Analogia Honorum OR A TREATISE OF Honour and Nobility According to the LAWS and CUSTOMES OF ENGLAND Collected out of the most Authentick Authors both Ancient and Modern In Two Parts THE FIRST Containing Honour Military and relateth to War THE SECOND Honour Civil and relateth to Court and City Illustrated with variety of SCULPTURES sutable to the several Subjects LONDON Printed by Tho. Roycroft Anno Dom. MDCLXXVII To the Right Noble Iames Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuth Earle of Doncaster and Dâ— Lord Scott of Askdale Tendale and Wichester Lord high Chamberlaine of Scotland cheifeâ—y and Iustice in Eyre of all his Matys Parks Chaces and Forests on the South side of Trent L d Lâ—â— of the County and Steward of the Towne of Stafford Lord Leivtenant of the East Rideing of York shire Governor of the Towne and Citadel of Kingston upon Hull Chancellor of â— University of Cambridge Master of the Horse to his Maty Captaine of his Matys Guard of Hâ—â— Knight of the Garter Captaine Generall of his Matys land Forces and one of â— Lords of his Matys most Honourable privy Councell c a. This Plate with the Treatise of Honor Military and Civill is in all Humility dedicated to your Grace by mâ— your Graces most Submissive Servant Richard Blome HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE THE FIRST PART OR Honour Military CHAP. I. ALL Honours may not improperly be said to receive their Birth either from the City Court or Camp which of all is esteemed the most worthy and honourable raising some to Imperial and Princely Dignities and disthroning others And in all Kingdoms even amongst the barbarous Americans War hath ever been and yet is held in high esteem and of great Importance as well for the preservation of their Laws and Rights as for the defence of their Dominions for which War is permitted by the Laws of God is taught by the Laws of Nature and commanded by the Laws of Nations And to excite men to valour and noble Atchievments Reward or Honours is conferred upon such that merits the same according to their Deserts for the defence of holy Church their King and Country War being therefore of such concern it behoveth every prudent Prince for the welfare of his People to be always prepared for Peace or War either Offensive or Defensive both for Forreign Invasion or the suppressing Domestick Insurrections wherefore it hath been found expedient to joyn good Laws the Friends of Peace and Rest unto Arms War being always accompanied with men of audacious and furious Spirits Iustinianus for the uniting of Laws and Arms appointed one Officer called a Praetor to command both Martially and Civilly which Name the Romans continued for their General of War and by his Office had Authority both Martial and Civil By which it appears that War cannot endure without the assistance of Law and wise men in former Ages did hold that Prudence and Power ought not to be separated of which Opinion was Horace saying Vis expers consilii mole ruit sua Likewise for the same reason learned Writers were induced to commend valiant Captains and wise Counsellors as it were joyntly and in one rank for with Simonides they joyned Pausanias with Craesus Solon and with Pericles Anaxagoras Of War and the Causes thereof DIscord is common to all men and that occasioned either by Revenge for Injuries done out of covetousness in gaining that which belongs to others for ambition in gainning Fame by noble Victories or such like Reasons and this maketh one City to wage war against another one Province to invade another and whole Kingdoms to oppress one another even to a Conquest if they can Aristotle proveth that some men by nature are born to Command and others to Obey by which it appears that War is necessary as well to compel those to Obedience as the others to hold their Authority The Romans did sometimes judge it convenient to make War only to train up their Youth fit for Service and to keep them from idleness which breedeth Intemperance and Dishonesty And by Action Princes that are martially inclined have not only gained Renown but also much enlarged their Dominions Yet I am of the Opinion That War ought not to be made without just cause and when the Enemy cannot be perswaded to reason by Embassadors prudent Princes and Commanders do not wage War unadvisedly and when they do they should follow the Example of Trajanus who observed these Cautions to be careful to supply the places of his slain Souldiers to repress the enemies pride and according to Military Discipline constrain Mutiners to Obedience and Order Of Souldiers SOuldiers or men professing Arms according to Vlpianus were called Milites à malitia id est duritia that is were so named in respect of the hardness and danger they endure in defence of other people or because they keep off the injuries which enemies do offer He that desireth to enjoy the Honour belonging to Arms ought first to prove himself a Souldier which by the Civil Laws may be done three ways the first is by Certificate from the Captain or Officers secondly he ought to make proof of his experience and manhood in Martial Affairs and thirdly to be registred in the List of received Souldiers and none other properly ought to be termed Souldiers By ancient Custom Souldiers always took an Oath not to abandon their Captain or Camp not to commit Treason nor consult with one another privately to cause mutining and the like Martianus the great Doctor did reject Bondmen as persons unfit and unworthy to be called Souldiers and no person that hath committed any infamous Crime of which he is convicted ought afterwards to bear Arms so honourable is the Name and Dignity of a Souldier The persons excused from bearing Arms are Priests and all in Holy Orders all Graduates in Schools all men above the Age of 60 years and those under the Age of 17 years Those Souldiers that had long served the Romans either in their Legion or elsewhere and deported themselves obediently to their Officers and honestly to all men were called Veterani and had great favour shewed them and that when any Veteran had honestly served them the space of twenty years he was then called Emeritus and might have his dismission to end his days in peace and quietness with the enjoyment of divers Immunities besides signal marks of Honour according to their merit which was a great encouragement to Youth to be trained up in Military Service which oft-times they made use of appointing Tutors to instruct them therein and these they called Tyrones And as on the one hand the Romans rewarded them for good Service so on the other they inflicted punishments according to the heinousness of the Offence as for Treason Disobedience Abandoning their Colours and Assisting the Enemy also for Theft Murther and Cowardise which they esteemed most vile The experience of which was seen when Spractacus defeated the Romans conducted by
That he hath appeared magnanimous in Campaigns Leguers Battels and Seiges by Land in the most furious and dreadful Sea fights in which he hath given life to some Enemies and taken it from others His escaping such Hazards and passing by Domestick Broyls with a Princely Scorn would half perswade a credulous person that he had evaded the time of dying and that for the World 's general good it were decreed he should endure as long as the Sun and Moon to support the Grandure of the Brittish Monarchy in the Person of his Sacred Majesty King Charles the Second and his lawful Successors The Effiges of the Right Noble George late Duke of ALBEMARLE Earle of Torrington Baron Moncke of Potheridgeâ— Beauchamp and Teys Knight of the Noble order of the Garter Lord Leiutenant of Devonshire Captaine Generall of all his Majestyes Land Forces Ioynt Admirall with his Highness Prince Rupert in the last Dutch Warrâ— one of the Lords Comissioners of his Majestys Treasuryâ— one of the Gentlemen of his Bedchamber one of the Lds of his most honble privy Councell c a. Edw. Le Davis sculp Thus in a Victor's Garland oft we see Laurels with Cypress intermixed be But I could lose my self in the Admiration of these Objects were I not again surprized by the late Generous and Noble Exploits of the Heroick Prince Iames Duke oâ— Monmouth whose brave Spirit disdaining to be confined to the ease of a Court life contemning the soft pleasures of Peace seeks out Dangers abroad makes Bellona his Mistress deâ—ies death in his ascent to Honour and thus immortalizes his Name throughout Christendome by his Valour and Conduct at Mastricht in Anno 1673. To affect Glory in Youth is becoming a Royal Birth and to begin with Victory is a happy Omen of Future Success In a long progress of time a Coward