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
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
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
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
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
and England quarterly 85 Thomas of Lancaster Duke of Clarence second son France and England a Label of three points Ermine on each point a Canton Gules 86 John Duke of Bedford Regent of France third son France and England and a Label of five points per Pale Ermine of France 87 Humphrey Duke of Glocester fourth Son Quarterly France and England a Border Argent 88 Thomas Beauford Duke of Exeter son of John of Gaunt France and England Quarterly a Border gobony Argent and Azure 89 Robert Count Palatine Duke of Bavaria Quarterly Sable a Lyon Rampant Crowned Or and Paly Bendy Argent and Azure 90 John Beaufort Earl of Somerset comme son frere 88. 91 Thomas Fitz-Allan Earl of Arundell Gules a Lyon Rampant Or. 92 Edmund Stafford Earl of Stafford Or a Cheuron Gules 93 Edmund Holland Earl of Kent England a Border Argent 20. and 60. 94 Râ—lf Nevill Earl of Westmerland Gules a Saltier Argent Barons 95 GIlbert Lord Talbot Gules a Lyon Rampant within a Border engrailed Or. 96 Gilbert Lord Roos Gules three Waterbougets Argent 97 Thomas Lord Morley Argent a Lyon Rampant Sable Crowned Or. 98 Edward Lord Powis Or a Lyons Gambe or Paw coupee in Bend Gules 99 John Lord Lovell Barry Nebulee of six Or and Gules 100 Hugh Lord Burnell Argent a Lyon Rampant Sable Crowned Or. 101 John Cornwall Knight Lord Fanhope Argent a Lyon Rampant Gules Crowned Or a Border Sable Beazanty 102 William of Arundell Knight Gules a Lyon Rampant Or. 103 Sir John Stanley Steward and great Master of the houshold Argent on a Bend Azure three Bucks heads cabossed Or. 103 Robert Vmfreville Gules Crusilee patee a Cinquefoyle Or. 104 Sir Thomas Ramston Constable of the Tower Gules three Rams heads Argent 105 Sir Thomas Erpingham Vert an Inescocheon within an Orle of Martlets Argent 106 Sir John Sulby Ermine four Bars Gules Henry the fifth began his reign 1412. 107 SIgismund King of Hungaria Bohemia Marquess of Bradenburg King of Romans Quarterly Hungary and Bohemy an Escocheon of Pretence of Bradenburg 108 John King of Portugal Argent five Escocheons in Cross Azure each charged with five Besants Salter-wise a Border Gules thereon eight Castles Or. 109 Christien King of Denmark Or semy de mens hearts Gules three Lyons passant gardant Azure crowned of the first 110 Philip Le bon second of the name Duke of Burgundy quarterly the first Austria modern viz. Gules a Fesse Argent the second France a Border gobony Argent and Gules being Burgundy modern the third Burgundy ancient Bendy Or and Azure the fourth Brabant Sable a Lyon Rampant Or over all Flanders Or a Lyon Rampant Sable 111 John Holland Earl of Huntington Duke of Exeter England a Border of France 112 William de la Poole Earl after Marquesse lastly Duke of Suffolk Azure a Fesse between three Leopards heads Or. 113 John Mowbray Earl Marshall after Duke of Norfolk Gules a Lyon Rampant Argent 114 Thomas Montague Earl of Salisbury Argent three Lozenges in Fesse Gules 115 Richard de Vere Earl of Oxford Quarterly Gules and Or in the first a Mullet Argent 116 Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick Gules a Fesse between six Croslets Or. 117 Thomas Lord Camoys Or on a Chief Gules three Beasants 118 John Lord Clifford Checky Or and Azure a Fesse Gules 119 Robert Lord Willoughby Or Fretty Azure 120 William Philip Lord Bardolfe Azure three Cinqueâ—oyles Or. 121 Henry Lord Fitzhugh Azure three Cheurons interlac'd Or. 122 Lewis Robsart Lord Bourchier Vert a Lyon Rampant Or vulned in the shoulder 123 Hugh-Stafford Lord Bourchier Or a Cheuron Gules a Border engrailed Sable 124 Walter Lord Hungerford Sable two Bars in chief three Rondels Argent 125 Sir Simon Felbridge Or a Lyon Rampant alibi saliant Gules 126 Sir John Gray Knight Barry of six Argent and Azure in chief three Torteauxes 127 Sir John Dabrigcourt Ermine three Bars humer Gules 128 Sir John Robsart as above 129 Franck Van Clux a German Lord. Quarterly per Fesse embatteled Gules and Or in the second and third a Branch Vert. 130 Sir William Harington Sable a Fret Argent 131 Sir John Blount Knight Barry Nebulee Or and Sable 132 King Henry the sixth began his reign 1422. Quarterly France and England 133 ALbert Duke of Austria c. after Emperour Gules a Fesse Argent 134 Fredericke Duke of Austria Emperour his brother Gules a Fesse Argent 134. Edward King of Portugal as above 108. 135 Alphonsus King of Arragon Or 4. Pales Gules 136 Casimir King of Poland Quarterly the 1. and 4. Gules an Eagle Argent The second and third Gules a Lithuanian horsman Proper An Inescocheon of Sweden Azure 3 Crowns Or. 137 Edward Prince of Wales onely child to King Henry the sixth Quarterly France and England a Label Argent 138 Peter of Portugal Duke of Combre son of King John as above 139 Henry of Portugal Duke of Visco as his brother Peter 140 Conrad Duke of Brunswick Quarterly Gules two Lions passant gardant Or and Or a Lion Rampant Azure an Orle of mens hearts Gules 141 Richard Duke of Yorke Quarterly France and England a Label Gules charg'd with nine Torteauxes 142 John Beaufort Earl after Duke of Somerset Quarterly France and England a Border gobony Argent and Azure 143 Edmund his brother Earl of Moriton in Normandy after Duke of Somerset 144 Jasper Earl of Penbrook Duke of Bedford Quarterly France and England a Border Azure Martlette Or. 145 John Moubray Duke of Norfolke Gules a Lion Rampant Argent 146 Humphrey Earl of Stafford after Duke of Buckingham Or a Cheuron Gules 147 Gaston de Foix Earl of Longueville quarterly Foix Bearn The first Argent two Cowes passant Gules Armed and with bels about their necks Or the second Or 3 