I will make more apparent by this next Example Azure a Maunch Or. This with the distinction of a Crescent Gules charged with another Or is the Paternal Coat-Armour of Edward Conyers Esq principal Store-keeper of his Majesties Ordnance and Armour in the Tower of London who is descended from the Family of Conyers late of Wakerly in the County of Northampton being a branch of that ancient Family of the Conyers of Sockburne within the Bishoprick of Durham whose Ancestors in the Reign of William the Conqueror had the Office of Constable of the Castle of Durham granted to them in Fee which Estate is yet continuing in the same Family though not in the same Name being descended to an only Daughter of 〈…〉 Conyers of Sockburne Esq who married the Right Honourable Francis late Earl of Shrewsbury From this Family is likewise descended the Right Honourable Conyers Lord Darcy Meynell and Conyers of Hornby Castle in the County of York whose Grand-father Thomas Darâ—y Esq married Elizabeth daughter and heir of Iohn Lord Conyers of Hornby And thence is also descended Tristram Conyers of Walthamstow in the County of Essex Serjeant at Law As touching Apparel we find that though the same be made chiefly to clothe our nakedness yet shall we find that they were not only ordained by the invention of man but also allowed and for some special end expresly commanded by God himself to be made and provided as well for glory as also for ornament and comliness as appeareth Exod. 28. 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 Aaron 's 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 apparel And they be called Ornaments because they do illustrate and adorn 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 triming of the body as Combs Glasses Head-brushes Curling-bodkins c. and also Purses Knives c. Sir Thomas Palmer of Leigh near Tunbridge in Kent Kt. Grand-father to the elder Sir Henry Palmer Kt. before recited was owner of the Mannors of Tottington and Eccles in Aylesford and Boxley adjoying to Snodland aforesaid which came unto this Family by a match with a daughter of the Lord Poynings And Katharine Palmer this Sir Thomas Palmer's sister was married to Iohn Roe of Boxley in Kent Gent. Father of Reginald Roe of Leigh aforesaid Gent. Ancestor to Sir Thomas Roe Kt. 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 In respect we are now come to speak of Stamps and Coins I hold it not impertinent by the way to give some little touch of the Royalty of Coining It is therefore to be observed that the power to coin money hath been evermore reckoned to be one of the Prerogatives that in our common Law we do call Iura Regalia and pertaineth to the Sovereign Power amongst many Regal Immunities to that Supream Jurisdiction peculiarly belonging and to none others Nevertheless we read that Monarchical Kings and Sovereign States have imparted this Prerogative or Preheminence unto others their inferiours upon special acceptable service done or for whatsoever private respect as we may see Maccab. 15. 6. where amongst many other preheminences granted by Antiochus the son of Demetrius to Simon the high Priest which had been formerly granted to him by the Predecessors of Antiochus he enableth him to coin money saying I give thee leave to coin money of thine own stamp within thy Countrey To this Head must be reduced all other sorts of Bullion or Coin and whatever else pertaineth to traffick or commerce By this open Purse we may understand a man of a charitable disposition and a frank and liberal steward of the blessings which God hath bestowed upon him for the relief of the needyâ— Of such an one St. Hierome hath this saying Non memini me legisse mala morte mortuum qui libenter opera charitatis exercuit habet enim multos intercessores impossibile est multorum preces non exaudiri Though the shoe be an habit serving for the foot which is the most inferiour part of mans body yet it is not therefore to be contemned forasmuch as it is a note of progression and very behoveful for travellers In the Scriptures it is often taken for expedition as Psal. 60. In Idumaeam extendam calceamentum meum And proceeding to Idumea I will cast my shoe over it It was an ancient custome amongst the Israelites in transferring of possessions for him that departed therewith to pluck off his shoe and to deliver the same to his neighbour as now it is with us to pass livery and seisâ— of Inheritance by the delivery of a turf and sprigs taken off the ground and delivering the same to the Purchaser as appeareth in the Book of Ruth where it is said Now this was the manner before time in Israel concerning râ—deeming and changing for to stablish all things A man did pluck off his shoe and gave it to his neighbour and this was a sure witness By which Ceremony he publickly acknowledged that he had transferred and put over his whole right unto the Purchaser Ruth 4. 7 8 9. But in after Ages it seemeth the Jews passed Inheritances by Charters sealed and testified by witnesses a custome of use with us at this day at the Common Law as appeareth in the Prophesie of Ieremiah Men shall buy fields for money and make writings and seal them and take witnesses in the Land of Benjamin and round about Jerusalem c. 32. 44. And again Ier. 32. 25 And thon hast said unto me O Lord God buy unto thee a field for silver and take witnesses And I bought the field of Hananeel my Uncles son that was in Anathoth and weighed him the money even seventeen shekels of silver And I subscribed the Evidence and sealed it and took witnesses and weighed him the money in the balances c. Now since I am casually fallen upon this Argument of sealing of Deeds I hold it not amiss to give some little touch by the way of the first coming in of this custome of sealing in this our Nation which is now of so frequent use amongst us First it is to be observed that our Ancestors the Saxons had not the same in use for they used only to subscribe their Names commonly adding the sign of the Cross. And I need not to prove the same by the testimony of divers witnesses for this custome continued here in
