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A09195	The compleat gentleman fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman. By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.	Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?; Delaram, Francis, 1589 or 90-1627, engraver.	1622 (1622)	STC 19502; ESTC S114333	134,242	209

in processe of time assumed to themselues the Surname of Cavendish as being Lords of the Towne and Mannor of Cavendish in Suffolke out of which familie disbranched that famous Trauailer Mr. Thomas Cavendish who was the third that trauailed about the world whose voyage you shall finde set downe at large in the English Discouerers written by Mr. 〈◊〉 It is borne by the name of Hobart and was the proper Coate of Sir Iames Hobart Knight Atturney Generall vnto King Henry the seauenth a right good man withall of great learning and wisedome hee builded the Church of Lodd●n and Saint Olaues commonly called Saint Toolies bridge in the County of Norfolke This worthy Knight lyeth buryed vnder a faire monument in the middle I le on the Northside in Christs Church in Norwich But it is now borne with the Coate of Vister by the gift of King Iames vnto him as a Barronet by the Honourable and Nobly minded Sir Henry Hobart Knight and Baronet Lord chiefe Iustice of the Common Pleas of Blickling in the County of Norfolke whose vprightnesse in Iustice and loue to his country hath like his owne Starre communicatiue of it selfe dispersed the fairer beames into all places R●x dilect● 〈◊〉 s●o Roberto de Woodhouse Archidiacone de Richm●nd Thesa●rario s●o salutem Negotia●os statum regni contingentia c. vobis mandamus ●irmiter i●iungentes quod omnibus alijs prater●issis c. Beside I haue s●ene the will of King Henry the fourth and He●rie the fifth where one was a gentleman of Henry the fourth's chamber and by his will made one of his executors as also he was to Henry the fifth who wrote his letter to the P●ior and Chapter of the Church of the Trinitie in Norwich to giue him leaue to build himselfe a Chappell in their Church So that from time to time they haue held an Honourable place and at this day are worthy stayes and pillars of Iustice in their Countries Nor must I heere let fall the worth of two sons of this Gentleman Sir Thomas Woodhouse Knight who marryed Blanch Sister to the right Honourable Henry now Viscount Rochf●rt and Master Roger Woodhouse his brother Gentlemen not onely learned but accomplished in what euer may lend Lustre to worth and true gentilitie This was also the Coate of Sir Thomas Louell Knight of the Garter made by King Henrie the seuenth of whose ho●se hee was Treasurer and President of the Counsell This Sir Thomas Louell was a fift sonne of Sir Ralphe Louell of Barton Bendish in the Countie of Norfolke This his Coate with the Garter about it standeth ouer Lincolnes Inne Gate He founded the Nunnery of Halliwell where was also his house on a wall of which not ma●y yeares since was to be read this inscription All ye Nuns of Halliwell Pray ye both day and night For the Soule of Sir Thomas Louell Whom Harry the 〈◊〉 made Knight It appeareth also that Sir William Louell Lord Morley was Knight of the Garter for in Morley Church the seate of his Baronnie is yet remaining in a Glasse window which I haue seene this Coate with the Garter about it This Coate Armour is verie ancient as is proued by sundry bookes of Armes Church windowes and seuerall deeds wherof I haue seene two bearing date Anno 18. Richard the 2. with seales of this very Coate fixed thereunto with this inscription about the same viz Sigillum Robertide Ashfield as also another deed bearing date Anno 3. Henrie the fixt made from Robert the sonne of Iohn Ashfeild of Stow-Langton Esquire to Simon Finchan● and Iohn Whitlocke with a faire Seale of red Waxe whereupon was a Griff●● S●iant with his wings displayed ouer whose body is this Armes with this inscription about the who●e Seale viz S. Robertide Ashfeild Armig. The aboue named Robert Ashfeild builded the Church of Stow Langton in the Quire whereof which I haue seene hee lyeth butied vnder a faire Marble he was seruant vnto the blacke Prince whom he followed in his warres in France This Coate is thus borne by Sir lohn Ashfeild Knight sole heire of that Family now Gentleman of the bedde Chamber to Prince Charles This ancient name and family of Crow was anciently of Suffolke for about the time of K. Edward the 4. Thomas Crow of Suffolke the elder purchased Bradsted in Kent whose sonne Thomas Crow the yo●ger married Ioane the onely daughter and heire of Nicholas Boare son of Iohn sonne of Richard Boare that married Lora the daughter of Simon Stocket of Bradsted in Kent The aforesaid Ioane brought to Thomas her husband his house called Stockets with a Chancell built by the aboue named Simon Stockets as appeareth by a French deede tempore Edw. 2. As also a house and certaine land called Boars by whom shee had issue Iohn Crow the elder father of Henry Crow father of William Crow of Bradsted Esq. who married Anne the second daughter and coheire of Iohn Sackuill of Chiddingleigh in Sussex Esq. The said Mannor of Chiddingleigh