three Waterbougets Argent Bingham Thirteenth Argent a Crosse patee Azure Mâ—lpas Fourteenth Sable three Saltiers engrailed Argent Lexington Fifteenth Argent on a Crosse Gules five Mullets Sable Bodenham Sixteenth Sable three Pick-axes Argent Pigot Seventeenth Argent a Crosse patee Azure a Label Gules Bevercote Over all in an Escocheon of pretence France a Lyon Rampant Or a Cressent for a difference by the name of Beaumont Hereon three Crests first on a Wreath or Torce Or and Azure a Dragons head erased Sable mantled as the Wreath Secondly or middlemost a plume of Feathers Argent and Sable on a Wreath Argent and Azure mantled Azure doubled Argent Thirdly a Foxes head erased Gules on a Wreath Argent and Sable mantled Sable doubled Argent set on three open Helmets befitting the degree of a Knight Motto Fe mid un buen hidalgo being an Anagram of his name thus englished Faith measures a good Cavalier This is the Atchievement of Sir Wingfield Bodenham son of Sir Francis Bodenham son of Sir William Bodenham of Ryhall in the County of Rutland Knights descended of a younger son of Sir John Bodenham of Nonington in the County of Hereford Knight Here you may observe the difference betwixt the Helmet of an Esquire and a Knight being the third degree of Gentry OMNIA DESVPER THe next in order and degree of precedency is an hereditary honour entituled Baronets quasi Petit Barons of whose creation priviledges and other concernments you may be more fully satisfied in a supplement to this Book being a peculiar account of this Order He beareth two Coats quarterly First Or two Lyons Passant Gardant Gules Secondly Or a Fesse Varry between three Cinquefoyles Gules and are both borne by the name of Ducy An Inescocheon with the Armes of Vlster or Tyrone viz. Argent a sinister hand coupee Gules the Crest on a Helmet befitting a Baronet a Chapeau Gules lined Ermine thereon an Estrich rowsant Or Mantled Gules doubled Argent which is the bearing of the Honourable Sir William Ducy of Tortworth in the County of Glocester Baronet heir to his Brother Sir Richard Ducy Baronet deceased sons of Sir Robert Ducy Lord Mayor of London 1630. created Baronet 1629. Nov. 28. Knighted 1631. who by his wife Elizabeth Daughter of Richard Pyot Alderman of London had issue beside the said Sir Richard and Sir William Ducy Robert third son Hugh Ducy fourth Son and John Ducy fifth Son deceased DE BON VOVLOIR SERVIR LE ROY THis is the Atchievement of the Right Honourable William Grey Baron Grey of Warke in the County of Northumberland who was by King James created Baronet June 15. 1619. Son of Sir Ralph Grey of Chillingham in the said County Knight extracted from a long continuation of Knights of eminence and large estates in that County one of whom Sir John Grey was by King Henry the fifth for his good service in France created Earle of Tanquerville there see Vincent This Noble Gentleman was by the said King created Lord Grey of Warke to him and his heirs males 11. Feb. 1623. and is living 1660. he married the virtuous Lady Cecilia eldest Daughter and co-Co-heir of Sir John Wentworth of Costiel in Suffolk Knighted 1603. created Baronet 1611. by Katharine Daughter of Sir Moyle Finch and Elizabeth Countess of Winchelsey by whom he hath issue living the Honourable Thomas Grey Esquire eldest son Ralph second son and two Daughters Elizabeth and Katharine He beareth Ruby a Lyon Rampant within a Bordure engrailed Pearl by the name of Grey a Scocheon of pretence Diamond a Cheuron between three Leopards heads Topaz by the name of Wentworth For his Creast on a Barons Helmet and Wreath of his colours a Scaling Ladder Topaz the Grapple or iron Hooks Saphire his Supporter on the dexter side a Lyon gardant Purple purfled and crowned Topaz on the sinister side a Cat-a-mountain Proper viz. greyish erect on a Scroll therein his Lordships Motto De bon Vouloir Servir Le Roy. DIEV DEFENDE LE DROIT THis was the Atchievement of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Spenser Knight Baron Spenser of Wormeleiton in the County of Warwick deceased father of William now Baron Spenser which Robert Lord Spenser was most worthily advanced to that degree by our late Soveraign Lord King James Anno regni sui primo in regard of his Lordships many Noble vertues be fitting that Dignity who bare eight Coats marshalled in one Shield as followeth viz. First quarterly Pearle and Ruby the second and third charged with a Fret Topaz over all on a Bend Diamond three Escalops of the first being the ancient Coat belonging to this noble Family as a branch descended from the Spensers Earles of Gloucester and Winchester The second is Saphire a Fesse Ermine between six Sea-mewes heads erased Pearl born also by the name of Spenser The third is Ruby three Stirrops leathered in Pale Topaz by the name of Deverell The fourth is Topaz on a Crosse Ruby five Stars Pearl by the name of Lincolne The fifth is Pearl a Cheuron between three Cinquefoiles pierced Ruby by the name of Warsteede The sixth is Ermine on a Cheuron Ruby five Beisants a Cressant in chief of the second by the name of Graunt The seventh is Pearl on a bend between two Lyons Rampand a Wiverne with the wings overt of the first by the name of Rudings The eighth and last is party per Cheuron Saphire and Topaz three Lyoncels passant gardant counter-changed a chief Pearl by the name of Catlyn all within the Escocheon And above the same upon a Helmet fitting the degree of a Baron a Mantle Ruby doubled Pearl thereupon within a Crown Topaz a Griffons head with wings displayed Pearl gorged with a Gemew Ruby And for his Supporters on the Dexter side a Griffon parted per fesse Pearl and Topaz gorged with a Collar Diamond charged with three Escalops Pearl whereunto is affixed a Chain reflected over his loynes Diamond Armed Ruby And on the Sinister side a Wiverne Pearl gorged also with a Collar whereunto is affixed a Chain reflexed over the hinder parts Diamond His Motto DIEV DEFENDE LE DROIT God defend the right being a worthy testimony both of his own honourable affection to right and equity and also of his Lordships repose and confidence not in the assistance of earthly honour and wealth but in the only providence of the all-righteous and all-righting God This noble Lord was a president and patern of all honourable vertues munificence and affection to Heroick profession and knowledge I out of the obligation of my devoted mind thought it best to produce his Coat-Armour as â—e patern of all other Atchievements of that degree Of Barons THe reason of the name of Barons is not so well known in England as is their greatness Some derive it from a Greek word Baru signifying Gravity as being men whose presence should represent that which their Title doth imply The French Heralds take Barons to be Par-homines Peeres or men of equall dignity