or treading of all Beasts of Venery and Chase. That of a Hart Buck and all Fallow Deer Boar is termed SLot View Tract or Treading That of an Hare is tearmed according to her several Courses for when she keepeth in plain fields and chaseth about to deceive the Hounds it is said she Doubleâ—h but when she beateth the plain high-way where you may yet perceive her footing it is said she Pricketh Tearms of the Tayl. That of a Hart Buck Roe or any other Deer Boar Fox Wolf Hare and Coney is tearmed his Tayl. Single Wreath Bush or holy water sprinkle Stern Scut The fat of all sorts of Deer is called Suet. Also it may be very well said This Deer was a high Deer's Grease The fat of a Roe Boar and Hare is termed Bevy Grease Grease You shall say that a Hart Harboureth Buck Lodgeth Roe Beddeth Hare Seateh or Formeth Coney Sitteth Fox Kenneleth You shall say a Deer Hare Fox is Broken Cased Uncased You shall say Dislodge Start Unkennel Rowse Bowlt the Buck. Hare Fox Hart. Coney You shall say a Hart or Buck Roe Boar Hare or Coney Fox Wolf goeth to his the Rut. Tourn Brym Buck. Clicketting Match or to his Make. Tearms excogitated and used by Foresters Tou shall say a Hart Belloweth Buck Groaneth Roe Belleth Hare and Coney Beateth or Tappeth Fox Barketh Wolf Howleth You shall say a Litter of Cubs Nest of Rabbets Skilful Foresters and good Woodmen Do use to say a Herd Of Harts Herd All manner of Deer Bevy Roes Sounder Swine Rowt Wolyes Riches Marternes Brace or Lease Bucks Brace or Lease Foxes Brace or Lease Hares Couple Rabbets or Conies These are apt tearms of Hunting pertaining both to Beasts of Venery and of Chase. Whereas some men are of opinion that a Stag of what age soever he be shall not be called a Hart until the King or Queen have hunted him that is not so For after the fifth year of his age you shall no more call him a Stag but a Hart. So then at six years old he is called a Hart. Now if the King or Queen do hunt or chase him and he escape away alive then after such hunting or chasing he is called a Hart Royal. Note That if this Hart be by the King or Queen so hunted or chased that he be forced out of the Forest so farr that it is unlike that he will of himself return thitherto again and then the King or Queen giveth him over either for that he is weary or because he cannot recover him for that such a Hart hath shewed the King pastime for his delight and is also as Budeus noteth Eximius Cervus a goodly Hart and for that the King would have him return to the Forest again he causeth open Proclamation to be made in all Towns and Villages near to the place where the same Hart so remaineth That no manner of person or persons shall kill hurt hunt or chase him but that he may safely return to the Forest again from whence he came And then ever after such a Hart is called a Hart Royal proclaimed So that there are three sorts of Harts viz. Hart. Hart Royal. and Hart Royal proclaimed A Hind hath these Degrees First Second Third Year is called a Calf Brockets sister Hinde Good Foresters have observed that when a Hart hath past his sixth year he is generally to be called a Hart of Tenne and afterwards according to the increase of this Head Whether he be Crochod Palmed or Crowned When he breaketh Herd and draweth to the Thickets or Coverts the Foresters or Woodmen do say He taketh his hold Skilfull Woodmen describing the Head of a Hart do call the a Round Roll next the Head The Burr b Main Horn Beam c Lowest Antlier Browantliers d Next above thereunto Bezantliers e Next above that Royal. f Upper part of all Surroyal top And in a Buck's head they say c Burr b Beam d Braunche e Advancers a Palm Spellers And though every Gentleman is not an Armorist or a skilfull Woodman yet it is well-beseeming men of a generous race to have a superficial skill in either of these professions forasmuch as they both especially the former do well beseem the dignity of a Gentleman the one tending to the delight and recreation of the mind and the other to the health solace and exercise of the body that so in their mutual converse they may be able to deliver their minds in fit tearms in either kind and not in speeches either vulgar or obsolâ—te For which cause I here set down the tearms appropriated by skilfull Foresters and Woodmen to Beasts of Chase according to their several Names Seasons Degrees and Ages like as I have formerly done of Beasts of Venery as in Example Of Beasts of Chase the Buck is the first And is tearmed the First year a Fawn Second Pricket Third Sorel Fourth Sore Fifth Buck of the first head Sixth Buck or great Buck. Next to the Buck is the Doe being accounted the second Beast of Chase And is termed the First year a Fawn Second Prickets sister Third Doe The third Beast of Chase is a Fox which albeit he be said to be politick and of much subtilty yet is the variety of tearms of a Fox very scarce For in the First year he is called a Cub Second Fox Afterwarwards an old Fox or the like The Martern or Marton as some old Foresters or Woodmen do tearm them being the fourth Beast of Chase hath these tearms He is called the First year a Martern Cub Second Martern The fifth and last Beast of Chase is the Roe whose proper tearms pertaining to Chase are these He is said to be the First year a Kid. Second Girl Third Hein use Fourth Roe-buck of the first head Fifth Farr Roe-buck These Beasts of Chase do make their abode all the day time in the Fields and upon the Hills and high Mountains where they may see round about them afar off for preventing their danger For these are more timerous of their own safety than dangerous and harmful to men And in the night time when men be at rest and all things quiet then do they make their repair to the Corn-fields and Medows for food and relief for which respect they are called Campesties because they do haunt the Field and Champion grounds more than the Woods and thick Coverts or Thickets as we do most usually observe them This Coat with the difference of a second Brother is born by Iohn Bowen of Swansey in the said County Esq This Coat is also born by the Right Honourable William Earl of Devonshire Baron Cavendish of Hardwick and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Derby Gules three Bucks heads cabosed Argent is born by the Name of D'oyley and is the Coat-Armour of Sir VVilliam D'oyley of St. Margarets VVestminster in Middlesex Kt. Son and Heir of Sir VVilliam D'oyley of Shotisham in Norfolk Knight and Baronet Gules three Stags heads cabosed Or attired Argent is born