hath beene in the possession of the Sackuills aboue three hundred yeeres and at this day is part of the inheritance of the Right Honorable Richard Sackuill Earle of Dorset and Baron of Buck●urst which William Crow and Ann● his wife hath issue Sackuill Crow their sonne and heire now liuing with others This Coate of Talbot belongeth vnto the Right worshipfull Master Thomas Talbot Doctour of the Ciuill Law of Miliers Hall in Wim●ndham in the Countie of Norfolke a very learned and honest Gentleman If you would proceede further in blazonry and the true knowledge of the des●●●ts of our English Nobility I refer you to that exact iust and elaborate worke of my singular and learned friend Master Augustine Vincent Rouge-croix very shortly to be published● which let it be vnto you of all that haue written in that kinde instar omnium So I referre you henceforward to your priuate reading and obseruation CHAP. 14. Of Exercise of the Body I Now from your priuate studie and contemplation bring you abroad into the open fields for exercise of your Body by some honest recreation since Aristotle requireth the same in the Education of Nobilitie and all youth Since the mind from the Ability of the Body gathereth her strength and vigor Anciently by the Ciuill Law these kinds of Exercises were onely allowed of that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which are the exercise of Armes by single combate as running at Tilt-barrians c. coiting throwing the hammer sledge and such like Running iumping leaping and lastly wrestling for the first it is the most Noble those Epithites of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 haue beene the attributes of Kings and Princes whose delight in auncient times was to ride and mannage great horses Hereby you are ennabled for command and the seruice of your Country And what saith Tullis can bee more glorious then to bee able to preserue and

a beautifull body Memorable as making to our purpose is that speech of Sig●smund the Empero●r to a Doctor of the Ciuill Law who when he had receiued Knighthood at the Emperours hands left forthwith the societie of his fellow Doctors kept company altogether with the Knights which the Emperour well obseruing smilingly before the open assembly saide vnto him Foole who preferest Knighthood before Learning and thy degree I can make a thousand Knights in one day but cannot make a Doctor in a thousand yeares Now for as much as the Weale publique of euery Estate is preserued Armi● consilio this faire Tree by two maine branches disspreddeth her selfe into the Militarie Ciuil Discipline vnder the first I place Valor and Greatnesse of Spirit vnder the other Iustice knowledge of the Lawes which ● Consilij fons Magnificence and Eloquence For true Fortitude and greatnesse of Spirit were ennobled we reade Iphicrates that braue Athenian who ouerthrew in a set battaile the Lacedaemonians stopt the furie of Epaminondas and became Lieutenant Generall to Artaxerxes King of Persia yet but the sonne of a poore Cobler Eumenes one of the best Captaines for valour and aduice Alexander had was the sonne of an ordinarie Carter Dioclesian was the sonne of Scriuener or Book-binder Valentinian of a Rope-maker Maximinus of a Smith Pertinax of a Wood-monger Seruius Tullus sonne of a Bond-woman thence his name Seruius Tarquinius Priscus of a poore Merchant or rather Pedler in Corinth Hugh Capet the first of that name King of France the sonne of a Butcher in Paris who when Lewis the sixth sonne of Lothary was poisoned by Blanch his Wife for Adulterie being a stout fellow and of a resolute Spirit hauing gathered a company like himselfe and taking his aduantage of the time and distempered humour of the State carried himselfe and his businesse so that he got the Crowne from the true heire Charles the Vnckle of Lewis Lamusius the third King of the Lombards was the sonne of a common Strumpet found laid and couered with leaues in a ditch by King Agelmond who by chance riding that way and espying a thing stirre in the ditch touched it with the point of his Lance to see what it was which the Infant with the hand taking fast hold of the King amazed and imagining it as a presage of some good fortune toward the child caused it to be taken out of the ditch and to bee brought vp which after nursed in the lap of Fortune by many degrees of Honor got the Crowne of Lombardy Neither are the truly valorous or any way vertuous ashamed of their so meane Parentage but rather glorie in themselues that their merit hath aduanced them aboue so many thousands farre better descended And hence you shall many times heare them freely discourse of their beginning and plainely relate their bringing vp what their Parents were I remember when I was in the Low-Countries and liued with Sir Iohn Ogle at Virecht the reply of that valiant Gentleman Colonell Edmondes to a Countrey-man of his newly come out of Scotland went Currant who desiring entertainment of him told him My Lord his Father and such Knights and Gentle-men his Couzins and Kinsmen were in good health Quoth Colonell Edmondes Gentlemen to his friends by beleeue not one word hee sayes my