same Metall or Colour A Garbe of Wheate yet shall you finde their band sometimes of a diverse Metall or Colour from them To this Head must be referred all other sorts of Nutritive Herbes borne in Coat-Armour Reference whether they produce Graine in Eare Cod or Huske or that they be Herbes for the Pot or Sallads as Betonie Spinage Coleworts Lettice Purslain Leeks Scallions c. All which I leave to observation because I labour by all means to pass thorough this vast Sea of the infinite varieties of Nature with what convenient brevity I may because Quod brevius est semper delectabilius habetur in such things as these The shorter the sweeter SECT III. CHAP. X. Herbs lesse nutritive NExt after Herbs Nutritive let us take a taste of Herbs lesse Nutritive which are either Coronary or Physicall Coronary Herbs are such as in respect of their odoriferous smell have been of long time and yet are used for decking and trimming of the body or adorning of houses or other pleasurable use for eye or sent as also in respect of their beautifull shape and colour were most commonly bestowed in making of Crowns and Garlands of which uses they received their name of Coronary Amongst which we may reckon the Rose before expressed to be one of the chiefest as also Violets of all sorts Glove-Gilloflowers Sweet Marjoram Rosemary White Daffadill Spikenard Rose Campion Daisies c. But of all other the Flower de lis is of most esteem Estimation of the Flower de-lis having been from the first Bearing the Charge of a Regall Escocheon originally borne by the French Kings though tract of time hath made the Bearing of them more vulgar even as Purple was in ancient times a wearing onely for Princes which now hath lost that prerogative through custome Out of these several kinds I have selected some few Examples as in the Escocheons following appears He beareth Saphire a Flower de lis Pearle by the name of Digby of which Family there are many worthy accomplisht branches as George Earle of Bristol and the Lord Sherburne his son Sir Kenelme and John Digby Esquire his son who married that excellent Lady the Lady Katharine Daughter of Henry Howard late Earle of Arundell the Lord Digby of Geshull c. He bears Vert a Flower de lis Argent by the name of Fowke or Foulke an ancient and spreading Family of which a deserving Ornament is Thomas Foulke now Alderman of London He beareth Ermine a Flower de lis on a Chief Sable a Mullet Or by the name of Gaire and was borne by Sir John Gaire late Alderman and Mayor of London who left issue male John Gaire Esquire since deceased and Robert Gaire a hopefull Gentleman He beareth Or Cheuron between three Flowers de lis a Cheuron between three Flowers de Lis Sable This Coat-Armour pertaineth to the very worshipfull Sir Thomas Fanshaw Knight of the Bath his Majesties Remembrancer of his Highnes Court of Exchequer This Flower is in Latine called Iris for that it somewhat resembleth the colour of the Rainbow Some of the French confound this with the Lily as he did who doubting the validity of the Salike-Law to debarre the Females from the Crown of France would make it sure out of a stronger Law because forsooth Lilia non laborant neque nent the Lillies neither labour nor spin which reason excludes as well a Laborious Hercules as a spinning Omphale He beareth Argent on a Cheuron Gules between three flowers de lis Sables an Inescocheon of the first charged with a sinister hand couped at the wrist as the second This is the Coat-armour of that Noble Knight and Baronet Sir Basill Dixwell of Folkston in Kent deceased Whose reall expressions of true love and affection to his native Country deserves commemoration and is now borne by the honourable John Dixwell Esquire a member of this Parliament and one of the Counsell of State Nephew to the said Sir Basill Here I name of the first and as the second to avoid iteration of the same words according to the rule formerly given He beareth Gules a Fesse wavy between three Flowers de lis Or by the name of Hicks which is the Coat of Sir William Hicks of Beverston in Glocestershire Knight and Baronet now of Essex and was also the bearing of Sir Baptist Hicks Knight and Baronet Viscount Campden in Glocestershire a munificent Benefactour to that Town and also to severall places in Middlesex He beareth Sable on a Cheuron engrailed between six crosses Patee-Fitchee Cheuron charged upon Or three flowers de lis Azure each charged on the top with a Plate by the name of Smith of Nybley in the county of Glocester The Plate is the representation of Silver Bullion fitted for the stamp and therefore need not have other Blazon than its own name Armorists hold that this bearing of Sable and Or answers to Diamond joyned with Gold whereof each giveth honour to the other and it may well beseem a Bearer whose sober and well composed conditions are accompanied with the lustre of shining vertues Bend interposed He beareth Sable a Bend Argent between six Flowers de lis Or by the name of Redmere This Coat-Armour have I added in regard of the variety of bearing hereof from those before handled inasmuch as in this one Escocheon is comprehended the full number contained in both the former as also to make known in what manner these or other Charges of like Bearing must be placed the same being borne entire But if they were strowed or as I may better term it Seminated all over the Field then were it not a bend between but upon or over them forasmuch as in such bearing onely the halves of many of them or some greater or lesser portion of them would appear aswell under the Bend as in the limits or edges of the Escocheon He beareth Argent on a Crosse Sable five flowers de lis of the first This Coat-Armour in the time of King Henry the fourth appertained unto Robert le-Neve of Tivetishall in the County of Norfolke as appeareth by Seals of old Deeds and ancient Rolles of Armes from whom are descended those of that surname now remaining at Aslactun Witchingham and other places in the said County If this Crosse were seminated all over with Flowers de lis shewing upon the sides or edges thereof but the halves of some of them then it should be blazoned Semie de flowers de lis And the like is to be observed when they be so borne upon any other Ordinary or Charge He beareth Argent on a Saltire Sable five flowers de li Or This Coat-armour pertaineth to Sir Thomas Hawkins of Nash in Kent Knight I have inserted this Escocheon not onely to shew you that this flower is borne upon this kind of Ordinary but also to give demonstration that the Saltire charged containeth the third part of the field according to the rule formerly given He beareth
