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A96070	A discourse and defence of arms and armory, shewing the nature and rises of arms and honour in England, from the camp, the court, the city: under the two later of which, are contained universities and inns of court. / By Edward Waterhous Esq;.	Waterhouse, Edward, 1619-1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing W1044; Thomason E1839_1; ESTC R204049	70,136	238

Ladies A true Souldier must be pious he dare best look death in the face who dies daily to sinne and for whom that King of terrors is disarmed by Christ his Saviour 't was no mean honour to the memory of Bernard Count of Longevil Constable of France when it is recorded of him that he would undertake no Warlike action before he had offered his soul body and arms at the altar at a solemn Mass A severe walking up to the rule of his Religion doubled the fame of renowned Tilly The holy Story tells us of famous Souldiers eminent for piety Joshua David Ezechias since them of Charlemain St. Lewis Godfrey of Bulloigne Wencelaus and Amideus besides them of Christian Souldiers who have been devout even to Martyrdom Fusebius Nicephorus Theodoret Sozomen and Baronius mention Mauritius Exuperantius Sebastian Marius Constantine and others yea if the design of Loyola the founder of the Jesuites Order were as it is said to be propogative of the faith of Jesus and purely for his honour it was an instance of a Military mans devotion matchless A true Souldier should be generous and free a despiser of money and of living by rapine and plunder such an one was Terrail called Chevalier Bayard whom Causinus mentions to have lived under Francis the first who after 32 years service of 3 Kings and in places of great Command yet died almost as poor as he was born not but that he had great advantages but because he despised to be rich with other mens ruines Or be bought out of his Grandeur of mind by a bribe And such Souldiers England has of old had But Souldiers like other men vary with their Interests and when they break out in defiance of Discipline prove troublesom Gaguine in the life of Charles the 7th reports that the French Army grew so afflictive to the Nation ut dissoluta militari disciplina milites Petro mariscallo non audiebant pertulce illiberaliterque viventes praedas non mitius a Francis quam ab hoste facientes mulieribus injurii monasteriorum violatores contemptores religionis As for these Vermin of the Camp they are no guests at Prince Arthurs round Table Arms were never appointed for their Trophies who abuse themselves by such sordid debaucheries My prayer shall be that there may be such an unanimity between Arts and Arms that both may sing Glory be to God on high in Earth peace good will to men And when Souldiers are humble harmless and loyal as they are great encouragements to men of art who in profiting by study hope to be accepted protected and preferred by them so have they the grateful returns of learned pens to their publication and perpetuity No Authour mentions an Heroique candor and friendliness to men of learning and gravity without some Emphasis which has a Top and Top gallant display in it Cuspinian notes of Alexander Severus that valiant Emperour That he would ever have Learned men present at his Councels adding the reason plurimum timens ne quid de se asperum scriberent the like did Constantinus Ducas but upon another ground more ingenious solebat dicere malle se literarum gloria quam imperio illustrem esse And Certes these two compounded make the reason why learned men have been minions and bosom friends of Souldiers Thus Philip of Macedon favoured Aristotle Theophrastus and Plato Alexander Anaxarchus the Gymnosohists and multitudes of others Demetrius Poliorcetes Stilpo Lucullus not one or some but all the knowing race ut domus ejus Grecorum Roman venientium Prytanneum diceretur Cato major Zeno's statue Cato minor Athenodorus Pompey the great Possi●onius Augustus Caesar Varro Cicero Livy innumerosque alios doctos uno tempore and ●arolus Zenas Vergerius and Thomasius to name no more and if the learned have been favoured by the greatest Hectors there is reason they should requite them with memorials of perennity And that they do by proclaiming not onely their personal worth but the Nobility of their profession And so we conclude the Camp the first rise of arms and honour Next to this is the Court which I give the second place to as it is in the Order of honour for as in old time the greatest honours were those of the field so the residences of Princes were in tents and agrestique Pavilions till Cities were built and Pallaces receptive of Majesty erected No Court Paradoe Or munificence was read of Not that I restrain the Court I write of to the Courts of Princes and great men which anciently were ●ampus Martius's as well as Bacilicae Civiles For then as great mens servants were chosen for their proceritie of person strength of limbs activity of manliness so were their Halls courts and stables randevouzes of men at arms who there did exercise feats of Chivalry