Pallets Gules a Label over all Sable charged with 15 Escallops Argent 148 John de Foix Earl of Candalia alibi Kendall beareth as his brother 149 Alvarus d'Almada Count of Aurange Or a Crosse Gules a Border compony Argent and the second He also bare Azure on a Bend Gules between 2 Eagles Sable three Croslets Fitchee Or. 150 John Fitz-Allan sixth Earl of Arundell of that sirname Gules a Lion rampant Or. 151 Richard Nevill Earl of Salisbury Gules a Saltier Argent a Label gobony Argent and Azure 152 Richard Nevill called Make-King or the great Earl of Warwicke son of Richard Earl of Salisbury as his Father 153 John Lord Talbot after Earl of Shrewsbury Gules a Lion Rampant within a Border engrailed Or. 154 John Lord Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury his son 155 James Butler Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond Or a chief indented Azure 156 William Nevill younger sonne of Ralph first Earl of Westmerland Lord Falconbride afterward Earl of Kent Gules a Saltier Argent a Mullet Sable 157 Richard Woodvile Earl Rivers Argent a Fesse and Canton Gules 158 Henry Viscount Bourchier after Earl of Essex Argent a Crosse engrailed Gules between four waterbougets Sable 159 John
A DISPLAY OF HERALDRIE MANIFESTING A more easie access to the knowledge therof then hath hitherto been published by any through the benefit of METHOD Wherein it is now reduced by the Study and Industry of JOHN GUILLIM late Pursuivant at ARMES Interlaced with much variety of History suitable to the severall Occasions or Subjects The fourth Edition Corrected and much enlarged by the Author himselfe in his life time Together with his own Addition of explaining the tearms of Hawking and Hunting for the use and delight of GENTLEMEN And now to this fourth Edition are added about three hundred new Coats and Bearings of eminent Families in their proper Sections never before inserted As also a true Register of the Blazons of all the Knights of the Garter from the first Installment to the last And also of all the Baronets from their first Creation to the last Faithfully collested by FRANCIS NOVVER Arms-Painter and Student in Heraldry in Bartholomew Lane London Quod quisque privatim accipit tenetur in communem usum depromere Vnius labor multorum laborem allevat LONDON Printed by T. R. for Jacob Blome 1660. TO NONE BUT GENTLEMEN HAving attempted an Addition of some hundreds of Coats to the following Discourse or Display of Heraldry more through the importunity and for the advantage of the Printer not so conscious of my insufficiencies as my self then prompted by any inclinations of my own who though a great doter on yet can ill spare so much time where the sole return is the reputation of having by affection elected the Profession I pretend to not by chance fal'n on it I thought it might be expected I should apologize according to forme for my Selfe and the Presse For the latter I shall give Billa vera for the former I will justifie the Blazonry though I know it sometimes wave the common road I may through inanimadversion have sayd too little of some Families but I think too much of none there are three onely in the Book I could wish omitted and twice that number inserted It may be objected the Book was as usefull before but I am sure much more delightfull now the major part of the former Coats being namelesse and some such as were never borne or will be or of extinct Families Not but there are also divers Presidents of bearing in this Edition that were omitted in the former To be briefe if any person thinke I have abated any thing of his due right let him suspend his judgement and command my attendance and I shall endeavour to evince As I am not incapable of reason no man shall sooner acknowledge his errors Then Your humble Servant FRANCIS NOWER Old Exchange London LENVOY TO THE AUTHOR BY WILLIAM SEGAR Garter Principall King of Armes KInd freind and fellow since it is your will I should my verdict give of this your skill I say your Art was never so displai'd Better compos'd nor Ground-work truer laid To raise a Fabrick to your lasting name Your painfull study curious search and care In turning over Books both known and rare Your great Expenses and your little Gains To countervaile a Guerdon for your pains Doth make your Merit to exceed your Fame But let me tell you this will be the harme In Arming others you Your self disarme Our Art is now Anatomized so As who knowes not what we our selves do know Our Corne in others Mill is ill apaid Bees suck the Flowers others eat their Hony Poor digge the Mines Rich men have the Mony Sheep beare the fleece others weare the Wooll And some plant Vines and some the Grapes do pull Sic vos non vobis may to us be said We blazon Armes and some esteem them not We write of Honour others do it blot We uphold Honour others pluck us down Burying themselves in base Oblivion Such are the effects of our defective Age. Peevish Precisenesse loves no Heraldry Crosses in Armes they hold Idolatry All Funeral 's pompe and Honour but a vaunt Made Honour onely by the Honorant Shortly no difference 'twixt the Lord and Page Honours Recusants do so multiply As Armes the Ensigns of Nobility Must be laid down they are too glorious Plain idleshewes and superstitious Plebeian basenesse doth them so esteem Degrees in bloud the steps of pride and scorne All Adams children none are Gentle born Degrees of state titles of Ceremony Brethren in Christ greatnesse is Tyranny O impure Purity that so doth deem Well gentle Guillims you have done your part I would Reward might follow your desert As Shadowes follow bodies in the Sun Shadowes alas are not substantiall Shadowes and Rewards prove nothing at all For being both pursu'd away they run John St. George to the Author THough Indian Ants that scrape in Mines of Gold Dare not for Treasure make exchange