may become a Conquerour Some others from mean Adventures passing through gross Errors grow to Experience and in time perform great Exploits But as there are few Rivers Navigable from their first Fountain so are such Men doubtless very rare and singular who have not any need either of growth or years nor are subject either to the Order of Times or Rules of Nature Proceed brave Prince in the path you have so fairly traced out and let the World see your renowned Valour Of a lower Orb we may justly boast of our English Fabius General Monk who so wisely wearied out Lambert by his delays and cajoled the rebellious Rump Parliament He was a Person of great Valour Experience and Prudence whose Loyalty and Conduct hath given him a never dying Fame to be celebrated by the Pens and Tongues of all good Subjects whilst the Name of Britain lasteth His Exploits were truly great his Success in his Conduct renowned with too many Victories to be here inserted Let it suffice to say he was bred a Souldier and after the many risks of Fortune got the Art to mannage that fickle Lady so well that he triumphed over his Foes both in War and Peace acted the part of a good Politician the trusty old Cushai confounding the Counsel of Achitophel to preserve his Royal Master and was the blessed Instrument of his Majestie 's most happy Restauration to his Crown and Dignity and the Kingdom to its pristine Laws and Liberties securing to himself and Posterity that well purchased Title of the most High Potent and Noble Prince George Duke of Albemarle Earl of Torrington Baron Monk of Potheridge Beauchamp and Teys besides which Hereditary Titles he was Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council and Captain General of all his Majesties Forces during life an Honour and Office scarce ever before intrusted in the hands of a Subject in times of Peace He lived the darling of his Country dearly beloved of his Majesty and all the Royal Stem and dreadful to our Forreign and Home-bred Foes but laden with Love Honour and Years He yielded up his Life to the Hands of him that gave it and departed in peace the Third Day of Ianuary Anno Dom. 16 69 70. lamented by all good Subjects Post funera Virtus We have many more that by Experience and Conquest are very well known to be eminent Warriers whose Noble Acts were enough to fill large Volumes and whose worthy Atchievements will be recorded in the Histories of that Age for an Encouragement to Posterity the Effigies of some of which I have here lively represented to your View The Effigies of ye. Right honble Charles Earle of CARLISLE Viscount Morpeth Baron Dacres of Gillsland Lord Leiutenant of Cumberland Westmoreland Vice Admirall of ye. Countyes of Northâ—mberland Camberland Westmoreland the Bishoprick of Durham The Towne County of Newcastle Maritin parts There adiacent one of his Matyes most honble priuy Councell c a Abra. Blâ—thing sculp The Effiges of the Right honble William Earle of Craven Viscount Craven of Vffington Baron Craven of Hampsted-Marshall Lord Leiutenant of the County of Middlesex and Borough of Southwarke and one of the Lords of his Majestys most honble privy Councell ca. This Portraiture is in memory of Bertram Ashburnham of Ashburnham in Sussex who in the tyme of King Harold was Warden of the Cinqueports Constable of Dover and Sheriff of the said County and being a person in soe great power at the Landing of William the Congueror King Harold who was then in the North sent him a Letter to raise all the force under his Comand to withstand the Invador And when the King camâ— vp to oppose yâ— Conqueror the said Bertram who had an eminent Comand in the Battle received soe many wounds that soon after he dyed thereof And since which tyme through the mercy of god the Said family in a direct male line have euer since continued at Ashburnham aforesaid and are the present possessors thereof Edw Le Davis Sculp THE SECOND PART OR Honour Civil AND Treateth of the Nobility and Gentry according to the Laws and Customes of England CHAP. I. Of Honour General and Particular HONOUR is the Reward of Vertue as Infamy the Recompence of Vice and he that desireth to mount her footsteps as naturally all men in some degree or other are addicted unto must arrive thereunto by the way of Vertue which was strictly observed by the Romans for Dignities by Birth were not enough to advance them thereunto if they were not endowed with Heroick and Vertuous Qualifications and Honour should be a Testimony of their Excellency therein Some Learned Writers say That Honour consisteth in exterior Signs and Aristotle calleth it Maximum bonorum exteriorum Others say it is a certain Reverence in Testimony of Vertue Honour is of greater esteem than Silver or Gold and ought to be prized above all Earthly Treasure And for the encouragement of Youth to vertuous Atchievements the Romans were no more slack in their Rewards and Badges of Honour than they were in their punishment
Hen. 1. fol. 3. and so doth Vlpian the Civilian determine And this is one of the three Reasons alledged wherefore by the policy of our Law the King is a Body Politick thereby to avoid the attainder of him that had right to the Crown Coke's seventh part 12. a. lest in the interim there should be an interregnum which the Law will not suffer because of the manifold Incumbrances thereof For it hath been clearly resolved by all the Judges of the Land That presently by the descent of the Crown the next Heir is compleatly and absolutely King without any essential Ceremony or Act to be done ex postfacto And that Coronation is but a Royal Ornament and outward Solemnization of the Descent And this appeareth evidently by abundance of Presidents and Book-Cases Let us take one or two Examples in a Case so clear for all King Henry the Sixth was not crowned till the Eighth year of his Reign and yet divers men before his Coronation were attainted of Treason Felony and the like Crimes and he was as absolute and compleat a King for matters of Judicature Grants c. before his Coronation as he was after Queen Mary reigned three moneths before she was crowned in which space the Duke of Northumberland and others were condemned and executed for Treason which they had committed before she was Queen And upon this reason there is a Maxim in the Common Law Rex nunquam moritur in respect of his ever living and never dying politique capacity In France also the same Custome hath been observed and for more assurance it was expresly enacted under Charles the Fifth That after the death of any King his eldest Son should immediately succeed for which cause the Parliament Court of Paris doth accompany the Funeral Obsequies of those that have been their Kings not in mourning attire but in Scarlet the true Ensign of the never dying Majesty of the Crown Nevertheless certain Cities in France not long since alledged for themselves that because they had not reputed Henry the Fourth for their King and professed Allegiance unto him they were not to be adjudged Rebels Whereupon the chief Lawyers of our Age did resolve That forasmuch as they were original Subjects even Subjects by Birth they were Rebels in bearing Arms against their King although they had never professed Allegiance unto him To conclude this Chapter I shall give you a View of the Ceremonies of the Creation of Henry Prince of Wales which began on the Thirtieth of May 1610. as followeth The Prince accompanied with divers young Noblemen together with his own Servants rode from his Court at St. Iames's to Richmond where he reposed that night on the next day the Lord Mayor Aldermen with the several Companies in their Barges attended his Highness about Barn Elmes where he was entertained with a Banquet and in other places with Speeches by a Neptune upon a Dolphin and a Sea Goddess upon a Whale c. His Highness landing at Whitehall was received by the Officers of his Majesties Houshold according to order viz. by the Knight Marshal and the Serjeant Porter In the Hall by the Treasurer and Comptroller of the Houshold in the great Chamber by the Captain of the Guard and in the presence Chamber by the Lord Chamberlain from whence he went into the Privy Chamber where the King and Queen met him the Saturday after was taken up with the usual Ceremonies of making Knights of the Bath to attend his Highness at his Creation which were Five and twenty in number Upon Monday following these Knights of the Bath met in the Queens Closet where they put on long Purple Satten Robes lined with white Taffata and a Hood like a Batchelor of Law about their Necks and in a Barge prepared for them went before the Prince to Westminster Palace where his Highness landed