Turks is Persia. 106 Aichmalotarchae in the Captiuitie 154 Aijos Phasileos Marchio 131 Ailwin a SaxoÌ„ Earle called half-Half-king the same with Hehelguinus in others 227. Founder of Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire ibid. Aides to make the sonne a Knight marrie the daughter and redeeme the Lords bodie out of prison 330 Algomeiza Procyon 13 Algebar 13 Alexander sonne to Iupiter Hammon and his picture with Rams hornes 63. whence he was called Dhil karnaijn 140. his being deceiu'd by Anaximenes exprest by an Ancient in Latine verse 157 his request to the High Priest for his name to be giuen to the Priests children 67 Albu Ersalan 111 Alcoran of the Turks worne about a Chaliphs neck 100. in it parts of the old Testament ibid. how many Azoars Sureths or chapters it hath the difference of the Arabique one in that from the Latine 101. the beginning of euery Azoar 102. It was by error giuen to Mahomet by the Angell Gabriel 104 Almumens 101 Ali or Alem Mahomets sonne in law 100. how the Persians and other follow his sect 105. 107 the Alian Sect from another Ali according to some opinion 107 Ali Abasides 107 Alghabassi 99 Aladin in the Turkish storie 112 Alfred the first King annointed in England 133 Alilat the same Goddesse with Lilith 165 Alexius Commen the first creator of those Dignities Sebastocrator Panhypersebastus c. 171 Alderman of all England vnder the Saxons 227 Aldermannus Iuratorum 270. 389 Alderman See more in Ealderman Alodium Alode its deriuation 302 Alodarij Aloarij and the like anciently in England 390 Alsheich 51 Alluph i. Dux 208 Amiras Amera Amir 49. 98. 375 Amir Echur 374. Amir Halem 379 Amir elmumunin i. Rex orthodoxorum 99. seq Amiralius 375 Amiras Amireus if well distinguisht 375. 376. Amir amomenus 99 Amir moumnes 100 Amici Regum and Amici Fratres Rom. Imp. 185 Anaximenes See Alexander Annian Impostures reiected 17 Anglorum Rex Primus in the Heptarchie 30 Anselm Archbishop of Canterburie would haue gone to Rome for his Pall but William II. would not permit him 26 Anaxarchus his iest to Alexander pretending himselfe a God 67 Anni Augustorum 71 Antigonus his answere to a flatterer that calld him God 67 Antiochus sprinkled the Iewes Bibles with Bacon-broth 62 Antonin of what respect the name was in Rome 77 Annointing of Kings 128. whence the originall 129. 387. Annointing of stones and statues mongst the Gentiles and bounds ibid. what Princes were to be annointed by the Roman Prouinciall 130. yet no annointing of the old Irish Kings 57. where it was first vsed in the westerne parts 131. Annointing with holy oile to the French Kings 132. None of their Kings of the first line was annointed 132. British Kings annointed 132. First annointed in the Saxon times 133. Annointing of the English Kings with holy oile giuen to Thomas Becket as the tale is reported 134. Annointing makes Kings capable of spirituall iurisdiction 135 Andrew Harkley Earle of Carleil his being degraded of Knighthood vnder Edward II. and the forme of it 3â—7 Andrew S. 370 Apollo to him were consecrate all children cut out of the wombe and why 70 Apostle des Sarazins 66 Apostolique King a title to an Asiatique King 87 Apple so is the Globe calld whereon the Crosse is infixt 158. Three apples in Iupiters statue at Constantinople 159 Appenages of France 196. whence the word Appenage 198 Arbelus 9 Arsacides 76 Areta a name of the Hagaren Kings 76 Arduelles or Ardebil 107 Arthurs seale 160. Arthur and his Round Table 365 Arundel Castle 235. Earldome of Arundel begunne 236. its essence by reason of the Castle and precedence 236. 237 Armories Setting of Crownes on them 196. 197. 206. See Crownes when they began to be borne hereditarily in Praefat. and there of their being giuen by Patent more borne by some Mahumetans painted anciently 380 Armes of the Daulphinè France to be quartered 173. Of Moscouie 362. and see in Beta Of Saxony 152 Armes giuen in enfranchisement 326. 327. and see in Knights Of armes descendible to the heire 322 Arch-duke how ancient the name 194. Of Lorrain ib. Arlic i. Honorable 223 Armiger 340. 341. whence the dignitie hath its name 343 Archbishops worth 204 Arabians See in Vashlu Assyrian Monarchie and its continuance 6. 7 Assur built not Niniueh 8 Astaroth 65 Astronomie of Homer explaned 14 Astrologers 67. 166. 185 Asia the westerne part of it sometimes beside what is truly Greece called Greece 75 Assit principio Sancta Maria meo 101 Asser Ben Cheter 105 Astures King of them 80. Prince of Asturia 170 Ataulph purposd for a title in Empire 76 Athelstans greatnesse thinking it more honourable to make a King then be one 35. his Charter 303 Athenian Prince calld Great Duke 194 Augustus would not bee called Dominus 47 Augustus why and how a title to the Emperor 70. 71. its deriuation 71. vsed by other Princes 71. and 72 Augere Hostias 71 Aureum Pomum wheron the crosse is borne 160 Auratus Eques 317. and 361 Aureorum Annulorum jus See in Rings B BAal 9. and 65 Baal Hanan the same as Hannibal 67 Baal-samaim the same with Iupiter Apollo Pan. 9 Banners giuen in inuestiture and in committing the gouernment of a Prouince 28. 29. 191. 378. 379 Banner square who may beare it with his Armes on it 353 Bannerets their Name and Creation 353. seq a Banneret discharged of being Knight of the Shire 355. 356. and of their Precedence ibid. See in Sanziacks Bani of Hungarie 381 Babylonian Scepters and Rings 155 Babylon and Bagdet 93 Bagded is the old Seleucia vpon the confluence of Tigris Euphrates 93 Baetulus from Bethel deriu'd into the Heathen 129 Babamus in Turkish Our Father 122 Bacon the Frier his bookes spoild by ignorant Monkes 109 Baltheus what 311 Balteus auratus constellatus 309 Basilius Macedo the Easterne Emperor his finding fault with Lews II. the Western about the title of Emperour 22. 23 Basileus 21. seq 35 Barbaquan Barbican 89 Barons and Baronie the etymon of the word 259. seq what they are 265. 266. Of France 266. of England before the Normans 267. seq vntill 273. Barons after the Normans and Parlamentarie 274. 278. and 280. 283. Value of a Baronie 274. and 232. Peers to Barons i. Pares Baronum 274. 275. Barons to Earls 247. 275. without Barons the name of Prince anciently not supported 275. Baronies how many in England vnder Hen. III. 278. First Baron created by Patent in England 281. Baro and Baronia coniugata 282. and 283. Primus Baro Angliae 283 Baron and Lord. 284. Baronie of Earles giuen to their heires apparant 284 Barons of Scotland 285. late and ancient 286. 287. difference of those of France of later time and Barons of England Scotland 288. Barons in France haue the right of wearing a Gilt Helmet 288. and a Chaplet of gold 289. Of Spaine
contraire vel contradicerè creditor potest scilicet ipsum sigillum in Curia recognoscenda suum esse c. The like out of that y 33. Hen. 2. apud D. Ed. Coke in praefat ad lib. 3. Fine in the Countie twixt Walter of Fridastorp and Helias his sonne and Iohn of Beuerley leuied vnder Hen. II. and sealed with the seals of the Father and Sonne Either then the Chronicle of Abingdon misinstructs or els it wills that the Earle of Chester being yet not of the order of Knighthood vsed his mothers seale that is such a one as hers was without difference because perhaps after the order receiud som change was to bee added to his For Du Tillet cites an old iudgment of the yeer M. CCC LXXVI wherin he saith an Esquire dicitur cum Equestrem Ordinem suscipit sigillum mutare But hee speaks it only of Burgundie Others being moud by the Monkish z Chron. Abb. de Bello apud G. Lambard in Itin. Cantij pag. 405. report touching Richard Lucy chief Iustice of England his finding fault with a mean man for vsing a seale vnder Henrie II. think that in those times they were peculiar to men of the greater fashion and that they became common not till about Edward III. Indeed diuers Charters were in the Norman times before that made without seales yet an old * Bracton lib. 2. de acq rer dom cap. 16. §. 12. Lawier vnder Hen. III. requires them as an essentiall part of a Deed. Nor doth any one reason more moue me to beleeu the ancient and promiscuous vse of them here then because for the most part all Nations had them and in their Writings and Deeds in one sort or another vsd them And howeuer a Hist. Nat. 33. cap. 1. Plinie affirms that Egypt and the East were only contented with letters omitting seals yet its certain that the Iews had them and in ancient time often when they made a contract two Deeds were writen one contayning the contract at full with all couenants and conditions which was folded vp and sealed b v. Ierem. cap. 32. Ios. Scalig Elench Trihaeresij cap. 11. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tobit cap. 7. with the buyers seale the other containing a generall recitall of what thing only the Contract was and this last was shewd open to witnesses who inscribd their names on the backside of boh That so the Witnesses or standers by might not know the summe time of Redemption or such like yet bee able to iustifie the truth of the instrument comprehending them by the inscription of their names The Seale they calld 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Deed or instrument writen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sephor which is a book also but the c Elias in Thisbite Rabbins expresse their Deeds Releases Obligations and the like by the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Shetar or Setar whence the word Starrum or Starr◠for Acquitances or writen testimonies of Contracts is vsd So must you vnderstand it in that Roll in the Tower of Placita apud Scaccarium Iudeorum de Termino Paschae anno Regni Edwardi nono of Edward the first Salomon de Stanford Iudeus recognoscit per Starrum suum occurres there and an Acquitance or Release by the name of starrum is there d 9. Ed. I. Iudeorum Rot. 4. Pasch. Norff. rot 5. in dors rot 6. Sutht ferè passm in Schedis illis pleded to haue been tried before the Shirife at Norwich by a Iurie of Sex probos legales homines sex legales Iudeos de Ciuitate Norwici and found to haue been the Deed of one Genta a woman Iew of Gloucester whereupon one Alice the widow of Clement of Poringlond was quit against the King then clayming vpon speciall occasions all duties which were owing to the Iews in England The like kind of trials are there in the case of one Eustace of Peccham in Kent of Salomon Bensalomon in Hampshire and diuers others Where by the way obserue it seems the Iews of the Iurie were charged by oth taken vpon the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 e Liber legis i. the books of Moses held in their armes and by the name of the God of Israel which is mercifull with formall additions of words which they vsed as Christians vpon the Euangelists For a Rabbin that l Rabbi Moses Mikotzi in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 praecept 123. liud in time of Henrie III. saies that so was an oth to bee taken by his countrie men although in a iudiciall precedent yet remaining of Constantin Porphyrogennetus he liud about CCC yeers before diuers other and strange ceremonies were to be vsed If you desire them search them where they g In lib. 2. Iuris Graeco Romani are publisht The Romans had their Annuli signatorij and sigillaricij as Uopiscus calls them destinat as well to sealing of writings as vse in the house in steed of locks h Satyr 13. Inuenal Uana superuacui dicunt Chirographa ligni Arguit ipsorum quos litera gemmáque Princeps Sardoniches loculis quae custoditur eburnis What 's gemma Sardoniches but the Seale cut in that stone Of the i Polyb. hist. 6. Graecians as plain testimonie is And of all enough more The seale being a speciall ensigne of credit and therefore so fitly vsd Nec plus habere quam vnum licebat saith Ateius k Macrob. Sat. 7. cap. 13. Capito of Seale Rings and the ancient Roman times nec cuiquam nisi libero quos solos fides decerneret quae signaculo continetur And it s affirmd mongst the Graecians that before the inuention of Seales cut in fit matter the vse was to seale with pieces of wood eaten and gnawen by l Philostephan apud Hesychium in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Is. Tzetz ad Lycophronem wormes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which could not but giue impression and that Hercules first vsd that kind of Seale whence Lycophron hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. a worm-eaten Seale I perswade you not to bee prodigall of your faith to such Grecian coniectures Think of them as they deserue But mongst our ancestors as the king had his Great and lesse or Priuie Seale so at least Gentlemen and their superiors a like distinction A Conisance in the Kings Court anciently shall iustifie it Iohannes de Burgo saith m Hill 44. Hen. 3. Placit ap West Rot. 28. Staff the Roll cognouit quod apposuit paruum sigillum suum cuidam scripto quod fecit Decano Capitulo de n Lichefeild Lichefeud de confirmatione quieto clameo de aduocatione de Herdel apponet sigillum suum magnum praedicto scripto circa tertiam Septimanam post Pascham So much for Seales Among the Reasonable Aides due from Tenants to their Lords one speciall is a faire fitz heire Chiualer to make the Lords sonne and heire a Knight Which is one of the three reserud in King Iohns
the succeeding Kings had that g Paul Warnfred de gest Longobard 3. cap. 16 Fore-name Vpon that of Lycophron 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Isaac Tzetzes notes that from this Cleta an Amazon all the Queens which raigned there afterward bare hir name He means the City Cleta in the inferior Calabria And the Princes of the Hagaren h Ios. Scalig. Emendat Temp. lib. 2. vide 2. Machab. cap. 5. Com. 8. Arabians had the common name of Areta Of this kind more may in ancientest story be obseru'd In later times the Constantinopolitan Emperors much affected to giue their children and themselues the great name of Constantine not as imposd but as an addition to the proper Of a Constitution i Circa Ann. DCXX. of Heraclius thus begins the Preface In the name of the Lord Iesus Christ our God Heraclius and Heraclius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heraclius the Son is stiled New Constantine being taken in as a partner of the Empire by his Father And in the Monasterie of Suluna at Constantinople is painted Michael Palaeologus and his Empresse Theodora with three inscriptions the one beeing as Leunclaw j Pandect Turcic cap. 51. remembers it in Latine thus conceiued MICHAEL IN CHRISTO DEO FIDELIS REX ET IMPERATOR DVCAS ANGELVS COMNENVS ET NOVVS CONSTANTINVS And the Turks vse to call all those Constantinopolitan Emperors Constantins as their name but also Teggiurlar in derision Teggiur signifying a Lord of som small territorie not thinking them in their later times worthy the name of Emperor But this of Constantin was no otherwise then the Romans vsd the name of Antonin Ita n. nomen Antoninorum saith k Caracallâ Spartian inoleuerat vt velli ex animis hominum non posset quòd omnium pectora velut Augusti nomen obsederat And l Diadumeno Capitolin in Opilio Macrino de hoc nomine Lampridius to the same purpose Fuit tam amabile illis temporibus nomen Antoninorum vt qui eo nomine non niteretur mereri non videatur imperium Whereupon it seems was Seuerus his purpose m Spartian in Geta. grounded that all his successors should haue been calld Antonins as they were Augusti And when Alexander Seuerus was by those turbulent acclamations vrged to the name of Antonin he earnestly and often refused it lest the very name might breed in them expectation of what hee should not in his Empire perform It was a surname of the Arrian Family and first in Pius when his grandfather T. Arrius Antoninus on his mothers side adopted him But when they had giuen him the surname of Pius it grew to be his name thus T. Antoninus Pins Others in continued succession after bare it and with affectation either in Forename Name or Surname vntill the Maximins and as some of the old Writers would till the Gordians all deriuing the honor of it from Pius and Marcus The Princes or Despots of Seruia the Turkes call Lazars from Lazar or Eleazar Bulk these two being both one name which first got that territorie vpon Donaw from n Calchondyl de reb Turcic lib. 6. Leunclau Pandect Turcic cap. 46. 