with death Yet braver minds for honour dare be bold Couragiously to sacrifice their breath A precious Gem is Armes the subject of thy pen Which as a Diamond when thou didst find Rude and uncut to bring the same to shape And Lustre fit thy Purse thy Pen thy Mind Did all conspire this Work to undertake Which now perform'd let Goldsmiths judge the price Till Aesops Cock and Indian Ants be wise And thy Guerdon seem not worth a mite To such base Prisers deem it not the lesse For higher spirits will judge thereof aright And they at last too late will all confesse That Gold and earthly Pleasures do bewitch But Grace and Honour onely make men Rich. JOHN St. GEORGE TO The the Right Honourable and truly Noble my very good Lord WILLIAM Marquess and Earle of Hertford Viscount Beauchamp and Lord Seymour and one of the Honourable Privy Councell to the late King CHARLES My Lord MY Grand-Father RICHARD ADAMS did in his life time think it a principal happiness that he was numbred in the Register of those who had the honour to serve your Lordship nor did his service rest in a naked expression only but was also practicall for he was a most affectionate lover and sincere honourer of your Lordship as being indeed oblig'd unto it by those many important favours you continually showr'd upon him To exhibit to the world some testimony of my gratefull acknowledgement for those signall engagements I have by the fourth Impression of this well accepted Treatise of Heraldry gained an opportunity to insert your Honors Coat as a pattern of the Atchievment of a Marquess of ENGLAND and do devote the whole VVorke to your Lordships Patronage wherein I hope I shall not in any wise diminish or obscure the lustre of your thrice noble Family it having been my endeavour and designe to improve if it were possible the estimate of it which is still the chiefestaym and onely intention of My Lord The most obliged to your Name and House RICH BLOME To his neerest and dearest Kinsman John Guillim Pursevant of Arms Tho. Guillim wisheth his own best wishes THis large display of thy Mysterious Art Each where displays such Lustre
Scriptures is often taken for a speciall token of Gods favour and that he is pleased with the Sacrifices that are done unto him as when he answereth as it were by Fire like as we read Judges 6.21 Then the Angell of the Lord put out the end of his staffe thâ—t he held in his hand and touched the flesh and unleavened bread and there arose up Fire out of the stones and consumed the flesh and unleavened bread c. And as when Eliah contended with the Prophets of Baal touching the manifestation of the true God Then the Fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt Offerings and the wood and the stones and the dust and licked up the water that was in the trench 1 Kings 18.38 And again when Solomon had made an end of praying Fire came down from Heaven and consumed the burnt offerings and the Sacrifices and the glory of the Lord filled the House 2 Chro. 7.1 The Cheuron being as we before have said a memoriall and token of building it may seem the Heralds were not well advised to put Flames of fire so near it but it is no inforced conjecture to suppose that this Coat-Armour was first given to him who had restored some publick edifice which Fire had consumed This next ensuing hath also a resemblance with it Fresh and sweet Waters are reckoned amongst Gods peculiar blessings promised to the observers of his Lawes and those of chiefest ranke For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land a land in the which are Rivers of Waters Fountaines and depths that spring cut of the Valleyes and mountaines Levit. 26.7 SECT III. CHAP. V. HAving shewed by particular examples the bearing of simple essences Natures of mixt kind or at the least of such things as have a mutuall participation of qualities with them I will now proceed to the handling of the next member of the Distribution which comprehendeth Essences or Natures of Mixt kindes Such are Brute or without life Living By Brute natures I understand all Essences whatsoever of mixt kinde that are meerely void of life Such are Meteors Meteors unperfect which are unperfect kindes of mixture which by their strang apparitions doe move their beholders to an admiration and these are called Corpora sublimia Corpora sublimia because they are ingendred aloft in the Aierie Region The matter whereof these Meteors are ingendred is a certain attracted fume drawne up on high by the operation of the Sunne and Starres This fume or smoake is Vapour Exhalation Vapour is a moist kinde of fume extracted chiefely out of the water and therefore is easily dissolved againe thereinto and hence are watery Meators Vapour what Exhalation is a drier kinde of fume attracted up from the earth and apt to be inflamed and they are fierie Meteors There are also other Meteors formed of a mixture of both these fumes Fierie Meteors are formes consisting of hot Exhalations attracted into the Aiery Region having a hot quality which at length breaketh into a Fire Fierie meteors what And of these are Simple Mixt. Simple firie Meteors are of divers sorts and different forms whereof there is little use in Coat-Armour except of the falling Starre Meteors of divers sorts which of Blazoners is termed a Mullet which is an Exhalation inflamed above in the Aire and stricken back with a Cloud wherby it is forced to runne downwards in such sort that to the ignorant a Starre seemeth to fall There is oftentimes found upon the earth a certaine gelly fallen from above and dispersed into divers points which of many is taken to be the substance of the falling Star or Mullet Divers bearing of Mullets Note that such Mullets borne in Coat-Armour are now most usually of five points but anciently you shall finde them borne of six points as in the next Escocheon And so