mind is the field intention the Tillage care the seed labour the harvest if thou Husband the field diligently thou shalt receive a plentifull harvest Sometime ease and quietnesse becometh restlesse and troublesome therefore ought we evermore to be in action and exercised in some good Arts or Studies as often as we find our selves ill affected with sloth and idlenesse which cannot abide it self Many are the Instruments pertaining to Husbandry I will make choyce of some of the chiefest and of most frequent use in Coat-Armour He giveth his mind to make Furrowes and is diligent to give the Kine fother Wheeles are the Instruments whereby Chariots Wagons and such like things are carryed both speedily and with great facility and they are so behoovefull for these uses as that if any one of them happen to fall off the whole carriage must either stand still or at least is forced forward with great difficulty As we may see Exod. 14. where God took off the Wheeles of the Chariots of the Aegyptians that vehemently prosecuted the Israelites as appeareth verse 25. And he took off their Chariot Wheeles and they drove them with much adoe so that the Aegyptians said I will flye from the face of Israel for the Lord fighteth for them against the Aegyptians The Wheele is called in Latin Rota à rotunditate or else as some hold a ruendo quia in declive faciliter â—uit because it rowleth down suddenly from the steep declining part of the ground Other sorts of Wheeles there are which albeit they are not meet for Husbandry yet I have held it fit to annex them to these in respect of their near resemblance as in these examples may be seen Under this Head may we aptly bestow all other Instruments pertaining either to Husbandry or to the severall Trades of Shepheards Vinedressers Bakers Brewers Vintners c. for that these are all grounded upon Agriculture or Husbandry SECT IV. CHAP. VII AGriculture is for meer necessity clothing is partly for it and partly for ornament and decency but had not Man sinned he had not needed clothing which were worth the considering by those who are so proud of their apparell As touching such Arts or Trades that we call Handycraft or Mechanicall professions so called perhaps of Moecha which signifieth an Harlot or an Adulterous person for that as an Harlot covnterfeiteth the modest behaviour of a modest Matrone so do Mechanicall Artizans labour to resemble the works of Nature In quantum possunt These are not performed so much by wit and invention like as the Arts Liberall are as they be by exercise of the Limbs and labour of the body And hereof they are thought to be called Arts ab artubus which properly do signifie the muscles sinewes or other ligaments of the Body but metaphorically it is often taken for the limbs themselves that are so combined and connected together How meanly soever we reckon of these in a Relative comparison to the Arts Liberall neverthelesse it is clear that these no lesse than those do proceed from the immediate gift of God as doth plainly appear by Bâ—zaleel and Aholiab Exod. 35.3 and are no lesse behovefull and necessary for mans use and for the support of humane traffick and society as we may see Ecclesiast 38.31 Where after he had made mention of the care and diligence the Carpenter Porter and Smith and other men of Trade do use in their severall professions he concludeth thus All these trust their hands and every one bestoweth his wisdome in his worke Without these cannot the Citties be maintained nor inhabited hereby we see the necessity of these Artificiall or Mechanicall Trades or professions With little reason may any man contemn the Tokens of Instruments pertaining to Mechanicall Trades or professions sithence they are express notes of Trades so very behoovefull for the use of mans life and their exquisite skil and knowledge issued out of the plentiful Fountain of Gods abundant Spirit In things Artificiall that manner of translation is reckoned the more worthy from which it is extracted than that whereunto it is transferred acording to that saying Transmutatio in rebus Artificialibus famosius dicitur esse de genere ejus ex quo quà m ad quod Under this Head must be reduced all manner of Tooles and Instruments borne in Coat-armour and pertaining to the severall Trades of Weaving Fulling Dying Sheering c. As also such as do pertain to the severall mysteries or occupations of Embroiderers Sempsters and such others Amongst Artificers and men of Trade saith Chassaneus this is a note of observation that each one is to be preferred before other according to the dignity of the Stuffe whereon he doth exercise his Trade Hereto we will annex some examples of Taylory As touching apparell we find that though the same be made chiefly to cloath our nakedness yet shall we find that they were not only ordained by the invention of Man but also allowed and for some speciall end expresly commanded by God himself to be made and provided as weâ— for glory as also for ornament and comelinesse as appeareth Exod. 2â— 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 Aarons 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 apparell And they be called Ornaments because they do illustrate and adorne 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 trimming of the body as Combes Glasses Head-brushes Curling-Bedkins c. And also Purses Knives c. Sir Thomas Palmer of Leigh near Tunbridge in Kent Knight Grandfather to the Elder Sir Henry Palmer Knight before recited was owner of the Mannors of Tottington and Eccles in Aylesford and Boxley adjoyning to Snodland aforesaid which came unto this Family by a match with a daughter of the Lord Poynings and Katharine Palmer this S. Thomas Palmers Sister was married to Jhon Roe of Boxley in Kent Gent. Father of Reginald Roe of Leigh aforesaid Gentleman ancestor to Sir Thomas Roe Knight now 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 Royalty of Coyning In respecct we are now come to speake of Stamps and Coines I hold it not impertinent by the way to give some little touch of the Royaltie of Coining It is therefore to be observed that the power to Coine money hath been evermore reckoned to be one of the Prerogatives that in our common Law we doe call Jura Regalia and pertaineth