and were breathed to Encounters of sturdiness These Grandees of noble part had by the appointment of the Lord Marshal an oeconomy of Symmetry with that of Majesty To these notwithstanding I restrain not the Court I make a rise of honour Nor do I exclude these from the Court I intend but as I take them in so with them Courts of Law as in the head of Cities I intend Schools of learning usually kept up and flourishing in Cities and Corporations The service of Princes in their Courts no man can doubt to be less then a kind of Nobilitation so the rule of honour is adhaerentes lateri Principis eidem in officio quocunque minimo ministrantes Nobilitantur Soveraigns are in their Dominions Fountains of honour and where such a constellation of Nobility is there must some sparklings be diffused which will take kindling in the tinder of minds pursuing glory with a Jehu-like fierceness All men love to draw the curtayn of obscurity from before their Ancestors and by degrees of Enlargement to make the prospect of their persons more pervious No field so fayre and probable for this as the Court which had a weight for every action and a calculat of the Meridian of every actor There was a Market for all staple rarities of body and mind and no price was thought too great for a darling introduced by virtue and there kept up by the steddy practice and unchangeable motions of vertue The Favour of a Prince is such a Sun of influence as makes a shrub placed in his Court and under his royal eye and observation quickly of a Cedars growth 'T is such a benign umbrage as expatiates little spires of grass into the magnitude of Lawrels and to speak before a Prince gives an Orator who has a noble and a notable confidence and whose fontenel sends forth matter with words such an occasion of ingratiation as life meets not with in sublunary professions This made the graduate Divine from a Chaplin in ordinary become a prefermentary extraordinary Arch Bishop Bishop Councellour yea sometimes all a favourite This made the wellbook'd Lawyer who had a

various successions of ages high account has bin made of this Officer his dignity will thence receive some addition In King Johns raign when things were much out of order an agreement was that certain great persons should be intrusted to inspect the actions of that King and secure the peace of the Nation The Major of London was one in Rich. the seconds time when Persons of all ranks were to be rated according to their degree The Lord Maior was put at 4 l. the rate of an Earl and every Alderman at 40 s. the rate of a Baron and when Rich. the first in Captivity was to be ransomed the Lord Maior was one of the five Trustees for dispose of the monies levied to redeem him Yea when the death of Qu. Elizabeth and King James his absence here had made a kind of Interstitium in Government and it was thought fit by the great men of the Realm who being Officers by Commission abated by the death of their appointer to make a publication of their fidelity to King James and to notifie to the Nation whom they should expect and ought to pray for as their Lord and Master To this publication solemnly proclaimed the first subscriber was Ro. Lee Maior and after him John Cantuar Tho. Egerton C. Sigill Tho. Buckhurst Treasurer and so in order the rest of the great men as no doubt conceiving the Lord Maior the most fixed and conspicuous Magistrate in revolutions and changes And as the Maior hath been thus honoured with high esteem and had for a long time the reward of Knighthood if not a Knight before at the expiration of his yearly office so have also the Sherifs and Aldermen his Peers as it were For the Maior Sheriffs and Aldermen are by the Stat. of 11 Ed. 3. c. 10. said to have the Government of the City bin reckoned non inter milites gaudentes milites histriones as Bartholus termes some Qui non sunt nobiles but deservers of Knight-hood upon that accompt that Salust gives of Pompey who did cum alacribus saltu cum velocibus cursu cum validis valide certare Thus did 1● of them obtain Knight-hood from E. 4. William Walworth and five more from R. 2. Eastfield and others from H. 6. Horn ●ate Astrey from H. 7. and others of them have bin made councellors to their Princes so was Feilding to H. 6. and Ed. 4. William Fitzwilliams and Sir John Allen to H. 8. Yea and the Grandfather of that Virgin Lady and the mirrour of her Sex Queen Elizabeth the once glorious Mistress of these Islands Sir Jeffry Bullen descended from the famous House of Norfolk was in Anno 1457. Lord Maior of London And then is said to have to wife one of the Daughters and Heires of Thomas Baron of Hoo and Hastings Knight of the honourable Order of the Garter Further as to the Maior Aldermen and Sheriffs of London all Citizens these largesses of bounty have been expressed so has time and common approbation admitted other Members of the City into title of Gentility as well as Grandees in Law or Schools For as to those that either have held the place or fined for Aldermen the title Esquire is given So to all Citizens of London though in the