Accidents should have such power in them For Aristotle Physicorum 1. saith Accidentia possunt miraculose non alias mutare subjectum Accidents change not their Subject but by Miracle Addition doubtless and Subtraction are of greater force than Transmutation or Location yet is there no such power in them as that they can alter the essence of any thing Quia augmentum vel diminutio saith Chassanaeus circa accidentia contractuum non reponunt contractum in diverso esse neque per ea intelligitur ab eo in substantialibus recessus the adding or diminishing of Accidents makes not the thing lose the nature of his being This Coat with the Arms of Vlster is born by Sir Iohn Molineux of Teversal in Nottinghamshire Baronetâ— and with the Arms of Vlster with a due difference is born by Darcy Molineux of Mansfield in the said County Esq Nephew to the said Sir Iohn Leigh in Blazoning of this form of Cross maketh no mention at all of the piercing thereof perhaps because it resembleth the Ink of a Mill which is evermore pierced This is termed Quarter pierced quasi Quadrate pierced for that the piercing is square as a Trencher The Augmentation born on the Bend was granted unto the Right Noble Thomas Duke of Norfolk and to his Descendants by King Henry the Eighth for his signal Service as General of the Army which gave that remarkable overthrow at Floding to King Iames the Fourth of Scotland which said Duke was by King Henry the Seventh created Knight of the Garter and made Lord High Treasurer of England So much of the Cross with the Accidents thereof Now of that other Ordinary that is framed also of a fourfold Line that is to say a Saltire A Saltire is an Ordinary consisting of a fourfold Line whereof two are drawn from the Dexter chief towards the Sinister base corners and the other from the Sinister chief towards the Dexter base points and do meet about the midst by couples in acute Angles I know the Learned Geometer will find many more Lines here than I do mention but as I said of Lines in the Cross this our description greeth best with Heralds and our purpose Azure a Saltier Argent is the Coat-Armour of Sir William York of Burton-Pedwardin in Lincolnshire Knight Sable a Saltier Argent is born by the name of Ducket of Steeple-Morden in Cambridgeshire In old time saith Leigh this was made of the height of a man and was driven full of Pins the use whereof was to scale the Walls therewith to which end the Pins served commodiously In those days saith he the Walls of a Town were but low as appeareth by the Walls of Rome which Rhemus easily leaped over and the Walls of Winchester which were overlooked by Colebrand the Chieftain of the Danes who was slain by Guy Earl of Warwick who was Champion for King Athelstane Argent a Saltier engrailed Sable by the Name of Middleton This with the Arms of Vlster is the Coat-Armour of Sir George Middleton of Leighton near Warton in Lancashire Baronet CHAP. VIII HAving hitherto shewed at large the several forms of making of such Charges as we call honourable Ordinaries Order requireth that I should now shew their diverse manner of Bearing according to our prefixed Distribution These are born Simple Compound Those are said to be born Simple when only Ordinaries do appear in the Field These Ordinaries comprehend One sort Divers sorts Ordinaries are said to be of one sort when only one kind of them is born in the Field without mixture of any other Whose bearing is Single Manifold By single Bearing I understand some one Ordinary born alone in the Escocheon such are these precedent Examples before handled By manifold bearing of Ordinaries I mean the bearing of divers Ordinaries of the same kind whether the same be born of themselves alone or else conjunctly with some of their Subdivisions Which form of bearing is twofold viz. One upon another One besides another What is meant by the bearing of Ordinaries of one kind one upon another may be easily conceived by these four Escocheons next following Proceed we now to Examples of Ordinaries of the same kind born one besides another such are these next following and their like The Field is Argent two Bends Gules This Coat-Armour I find in an ancient Manuscript of Collection of Englishmens Arms in Metal and Colours with the Blazon in French of the time of our Henry the Sixth as it is apparent by the Character of the Letter over which Coat-Armour is there written the Bearers name viz. Monsieur Iohn Haget from whom Mr. Bartholomew Haget late Consul of Aleppo deriveth his descent This Book at this present remaineth in the custody of a worthy Friend of mine a curious Collector and careful Preserver of such ancient Monuments Gules two Bends the upper Or and the lower Argent was born by Milo Fitz-water who by King Henry the First was made Earl of Hereford and Constable of England and Lord of the Forest of Dean in right of his Wife Daughter and Heir of Bernard Newmarch Lord of Brecknock This Coat is now quartered by Sir Ralph Verney of Middle Claydon in