and proceeded to his Creation thus First the Heralds Next the Knights of the Bath Then the Lords that were imployed in several Services Garter King at Arms bearing the Letters Patents The Earl of Sussex the Robes of Purple Velvet The Earl of Huntington the Train The Earl of Cumberland the Sword The Earl of Rutland the Ring The Earl of Derby the Rod. The Earl of Shrewsbury the Cap and Coronet The Earl of Nottingham and Privy Seal supported his Highness being in his Surcoat only and bareheaded to the Parliament Chamber The King was already set with all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in their Robes of State all the Knights and Burgesses of the lower House present as also the Foreign Ambassadors the great Ladies of the Realm and the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London seated upon Scaffolds The Procession entring in manner aforesaid made three several low Reverencies to his Majesty and when they came to the Throne Garter King at Arms kist the Letters Patents and gave them to the Lord Chamberlain who presented them to the King who delivered them to the Earl of Salisbury Principal Secretary of State who read them the Prince kneeling all the while before the King and at the words accustomed the King put on the Robe the Sword the Cap and Coronet the Rod and the Ring The Patent being read the King kist him on the Cheek and the Earl Marshal with the Lord Chamberlain placed him in his Parliament Seat viz. on the left hand of the King which Ceremony being ended they returned to the Palace Bridge in manner as followeth First the Masters of the Chancery the King's Council and others then the Officers of Arms the Knights of the Bath next twenty Trumpets before them then the Judges and after them all the Members of Parliament in order the Barons Viscounts Earls and Marquisses having Coronets on their Heads then Norroy and Clarenceaux King at Arms going next before the Lord Treasurer and the Lord Chancellor then Garter next before the Sword and then the Prince and King They took Barge at the Palace Stairs and landed at Whitehall Bridge where the Officers at Arms the Members of Parliament and the Lords being first landed attended the King and Prince and went before into the Hall and so into his Majestie 's Presence Chamber whence the Prince descended again into the Hall to Dinner himself seated at the upper end of a Table accompanied with the Lords that attended him at his Creation who sate on both sides of the Table with him At another Table on the left hand sate the Knights of the Bath in their Robes along one side attended by the King's Servants At the second Course Garter with the Heralds came to the Prince's Table and after due reverence proclaimed the King's Style with three Largesses viz. King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. And then proclaimed the Prince's Titles viz. Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay Earl of Rothsay Earl of Chester and Knight of the Garter with two Largesses Then with Feasting Masques and all sort of Courtly Gallantry that joyful
Creation of the Prince ended Although at present we have no Prince of Wales yet I shall give you the Badge or Armorial Ensign of Honour appropriate unto them which is as it is here depincted OF DUKES CHAP. IV. THE Title and Degree of a Duke hath been of ancienter standing in the Empire and other Countries than amongst us for the first English Duke was Edward the black Prince created Duke of Cornwal by his Father King Edward the Third by which Creation according to the Tenure of his Patent the Firstborn Sons of the Kings of England are Dukes of Cornwall Nor is there any Creation required for the said Honour although there is for Prince of Wales A Duke is said to be so called à Ducendo from leading being at the first always a Leader of an Army Imperial or Regal and was so chosen in the Field either by casting of Lots or by common Voice and the Saxons called this Leader an Hertzog but now and for some time past it is a Dignity given by Kings and Princes to men of great Blood and excellent Merit In some Countries at this day the Soveraign Princes are called Dukes as the Duke of Savoy Duke of Muscovy Duke of Saxony Duke of Florence and the like All Noblemen at their Creation have two Ensigns to signifie two Duties viz. their Heads are adorned ad consulendum Regem Patriam in tempore pacis and they are girt with Swords ad defendendum Dominum Regem Patriam in tempore belli The Chapeau or Head-attire saith Chassanaeus Dukes were accustomed to wear in token of Excellency it is of a Scarlet Colour lined or doubled Ermin And now Marquisses Earls and Viscounts plead Custome for the use thereof as also for Coronets which his Majesty King Charles the Second hath also granted Barons to wear but with due difference as is also in their Robes which may appear by the Portraiture of the said Degrees here lively set forth His Sword is girt about him and his short Cloak or Mantle over his Shoulders is guarded with four Guards his Coronet is Gold the Cap Crimson doubled Ermin but not indented as those of the Blood Royal are and the Verge which he holds in his hand is also of Gold Dukes of the Royal Line or Blood are reputed as Arch-Dukes and are to have their Coronets composed of Crosses and Flower delis as other Dukes A Duke tantùm shall take place before any Lord that is both Marquis and Earl but a Duke that is both a Marquis and Earl shall precede him The Dukes Marquisses and Earls at their Creations have a Sword put over their Shoulders or girt about them which the Viscounts and Barons have not A Duke may have in all places ouâ— of the King 's or Princes presence a Cloth of Estate hanging down within half a yard of the Ground so may his Dutchess who may have her Train born up by a Baroness And no Earl without permission from him ought to wash with a Duke The Effigies of the Most Noble George Duke Marquess Earle of Buckingham Earle of Coventry Viscount Villers Baron of Whaddon Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter a. R. While sculp His Royall Highness Iames Duke of Yorke and Albany Knight of the most noble order of the Garter sole Brother to his sacred Majesty King Charles the second coet. The most Illustrious Prince Rupert Count Palatine of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria and Duke of Cumberland Earle of Holderness Governor of Windsor-Castle Lord Leivtenant of Berâ—shire Knight of the Garter Nephew to the late King of blessed memory and one of his Ma â—â—es most Honourable privy Councell c â— The Right Noble Henry Duke of Norfolk Earle of Arundell Surrey Norwich Earle Marshall of England Baron Howard Fitz-Allen Matravers Mawbrey Seagrave Bruceâ— Cluâ—n Oswalds tree Castle Riseing The Right Noble Francis Seumour Duke of Somerset Marquess Earle of Hertford Viscount Beauchamp Baron Seymour ct. The Right Noble George Duke Marquess Earle of Buckingham Earle of Coventrey Viscount Villiers â—â—ron of Whaddon Knight of the most noble order of the Garter ct. The Rt. Noble Christopher Duke of Albemarle Earle of Toringtoâ— Baron Monck of Potheridge Beauchamp Teys Kt. of ye. most noble order of ye. Garter Lord Leivtenant of Devon-shire Essex one of the Gentlemen of his matys Bedchamber one of ye. Lords of his most honble privy Counâ—â— The Right Noble Iames Duke of Noâ—â—â—uth Buccleuth Earle of Doncaster Dalkeith Baron of Askedale Teâ—dâ—lâ— Whitchâ—â—â—â—â—en 〈…〉 Chamberlaine of Scotland Masâ—â—r of his Ma â— horse Captain of his life Guard Gouernor of Hull Lord Leivtenant of ye. East Rideing of Yoâ—k-shire Chancellor of ye. Vniversity of Cambridge Knight of ye. Garter one of ye. Lords of his matys most honble privy Councell ct. The Right Noble William Cavendish Duke Marquess Earle of Newcasâ— Earle of Ogle Viscount Mansfield Baron Ogle Bertram Bolesmere Kt of thâ— Garten Ld. Leiutenant of Nottinghamshire Gent of his matys Bedchamber Iustice in Ire of all his matys Parks fforests and Chases Northwards of Trent one of ye. Lords of his matys most honble privy Councell â— The Right Noble Charles Fitz-Roy Duke of Southampton Earle of Chichester Baron of Newbury Knight of the Garter and heyre in Succession to the Dutchy of Cleaveland câ— The Right Noble Charles Lennox Duke of Richmond and Lennox Earle of March and Darneley Baron of Settrington and Tarbolton ct. The Right Noble Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Grafton Earle of Euston Viscount Ipswich and Baron Sudbury â—â— A Duke hath the Title of Grace and being written unto is styled Most High Potent and Noble Prince And Dukes of the Royal Blood are styled Most High most Mighty and Illustrious Princes The younger Sons of Kings are by courtesie styled Princes by birth but have their Titles of Duke Marquiss c. from Creation The Daughters are styled Princesses and the Title of Royal Highness is given to all the King's Children both Sons and Daughters The form of a Patent of the Duke of York tempore Iacobi JACOBUS c. To all Archbishops Bishops Dukes Marquisses Earls Viscounts Barons Iustices Knights Governors Ministers and to all Bailiffs and faithful Subjects Greeting Whereas oftentimes we call to mind how many and innumerable Gifts and what excellent Benefits that Great Maker of all Goodness of his own benignity and clemency hath abundantly bestowed upon us who not only by his power hath consociated divers and mighty Lyons in firm Peace without any strife but also hath amplified and exalted the Bounds and Limits of our Government by his unspeakable Providence above our Progenitors with an indissolvable Conjunction of the ancient and famous Kingdoms in the right of Blood under our Imperial Diadem In regard whereof we cannot boast but most willingly acknowledge our fruitfulness and Issue plentifully adorned with the gifts