I have seene them in divers very Old Rolles in the Custody of that worthy Kight Sir Richard Saint George now Clarenceaux King of Armes whose industrious travell in the carefull Collection of such Antiquities and his free communicating of the same to the studious in that way merits much Though the falling Starre it selfe is but the Embleme of the inconstancy of high fortunes and unsure footing of Ambitious Aspirers which may shine for a time but in a moment fall headlong from the Heaven of their high hopes yet the Mullet in Heraldry hath a more noble signification Noble signification of Mullet it being supposed to represent some divine quality bestowed from above wherby men do shine in vertue Learning and works of piety like bright Stars on the earth and these are Stellae dimissae è coelo Starres let downe from Heaven by God not Stellae dejectae throwne downe as those which the Taile of the Dragon threw downe which are Apostatates from God and their Religion nor yet cadentes stellae falling starres such as the stroke of Justice and their owne demerits casts downe from the hight of their honours So much of simple fiery Meteors so far forth as there is use of them in Coat-Armour Meteors mixt Fiery Meteors what Now of such Meteors as are of mixt kind according to the distribution before delivered in the next precedent These are fiery meteors bred of an exhalation somewhat more grosse and impure than those before specified by reason of a more thick and slimy vapour whereof they be ingendered Meteors of this kind are Thunder Lightning Thunder is an inflamed Exhalation which by his powerfull force breaketh thorough the Clouds violently with great noise and terrour Thunder what The forcible power thereof is rather apprehended by the eare than subjected to the sight neverthelesse the ancient times have devised a certain imaginarie forme whereby they would expresse the forcible power thereof as also of the lightning Thunder is supposed to be ingendered two manner of wayes viz. When either a hot or drie vapour is inclosed in a cold and moist Cloud and being unable to contain it self therein by reason of the contrariety it laboureth by all means to find a vent and so striving by all means to get passage it maketh way with great vehemency and horror of sound such as a Glowing Gadd of Iron or any other fiery matter maketh when water is infused thereupon in abundance or that it is therein drenched it maketh a furious and murmuring sound Such is that weak and feeble sort of thunder that seemeth to be ingendered in some region of the Aire far remote from us yeelding onely for a small time a kind of turbulent noise or murmuring Or else it is ingendred in a more violent manner to wit when this inclosed drie and combustible matter being inflamed in the Clouds of contrary qualities doth break out with vehemency then doth it yeeld a terrible and forcible sound not unlike a great piece of Ordnance when it is over-charged And this sound thus ingendered is called Thunder This sort of sound is used
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
Paternall coat And that he honoured the same with this chief to acknowledge his education in the Colledge of Eaton to which the Lilies do belong His words are these A parentibus saith he accepit hujus vitae usuram à collegio decus dignitatem utrique pro eo ac debuit respondendum fuit Gessit idcirco in eodem clypeo utriusque insignia Rombos cum liliis And thus briefly concluding this fifth Section comprehending examples of Coat-Armours having no Tincture predominating in them and withall shewing their sundry forms of Partition Transmutation and counter-changings I will address my self to the sixth and last Section The End of the fifth Section Artis progressio velocius clauditur quam inchoatur THis sixth and last Section doth demonstrate the manner of Marshalling divers Coat-Armours pertaining to distinct Families in one Escocheon as well of those that by occasion of some adventitious Accident are annexed to the Paternall Coat of any Gentleman as of those that by reason of entermarriage of persons descended of severall Families are therein to be conjoyned The Table of the Sixth Section Marshalling is an orderly bestowing of things Within the Escocheon by a disposition of Coat-armours of distinct Families Manifest betokening Marriage Single as when two Coat-Armours of distinct Families are conjoyned in one Escocheon palewayes in one Escocheon which we may call Baron and Fem. Hereditary signified by Bearing the Coat of the Femme Upon an Inescocheon by the Baron after issue received Quarterly by their Heire Gift of the Soveraign in respect of Speciall favour Remuneration of service Obscure as when persons of distinct Families conjoyned in Marriage have their Coat-Armours so marshalled as that they cannot be conceived thereby to signifie a Matrimoniall conjunction Without the Escocheon to wit Above the Escocheon such as are the Helme Mantle Crown Chapeau Wreath or Torce and Crest About â—he Escocheon such are the severall orders founded by persons of Majesty as Emperours Monarchs Kings Such are the most Honourable Orders of the Garter of Saint Michael Saint Esprite c. Inferiour Dignity as the Orders of the golden Fleece and of the Annunciation In some place neer to the Escocheon On the sides of the Escocheon which being Living things the Arms are said to be supported by them Dead things the Arms are properly said to be cottised of or with such things Underneath the Escocheon such are the compartments or Escrole containing the Motto Conceit or word of the Beares SECTION VI. CHAP. I. FRom our first ingress in this Book What hath been hitherto handled hitherto hath been handled at large the first part of the Division of this whole Work under the generall Head of Blazoning wherein have been confined and illustrated