Buckinghamshire Mr. Boswell in his Works of Armory observeth That the Bearer of such Bends as these or of the like Coat-Armour may be thought to have done some great enterprise upon the Seas worthy of perpetual commendation As for Ordinaries of other sorts born likewise one besides another of the same kind behold these next Examples Now from Ordinaries of the same kind born one upon another with their extracted Subdivisions proceed we to Ordinaries of divers kinds and their Diminutives abstracted from them eftsoons found likewise born both one upon another and one besides another Such are these next following and their like Now for Ordinaries of divers kinds born one besides another you shall have these Examples ensuing Robert Lisle who was a Baron in the times of King Edward the Second and Edward the Third bore the same Coat-Armour And divers ancient and eminent Nobles of this Kingdom do rightfully quarter these Arms being descended from the Heirs generally of the Family of Lisle Or a Fess between two Chevrons Gules was the Coat of Anselme Lord Fitz-water in the time of the Conquest of whom did descend Walter Fitz-water who had a Daughter and Heir that married to Robert Radcliff Father of Robert Radcliff Lord Fitz-water of whom descended Robert Radcliff Earl of Sussex and Viscount Fitz-water of which Family of Sir Francis Radcliff of Dilston in Northumberland Baronet now living 1675. The End of the Second Section Naturalia sunt specula eorum quae non videntur THis Third Section beginneth to treat of such Charges of Coat-Armours as are called Common Charges whereof some be Natural and meerly formal such are Angels and Spirits and others are both Formal and Material as the Sun Moon Stars as also such Natures as are Sublunary whether they be living after a sort as all
I will make more apparent by this next Example Azure a Maunch Or. This with the distinction of a Crescent Gules charged with another Or is the Paternal Coat-Armour of Edward Conyers Esq principal Store-keeper of his Majesties Ordnance and Armour in the Tower of London who is descended from the Family of Conyers late of Wakerly in the County of Northampton being a branch of that ancient Family of the Conyers of Sockburne within the Bishoprick of Durham whose Ancestors in the Reign of William the Conqueror had the Office of Constable of the Castle of Durham granted to them in Fee which Estate is yet continuing in the same Family though not in the same Name being descended to an only Daughter of 〈…〉 Conyers of Sockburne Esq who married the Right Honourable Francis late Earl of Shrewsbury From this Family is likewise descended the Right Honourable Conyers Lord Darcy Meynell and Conyers of Hornby Castle in the County of York whose Grand-father Thomas Darâ—y Esq married Elizabeth daughter and heir of Iohn Lord Conyers of Hornby And thence is also descended Tristram Conyers of Walthamstow in the County of Essex Serjeant at Law As touching Apparel we find that though the same be made chiefly to clothe our nakedness yet shall we find that they were not only ordained by the invention of man but also allowed and for some special end expresly commanded by God himself to be made and provided as well for glory as also for ornament and comliness as appeareth Exod. 28. Likewise thou shalt embroider the fine linnen Coat and thou shalt make the Mitre of fine linnen and thou shalt make the Girdle of needle work And for Aaron 's sons thou shalt make Coats and thou shalt make for them Girdles and Bonnets shalt thou make for them for glory and for beauty Rich Garments and costly Jewels are reckoned Ornaments as appeareth 2 Sam. 1. 24. Ye daughters of Israel weep over Saul who clothed you in scarlet with other delights who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel And they be called Ornaments because they do illustrate and adorn or beautifie the person that is garnished with them To this Head may be reduced all sorts of things whatsoever pertaining to the adorning decking or triming of the body as Combs Glasses Head-brushes Curling-bodkins c. and also Purses Knives c. Sir Thomas Palmer of Leigh near Tunbridge in Kent Kt. Grand-father to the elder Sir Henry Palmer Kt. before recited was owner of the Mannors of Tottington and Eccles in Aylesford and Boxley adjoying to Snodland aforesaid which came unto this Family by a match with a daughter of the Lord Poynings And Katharine Palmer this Sir Thomas Palmer's sister was married to Iohn Roe of Boxley in Kent Gent. Father of Reginald Roe of Leigh aforesaid Gent. Ancestor to Sir Thomas Roe Kt. living 1632. whose worthy merit in the discharge of many Embassages wherein he hath been imployed by this State deserves to be remembred with an honourable Character In respect we are now come to speak of Stamps and Coins I hold it not impertinent by the way to give some little touch of the Royalty of Coining It is therefore to be observed that the power to coin money hath been evermore reckoned to be one of the Prerogatives that in our common Law we do call Iura Regalia and pertaineth to the Sovereign Power amongst many Regal Immunities to that Supream Jurisdiction peculiarly belonging and to none others Nevertheless we read that Monarchical Kings and Sovereign States have imparted this Prerogative or Preheminence unto others their inferiours upon special acceptable service done or for whatsoever private respect as we may see Maccab. 