it doth appear By which Statute three things were ordained First The County Palatine of Lancaster was again established Secondly He did invest it in the Body Politick of the King 's of this Realm And thirdly He did divide it from the order of the Crown Land And in this form it continued until Henry the Seventh who forthwith being descended from the House of Lancaster did separate it only in Order and Government from the Crown and so it continueth at this day Ceremonies to be observed in the Creation of a Duke AT the Creation of a Duke he must have on him his Surcoat and Hood and should be led between two Dukes if there be any present if not a Marquiss or two and for want of either an Earl somewhat before him on the right hand shall go on Earl which shall bear a Cap of Estate with the Coronet in it and on the other side shall also go an Earl which shall bear the Golden Rod and before the Duke that is to be created should go a Marquiss or one of the greatest Estate to bear the Sword and before him an Earl to bear the Mantle or Robe of Estate lying on his Arms. And all these Nobles that do Service must be in their Robes of Estate His Title is proclaimed twice and the Largess thrice The Effigies of the most Noble CHARLES PAULET MARQUESS of WINCHESTER EARLE of Wiltsh And BARON St. IOHN of Basing ct. R. White Sculp The most honble Charles Paulet Marâ—quess of Minchester Earle of Miltshire Baron St Iohn of Basing â— The most honble Henry Somersetâ— Marquess Earle of Worcestâ—â—â— Ld. Herâ—ert Baron of Chipstom Raglan Gomer Ld. President â— Ldâ— Leivtenant of Wales and the Marches L d Leivtenant of 〈◊〉 Countyes of Glocester Hereford Monmouth of the 〈◊〉 County of Bristoll Knight of the most noble order of the Gâ—â—teâ— one of the Lords of his matys most honble privy Councâ—llâ— The most hono rble Henry Rerrepont Marquâ—ss of Dorchester Earle of Kingston upon Hullâ— Viscount Nemarke Ld. Rerrepont Maunvers Herris one of the Lords of his matys most honorbleâ— Priuy Councel câ— OF MARQUISSES CHAP. V. A Marquiss which by the Saxons is called Marken-Reue and signifieth a Governor or Ruler of the Marches hath the next place of Honour to a Duke This Title came to us but of late days for the first was Robert Vere who was created Marquiss of Dublin by King Richard the Second and from that time it became to be a Title of Honour for in former time those that Governed the Marches were commonly called Lord Marchers and not Marquisses After the Normans had conquered this Land it was by them carefully observed as a matter of great moment to place upon the Confines and Borders of the Britains and those not then subdued men of much Valour such that were not only sufficient to encounter the Inrodes and Invasions of the Enemy but also ready upon all Occasions to make onset upon them for the enlarging their Conquest These men thus placed were of high Blood and Reputation amongst their Countrey-men the Normans and in whose Faith the Conqueror reposed special Trust and Confidence And therefore in their Territories given unto them to hold their Tenures were devised to be very special and of great importance and honour enriched with Name and Priviledges of Earl of Chester and so the North-border of Wales created to a County Palatine and the Barons of the middle part of the South Marches were adorned in a manner with a Palatine Jurisdiction having a Court of Chancery and Writs only amongst themselves pleadable to the intent that their Attendance might not thence be drawn for the prosecuting of Controversies or Quarrels in the Law And as for the other part of the South Marches they seemed to be sufficiently fenced with the River Severn and the Sea A Marquiss is created per gladii cincturam circuli aurei suo capiti positionem He is honoured with a Coronet of Gold which is part flowered and part pyramidal with the points and flowers or leaves of an equal height His Mantle is doubled Ermin which is of three doublings and an half whereas the Mantle of an Earl is but of three and the doublings of a Viscount's Mantle is but two and a half which are only plain white Furr without Ermins as are the Barons which are but of two doublings The form of their Patent which at their Creation is delivered into their hands was various but of late â—tis regulated to the method of those of other Degrees and the Ceremonies the same This Honour is hereditary and the eldest Son by the Courtesie of the Land is called Earl or Lord of a place and the younger Sons only Lord Iohn Lord Thomas or the like He hath the Title of most Noble most Honourable and Potent Prince and may have his Cloth of Estate reaching within a yard of the Ground the King or a Duke not being present and his Marchioness may have her Train born up by a Knight's Lady in her own House but not in a Dutchesses presence A Marquisses eldest Son is born an Earl and shall go as an Earl and have his Essay in an Earl's presence and wear as many powdrings as an Earl but shall give place to an Earl and his Wife shall go beneath a Countess and abovâ— all Marquisses Daughters who are born Ladies and the eldest a Countess but shall go beneath a Countess At the Creation of a Marquiss he must have on him his Surcoat and Hood and be led by a Duke or Marquiss the Sword and Cap to be born by Earls He must go after his Creation not after his Marquisite and the Marchioness his Wife according to the same The Effigies of the Right honble CHARLES BEAUCLAIRE Baron of Heddington Earle of BURFORD And of ye. Rt. honble IAMES Ld. BEAUCLAIRE Brother and heir to ye. Right honble Charles Earle of Burford The Rt. honble Aubrey Vere Earle of Oxfordâ— Baron Bulbeck Sandford Badlefinere Kt. of the Garter L Leiutenant wth his grace the Duke of â—â—â—â—marle of Essex one of his Maâ—ysâ— most Hon. privy Councell c a. The Right Honourable Charles Talbot Earle of Shrewsbury Baron Talbot Strange of Blackmere Gifford of Brimshelâ— Purnivullâ— Verdon Lovetoâ— The Right Honourable Anthony Grey Earle of Kent Baron Grey of Ruthin Hasting and Valance 〈◊〉 Right honble William Stanley Earleâ— of Derâ—â— Lord Stanley c Strange of Knocking Viscount Kintâ—â— Baron of Weâ—â—on L â— Mobâ—n Burnet Basset Lacy. L â— Leivtâ—nant of Lancâ—shire â— Cheshire and Admirall of the Seas theirâ— belonging Câ—amberlaine of Châ—ster â— L â— of Man as of the Isles c a. The Right honble Iohn Mannors Earle of Rutland Baron Ross of Hamlack Trushut and Belvior and Lord Leivetenant of Leicestershire The Right honble Theophilus Earle of Huntington L d Hastings of Hastings Hungerford Homet Botreaux Moules Moulins Peâ—erell