Marquess and Earl of Hartford Baron Seymour and Beauchamp invested in the Title of Marquess Hartford by King Charles June the third 1641. in the seventeenth year of his reign Grandchild and Heir to Edward created Earl of Hartford in the first year of Queen Elizabeth by Katharine Daughter and Heir of Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk and Frances his Wife eldest Daughter and Coheir of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk and Mary his Wife Queen Dowager of France second Sister and at last Coheir of King Henry the eighth which Earl Edward was Son of Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset c. Brother to Queen Jane Mother of King Edward 6. to whom he was Protectour He bears six Coats quarterly First Topaz on a Pile Ruby between six Flowers de lis Saphire three Lyons of England which was an Agumentation of King Henry the eighth Secondly Ruby two wings impaled Topaz Milles calls them two wings volant Brook two wings conjoynd in Fesse and another two wings in Lure by the name of Seymour Thirdly Varry by the name of Beauchampe Fourthly Pearl three demy Lyons Rampant Ruby Fifthly per Bend Pearl and Ruby three Roses counter-changed Sixthly and lastly Pearl on a Bend Ruby three Leopards heads Topaz on which a Marquesses Crown thereon a Helmet of the same quality then for his Crest out of a Crown a Phoenix sacrificing her self all proper Mantled Ruby doubled Ermine Supported on the dexter side by an Unicorn Pearl gorged with a Crown chained Armed and Crined Topaz on the sinister side by a Bull Saphire gorged with a Crown and String reflexed Armed and Crined Topaz his Motto Foy pour devoir these have been the ancient quarterings of this noble Family and are continued though they have the same right as above appears to Grey Brandon and the Arms of England also with a due difference FIDEI COTICVLA CRVX THis is the Atchievement of the High and Mighty Prince George Duke Marquess and Earl of Buckingham Earl of Coventry Viscount Villiers and Baron of Whaddon whose Family were of signall note in Leicestershire for many hundred years whose Marshallings are thus blazoned He bears six Coats quarterly First Pearl on a Cross Ruby five Escallops Topaz which was an Augmentation as I am inform'd conferd upon one of this Family for service in the holy Land as appears by the bearing Secondly Diamond a Fesse between three Cinquefoyles Pearl by the name of Villiers Thirdly Topaz two Bars Saphire a Chief quarterly two Flowers de lis of France and a Lyon of England by the name of Manors Fourthly Ruby three Waterbougets Pearl Fifthly Saphire a Catherne Wheele Topaz Sixthly Topaz two Cheurons and a Border Ruby by the name of Trusbut a Martlet for a difference which foure last Coats are borne by his grace as the principall of many he may quarter in right of his Mother Katharine Daughter and sole heir of Francis Manors sixth Earl of Rutland Lord Roos of Hamelake Belvoir and Trusbut c. And for his Crest on a Crown Ducall and Helmet befitting that degree a Lyon Rampant Pearl Crowned Topaz standing on a Wreath or Torce of his colours Mantled Ruby and Ermine supported by a Horse on the dexter side daple Grey and on the sinister by a Stag Pearl Attired Proper his Motto Fidei coticula Crux The chief Attributes of God are his Power Wisdome Goodnesse in all which the nearer any King cometh to the imitation of that prime Idea the more truly doth he deserve that glorious name and expresse the noble nature of a King Which all Countries in part have shewed by the severall Titles given to their Soveraigns most Nations calling them Reges for government which cannot be as it should be without the said three Regall properties and the Saxons our ancestors call them Kings of Cynning a word signifying both cunning or wisdome and also Power whereby all Kings can do much more than good Kings will do The beginning of Kingly power was from the first created man who was made an absolute but fatherly Soveraign over all and the necessity of such a Chief was so great even in the eye of Nature that as there are no flocks or heards of beasts but have one leader of their own kind so there is no Nation so brutish or barbarous but have found the necessity and use of having a King over them to rule them and administer justice to them which is the prime office of a King and that such hath alwayes been the office of Kings of this our Island our own ancient and learnedst Lawyers testify For Rex saith Bracton non alius debet judicare si solus ad id sufficere posset c. Whence a latter learned Lawyer gathereth most truly that though the King substitute other to minister justice under him yet himself is not discharged of that authority when himself please as often as our Kings have done in person to sit and take notice of causes and likewise the Royall Oath at his Coronation runneth Facies fieri in omnibus judiciis tuis aequam certam justitiam c. And that such was the Kings absolute Jurisdiction in this Kingdom before the Conquest also the same Author so copiously proveth that it is ignorance to deny it and folly to enlarge the proof of it And yet saith Aeneas Silvius It is the manner of Kings in writing to use the plurall number as Mandamus Volumus Facimus c. As appeareth Epist 105. where he saith Reges cum scribunt etsi dominatum habent ut quicquid placet Legis vigorem habeat ea tamen moderatione utuntur cum scribunt ut aliquid praecipientes non se solos videri velint fecisse sed cum aliorum consilio They do temper their Soveraign Jurisdiction with such moderation that it may appear they prescribe and command not without counsell and advice of others Touching the greatnesse of the Kings of this Island and precedence before any other Kings these are two main reasons First that the King of this Land Lucius was the first Christian King of the world as also Constantine the first Emperour publickly planting Christianity Secondly for that of all Kings Christian the King of Britain is the most and indeed onely absolute Monarch he being no way subordinate to any Potentate Spirituall or Temporall in causes either Ecclesiasticall or Civill as other Kings are through their own default Moreover the King of England is both Anointed as no other King is but onely the French of Sicilie and of Jerusalem and he is also crowned which honour the Kings of Spain Portugall Arragon Navarre and many other Princes have not God grant that as our Country hath been blessed with prerogatives above all other Kingdoms and with the blessing both of all earthly felicities and Heavenly graces beyond any other and with more puissant victorious learned religious Kings than all the people whatsoever as the world seeth at this day so we may go beyond all Nations in thankfulnesse to so