54 Lazarus ille vixit A. M. CCC XC Stephen King of Bulgarie As also somtimes Bulcoglar i. the sonnes or posterity of Bulk which the Seruians expresse according to their Slauonique Bulcouitz So from Crates the Bulgarian Princes were Crateuitz as in like analogie the Dalmatian Cernonitz the Albanian Karolouitz deriuing their title out of the French Carolin stock But most of these proceed from the autors of the family or predecessors and are rather Honorable from that priuat beginning then notes of publique Maiestie Therefore haue I briefly run them ouer and come to such attributes which expressely interpret in particular Princes highest Honor or Greatnes The French Kings haue anciently as still been known by that addition of Most Christian. When it began in them is vncertain Som fetch it from Rome to Charlemaine But so it should rather haue remaind in the Empire Som referrè it to the Councell of Orleance held vnder K. Lewes or Clouis their first Christian King about the yeer D. But there are no other words to that purpose then Domino o Tom. 2. Concil Aurel. 1. cap. 2. Suo Catholico Ecclesiae Filio Clodoueo gloriosissimo Regi Omnes Sacerdotes quos ad Concilium venire iussistis In-Indeed in S. Remigius or Remy's p Flodoard hist. Remens 1. c. 18. Papam hunc tituluÌ„ in Ferdinandum v. Castellae Regem transferre in animohabuisse memorat ex Comiâ—aeo Mariana hist. Hispanic lib. 26. cap. 12. Testament he was first Archbishop of Rhemes that Clouis is calld Christianissimus Ludouicus and was the first Christian K. of Great note and Empire although this corner of the world our Britain aboue CCC yeers before him had K. Lucius which was in Europe absolutely the first Christian K. that storie makes mention of vnlesse you think Tiberius was so because he somwhat inclin'd to Christianity and perhaps had embraced it had the Senat well likt it Of him see Tertullian and others since To the French diuers bulls of the Pope haue been anciently sent stiling him with that title And for the credit of that Nation in this kind one that liu'd q Agathias Histor 〈◊〉 aboue M. yeers since affirms of them then that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. they are all Christians and most Orthodoxall He is also called the Eldest sonne of the Church Filz aisné de l'esglise which came to him it seems from that his predecessors were Emperors For the Emperor r Camden in Reliq was accounted Maior Filius Ecclesiae the K. of France Filius Minor and of England Filius Tertius and Adoptiuus Of these and particular messages to him in proof hereof and such like his own subiects Du Haillan Hierom Bignon Claudé Fauchet Du Tillet and others haue more But it is also certain that in letters from Rome our Soueraigns haue been titled with Christianissimus which it seems was before custom had establisht it as proper to the French The English Monarchs haue had euer since Henry VIII the title of Defender of the Faith Hee in those awaking times twixt Romanists and Lutherans wrote a volume against Luther in defence of Pardons the Papacy and the supposed VII Sacraments Of this work the Originall is yet s Francisc. Swe rt in Delicijs Orb. Christ. remayning in the Vatican at Rome and with his own hand thus inscribd ANGLORVM REX HENRICVS LEONI X. MITTIT HOC OPVS ET FIDEI TESTEM ET AMICITIAE whereupon saith Sleidan Pontifex honorificum regi cognomen tribuit Defensorem appellans Ecclesiae which is the same with Defender of the Faith And one in his t Io. Faber Orat habit Londini ad Reg. Proceres speech to Henry VIII about holy Warres to bee vndertaken against Mahumedans hath in non frustra diuino inspirante spiritu hunc talem titulum
vs furthermore that their Prince is not properly stiled Emperor of the Abassins but of the Ethiopians The Arabians cal them m Terra Hhabas Ethiopia Ben 〈…〉 min. Tudelens Itinerar pag. 101. Elhabasen from the same reason as we Abassins but they are known to themselues only by the name of Ithiopiawians Of this Belul Gian is made that Beldigian by which Luis de Vretta a Spanish Frier saies they call their Emperor But Bodin notes in his margine to his 1. de Rep. cap. IX that his name is Iochabellul i. gemma pretiosa as he saies I cannot but preferre the testimony of Zaga Zabo an Ethiopian Priest which in this could not deceiue But plainly as the name of Presbyter Ioannes is idly applied to him so it had its cause vpon another mistaking For in the trauails of such as first discouerd to any purpose those Eastern States as they were of later time is mention n Pol. Venet l. 1. cap. 51. seq Ioh. de Plano Carpini c. 5. Will de Rubruquis Itinerar made of one Vncham or Vnchan a great Monarch in those parts where now the Gâ—eat Cham or Chan of Cathay hath his Dominion and him they call Presbyter Ioannes and write that one Cinchis whom they fained to haue been begotten on a poore widow by the Sunne beames as chosen King among the Tartars rebelling against this Vncham ouercame him and from this Cinchis the Tartarian Monarchie hath its originall And some more particulars of it you haue in the life of S. Lewes of France written by De Ionuille a noble Baron of France that was with him in the holy warres Hee calls him in his French Prebstre Iehan This relation is of about M. C. XC and hath made the readers confound the corrupted names of both Princes twixt whom too great distance was to haue the one deriud from the other And some o Aloys Cadamust Nauigat cap. 60. Lud. Vartomann Nauigat 2. cap. 15. vide si placet Gerardi Mercatoris Geographiam trauellers into those parts haue expressely deliuerd them both as one But the Diuine Scaliger teaches that the Asiatique Vncham and his predecessors were calld 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Prestigiani that is in Persian Apostolique and so had the name of Padescha Prestigiani i. Apostolique King because of his Religion being a Kind of Christian as Beldigian is also which in Ethiopique-Chaldé must be exprest by Negush Chawariawi Doubtles the community of sound twixt Prestigiani Presbyter and Precious Gian was a great cause of this error which vntill the Portugalls further acquaintance with the Ethiopians alwayes possest Europe But I wonder how the learned Munster was so much in this matter deceiud that hee supposes the Ebrew Epistle printed in his Cosmographie beginning 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. Ego Pristijuan to be as sent from the Ethiopian Emperor especially sith hee took notice of both the Asiatique and African Prince abusd in the name of Presbyter Ioannes The Prestigians affirming in it that Thomas the Apostle was buried in his country makes plain enough that it came from the Eastern parts if not counterfeited The title likewise is much differing from what the Beldigian vses I will onely adde one example out of Beldigian Dauid his Letters to p Damian à Goes Pope Clement VII in Latine thus In Nomine Dei c. Has literas is ego Rex mitto cuius nomen Leones Venerantur Dei gratia vocor Athani Tinghil that is the Frankincense of the Virgin Filius Regis Dauid filius Solemonis filius de manu Mariae Filius Nau per carnem filius Sanctorum Petri Pauli per gratiam Pax sit tibi iuste Domine c. The like is in diuers Letters thence to the Kings of Portugall But for that name of Cham in the Tartarian Empire it signifies Lord or Prince and that Cinchis or Cangius Cingis or Tzingis for by these names he is known was calld Cinchis Cham his sonne and successor Hoccota Cham or rather Chahan or Chan although a q Matth. à Michow de Sarmat Asian lib. 1. c. 8. Polonian which seemd to haue much knowledge in that his neighboring country long since deliuerd thus Imperator eorum Tartarorum Ir Tli Ki lingua ipsorum hoc est liber homo dicitur Dicitur Vlu Cham quod sonat Magnus Dominus siue Magnus Imperator Vlu n. magnus Cham vero Dominus Imperator est Eundem aliqui magnum r Dog Imperator Canis dictus est vbique Odorico in Itinerario I. de Plano Carpini Canem dixerunt male interpretati sunt quia Vlu Cham non significat magnum Canem Cham etenim cum aspiratione Dominum Imperatorem Et Cam sine aspiratione cruorem nunquam canem sermone Tartarorum designat For the translation of s Haithon Arâ—â— floruit Monachus sub A. 1290. Câ—râ—hâ—nus item dictus Antonius Haithon the Armenian out of French into Latine by Salconi A. M. CCC VII hath vsually Can not Cham. And the Turkish which is but Tartarian interprets Prince by Chan not Cham and Chanoglan with them is the Sonne of the Prince or Lord. Yet in Chambalu i. the Court of the Tartar the m is well permitted because of pronunciation The Turks also call this Emperor Vlu Chan in the same signification as à Michow hath written neither do their Grand Signiors abstain from this title of Chan. Amurad or Morad the III. vsd it ordinarily thus Sultan Murad Chan bin Sultan Selim Chan elmuzaferu daima i. Lord Murath Prince sonne to Lord Selim Prince alwaies Victorious Where note with t Pandect Turcic cap. 