Elizabeth Countess of Huntington his wife eldest daughter Coeheire of Sr. Iohn Lewis late of Ledston in Yorkshire K â— Bart. deceased The Right honble William Russell Earle of Bedford Baron Russell of Tavestock Thornhaugh Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter ct. The Right Honb le Philip Herbert Earle of Pembrook â— Montgomery Baron Herbert of Shurland Cardiffe Ross of Kendale Parr Marmion and St. Quintin Ld. of the Lordships of Vske Carleon Nemport Treleg and Lord Leiutenant of Wiltshire ct. The Right honble Edward Fines Earle of Lincoln Baron of Clinton ct. The Right honble Charles Howard Earle of Nottingham Baron Howard of Effington ct. The Right honble Iames Howard Earle of Suffolâ— Baron Howard of Walden Lord Leiuetenant of the Countys of Cambridge Suffolk one of the Gentlemen of his matys bedchamber Deputy Earle Marshall of Englandâ— The Right honble Charles 〈◊〉 â— Earle of Dorset Middsex Baron 〈◊〉 Cranfâ—ild one of the Gentlemâ—◠〈◊〉 his Matyâ— Bedchamber Lord Leiutâ—â—â—nt of Sussex The Right Honourable Iames Coecill Earle of Salisbury Viscount Cranborne and Baron Coecill of Essenden The Right Honourable Iohn Coecill Earle of Exeter Baron Coecill of Burleigh c a. The 〈◊〉 Iohn Egerton Earle of Bridg 〈…〉 Brackley Baron of Elâ—mere Ld. 〈◊〉 of the County of Bucks one the 〈◊〉 his matysâ— most Hon. privy Councell c. The Right honble Robert Sidney Earle of Leicester Viscount Lisle Baron Sidney of â—enâ—urst and one of the Lords of his Ma. â—â—s most honble privy Councell c. The Right Honourable Iames Earle of Northampton Baron Compton of Compton Lord Leivtenant of Warwick shire and one of the Lords of his matys most honble privy Councell â— Constable of his matys Tower of London and Leivtenant of the Hamlets thereto belonging The Right Honourable Robert Earle of Warwick and Hollandâ— and Baron Rich of Leeze and Kensington c a The Right Honourable William Earle of Devonshireâ— Baron Cavendish of Hardwick Knight of the Bath and Lord Leivtenant of Derby shire c a The Right Honourable William Feildin◠〈◊〉 de Hapsburgh Earle of Denbigâ— Viscount Feilding Baron Feilding of Newenham Padâ—x and St. Lis. and Earle of Desmond c a. in Ireland The Right Hononrable George Digby Earle of Bristoll Baron Digby of Sherborne ct The Right Honourable Gilbert Holles Earle of Clare and Baron Holles of Haughton in Nottinghamshire The Right Honourable Oliver St. Iohn Earle of Bullingbrook Baron S. t Iohn of Bletshoe ct The Right Honoâ—rable Charles Fane Earle of Westmorland and Baron de la Spencer and Burghwash ct The Right Honourable Robert Montague Earle of Manchester Viscount Mandevill Baron Kimbolton Lord Leivtenant of Huntingtonshire and one of the Gentlemen of his matys Bedchamber ct The Right Honourable Charles Howard Earle of Berkshire Viscount Andover and Baron Howard of Charlton ct The Right Honourable Iohn Sheffeild Earle of Mograue Baron Sheffeild of Butterwick Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter and one of the Gentlemâ—â— of his matys Bedchamber The Right Honourable William Ley Earle of Marlborough Baron Ley of Ley ct The Right Honourable Charles Knowles Earle of Banbury Viscount Wallingford and Baron Knowles of Greys The Right Honourable Thomas Savage Earle of Rivers Viscount Colchester and Rock savage and Baron Darcy of Chich. The Right Honourable Robert Bertue Earle of Lindsey Baron Villoughby of Eresby Lord Great Chamberlaine of England Lord Leivtenant of Lincolnshire one of the Gentlemen of the Bâ—dchamber and Lords of the most honble privy Councell to his Ma â—y K Charles yeâ— The Right Honourable Iohn Cary Earle of Dover Viscount Rochford and Baron Hunsden The Right Honourable Henry Mordaunt Earle of Peterborow Lord Baron of Turvey Lord Leiutenant of the County of Northampton Andâ— one of the Lords of his Majesties Most Honourable Privy Councell c t The Right Honourable Thomas Grey Earle of Stamford Ld. Ferrers of Grooby Banevill and Harrinâ—â—â—escended from the family of the Greus who were Marqueses oâ— Dorset the last of wch was Hen. who before his Attainâ—ure and Execution in Anno 1553 was Created Duke of Suffolk The Right Honourable Heneage Finch Earle of Winchelsey Viscount Maidston Baron Fiz Herberâ— of Eastwell Lord of the Royall Manner of Wye and Lord Leiutenant of the Countys of Kent â— Somerset The Right Honourable Charles Dormer Earle of Carnarvan Viscount Ascotâ— and Baron of wing Master Marshall and Surveyour of his Majetyes Hawks The Right Honourable Montjoy Blunt Earle of Newâ—port Baron Montjoy of Thurveston in Devonshâ—â—â— and Lord Montjoy of Montjoy Fort in Ireland c a. The Right Honourable Phillip Stanhopeâ— Earle of Chesâ—erfield and Baron Stanhope of Shelford c a. The Right Honourable Nicholas Tuftonâ— Earle of Thanet and Baron Tufton of Tufton c a. The Right Honourable Thomas Weston Earlâ— of Portland Baron Weston of Neyland c â— The Right Honourable William Wentworth Earlâ— of Strafford Viscount Wentworth and Baron Wentâ—â—â—â—â—â—d house Newmarâ—h Oversley and Raby Knight of thâ— Garler and one of the Lords of his Ma â—ys most honble privy Councell c a. The Right Honourable Robert Spencer Earle of Sunderland Baron Spencer of Wormleâ—ton one of thâ—â—â—ntlemen of the Bedchamber and Lords of the privy Councell to his Maty K Ch yâ— 2 The Right Honourable Nicholas Leake Earle oâ— Scarsdale and Baron Dayncourt c a. The Right Honourable Iohn Wilmot Earle of Rochester Baron Wilmot of Alderbury in England and Discount Wilâ—mot of Athlone in Ireland and one of the Gentlemen of his matys Bedchamber The Right Honourable Henry Iermine Earle of St. Albonâ— Baron of St. Edmondsâ—bury Knight of the most noble order of the Garter and one of the Lords of his matys most honble privy Councell c. The Right Honourable Edward Montague Earle of Sandwichâ— Viscount Montague of Hinchingbrooke and Baron Montague of St. Neots The Rt. Noble Iames Duke Marquest Earle of Ormond Earle of ossery Brâ—cknock Viscount Thurles Baron of Arklow Lanthonyâ— Ld. Leiutenan◠〈◊〉 Ireland Ld. High â—teward of his matys House hold Chancellor of the â—niversity of Oxford â—t. of the Garter â— oâ—â— of the Lds of his Ma â—â—s most Hon privy Councell â—câ— The Right Honourable Henry Hide Earlâ— of Clarendon Viscount Cornbuâ—â—â— Baron Hide of Hendon The Right honble Arthur Capell Earle of Essex Viscount Malden Baron Capell of Hadham one of the Lords of his matys most Honourable privy Councell Lord Leivtenant Custos Rotollorum of Hartfordshire laâ—â— Ld. Leivtenant Generall and Generall Governor of his Ma â—â—s Kingdome of Ireland The Right Honourable Robert Brudenell Earle of Cardigan and Baron Brudenell of Staughton ct. The Right Honourable Arthur Annesley Earle of Anglesey Baron Annesley of Newport Pagnell in England Viscount Valentia Baron Mount Norris of Mount-Noris in Ireland Ld. privy Seale one of the Lds of
his matys most honble privy Councell for England Ireland câ—â— The Right honble Iohn Earle of Bath Viscount â—renvile of Lonsdowne Baron Greenvile of Kilkhampton Bidiford L â— Warden of the Stanneries high Steward of the Dutchy of Cornwall Ld. Leivetenant of Cornwall Governour of Plymouth Groom of the Stoole first Gent. of his matys Bedchamber and one of his Ma â—â— privy Councell câ—t. The Right honble Charles Howard Earle of Carlisle Viscount Morpeth Baron Dacres of Gisland Lord Leivtenant of Cumberland and Westmorland Vice Admirall of the Coast of Northumberland Cumberland Westmoreland Bishoprick of Durham Towne and County of New castle and Maritin parts adjacent and one of the Lords of his Maties most honble privy Councell câ—t The Right honble William Earle of Craven Viscount Craven of Vffington Baron Craven of Hampsted-Marshall Lord Leivtenant of the County of Middâ—x and Borough of Southwark one of the Lords of his Mtys most honble privy Councell câ—t The Right honble Robert Bruce Earle of Alisbury Elgin Viscount Bruce of Ampthill Baron Bruce of Whorâ—â—on Skelton Kinloss Hereditary High Steward of the Honour of Ampâ—hiâ—â— Lord Leivtenant of the County of Bedford and High Steward of Leicester ct. The Right honble Richard Boyle Earle of Burlington Baron Clifford of Lansborow in Englandâ— Earle of Corke Viscount Dungarvan Baron Yaughalâ— and Lord High Trâ—asurer of Ireland â— â— The Right honble Henry Bennet Earle and Baron of Arlington Viscount Thetford Knight of the most noble order of the Garter Lord Chamberlaine of his matys Household and one of the Lords of his most honble Councel ct. The Right honble Anthony Earle of Shaâ—tesbury Baron Ashley of Wimbourne St. Giles and Lord Cooper of Pawleâ— The Right honble Henry Howard â—arle of Norwich Earle Marshall of England Baron Howard of Castle Riseing Now Duke of Norfolkâ— see in the Catalogue of Duâ—es The Right Honourable William Herbert Earle and Baron of Powis ◠〈◊〉 Right Honourable Edward Henry 〈◊〉 of Litchfield Viscount Quarenton â—â—d Baron Spilsbury The Rt. Noble Iohn Maitland Earle of Guilford and Baron of Petersham in England Duke of Latherdale Viscount Maitland Baron of Thirleston Miescleborougâ— and Bolton in Scotland Ld. Comissioner for his present Ma â—y of that Kingdome Kt. of the Garter Gentlemâ—â— of the Bedchamber and one of his matys most honble privy Councell for the Kingdomes of England Irelandâ— The Right honble Chaâ—les Fitz-Charles Earle of Plymouth Viscount Totnes and Baron Dartmouth The Right Honourable Thomas Osborne Earle of Danby Viscount Latimer Baron Osborne of Kiveton Viscount Osborne of Danblaine in Scotland Kt. of the most noble order of the Garter â— L d high Treasurer of Englandâ— ctâ— The Right Honourable George Fitz Roy Earle of Northumberland