that held out the Assailants is surprised whatsoever is found therein is due to them that took the same as well the persons as their whole substance whose opinion herein Aristotle followeth Polit. 40. And St. Ambrose lib. 1. de Patriarch writeth That the prey of the King of Sodom was in like sort in the power of Abraham that conquered him This custome hath been also observed That to ask leave to bury the slain in the time of open hostility and whilst men are in Arms in the Field or depart the Field after Battel is a kind of yielding of victory for it beseemeth not them that won the Battel to seek any thing of the enemy by way of intreaty Like as also the unwillingness to joyn Battel and protraction or delay of Battel was taken for a yielding of Victory And now we will begin with Examples of bearing such things in Coat-Armour whereby Martial Discipline and Order which we have now discoursed of are preserved whereof some are for shew other for sound Very behoveful are these Ensigns for every particular Band of Foot and Troop of Horse to the end they may know whither to draw together in expectance of the command of their Captain for the performance of all occasions and that they may by them be directed after any conflict or skirmish whither to retire themselves without danger they also serve for the manifest distinguishing of Bands and Companies And by these they are all directed in their Services as a Ship is guided through the forcible and violent surges of the Seas by the benefit of her Helm and a skilful Pilot guiding the same The Ensigns that the Romans anciently used◠were of divers shapes the Eagle fixed on the top of a Pike or Pole was the chief but that they had Penons or Flags also appeareth by Lazius who saith they were called vexilla à velis navium from the Sails of Ships which they resembled being so named tanquam minus velum as it were a little Sail. These foresaid Instruments serve for direction on and order to the eye and by shew To these Ensigns thus born in the Field in time of Battel either expected or acted we may add this known Ensign of premonstration of eminent hostile invasion which is the fired Becacon which giveth a sudden warning of instant intended attempt or invasion of Enemies the notice whereof giveth occasion of the firing of the Beacon whereupon a Gentleman of good reputation chose to bear for his Impress upon a Mount a Beacon fired with this Motto annexed Sic periisse juvat meaning to die for his Countries safety was his desire The bearing in Arms of three of these fired Beacons appeareth in this next Example There is manifold uses of the Drum Fife Trumpet and other Musical Instruments used in Martial Affairs inasmuch as they serve not only for the direction of Companies Troops but also of the whole Army in their Marchings Encampings Risings Assaults Retreats c. but also to dead and drown the cries of the maimed and wounded and to stir up valour and courage in the Souldiers to the fierce encountering and assaulting of the Enemy and for these ends was the use of them ordained in wars to which purpose do these Instruments much avil Sonus enim cornuum tubarum in praeliis magnum vim habet ad spiritus sanguinem evocandum For it is not with men as it is with beasts which can stir up courage in themselves as I have before shewed For men in respect of fear and faint courage are hardly provoked to fight therefore had they need to be drawn on and provoked thereto These Clarions are sometimes described Rests but whether they be understood to be the Rudder or from the Name to be a thing whereon to rest their Launces I know not but am rather induced to believe them to be Instruments used in Battel and Tournaments as we do Trumpets For I find Robert Consul's Coat base Son to Henry the first blazoned Clarions of these very colours And in many old Descriptions of Tilting we find the Knights to come in with Clarions sounding before them CHAP. XIV THE next are such things as serve for execution of order which is the final end for which Military Profession is instituted viz. propulsation or revenge of wrong or for foiling the wrong-doer refusing to give satisfaction to the party grieved And as in the Law Politick so in this Law Military Execution is reckoned the soul thereof To the accomplishment of execution of order sundry sorts of weapons are requisite some invasive or offensive others defensive the one to protect our selves the other to impeach our foes And of these invasives will we speak in the first place beginning with those which we call Missilia such as are cast or forced by strength of hand or slight of Engine and after we will come to such as are manual or managed with the hand There are divers sorts of these kind of Guns but I shall only shew you an Example of bear-in of one other sort of them called Chambers of which you may here see three born with an interposition of one Ordinary surmounted of another between them Whether the invention hereof were behoveful and necessary or as others reckon it most pernicious and devillish I will not take upon to dispute but referr you to Sebastian Munster lib. 3. of his Cosmography where he maketh mention of Bertholdus Swartz the Monk that first devised them Anno Dom. 1354. There I tell not the Colour of these Ogresses or Pellets because they be always Sable as shall be more plainly shewed in the conclusion of this fourth Section This Coat is also born by his Lordships Brother by another venter the Right Honourable Iames Lord Norris Baron of Rycot in Oxfordshire c. As also by Capt. Bertue of Secretary to the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Latimer Lord High Treasurer of England This battering Ram was a warlike Instrument much used by the Romans when they besieged any City or Hold with purpose to surprize them Such an Engine amongst divers others did Titus Vespatianus erect against the City of Ierusalem which were by Iosephus and his Associates consumed with fire Such is the force of this Engine as that there is no Tower so strong or Circuit of a Citie so spacious but if that they resist the first brunt thereof through often use they will be subverted Gules three broad Arrows Or feathered and headed Argent by the Name of Hales a Family of good Antiquity in Kent where now resideth Sir Edward Hales of Tunstall Baronet Sir Robert Hales of Beaksborne Baronet and Edward Hales of Chilstone in Bocton-Malherb Esq. The Arrow is called in Latin Sagitta as some do conceit it quasi satis ictus for that it annoyeth and galleth the Enemy farr enough off so as he cannot approach the Archer to endammage him because by the smart delivery of the Bow the Enemy is put to hazard a