of Covidius the Centurion which he used in the battel that he had against the Mysians was holden to be admirable that he bare upon his helmet a cup that one while did flash out flames of fire and other whiles would suck them in Many more examples could I give to prove as well the antiquity as the generall use of crests but holding this to be sufficient I will now proceed to give examples of things that are interposed between the mantle and the crest beginning with those of the inferiour reckoning and so to those of better worth and estimation HAving omitted in the former Sections some bearings of signall Note and Augmentations of honour bestowed for eminent service and some Presidents of bearing I have thought fit here to insert them though not in so good Method as I could wish and first I shall take notice of an eminent Addition the originall Patent being lately in my hands I shall in the next place shew you an example of a Gentleman bearing the Coat-armour of the Company he is free of impaled with his own wherein note that were he not of that quality yet he might bear the Coat of his Company in Seal Escocheon or otherwise I shall here not think it unnecessary to give you an account of the four Innes of Court or Collegia Juris consultorum being the head or chief of the residue which are called Innes of Chancery of whose Originall suppression opulency and other matters of moment I refer you to the survey of London Wevers funerall Monuments and others I shall onely give you an account of their Symbols or Arms and first of the two Temples of whom briefly thus It was an house of the Templarii or Knights Templars and after their suppression their other Lands were conferd on the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem after called Knights of Rhodes and this house came to the hands of Thomas Plantagenet Earl of Lancaster on whose attainder it was by the Crown invested on Hugh Le Despencer Earl of Glocester after to Aymer de Valence Earl of Penbrook In Edward the thirds time the Students of the Law obtained a long Lease of it for the yearly Rent of ten pound a third part of this came through many hands to the late Earls of Essex by the Sister and coheir of the last Earl and possessour whereof it came to the possession of that worthy Gentleman William Marquesse of Hartford Lord Beauchampe the instant Proprietor The Arms of another third part of which House called the Middle Temple are thus blazond In the time of King Edward the third as is confidently averd Gentlemen Students took a grant of this house from the Lord Gray then Proprietor which Honourable Society bear for their Coat Sable a Griffon Sergeant or Rampant Or. I shall give you a President of a choyce singularity viz. the Coat-Armour of the Honourable Sir Gervas Clifton of Clifton in the County of Nottingham Knight and Baronet marshalled with his seven wives which are thus described or blazoned Gules on a Cheuron Argent between three paire of Garbes Saltire-waies Or three Tuns or Barrels Sable which is the Coat of the Company of Brewers of London who were incorporated by the said King Henry the sixth 1. Sir William Ryves Attorny Generall for the Kingdome of Ireland who marryed Dorothy Daughter of Sir Richard Waldron or Walrond Knight 2 Sir Thomas Rives the Kings Advocate married Elizabeth daughter of the said Sir Richard Walrond 3 Brune Rives Doctor of Divinity and Deane of Chichester married Katherine Daughter of the same Sir Richard Walrond Knight Of this Family is also that worthy Citizen Richard Rives of London Merchant Deputy of Dowgate Ward and his brother Jâ—hn Rives Merchant being all desce ded from the ancient Family of this sirname at Damerey court near Blandford in the County of Dorcet The second Topaz a Saltier and chiefe Ruby by the name of Bruc I shall for the better illustration of this give you another example or two of Widows and then treat of Maids And in this manner are those bearings to be marshalled where the woman being a Widow will make use of both her Husbands Coats Some may perhaps object that the Label should have been in cheif and extended to the sides of the Escocheon but let them know 't is a grand errour to draw or paint them so These Labels as in Prideaux Barington Hellesby c. being a charge and part of the Coat nor is there any reason we should make the eldest brothers difference so large when we alwayes draw the differences of the younger brothers as small as may be that of Labels being a very ancient bearing but these distinctions for brother's a new though necessary invention Thus much for the bearing of Widows who may on no pretence whatsoever beare either their paternall Coat or their Husbands Coate simple or alone for if in an Escocheon or Shield then all people take it for the bearing of a man If in a Lozenge then is it the bearing proper onely to a Maid as the following examples will demonstrate This is the proper Coat of Frances Seymor daughter of Francis Lord Seymor of Trowbridge by Frances daughter and Co-heire of Sir Gilbert Prinne Knight I shall double this example in a Cousin German of this Ladies SECT VI. CHAP. VI. Peculiar Ornaments THus far have I touched things placed above the Escocheon now I will proceed to such as are placed else-where of which some are Peculiar some more Generall By such as are peculiar I meane those that are appropriate to persons having Soveraign Jurisdicton and to such as we called Nobiles Majores of which Rank a Banneret or as some call them a Baronet is the lowest These have their name of a Banner for unto them it was granted in remuneration of their approved valour in Military services to bear a square Banner after the custome of Barons and therefore are called Knights Bannerets as Master Camden hath noted saying Baneretti qui allis Baronetti cum valvasorum nomen jam desierat à Baronibus secundi erant quibus inditum nomen a vexillo concessum enim erat illis militaris virtutis ergo quadrato vexillo perinde ac Barones uti unde Equites vexillarii a nonnullis vocantur c. This order of Knight-hood was much esteemed for the honour received in the Field for Military service with great solemnity under the banner Royall displayed in the presence of the Soveraign and this hath been reputed a middle degree between Nobiles majores minores but of this dignity none hath been known alive in England since Sir Ralph Sadler c. But amongst the particular Ornaments belonging to the Coat-armours of persons having either Supreme or Inferior dignity there are some that do environ the Coat-armour round about and do chiefly belong to persons exercising Soveraign Jurisdiction and to such others as they out of their speciall favour shall communicate the same unto by