3. hist. Musulmanic 2. Leunclaw the agreement of their Alwaies victorious with semper Augustus semper innictus In their Ottomanique line is one Carachan Kara Han in R. Zaccuth sonne of Cutlugeck which had hence that last part of his name And in those great * Epist. Petr. Arch. Russiae ap Matth. Paris pag. 875. irruptions of the Tartars about the beginning of the Othomanique Empire occurre the names of Great Princes Tartar Chan Thesyr Chan Chuis Chan and such more But amongst them diuers are mâ—â—printed with Than for Chan and one is called Chiarthan which I doubt not but should be Chiar or Car Chan. So in Friossart you haue Lamorabaquin plainly for Almurath Chan and in De Ionuille Barbaquan * Verùm Aggeres Militares idiomate illo Opientali Barbicanae dictae vnde forsan illud nomen Albert Aquens hist. Hicrosolym 6. cap. 10. Emperor of Persia whose last termination is perhaps this Chan. Constantin u De administ Rom. Imper. cap. 40. Porphyrogenetus speaking of som Turks which anciently planted themselues in the Eastern part of Europe â—â—ies that ouer them as Iudges were two Princes calld Gylas and Carchan But saith hee Gylas and Carchan are not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. not proper names but Dignities What Gylas is I confesse I haue
Greek hath not an expresse word for Maiestie Som haue q Glossar Vet. Graeco-lat v. 2. Petri cap. 1. com 16. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 turned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Maiestas and Magnitudo but it properly signifies the last not so well the first which comes plainly from a Comparatiue Maiestas itaque are Casaubons words si verbi proprietatem spectamus Numinis est solius quod omnibus ijs quae magna dici possunt est maius Usurpatio est cum Principibus maiestas tribuitur But obserue their tradition of the Godesse Maiestie They fained that at first there was no distinction of Place or Precedence among the Gods but that the meanest would somtimes sit in Saturns own Throne And this they say r Ouid. Fastor 5. continued Donec Honor placidoque decens Reuerentia vultu Corpora legitimis imposuere toris Hinc sata Maiestas quae mundum temperat omnem Quáque die partu est edita Magna fuit Nec mora consedit medio sublimis Olympo Aurea purpureo conspicienda sinu As Maiestie was there bred of Honor and ReÌ„uerence so proportionatly mongst men and thence the word applied to the supreme of Men. But also they vsd Numen Imperatoris and Oracula Augusti for Edicta and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if you should say diuinitùs sancimus for statuimus And before this great communicating of Maiesty the Emperors s Paul ff de legat 2. l. 87. §. Lucius Scoeuola ff lib. 40. tit â—1 l. 3. had the attribute of Sanctissimus and such like These beginning vnder Heathenisme continued after Christianitie Whence when they speak of the Crimen Maiestatis they t Athaliat tit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 66. Glossar Vet. Sanctitas Regum ap Iul. cas in Tranq vse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which may be interpreted a iudgment or accusation touching what is committed against a thing sanctified or sacred But I think 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will be most proper in substance for Maiestie although George Codin translated hath alwaies Regnum for his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vnder fauour not without error They had also their u Codin Meurs Gloss. Graeco Barb. in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. sacred Maiestie which was proper only to the Emperor and that when others spake to him he himself in modestie omitting Sacred and speaking only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But Maiestie exprest in this word was communicated also to the Despote Sebastocrator and Caesar. The Despot was the heire or successor apparant of the Constantinopolitan Empire vnderstand of the times since Alexius Comnenus though before him it were a generall name as My Lord the Sebastocrator the second from him in dignitie and next the Caesar Protosebastus and so forth But to our purpose receiue this out of their c Curopalat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quem tamen absque Iunij Restitutione locorum ne legas traditions Before the Emperor they calld the Despote My Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Maiestie was applied to him the Sebastocrator My Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sebastocrator the Caesar my Lord Caesar in those words as the other and to both these also was Maiestie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 applied But if any other Great men about the Court 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 had occasion to vse the Despot's name to the Emperor they thus My Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Your sonne the Despote If they speaking among themselus mention'd him then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. Our Lord the Despote For in later Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is Our either corruptep from their ancient own or induced by Tartarian or Turkish wherein Babamus is our Father If a great man spake to the Despote he might either call him My Lord the Despote with the word last remembred or for greater honor Our Lord the Despote If any of the Despot's seruants or followers vsd his masters name to the Emperor hee might not call him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which I interpret to be in fashion the same with Our My Lord when we speake indifferently of any Nobleman but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. My Lord and Master your sonne the Despote For so I thinke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is best here translated If a man spake to any of their other Great men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hee neuer vsd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 On the other side 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was neuer vsd to the Despote but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Neither could they render reason for all those but because vse and custome had brought them to it Neither hath the Grammaticall difference of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 any thing to do here For our Kingdome Maiestie saith the learned Author of the Remains came hither in time of Henry the Eight as Sacred Maiestie lately in our memory Vnderstand him as it was commonly in vse and properly to the King applied For in the Epistles of Iohn of Sarisbury is Maiestas tua diuers times to Henry Fitz-lempresse vnder whom hee liu'd and the same is there vsd also to Pope Adrian Grace mongst vs began in time of Henry IV. and Excellent grace as you read in the Remains vnder Henry the Sixt. High and mighty Prince vnder Edward the fourth But about those times it was not solely proper to the King as it seems by the Concord touching the title of the Crowne twixt Henry the sixt and Richard Duke of Yorke made in XXXIX Henry VI. in Parliament at Westminster with this title Betwixt the most High and most mighty Prince Henry the fixt King of England and of France and Lord of Ireland on the one partie and the right High and mightie Prince Richard Plantagenet Duke of Yorke on the other partie and the Duke of Glocester vnder Henry the a Parl. 3. Hen. 6. art 1. 26. sixt is calld High and mightie Prince and the Duke of Excester Hault and Puissant Prince Anciently how our Soueraigns were in this kind titled may be obserud vpon these examples Au Tresnoble tréshonorable Prince son trescher Seignior si luy pleist Monsieur Edward per la grace de Dieu Roy d' Engleterre Signior D'irland Duc D' Aquitaine le sone Henry Percy reuerence honeurs In a letter b Rot. 25. Ed. 1. in Arce Londini de Rebus Scotiam tangentibus memb 4. 6. saepius to Edward 1. writen from Dunwich and the like in diuers other Records is And there the Barons of the Exchequer send to the King with Nous maund à vostre hautesse c. But also in times later then Edward 1. titles and notes of Greatnes being not in that distinction or Curiositie as now som such as are with vs mean were competent to highest Princes I remember I
