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A16477	VVorkes of armorie deuyded into three bookes, entituled, the concordes of armorie, the armorie of honor, and of coates and creastes, collected and gathered by Iohn Bossewell Gentleman.	Bossewell, John, heraldic writer.; Legh, Gerard, d. 1563. Accedens of armory.	1572 (1572)	STC 3393; ESTC S106250	105,447	190

Workes of Armorie deuyded into three bookes entituled the Concordes of Armorie the Armorie of Honor and of Coates and Creastes collected and gathered by Iohn Bossewell Gentleman In aedibus Richardi Totelli Anno domini 1572. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum To the right honorable and his singuler good lorde Sir William Cecil Baron of Burghleigh Knight of the moste noble order of the Garter Lorde highe Treasorer of Englande master of the courtes of wardes and Liueries Chauncellour of the Uniuersitie of Cambridge and one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Counsaile Iohn Bossewel wisheth long healthe with encrease of honor RIght honorable and my singuler good Lorde I haue marueled vpon occasion of late that amonge the numbers of bookes in their seueral kyndes not onely by their auctors diligently deuised but surely by the printers of these dais for the most part procured and to theire exceeding great charges faythfullye exactlye published I finde so fewe that I coulde almoste haue saide none to haue written in our natiue tongue of the science and skill of Armory Truely in my oppinion a very fruitefull necessary and honorable argument but might I deeme or were it rashnesse as Tullye in his Tusculans in the comparison betweene the Romains Grecians which might excede other or be more auncient in knowledge sayth of such as of thē lay neglecte Honos alit artes omnesque incendunt ' ad studia gloria Surely not vnlike but as in al other things so in science what auayleth seruice where soueraigntie is neglected what actiuitie where men lie downe to sleepe with sloth what loue what frendship where no man buildes on fayth or credyt so takè honor from lawe rewarde from Phificke admiration from Mathematicalls humilitie and zeale from heauenly science and who sets his sonne to schoole for them no doubt Tully saide ful wisely keepe backe rewarde and learning adew Yet somme there are that feede not altogether of this humor and they rake together the fewe sparcles of knowledge hyd and almoste dead in the ashes of obliuion and eyther them selfes builde a fyer therof or geeue occasion to others such one was of late specially in this kind of Herehaultry a very fruteful and worthy writer master Gerard Leigh and suche do I offer my self at this presēt meaning to adde somewhat farther or geeue occasion to others not drawen by hope of reward which rather would haue kept me back but honor of the science loue of my coūtrey and especially my bounden and duitifull estimacion of your honorable fauor wherunto as I do with reuerence offer and dedicate thys simple thing scarce worthe the reading in respect of the handeling yet for the substāce not to be altogether neglected so I most humbly beseech your honor to accept the same and bee Patron thereof wherby you shal not onely staye and rere vp this declining knowledge to your great renowme but bind me for euer by al maner of duities and specially to pray for your honorable estate long to continue in fauor with God credyt with youre soueraigne honour wyth your countrie fidelitye wyth your Peeres and loue towardes Armorye Cilenus censure of the aucthor in his high court of Herehaultry A Court ther stāds twixt heauē erth al gorgeous to behold of royal state in second spheare a hugie building olde Portcolized bard with bolts of gold resplendant bright of glistering gēmes through Pallas power bedazeling eche y t no mā may com in except he haue y e perfit skil mās sight of Herehauts art and climbed hath Parnassus sacred hill Within this stately court like number roomes are founde like number flags like number armes as realmes vpon y e ground About y e walls more wōderous work then framd by mortal hād eche Herehauts liuely counterfet in seemely sort doth stand within these seuerd romes through wals ibuilt of Christal cleare Eche thing that longs to Herehauts art doth perfectly appeare There leger bookes of auncient gestes ywrit by Pallas hand there campinges mornings musterings there pedegrees do stand There cūbats fierce there sūmōs bold there triūphs passing braue of trowning kings of dubbing knights the orders ther they haue Both single coates and martialed of eche renowmed wight with visitacions which allottes