15. 6. where amongst many other preheminences granted by Antiochus the son of Demetrius to Simon the high Priest which had been formerly granted to him by the Predecessors of Antiochus he enableth him to coin money saying I give thee leave to coin money of thine own stamp within thy Countrey To this Head must be reduced all other sorts of Bullion or Coin and whatever else pertaineth to traffick or commerce By this open Purse we may understand a man of a charitable disposition and a frank and liberal steward of the blessings which God hath bestowed upon him for the relief of the needyâ— Of such an one St. Hierome hath this saying Non memini me legisse mala morte mortuum qui libenter opera charitatis exercuit habet enim multos intercessores impossibile est multorum preces non exaudiri Though the shoe be an habit serving for the foot which is the most inferiour part of mans body yet it is not therefore to be contemned forasmuch as it is a note of progression and very behoveful for travellers In the Scriptures it is often taken for expedition as Psal. 60. In Idumaeam extendam calceamentum meum And proceeding to Idumea I will cast my shoe over it It was an ancient custome amongst the Israelites in transferring of possessions for him that departed therewith to pluck off his shoe and to deliver the same to his neighbour as now it is with us to pass livery and seisâ— of Inheritance by the delivery of a turf and sprigs taken off the ground and delivering the same to the Purchaser as appeareth in the Book of Ruth where it is said Now this was the manner before time in Israel concerning râ—deeming and changing for to stablish all things A man did pluck off his shoe and gave it to his neighbour and this was a sure witness By which Ceremony he publickly acknowledged that he had transferred and put over his whole right unto the Purchaser Ruth 4. 7 8 9. But in after Ages it seemeth the Jews passed Inheritances by Charters sealed and testified by witnesses a custome of use with us at this day at the Common Law as appeareth in the Prophesie of Ieremiah Men shall buy fields for money and make writings and seal them and take witnesses in the Land of Benjamin and round about Jerusalem c. 32. 44. And again Ier. 32. 25 And thon hast said unto me O Lord God buy unto thee a field for silver and take witnesses And I bought the field of Hananeel my Uncles son that was in Anathoth and weighed him the money even seventeen shekels of silver And I subscribed the Evidence and sealed it and took witnesses and weighed him the money in the balances c. Now since I am casually fallen upon this Argument of sealing of Deeds I hold it not amiss to give some little touch by the way of the first coming in of this custome of sealing in this our Nation which is now of so frequent use amongst us First it is to be observed that our Ancestors the Saxons had not the same in use for they used only to subscribe their Names commonly adding the sign of the Cross. And I need not to prove the same by the testimony of divers witnesses for this custome continued here in
Dorcas daughter of Richard Graves Esq deceased late Reader of Lincolns-Inn aforesaid He beareth Argent a Cross betwen four Spread-Eagles Gules by the Name of Strachey and is born by Iohn Strachey of Sutton-Court in Somersetshire Esq. He beareth Argent three Palmers Staves Sable the heads rests ends Or by the Name of Palmer and is the Coat-Armour of William Palmer of Winthorp in Lincolnshire Esq Captain of a Troop in the Regiment of his Graceâ— the Duke of Monmouth Captain-General of all his Majesties Land-Forces He beareth Gules on a Bend Or three Martlets Sable by the Name of Brabazon and is the Paternal Coat-Armour of Edward Brabazon of Ballyarthur in the County of Wickloe in the Kingdom of Ireland Esq second Son of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Meath deceased He beareth Ermyn on a Bend Sable two Hands and Arms to the Elbows issuing out of Clouds at the Elbows all proper holding an Horshoe Or by the Name of Borlace and is the Coat-Armour of Humphrey Borlace of Treluddro in the County of Cornwall Esq. He beareth Sable a Bend Ermyn between two Cottises flory Or by the Name of Keck and is the Paternal Coat-Armour of Anthony Keck of the Inner Temple London Esq He beareth Or a Bend engrailed between six Roses Gules by the Name of Warner and is the Paternal Coat-Armour of Iohn Warner of Brakenthwaite in the Parish of Kirby-Overblow in the West-Riding of Yorkshire Esq lineally descended from the Warners of Wárner-Hall in Essex Argent a Fess humid Gules