which was afterward Edward I. vt maturiùs ad res gerendas grauiores experiens redderetur fit Walliae Princeps simúlque Aquitaniae ac Hyberniae praefectus Vnde natum vt deinceps vnusquisque Rex hoc secutus institutum Filium maiorem natu Walliae Principem facere consueuerit It is true that Wales with Gascoigne Ireland and some other Territories in England were giuen to this Prince Edward vppon his marriage with Elianor daughter to Alfonso King of Spain Yet the Principality of Wales was not in that gift so speciall to this purpose For after the other it comes in the Patent in these words only k Archiu 39. Hen. 3. Vnà cum conquestu nostro Walliae When this Edward was King he made his sonne Edward of Caernaruan Prince of Wales a more particular course in policie vsd about it is in som of our stories whither I referre you and by that name and Earle of Chester sommond him to Parliament But all these made nothing to inuest the Title perpetually in the Heirs apparant although some haue deliuerd otherwise For this Edward of Caernaruan afterward Edward II. sommond his eldest sonne Prince Edward by the name of Earle of Chester and Flint only But when this Prince was King Edward III. he in Parliament first creats his sonne the Black Prince Duke of Cornwall quod primogenitus filius Regis Angliae qui foret hereditabilis Regno Angliae foret Dux Cornubiae quod Ducatus Cornubiae foret semper extunc primogenitis filijs Regum Angliae qui foret proximus haeres predicto Regno and giues him diuers possessions annext to the Duchie l Pat. 11. Ed. 3. memb 1. chart 1 Tenendum eidem Duci ipsius haeredum suorum Regum Angliae Filijs primogenitis et dicti loci Ducibus Since when the eldest sonnes of our Soueraigns haue been by law accounted Dukes of Cornwall in the first instant of their birth Neither only the eldest in respect of absolut primogeniture but also the second or other after the death of the first or former on whom this Title was so cast as it was lately resolud vpon good and mature reason grounded by diuers autorities and presidents for the now most noble Prince Charles Not long after the same Black Prince was inuested in the Principality of Wales Tenendum sibi heredibus Regibus Angliae since when neither is the true beginning of this Title of any other time The heirs apparant haue been honord with PRINCE OF WALES some hauing been created in like forme others only calld so The last creation was in that most hopefull blossom vntimely cropt out of Britains Garden Prince Henry whose title also was often Prince of Great Britain In Scotland the eldest sonne heire is born PRINCE OF SCOTLAND Duke of Rothsay and Stewart of the Kingdom The title of Duke of Rothsay hath so been since m Circa câ—â— cccc Robert III. first honord his eldest sonne Prince Dauid with it Yet Henry Lord Darley had it also before his marriage with Queen Mary And as Rothsay to the eldest so the Earldom of Rosse is in Scotland to the second sonne Thus speaks the n Parl. 9. Iacob 3. cap. 71. act of Parliament vnder Iames III. Our Souueraigne Lord with consent of his three Estaites of the Realme annexis till his Crowne the Earledome of Rosse with the Pertinents to remaine thereat for euer Swa that it sall not be leiffull to his hienesse or his aires nor his successoures to make alienation of the saide Erledome or ony part thereof fra his Crowne in ony wise saifand that it salbe leiffull to him and them to giue the said Erledome at their pleasance till any of his or their secunde sonnes lauchfully to be begotten twixt him and the Queene So in a manner are the Appanages in France and the Duchie of York with vs and the like In imitation of the English honor of Prince of Wales the INFANT and heir of SPAIN Infant is but o Infantes dicti passim Regum filij Roderico Toletano Rod. Santio vt Hispanicè Infantes Sonne or Child as in France les enfans le Roy had the title of Prince of Astura Principe de las Asturias which began first in Henry sonne of Iohn 1. King of Castile and Lions and afterward Henry III. of that Dominion to whom Iohn q Ita Stephanus de Garibay in Compend Histor. Hisp. lib. 15. cap. 25. ab co vulgus quòd Principem Hispaniae siue Castellae compellant Haeredem Regni arguitur of Gaunts daughter Catharine was giuen in marriage Som of their p Roderic Sant part 4. cap 22. Duque de Alencastre in Stephan de Garibay Stories ignorantly stile him Dux Alencastriae and Glocestriae aiming questionles at Lancastriae and Leicestriae for he was Earl of Leicester To that Henry and Catharine Vt Asturum Principes vocarentur datum saith Mariana more ex Anglia translato vbi Regum filij maiores Walliae Principes nominantur quod ab hoc initio susceptum ad nostram aetatem conseruatur vt Castellae Regum maiores Filij Asturum Principes sint quibus annis consequentibus Vbeda Biatia Illiturgisque sunt adiectae In the Spanish Pragmatica of câ—â— D. LXXXVI For Titles it is ordered that the Infants and Infantas of Spain shall only haue the Title of Highnesse And in the top of Letters to them shall be only writen My Lord Sennor and in the end God keep your Highnesse only and vpon the Superscription To my Lord the Infant Don N. or To my Lady the Infanta Donna N. And that Highnesse without addition is to bee vnderstood only of the Prince heir and successor Dux in the times before the Caesarean Empire And in it Limitum Duces Ducatus Tunicae Ducales Ducianum iudicium Comites and the beginning of the Honorary Comitiua vnder Constantine His Counts of three Ranks The President of making a Count of the first Rank Dukes and Counts of the first Rank made equall Comitiua Vacans and Honorarie Titles without gouernment or administration giuen about the declining Empire 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Kings Friend 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the later Greek Empire Comitiua Secundi Ordinis How the name of Count was both equall and vnder Duke Dukes and Counts at will of their supreme anciently If a Duke then should haue XII Counties vnder him The beginning of this and other Titles to be Feudall and hereditarie in the Empire The ceremony of giuing Prouinces by deliuering of one or more Banners The making of the Marquisat of Austria a Dukedom The Archdukes name his habit and Crown in ancient Charters Imperiall Magnus Dux Lithuaniae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hereditarily giuen by Constantine the great to the Prince of Athens vpon weak credit Power giuen to the Duke of Austria being made a King to create a Duke of Carniola The difference of Dukes in the Empire Who of them
bucusque impensis quem pro Nobis tenere poterit in futurum in nostris Consilijs Parliamentis necnon pro nobili fideli genere vnde descendit ac pro suis Magnificis sensu circumspectione ipsum Iohannem in vnum parium ac Baronum Regni nostri Angliae praefecimus volentes quod idem Iohannes haeredes masculi de Corpore suo exeuntes statum Baronis obtineant ac Domini de Beauchamp Barones de Kiderminster nuncupentur In cuius c. T. Rege apud Wodestock 10. Octobris The Law hath been since taken that Baron or not Baron as Duke or Not Duke and so of the other created Titles by Record is triable only by Record and not by the Country Whereas anciently when their Reuenue and possessions gaue the Name or made them Barons it might bee triable by the Countrie Yet in ancient time after Hen. III. the Tenure n 22. Ed. 3. fol. 18. a. 24. Ed. 3. fol. 66. a. 48. Ed. 3. fol. 30. b. vbi Baro Parlamentarius per partem solummodo Baroniae tenet consulas Stat. West 2 cap. 46. per Baroniam was in Parlamentarie Barons specially respected and perhaps till the forme of Creation by Patent came in vse none were or few called to Parlament but such as held per Baroniam or as Briton calls it en Baronie which after that of Hen. III. very likely is to bee alwayes taken for Baronia Capitalis and immediat of the King Neither was it likely that he would sommon any but his own the Kings Barons as at this day all the Parlamentarie are When they are at first summond or created their denominating Territorie is alwaies some Lordship or Mannor which sufficiently tasts of their ancient being And those two courses only of making them are at this day in vse which notwithstanding is to be vnderstood of Lay Barons or Lords Temporall For the Lords or Barons Spirituall haue not now this Honor so much personall as feudall and by reason of their Temporalties being Baronies They had not saith Stanford a most learned Iudge of the Common law their names ratione Nobilitatis sed ratione Officij and indeed ratione Baroniarum quas de Rege tenent So that