz. 1. Iustice, and iurisdiction military. 2. Knighthood in generall, and particular. 3. Combats for life, and triumph. 4. Precedencie of great estates, and others.	Segar, William, Sir, d. 1633.; Rogers, William, b. ca. 1545, engraver.	1602 (1602)	STC 22164; ESTC S116891	203,415	258

matters credible Let vs therefore say no more of matter so long before our dayes and begin with actions notable performed by men of our owne Countrey and they for the most part persons of such qualitie as were not forced with distresse but with desire to aduance the honour of their Countrey Wee reade in Authors worthy credit that at one time twentie thousand Souldiers of this most noble Iland then called great Britaine traueiled from hence vnto Iudea and vnder the Emperours Vespasian and Titus serued at the siege and sacke of Ierusalem The like enterprize was long after taken in hand by King Richard the first who in his owne person traueiled to recouer the same Citie from the Saracens The voyages and marueiles which Sir Iohn Mandeuile reporteth are accompted of many men rather fables then reports of trueth yet of late yeeres some Sailers euen of our owne nation haue found by experience they ought not to be discredited Who would haue thought it possible to passe securely into Syria Persia Media and other farre countreys in the East and Southeast vntill M. Anthony Ienkinson a gentleman yet liuing and worthy beleefe performed those and other right notable Voyages It is also certaine that Thomas Windhame a gentleman well borne and worshipfully descended sailed from thence to Guinea and the kingdome of Benin and since that time Captaine Fenner performed the same iourney so farre as the Ilands of Capo verde All which Voyages with many other were made by Princes or persons of reputation toward the South and Southeast The like may be said of Voyages of latter time towards the North and north-Northeast Regions performed by sir Hugh Willowby M. Ienkinson aforesaid M. Christopher Burrow and others Of voyages towards the West and Southwest countreys who hath not heard the Nauigation of sir Iohn Hawkins to Brasill and the West Indias of Roger Bodname gentleman to S. Iohn Vllua in the Bay of Mexico of sir Francis Drake to Nombre de Dios sir Martin Furbisher to Meta incognita sir Humfrey Gilbert to the coast of America sir Richard Greeneuile to Virginia M. Iohn Dauis gentleman his discouery 200. leagues beyond sir Martin Furbisher to the Northwest I omit to make mention of many Merchants Nauigators and simple Sailers of our land that haue not onely attempted but also performed marueilous actions to vulgar people and vnskilfull thought impossible Yet is it now publiquely knowen that sir Francis Drake and after him Thomas Candish esquier a yong gentleman scarcely knowne to Sailers within the space of two yeeres and three moneths effected a iourney about the Globe of the whole earth an action no doubt worthy all admiration and such as before that time had neuer bene performed Here might we also insert how the mightie and formidable Armada of Spaine was by her Maiesties Nauie conducted by the Earle of Nottingham vanquished Anno 1588. being in forraine Nations thought vnresistable And more lately the most noble and resolute assault and sacke of the Citie ● Cales and other strong places of Spaine was executed by the vertue and excellent valour of his said Lordship and the Earle of Essex lately high Marshal of England To these we may also adde the late and last yet not the least victorie gained by the noble Earle of Cumberland who by his proper vertue and at the particular charge of him and his friends assaulted and possessed the Isle of S. Iohn de Porto Ricco a place both by nature and art reputed impregnable These and other notable aduentures and victories were aboue the common opinion of men attempted and atchieued by worthie and excellent Captaines of our countrey and the chiefe of them within the raigne of our sacred Soueraigne by whose counsell and princely prudence they were begun and ended Magna non possumus quia nos posse non credimus CHAP. 7. The office and dutie of euery Knight and Gentleman FIrst it behooueth him to feare God and with all his power to maintaine defend the Christian faith To be charitable and comfort those that are afflicted To serue faithfully and defende his Prince and countrey couragiously To forgiue the follies and offences of other men and sincerely embrace the loue of friends To esteeme trueth and without respect maintaine it To auoide slouth and superfluous ease To spend the time in honest and vertuous actions To reuerence Magistrates and conuerse with persons of honour To eschew riot and detest intemperancie To frequent the warre and vse militarie exercises To eschew dishonest pleasures and endeuour to doe good vnto others To accommodate himselfe to the humour of honest company and be no wrangler To shunne the conuersation of peruerse persons and behaue himselfe modestly To be sober and discreet no boaster of his owne actes nor speaker of himselfe To desire no excessiue riches and patiently endure worldly calamities To vndertake enterprises iust and defend the right of others To support the oppressed and helpe widowes and Orphans To loue God and be loyall to his Prince To preferre honour before worldly wealth and be both in worde and deede iust and faithfull CHAP. 8. Of honourable ornaments due vnto men of vertuous merit who were euer after called Knights IN ancient Histories it appeareth that the old Romanes did giue rings of gold vnto men of qualitie seruing in the war whom afterwards they called Equites Such rings the Senators vsed also to weare whereof may be inferred that knighthood and ensignes of honour were giuen as well for Counsell as Militarie merit Cicero seemeth to say that Captaines generall had in vse after euery victory to make an Oration vnto souldiers commending their vertue and to those men that serued with much valour were giuen rings of gold We read likewise in holy Scripture that king Pharaoh in signe of honor did take a ring from his owne finger and gaue the same to Ioseph Some Princes also intending to honour their seruants and souldiers did bestow vpon them spurres of golde or guilded in signe they were men of vertue and professors of Armes on horsebacke for spurres are onely proper to souldiers of that sort and so it appeareth by the signification of the latine word Eques and likewise by the terme Caualiero ordinarily vsed of the Spaniards and Italian In old time as a token of honour and aduancement Princes did bestowe girdles and swordes And the lawe Ciuill seemeth to note that the girdle signified administration or dignitie and whosoeuer did loose that girdle should also forfeite all priuiledges which the lawe alloweth vnto souldiers A sword was alwayes hanging at the girdle and the hilts thereof either of golde or g●lt Hereof it commeth that Princes in creating a Knight doe either gird him with a sword or with a sword touch him on the head or shoulder thereby to signifie that as with the sword he is created a Knight so with the sword he ought to defend the Prince and countrey that did create him without feare of death or other