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A60673	Britain's glory, and England's bravery wherein is shewed the degrees of honour from the prince to the peasant, with the honour of the nobles, and previleges of the commons, the proper places and precedency of all persons from the throne to the bondman, more particularly in coronations, processions, feasts, funerals and other great assembly : as also honour of arms, power of heralds, signification of charges in coat-armour, with an armorial dictionary, explaining the terms of heraldry, and an account of all the orders of knighthood in Christendom, and of the weights and measures of England : to which is added a continuation of The historians guide, from November, 1687, where the third and last impression ends, to June, 1687 / being the collections and observations of Benjamine Smithurst.	Smithurst, Benjamine.	1689 (1689)	Wing S4356; ESTC R31948	77,938	230

Right Honourable Truly Noble Potent Lord c. He may have a Traverse in his House except in his Superiour's presence his Wife may have her Train born up by a Woman out of her Superiours presence in their presence by a Man. CHAP. VIII Of Barons or Lords which are Spiritual and Temporal THe next and lowest Degree of Nobility is that of a Baron which is twofold Lords Spiritual and Temporal but first of the Lords Spiritual or Bishops § 1. By Lords Spiritual are meant only the Suffragan Bishops for the Archbishops are accounted of the prime Nobility of the Kingdom of which we have two viz. of Canterbury and York 1. The Archbishop of Canterbury had formerly great Honour so that no Legate or Nuntio from Rome could exercise any Legantine Power without the King 's special License else he was accountable to the Archbishop of Canterbury In General Councils he had place before all Archbishops at the Pope's right Foot and at home was reputed the second Person in the Kingdom or first Peer of the Realm having Precedency of all Dukes not of the Royal Bloud and of all the great Officers of State. He hath Power to summon the Archbishop of York and the Bishops of his Province to a National Synod He is styled even by the King by the Grace of God and writes himself by Divine Providence as doth the Archbishop of York whereas other Bishops write by Divine Permission He hath the Title of Grace given him as Dukes have and of most Reverend Father in God and Metropolitan of all England The Coronation of the King hath anciently belonged to him it being resolved that wheresoever the Court was the King and Queen were the proper and Domestical Parishioners of the Archbishop of Canterbury The Bishop of London is accounted his Provincial the Bishop of Winchester his Chancellour and the Bishop of Rochester his Chaplain He hath under his Jurisdiction twenty one Suffragan Bishops seventeen in England and four in Wales His Clergies Tenths are 65.1 l. 18 s. 2¼ d. his Archbishoprick is valued in the King's Book at 2816 l. 17 s. 9¼ d. He may qualifie and retain eight Chaplains which is two more than a Duke may 2. The Archbishop of York pretended anciently to have all the Bishops of Scotland under his Inspection and that they should receive their Consecration from him and swear Canonical Obedience to his See he is allowed to write himself Metropolitan of England but not of All England as Canterbury doth but at length the Bishops of Scotland would not acknowlege any such Power to him and disowned all Obedience to him and had Archbishops of their own Anno 1466. leaving him in England but four Bishops His Bishoprick is now valued at 1609 l. 19 s. 2 d. And the Tenths of the Clergy to 1113 l. 17 s. 9 d. 10 b. 1. qu. he hath Precedency before all Dukes not of the Royal Bloud and before all great Officers of State except the Lord Chancellour or Lord Keeper He hath the Title of Grace and most Reverend Father in God and he writeth by Divine Providence He hath the Honour to crown the Queen and to be her perpetual Chaplain and hath great Privileges only Durham hath a peculiar Jurisdiction exempt from the See of York Having made this Digression we come next to speak of the Suffragan Bishops who though they have some peculiar Precedencies amongst themselves yet in general they are esteemed as Barons and from thence have the names of Lords Spiritual In their own Courts they have power to judge and pass Sentence alone and therefore they send forth their Writs in their own name and not in the King 's In whatever Princes Dominions they are their Episcopal Dignity and Degree is owned In Parliament they Vote in all things except in matter of Life and Limb. They have the Title of Lord are styled Right Reverend Fathers in God and write by