between three Ravens rising to fly Sable born by Richard Peirce of the City of London Esq. He beareth Argent a Fess Nebule Gules between three Eagles displayed Sable by the Name of Cudmore and is the Coat-Armour of Thomas Cudmore of Kelvedon in Essex Esq son and heir of Thomas Cudmore Esq deceased by Dorothy eldest Daughter and Coheir of Sir Thomas Cecill Kt. son of Thomas Earl of Exeter by Dorothy Daughter and Coheir of Iohn Nevill Lord Latimer son and heir of Iohn Lord Latimer by Dorothy Daughter and Coheir of Sir George Vere Ktâ— which said Sir Thomas died Anno 1662. and lieth buried in Stamford-Baron in Northamptonshire amongst his Ancestors Per Pale Vert and Ermyn an Eagle displayed This Coat is born by Richard Goodlad of the City of London Esq. He beareth Gules a Cheveron Ermyn between three Flowers de Lis Argent by the Name of Crome and is the Paternal Coat-Armour of Valentine Crome of Mayden-Early in Berkshire Esq decended from the ancient Family of Lewis in Yorkshire Argent a Fess between three Flowers de Lis Sable by the Name of Evance which said Coat is born by Iohn Evance of the City of London Esq He beareth Gules a Quaterfoil Or by the Name of Rowe and is born by Anthony Rowe of St. Martins in the Fields in Middlesex Esq third son of Sir Tho. Rowe of Moswellhill in the said County Kt. Argent a Cheveron between three Cinquefoils Gules is born by Charles Beauvoir of the City of London Esq descended from the Family of the Beauvoirs in the Island of Garnsey He beareth Or two Barrs Azure in Chief three Escallop-hells Gules by the Name of Clark and is the Coat-Armour of Edward Clark of the Inner Temple London Esq son and heir of Edward Clark of Chipley in Somersetshire Esq He beareth Vert a Greyhound current in Bend Argent collared Gules studded Or by the Name of Blome and is born by Richard Blome of Abergwilly in Gaermarthenshire Esq by Io. Blome of Sevenoke in Kent Gent. and by Richard Blome of Chobham in the Parish of Westham in Essex Gent. This Coat being false cut in the body of the Book is here rectified He beareth Gules a Cheveron â—ngrailed Ermyn between three Eagles Argent by the Name of Child This with the Arms of Vlster is the Coat-Armour of Sir Iosias Child of Wanstead in the County of Essex Baronet He beareth Argent a Bend Sable in the sinister Chief a Garb Gules by the Name of Whitworth and is the Coat-Armour of Richard Whitworth of Adbaston in the County of Stafford Gent. He beareth Sable on a Bend Argent three Lozenges of the Field by the Name of Carington and was the Coat-Armour of Iohn Carington of Sponton in the North Riding of Yorkshire Gent. deceased second son of William Carington of Sponton aforesaid Esq who was second Brother to Iohn Carington of Carington in Cheshire Esq Thus having largely treated of all the parts of Atchievements our next business will be to represent them conjoyned together for which we will referr the Reader to the second part viz. Honour Military and Civil TO THE Generous Reader My Task is past my Care is but begun My Pains must suffer Censures for reward Yet hope I have now my great pains are done That gentle Spirits will quite them with regard For when my love to Gentry here they find My love with love they must requite by kind But if the ungentle Brood of Envies Grooms Misdoom my Pains no force they do their kind And I 'le do mine which is to scorn their Dooms That use unkindly a kind well-willing mind Thus I resolve Look now who will hereon My Task is past and all my Care is gone A Conclusion BUt He alone that 's free from all defect And only cannot erre true Wisdom's Sire Can without error all in All effect But weak are men in acting their desire This Work is filde but not without a flaw Yet filde with Pain Care Cost and all in all But as it were by force of Natures Law It hath some faults which on the Printers fall No Book so blest that ever scap'd the Press For ought I ever read or heard without Correctors full'st of Art and Carefulness Cannot prevent it Faults will flee about But here 's not many so the easier may Each gentle Reader rub away their stains Then when the verbal Blots were done away I hope their profit will exceed their pains Besides it may be thought a fault in me To have omitted some few differences Of Coronets of high'st and low'st degree But this I may not well a fault confess For 'twixt a Duke and Marquess Coronets Is so small odds as it is scarce discern'd As here i' th' Earl and Vicounts frontilets May by judicious Artists now be learn'd Then these are faults that Reason doth excuse And were committed wilfully because Where is no difference there is no abuse To Grace Arms Nature Order or their Laws This breaks no Rule of Order though there be An Order in Degrees concerning This If Order were infring'd then should I flee From my chief purpose and my Mark should miss ORDER is Natures beauty and the way To Order is by Rules that Art hath found Defect and excess in those Rules bewray Order's defective Nature 's much deform'd But ORDER is the Center of that GOD That is unbounded and All circumscribes Then if this Work hath any likelyhood Of the least good the
