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A16401	The gentlemans academie. Or, The booke of S. Albans containing three most exact and excellent bookes: the first of hawking, the second of all the proper termes of hunting, and the last of armorie: all compiled by Iuliana Barnes, in the yere from the incarnation of Christ 1486. And now reduced into a better method, by G.M.; Boke of Saint Albans	Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?; Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1595 (1595)	STC 3314; ESTC S103621	69,877	187

whose right he was Lord Awdley Henry the sixt William Bourchier maried Margaret daughter and heire of Richard lord Barnes in whose right he was Lord Barnes Edward the fourth Iohn Grey Knight maried Elizabeth the daughter and heire of Iohn Talbot Vicount Lysle in whose right hee was Vicount Lysle Henry the seuenth George Lord Stanley maried Ione the daughter and heire of Iohn Lorde Strange in whose right he was Lord Strange The names also of diuers persons taken out of an infinite number within other realmes which in right of their wiues haue enioyed all maner of noble and princely titles Otheline erle of Burgoin was in right of his wife Earle of Artoys Philip the Long in right of Iane daughter to the said Otheline was Earle of Burgoine King Henry the second of England was in right of Elenor his mother Duke of Guyenne and Erle of Poictow Endo Duke of Burgoine was in the right of Iane his wife daughter and heire to Philip the Long Iane his wife Earle of Burgoine Philip the son of Eudo was in the right of Iane his wife Earle of Artois and Boloigne William Godfrey in the right of his wife was Earle of Tholous Philip le Grand Erle of Flanders was in the right of Elizabeth his wife Earle of Vermandois Bauldwine Earle of Henault in the right of Margaret his wife sister and heire to Earle Philippe was Earle of Flanders Fernand sonne of Sanctiz King of Portugall in the right of Iane his wife was Earle of Flanders Thomas of Sauoy second husband to the saide Iane was in her right although hee had no issue by her Earle of Flaunders Maximilian Archduke of Austria before hee was elected emperour was in right of Mary his wife the heire general of Charles duke of Burgoine and Isabell of Burbon duke of Burgoine of Zotnih of Brabant of Limbourgh Earle of Flaunders Artoys Burgoyne Henault Holland Zeland Lord of Salignis and Malignis Philip of Burgoine by Bona his wife was earle of Ew Godfrey Duke of Bullen in the right of Mawde his wife was head Lorde of Ieturia Marquesse of Antona Pisa and Luques Hugh sonne to Henry the first King of Fraunce was in the right of his wife Earle of Vermandois and Ralfe his sonne was by his mother Earle after him Peter Earle of Alanson in the right of Mawd his wife was earle of Bloys Hugh Earle of Saint Paule by the right of Marie his wife was Earle of Blois and Iohn his sonne erle of the same after him Hambert surnamed Blandemaine Earle of Brittaine and so was Geffrey Plantagenet in the right of Constance his wife Guy earle of Spaine was in right of his wife erle of Neuers and so Adolfe Duke of Cleue Earle of Neuers by his wife Charles the second of Fraunce was in right of Susan his wife Duke of Burbonnois of Auuergne earle of Cleriust visast of Charlot and Marrot lorde of Beumolois chaire and chamberlaine of France Emanuell Philibert now duke of Sauoy in right of his wife Spannage is duke of Berry The Prince of Orange by his wife while shee liued was earle of Buer and their sonne now Earle by his mother Now after these examples both at home and abroad followeth the particular proofe by matter of record viz. that the aforesaide custome hath euer taken place in the Baronies of Willoughby and Eresby c. ANd that sir Richard Welles sonne of the Lord Welles was Lord Willoughby in the right of Ione his wife daughter and heire of Robert lord Willoughby And also sir Richard Hastings knight in the right of Ione his wife daughter and heire of the saide Richard Welles and Ione was both Lord Welles and L. Willoughby reputed called and written immediatly after the death of Richard Welles lord Wells and Willoughby before any parleament called or summoned as appeared in their Court rolles and other euidences And if the said sir Richard Hastings had been called thereto by Writ he could not after the forme of the writ be summoned but by denominatiō of one of the baronies who vsing both the titles of the Baronies then he must of necessitie be reputed to hold the other in right of his wife And if sir Ri. Welles and Rich. Hastings had bin created then should the dignitie haue descended to the heires of Wels Hastings and not reuerted to the house of Willoughby neither could Christopher Willoughby the grandfather neither William lord Willoughby father of the duchesse nf Suffolke haue vsed as they did and may be prooued by euidence matter of record the stile of L. Willoughby before they were called by Writ to parleament Furthermore after the death of William L. Willoughby the said duchesse as his sole daughter and heire enioyed the title stile of Lady Willoughby descended to her from her father at which time sir Christopher Willoughby knight yonger sonne of lord