Examples of the diverse and variable kinds of bearing of all manner of Coat-Armours of whatsoever substance form or quality consisting together with the generall and particular rules in their proper places for the better instruction of the regardfull Reader What now to be handled It now succeedeth in order to explain that our generall Head being the second part of the first Division termed Marshalling Which term I am not ignorant of how far extent it is not only in ordering the parts of an Armie but also for disposing of all persons and things in all solemnities and celebrations as Coronations Interviews Marriages Funerals Triumphs and the like The large signification of the word Marshalling in which the office of an Herald is of principall use for direction of others and therefore his learning judgement and experience ought to be able to direct himself in so weighty affairs But that noble part of marshalling is so absolutely already performed by the industrious Pen of the judicious Sir William Segar Knight now Garter and principall King at Arms Honour Military and Civil in his Book of Honour military and civil The scope of the Author as that it were but arrogancy joyned with ignorance for me to intermeddle in an argument so exactly handled neither is here my purpose other then to confine my self to Armoury only Marshalling what and so far only to speak of Marshalling as it concerns Coat-Armours This marshalling therefore is an orderly disposing of sundry Coat-Armours pertaining to distinct Families and of their contingent ornaments with their parts and appurtenances in their proper places Of these things some have their place within the Escocheon some without and of those within the Escocheon some have their occasions obscure other some manifest as are those whose marshalling according to ancient and prescript forms do apparently either betoken marriage or some gift of the Soveraign Such as betoken marriage do represent either a match single or hereditary By a single match I mean the conjoyning the Coat-Armour of a man and a woman descended of distinct Families in one Escocheon Pale-ways as by examples following shall appear Impaling divers And this form of impaling is diverse according to the severall functions of persons whether Ecclesiastical or Temporall Such as have a function Ecclesiastical and are preferred to the high honour of Pastoral jurisdiction are reckoned to be knit in nuptial bands of love and tender care to Cathedrall Churches whereof they are superintendents insomuch as when a Bishop deceaseth ejus Ecclesia dicitur viduata Paternal coat on the left side And therefore their Paternal Coat is evermore marshalled on the left side of the Escocheon giving the preheminence of the right side to the Arms of their Sea ob reverentiam dignitatis Ecclesiae for the honour due to Ecclesiasticall dignity as also in respect that the Arms of such severall Sees Baron and Femme Ecclesiastical have in them a kind of perpetuity for that they belong to a Political body which never dieth An example of such impaling is this which followeth and this manner of bearing we may aptly call Baron and Femme The most Reverend Father in God Doctor William Lawde Lord Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace Primate of all England and Metropolitan Chancellor of the Vniversity of Oxford and one of the Lords of his Majesties Most Honourable Privie Councel To these with the Readers patience shall be added one other example which in regard it is invironed with the Garter of the Order merits observation Now because the Kings of Arms do sometimes in like manner as Bishops use impale the Arms peculiar to their severall Offices together with their own Paternall coats as Baron and Femme but alwayes in such case marshalling the Paternall on the left side I will insert one of their impalements as in example To the end it may be the better conceived what is meant by the right and left sides of an Escocheon or Coat-Armour born impaled after this manner you may imagine a man to be standing before you invested in a coat depicted with the Arms of two severall Families thus conjoyned in pale and then that part that doth cover his right side will answer
his own amongst those people which in right and conscience do owe him obedience that they may be thereby induced the sooner to submit themselves to him as to their true and lawfull Soveraign or Lord. So did Edward the third King of England when he set on foot his Title to the Kingdom of France shewing forth the Arms of France quartered in his royall Banner with the Arms of England But for such persons as are but Commanders under them it is very absurd sith thereof ensue oftentimes many dangerous errors Et irrecuperabilis est error qui violentia Martis committitur Having before made mention of an Inescocheon and of the bearing of the Arms of the Femme by the Baron after issue received by her An inescocheon she being an inheretrix I will now here give you an example as well to shew the occasion of such bearing as also the manner and situation thereof As for the antiquity of bearing of Inescocheons Antiquity of Inescocheons I find them very anciently used a long time by the Emperors of Germany for they always placed an Inescocheon of their Paternall coat on the brest of the Imperiall Eagle And also divers Noble and Worthy Families of this Land used the like bearing in severall Reigns of sundry of our Kings viz. In the time of Richard the second Simon Burley bare in an Inescocheon the Arms of Husly In the time of Henry the fifth Richard Beauchamp the great Earl of Warwick bare the Arms of Spenser and Clare quarterly in an Inescocheon over his own Paternal coat-armour and many other in like sort Concerning the bearing of the wives coat-armour by the husband Impaled or otherwise there are some that do boldly