twofold Line Spirewise or Pyramidal the Foundation being in the Dexter and Sinister base points of the Escocheon and the acute Angle of the Spire near to the top of the Escocheon As in Example The Content of the Chevron is the fifth part of the Field according to Leigh but Chassanaeus reckoneth the same amongst those Ordinaries that do occupy the third part of the Field You may have two Chevrons in one Field saith Leigh but not above and if they exceed that number then shall you call them Chevron ways But I suppose they might be termed much better Chevronels that is to say minute or small Chevrons for so is their blazon more certain This Charge following and the Subdivisions thereof are diversly born as well in respect of the divers location as of the variable form thereof for sometimes it is born on chief otherwhiles on base sometimes enarched sometimes reversed sometimes fretted c. as after by Examples appeareth Argent two Cheverons Sable is the Coat-Armour of Sir Ioseph Ash of Twittenham in Middlesex Baronet and of William Ash of Hatchbury in Wiltshire Esquire Gules three Cheverons Or by the Name of Mathews and is born by Lemuel Mathews A. M. Arch-Deacon of Down in the Kingdom of Ireland and by his brother Man Mathews Vicar of Swansey in Glamorganshire Or three Chevrons Gules was the Coat of Robert base Son of Henry the First who was created Earl of Gloucester by his Father and had Issue William Earl of Gloucester which William had three Daughters and Coheirs viz. Isabel who was married to King Iohn Mabel who married to the Earl of Eureux and Amicia married to Richard Earl of Clare and Glocester This Robert built the Castles of Bristol and Cardiff and the Priory of St. Iames in Bristol where he lyeth interr'd This Coat with a due difference is born by Mr. Iohn Wise of the City of London Master Plummer to the Office of his Majesties Ordnance The Subdivisions of this Ordinary are Chevronel Couple-close A Chevronel is a diminutive of a Chevron and signifieth a minute or small Chevron and containeth half the quantity of the Chevron as for Example The next in order to the Chevron is the Barr. A Barr is composed of two Equi-distant Lines drawn overthwart the Escocheon after the manner of the Fess before-mentioned as in this next Escocheon appeareth A Barr is subdivided into a Closet Barulet A Closet is a Charge abstracted from a Barr and consisteth also of two Equi-distant Lines drawn overthwart the Escocheon As in Example Azure two Barrs Or is the Coat-Armour of the ancient Family of the Burdets of Warwickshire Argent two Barrs Sable is born by Edward Brereton of Burras in Deubighshire Esquire Hitherto of a Barr Now of a Gyron A Gyron is an Ordinary consisting of two streight Lines drawn from divers parts of the Escocheon and meeting in an acute Angle in the Fess point of the same A Gyron as one saith is the same that we call in Latin Gremium which signifieth a Lap and is the space between the Thighs and thence perchance do we call the Groyn which name whether it be given to this Charge because it determines in gremio in the very lap or midst of the Escocheon or because it hath a bending like the Thigh and Leg together I cannot define Gyrons are born diversly viz. single by couples of six of eight of ten and of twelve as shall appear hereafter where I shall speak of Arms having no tincture predominating For the making this Ordinary behold this next Escocheon where you shall find one single Gyron alone which doth best express the manner thereof as in Example So much of a Gyron Now of a Canton and Quarter A Canton is an Ordinary framed of two streight Lines the one drawn perpendicularly from the Chief and the other transverse from the side of the Escocheon and meeting therewith in an acute Angle near to the corner of the Escocheon as in this next appeareth Hitherto of a Canton now of a Quarter The Quarter is an Ordinary of like composition with the Canton and holdeth the same places and hath great resemblance thereof insomuch as the same Rules and Observations that do serve for the one may be attributed to the other Quia similium similis est ratio of like things the reason is alike The only difference between them is that the Canton keepeth only a cantle or small portion of the corner of the Escocheon and the Quarter comprehendeth the full fourth part of the Escocheon as in Example Having spoken of the Canton and Quarter as much as for this present is requisite I will reserve some other their adjuncts to a more convenient place And will now speak of a Pile shewing some variable Examples of the divers bearing thereof A Pile is an Ordinary consisting of a twofold Line formed after the manner of a Wedge that is to say broad at the upper end and so lessening by degrees throughout with a comely narrowness and Taper growth meeting together at the lower end in an acute