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A15801	The true vse of armorie shewed by historie, and plainly proued by example: the necessitie therof also discouered: with the maner of differings in ancient time, the lawfulnes of honorable funerals and moniments: with other matters of antiquitie, incident to the aduauncing of banners, ensignes, and marks of noblenesse and cheualrie, by William Wyrley.	Wyrley, William, 1565-1618.	1592 (1592)	STC 26062; ESTC S120446	88,285	157

to gard the towne at best And thither doth the Duke of Aniou mooue Enuirning close the towne in such a wise The dwellers thinke it best for their behooue To render it and do their strength despise Thunstable commons like Protheus guise Are so delighted in ech chaffring change Like fleeting tides their thoughts do euer range The captaine also was becommen French infest with loue of glittering ticing gould Too foule a swill a soldiers minde to drench That thoughts to honor euer fasten should And his giue promise permanent to hould I vnderstood how all this practise went At Bergareth and to be there I ment At this deliuerie sir Thomas Phelton and My selfe do ride what time the sun was plast Betwixt the east and west in lower land We came as French were reddie entring fast At thother gate to Batfoyle spide I hast Traitrous Batfoyle was busie t' entertaine My croching foes in hope of greedie gaine In hands I shooke my suer bright shaking sword Enflamde with courage as reason did requier I plainly shewd I came not now to bourd Traitor I said take heere deserued hier Treasons no more thou shalt from hence conspier And as I spake I lent him such a bloe That soule and bodie doth a sunder goe A iust reward for such foule treason don But when the French our wefting banners vew Their backs they turne and swift away they run Lightly clad with feare they nimbly flew The townsmen ginne their dealing false to rew Lay all the fault in him that I had slaine And so the towne did English still remaine The Duke and Glesquine went to Limoges Where the Dukes Berrie and Burbon siege do hould Which citie yeelded was by th tretrousnes Of their Bishop which matter being tould Vnto the prince he sware reuenge he would So vile despite by his deere fathers soule Which oth he kept unbroke and euer whole From Coynoc then he marcht in braue aray Twelue hundred Lords knights and hardie squiers A thousand archers so many Brigands sway That all the countrie dread their flaming iers On sharp reuenge do boile their hot desiers Sir Thomas Percie and Lord Rosse was there Who did in gules three siluer Bogets bear Sir William Mesnile a chiff of burnisht gold Three gemels finely set in Azurd shield Sir Simon Borley six bars equall told Of black and yellow in his chiff he held Of the mettaile two pales as first is speld In midst a scuchion of Rubie fairly dight In it three bars of ermins plainly pight Right fierce assault the citie so was tane Many an innocent with the nocent died Man woman childe were brought to blooddie bane Such wofull rigor did this towne betide The duke of Lancaster stoutlie here was tried In single fraie the erle of Cambrig and The erle of Penbroke fighting so are fand Which tripart combate was so noblie fought As sick prince tooke pleasure it t'behould Causing his litter neerer to be brought The French resist so long as ear they could And lasht and stroke with noble courage bould But conquerd yeeld and yeelding fauor finde As noble arms her sacred lawes assinde Deuine mercy whose lore I euer loud The soueraine good that God to man affords Most like to God man hath his likenes prooud That treasure such within sweete heauen hords And you great captains and renowmed Lords That manage arms hold mercy in your minde Bloods wilfull spiller seld doth mercie finde I was right glad from this that so I bide At Bergareth the frontier to sustaine And now through Fraunce with ventring troupe did ride Sir Robert Canole to the Frenchmens paine Welth and treasure did such abundance gaine His soldiers but siluer and gold esteemd Oystrige feathers or what was daintie deemd Not vertues selfe can lengthen mortall daies Yet fame prouides that vertue should not die Obliuion repugnes good fame alwaies True writers of braue acts doth still defie Ech wight depriud of honor shut should lie She much desiers all couered with the corse Of valiant deeds she taketh no remorse If Phrigian Poet should the praises shew Of noble Priam and his woorthie sons Their high exploits set foorth in order dew Although large fame of all their doings runs Yet but defendaunts when toth sight it cums Assailant conqueror this braue English king Triumphant victors his noble ofspring As Priam nor his sonnes left nought behind But golden praise pronounst by writers skill And none could now their names or dooings find So hugely woxt the vastie world to fill Vnlesse it had dropt from a heedie quill So Muse and Mars togither must agree The first the last makes liue eternally And since our Hector stout came out of Spaine He languished which greatly made vs grieue For stealingly ech hower increast his paine Gainst which with courage good he much did striue Wasting sicknes quite