affirm Of the wives Coat-Armour born by the Husband that it is not permitted by Law but only tolerated through custom and do with Chassaneus alledge for proof thereof Quod Arma non transeunt ad cognatos affines Toleration through custom quia cognati descendentes ex femina non sunt de familia because by reason of her marriage she renounceth the name of the Family whereof she is descended and assumeth the name of her Husbands Family as we formerly shewed where we intreated of differences which are not permitted to the Females And an especiall reason thereof may be this Quia agnationis dignitas semper debet esse salva the Agnation which is of the Fathers side must be preserved entire and therefore the Honor or Arms of it not to be carried into another Family Now because some misunderstanding the Rule given in the sixth Chapter of the first Section where it is said that to daughters never were any differences allowed do hold that the husband in the impaling of his wives coat-armour with his own may omit such difference as her father admitting him to be a younger brother or descended of a younger brother bore to distinguish him from the elder brother I think it not amiss here to observe unto the young Student in Armory that every Gentleman of coat-armour which marrieth a Gentlewoman whose father did bear any difference in his coat ought in the Impalement of his wives Arms to retain the same difference which her father bore as in example But now to return to marshalling If a Coat-Armour that is bordured be born sole of it self then shall the bordure inviron the Coat round but if such a coat be marshalled Paleways with another as a Marriage then must that part of the bordure which respecteth the coat annexed give place thereunto whether the coat bordured be marshalled on the dexter part of the Escocheon or the sinister as in Example By occasion of this Bordure I will shew you in like manner how if a Coat-Armour bordured be honoured with a Canton quarter c. the bordure must in like manner give place unto them as in these next examples may be seen Parce puer stimulis fortius utere loris Ovid. Be sparing of thy spurs but bridle strongly use Note that if a bordured Coat be to be Marshalled amongst other coats quarterly then shall no part of the bordure be omitted but the bordure shall environ the same round except it be honoured with a chief canton quarter c. as aforesaid even as it were born alone of it self SECT VI. CHAP. II. FRom such Marshallings as do betoken Marriage Of Marshallings betokening the gift of the Soveraign I come to such as betoken a Gift of the Soveraign by way of augmentation These are bestowed either for favour or merit though the very winning of favour with Soveraign Princes must be also reputed merit because Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est To win great Princes love great praise it merits Of the first sort are all those Armoriall signs which the Soveraign to honour the Bearer and to dignifie his Coat-Armour doth annex to the Paternal coat of some especiall favorites imparting unto them some parcel of his Royall Ensigns or Badges that so he may transfer to posterities some monument of his gracious favour and of those some are marshalled paleways and others otherways Of the first sort are the next Escocheons and their like wherein the propriety of place is due to those of free gift which must be marshalled on the dexter side of the Escocheon before the Paternal coat Ob reverentiam munificentiae Regalis As in Example Other sorts of bearing These may serve sufficiently to exemplifie the bearing of augmentations or additions of Honour annexed to Paternall Coat-Armours Paleways Now shall follow such as are Marshalled with them after some other manner for in some of them there is annexed a part in a part in other some the whole in a part By a part in a part I mean the annexing of a parcel of the Royall Ensigns or Badges of the Soveraign in or upon some one portion of the Escocheon A part in a part what as in or upon a Canton Chief Quarter c. as followeth in these next examples Sometimes these Augmentations are found to be borne upon the Chief of the Escocheon above the Paternall Coat as in this next example Whole in a part what Now in the next place by the whole in a part I mean the bearing of the Royall Ensigns of the Soveraign wholy in some part of the Escocheon as in example Thus much for tokens of the Soveraigns favour which kind of gifts though they proceed also from high merit for the most part in the receivers yet we rather entitle them favours then merits because their gratitude is the greater by whom such Princely regards are rather imputed to their Soveraigns meer bounty then to their own desert SECT VI. CHAP. III. Of augmentations of merit IN the precedent Chapter enough hath been said of augmentations or additions of Honour bestowed by the Soveraign in token of Princely favour Now of such as he giveth in remuneration of merit either immediately by himself or mediately
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-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