Angle as in this next Escocheon appeareth The Pile I take to be derived from Pilum an ancient Weapon peculiar to the Romans shaped somewhat like a Dart without Feathers but thicker at the great end and waxing smaller Taper-wise being about five foot in length and sharpned at the point with Steel And such were the offensive Arms of the Hastati and Principes as Polybius of the Roman Militia affirmeth And Generals themselves have born them in their Marches perhaps to encourage the Souldiers by their Examples all which is proved by the excellent Lucan lib. 1. who lamenting the misery of a Civil War thus complains Totis concussi viribus orbis In commune nefas infestisque obvia signis Signa pares aquilas Pila minantia Pilis where arm'd to impious war The force of all the quaking world from far Is met dire Standards against Standards dash Eagles 'gainst Eagles 'gainst Piles Piles do clash And Lib. 7. sceleris sed crimine nullo Externum maculent Chalybem stetit omne coactum Circa Pila nef as But no dire crime could stain the Strangers Steel Nought could do mischief but the Roman Pile Lastly describing Cato's magnanimity in his rough March through Lybia he thus singeth Lib. 9. Ipse manu sua Pila gerens c. Thus Englished Himself afoot before his wearied Bands Marches with Pile in hand and not commands This Coat is also born by his Uncle the Right Honourable Denzel Holles Baron Holles of Ifield and one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. whose only Son and Heir apparent is Sir Francis Holles of Winterborn St. Martyn in Dorsetshire Baronet who hath Issue now living Denzel Holles c. Sometimes you shall find this Ordinary born transposed or reversed contrary to the usual form of their bearing viz. with their points upward which naturally ought to be downwards being supposed to be a piece of
or treading of all Beasts of Venery and Chase. That of a Hart Buck and all Fallow Deer Boar is termed SLot View Tract or Treading That of an Hare is tearmed according to her several Courses for when she keepeth in plain fields and chaseth about to deceive the Hounds it is said she Doubleâ—h but when she beateth the plain high-way where you may yet perceive her footing it is said she Pricketh Tearms of the Tayl. That of a Hart Buck Roe or any other Deer Boar Fox Wolf Hare and Coney is tearmed his Tayl. Single Wreath Bush or holy water sprinkle Stern Scut The fat of all sorts of Deer is called Suet. Also it may be very well said This Deer was a high Deer's Grease The fat of a Roe Boar and Hare is termed Bevy Grease Grease You shall say that a Hart Harboureth Buck Lodgeth Roe Beddeth Hare Seateh or Formeth Coney Sitteth Fox Kenneleth You shall say a Deer Hare Fox is Broken Cased Uncased You shall say Dislodge Start Unkennel Rowse Bowlt the Buck. Hare Fox Hart. Coney You shall say a Hart or Buck Roe Boar Hare or Coney Fox Wolf goeth to his the Rut. Tourn Brym Buck. Clicketting Match or to his Make. Tearms excogitated and used by Foresters Tou shall say a Hart Belloweth Buck Groaneth Roe Belleth Hare and Coney Beateth or Tappeth Fox Barketh Wolf Howleth You shall say a Litter of Cubs Nest of Rabbets Skilful Foresters and good Woodmen Do use to say a Herd Of Harts Herd All manner of Deer Bevy Roes Sounder Swine Rowt Wolyes Riches Marternes Brace or Lease Bucks Brace or Lease Foxes Brace or Lease Hares Couple Rabbets or Conies These are apt tearms of Hunting pertaining both to Beasts of Venery and of Chase. Whereas some men are of opinion that a Stag of what age soever he be shall not be called a Hart until the King or Queen have hunted him that is not so For after the fifth year of his age you shall no more call him a Stag but a Hart. So then at six years old he is called a Hart. Now if the King or Queen do hunt or chase him and he escape away alive then after such hunting or chasing he is called a Hart Royal. Note That if this Hart be by the King or Queen so hunted or chased that he be forced out of the Forest so farr that it is unlike that he will of himself return thitherto again and then the King or Queen giveth him over either for that he is weary or because he cannot recover him for that such a Hart hath shewed the King pastime for his delight and is also as Budeus noteth Eximius Cervus a goodly Hart and for that the King would have him return to the Forest again he causeth open Proclamation to be made in all Towns and Villages near to the place where the same Hart so remaineth That no manner of person or persons shall kill hurt hunt or chase him but that he may safely return to the Forest again from whence he came And then ever after such a Hart is called a Hart Royal proclaimed So that there are three sorts of Harts viz. Hart. Hart Royal. and Hart Royal proclaimed A Hind hath these Degrees First Second Third Year is called a Calf Brockets sister Hinde Good Foresters have observed that when a Hart hath past his sixth year he is generally to be called a Hart of Tenne and afterwards according to the increase of