Viscount Falmouth and Baron Ponteâ—fract c a. The Right Honourable Thomas Leonard Earle of Sussex and Lord Dacres of Giles land c a. The R t Honourable Lovis Earle of Feversham Viscount Sondes Lord Duras Baron of Holdenby and Throwley Captaine of his Royall Highness Troop of his matys Guards Leivtenant Geneâ—rall of his Maties forces and Collonell of his matys owne Royall Regiment of Dragoons The Right Honourable Charles Beauclair Baron of Heddington and Earle of Burford The Right honble William Oâ—Brien Earle Baron of Insiâ—uin Baron of Burren in the Kingdome of Ireland Captaine Generall of his matys Forces in Affrica Gouernor of the Royoll Citty of Tanger vice Admirall of the same and of the parts adjacent and one of his Mat ys most honble privy Councell for the Sd. Kingdom of Ireland The Right Honourable Charles Moore Earle and Viscount of Drogheda and Baron of Mellefont in the Kingdom of Ireland c a. The Ri t honble Luke Plunkett Earle of Fingall and Baron of Killeene in the Kingdome of Ireland c a. The Rtâ— Honerable Sr. Arthur Chichester Kt Baron of Belfast Vist. Chichester of Carikfergus Earle of Donegall in ye. Kingdom of Ireland Gouernor of Carikfergus ye. Teritoryes Therâ—â—â—â— Belonging one of his mat ys Most Hoâ—â—◠〈◊〉 Councell for ye. S â— Kingdom The Rt. honble Iames Ogilby Earle of Airly Elight and Glentrahen in the Kingdome of Scotland c a. The Right Honourable Iohn Fitz Gerard Earle of Kildeare primier Earle of the Kingdome of Ireland c a. The Right Honourable William Pope Earle of Downe Baron and Lord Pope of Bellterbitt in Ireland c a. The Rt. honble Roger Palmer Earle of Castlemaine and Baron of Lamberick in the Kingdome of Ireland c a. OF EARLES CHAP. VI. THE next Degree of Honour is an Earl which Word and Title came from the Saxons For it is observed That originally within this Realm in the ancient English-Saxon Government Earldomes of Counties were not only Dignities of Honour but Offices of Justice having the charge and custody of the County whereof they were Earls and for their Assistance had their Deputy called Vicecomes which Office is now managed by Sheriffs each County having his Sheriff Annually chosen out of the eminent Inhabitants thereof under the Degree of Nobiles Majores And the Earls in recompence of their Travels concerning the Affairs of the County then received a Salary viz. a third peny of the Profits of the County which Custome continued a long time after the Conquest and was inserted as a Princely Benevolence in their Patents of Creation as by divers ancient Patents may appear which afterwards were turned into Pensions for the better support of that Honour as appeareth by a Book-Case 32 Hen. 6. 28. And therefore in respect of such Pensions or such other Gratuities given in lieu thereof some men have not without probability thereof imagined quod Comites nominabantur quia à multis fisci Regii socii Comites eidem participes essent The word Earl by the Saxons was called Erlig or Ethling by the Germans Graves as Lantgrave Palsgrave Margrave Rheingrave and the like and by the Dutch was called Eorle But upon the coming in of the Normans they were called Comes or Comites that is Counts and for Gravity in Council they are called Comes Illustris a Comitando Principem And as Earls for their Vertues and Heroical Qualities are reputed Princes or Companions for Princes so ought they to deport themselves answerable to the said Dignity as well in their Attendance and Noble House-keeping as otherwise The Dignity of Earl is of divers kinds and is either local or personal Local as from the denomination of some place and Personal as being in some great Office as Earl-Marshal and the like Those Local are also Palatine and Simplices Those that are Palatine or Count Palatine are Chester Lancaster and the Bishopricks of Durham and Ely and retain some of the ancient Priviledges allowed them by the Saxons Hugh Lupus who was the first Hereditary Earl had the County Palatine of Chester given him by the Conqueror who governed it
of the most noble order of the Garter c â— The Right Reverend Father in God Henry Compton by Divine permission Lord Bishop of London Deane of his matys Chappel and one of the Lords of his most honble privy Councell brother to the Rt. honble Iames Earle of Northampton The Right Reverend Father in God Nathaniel Crew by divine permission Lord Bishop of Durham Clerk of the Closetâ— to his Maty and one of the Lords of his most honble privy Councell son to the Rt. honble Iohn Ld. Crew Baron of Steane The Right Reverend Father in God Iohn Pearson by Divine permission Lord Bishop of Chester The Right Reverend Father in God Peter Gunning by Divine permission Lord Bishop of Ely OF THE Lords Spiritual CHAP. VIII ACCORDING to the Laws and Customes of this Realm many are the Ecclesiastical Dignities and Priviledges belonging to the Bishops and Clergymen who in all succeeding Ages have been reverenced with the greatest observance imaginable as being acknowleded by all good Christians to be those Messengers sent and particularly appointed by God to take care of our Souls The Subjects of England are either Clergy or Laymen both which are subdivided into Nobility and Commons Thus we find in our Parliament the Lords Spiritual and Temporal make the Upper House the Commons Spiritual viz. the Clergy elected to sit in Convocation who once had place and suffrage in the Lower House of Parliament and the Commons Temporal viz. the Knights and Burgesses make the Commons Most evident it is by the Consent of all the Councils Fathers Histories and Universal Tradition That for the first Fifteen hundred years continuance of Christianity there is no Example to be found of any Church governed by any Authority Ecclesiastick but that of Episcopacy they were ordained by the Apostles themselves to be their Successors in Christ's Church to have a vigilant eye over the Pastors and Teachers under them as to their Lives and Doctrine for the preservation of Truth and Peace the prevention of Scandal suppression of Heresie and Schism and to have a care of their Flock to bring them to Salvation 'T is not therefore without reason that in all times they have been the first of the two Divisions of the people the Clergy and Laity and as Spiritual Barons take place of Temporal they take their name from the Saxon word Biscoep a Super-intendent or Overseer They are three ways Barons of the Realm viz. by Writ Patent and Consecration They precede all under the Degree of Viscounts and are always placed upon the King 's right hand in the Parliament House They have the Title of Lords and Right Reverend Fathers in God And their Sees by the piety of former times are endowed with fair Revenues for the due administration of what belongs to their places And to keep them from corrupt and sinister affections the King 's most Noble Progenitors and the Ancestors of the Nobility and Gentry have sufficiently endowed the Church with Honour and Possessions Many Priviledges and Immunities were likewise granted to them and the Clergy by the Saxon and Danish Kings as coyning of Money conferring the Order of Knighthood c. which hath been long since appropriate to the Crown Thus Laufranck Archbishop of Canterbury made William the Second Knight in the life time of his Father Of Priviledges remaining some belong to to the Archbishops some to the Bishops as they are so and some to them and all other of the Clergy We read of three Archbishopricks in England before the Saxons came amongst us viz. that of London York and Carleon upon Vske But Christianity being thence expelled by the Pagans the succession of those Sees ceased till it pleased God to restore the Light of his Gospel to the blind Saxons which in this Kingdom had planted themselves by the Ministration of St. Augustin who first preached Salvation to them at Canterbury and was there buried for whose sake they removed the Episcopal See from London unto Canterbury and in process of time placed another Archbishop at â—ork which two Provinces included England and Wales and have Five and twenty Bishops under them Six and twenty Deans of Cathedrals and Collegiate Churches Sixty Arch-Deacons Five hundred forty four Prebendaries many rural Deans and about Ten thousand Rectors and Vicars of Parishes The Archbishop of Canterbury was anciently the Metropolitan of England Scotland Ireland and the Isles adjacent and was therefore sometime styled a Patriarch and had several Archbishops under him His style was Alterius orbis Papa orbis Britannici Pontifex The Date of Records in Ecclesiastical Affairs ran thus Anno Pontificatus nostri primo c. He was Legatus Natus which power was annexed to that See