in them Baro Baronia meerly as it was in most ancient time taken concurre as Coniugata which in Lay men before that Constitution of Henry III. had like beeing These Spirituall Lords now are only Bishops Heretofore there were of them both Abbots and Priors but all Bishops were euer Parlamentarie Barons not all Abbots and Priors To some only was that allowd and mongst them the Prior of S. Iohns of Ierusalem was Primus o Camdenus Baro Angliae and Froissart calls him Le grand Priour d'Angle-terre du Temple But in the Rolls somtime are many of them summond which elswhere are as often omitted And in that of XLIX Hen. III. are IXV. Abbots XXXV Priors and the Master of the Temple Of those Ecclesiasticall Fees being Baronies thus Matthew Paris speaking of William I. Episcopatus quoque saith he Abbatias omnes quae Baronias tenebant eatenus ab omni seruitute seculari libertatem habuerant sub seruitute statuit Militari irrotulans singulos Episcopatus Abbatias pro voluntate sua quot milites sibi successoribus suis hostilitatis tempore voluit à sirgulis exhiberi Et Rotulas huius Ecclesiasticae seruitutis ponens in thesauris multos viros Ecclesiasticos huic Constitutioni pessimae reluctantes regno fugauit But in their sommons the Lay Barons are neuer saluted Barons but by the French word Cheualier so exprest in the Writ being in Latin Only in ancient times where the Catalogues of them are in the Rolls two occurre somtimes with the addition of Baro that is Baro de Stafford and Baro de Greistok Neither haue they in their Creation except their Robes any more ceremonie then a Charter giuen expressing some place denominating them Of their Banner more where we speak of Bannerets We vsually stile them Lords as the Dutch their Heeren or Freeheeren But that name with vs is but of curtesie For it includes not of necessitie Baron nor is any distinct Dignitie as appears by a case where the Writ was p Ita n. à Iurisperitiss intelligitur Casus ille 8. Hen. 6. fol. 10. v. Cas. Comitiss Rutland Relat. part 6. Praecipe Iohanni Louell Militi and the exception to it was that Iohn Louell Knight was a Lord Seigniour not named so but disallowed Whereas the law had gone plainly otherwise if it had bin that he was a Baron of Parlament not named so and the party had withal shewd to the Court a Writ signifying the same Yet Seigniour is only vsd for a Baron in our q 22. Ed. 4. cap. 1. D'Apparaile Statuts and the word Dominus is that which the law vses in expressing a Baron when he is either Plaintife or Defendant as Henricus Barkeley Miles Dominus Barkeley and versus Georgium Zouch Dominum Zouch Saintmaure Cantelupe which occurre in Plowden So that the name of Honor giuen to a Baron in legall proceedings is alwaies but Dominus with addition of the denominating place But when the priuiledge of beeing a Baron is challenged or exception for not naming the partie so testimony of Record must be produced that he is Baro Regni and that hee hath vocem locum in Parlamento as the books are Which Difference for the name of Lord is obseruable and to bee vnderstood r 48. Assiss pl. vlt. 48. Ed. 3. fol. 30. b. 35. Hen. 6. fol. 46. a. chiefly of Temporall Barons But also both that of Lord and Baron is at this day by vsuall application of language attributed with vs to some which are neyther by law as especially since the vse of making euerie Earle first a Baron of some place which began as most worthy Clarenceulx teaches about Hen. VIII it hath been a custome to stile their heires apparant Lords and Barons with the title of their Fathers Baronie so of Viscounts their heires apparant But this is only a peece of Courtship and meer fashion Yet allowd in Heraldrie wherein Tiptosts rule he was Earle of Worcester and High Constable of England vnder Hen. VI. is that the eldest sonne of euery one of a created degree is as of the next degree vnder him which may be applied to Dukes Marquisses and the rest But in legall proceedings they enioy no such matter nor haue by their being heirs apparant any prerogatiue of the Greater Nobilitie The same is to bee affirmd of a Dukes sonne and heire whom custom titles by his fathers Earldome as the example was in s 38. Hen. 8. lit Treason 2. Henry calld Earle of Surrey and sonne to the Duke of Norfolk vnder Henry VIII beeing attainted of Treason by a common Iurie and not by Peers or Barons because he was in law as one of the meaner or lesse Nobilitie In Scotland before t
Aeneidos 8. Polybium lib. 6. alios pugnare cum hostibus lawfully fight with the enemie But these religious solemnities wore away in ancient time It grew afterward fashionable for one King to send his sonne to another to take the Order vt acciperent Arma Militaria or Virilia as the Monks vsually expresse it Which well agrees with that of the Longobards before mentioned Examples of that kind both here in Scotland elswhere are enough frequent So one King of another as in that of Alexander III. of Scotland He married the Lady Margaret daughter to to our Henry III. The Nuptials being celebrated in Christmas at York the King of England Knighted his Royall sonne in law with twentie more Where the Earle Marshall of England as an ancient right of his Place requird the King of Scotland's Horse and Furniture for his fee which although in those times it seems i Statut. West 2 cap. 46. De Marescallis the Earle Marshall had at the Knighting of any Baron or superior Nobleman as also at the Homages done by any such either Secular or Religious yet it was answerd that from the King of Scotland no such fee was due because hee might haue took the Order of any other Catholique Prince or at his pleasure of any of his own subiects of his Nobilitie Responsum fuit saith the k Matth. Paris 35. Hen. 3. Storie quod Rex Scotiae tali non subiacet exactio 〈…〉 quia si placeret ei potuit ipsa Arma suscipere a quouis Principe Catholico vel ab aliquo Nobilium suorum Sed ob reuerentiam honorem tanti Principis Domini ac vicini sui ac soceri tanti mallet ab ipso Rege Angliae Cingulo donari Militari quam aliquo alio Et sic praecipiente domino Rege in totum die festo omnimoda lis conquieuit And for that of the King of Scotland his saying that he might haue took it from a subiect of his own its true and so in our State some of our Kings haue receiud it Henry VI. was Knighted by Iohn Duke of Bedford and Edward VI. by Edward Sâ—imer then Earl of Hertford and the like many more occurre Nay in those ancienter times Earls which were then the greatest Nobles vnder the King and Prince had a power of Knighting Vnder Hen. III. the Earle of Glocester made his brother William Knight at a Tourneament So did Simon of Montfort Earle of Leicester Gilbert of Clare Some l Tillius de Reb. Gallic 2. like examples haue been in France And Los Caualleros vassallos de los Ricos hombres i. Knights made by the Ricos hombres anciently in Spain they were neer as Barons in other places are rememberd by m Apud Fr. Menenium ex P. Salanoua alijs Spanish Antiquaries And against the Scotish Expedition Prince Edward of Caernaruan first Knighted by his father Edward 1. made diuers Knights of his own autoritie at Westminster by girding with the sword But such also as were neither Princes nor Earles and that without any Regall autoritie transferd for if so it were not worth obseruation about the raigns of our first three Edward's somtimes made Knights in the Warres Dominus Iohannes filius Thomae say the n A. 1313. 1314 1316. 