Father is but a poore Baker of Edenbourgh and workes hard for his liuing whom this knaue would make a Lord to currie fauour with me and make ye beleeue I am a great man borne c. So that the valiant Souldier you see measureth out of the whole cloath his Honour with his sword and hence in ancient times came Rome Athens Carthage and of late the Ottoman Empire to their greatnesse Honor being then highly prized euery one aymed at Nobilitie and none refused the most desperate attempts for the good of his Countrey Thus the Decij Cato Marcellus with infinite others became ennobled and had their Altars Statues Columnes c. and were welnigh adored with as great respect as their Gods themselues From no lesse meanesse of birth and beginning we find many great and famous Bishops Ciuilians Orators Poets c. to haue attained to the greatest dignities both of Church and Common-wealth and to haue checked with their Fortunes euen Glorie her selfe Pope Iohn the two and twentieth was a poore Shooe-makers sonne Nicholas the fifth was sonne of a Poulter Sixt●● the fift of a Hog-heard Alphenus but a Tailors Apprentice who running from his Master went to Rome and there studied the Ciuill Law and so profited that for his learning and wisedome he was after created Consull Vlpian but meanely borne yet Tutor to Alexander the Emperour Cicero was borne and brought vp at Arpinum a poore and obscure Village Virgil the sonne of a Potter Horace of a Trumpeter Theophrastus of a Botcher with infinite others I might alledge as well of ancient as moderne times For doing Iustice the Romanes of a priuate man and a stranger chose Numa for their King and on the contrary as Plutarch writeth comparing them together Lycurgus of a King for Iustice sake made himselfe a priuate man for A goodly thing saith Plutarch it is by doing iustly to obtaine a Kingdome and as glorious to prefer Iustice before a kingdome for the vertue of the one Numa made him so esteemed and honoured that he was of all thought worthy of it of the other so great that he scorned it In like manner for their good Lawes and doing Iustice were aduanced to their Thrones and goodly Tribunals Minos Rhadamantus though subiects of Poets fables Aratus Solon c. And how fairely beyond their Lawrels the name of Iust became Aristides Traiant Agesilaus with many others I leaue to Historie to report For Magnificence and obliging the places wherein they liued by great benefits were ennobled Tarquinius Priscus a stranger and a banished man and of later times Cosmo di Medici in Florence vpon whose vertues as vpon a faire prospect or some princely Palace giue me leaue a little as a traueller to breathe my selfe and shew you afarre off the faire Tutrets of his more then royall Magnificence being but a priuate man as I finde it recorded in his Historie by Machiauell This Cosmo saith he was the most esteemed and most famous Citizen being no man of warre that euer had beene in the memorie of man either in Florence or any other Citie because he did not onely excell all others of his time in Authoritis and Riches but also in Liberalitie and Wisedoms For among other qualities which aduanced him to be chiefe of his Countrey he was more then other men liberall and magnificent which liberalitie appeared much more after his death then before For his sonne Piero found by his Fathers Records that there was not any Citizen of estimation to whom Cosmo had not lent great summes of Money and many times also he did lend to those Gentlemen whom he knew

and other antiquities hee could finde there Leofricke was sonne to the Earle of Kent and after being chosen to be Archbishop of Canterburie he refused it this Abbot in a time of dearth solde all the Iewels of his Church to buy bread for the poore After him succeeded Alfricke Leostan Fr●theric Paul In this Abbot were giuen to the Monastery of Saint Albanes the Celles of Wallingford of Tinnemuth of Bealvare of Hertford and Binham Richard who liued in the time of William Rusus when the Cell of Saint Marie de Wymonaham or Windham in Norfolke was giuen vnto this Abbey beeing sounded by William de Albeney father to William de Albeney first Earle of Arundell Gaufridus who founded the Nunnery of Sopwell therby on the other side of the riuer founded and so called vpon this occasion two poore women hauing built themselues a small cabben liued in that place a very austere life praying and seruing God with great deuotion and for that they liued for the most part with no other sustenance saue bread and the water of a Well there wherein they vsed to soppe or dippe their bread it had saith mine Author a Monke sometime of that Abbey the name of Sopwell Then Radulphus Robert Simon Garmus Iohn William c. Off a gaue to this his Abby of Saint Albans these towns following viz. Thei l Edel●●●●● Wiclesfield Cages●o cum suis Berechund Rike●aresworth Bacheworth Crok●leie Michelfield Britchwell Watford Bilsey Merdell Haldenham Spr●t Enefeild St●●●●●● H●●●●●ted Winelesham Biscopsco● C●d●●●dune and Mild●●dune Egelsride his sonne and successour gaue Sandruge and Penefield Alfrick● Abbot of this Church after Archbishop Leofrick his brother gaue