doth his strength depriue Now into England to returne he ment Of peyred helth to seeke amendement He sent for all his squiers knights and Lords That of him hold and when we present were Such princely gentle language he affords As might braue courage and allegance steare Full sweetly spake he like a noble peere In euery thing he wild vs to obay His brother Gaunt which regent heere should stay Then shipping takes the gentlest knight aliue And most renowmed for his woorthines Right pensiue I that sicknes did depriue His health that bread the Frenchmens sikernes In batteled Arms they found him matchles For so he pinde and inly grew his griefe As finall death did worke his first reliefe He newly gon fowre Britton knights aduaunce Themselues to take Mountpaon and they sped So well by practise as the matter chaunct The Lord therof French turned in that sted Which known did make Duke Iohn to shake his hed Sommons he forst and vowd it to regaine In conquering wise or die with deadlie paine It toucht him near bicause it lay him near So on a day with kindled courage stout From Bourdeux accompanied strongly faire He doth depart with his braue warlike rout Of Poyctow Xanton and Gascoine there about Of th'english Phelton Freuile and Rosse there was Sir Michael Delapole did in this iourney passe Whose cornerd shield was laid with skilfull blew A fesse between three Liberds heads of gold Sir William Bewchampe gay as bridegroome new Armed in red right stately to behold A girdle plast between six martlets told Glistering bright like Phoebus in his pride Well could he iust and comly could he ride Now when we were this castle plast before And ordred had ech thing in order dew We raisd assault but were resisted sore A whole long day then back our soldiers drew This castle was inuirond with deep stew So fast we fild with fagots vp the mot As to the wals with much adoe we got And now much worke and buisnes was begun And many a man reuerst and ouerthrowne More feller stut was none vnder the sun So that this newes was bruted wide and knowne

THE TRVE VSE OF ARMORIE Shewed by Historie and plainly proued by example the necessitie therof also discouered with the maner of differings in ancient time the lawfulnes of honorable funerals and moniments with other matters of Antiquitie incident to the aduauncing of Banners Ensignes and marks of noblenesse and cheualrie By William Wyrley Imprinted at London by I. Iackson for Gabriell Cawood 1592 TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE LORDS AND OTHERS THE professors of martiall discipline NOBLES and Gentlemen I will salute you with a sentence of mine Author sir Iohn Froysard The aduentures of armes saith he are so diuers and so far oftentimes beyond expectation as that their effects causeth great admiration which saying of his caused me with the more attention to read ouer his works and finding the same most truly prosecuted through the whole course of his historie but especially in the actions and aduentures of two famous Capitains Sage and Imaginatiue the one sir Iohn Chandos and the other sir Iohn Grayllie by name commonly called the Captall de Buz it delighted me as a louer of honor and cheualrie to note downe their seuerall fortunes with some reasons of their falles as men may gesse at the iudgements of God and hauing enterprised the publishing thereof haue dedicated these my labors such as they be to your honorable societie which doings of mine though they may seeme to some men friuolous and not woorth your regard yet doubt I not but you shall finde matter of benefit valuable to the time you shall therein bestow both by way of imitation and vertuous aemulation as being a subiect that may stir your woorthie endeuors to the honor of God your dutifull seruice of hir Maiestie the benefit of your countrie and your owne eternall glorie I haue been carefull to set downe as my maner is the Standards pennons cote armours and other marks of honor to the end it may publikely be knowen of what necessitie the vse of them is as being for that cause first ordeined how and in what maner they are to be vsed and to whom they do of right most chiefly and properly appertaine and belong And these matters being well conceiued as indeed without such tokens no martiall discipline can be exercised no armie ranged no attempt of any companie atchieued and so by consequence no conquest made nor so much as any Common-wealth whatsoeuer defended neither from outward enimies ciuill discord nor the rebellion of any plebeian rout be the same neuer so simple rude or of small esteeme it will I hope reduce into estimation a matter both of honor order and necessitie which now through the abuse thereof is so far run into contempt as that of many men it is holden for a thing of no price but thought to be a very mockerie and a matter of no other sequence than to set vp vaine and fantasticall glorious fellowes into a pride and to drawe from them some small summes to certaine persons into an office instituted which no doubt was by the wisest and best gouerned states at the first deuised and generally by all of any policie receiued to a most necessarie end yet thinke they as it is now