1318. Annals of Ireland fecit Milites Nicolaum filium Mauritij Robertum de Clonhull apud Adare in Momonia So Edmund le Botiller afterward Lord Deputie made XXX Knights at Dublin And Richard of Bernimgham for the good seruice that one Iohn Husee had done in the Irish warres gaue him amplas terras fecit illum Militem vt benè meruit And by the same autoritie Uenit Dominus Rogerus de Mortimer Dubliniam fecit Dominum Ioannem Mortimer Militem cum quatuor socijs And indeed this Roger of Mortimer was then as Lord Deputie of Ireland and might the better do it And in one of our yeer-books o Thirning 7. Hen. 4. fol. 8. Voyes Froissart â—ol 1. fol. 185. a Iudge on the Bench relates thus I haue heard saith he that a Lord had issue a sonne and carried him to the Font and presently as soon as he was baptized took his Sword and made him a Knight saying Be a good Knight if you can for you shall neuer be good Esquire It was a prerogatiue it seems anciently challenged by such as were themselues Knights For William of Badensel a German Knight at the Sepulchre made two by his own report Supra Sepulchrum Christi saith p Guil. de Badensel Hodoe-Poric in Terram Sanctam he pulchram feci de Resurrectione Domini missam celebrari aliqui de meis socijs Corpus Christi deuotè susceperunt Pâ—st Missam feci Duos Milites Nobiles supra sepulchrum gladios accingendo alia obseruando quae in professione Militaris Ordinis fieri consueuerunt This was in M. CCC XXXVI Now none but the King or one as his Lieutenant authorized giues this Order neither is it done by girding with the Sword but the deseruing kneels and a Sword is laid or slightly strook on his shoulder by the king vsing this French q Smith Rep. Angl. 1. cap. 17. Soiz Cheualter au nom de Dieu and then Auancez Cheualier This Ceremonie alone giues the Title of Eques Auratus that of Auratus comming from their right of wearing guilt spurres which hath been also a knights speciall ornament And vnder Edward II. Richard r Anonym Chron. apud Millium of Rodney was knighted by being girded with a Sword by Almaricus Earle of Penbrok and hauing one Spurre put on by the Lord Maurice of Barkley the other by the Lord Bartholomew of Badilsmere That striking with the s Tillius de Reb. Gallic 2. Sword hath been anciently the vse of the Empire and when Sigismund knighted Signell a French Gentleman in France to honor Signell with that name the want whereof was obiected to him in a Controuersie twixt him and Pâ—stellan hee did it by such striking of him kneeling and giuing him one of his gilt spurres and girding him with a girdle that had hanging to it in stead of a sword a great knife And this was done in France neither Contra maiestatem aut ius Regis saith du Tillet tentatum est quia ex Iure consultorum sententia Equites vbique in Imperio in alieno dominatu institui possunt For Creation of a knight thus much and as euery child knows in personall Creation only the being of knighthood is neither hath any man it otherwise Infanciones saith one t Mich. Molin ap Mennenium of Spain and Infancio is their hijdalgo i. a Gentleman perhaps from the German or Gothique Edeling or Etheling nascuntur apud nos Milites verò fiunt which you may applie to all States In elder times it was prouided in the Empire France and Spain that none should receiue this Order except hee were before in some degree of Ciuill Nobilitie A
376 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 183 185 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 222 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 45 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in praefat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 144 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 54 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 24 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 122 171 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 48 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 49 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 222 351 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 108 seq 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 109 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 212 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 122 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 193 185 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ib. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 120 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 111 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 166 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 158 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 103 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 267 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 377 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 53 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 76 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 162 355 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 111 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 15 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apud Euripidem 41 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 33 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 350 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 64 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 120 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 241 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 90 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 45 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 198 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 351 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 377 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 82 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 83 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 81 82 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 98 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 64 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 169 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 24 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 40 41 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 165 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 222 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 24 vnde id nomen Regibus datum a Graecis ib. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 63 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 111 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 291 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 377 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 110 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 66 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 336 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 154 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 342 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 340. seq 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 98 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 141 150 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 172 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 137 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 18 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 185 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in praefat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 380 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 45 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 184 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 74 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 42 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 185 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 379 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 164 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 91 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 94 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 91 X P 162 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 364 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 137 What occurres most particularly pertaining to some parts of our English Common Laws is here by it selfe collected AIdes afaire filz Chiualer File marier de Rançom 330. 331 Amerciament for trespasse c. v. pag. 204. 225. how it was anciently in Herefordshire 233 Ancient demesne tenants 335. and tried by a Iury ibid. Amittere Legem what 344 BAckberend 264 Baronia Tenere per Baroniam 276. 278 Bishops how anciently invested by the King and that brought into vse againe in substance vnder Edward VI. 201 Bishops wont to set in the Shrifes Turne when that was altered 225 Bracton a coniecture on him 279. And see in the Table of Autors vnder Henricus de Bracton CArucagia 270 Chester 247 Clergie men see Bishops vsed to make a Procurator in Parlament if iudgment were to be giuen on life and death 253. Communia Placita non seq c. 234 County Court 255 Crosses 162 DArrain Presentment 279 Distresse to make oth in the Iury in a iberty of Infangtheef land a iudgement in it 263 Durham 248 EArles made laws in their Counties 233 Execution might not bee in Debt of a Knights Equipage c. 322 Eires 321 FRanchise de werk 248 Forest Lawes of K. Knout amended those in the Print 268 HExamshire 248 Heriots 225. 272. 