some Noble Family yet are they themselves but ignoble persons Foure parts of Nobility In which respect Aristotle discoursing of nobility makes foure parts thereof the first of Riches the second of Bloud the third of Learning the fourth of Vertue and to the two last he ascribeth the first place of true Gentry because Boores may be rich and Rake-hels may be of ancient bloud but vertue and knowledge cannot harbour but where God and nature hath left their noble endowments Which made Bartholus to say that good men and wise men were nobles in Gods sight as rich men and great men were nobles in mens eyes Threefold Nobility according to Bartho Yet the same Bartholus ascribeth the due honour unto each kind of Nobility which he maketh to be three-fold Theologicall Naturall Politicall the first and chief consisteth in Piety and vertues of grace the second in the noble qualities of Nature the third in the degrees of estimation in the Common-wealth This last is it we here chiefly meddle with not that we reject the two former but that we suppose we live in such a State where the two first kinds of Nobility are rewarded with the last kind and thereby made more illustrious The common phrase of forrain Nations is different from ours Different phrase of Nations concerning the Titles of men of reputation they esteeming every man Noble which hath any excellency remarkable above others so saith Iodocus Clicthovius Nobilitas est generis vel alterius rei excellentia ac dignitas whereas we English repute none noble under the degree of a Baron and with them Generosus is a greater title than Nobilis whereas with us it is much inferiour The truth is that the two titles of Nobility and Gentry are of equall esteem in the use of Heraldry though custom hath equally divided them and applyed the first to Gentry of the highest degree and the latter to Nobles of the lowest rank Distinct orders of Gentry And amongst these Gentlemen of low note there are also sundry Orders as some by bloud some by office some by possessions some by sacred Academicall dignity all which come not within the verge of this our purpose till the State hath honoured them with the bearing of Coat-Armours as the Ensigns of their worth CONCILII NVTRIX TACI TVRNIAS The Atchievement of a Gentleman HE beareth two Coats quarterly first Argent a Fesse Ermine cottised Sable by the name of Harlstone secondly Sable a Cheuron between three Leopards heads Or by the name of Wentworth and for his Crest on a Helmet befitting his degree mantled Gules doubled Argent out of a Crown Or a Stags Head Ermine attired Or bearing a Hawthorne bush with berries proper And for his Motto Concilii nutrix taciturnitas This is the Atchievement or Bearing of Robert Harlestone now Secretary to the Right Honourable William Lenthall Esquire Master of the Rolls and Speaker of the Parliament begun the third of November 1640. second Son of John Harlestone of South Osindon in the County of Essex and of Jane Daughter and Coheire of Philip Wentworth a younger Brother of the Lord Wentworth of Netlested Of this Family have been divers eminent persons as Sir John Harl ston Governour of Hauure-du-grace in the time of Edward the fourth Richard Harleston Valectus de Camera to the King and conquered for the Crown of England the Islands of Garnesey and Jersey COLENS DEVM ET REGEM The Atchievement of an Esquire HE beareth two Coats impaled Baron and Femme the first Gules on a Bend Or three Martlets Sable by the name of Collins the second Azure a Fesse between three Chesse-rooks Or by the name of Bodenham ensigned with Helmets befitting the persons quality on Wreaths of the Colours of the Coats on the first a demy Griffon Or collered Argent the second a Dragons head erased Sable The Motto Colens deum regem This is the bearing of Samuel Collins Doctor in Physick late Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge onely Son of John Collins late Parson of Retherfield in Sussex descended from the ancient Family of the Collins of the Counties of Somerset and Devon which Doctor marryed Anne eldest Daughter of John Bodenham Esquire lineally descended from the Knightly and ancient Family of the Bodenhams of Wiltshire and Herefordshire alli'd to divers of the ancient Families of the Nobility and Gentry The Dignity of an Esquire is the second degree of Gentry the reason of whose denomination we gave elsewhere As in the first rank of Gentry so in this there are sundry kinds according to the custom of this Kingdom concerning which point you may read learned Master Cambden in his Britannia and by the custom of England Doctors whether of Divinity Civil Law or Physick are esteemed Esquires HE bears two Coats quarterly viz. First Argent three Bears heads erased Sable musled Or by the name of Langham Secondly Ermine a Cheuron Gules within a Bordure engrailed Sable by the name of Revel the Creast on a Helmet befitting his quality and Wreath of his Colours a Bears head erased Sable musled Or mantled Gules doubled Argent which is the bearing of that worthy Gentleman John Langham of London and Cottesbrook in the County of Northampton Esquire descended in a direct male line from Henry de Langham who probably took the denomination deriv'd to his posterity from Langham in the County of Rutland for his son William de Langham held three Caracuts of Land in Langham in that County who by his son William was Grandfather of Robert Langham living the forty fourth of Edward the third who marryed Margaret Daughter and Heir of Sir John Revell of Newbold in Warwick-shire relict of Sir Stephen Mallory of Leicestershire Knight which John Langham by Elizabeth his wife 30. Ed. 1. Daughter of James Bunce Esquire is the happy Father of a hopefull and accomplisht issue viz. James Langham Esquire William Stephen and Thomas Langham and as many daughters Elizabeth lately deceased wife of Philip Botiler of Woodhall in Hertford-shire Esquire Anne wife of Sir Martin Lumley Baronet Rebecca and Sarah unmarried 1659. FE MID VN BVEN HIDALGO The Atchievement of a Knight HE beareth eighteen Coats quartered The first Azure a Fesse between three Chesse-rooks Or by the name of Bodenham Second Or on a Fesse Sable a Lyon passant Argent by the name of Huish Third Gules three Bars gobony Argent and Sable by the name of Delabau Fourth Sable a Bucks head cabossed Or by the name of Wells Fifth Or a Lyon Rampant Vert a la double queve by the name of Dudley Sixth Argent a quarter Sable a Cressent Gules by the name of Sutten Seventh Or two Lyons passant Azure by the name of Somery Eighth Azure a Crosse patee Argent by the name of Lexington Ninth Sable three Garbes Argent banded Gules by the name of _____ Tenth Gules a Cinque-foyle Ermine Bellamont Eleventh Argent three Bars embattilee Gules Barry Twelfth Or on a Fesse Gules