Christopher and brother to the lord William Willoughby claimed the dignitie as heire male and the claim being heard the title was adiudged to the lady Katherine now duchesse ¶ Here beginneth the Blazing of Armes I Haue shewed to you in the former Booke how Gentlemen beganne and howe armes were first ordained and how many colours there bee in coate-armours and the difference of coate-armours with many other things which heere are needelesse to be rehearsed And now I entend to proceede to coates caried in Armes and the blazing of all armes But by the way should I stand vpon all sundrie deuises borne in Armes as the Peacocke the Pie the Dragon the Lion the Dolphine with leaues and flowers I should rather cumber and tire the Reader with friuolous circumstance than any way instruct him in that which I vndertake Therefore I shall shortly and truely teach you to blaze all Armes if you giue diligent intention to the rules that I doe prescribe which shall not be many but passing effectuall And because the Crosse is the most worthie coate or marke which is carried in Armes I wil beginne with the Crosse in which the renowmed and valiant Prince king Arthur had such great trust so that he left his armes which hee bare of the three dragons and another coat he bare of three crownes and tooke to his armes a Crosse of siluer in a fielde of vert and on the right side an Image of the virgin Mary with her Sonne in her armes and vnder that signe of the crosse he atchieued many great wonderfull conquests of which our Chronicles at this day make mention also I haue read this signe of the crosse to be sent from God to that blessed man Mercurie as Vincentius saith in his Speculo historiali of the maruellous and strange death of Iulian the apostata emperour lib. 15. saith that an Angell brought to the aforesaid Mercury al armour necessary with a shield of azure and a crosse flouery with foure Roses of golde in this manner as is here set downe and I neuer heard that euer any Armes came from heauen

so the fourth quadrate royall is to beare a beast rampant bebally lentally and fessely What coats restriall be and where the Blazer shall beginne to blaze There are three coats called restriall in armes one is when a coat is barry of diuers colors to the point and what colour the point is of that colour is the field and there the blazer shall beginne the second coat restriall is when a coate is paly of diuers colors to the point then what colour the point is the same is the fielde and there shall the Blazer beginne the the third coat restriall is called in armes when a coat is sentry of diuers colours to the point and what the point is that is the field and so the Blazer shall blaze from that colour to the next colour on the left side of the coate and blaze the colour sentry Of diuerse woordes of Art in Armes A senter in armes is called staker of tents Fixiall in armes is called milne pickes Mangis in armes are called a sleue gorgis bee called in armes water budgettes Elynelles bee called in armes foure quadrates trucholles Oglis in armes are called gunnestones tortlettes are called in armes Wastell Diaclys are called in armes scopperilles Myrris are called in armes mirrours or glasses Feons are called in armes broade-arrowe heades Tronkes are called in armes anie beastes heades or neckes Demi in armes is called halfe of anie thing Countertreuis is called in armes when halfe the beast is of one colour and the other halfe of an other Euerie coate that beareth a crosse to the point the pointe is the fielde as Saint George beareth gules foure anglettes of siluer but against this rule there are some heraldes repugnant as shall be shewed in the booke insuing These three tearmes of and with shall not bee rehearsed in armes but cure anie of them Of the diuerse bearings of fieldes There bee diuerse bearings of fieldes as one is bearing whole fielde and that is called in armes Claurie The seconde is bearing two fieldes and it is called in armes countlie The thirde is bearing two fields in foure quarters and it is called in armes quarterlie Of three coate armors grittie There are in armes three coates grittie one called checkie that is when the fielde is checked with sundrie colours the second is called windie that is when as the fielde is made like waues of one or of diuerse colours The thirde is called verrie when the fielde is made like goblettes of sundrie colours In armes are two pinions also what claurie counterlie and quarterlie is There are in armes two pinions one is when the fielde is a saultire or Saint Andrewes crosse which maie bee claurie counterlie or quarterlie claurie is called plaine of one coulour counterlie is when colours quarterlie bee two colours sette in two quarters The seconde pinion is called cheffrounce that is a couple of sparis and that maie be claurie counterlie quarterlie gerery or byallie Gerery is when three cheffrounce be together or moe Byall is when a barre is betweene two cheffrounce Here endeth the most speciall things of the book of the genealogie of coate armours the true insearcher to displaie gentlemen from churles and nowe shall follow the exact booke of blasing of all maner of armes whatsoeuer both in