mercifull a God and in dutifulnesse to so gracious a Soveraign whose Crown let it flourish on his Royall head and on his Posterities till the Heavens leave to move and Time be no more Amen FINIS 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 whom my love to Gentry here they find My love with love they must requite by kind But if th'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 wel-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 onely cannot erre true Wisedomes Sire Can without error all in All effect But weake are men in acting their desire This Worke is filde but not without a flaw Yet filde with Paine 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't the Presse For ought I ever read or heard without Correctors fulst of Art and Carefullnesse Cannot prevent it Faults will flee about But here 's not many so the easier may Each gentle Reader rub away their staines Then when the verdall Blots were done away I hope their profit will exceede their paines 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 smal But now in Mr. Garters Book of honor Military and Civill the difference such as it is doth appear to which I refer the Reader ods 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 Armes Nature order or their Lawes This breakes no rule of Order though there be An Order in Degrees concerning This If Order were infring'd then should I flee From my chiefe purpose and my Mark should miss ORDER is Natures beauty and the way To Order is by Rules that Art hath found Defect and excesse 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 Worke hath any likelyhood Of the least good the good to it ascribes In Truth Grace Order or in any wise That tends to Honour Vertue Goodness Grace I have mine ends and then it shall suffice If with my Worke I end my vitall Race And with the Silke-worme worke me in my Tombe As having done my duty in my Roome Finis Coronat Opus JOH GVVILLIM Errata PAge 60. l. 27. read of John Highlord p. 71. l. 9. r. Azure on 2 bars Or. 6 Martlets Gules p. 81. l. 22. r. Alleyn p. 84. l. 1. 11. r. Croslets p. 84. l. 17. r. Theobalds p. 86. l. 1. Cromwel p. 114. l. 10. r. chief indented Sable p. 120. 121. the cut of Bacon St. John are one mistaken for the other p. 134. l. 22. r. Agincourt p. 183. the cut in L'estranges Coat should be with the Lions passant not gardant p. 186. l. 9. omitted which r. by John Churchill of Grays Inne Esq and also of Winston Churchill of Mintern in Com. Dorcet Esq p. 188. l. 6. r. Parliament sitting p. 188. l. 32. r. Henry p. 189. l. 27. r. Edmond p. 190. l. 2. r. armed and langued Gules p. 351. l. 6. r. Poplers p. 379. l. 18. r. Cheveron p. 381. l. 9. r. for this brief to brief p. 386 l. 8. r. Sole daughter and Co-heir p. 386. l. 22. 28 r. Staresmore FINIS AN EXACT REGISTER Of all the KNIGHTS of the GARTER together with the Blazons of their severall Coats from the first Installment to the last AS ALSO An Account or Register of the Names and Arms of all the BARONETS OF ENGLAND From the first Institution to the last TO The most illustrious and truly noble the Right Honourable ALGERNON PERCY Earl of Northumberland Lord PERCY LUCY POININGS FITZPAYN BRYAN and LATIMER Companion of the noble Order of the Garter formerly Lord high Admirall of ENGLAND Generall of all the Forces in the Expedition 1640. and one of the Privy Councell to his late Majesty c. This view of the Names and Armes of all the Knights of that Noble Order in whose Registers your Lordships Ancestours have been so eminent and are so frequently Recorded is humbly dedicated to your Honours acceptation by my Lord Your most humble Servant Richard Blome THE Fellowship of the Order of the Garter is of all others by far the most honourable making Knights and sometime those of the lesser Nobility not onely equall to Noble men at home but Companions to Kings themselves and Emperours A fellowship of all the Orders of the Christian World most ancient and famous Encircling all Titles and Degrees of Nobility from the Throne downward as will appear by the following account which Order was first establisht by that victorious Prince King Edward the third in the 23 year of his reign and by him called the blue Garter but commonly the Garter appointing his successours the Kings of England as chief and 25 Knights which he called Fellowes or Companions of the Order of the Garter or St. George whose day viz. 23. April was by them celebrated with much grandeur and magnificence at Windsore the birth-place of that great Prince To omit their Rights and Ceremonies their Statutes and Habits I shall onely note beside their grand Coller they on ordinary dayes are distinguisht and known by a blue Garter whereto on their brest is affixt the figure of Saint George and the Dragon and about their left leg they weare a blue Garter or Band with studs buckles and these French words of Gold HONI SOIT QVI MALY PENSE Much may be said in honour of this great Dignity but let the worth and estimation it had in Europe appear in the following Register by the eminence of the Companions of this great Order An account of whose names and Coat-Armours I shall adventure to give the world as faithfully as I can although there be many whose abilities and name would have been more advantagious to the Work then Fr. Nower AN EXACT REGISTER OF All the KNIGHTS of the GARTER 1. EDWARD the third King of England and France Quarterly France and England viz. Azure semy de Flower de lis Or and Gules three Lions passant gardant Or. 2 Henry Plantaginet sirnamed of Monmouth Duke of Lancaster and the first Duke that ever was created in England England a Label
Thomas Argent a Cheuron Sable between three Cornish Choughes Proper 251 John Savage Argent six Lions Rampant Sable 252 Richard Pool Per pale Or and Sable a Saltire engrailed counterchanged 253 Henry the Eighth began his Reign 1509. France and England Quarterly Soveraign Princes 254 CHarles the fifth Emperour the German Eagle with a Scucheon of Pretence of Leon Castile Austria and Burgundy 255 Ferdinand King of the Romans after Emperour Comme son frere 107. 256 Francis King of France France 257 Emanuel King of Portugal Comme 108. 258 James the fifth King of Scots Or a Lion Rampant within a double Trescheur Gules Dukes 259 HEnry Fitz-Roy son to the King Duke of Richmond and Somerset France and England a Border quarterly Ermine and compony Argent and Azure a Batune Sinister of the second an Inescocheon quarterly Gules and Varry Or and Vert a Lion Rampant Argent on a Chief Azure a Castle between two Bucks head caboshed Argent 260 Julian de Medicis brother to Pope Leo the tenth Or 8 Roundles in Orle that in chief of France the other 7 Gules 261 Edward Seymor Earl of after Duke of Somerset Gules two Wings impaled Or. 262 Thomas Howard Earl of Surry after Duke of Norfolk Comme son pere 208. 