be his that weareth it you cannot erre in your judgment touching the true distinction of the dexter-side of the Escocheon that is due to the Man as to the more worthy from the sinister part that is allotted to the Woman or the Inferiour The manner of such impaling of Coat-Armours of distinct Families as Baron and Femme by persons Temporal is divers from this before mentioned for they do evermore give the preheminence of the dexter side to the man leaving the sinister to the woman as in Example If these were not Hereditary Coat-Armours yet should they have this form of marshalling and none other because the same is common as well to single marriages having no hereditary Possessions as to those that be hereditary Only in this these have a prerogative which the other have not that the Baron having received Issue by his Femme it is in his choice whether he will still bear her Coat in this sort or else in an Inescocheon upon his own because he pretendeth God giveth life to such his Issue to bear the same Coat of his Wife to him and to his heirs for which cause this Escocheon thus born is called an Escocheon of pretence Moreover the heir of these two Inheritors shall bear these two Hereditary Coats of his Father and Mother to himself and his heirs quarterly to shew that the Inheritance as well of the Possessions as of the Coat-Armours are invested in them and their Posterity whereas if the wife be no heir neither her husband nor child shall have further to do with her Coat than to set up the same in their house Paleways after the foresaid manner so to continue the memorial of the Fathers match with such a Family Examples whereof behold in hese following Escocheons These Coats are thus born by William Mountagu Esq son and heir to the Honourable William Mountagu Lord Chief Baron of his Majesties Court of Exchequer This form of bearing of divers Coats marshalled together in one Escocheon impaled as aforesaid was in use near hand within a thousand years since within the Realm of France as appeareth by Frances de Rosiers lib. Stemmatum Lotharingiae where amongst many Transcripts of Kings Charters made to Religious Houses under their Seals of Arms he mentioneth one made by Dagobert King of France to Modoaldus Archbishop of Trevers for the Cell of St. Maurice of Toledo in Spain which Charter was sealed with three Seals His words are these Hoc diploma tribus sigillis firmatum est primo aureo Dagoberti which was as he had formerly described it habens insculptum scutum liliis plenum secundo cereo Cuniberti tertio etiam cereo Clodulphi in quo est scutum partitum impressum prior pars decorata cruce ac Escarbocle seu Carbunculo altera fascia Dat. Gal. Maij Anno Dominicae Incarnationis 622. Concerning the orderly bearing of such Coat-Armours Paleways in one Escocheon note that Gerard Leigh making mention of the marshalling of divers Femmes with one Baron saith If a man do marry two wives they shall be both placed on the left side in the same Escocheon with him as parted per Pale The first wives Coat shall stand on the Chief part and the second on the Base Or he may set them both in Pale with his own the first wives Coat next to himself and his second uttermost And if he have three wives then the two first matches shall stand on the Chief part and the third shall have the whole Base And if he have a fourth wife she must participate the one half of the Base with the third wife and so will they seem to be so many Coats quartered But here you must observe that those forms of iâ—palings are meant of Hereditary Coats whereby the Husband stood in expectancy of advancing his Family through the possibility of receiving Issue that so those Hereditary Possessions of his wife might be united to his own Patrimony It was an ancient way of impaling to take half the Husbands Coat and with that to joyn as much of the Wives as appeareth in an old Roll wherein the three Lions being the Arms of England are dimidiated and impaled with half the Pales of Arragon The like hath also been practised with quartered Coats by leaving out half of them as in Example And for the Antiquity of bearing divers Coats quartered in one Escocheon the same Author Francis de Rosiers reciteth a Charter of Renate King of Angiers Sicily and Ierusalem c. concerning his receiving of the Brethren of the Monastery named Belprey into his protection Actum Nanceij Anno 1435. adding in the end thereof these words Arma Arragoniae Siciliae Hierusalem Andes Whereby if I mistake him not he giveth us to understand that his Seal of Arms did comprehend all these Coats born together quarterly in one Escocheon because he holdeth the same form of description of Seals of that kind throughout all his Collection of Charters As touching this quarterly bearing of many Coats pertaining to sundry Families together in one Escocheon William Wicley doth utterly mislike it holding the same to be better fitting a Pedigree to be locked up in a Chest as an evidence serving for approbation of the Alliances of Families or Inducements to title of Lands rather than multitudes of them should be heaped together in or upon any thing ordained for Military use For Banners Standards and other like Martial Ensigns were ordained for no other use but for a Commander to lead or be known by in the Field to which purpose these marks should be made apparent and easie to be discerned which cannot be where many Coats are thronged together and so become unfit to the Field and therefore to be abolished of Commanders Only he holdeth it expedient that a Prince or Noble-man having title to some Countrey for the obtaining whereof he is inforced to make warr should shew forth his Standard of the Arms of that Countrey quartered with 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 lawful Sovereign 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 Royal Banner with the Arms of England But for such persons as are but Commanders under them it is very absurd since thereof ensue oftentimes many dangerous errors Et irrecuperabilis est error qui violentiâ 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 she being an Inheritrix 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 antiquity of bearing of Inescocheons I find them very anciently used a long time by the Emperours of Germany for they always