the Germans Banner-hires as being Commanders displaying Banners of their own in the Field These the Saxons called Laford whence our Word Lord and the Danes call them Thanes In ancient times the name of Barons was very large Citizens of chief Cities and Gentlemen of certain possessions enjoying that Title and about those times every Earle had a certain number of Barons under them as every Baron had Capitaneos under him But times have altered the limits of this Honour Barons being now reputed no less absolute Lords though lower than Earles and as a Gentleman is the first and lowest degree of Nobilitas Minor so now with us a Baron is reputed the First step of Nobilitas Major In which respect some have thought that in Atchievements none under a Baron may use Supporters but by ancient examples you shall find that Knights Bannerets also had that Ornament allowed them and therefore though a Banneret hath a middle place betwixt ordinary Knights and Barons yet I have omitted his Atchiemement the difference being so little betwixt it and the Barons Banneret or Baronet as some will have it by some is derived from Banner-rent because in their creation after certain Ceremonies the top of their Pennons is rent or cut off and so reduced into the form of a little Banner which they may display as Barons do But it is more probable that the Germane word Banner-hires was the originall both of Barons and Bannerets which matter skilleth not much sith this order as before we touched is now quite ceased in this Land The Atchievement of a Vicount LOYAL AV MORT THis Atchievement belongeth to the Right Honourable Sir Adam Loftus Knight Viscount Loftus of Ely within the Kingdom of Ireland Lord Chancellor of the said Realm and one of his Majesties Justices of that Kingdom who beareth Diamond a Cheuron engrailed Ermine between three Treefoyl is slipped Pearl and above the same upon an Helme fitting the degree of a Viscount a Mantle Ruby doubled Ermine next above which is placed on a Torce Pearl and Diamond a Boares head erased and erected Pearl Armed Topaz supported with two Raine Deere Ermine Attired Or and for his Motto in a Scrole LOYALL AV MORT expressing his Lordships loyall obedience to his Soveraign This Noble Lord was for his many vertues befitting such a dignity worthily advanced to this degree of Viscount by our late Soveraign King James in the twentieth year of his Raign TOVT BIEN OV RIEN THis is the Atchievement of the Right Honourable Baptist Noel Viscount Cambden Baron Noel of Ridlington and Hickes of Ilmington son and heir to Sir Edward Noel of Brook in the County of Rutland Knight created Baronet 1611. and afterward Baron of Ridlington to whom by vertue of the Intaile descended the Title of Viscount Cambden conferd on Sir Baptist Hickes who was created Viscount Hickes of Cambden in the County of Glocester in the fourth of his reign which Baptist Viscount Cambden hath issue by his third Lady Hester second Daughter and Coheir of Thomas Lord Wotton deceased the Honourable Edward Noel Esquire son and heir a very hopefull and excellently accomplisht young Gentleman of whose qualities I am not a more just admirer then to his civilities a debtor now in forrain parts He bears two Coats quarterly First Topaz Fretty Ruby a Canton Ermine by the name of Noel Secondly Ruby a Fesse Wavy between three Flowers de lis Topaz by the name of Hickes the third as the second the fourth as the first a Scocheon of pretence Pearl a Crosse formed fitchee at the foot Diamond by the name of Wotton The Crest on a Wreath of his colours a Stag passant Pearl Attired Or plac't on a Viscounts Helmet and Crown supported by two Buls Pearl Armed and Crined Diamond Mantled Ruby doubled Ermines This Family derives it self from the ancient Family of this surname at Dalby in Leicestershire Hilcot Staffordshire and Newbold in Derby-shire Of a Viscount A Viscount is a degree of dignity between a Baron and an Earle and began first to be honorary here in England in the time of our King Henry the sixth who by Patent in Parliament made John of Beaumont Viscount of Beaumont Here in this Atchievement you may observe that the Viscounts Coat-Armour is adorned with a Chaplet of sleighter making than the Coronet which beautifieth the Earles Escocheon NEC ELATA NEC DE IECTA THis is the Atchievement of the Right Honourable Heneage Earle of Winchelsey and is thus blazoned He bears four Coats quarterly First Pearl a Cheuron between three Griffons passant Diamond by the name of Finch Secondly Ruby three Lyons rampant Topaz by the name of Fitzherbert Thirdly Ruby a Mule passant within a Bordure Pearl by the name of Moyle Fourthly Topaz a Greyhound currant Diamond between three Leopards heads Saphire a Bordure engrailed Ruby by the name of Heneage and for his Crest on a Wreath of his colours a Pegasus currant Pearl gorged with a Crown winged and crined Topaz Mantled Ruby doubled Ermine supported by a Pegasus as the Crest on the dexter side and on the sinister a Griffon Sable erected on a Scrole the Motto Nec elata nec dejecta I could say much of the Antiquity and Eminence of this Family but I should seem onely to repeat what is obvious in Master Philpots Kent and elsewhere onely thus They are descended in a direct male line from Henry Fitzherbert Chamberlain to King Henry the first common Ancestour also to the Herberts Earles of Penbrook And after many Generations in the time of King Edward the first from the Mannour of Finches in Lidde were written Fitzherbert alias Fynch sometimes Herbert dictus Fynch and since onely Finch from whence in a continued line of persons eminent in their Country descended Sir Moyle Finch Knighted in the time of Queen Elizabeth created Baronet 1611. who married Elizabeth Daughter and sole Heir of Sir Thomas Heneage Vice Chamberlain Treasurer of the Chamber Chancellor of the Dutchy and one of the Privy Councel to Queen Eliz. of a very ancient Family of that surname at Haynton in the County of Lincoln which Lady in her Widow-hood was by King James in the one and twentieth year of his reign created Viscountess Maidstone and by K. Ch. in the fourth of his reign created Countesse of Winchelsey in Sussex to her and her heirs male She dying 1634. the honour fell to her then eldest son Sir Thomas Finch Knight and Baronet Earl of Winchelsey and Viscount Maidstone who in the year 1639. left his honour and estate to the succession of his son Heneage now Earl of Winchelsey 1660. who by his second wife the Lady Mary Daughter of the right Honourable William Marquess of Hartford hath issue William Viscount Maydstone Heneage second son c. The said Lady Elizabeth Countess of Winchelsey had diverse other sons of whom no issue continues except from her fourth son Sir Heneage Finch Knight Serjeant at Law and Recorder of London who by Frances