to ech desert his right Reuersed coates not hidden there bewray disloyall deedes Caparisons ther fixed hang and bardings strong of steedes With armors fully furnished and gauntlets vnredemd suche vncouth sights eche office holdes as cannot be estemde At vpper ende of al this court as seuerd from the rest with flaunting Penon standes a house as famous as the best Where portraied are y e English armes frō which depēdeth braue a golden garter in the whiche a golden George they haue Unto this place assembled was eche wight within this hall and did admire a golden booke whiche fell amongst them all Blown vp by blast of flying fame which tooke her tromp in hand of burnisht golde whereto she plyde her lips as she dyd stand in Brutus realme whereon when they a litle space had pride abashed at the hidden skill which in that woorke they spide They stāpt they starde they fret they fumde al in one they ioīd vpon the aucthor to complaine because he had purloind Their secresies when sodainly from highest regall throne was drawne a trauerse ritche wherwith they whusted euery one Within this farre more stately court are rich acheuemēts braue and none but Gods or fellow mates to gods as there may haue there armes●there both Alcides spoiles Iason● fleese remaynde with Gorgons hedd and Perseus prayse whoe so earst had gaynd A noble name eternizd was for there did splendant shine the auncient Pegasus whiche earst Minerua dame diuine To inner Temples martyall gaue to whose redoubted grace in honor Ioue in prowes Mars in wyt her selfe geues place ▪ No god ne wight of worthy fame but hath purtraied there the field the shield the coat y e crest which he of right should beare Their shiuered shafts and broken bow beres Ioue subdued in field and Mars that sind with Venus once his dreadful geuly shield hath chargde with furs a note whereby to knowe a lechers life Thiestes there a difference hath which lay with brothers wife Eche vice detected there by blazons arte at point deuise and all the walles with imagery were grauen storie wise The siege of Thebes the fall of Troy in beaten massie golde dan Vulcane hath set out at large full geazon to beholde Eche thing that hapt vntill this day did plainly there appeare Thenthronizing of Ioue and eake Saturnus mornful cheare that was exilde how the gods bewailde that dismoale day when Mars and Venus wounded were by Diomede in fraye And Phebus wayling 〈◊〉 and pomp of triumphs proude for daunt of Giatm●s sterne which fall of mightie Ioue had vowde All this engrauen was in precious stones of proudest price Ech thing set out in colours due to thinke a quaint deuice In midst whereof

tethe like to a Bore I haue charged the same beastes but on halfe wise in the fielde as it were passinge from the water whiche note well and marke and then I doubte not but the deuise of the same will contente some mans fantesie These are noble ensignes of great antiquitie Yet of wheeles the Katheren whele so called of olde is of moste honor and must be figured after an other forme than those I haue before blazed Willigise archebishop of Mogunce in Germanye assumpted for his ensigne a Cart wheele with thys inscription Willigise memineris quid sis quid olim fueris and afterwarde the same wheele was giuen and confirmed by the Emperoure to be th'ensigne of the sayd Archebishoprike for euer B. He beareth d'Ermines and Or parted per pile in poyncte of the chefe a Pheon Sable Thys particiō as it is rare sene so can it not lacke beyng thus charged hys due commendacion The Swanne is the ensigne of the Poets whose fielde is Azure a Swanne propre Alciate comendeth this ensigne lib. i. Embl. Cvtj. wherefore I referre what I could write more hereof to Stockhamer his comentaries vpon the same Emblem̄ The Tenche in latin is called Tinca a fyshe as Ausonius describeth it for the poore mans dishe for that in auncient time it was a common meate for their diet and although in theis our dayes it is well accepted and taken for a good kinde of fishe bothe necessarie for foode and to medicyne yet in the olde time the richest men made litle estimacion thereof wherefore the comon people were best acquaynted with the same as the saide author witnesseth in thys verse or sentence Quis non videris vulgi solatia Tincas norit Who dothe not know in eche degree a Tenche the commoners meate to bee This Tenche before dysplayed is called Tinca marina a Tenche of the sea and lyuethe neyther in mudde or myer but is cleane from suche infectyons and therefore is not hurtful The foresaide fielde the contentes in the same do signifie the bearer to haue audacitie yet in