Dorcas daughter of Richard Graves Esq deceased late Reader of Lincolns-Inn aforesaid He beareth Argent a Cross betwen four Spread-Eagles Gules by the Name of Strachey and is born by Iohn Strachey of Sutton-Court in Somersetshire Esq. He beareth Argent three Palmers Staves Sable the heads rests ends Or by the Name of Palmer and is the Coat-Armour of William Palmer of Winthorp in Lincolnshire Esq Captain of a Troop in the Regiment of his Graceâ— the Duke of Monmouth Captain-General of all his Majesties Land-Forces He beareth Gules on a Bend Or three Martlets Sable by the Name of Brabazon and is the Paternal Coat-Armour of Edward Brabazon of Ballyarthur in the County of Wickloe in the Kingdom of Ireland Esq second Son of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Meath deceased He beareth Ermyn on a Bend Sable two Hands and Arms to the Elbows issuing out of Clouds at the Elbows all proper holding an Horshoe Or by the Name of Borlace and is the Coat-Armour of Humphrey Borlace of Treluddro in the County of Cornwall Esq. He beareth Sable a Bend Ermyn between two Cottises flory Or by the Name of Keck and is the Paternal Coat-Armour of Anthony Keck of the Inner Temple London Esq He beareth Or a Bend engrailed between six Roses Gules by the Name of Warner and is the Paternal Coat-Armour of Iohn Warner of Brakenthwaite in the Parish of Kirby-Overblow in the West-Riding of Yorkshire Esq lineally descended from the Warners of Wárner-Hall in Essex Argent a Fess humid Gules between three Ravens rising to fly Sable born by Richard Peirce of the City of London Esq. He beareth Argent a Fess Nebule Gules between three Eagles displayed Sable by the Name of Cudmore and is the Coat-Armour of Thomas Cudmore of Kelvedon in Essex Esq son and heir of Thomas Cudmore Esq deceased by Dorothy eldest Daughter and Coheir of Sir Thomas Cecill Kt. son of Thomas Earl of Exeter by Dorothy Daughter and Coheir of Iohn Nevill Lord Latimer son and heir of Iohn Lord Latimer by Dorothy Daughter and Coheir of Sir George Vere Ktâ— which said Sir Thomas died Anno 1662. and lieth buried in Stamford-Baron in Northamptonshire amongst his Ancestors Per Pale Vert and Ermyn an Eagle displayed This Coat is born by Richard Goodlad of the City of London Esq. He beareth Gules a Cheveron Ermyn between three Flowers de Lis Argent by the Name of Crome and is the Paternal Coat-Armour of Valentine Crome of Mayden-Early in Berkshire Esq decended from the ancient Family of Lewis in Yorkshire Argent a Fess between three Flowers de Lis Sable by the Name of Evance which said Coat is born by Iohn Evance of the City of London Esq He beareth Gules a Quaterfoil Or by the Name of Rowe and is born by Anthony Rowe of St. Martins in the Fields in Middlesex Esq third son of Sir Tho. Rowe of Moswellhill in the said County Kt. Argent a Cheveron between three Cinquefoils Gules is born by Charles Beauvoir of the City of London Esq descended from the Family of the Beauvoirs in the Island of Garnsey He beareth Or two Barrs Azure in Chief three Escallop-hells Gules by the Name of Clark and is the Coat-Armour of Edward Clark of the Inner Temple London Esq son and heir of Edward Clark of Chipley in Somersetshire Esq He beareth Vert a Greyhound current in Bend Argent collared Gules studded Or by the Name of Blome and is born by Richard Blome of Abergwilly in Gaermarthenshire Esq by Io. Blome of Sevenoke in Kent Gent. and by Richard Blome of Chobham in the Parish of Westham in Essex Gent. This Coat being false cut in the body of the Book is here rectified He beareth Gules a Cheveron â—ngrailed Ermyn between three Eagles Argent by the Name of Child This with the Arms of Vlster is the Coat-Armour of Sir Iosias Child of Wanstead in the County of Essex Baronet He beareth Argent a Bend Sable in the sinister Chief a Garb Gules by the Name of Whitworth and is the Coat-Armour of Richard Whitworth of Adbaston in the County of Stafford Gent. He beareth Sable on a Bend Argent three Lozenges of the Field by the Name of Carington and was the Coat-Armour of Iohn Carington of Sponton in the North Riding of Yorkshire Gent. deceased second son of William Carington of Sponton aforesaid Esq who was second Brother to Iohn Carington of Carington in Cheshire Esq Thus having largely treated of all the parts of Atchievements our next business will be to represent them conjoyned together for which we will referr the Reader to the second part viz. Honour Military and Civil 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 when my love to Gentry here they find My love with love they must requite by kind But if the 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 well-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 only cannot erre true Wisdom's Sire Can without error all in All effect But weak are men in acting their desire This Work is filde but not without a flaw Yet filde with Pain 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'd the Press For ought I ever read or heard without Correctors full'st of Art and Carefulness Cannot prevent it Faults will flee about But here 's not many so the easier may Each gentle Reader rub away their stains Then when the verbal Blots were done away I hope their profit will exceed their pains 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 small odds 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 Arms Nature Order or their Laws This breaks no Rule of Order though there be An Order in Degrees concerning This If Order were infring'd then should I flee From my chief purpose and my Mark should miss ORDER is Natures beauty and the way To Order is by Rules that Art hath found Defect and excess 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 Work hath any likelyhood Of the least good the