City the addition of their mystery is most usual yet the title Gentleman where natively they are not such for there are many of both base and noble Origen is by the national courtesie given to such of them as are of creditable professions and fortunes which civility and grateful goodness of the royal Government of this Nation has been repayed by the City in all ages No part of the Land affording more brave free and well advised spirits then here have bin born bred and provided for To spring from a thriving younger Brother who has an elder Brothers fortune when he has prodigally wasted it Or to be the first of a Stock whose rise is not by blood and baseness is no lesse honourable then to descend from Hercules and want the noble qualities of his Issue And yet London alwayes had and yet has more defiances from the Issue of her Citizens the more is the pity and their shame then from all persons of high blood and honourable Ancestry Yea though she has had many profitable Offices to give by which many have lived plentifully and raised great Estates and had good Opportunities of requiting her by publication of her lustre and renown yet none of them that I know of have publiquely done it Bale and Pits indeed mention one Robert Bale or Balaeus Senior a Citizen born who did omnem suam operam omne studium eo dirigere ut ejus splendorem magis magisque illustraret But the works that he is said to write for Londons honour are lost Nor does London encourage any of her own to appear this way in publique for her many Monuments of antique honour and order undoubtedly she has which neither any abroad nor she her self knowes of That Sword of Goliah is wrapped up in a repertory of secrecie lying by the walls as a meet companion for dust and Cobwebs O London Thou hast ever been the glory but the envy the Oxe that has been muzled yet ever hast trod out the Corn of profit to the Nations advantage Thou hast bin the Candle that hast lightned others out of the dark of obscurity into the morning brightness and yet hast bin condemned as dulsighted to the perception of thine own interest and the glory that attends the due and devout improvement of it Men say thy purse predominates thy Councel and when they look upon thy wit they wonder at thy wealth This is thy censure from thy detractors but for all these speeches of anger and mordacity London has bin I hope yet will be London flowrish with that crowning mercy of orderly and peaceable Government when her enemies shall be cloathed with shame Gods blessing and the River of Thames are such demesnes about this Capital City as will supply her maugre the ill will of all her Opponents Thy name O beloved City has bin too much acclamated thy officiousness to general good too much anciently owned to suffer a final and total infamy for some demeritings Let thine accusers first prove themselves innocent before they cast the stones of punishment on thee And while thou hast the merit of thy predecessors valour of thy Magistrates bounty of thy Citizens riches and of their posterities flourishing in all parts of the Nation who are not lesse fortun'd and bred in points of honour then becomes the Condition of Gentry keep thy spirits about thee to recriminate thy reproaches and if thou couldst keep thy purse and match within thy self those that revile thee would soon be deeply in debt and hopeless how to rid themselves from danger For it is the honey drops of thy Wealth which enlightneth the eyes of many well descended

suscipienda yet by that authority the Yeoman or Handicrafts Tradesman could be compelled because he ought to be a man of blood and to have a fortune able to support the charge that dignity would contract Ne dignitas hujus ordinis vilesceret therefore by the Law he should have a Knights fee which is about five Hydes and in measure is 480 Acres reckoning 96 Acres to the Hyde and if men were not thus estated they were incapable of this dignity as were they also of being Coroners Or to serve for Parliament Or to enjoy other freedoms which Knighthood had which was instituted ad arma militaria suscipienda pro bono publico saith Sir Ed. Cook After as the Nation grew more numerous and honours appeared in request that every back might bear its own burden and one man of a name not bee injuriously molested for another this Statute of 1 of Hen. the 5th enjoynes that all Gentlemen and other persons should express their additions thence came the Addition Armiger and Generosus to be in use as Gentilicial affixes for they were primarily Military and have become distinctions civil onely by the adoption of Custom and the prevalence of peace whereby the Gown hath brought the helmet to the Barre and trains of artillery have vailed bonnet to the Trayn of Councel and owned the Senatorian Robe as the fountain of that legal being they had and the security of that pay they could expect 'T was so amongst the Romans till their Souldiers grew lawless and lost the honour of their promises And when Carthage so much doted on Military designs sacrosanctarum legum Justitiae politicarum rerum cultum aut