263 Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke Comme son pere 248. 264 John Sutton called Dudley Viscount L'isle after Duke of Northumberland Or a Lion Rampant with two tayls Vert. 265 Anne Duke of Mont-morency Or a Crosle Gules between 16. Eagles Azure Marquesses 266 HEnry Courtney Earl of Devon Marquesse of Exeter Or three Torteauxes 267 William Parre Earl of Essex Marquesse of Northampton comme 204. 268 William Paulet Lord Saint John afterward Earl of Wiltshire and Marquesse of Winchester Sable three Swords in point Argent Earles 269 HEnry Howard Earl of Surrey comme son pere 262. 270 Thomas Bullen Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond Argent a Cheuron Gules between three Bulls heads coupee Sable 271 William Fitz Allan Earl of Arundel comme son pere 190. 272 John Vert fifteenth Earl of Oxford comme 115. 273 Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland comme son pere 227. 274 Ralf Nevill Earl of Westmerland Gules a Saltier Argent 275 Francis Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury comme son pere 228. 276 Philip Chabot Earl of Newblanc Admirall of France Or three Chabots chubs or chevin fish Gules 277 Henry Fitz-Allen Lord Maltravers comme son pere 271. 278 Thomas Monros Lord Rosse after Earl of Rutland Or two Bars Azure a Chief quarterly two Flowers de lis of France and a Lyon of England 279 Robert Radcliffe Viscount Fitz-Walter afterward Earl of Sussex comme 212. 280 Henry Clifford Earl of Cumberland vide 118. 281 William Fitz-William Earl of Southampton Lozengy Argent and Gules 282 Thomas Lord Cromwell after Earl of Essex Azure on a Fesse between three Lyons Rampant Or a Rose Gules between two Choughs Proper 283 John Lord Russell after Earl of Bedford Argent a Lyon Rampant Gules on a Chief Sable three Escallops of the first 284 Thomas Lord Wriothesley afterward Earl of Southampton Azure a Crosse Or between four Falcons Argent Viscounts 285 ARthur Plantaginet Viscount Lisle son of King Edward the fourth Quarterly the first France and England the second and third Vlster viz. Or a Crosse Gules the fourth Mortimer vide 16. a Batune Azure an Inescocheon an Inescocheon of Grey Valence Quincy Talbot Beauchampe and L' Isle quartered with a Label Argent 286 Walter Devoreux Lord Ferrers Viscount Hereford Argent a Fesse Gules in chief three Torteauxes 287 Edward Howard Admirall of England comme son pere 208. 288 George Nevill Lord Abergaveney Gules on a Saltier Argent a Rose of the first Barons 289 THomas West Lord De-la-ware Argent a Fesse indented Sable 290 Thomas Lord Dacrees of Gilsland Gules 3 Escallops Argent 291 Thomas Lord Darcy Azure crusuly 3 Cinquefoyls Argent 292 Edward Sutton Lord Dudly Or a Lion Rampant with two tayls Vert. 293 William Blound Lord Mountjoy Barry Nebulee of six Or and Sable 294 Edward Stanley Lord Mounteagle comme 209. with a Crescent 295 William Lord Sands Argent a Cross raguly Sable 296 Henry Lord Marney Gules a Lion Rampant Gardant Argent 297 Thomas Lord Audely of Walden Quarterly per Fesse indented Or and Azure in each of the last an Eagle Or a Bend of the second charged with a Fret between two Martlets of the first Knights 298 JOhn Gage Comptroller of the Houshold Gyronny of 4. Azure and Argent a Saltire Gules 299 Henry Guilford Master of the horse comme 246. 300 Nicholas Carew Master of the horse Or 3 Lions passant in pale Sable 301 Anthony Brown Sable 3 Lions passant in Bend double cotised Argent 302 Thomas Cheney Warden of the Cinque-ports Comme 245. 303 Richard Wingfield Argent on a Bend Gules cottises Sable 3 pair of wings impaled of the first an Estoil of 16 rayes 304 Sir Anthony Wingfield De mesne sanz Difference 305 Anthony St. Leger Deputy of Ireland Azure Fretty Argent a Chief Or. 306 John Wallop Captain of Guismes Argent a Bend wavy Sable 307 Edward the sixth began his Reign 1546. Quarterly France and England Soveraign Prince 308 HEenry the second King of France Duke 309 HEnry Grey Marquess Dorcet after Duke of Suffolk 188. Earls 310 HEnry Nevil Earl of Westmerland Gules a Saltire Argent 311 Edward Stanly Earl of Derby vide 209. 312 Francis Hastings Earl of Huntington Argent a Maunch Sable 313 William Herbert Earl of Penbrook Per pale Azure and Gules 3 Lions rampant Argent a Border gobony Or and the second bezanty Barons 314 THomas Seymour Baron Sudele Comme son frere 261. with a Creicent 315 Thomas West Lord De-la-ware Comme 289. 316 George Brook Lord Cobham Gules on a Cheuron Argent a Lion rampant Sable crowned Or. 317 Edward Lord Clinton after Earle of Lincoln Argent 6 Croslets Fitchee Sable on a Chief Azure 2 Mullets Or. 318 William Paget Lord Beudesert Sable on a Crosse engrailed between four Eagles Argent five Lions passant of the first 319 Thomas Lord Darcy of Chich. Arg. 3 Cinquefoyls Gules Knight 320 ANdrew Sutton alias Dudley Knight Or a Lion rampant with a double tail Vert a Crescent 321 Mary Queen of England Soveraign of the Garter began her Reign 1553. France and England quarterly on the Sinister side and on the Dexter Soveraign Princes 322 PHilip 2d King of Spain Quarterly the first Castile and Leon quarterly 323 Emanuel Philibert Duke of Savoy Vide fol. Earls 324 Henry Ratcliffe Earle of Sussex Comme son pere 279. 325 Anthony Brown Viscount Mountague Comme son pere 301. 326 William Howard Lord Effingham Comme son pere 208. with a Mullet Sable 327 William Grey Baron of VVilton Barry of 6. Argent and Azure in Chief 3 Torteauxes a Label of five points Argent 328 Edward Hastings Lord Loughborough Comme son frere 312. 329 Robert Rochester Knight dyed before the Instalment 330