curva Zanch. lib. 3. cap. 422. Rightness is a property of a Line whereby it is carried levelly or equally throughout the Escocheon without either rising or falling Crookedness is a property of a Line meerly contrary to Rightness in that it is carried unevenly throughout the Escocheon with rising and falling In Blazoning of Ordinaries formed of streight Lines you must only name the Ordinary without making mention of the streightness of the Line whereof the same is composed But if the same be made of any of the manifold sorts of crooked Lines the form of such crookedness must be especially mentioned as by Examples shall be made plain hereafter in their proper places A Bunched Line is that which is carried with round reflections or bowing up and down making divers hollow Crooks or Furrows by reason of the sundry Bendings to and fro as by these Examples next following may appear A Corner Line is framed of sundry Lines meeting together cornerwise Of cornered Lines some are Rect-Anguled so called of their right Corners or Angles and are formed after this manner Acute-Anguled so named because their Corners or Angles are Acute or Sharp and these we call Indented after this manner Daunsett which are formed after this sort Note That these two last mentioned sorts of Lines viz. Indented and Daunsett are both one secundum quale but not secundum quantum For their form is all one but in quantity they differ much in that the one is much wider and deeper than the other Of all these several sorts of Lines Examples shall be given hereafter as occasion shall arise CHAP. IV. HAving spoken of the Properties of Lines so much as serves for our intended purpose let us next take a view of the several kinds of those Lines as far forth as they have use in Heraldry For they are used Single Manifold Of both which kinds and forms are all the Honourable Ordinaries composed as we shall shew hereafter And first for the single Lines and their use it is to be understood that one single Line doth make that sort of Ordinary which we name a Chief A Chief is an Ordinary determined by some one of the several forms of Lines aforesaid added to the Chief part of the Escocheon As in Example And as the Head is the chief part in a man so the chief in the Escocheon should be a reward of such only whose high merits have procured them chief place esteem or love amongst men This Ordinary in our Example you see is formed of a streight Line you must therefore in the Blazon thereof only name the kind of Ordinary as before we admonished making no mention at all of the streightness of the Line but if the same or any other Ordinary be framed of any other form than streight then must you expresly mention the form of the Line whereof such Ordinary is composed be it Bend Cheuron Fess Saltire c. shewing the same to be either Invecked Engrailed Wavy Indented c. Chiefs are made of all those several forms of Lines beforementioned as well as other Charges as by the Examples of Bordures before-handled may in part appear and shall be more fully shewed hereafter in other kinds A Chief saith Sir Iohn Ferne may be honoured of another as an Addition to the former as in Examples CHAP. V. HItherto hath our Pencil drawn out to your view a single Line which doth create an Ordinary or some other of the Charges last mentioned it resteth that I shew what a manifold Line is and the use thereof according to the project of our prefixed Method I call that a Manifold Line when as more than one Line are required to the perfecting of an Ordinary Manifold Lines are Twofold More than twofold Twofold Lines I understand to be there where is constituted an Ordinary of two Lines Of which kind of Ordinaries are these only viz. The Pale Bend Fess Barr Quarter Canton and their like as shall appear by Example in their several places First of a Pale A Pale is an Ordinary consisting of two Lines drawn perpendicularly from the Top to the Base of the Escocheon comprehending the third part of the Escocheon The content of the Pale must not be enlarged whether it be charged or not This Ordinary is subdivided into Pallet Endorse A Pallet is the moiety or one half of the Pale and thereof receiveth his name of Diminution as being a Demy or little Pale And an Endorse is the Fourth part of a Pallet Example of each ensueth Now from the Pale and the several Subdivisions thereof let us come to the Bend and the distinct parts of the same A Bend is an Ordinary consisting also of twofold Lines drawn overthwart the Escocheon from the Dexter Chief to the Sinister base point of the same so that the exact point of the Dexter and Sinister corners thereof may answer to the precise midst of those Equidistant Lines whereof the Bend is made As in Example The Bend seemeth to have its Denomination from the French word Bender which signifieth to stretch forth because it is extended betwixt those opposit points of the Escocheon viz. the Dexter Chief and the Sinister Base Yet in ancient Rules I find the Bend drawn somewhat Arch-wise or after the resemblance of the bent of a Bow Notwithstanding according to some Armorists it doth represent a Ladder set aslope on this manner to scale the Walls of any Castle or City as shall be shewed hereafter and betokeneth the Bearer to have been one of the first that mounted upon the Enemies Walls This Bend drawn from the right side to the left is called a Bend Dexter but you shall also find a Bend exactly drawn like to this on the contrary side having his Leginning from the left corner of the Chief and his termination in the Dexter base point of the Escocheon for which cause it is named a Bend Sinister as in Example hereafter shall illustrate In Blazoning of Bends if the same be Dexter you shall only say He bears a Bend not using the word Dexter but if it be drawn from the Sinister Chief to the Dexter Base then you must in Blazon by no means omit the word Sinister Note That the Bend and divers other Ordinaries following are subject to exemption or voiding Voiding as earst we shewed is the exemption of some part of the inward substance of things voidable by occasion whereof the Field is transparent through the Charge leaving only the outward Edges bearing the colour and quantity of the Charge as appeareth in this next Escocheon Argent a Bend engrailed Gules is the Paternal Coat-Armour of that ancient Family of the Colepeppers of Kent the chief of which is the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Colepepper Baron of Thornsway now residing at Leeds-Castle in the said County This Coat also appertaineth to Sir Thomas Colepepper of Preston-hall in Aylesford in the said County Baronet This Ordinary is composed of divers other of the Forms of Lines beforementioned as