in vse it serueth but onely for that purpose And indeed I must by the way complaine that certaine of the said officers or others pertaining to them either for want of skill or maintenance or otherwise for their gaine haue committed faults not iustifiable whereby they haue brought a matter of great honor into defame and iniured thereby the Commonwealth and brought both others that haue managed those affaires with more discretion and themselues into obloquie But these faults and errors and some others also spoken of in this dedication instituted to that purpose will in the handling of this matter more easily appeere and the thing be I hope reformed either by the good endeuors which the officers vnderstanding thereof will vse or else by the magistrate when he shall haue knowledge of such the abuses as he may be informed of And first that Guydhomes ensignes and marks of armorie be of necessitie let it be but considered whether wars be somtimes of necessitie to be taken in hand or not and surely I thinke there is none of so very meane capacitie but will yeeld vnto it that they be especially defensiue and in some cases also offensiue which as a thing granted I will ouerpasse And then I say further that wars being lawful and of necessitie it must also be granted that the same must be made by companies and bands of men ouer which some must command and the rest obey and then will it follow that for the oredring diuiding of those to the best aduantage standards and banners must be allotted to euery companie to the end they may draw togither in their strength and performe such actions as they shall be cōmanded thus may you see the necessitie And for the vse it doth also appeer that sithence some must be commanders it is of importance that they be known both by the persons ouer whom they command generally by al and that so perspicuously that vpon euery sudden occurrent the meanest simplest common soldier may thereby know euerie particular officer and captaine that hath charge for which purpose our ancestors deuise was that such men should weare some such coate of marke ouer his armor as whereby they might be easily discerned to be the same persons which indeed they were and where somtimes when occasion so offered it selfe they were forced to vse pauishes for their defence whereby a great part of the marke which was vpon their vesture was shadowed from sight it was thought necessarie that their markes should be also laide vpon their shieldes the commanders of horse-men their faces being for the most part couered they added to the crests of their helmets some further distinction to be the better also knowen by thus much for the ordinance and vse of armorie And hereby also may it appeere to whom they do properly belong and appertaine namelie to Kings Princes Archbishops Bishops Earles Barons Lords of prouinces and fees Knights officers in the Armie Nauie or peece and generallie to all that haue charge ouer bands and companies of soldiers And now sithence from hencefoorth manie of my speeches will tend to the discouerie of such things as I take to be abused erronious or faultie wherein I may peraduenture not square in opinion with some others and being my selfe no officer or of any authoritie whereby I should haue cause to deale in these affaires I will therefore first beseech your honors and all others to whom it may appertaine that if anie thing shall passe my pen which shall be offensiue that they wil conceiue no woorse of it then I meane which is but to bring these matters of armorie into question to the ende that if anie thing be amisse as I for my part thinke that manie things are that then the same may be reformed but if happelie

sacerdoti vt tollat Thuribula quae iacent in incendio ignem huc illucque dispergat c. produc atque ea in laminas affigat altari c. vt cernant ea pro signo monimento filij Israel Also in the booke of Iosua I finde these words Et ait Iosue ad eos ite ante arcam Domini Dei vestri ad Iordanis medium portate inde singuli singulos lapides in humeris vestris iuxta numerum filiorum Israel vt sit signum inter vos quando interrogauerint vos filij vestri cras dicentes quid sibi volunt isti lapides Respondebitis defecerunt aquae Iordanis ante arcam foederis Domini cum transiret eum idcirco positi sunt lapides isti in monimentum filiorum Israel vsque in aeternum And for the disposing of heritages it is written thus Homo cum mortuus fuerit absque filio ad filiam eius transibit haereditas si filiam non habuerit habebit successores fratres suos quod si fratres non fuerint dabitis haereditatem fratribus patris eius sin autem nec patruos habuerit dabitur haereditas his qui ei proximi sunt Eritque hoc filijs Israel sanctum lege perpetua sicut praecepit Dominus Moysi And for the collection of Genealogies thus saith God to Moyses and Eleasar Numerate omnem summam filiorum Israel à viginti annis suprà per domos cognationes suas cunctos qui possunt ad bella procedere c. Ruben primogenitus Israel huius filius Henoch à quo familia Henochitarum Phallu à quo familia Phalluitarum Hesron à quo familia Hesronitarum And for a further proofe of the recording of Genealogies it is to be considered