abjecerat aut neglexerit which Servilius mentions as the cause of her ruine and conclusive downfall And therefore well it becomes the Civil Magistrate to be head For in him are lodged the Nations brain its vital and animal spirits in him is the life blood which assists to all Heroique and important affaires and carries Government afloat from the rocky shoares and fatal Catastrophe's of Anarchy and Tyranny The Holy Oracle tells us councel and strength are for the Warre First Councel then strength Councel to design and strength to execute Councel to command and strength to promote obedience For in that the Orator is brought forth as saying Ego meis Majoribus virtute mea praeluxi si prius noti non fuerint a me accipiant initium memoriae suae I am thorowly confirmed in the conviction that Nobility and Honour of Gentility and Arms bearing is as worthily merited by Learning as by courage Far be it from me to curtail that honourable esteem which our Ancestors gave Souldiers and Equestrian spirits that were an ingratitude to those lines from whence mine own Ancestors came and a baston of allay to that Gentleman who should extenuate the merit of military Grandees Our land lawes liberties were of old effects of that vertue courage and constancy the noble Gallants of England expressed in the field against the enemies of their Governours and Government and peace being the consectary of Gods blessing on that laudable resolution which gives being to the life and lustre of arts and professions of civil conversation ill expresses her self to her genitor If she do not bless the womb that bare her and the paps that gave her suck If the world rang of English Prowess when our Ancestors engaged in the Holy Land and made Conquests and gainings neerer home 'T would be a shame for an Englishman to declame against a Souldier or to account Furs and Emblems of Councel better armory then habiliments of Warres such as are Sword Shield Lance 'T is written of Johannes Galleacius that he so loved valiant men that he would purchase them to his party at any rate profiteri enim erat solitus nihil esse ea mercatura nobilius qua viri insignes pararentur For without question while Souldiers are choyce men who with the Gospel Centarion love Gods Nation and rayse and uphold Synagogues to his worship they are worthy to give the Lyon of the tribe of Judah in their banner and such Crucesignati may expect the King of Saints their Protector while they are for him the defender of the faith they will not dare to do violence to what ever has his Image and Superscription on it nor need they fear to suffer infamy or losse of life or member There is an act of Indempnity secures them He that honours me I will honour while they are promoters of order and a refuge to Gods exiles as were by Institution most military Orders They ought to be Companions in Government with the Gownmen and they have thriven the better for such Companions and Councellors in their conduct Alexander was no puisne in the worlds Militia when by the 27 year of his age he had subdued the most noted part of the world and wept that he had not another World to conquer yet he regulated his Motions by the Councell of Learned men and thought Achilles who had Homer the Trumpet of his glory more fortunate then himself whose memory could not be kept but in the Urnes of their wits and the repertories of their writings T is true Souldiers have the start of Scholars in their Eagled strength by the confidence of which they soar high making as they think their nest above Controll but their Egs may be sucked by industrious Ants and their Enterprises become addle thorough the diligent and accute vigilancies of those pen and inkhorn men which some Pseudomilites and reputed Martialists do vilifie Indeed there have been Souldiers oppressors of Religion and Learning and their professors who have come in with Attila's Motto Ira dei ego sum Orbis vastitas and have sacked Countries rifled Academies and disbanded Convents of Devotionaries no exception of Rome or his holiness in her to whom the Castle of St. Angelo became no refuge nor was any reverence expressed to his Pontificial Robes neither has the world wanted examples of the danger of armed men who with John of Leyden force their pretended setting up of Christ to be believed while they intend his suppression in those two great offices of Magistracy and Ministry which he has appointed and they would annihilate these Milites do therefore not deserve the renown of Warriors quia non habent virtutes necessarias ad militiam For a true Souldier and no Romulus Caesar or Alexander is too big for this name is a man of liberal and insordid principles true of his word f●difragous to none of a Justice like that of Marshall Bauciquaut under Charles the sixth of France who being Governour of Genoa expressed so signal Justice that it was usual for men to say to those that had injured them If you will not right me my Lord Marshall will and so abundant in pity this brave Souldier was that he instituted the order of the white Lady for defence of afflicted