contrariwise the Inversion of his tail is a note of wrath and fury especially if he do beat the back therewith and doth roar withal Of this property of the Lion Catullus maketh mention in these words Age caede terga cauda tua verbera pateant Face cuncta mugienti fremitu loca retonent The gate of a Lion when he is passant is an apparent note of his jurisdiction and regal authority and sovereignty wherewith the extension of his tail doth fitly quadrate and agree inasmuch as when he hunteth after his prey he roareth vehemently whereat the Beasts being astonished do make a stand whilst he with his tail maketh a circle about them in the sand which circle they dare not transgress which done out of them he makeh choice of his prey at his pleasure Thus ending with the Wolf I will perclose this Tract of Beasts of fierce Nature comprehending all others of this kind as Ounces Lynxes Hyenaes Panthers c. under these before handled Forasmuch as the greatest part of the general Rules as also of the sundry forms of bearing attributed unto Lions and Wolves may be aptly applied to all or the greatest part of other Beasts of like Nature CHAP. XVI HAVING given Examples of ravenous and fierce kind that by main force do prosecute and obtain their prey I will now proceed to the handling of Beasts less fell and harmful of which number some are wild and savage other are domestical and sociable as Dogs of all sorts of which I will first intreat because the Dog whether it be for pleasure and game in field or for thrift and guard at home deserveth a very high estimation and of all Dogs those of chase are most in use in Armory whereof some prosecute their prey speedily others more leisurably Of the first sort is the Greyhound as in Example Note that it appeareth in an old Manuscript treating of Blazon that a Greyhound cannot properly be termed rampant for it is contrary to his kind to appear so fierce as the Author there writeth in his said Book now remaining in the custody of that worthy Knight Sir William Seger Garter principal King of Arms whose great study and travel in this Heraldical Art hath by his own Works already published been sufficiently manifest Argent three Greyhounds current pale-ways Sable collared Or by the Name of More or De la More and with the Arms of Vlster is the Coat-Armour of Sir Edward More of More-hall and Bank-hall in Lancashire Baronet lineally descended from the ancient Family of the Mores of the said places whose Ancestors have there continued for above twenty Generations as appears as well by divers ancient Deeds now in the custody of the said Sir Edward as by the Hatchments and Inscriptions engraven on the walls of the said Houses This Coat is also born by Sir Iohn More of the City of London Knight and Alderman lineally descended from the Family of the Mores aforesaid Sable three Greyhounds current in pale Argent collared Or is the Coat-Armour of the ancient Family of the Machels of Crakenthorp in Westmoreland and is now born by Lancelot Machel Esq Lieutenant of Horse to the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland a great Loyalist and an expert Souldier This Name was writ Mauchael or Mauchel from the Conquest to the Reign of King Henry the Eighth at which time those two valiant Warriers Guy Mauchel of Crakenthorp Esq and Hugh his Brother engaged themselves in that Expedition against the French in which the English were victorious and took the almost impregnable City of Turnay from whence they both returned and were successively Lords of Crakenthorp aforesaid This Guy though in many dangers yet died in his Bed about the 27th of Henry the Eighth but shewed an Heroick and Marshal Spirit in bequeathing his Arms and Armour to his Sons in the very first place as that which was most dear unto him And Hugh Machel for his Valour was by King Henry the Eighth deputed with Sir Thomas Wharton Warden of the west Marshes of England by a Warrant under the said King's Sign Manual Dated the 28th of Iune in the 29th year of his Reign To these must be added all fourfooted Beasts that are provident in acquiring their food as the Hedghog and such other It resteth that I should now give Example of the last sort of Beasts among them of savage kind before spoken of which are those of timorous and fearful Nature Such are these that follow and their like And hitherto we have handled such Terrestrial Animals only as are called Vivipara because they do bring forth living Creatures whereas the other Terrestrials do bring forth eggs and are therefore named Ovipara of which sort we will speak in the next place CHAP. XVII THIS other sort of four-footed Egg-bearing Animals as I may so term them notwithstanding that in many things they have no small resemblance with man as well touching the faculties of the vegetable soul as also the parts of the body yet are they far more unlike us than those that bring forth a living Creature And albeit that these Egg-breeding four-footed Animals do consist of the same bodily parts that the Vivipara or Animal-producing do and of the four humours that are answerable in quality to the four Elements and have all parts as well internal as external senses and many other things wherein they do communicate with the Vivipara yet are there many other things wherein they differ not only from these but also even amongst themselves one from another of them For neither do we find in these that quickness of wit that we observe in others neither like parts of strength of body that the other have Like as man especially in his soul approacheth near unto God in likeness so in like manner do other Animals resemble man wherein they do participate with man in likeness after some sort but in divers degrees forasmuch as some of them have more and some less likeness with us than others have There is not saith Beda amongst the Vniversal Works of Nature any one thing so little or of so base esteem wherein a man cannot find some Divine thing worthy of admiration No less saith Farnesius may we admire the force of a silly Flea than the hugeness and strength of an Elephant Not without reason doth the Husbandman prognosticate the approach of some great shower of Rain by the croaking of Frogs more frequent than usually whereupon he saith that they do cry for rain For this Observation is grounded upon a Physical Reason Omne enim simile gaudet suo simili suae naturae utili ac convenienti every like is delighted with his like and with that which is commodious and agreeable to his Nature Since then that Frogs are exceedingly delighted with water as with that which best agreeth with their Nature therefore when they do apprehend a foresense of Rain they do rejoice and do testifie their joy by singing after their manner Animals of base