latin french and english Explicit prima pars The title of Barons growne in England by discent to the daughters and heires thereof FIrst the auncient and laudable custome of this Realme agreeable to the Realme of France and Spaine and their Dominions where women are capable of the Feodales and that the husbandes in right of their wiues passeth their Feodall dignities stiles and titles That custome is a sufficient and the chiefest rule to determine this question is prooued by the common principle Consuetudo in vnaquaque regione estomnium dignitatum iurisdictionum origo firma et principium And by Baldwine Consuetudini standum est disponendi de nobilitate et consuetudines loci faciunt quem nobilem qui alias non esset nobilis To proue the antiquitie and continuance of that custome in this Realme appeareth by an Abstract of many examples in euery kings reigne chusing of many one person hauing the dignitie of a Baron by the right of his wife as followeth in euery Kings gouernement since the conquest William Conquerour Iohn Talbot a Norman came into England with William the Conqueror and married Mawd daughter and heire of Richard Lord Talbot of Longhope in England in whose right the said Iohn was Lord Talbot of Longhope of whom the Earle of Shrewsbury is descended William Rufus Eustace fitz Iohn the sonne of Monoculus Lord of Knaresburgh married Beatrice daughter and heire of Yuan Lord Vescy in whose right the saide Eustace was Lord Vescie of whome the Earle of Cumberland is descended and writeth himselfe Lord Vescy Henry the first Ioceline sonne to the Duke of Brabant married Agnes daughter and heire to William Lord Percy in whose right he was lord Percy of whom the Lords of Northumberland are descended King Stephen Morice fitz Harding maried Alice daughter and heire to Robert Lord Barkeley of Whom is descended the Lord Barkeley Henry the second Iohn Molton knight maried Mawd daughter and heire of William Meschines Lord Egremond in whose right he was Lord Egremond whose heire generall was married to the L. Fitzwater of whom is descended the Erle of Sussex and writeth himselfe Lord Egremond Richard the first Adam de Port lord of Basing married Isabell daughter and heire of Robert Lorde Haya of Haluna of whom descended the lord Saint Iohn of Basing auncester to the marquesse of Winchester King Iohn Iohn de Placetis maried the daughter and heire of Walleram Earle of Warwicke in whose right he was Earle of Warwicke which Iohn died without issue after whose death the saide countesse of Warwicke was maried to Master Mandret baron of Haushap who also was Earle of Warwike in her right of whom are descended the Earles of Huntington warwicke Leycester and others Henry the third Henry hastings knight maried Ione daughter and heire of Master Cantilyp Lorde of Aburgauenie in whose right he was Lord of Aburgauenie Edware the first Roger Lord Clyfford maried Isabell daughter and heire of Robert Dipount Lord of Westmerlande in whose right he was Lorde of Westmerland Edward the second Sir Iohn Charlton knight maried Auis daughter heire of Owen ap Griffith Lord powys in whose right he was Lord Powys Edward the third Iohn Fitz Allen sonne to Richard Earle of Arundell maried Mary daughter and heire of Iohn Lord Matrauers in whose right hee was Lord Matrauers Richard the second Sir Warrin Gerard knight maried Isabel daughter and heire of Iohn Lord Lile in whose right he was Lord Lisle Henry the fift Sir William Louel knight maried Elinor daughter and heire of Iohn Lorde Morloy in whose right he was Lord Morley Henry the fift Iohn Tuchet maried Ione daughter and heire of Nicholas Lord Awdley in

shall it be where sorrow care colde and as a mischieuous and vnrespected churle thou shalt liue which part of the earth shall be termed Europe which is the countrie of churles Iaphet come hither my sonne on thee will I raine my blessing deare insteede of Seth Adams sonne I make thee a gentleman and thy renowne shall stretch through the west part of the world and to the end of the Occident where wealth and grace shall flourish there shall be thine habitation and thy dominion shall bee called Asia which is the cuntrie of gentlemen And Sem my sonne I make thee a gentleman also to multiply the blood of Abell slaine so vndeseruedlie to thee I giue the Orient that part of the world which shal be called Affrica which is the country of temperatenes and thus diuided Noah the world and his blessings From the of-spring of gentlemanly Iaphet came Abraham Moyses Aaron and the Prophets and also the king of the right line of Mary of whom that only absolute gentleman Iesus was borne perfite God and perfite man according to his manhood king of the lande of Iuda and the Iewes and gentleman by his mother Mary princesse of coat armor How long coate armours began before Christs incarnation Iaphet was the first that euer made target and therein he made a Ball in token of al the world and afterward two thousand eightene yeares before the incarnation of Christ coate armor was made namely at the siege of Troy where the first beginning of the law of armes was seene as is prooued in the Booke called Gesta Troianorum and that lawe was begunne before any law in the worlde