273 Hors de son Fee pleded by Hors de son Baronie 278 Hidata Terra non Hidata 271 IVris Virum 279 KNights Fee 274. 319 Knighting by Writ 320. 321. See Execution MArcheta Mulieris 210 Marshalls Fees 315 Meinouer Mannor 264 Merton statut of Bastardie 280 NAtiuo habendo 210 PLurall number in Praecipite in a Writ 115 Parlament 274 Pares 346. 347 REliefs 232. 272. 273 276 SAke or Sack and Saccaber and Sathaber c. 261. 262 Seales 328 Surrender of an Erledom 3 1 Summons of an Earle in another County 233 Shrifes 255. See Turne and County Starra Iudaeorum occurring in the old Rols of Hen. 3. and Ed. 1. 329 Statut of XX. Ed. 3. de Proditoribus expounded 345 THird part of the County 231. 232 seq Triall by a Iury of Iews and Christians 329 By Ley Gager anciently in most actions 345. of ancient Demean 335 of a Bishop in Capitall faults 347 Turn de Vicount 225 VVArdships 54 THE TABLE A ABassilar Familie fol. 99 Abasens or Abissins 86 Abellio a Gaulish God 9 Abbots and Priors inuested 200 wont to be in Parlament as Barons 283. and were Barons ratione Officij Tenurae 282. 283 Abthan an old dignitie in Scotland 285 Abstracts and Concrets in expressing a great mans honor 117 which best 125 Abrech which was giuen to Ioseph by the Aegyptians 351 Abualtrazim is Mahomets name in Paradise 100 Achaius King of Scots added the Bordure Fleurie about the Lion as they affirme 153 Achemaenides 74 Achmet is Mahomets name in heauen 100 Adoration by kissing the hand or forefinger 38. and 40. and 41. and whence Adorare Adoration after the Persian manner 41 Adoption per Arma. 307. Adoption desired by the Persian Cabades of Iustinian and how Iustinian put him off 307 Adon and Adonai i. Lord. 49. and 50 Admirabiles Admiralli Admiraulx Admirauisi 99. and 189 and 375 Admirallus Murmelius 102 Admirall whence 375 Adam Heue hence or out Lilith written on the walls the woman beeing in childbirth mongst the Iewes 105 Adrian IV. Pope an English man and his name before he was Pope 55 Administratio Comitatuum 233 Aesculapius why hee is supposed Apollo's sonne 70 Aella first that had the chief supremacie of State mongst the Anglo-Saxons being King of Sussex â—0 Aelamites are Persians and why so called and how the name of Aelam or Elymas agrees with Magus 109 Aegyptian Kings 73 Aetes sonne to Phoebus in the Argonautiques had Sunne-beames on his head in memorie of his father 140 Aetheling See Etheling Aegialeus first King of Europe 16 Agagit and Amalekit all one 75 Aiem to the
anciently with vs 323. how among the Romans ibid. 329. when they came first hither 327. among the Iewes 328. in white wax in Praefat. Seleucia Bagded 93 Seriph or Seriffe 97 Seithi 97 Senior 110. 111 Serenitas Nostra 120 Sebastocrator 122. 156. 171. 197 Senoi Sansenoi Saminegeloph 165 Seigneurs Suzerains 207 Seneschal 244 Setar i. starra 328 Selefey in Sussex 301 Selden anciently Selkeden in Sussex 321 Sexhendman 334 Seruiens 335 Semiramis built not Babylon 8 Shinaghr 5. 32 Shach Sophi 105. 106 Shach Schach Saa c. 52. 111 Shooes with Eagles 155. See Red. Gilt Shooes 156. 157. See in Moon Shield-knaue 341 Shiregemote 225 Shrifes See Ealdorman and in VicecoÌ„ ViscouÌ„t in Bishops Sixtus Quintus his iest on himselfe for being born domo illustri in Praefat. Sihri 66 Sikerborgh 264 Sigillum Magnum and Sigillum Paruum 330 Siris whence so called the Riuer Nilus Sicilie Princes had Rex giuen them hereditarie 24 Skioldungi a Danish race 74 Soldan Saudan Sultan c. 94. 96. 383 Sophi whence in the Persian Title 107. and in whom first ibid. seq Sophi signifies not a Begger 108. See in Praefat. Sophilars a Sect. 106. 107 Souerraign Lord or Ladie 125 Somerset Earl 217 Sops of wine giuen in making an Earl 239. 240 Solidus duplex 204 Snowdon 215 Sommage and Somme 291 Sonnes of Noble Personages how some of them are accounted in Rank 284. 342 Solidati 335 Soldiers whence the name 335. 336 Spain See in Emperor and in Pragmatica in Dukes Earles Viscounts c. Spurres giuen in Knighthood 317 Spectabilis 383 Speaking or writing to Great Persons 116. 117. 119. 120. 121. seq See in Salutation Stafford Baron 283 Statues and Idolls how first worshipt 9 Stuart that name in Scotland when first Royall and whence 285 Starra the Iews written instruments of Contracts c. whence and where vsd 328 Sunne and its Images how worshipt by the Iews 10. by the Easterns Generall 11. and Persians 167 supposd with 12. beams 140. supposd in Astrologie President of Christianitie 166 Sultan See Soldan Sultan OleÌ„ i. Lord of the world 97 Sultan Gelal Eddin Melic Sa. 111. 112 Sublimitas 120 Sultanlar monie 112 Superiors speaking to Inferiors 114 Surname See Names Summon an Earl in his Countie 233 Summarius 291 Summagium 292 Subuasores 292 Sunni Schia 105 Sueuians old Prerogatiue in Praef. Suppani 381 Superillustris 383 Sword giuen in making a subiect King 29. For Sword see in Cinctura and Gladius and in Inuestiture of Dukes Count or Earl c. and in Knights Swearing See in Othes and in Cosmas Syro-Phoenician Graecian in S. Mark what 75 Synopsis Basilicon 21 Syncellus what 97 T TArtarean Empire 87. 89. 92 Taurica Chersonesus 91 Tangergoglan 93 Tanais 92 Tetragrammaton name of the Almightie whence and how pronounced among the Iews 50. 51 Teggiurlar 77. 381 Temerinda 90 Tenure of the Crown and of the King 266 Tenure of the I le of Man anciently 31. of the Tenants and Princes of the Empire 300 Templars might nos kisse a woman 373 Tecuytles 372 Tiberius his dissimulation 19. 20. he would not be calld Lord. 43. inclin'd to Christianitie 78 Themosis Pharaoh that was drowned in the Red sea 73 Thomas Apostle 88 Tiara what 144. what kind of one the King only wore 144. it was pulld off by the Persians in salutation 144 Thrymsa what 240 Thanes and Thegnes 225. 268. seq Thanus and Thainus 285. 272 Third part of the Counties profits to the Earls 229. 232. 233 Tiptofts rule 284 Thomas Becket See in Annointing and in Oile Timariots 380 Timaria 381 Tongues variation of the Europaean and Asiatique pronunciation 5. 6. Punique and Spanish 52. Hebrew and Maurish anciently the same 69. the Aethiopique Chalde 86. Slauonique and Tartarian 92 Tonosconcolerus 6 Tosch 285 Torniaments 321 Toga Virilis and the time of taking it 305 Truchten i. God or Lord. 61 Triumphall Ornaments whence 249 Tronagium granted 199 Trinoda Necessitas reserued alwayes in Saxon Feoffments 293 Tropaeophorus 364 Troplelophorus 364 Turks names 67. for them see in Mahumedans Turbant or Tulipant 144. 146. 147 Turkish Banner 378 Tzaophi i. Electus whence Sophi 107 Tzodki i a begger 108 Tzaggia and Tzaggae 342 V VAlecti 54. 321 Vashlu point how superstitious the Arabians are in reading it 102 Vacantes 184 Value of Dignities 232 Vaiuods 249. 382 Valuasores what â—65 289 Maiores Minores ibid. 290. 291. See in Vauasour Vauassories 291 Vauasours in France and England 292. and of England in 389. 390. whece the word 298 Valuasini 291 Vadiare legem amittere legem 344 Vassi Vassalli whence 297. 298. seq Velenno 10 Vezir Vezir azem 23. 377 Veromandia 71 Vitreus Ordinationis liber 135 Viennois See in Daulphin Viscounts whence and what in France 250. 251. his inuestiture 256. First in England and Scotland 256 Vicedominus 253. 254 Viguiers 251 Vicecomes whence so called for Shirife 252 Vicarius 252 Vidames whence 253 Virgata Terrae 272 Viro for Baro. 273 Villain knighted 318 Vlu Chan what 88. 89. 92 Vnchan or Vmcham 86. 87. 92 Vnction See in Annointing Volteius Mena Libertus to Pompey 325 Vrum Padischach i. the Emperor 103 Vsum Chasan 105 W W common with Qu. and Gu. 298 Wardships 54. See in Knights Wardships first in England Scotland 302 Wales See Prince 173 Walter Bishop of Ely 228 Werldthegnes what 225 White Kings 83 White in the Diadem proper to Kings 144. 145 Whitespurres 343 Wiltshire-mens Prerogatiue In Praefat. Witiscalc what 262 Wite 262. 263. 389 Wittenagemotes 226. 279 WisemeÌ„ of the East not Kings 108 Wife putting her away and taking her againe one of the execrations in the Mahumedans Oath 104 William Conqueror his arriuall and stumbling at the shore 34. his subiecting Church lands to the tenures 183 Will 11. his deniall of the Pope 26 Wight the Iles Kings 31 Worlds gouernment according to Hermes 3 Women and wiues called Dominae and Ladies 53 Women theeues drowned 286 Wooll 107 Worship and Worshipfull 124 Worshipfull Prince 124 X XA for Shach 111 Xeriph See in Seriph Y YEers See in Computation Z ZAga Zabo 85. 87 Zamer Chan. 91 Zabergan 91 Zelebi 381 Zosteria Minerua 311 Zuna 111 The end