Divine Permission They may qualifie 6 Chaplains which are as many as a Duke and are Barons and Peers of the Realm And as Spiritual Barons precede all under the Degree of a Viscount and are placed on the King 's Right Hand in Parliament All Church-men are prohibited the wearing of Swords and a Priest the Order of Knighthood § 2. Of Barons Temporal We may observe that the word Baron is variously derived some from the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some from Baro which is the same with Vir in Latine and with Varon in the Spanish so that Baron signifies a notable or principal man thus anciently the Burgesses of London were called Barons as those of the Cinque-Ports now are but leaving the Name to speak of the Person a Baron the Archbishops excepted is a Dignity next to a Viscount and though according to Cambden they are not by our Common Laws allowed to be of the Degree of Nobility yet this of a Baron may be by Tenure for the Title of Baron by Patent which is under the Broad-Seal of England is Status Gradus Dignitas and being by the King 's Writ summoned as Members of the higher House of Parliament they are thereby made Nobles and Peers of the Realm As they are Barons without any other Distinction they wear a Coronet by the Ordinance of King Charles the 2d having six Balls or Pearls set close to the Border at equal distance and have their peculiar Parliament Robes which have two doublings of white Furr Thus far of Noble Men. CHAP. IX Of Noble Women and first of the Queen THere are three sorts of Queens 1. A Queen-Sovereign to whom the Crown descends by Birth-right and is equal in Power to a King if she marry she is Sovereign to her Husband and he her Subject in England though he be an Emperour 2. The Queen-Consort She hath very great Privileges and the Laws set so high a value on her as to make it High Treason to conspire her Death or violate her Chastity her Robes are the same with a Sovereign Queen She sits in State by the King keeps her Court and hath the same General Officers as the King hath though she be an Alien she needs no Act of Parliament to natralize her the Crown taking away that defect She hath the same Honour performed to her that the King hath as well from Foreigners as Subjects 3. The Queen-Dowager She hath the same Honour done to her also and takes place next the Queen-Consort nor doth she lose her Title of Queen though she marry a private Gentleman as Queen Katharine Widow to Henry the 5th who though she married Owen Tudor Esq yet she maintained her Action at Law as Queen of England So in King Edward the 6th's Time Sir Thomas Seymer Lord high Admiral having married the Queen Dowager to Henry the 8th she denied Precedency to her Sister in Law the Lord Protectour's Wife as belonging to her as Queen which was aggravated so high that it proved the untimely Deaths of those two famous Men. The King's

Daughters are all Princesses the Eldest is called the Princess Royal and her Royal Highness All Noble Mens Baronets and all Knights Wives are in Writings called Dames whence comes the name Madam Esquires and Gentlemens Wives are called Gentlewomen Noble Women are so either by Descent Creation or Marriage all which shall remain Noble although they marry under their Degree If a Gentleman or a Peer marry a Wife of ignoble Birth she shall enjoy the Title and Dignity of her Husband all her Life but it is by the Courtesie not by the Law of England to give it her after her Husband's Death If a Woman of Bloud marry a mean Person he is not at all advanced but she shall retain her own Honour and if she be an Heiress and have a Child by such ignoble Person her Son may bear her Coat Armour but this is disputed by many and denied by some yet there are Examples of it but are too long to recite here An Alien Woman married to a Peer can have no privilege by her Husband unless she be naturalized The King may create any Woman to any Title of Honour by Letters Patents to them and their Heirs which Heirs shall enjoy all the Titles and Honours due to their Mothers as if she be a Duchess he shall be a Duke c. and many Men have claimed Titles of Honour and Dignity in Right of the Wives by marrying the Sole Heiress of a Noble-man who had those Honours And the Children of those persons so claiming have enjoyed the said Titles in right of their Mothers but if they have no Children the Husband loseth the Title CHAP. X. Of Injuries done to Noble Men. THus far briefly of the several Degrees of Noble Men of whom the Laws of this Land are so carefull as to make provision in a most especial manner to preserve their Honour and Reputation indempnified and therefore in the 2d of Ric. II. Chap. 