near One thousand years ago whereby no other Legat or Nuntio from Rome could exercise any Legantive power without the King 's special Licence In General Councils he had place before all other Archbishops at the Pope's right Foot Nor was he respected less at home than abroad being according to the practise of most other Christian States reputed the second person in the Kingdom and named and ranked before the Princes of the Blood By the favour of our present King he still enjoys divers considerable preheminences as Primate and Metropolitan of all England hath power to summon the Arch-bishop of York and the Bishops of his Province to a National Synod is primus par Regni preceding not only Dukes but all the Great Officers of the Crown next to the Royal Family He is styled by the King Dei Gratia Archiopiscopus Cantuarii Writes himself Divina Providentia as doth the Archbishop of York other Bishops write Divina permissione and hath the Title of Grace given him as it is to Dukes and Most Reverend Father in God His Office is to Crown the King and wheresoever the Court shall happen to be 't is said the King and Queen are Speciales Domestici Parochiani Domini Archiepisc. Cant. The Bishop of London is accounted his Provincial Dean the Bishop of Winchester his Chancellor and the Bishop of Rochester his Chaplain He hath the power of all the probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration where the party hath bona notabilia that is Five pounds worth or above out of the Diocess wherein he dieth or Ten pounds worth within the Diocess of London By Statute of Hen. 8. 25. he hath power to grant Licences Dispensations c. and holds divers Courts of Judicature viz. his Courts of Arches of Audience his Prerogative Court and his Court of Peculiars And he may retain and qualifie eight Chaplains which is more by two than a Duke can do The Arch-bishop of York was also Legatus Natus and had that Authority annexed to his See He had all the Bishopricks of Scotland under his Province till the year 1470. He hath the place and precedency of all Dukes not of the Royal Blood and of all great Officers except only the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper
Honourable and Peers of the Realm as they are Barons without any other distinction The Etymology of the Name of Baron MAny Writers have laboured to place the Etymology and signification of this word wherein following too much their own Fantasies they have bred much variation of Opinion As for Etymology of words I agree with him that saith it is Levis fallax Effigies Illustrissimi DniÌ„ Caecilij Calvert Baronis BALTEMORE de Baltemore in Regno Hibernice Absoluti DniÌ„ et Proprietarij Provinciarum Terrae-Mariae et Avaloniae in America etc a. Abra Blotling sculp The Right Honourable George Lord Nevill Baron of Abergâ—venny in Monmouthshire â—â— The Right Honourable Iames Lord Touâ—hett Baron Audley of Hâ—leigh in England and Earle of Castle haâ—en in Ireland c a. The Right Honourable Charles Lord Weâ—â— Baron De la Ware in Hantshire The Right Honourable George Lord Berkley of Berkley c a. descended from Harding a yonger sone of one of the Danish Kings Who came in with William ye. Conquerour c a The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Parker Baron Morley and Monteaglâ— in Lancashire The Right honourable Conyers Lord D'Arcy Baron D'Arcy and Menil in Yorkshire The Right Honourable Benjamin Lord Mildmay Baron Fitzwater The Right Honourable William Lord Sturton Baron Sturton of Sturton in Wiltshire The Right Honourable Henry Lord Sandis Baron Sandis of the Vine in Hantshire The Right Honourable Thomasâ— Lord Windsor Lord Leivetenant of Worcestersh and one of the Lords of his Ma â—â—s most honble Privy Councel for the Kingdome of Ireland The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Cromwell Baron of Oakham in Rutlandsh and Earle of Arglast Viscount Lecaile in the Kingdome of Ireland The Right honble Ralph Lord Eure Baron of Wilton in the County of Northumberland ct The Right Honourable Phillip Lâ—â—â— Wharton Baron of Wharton in The County of Westmoreland The Right Honourable Iohn Lord 〈◊〉 Baron Willoughby of Parhâ—m in Lincolnshire The Right Honourable William Lorâ— Pagâ—â—◠〈◊〉 of Beaudefert in the County of Stafford The Right Honourable Charles Loâ—◠〈◊〉 of Cartlidge in ye. County of Canâ—â—râ—â—â— and Baron Grey of Roleston The Right Honourable William Lord Bruges Baron Chandois of Sudley Castle in Glocester shire The Right Honourable Iames Lord Bertue Baron Norris of Rycott in Oxford shire brother to the Right Honourable Robert Earle of Lindsey ct The Right Honourable William Petre Baron of Writtle in Essex The Right Honourable Digby Gerard Baron of Gerardsâ— Bromley in Staffordshire The Right honble Charles Lord Stanhope Baron of Harrington in the County of Northampton c a. The Right honble Henry Lord Arundell Baron of Wardure in Wiltshire and Count of the Empire The Right Honourable Christopher Lord Roper Baron Tenham of Tenham in Kent The Right Honourable Robert Grevill Baron Brook of Beauchamps Court in Warwickshire Ld. Leivtenant of Staffordshire The Right Honourable Edward Lord Montague of Boughton decended from Simon Montague of Houghton who was brother to Iohn Earle of Salisbury The Rt. honble Ralph Lord Grey Baron of Warke c â— of whose family was Sr. Iohn Grey who for his good service in France was by King Henry the 5th created Earle of Tangverville in the said Kingdome The Right Honourable Iohn Lord Roberts Baron of Truro in Cornwall and one of the Lords of his maties most Honourable Privy Councell c a. The Right Honourable Iohn Lovelace Baron of Hurley in Barkshire The Right Honourable Iohn Lord Poulet Baron of Hinton St. George in Somerset shire The Right Honourable William Maynard Baron of Estaines in Essex and Baron Maynard of Wicklow in Ireland Comptroler of his Mtys household and one of the Lords of his most Honourable privy Councell The Right Honourable George Coventry Baron of Alesborough in Worcestershire The Right Honourable Thomas Howard Baron of Escricke in Yorkshire The Right honble Charles Lord Mohun Baron Mohun of Okehampton in Devonshire the Right honble Edward Lord Herbert Baron of Cherbury in Montgomeryshire and of Castle Island in Ireland and one of the Lords of his matyâ— most honble privy Councell for the Kingdom of Irelandâ— The Right honble Thomas Lord Leigh Baron Leigh of Stoneley in Warwick-shire The Right honble Richard Lord Biron Baron of Rachdale in Lancashire The Right honble Christopher Lord Hatton Baron of Kirby in Northamptonsh Governor of the Isle of Gemsey ct The Right honble Richard Lord Vaughan Baron of Emlyn in England and Earle oâ— Carbery in Ireland and one of the Lds of his Majestys most honble Privy Councell The Right honble Francis Lord Carrington Baron of Wotton in Warwicksh Viscount Bâ—rreford in the Kingdome of Ireland The Right honble William Lord Widdrington of Widdrington Castle in Northumberland and Baron of Blackney in ye. County of Lincolne The Right Honourable Edward Lord Ward Baron of Bermingham in the County of Warwick The Right honble Thomas Lord Culpeper Baron of Thornsway in Kent The Right honble Iacob Lord Astley Baron of Reding in Berkshire The Right Honourable Charles Lord Lucas Baron of Shenfeild in the County of Essex the Right honble John Lord Belasis Baron of Worlabye in Lincolnshire the Right honble Edward Watson Baron Rockingham of Rockingham in Northamtonshire son of Lewis Lord Rockingham by the Lady Elianor sister to Iohn Earle of Rutland now living An. 1625 The Right Honourable Charles Lord Gerard Baron of Brandon in Suffolk Gentleman of his matys Bedchamber The Right honble Robert Sutton Baron Lexington of Axam in Nottingham shire The Right Honourable Charles Henry Lord Kirkhoven Baron Wotton of Wotton in Kent The Right Honourable Marmaduke Lord Langdale Baron of Holme Langdale in Westmorland The Right honble William Lord Crofts Baron of Saxham in Suffolk Oâ—e of the Gentlemen of his matys Bedchamber The Right honble Iohnâ— Lord Berhley Baron of Stratton in Somersetshire One oâ— the Lords of his Majestys most honble Privy Councell The Right honble Denzell Lord Holles Baron of Ifield in Sussex Lord high Steward of the Honors Manor s and Revenews of the Queens Custos Rotolorum of Dorset shire The Right Honourable Charles Lord Cornwallis Baron of Eye in Suffolke c a. The Rt. honble George Lord Booth Baron De la Mer of Dunham Massey in Cheshire c a. The Right Honourable Horatio Lord Townesend Baron of Linn Regis in the County of Norfolke Lord Leivetenant of the said County c a. The Right Honourable Iohn Lord Crew Baron of Stean in Northampton shire The Right Honourable Iohn Lord Frescheville Baron of Staveley in Derby shire The Right Honourable Richard Lord Arundell Baron of Trerife in Cornwall The Right honble Thomas Butler Earle of Ossâ—ry in Ireland Baron Butler of More Park in Hereford shire Eldest Son to his Grace Iames Duke of Ormond Kt of the Garter one of the Gentlemen of his matys Bedchamber and Lords of his most Honourable privy Councell c a. The Right Honorbl Hugh Lord Clifford Baron of Chudleigh