al honestye and to be curteous with muche discrecion Then signe appertayneth to the name of Roscarech alias Roscarrocke in Cornewal His creaste a Lion rampant propre colour armed and langued Azure aboute his necke a Crownall siluer set on a Torce golde and Azure as maye appears aboue figured The fielde is barrye of vitj. peeces Luna and Mars one a canton Iouis the mighty planet Sol his creaste is Ibis head Saturne couped erassing a serpent of the Moone sette on a wrethe Topaze and Saphire māteled Diamond doubled pearle Ibis is a foule of Egipt as Aristotle saieth is in that coūtrey white and at Pelusum onely blacke it is an high bird hauing stiffe legges and a long bill they bee caried out of Libia into Egipt with a sotherne winde and do much good there to the countrey in killing and eating of serpents Semetipsam purgat rostro in ann̄ aquam fundens this bird is like vnto that whiche is called Ciconia He beare the partye ꝑ pale Saturne Mars a flower de lize Luna And to his creaste vpon the helme on a wreathe Topaze and saphiere an Alcian volant of the Amatist mixte wyth Pearle beaked as the Emeraud mounted on the nest texed with the slipps of the vine propre manteled Ruby doubled Pearle this is a birde of the sea little more then a Sparow which in the colde winter season dothe lay her egges on the sands and when the sea is most troublous tantam gratiam diuinitus habet that it becometh sodeinly calme and the stormes and windes do cease vntill the birde haue all hatched and brought vp her chickens and made them able to flee whiche is in the space of .xiiij. daies whiche the shipmen diligently marke fearinge no tempest all those dayes looke sebast stockhamer his comentaries vpon the .xix. Emblem of Alciate The propre colours of the saide bird ar as is before discribed She lyueth by fishe and is taken for that whiche we call the kinges fisher He beareth Azure a cheuron on chiefe betweene twoe decressāts Argent The timber a Ligurines head rassed vert bearing a thistel Or set on wrethe Argent Sable manteled Gules doubled Or The birde Lugurinus feedeth muche vpon thistles and of nature is enemy to the Asse sed valet vocis amenitate some suppose this birde to be a greene fynche and as seruius writeth is taken to be the Nightingalle These deuises Heroique before figured might suffise for the proofe how cote armours wyth their blason heaume timbre in sundrie wise be borne to the honor and comendacion of the bearer and vppon what ground they haue their originall the which the officers at armes do cheifly respect in their assignements to gentlemen and no signe or token armoriall is by thē deuised but the same is congruent and agreable to the vertues and qualities wherewith the bearer is pryncypally endowed and with which token he also delighteth and so he ought to take delight therein as to defende the same euen to the death from all challinge or vituperie which rule of al the degrees of nobilitie ought neuer to be forgotten But nowe what significacion may be truelye collected and gathered of anye Simboll armorial cōmonlye called Armes and what the colours therein doe represent by the planets or stones precious to the renowme and fame of the bearer one plainly for example nowe nexte doth ensue the whiche of bounden duety I maye not omit The atcheuement conteyning the sundry coates as they are marshalled and borne by the right honorable Lorde Sir William Cecill Baron of Broughley and knyght of the most honorable ordre of the Garter is thus to bee blased 1 He beareth barruley of .x. Argent and Azure sixe Escocheons Sable 3.2.1 charged wyth as manye Lyons rampant of the first langued Gules borne by the name of Cecill 2 The fielde is parted per pale Gules Azure a Lion rampant de Argent sustayning a tree Uert borne by the name of winstone 3 Beareth Sable a plate betwene three towers tryple towred with portes displayed de Argent borne by the name of Cairleon 4 His fielde is Argent on a bend betweene two cotizes Gules three sinquefoiles de Or borne by the name of Eckinton 5 Beareth Argent a churon betweene three Rockes de Ermines and is borne by the name of Walcot The sixt as the first the which and the seconde are differenced vpon them bothe with a cressant which signifieth that he is of a second brother to bothe those houses from whence in bloud hee is lineally descended All whiche atchieuementes before displayed is within the Garter cotized of two Lions de ermine to his creaste vpon an healme on a Torce Or and Azure a garbe de Or supported with two Lions the one Azure the other Argent manteled Gules doubled Argent To these before discriued