how diligently the same hath beene obserued through the whole course of the Scriptures as the descents from Adam to Noe and from Noe to Abraham c. do sufficiently testifie And more that with the spirit of truth the Genealogie of Christ our Sauiour and redeemer as concerning his humanitie is also by the writing of his holie Euangelistes most plainelie and sincerely remembred and set downe All these things being therefore by the Scriptures of God and decider of all controuersies prooued and declared Your Lordships may see that the bearing of Armes raising and aduauncing of Standerds Banners and Ensignes vsing of obsequies erecting of moniments enroling and regestrings of pedegrees and descentes haue ioyned to the auncient customes and Lawes both of this Land and all other nations the authoritie of Gods word being very well accompanied with discretion reason and iudgement for God hauing by his sacred institution ordeined Kingdomes Prouinces and Seignories and that ouer them Kings Princes and Magistrates shall commaund rule and gouerne his people to the ende chiefely that his heauenly kingdome may be replenished with the blessed soules of his seruants for the instructing whereof he hath also ordeined his holy Church and the Bishops pastors and ministers of the same which Bishops and other spirituall officers cannot so well enforme his Christan people without the aid of the said Kings and temporall Lords neither can they gouerne their particular Countries either from the inuasion of outward tyrants or inward rebels but through the vse of their sword of iustice which sword cannot be exercised against vnruly persons being of strength wanting men skilful in Martiall Discipline who cannot manage those affaires but by meane of the aforesaid Armes and ensignes in maner as before I haue more largly expressed And in like sort as Princes great Lords Iudges Magistrates and Gouernors do vse to weare sacred Robes of gold purple scarlet and other ornaments and apparell not to take pride in or for any vaine ostentation or show but onely that they may be distinguished from the inferior people to the end that a reuerent regard may be had of them in respect of the high office which vnder God here on earth they beare And as these things no man of any reason will gainsay so I see not but as wel may their iust vertues and good gouernment be remembred with funerals obsequies and moniments after their decease whereby such as succeed in gouernment may also be had in more high estimation and a faire example is thereby giuen them to imitate the regiment of their predecessors Likewise doth the registring of descents carrie with it reason ioined to authoritie and custome for as by Gods lawe there is commanded a priuiledge of enheritance to the first begotten of Israell and so for want of sonnes to the females and from them to others answerable to the proximitie of their blood and kindred which with our lawes of this land and of most nations do concur and agree it doth well stande with peacefull gouernment for the auoiding of contentions which may rise for want of records to testifie the truth of mens titles to their enheritances that Genealogies and Pedegrees should be enrolled and kept in remembrance I haue my good Lords stood the longer vpon this point for that of late traueling through some countries of this Land and hauing a desire to see the moniments of antiquitie which haue remained in such places as I passed by for which cause as otherwise I many times resorted to Churches and other houses to satisfie my affection I found that many moniments both of burials and in glasse were so broken and defaced that vneth may be had any knowledge what the fragments remaining did signifie and enquiring of the inhabitance how it came to passe that those things were so blemished they made report that certaine persons delighting as may seeme in noueltie for they can abide no marke of antiquitie had defaced the same These men that take vpon them to be reformers whose desires are great through the singularitie pride they haue in their owne wits and vnderstandings weening themselues to be very wise where indeed they are verie simple and onely looke but into the abuses of things and do not see into the grounds depth of the reasons and causes for which good ordinances were made go about to finde faults where many times none are but if peraduenture they hap to finde an ordinance well made misused then streight neuer seeke they to reforme the abuse but by their wils downe goeth ordinance and all such is their insolencie rashnes and want of iudgement It were well done therefore my good Lords and I could wish that your Honors hauing somtimes accesse to hir Maiestie and oftentimes conference with my Lords of hir priuie Councell should enforme hir Highnes and their Honors of the said abuses committed and to be thereby a meane that these simple fellowes taking vpon them to be reformers might be reformed themselues and both kept from destroieng of good ordinances and be punished for their offences in that behalfe committed In the meane time yet shall I desire that Honorable personages will looke better to the moniments of their