Kingesbury C●ealdwich Westwic Flamsted Nort●●● R●●●●hang W●●●●field Birstan and Vpton AEthelwold Bish. of Dorchester gaue Girshuna Cuicumba Tyme Aegelwin Redburne Thuangnā Lingley Grenburga One Tholfe gaue Estune and Oxaw One Sexi gaue H●chamsted One Ha●dh gaue Newha● and Beandise Therefeld a religious woman gaue Sceanl●a Bridel Aegelwina another gaue Batesden Offal and Standune One Aegelbert gaue Craniford A●●an Cutesham Winsimus gaue Esenden Osulsus and his wife gaue St●dham and Wilsin●● others Walden Cudicote Scephal Bethell with sundry other Celles Churches and goodly possessions of me vnnamed If I should set you downe the inestimable wealth consisting in Plate Iewells Bookes costly Hangings Altar-cloathes and the like which by our English Kings Nobilitie and others haue from the foundation vnto the dissolution with the sundry priuiledges this Abby had I should weary my selfe with writing and you with reading but I omit them hauing onely proposed a mirrour to the eyes not of the Church pillars of ancient but the Church pillers of our times The Auncestors of this Noble family were Frenchmen borne taking their Surname of a Towne in Normandy called Sackuill whereof they were Lords and came into England to the aide of Duke William the Conquerour as appeareth by an auncient Manuscript or Chronicle of Brittaine now in the Custody of Mr. Edward Gwinn where he is called a Chiefetaine and is the seauenth man ranked in a Catalogue of names there for as it may be obserued out of Mr. Camdens Remaines that the better sort about the time of the Conquest began to take vp Surnames so againe they were not setled amongst the common people vntill the Raigne of King Edward the second He moreouer affirmeth that the most ancient and of best account were deriued from places whereof this name of Sackuill is one and to adde yet more vnto it Ordericus Vitalis the Monke in his Normane story saith that Herbrann de Sackuill was liuing in the time of William the Conquerour being father of three Noble Knights Iordan William and Robert de Sackuill and of a vertuous and beautifull Ladie named Auice who was married to Walter Lord of Alfage Hugleuill by whom shee had issue Iordan L. of Alfage Hugleuill that married Iulian the daughter of one Gods●all who came into England with Q. Adelize of Lo●●ine the Wife to King Henry the first After whose death the said Queene married to William de Albency Earle of Arundell from whom the now Right Honorable Thomas Earle of Arundell and Surry and Earle Marshall of England is descended S. Iordan de Sackuill Knight the eldest sonne was Sewer of England by the gift of the said Conquerour but liued and died in Normandy S. Robert de Sackuill Knight the yonger sonne liued in England and gaue together with his body the Mannor of Wickham in Suffolke● to the Abbey of S● Iohn Baptist in Colchester leauing issue a son named S● Iordan de Sackuill a very eminent man in the time of King Richard the first as appeareth by a Charter of the said King made to the Monkes of Bordes●ey in Buckinghamshiere S● Iordan de Sackuill that obtained of King Iohn a Friday Market weekely and a Faire once a yeare in his Towne of Sackuill in Normandy as saith the Kings Publike Records in the Tower of L●●don Holiinshed fol. 186. doth there ranke Iordan de Sackuill as a Baron calling him one of the assistants to the 25. Peeres of this Realme to see the Liberties of Magna Charta confirmed And for further proofe that they were men of no meane ●anke it is apparent in the Red booke of the Excheaquer in the 12. and 13. yeeres of the said Kings Raigne in these words Hubertus de Anestie tenes 2. food in Anestie parua Hornmcad dimid 〈◊〉 in Anestie de Honore Richard● de Sack●yle Agai●e S● Iordan de Sackuill Knight grand● childe to the said Iordan de Sackuill was taken prisoner at the battaile of E●esham for siding with the Barons against King Henry the third in the 49. yeare of His Raigne whose sonne and heire named Andrew Sackuill being vnder age at the time of his fathers death and the Kings Wa●d was like wise imprisoned in the Castle of Deuer Ann. 3. E●n 1. and afterward by the speciall command of the said King did marry Ermyn●●de an Honourable Ladie of the houshold to Queene 〈◊〉 or whereby he not onely gained the Kings fauour but the greatest part of his Inheritance againe From whom the aforesaid Richard Earle of Dorset with S● Edward Sackuill Knight of the Bathe his brother and others are descended one of whose Auncestors by marrying a daughter and co-heire of Rase de Denn sonne of Rodbert Pincerna that held the Lordship of Buckhurst with diuers other Mannors and Lands in Sussex about the time of the Normain Conquest In right of which marriage they haue euer since continued Lords of the said Mannor of Buckhurst with diners other Manors and L●nds in Sussex c. Which William Earle of Devonsh● was sonne of S● William Cavendish of Chattesworth in the said Countie of Derby knight Treasurer of the Chamber to King Henry the eight Edward the sixt and Queene Marie by his wife Elizabeth daughter of lohn Hardwick of Hardwick Esquire The Auncestors of this Noble Familie called themselues G●r●ms whose issue