1. it is enacted That all spreaders of false and reproachfull Words and Lyes against the Nobility Prelates and great Men in publick Offices the offender shall incurr the Punishment ordained by the Statute of Westminster Chap. 33. which ordains That the offender be imprisoned untill he have found the first reporter And in the 12th of Rich. II. Chap. 12. it is enacted That if the Offender doth not or cannot find the first reporter then he shall be punished by Advice of the Council In the first and second of Philip and Mary it was enacted That the Justices of the Peace in the Shire County City or Town Corporate shall have full Power to hear and determine the Causes abovesaid and that besides such Penalties as shall be inflicted by such Justices c. on the offender every Noble Man Prelate or great Officer against whom such scandalous Words false News or Lyes are spread or spoken may prosecute the offender in an Action of Scandalum Magnatum and recover Damages If any Noble Man or Gentleman's Coat-Armour or Sword c. at the solemnizing of his Funerals be set up in the Church for the Honour of the Deceased and is by the Incumbent or any other taken down by pretence of Right as Offerings due to him or if they be otherwise defaced by any other Person he or they may be punished as Malefactours but the Action must not be brought by the Widow but by the Heir as Defender of his Ancestour's Honour CHAP. XI Of Knights of the Garter WE proceed to those Degrees of Honour that are less Noble and accounted amongst Commoners The first of which the Knights of the Noble Order of the Garter they are called the Knights of St. George and were instituted by King Edward the 3d. Anno 1350. which was fifty years before the Order of St. Michael in France 229 years before the Order of the Holy Ghost in France 80 years before the Order of the Golden-Fleece in Burgundy and 209 years before that of the Elephant in Denmark The Ceremonies of this Order are many and too long to recite the occasion was that King Edward the 3d might more firmly unite the hearts of his principal Peers and Friends to him in the French Wars the Number is 26 whereof the King is Sovereign and upon the Death of any one another is to be chosen by the King The Honourableness of this Order appears by the many Noble Personages who have took up this Order there having been eight Emperours seven Kings of Portugal five Kings of Denmark three Kings of Naples two Kings of Scots before the Union two Kings of Sweden besides many of the German and Italian Princes August the 25th 1685. The Knights of this Order were as followeth King of Denmark The Sovereign King of Sweeden Prince of Orange Prince Elector of Brandenburgh   Prince George of Denmark   Duke of Ormond   Duke of Buckingham   Earl of Oxford   Earl of Strafford   Duke of Albemarle   Duke of Beaufort   Earl of Bedford   Duke of Southampton   Earl of Mulgrave   Duke of New-Castle   Earl of Danby   Duke of Grafton   Duke of Richmond   Duke of Hamilton   Duke of Somerset   Duke of Northumberland   Duke of Norfolk   Earl of Peterborough   Earl of Rochester   Earl of Feversham then Installed   Knights of this Order as they are April 1689. King of Denmark The Sovereign King of Sweeden P. Elector of Brandenburgh Prince George of Denmark   Earl or Oxford   Earl of Strafford   Duke of Beaufort   Earl of Bedford   Duke of Southampton   Earl of Mulgrave   Duke of Newcastle   Earl of Danby   Duke of Grafton   Duke of Richmond   Duke of Hamilton   Duke of Somerset   Duke of Northumberland   Duke of Norfolk   Earl of Peterborough   Earl of Rochester   Earl of Feversham   Earl of Sunderland   Duke of Ormond   Duke Fred. Mares de Schomberg   Earl of Devonshire   They wear as their daily Habit the Immage of St. George encountering the Dragon set with Pearl and precious Stones hanging in a blew Ribbon always about their Neck they have also a Garter enamelled with Gold Pearl and precious Stones with a Motto Honi soit qui mal y pense embroydered upon it which is fastened with a Buckle about their left Leg from whence they are called Knights of the Garter King Charles the first added to these that all these Knights should always wear on the left side of their Cloaks or Coats a Star of Silver embroidered with the Escouchen of St. George viz Argent a Cross Gules encircled with the Garter without these they are not to appear in publick The Robes more peculiarly belonging to the Order are a Cassock of Crimson Velvet lined with white Sarsenet a Mantle of purple Velvet lined with white Sarsenet also on the left Shoulder whereof is an Escouchen of St. George embroidered and encircled with the Garter and Motto these are only worn