must again referr the Reader for satisfaction therein the discourse thereof being altogether impertinent to my intended purpose in this present Work Yet here you must observe that a man being admitted into the Society and Fraternity of any two of the Honourable Orders before mentioned he may in setting forth his Atchievement adorn the samewith the chief Ornaments or Collars of both these Orders whereof he is elected and admitted a Fellow and Companion by placing one of the Ornaments next to his Shield and the other without the same In such manner did the most high and mighty Lord Thomas Duke of Norfolk and Earl Marshall of England bear the chief Ornaments of the Orders of the Garter and of Saint Michael But leaving those peculiar Ornaments of Sovereigns or others I return to those that are communicable by a certain right as well to those called Nobiles majores as to Sovereigns Such are those which are said to be placed on the sides of the Atchievements representing sometimes things living and sometimes dead But these of some Blazoners are termed Supporters whose conceit therein I can hardly approve Quia diversorum diversa est ratio and therefore the Blazon that I would give unto things so different in Nature is that if things be living and seize upon the Shield then shall they be called properly Supporters but if they are inanimate and touch not the Escocheon then shall such Arms be said to be not supported but cotised of such and such things For how can those be properly said to support that touch not the thing said to be supported by them Therefore Nomina sunt aptanda rebus secundum rationis normam To persons under the degree of a Knight Banneret it is not permitted to bear their Arms supported that Honour being peculiar to those that are called Nobiles majores And these Cotises have their name agreeable to the thing whose quality they represent and are so called as we elsewhere shewed of Costa the Rib either of man or beast for it is proper to the Rib to inclose the Entrails of things Animal and to adde form and fashion to the body in like manner do these inclose the Coat-Armour whereunto they are annexed and do give a comely grace and ornament to the same Another ornament there is externally annexed to Coat-Armour and that is the Motto or Word which is the Invention or Conceit of the Bearer succinctly and significantly contrived for the most part in three or four words which are set in some Scroll or Compartiment placed usually at the foot of the Escocheon and as it holdeth the lowest place so is it the last in blazoning Of this word Abra. Franc. writeth in this manner Quod à recentioribus verba quaedom ipsis Armis subjiciantur videtur id nuper inventum ad imitationem eorum quae Symbola à nobis appellantur And indeed the Motto should express something intended in the Atchievement though use hath now received whatsoever fancy of the Deviser and this Motto is of universal use to all Gentry and Nobility of what rank soever Now as touching the blazoning of these Ornaments exteriorly annexed to any Coat-Armour it is to be considered that we are not tied to that strict observation in them as in the blazoning of things born within the Escocheon for these are the essential parts of Coats and those meerly Accidental For the Crest or Timber Wreath Mantle Helm c. saith Ferne are no part of the Coat-Armour but Additions to Atchievements added not many hundred years ago to the Coats of Gentry And therefore when you have aptly set forth all the Fields and Charges and their Colours contained within the Escocheon your Blazon is done so that when we shall describe any of those Exteriour Ornaments we stand at liberty for naming of our Colours and in those it is held no fault to name one Colour twice AN ACCOUNT OF SOME Coats of Arms Omitted in the foregoing SECTIONS VVhich in the next Impression shall be inserted in their proper places The Right Honourable Iohn Fitz-Gerard Earl of Kildare primier Earl of the Kingdom of Ireland beareth for his Lordships Paternal Coat-Armour Pearl a Saltire Ruby He beareth Argent three Cinquefoils Gules by the Name of Darcey This with the Arms of Vlster is the Paternal Coat-Armour of Sir Thomas Darcey of St. Clere-hall in St. Oseth in the County of Essex Baronet He beareth Argent on a Chief indented Gules three Crosses forme of the Field by the Name of Percivale This with the Arms of Vlster is the bearing of Sir Philip Percivale of Burton in the County of Corke in Ireland Baronet descended from the Percivales of North-weston near Bristol in Somersetshire The Family came into England with William the Conqueror and were before of Vile near Caen in Normandy He beareth◠Azure a Falcon volant Argent armed jessed and belled Or within a Bordure Ermyn by the Name of Fairborne and is the Paternal Coat-Armour of Sir Palmes Fairborne of Newark in Nottinghamshire Kt. Lieutenant-Governour of Tangier Lieutenant Colonel to the Regiment there residing and Commissary-General of his Majesties Army in Flanders a person of an approved valour and conduct as is evidenced by those worthy exploits performed by him not only in the service of the Venetians in their wars by Sea and Land against the Ottoman Empire but also since his Majesties most happy restauration in the several Trusts committed to his management and commands at Tangier where on the 19th of September 1675. he was commanded by the Right Honourable the Earl of Inchequin Governour thereof to sally out into the Fields of Tangier in order to the securing several Provisions lodged near that place as his Lordship was informed by one Hamett a Moor who made himself a Christian for the carrying on the design with the better success but by the valour and good conduct of the said Sir Palmes he made his retreat from a great body of Moors and having got the outmost Lines of Tangier mist his Reserve by which he did conclude that the said Reserve had come up to his Succour whereupon he advanced the second time near two miles distant from the said Lines where he was attacked Front Flank and Rear with about three thousand Foot and Horse he having not above three hundred in his party which he brought off with the loss only of twelve killed and six and thirty wounded but the Moors had a very great loss to his immortal Fame He also by his great prudence and valour quelled two Mutinies at Tangier He beareth two Coats impaled Baron and Femme first Gules two Barrs Argent by the Name of Martyn and is thus born by Nicholas Martyn of Lincolus-Inn in Middlesex Esq son and heir of Nicholas Martyn of Lincolns-Inn aforesaid Esq deceased who was descended from the Family of the Martyns anciently of Admiston alias Athelhamston in Dorsetshire impaled with Gules an Eagle displayed Or crowned Argent in right of his Wife