this Head Whether he be Crochod Palmed or Crowned When he breaketh Herd and draweth to the Thickets or Coverts the Foresters or Woodmen do say He taketh his hold Skilfull Woodmen describing the Head of a Hart do call the a Round Roll next the Head The Burr b Main Horn Beam c Lowest Antlier Browantliers d Next above thereunto Bezantliers e Next above that Royal. f Upper part of all Surroyal top And in a Buck's head they say c Burr b Beam d Braunche e Advancers a Palm Spellers And though every Gentleman is not an Armorist or a skilfull Woodman yet it is well-beseeming men of a generous race to have a superficial skill in either of these professions forasmuch as they both especially the former do well beseem the dignity of a Gentleman the one tending to the delight and recreation of the mind and the other to the health solace and exercise of the body that so in their mutual converse they may be able to deliver their minds in fit tearms in either kind and not in speeches either vulgar or obsolâ—te For which cause I here set down the tearms appropriated by skilfull Foresters and Woodmen to Beasts of Chase according to their several Names Seasons Degrees and Ages like as I have formerly done of Beasts of Venery as in Example Of Beasts of Chase the Buck is the first And is tearmed the First year a Fawn Second Pricket Third Sorel Fourth Sore Fifth Buck of the first head Sixth Buck or great Buck. Next to the Buck is the Doe being accounted the second Beast of Chase And is termed the First year a Fawn Second Prickets sister Third Doe The third Beast of Chase is a Fox which albeit he be said to be politick and of much subtilty yet is the variety of tearms of a Fox very scarce For in the First year he is called a Cub Second Fox Afterwarwards an old Fox or the like The Martern or Marton as some old Foresters or Woodmen do tearm them being the fourth Beast of Chase hath these tearms He is called the First year a Martern Cub Second Martern The fifth and last Beast of Chase is the Roe whose proper tearms pertaining to Chase are these He is said to be the First year a Kid. Second Girl Third Hein use Fourth Roe-buck of the first head Fifth Farr Roe-buck These Beasts of Chase do make their abode all the day time in the Fields and upon the Hills and high Mountains where they may see round about them afar off for preventing their danger For these are more timerous of their own safety than dangerous and harmful to men And in the night time when men be at rest and all things quiet then do they make their repair to the Corn-fields and Medows for food and relief for which respect they are called Campesties because they do haunt the Field and Champion grounds more than the Woods and thick Coverts or Thickets as we do most usually observe them This Coat with the difference of a second Brother is born by Iohn Bowen of Swansey in the said County Esq This Coat is also born by the Right Honourable William Earl of Devonshire Baron Cavendish of Hardwick and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Derby Gules three Bucks heads cabosed Argent is born by the Name of D'oyley and is the Coat-Armour of Sir VVilliam D'oyley of St. Margarets VVestminster in Middlesex Kt. Son and Heir of Sir VVilliam D'oyley of Shotisham in Norfolk Knight and Baronet Gules three Stags heads cabosed Or attired Argent is born
Arms of the said Order and then demeaned himself with such valour in Battel that after he had slain the Admiral of the Saracens with his own hand he sunk and put to flight the most part of their Foists Ships and Gallies and in fine redeemed the City of Acres from a perillous Naval siege For which benefit done to Religion the Knights of the said Order requested the said Earl of Savoy to advance for his Coat-Armour this Ensign here mentioned Since which time all those that entred the said Order have also had their Paternal Coat-Armour insigned with this Cross on the Chief of their Paternal Coat as followeth To these donative augmentations of Arms I will add certain Arms Assumptive which are such as a man of his proper right may assume as the guerdon of his valorous service with the approbation of his Sovereign and of the Herald As if a man being no Gentleman of blood or Coat-Armour or else being a Gentleman of blood and Coat-Armour shall captivate or take prisoner in any lawful warrs any Gentleman great Lord or Prince as saith Sir Iohn Ferne he may bear the shield of that prisoner and enjoy it to him and his heirs for ever if the same be not by like infortune regained be he Christian or Pagan for that is but a vain and frivolous distinction These are such as the Bearers or some of their Ancestors have forced from the enemy either in compelling him to flight and so to forsake his Arms or Ensigns or by strong hand surprise him prisoner in justo bello or having slain him so gained to himself jure gentium an absolute interest in the Ensigns of his conquered Foe And in this sense may that assertion of Bertolus be verified where he