but the lawe of Nature and before the ten commaundements of God And this law of Armes was grounded vppon the nine orders of Angels in heauen crowned with nine seuerall pretious stones differing in colours and vertues nine seuerall waies from which are taken the nine colours in Armes as shall follow Of the first stone called Topasion signifying gold in armes This stone Topasion is a semi stone and is called gold in armes the vertue thereof is that gentleman which shall leaue this stone in his armes shall bee a sure messenger to his king in the day of battaile because this stone was reserued in the angels crowne which was a true messenger and firme in the heauenly battaile against Lucifer Of the second stone The second stone is called Smaragdus and is called vert that is greene in armes the vertue therof is the gentleman which beares it in his coate armour shall bee valiant stout and coragious in his kings battaile the which stone was reserued in the archangels crowne which was most puissant in the conflict with Lucifer Of the third stone The third stone is called an Ametise and it is Bruske in armes the vertue thereof is he which beareth it in his coate-armour shal be fortunate to conquest in his kings battaile which stone was reserued to the vertuous crowne which was fortunate and vertuous in the heauenly combate against Lucifer Of the fourth stone The fourth stone is called a Margaret a cloudie stone is called in armes plumby the vertue therof is whoso leaues it in his coate-armour hee shal haue great gouernement in his kings conquests the which stone is reserued in the potestates crowne which were the commaunders in the heauenly battaile against Lucifer Of the fift stone The fift stones is called a loys and in armes sanguine or synamer the vertue thereof is the gentleman which beares it in his coate armour shall bee mightie of power in his kings battaile the which stone was reserued in Dominations crowne that were only powerfull in the king of heauens battaile against Lucifer The sixt stone The sixt stone is called a ruby and is in armes gules the vertue thereof is the gentleman which beareth it in his coate armor shall be hot and full of vigor in his kings battaile the which stone was reserued in the principallest crowne who were fiery hot in heauenly battaile against Lucifer Of the seuenth stone The seuenth stone is called a Saphyr in armes Azure the vertue whereof is the gentleman which in his coate armour beareth that stone shall be wise and vertuous in all his actions in the battaile of his king which stone was reserued to the crowne of the thrones which were wise and vertuous in the heauenly battaile against Lucifer Of the eight stone The eight stone is a diamond a blacke stone and called sable in armes the vertue thereof is the gentleman which beareth it in his coate armor shall be durable and vnfainting in his kings battaile which stone was kept in the Cherubins crowne which neuer fainted or shrunke in the warre against Lucifer Of the ninth stone The ninth stone is called a carbuncle a shining stone and in armes is called siluer or argent the vertue thereof is what gentleman soeuer beares it in his coate armor shall be doughty glorious and shining in his kings battaile which stone was reserued to the Seraphins crowne who were full of might glorie and brightnes in the kings battaile of heauen against Lucifer Of the nine colours which is worthy which royall Of these nine sundry colours due to coat armors there are fiue worthy and foure royall the fiue worthy are these Golde otherwise called Or Vert Brusk Plumby and Sanguin and the foure royall are these Gules Asure Sable and Siluer But nowe according to the blasers of armes there are but sixe colours of the which two are mettall and foure coulours gold and siluer for mettall vert gules asure and sable for colours and no other vsed Of the nine stones which noble which of dignitie Of the nine pretious stones before spoken of fiue of them are noble and foure of dignitie the fiue noble stones are these the Topasion Smaragdus Amatis Margaret and Aloys the foure of dignity are the Ruby Saphyre Diamond and Carbunckle Of the orders of Angels Of the nine orders of Angels there are fiue Ierarchy thronely the fiue Ierarchy are Angel Archangels Vertues Potestats and Dominations the foure thronely be these Principalles Thrones Cherubins and Seraphins Of the dignities of Regaltie There are nine dignities of regaltie fiue noble foure excellent the fiue noble are these gentleman squire knight barron and Lorde and the foure excellent are Earle Marquesse Duke and Prince Of the nine vertues of pretious stones There are nine vertues of pretious stones fiue generall and foure special the fiue general are these a sure messenger valiant and stoute fortunate to conquest great in gouernement and mightie in power the foure speciall are hot in courage wise vertuous durable and vnfainting and doughty and glorious Of the foure vertues of chiualry Chiualry hath foure vertues the first iust in his actions cleanenes of his person pitty to the poore gratious in prison reuerent and faithfull to his God the second is that he be wise in battaile prudent in his fighting hauing his