Daughter of Sir Edmund Bell left issue three sons Gentlemen of signall accomplishments Heneage Finch Esquire of the Inner Temple London first son a Person of eminent abilities and candid integrity Francis Finch of the same House Barrester at Law second Son and John Finch third son hopefull and ingenious branches of this Noble Family Of this Family is also Sir John Finch Knight sometime Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England created Lord Finch of Fordwich the sixteenth of King Charles living 1659. son of Sir Henry Finch Knight second Brother of Sir Moyle above mentioned The Atchievement of an Earle HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE VIRTVTIS LAVS ACTIO THis Atchievement thus marshalled is here set forth for the peculiar Ensigns of the Right Noble and truly Honourable Thomas Howard Earle of Arundell and Surrey Primier Earle of England Earle Marshall of the same Kingdom Lord Howard Mowbray Segrave Brus of Gower Fitz-Alan Clun Oswaldstre and Mautravers Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter and one of the Lords of his Majesties most honourable Privy Councel which noble Lord beareth Quarterly eight Coats The first whereof is Ruby on a Bend between six crosse croslets fitchee Pearl an Escocheon Topaz thereon a demy Lyon pierced through the mouth with an Arrow within a double Tressure counter-flowred of the first and is the paternall Coat of the noble flourishing Family of the Howards The second is Ruby Three Lyons passant gardant Topaz in chief a File of three points Pearl which was the Coat-armour of the Lord Thomas of Brotherton fifth son of King Edward the first and Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk The third is Checkey Topaz and Saphire which was the peculiar Armoriall Ensigns of the Earls of Warren The fourth is Ruby a Lyon Rampand Pearl Armed and Langued Saphire by the name of Mowbray The fifth is Ruby a Lyon Rampand Or Armed and Langued of the first by the name of Albaney The sixth is Pearl a Chief Saphire by the name of Clun The seventh is Diamond a Fret Topaz by the name of Mautravers The eighth is Pearl a Fesse and Canton Ruby by the name Woodvile all within the Garter And above the same upon an Helme a mantle Ruby doubled Ermine next upon which is placed on a mount Emerald within a Torce Topaz and Ruby a Horse passant Pearl holding in his mouth a slip of an Oake fructed Proper supported on the dexter side with a Lyon and on the sinister with an Horse both Pearl the last holding in his mouth an Oaken slip fructed Proper And for his Motto to make the same Atchievement absolute these words in a Scrole VIRTUTIS LAUS ACTIO This Atchievement is here proposed as instar Omnium for a patern of the Coat-Armours of Earls of which this Noble Lord is the Primier of England and therefore is his Lordships Atchievement the fittest to be here demonstrated besides whose Coat-Armour could more properly challenge a due place in a work of this nature than his who is not onely by his office of Earl Marshall proper Judge of Honour and Arms but also in his affection the most Honoured Maecenas and Noble Patron as of all learning in generall so more particularly of this of Armory which Earl some years since deceasing left these honours to Henry his eldest son who by Elizabeth Sister of James Stuart late Duke of Richmond and Lennox has left a hopefull issue viz. Thomas Earl of Arundel c. Henry second son in whom are concentred the Loyalty Courage Learning Generosity and what has else exalted the reputation of his Ancestors in the Kingdom Philip third son Charles fourth son Edward fifth son Francis sixth son and Bernard seventh son all living 1660. Of Earls The Title of an Earl is very ancient the dignity very honourable their calling being in sign of their greatness adorned with the lustre of a Coronet and themselves enobled with the stile of Princes Comites among the Ancient Romans were Counsellors and near Adherents to their highest Commanders which honour and Title being then but temporary and for life The flowers and points of a Marquess his Coronet are of even height The pearled points of the Earls Coronet are much longer than the intermixt flowers thereof is since by tract of time made perpetuall and hereditary The Saxons called them Ealdermen the Danes Earls they being as may seem at first selected out of the rest of the Nobility for commendation of their Gravity Wisdom and Experience The next degree above an Earl is a Marquess whose Atchievement I have omitted in respect that the same is chiefly differenced from that of an Earls in this that the Marquess his Coronet is Meslee that is part flowred and part Pyramidall pearled the flowers and points of equall height and the Earles is Pyramidall pointed and pearled having flowers intermixt but much shorter than the pearled points PIE REPONE TE THis is the Atchievement of the Right Honourable Henry Marquess of Dorchester Earl of Kingston upon Hull Viscount Newarke Lord Pierrepont and Maunvers and Herris and is thus blazoned His Lordship bears eight Coats quarterly First Pearle semy de Cinquefoiles Ruby a Lyon Rampant Diamond by the name of the Lord Pierrepont Secondly Pearl six Annulets Diamond by the name of the Lord Maunvers Thirdly Saphire three Hedg-hoggs Topaz by the name of the Lord Herris Fourthly Diamond a Lion Rampant Pearle Crowned Topaz which is the bearing of Lord Segrave Fiftly Ruby a Lion within a bordure Engrailed Topaz by the name of Rees ap Teuder Prince of South-Wales Sixtly Diamond three garbes Pearl being the Coat of the King of Lemster Seventhly Ruby three wheat sheaves Topaz a bordure of Scotland by the name of Coming Earle of Northumberland Eightly Ruby a lion rampant a la double queve Pearle by the name of the Lord Mantfort Earle of Lycester for his Crest on a helmet placed on a Marquesses crowne a Torce or Wreath of his colours thereon a Fox passant Ruby supported by two Lyons Diamond mantled Ruby doubled Ermine his motto PIE REPONE TE This noble Person not more illustrious by his quality then by the Advantages of nature and industry the great assertor of Learning in this Nation decended from a noble family of signall eminence out of which is Robert de Petraponte sive Pierpont who was cal'd by writ among the Peers of England to the Parliament by King Edw. 3. and afterwards in process of time Robert Pierpont was Created Viscount Newarke and Lord Pierpont afterwards Created Earle of Kingston upon Hull after whose death our Soveraign King Charles conferd the honour of Marquess of Dorchester on Henry Earle of Kingston his Son the present Inheritor of these Titles ennobled also by his Mother who was Gertrude Daughter and Coheir of Henry Talbot Son of George and brother to Gilbert Earle of Shrewsbury Lord Talbot Strange Furnivall Verdon and Lovetoft FOY POVR DEVOIR THis is the Atchievement of the Right Honourable William Seymour