saith Et jam populares propria authoritate arma sibi assumere possunt but not otherwise because the base sort of men having no generous blood in them are not capable of Armorial Ensigns which are the badges of noble disposition or generous birth and therefore they ought not to be bestowed upon such persons Quia entia nolunt malè disponi Arist. Met. But in this sense it may be understood that he that is not descended of gentle blood is holden worthy to bear the Coat-Armour that he hath gained for the apparent tokens of vertue and valour that are found in him That the vanquisher may bear the Arms of the vanquished I shall make apparent by this next Example CHAP. IV. COncerning Coat-Armours marshalled within the Escocheon whereof the occasions are manifest we have hitherto intreated now of such as have their occasions less manifest Those are such as being hereditary Coat-Armours are so obscurely marshalled in one Escocheon as that thereby the beholder can yield no reason or yet conjectural probability of such their union nor may well discern them to be distinct Coats So as it often falleth out that they are mistaken for some new coined Coat rather than two Coats of distinct Families and so reckoned to be a Coat too bad to be born And such marshalling is either one above another or one upon another Of the first sort may we reckon the Coat-Armour of Browne before exemplified as also these following and their like Another form of bearing of divers Coats upon like occasion much different from this doth the same Author commend that is to say the bearing of the Mothers Arms upon the Fathers by the heir in a Bend And this doth he reckon to be the best manner of bearing such Arms saying Optimus certè modus portandi diversa arma in uno scuto habetur in istis Bendis quia habens patrimonium à suo patre dimissum alias certas terras per matrem sibi provenientes quibus quidem terris maternis certa appropriantur Arma ab antiquo ut fortè quia ipsa arma materna sortiuntur nomen progeniei suae Tunc ipse haeres si voluerit potest portare Arma integra sui patris in scuto plano in tali Benda potest portare Arma materna Of this form of bearing you may see a demonstration in this next Eschocheon Not unaptly may these Coats be said to be obscurely marshalled when the occasion thereof cannot be either certainly discerned or yet probably conjectured neither can it be with reason conceived whether the Superiour be born for the Fathers Coat or for the Mothers And thus much shall suffice concerning Coat-Armours marshalled within the Escocheon CHAP. V. AMongst the various bearings of Coat-Armour in this Book the Authour Mr. Guillim hath given no example of the bearing of women in a Lozenge as not under Covert Baron which being very necessary to be taken notice of I have here inserted the Arms of oâ—e few who for their Vertues and generous Educations may deservedly be made the Patterns of Bearings in this kind This manner of bearing in Lozenges by unmarried women may seem to take its rise or original from the Fusil or Spindle of Yarn single women being called Spinsters Nunquam à Lancea transibat ad fusum says Favine speaking of Salique Land It never past from the Launce to the Fusil Lozenge or Spindle But Plutarch gives a more noble and ancient derivation of this form of bearing where he tells us in the life of Theseus That in the City of Megara in his time the Tombs of Stone wherein the bodies of the Amazons lay inâ—erred were cut in the form or fashion of a Lozenge in imitation of their shields according to the manner of Greece Thus much for the bearing of Widows who may on no pretence whatsoever bear either their Paternal-Coat or their Husbands single for if in an Escocheon or Shield then it will be taken for the bearing of a man and if in a Lozenge then the bearing proper for a Maiden Gentlewoman CHAP. VI. IN the former Chapters hath been treated of such Coat-Armours as are marshalled within the Escocheon in order it now succeedeth to speak of marshalling without the Escocheon These are certain Ornaments externally annexed to the Coat-Armour of any Gentleman by reason of his advancement to some honour or place of eminency by the gracious favour of the Sovereign as an honourable addition to his generous birth Of these there are divers particulars which being conjoyned and annexed to a Coat-Armour do constitute an Atchievement An Atchievement according to Leigh is the Arms of every Gentleman well marshalled with the Supporters Helmet Wreath and Crests with Mantles and Words which of Heralds is properly called in Blazon Heawme and Timbre The French word Heaulme which we call in English an Helmet seemeth to have given derivation to that word Heawme And the word Timmer to our Timbre for that in the Almain Tongue is the same that we in Latin call Apex or Summitas acuminata and betokeneth the Crest that is usually born upon the Helmet For so doth Kiltanus Dufflene expound it calling it Timber of Timber van Den Helme which is as much to