in Devon shire The Right Honourable Richard Butler Second son to his Grace Iames Duke of Ormond Earle of Arran Viscount Tulough â—nd Baron of Clougrenan in Ireland and one of the Lords of his matys most Honourable Privy Councell for the said Kingdome and Baron of Weston in England The Right honble Heneage Lord â—inch Baron of Doventry Lord High Chancellor of England â— a The Rt. honble Walter Ld. Aston Baron of Forfare in the Kingdome of Scotland whose Father Sr. Walter Aston Kt. of the Bath Bart. was in the 3d of K. Ch the ist created to the sd. Dignity The Right Honourable Coecilius Coluert Baron Baltemore de Baltemore in the Kingdome of Ireland Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon in America The Right Honourable William Lord Allington Baron of Killard in the Kingdome of Ireland The Right Honourable Iohn Lord Baron of KingstoÌ„ Ld President of the Province of Connaugh Comissary generall of ye. Horse for his matys Army in Ireland and one of the Lds of his matys most honble Privy Councell for â—he said Kingdome plerumque ridicula for saepe numero ubi proprietas verborum attenditur sensus veritas amittitur It may leave some use and serve turn in Schools but it is too light for Judgment in Law and for the Seats of Justice Thomas Aquinas setteth down a more certain Rule In vocibus videndum non tam a quo quam ad quid sumatur and words should be taken sensu currenti for Use and Custome is the best Expositor of the Laws and Words quem penes arbitrium est jus norma loquendi in the Lord Chancellor's Speech in the Case Postnati fol. 61. And forasmuch as the word may aptly be applyed to import men of strength Bracton as before appeareth not unaptly useth the signification thereof in these words Sunt alii potentes sub Rege qui dicuntur Barones hoc est robur belli The Antiquity of the Dignity of Barons and the sundry uses of the Name IT seemeth that the Dignity was more ancient than the Name for in the ancient Constitutions there is no mention made of the name of Barons howbeit the Learned Interpreters do understand that Dignity to be comprehended under those which are there called Valvasores Majores and afterwards called Capitanei For of the Valvasors which are thought to be the Barons Valvasores Minores and Valvasini or Valvasores Minimi The like Dignity before the Conquest had those which of the English-Saxons were called Thaines Mills fol. 28. saith Barons were in France from the beginning nevertheless the name of Baron was not much used in this Kingdom until the Norman Conquest after which the word Baron seemeth to be frequently used instead of Thaine amongst the English-Saxons For as they in general and large signification did sometimes use the same to the sense and meaning and import of a Freeman born of a Free Parentage or such like So did the Normans use the word Baron and therefore called their best esteemed Towns and Boroughs by the name of Barons And so the Citizens of London were called Barons Londonni divers ancient Monuments of whom also Britan. maketh mention fol. 272. lib. 5. cap. 14. Also there are divers Charters wherein mention is made of such like Barons And the Barons of Warwick in the Record of Domesday and unto our time the Free Burgesses of the Five priviledged Ports and for that also divers of the Nobility of Barons as well Spiritual as Temporal did in ancient time sit in the Exchequer to determine the matters there arising The Judges of that Court have been time out of mind called Barons of the Exchequer And â—â—lliam de la Poole was created a Baron by King Edward the Third and made Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer Moreover as the English Saxons had two kinds of Thaines the like hath been observed as touching Barons â—or the King and the Monarchs of the Realm have their immediate Barons being the Peers of the Realm And in like manner certain others of the Nobility especially the Earls which have Jurisdiction Palatine and Earls-Marshal whose Countries have confined upon the Coasts of the Enemy and had under them for their better defence a kind of Barons as namely under the County Palatine of Chester were these Barons viz. the Barons of Hilton Mountale Molebanck Shipbrooke Malpas Massa Kinderton Stockport c. The Earldom of Pembroke being first erected by Arnulphus Montgomery that conquered part of Wales and therefore the Earl thereof being an Earl-Marshal had also under him his Barons as by the Parliament Rolls 18 Edw. 1. doth appear It hath been therefore a common Opinion received That every Earldom in times past had under it Ten Barons and every Baron Ten Knights Fees holden of him and that those which have Four Knights Fees were usually called and promoted to the Degree of a Baron Also Lords and Proprietors of Mannors were in respect of them in ancient remembrance called Barons but absolutely and the Courts of their Mannors called thereof Courts Barons It resteth now for the more explanation of the use of the name of Barons that we call to remembrance that which hath bin afore spoken That the Custome of our Country is that if a Baron be created Earl the eldest Son of the said Earl taketh upon him in the life time of his Father the Name and Title of the Barony although he want the priviledges belonging to a Baron The Tenor and proper signification of the word Baron BArons Honourable are of three kinds viz. by Tenure by Writ and by Creation or Patent As for Barons by Prescription which some men have spoken of they are intended to be all one with the Barons by Tenure or those whose Ancestors time out of mind have been called to Parliament by Writ for otherwise there are no such to be found as Barons by Prescription only CHAP. X. Barons by Tenure BArons by Tenure are those which do hold any Honour Castle or Mannor as the head of their Barony per Baroniam which is Grand Serâ—eanty And those Barons by Tenure are of two sorts Barons Spiritual by Tenure and Barons Temporal by Tenure Of Barons Spiritual by Tenure sufficient is said whereunto may be added That it appeareth by all the ancient Writers of our Law as Brittan Glanvile Bracton and the rest that the Archbishops and Bishops of the Realm in the ancient Saxons days as well during the time that the Realm was divided into divers Kingdoms as also after the uniting of them into one Monarchy were called to Parliament or Assemblies of State as Wisemen not so much in respect of their Tenure for in those days all their Tenures were by a Frank Almoigne but especially for that the Laws and Counsels of men are then most currant and commendable and have a more blessed Issue and Success where they are grounded upon the Law of God the Root and Beginning of
those ancient Fees in the time of Henry the Third and Edward the Fourth at this day do amount unto most men are not unskilful in Coke's seventh part 33. And in Cases of Decay of Ability and Estate as Senatores Romani amoti Senatu so sometimes they are not admitted to the Upper House of Parliament though they still keep their Title and Dignity Sir Thomas Smith de Republica Aâ—glorum 22. and by the Statute made 31 Hen. 8. cap. 10. the Lords have their places prescribed after this manner as followeth viz. These four the Lord Chancellor the Lord Treasurer the Lord President of the Council and the Lord Privy Seal being Persons of the Degree of a Baron or above are in the same Act appointed to sit in Parliament and in all Assemblies and Councils above all Dukes not being of the Blood Royal viz. the King's Uncle Brother and Nephew And these six viz. the Lord Great Chamberlain of England the Lord High Constable of England the Lord Marshal of England the Lord Admiral of England the Lord High Steward of his Majesties Houshold and the Lord Chamberlain also of his Mâ—jesties Houshold by that Act are to be placed in all Assemblies of Council after the Lord Privy Seal according to their Degrees So that if he be a Baron than he is to sit above all Barons or if an Earl above all Earls And so likewise the King's Secretaries being Barons or Earls have place above all Barons or Earls PRIVILEDGES Incident to the NOBILITY According to the Laws of England CHAP. XIII WHEN a Peer of the Realm and Lord of the Parliament is to be Arraigned upon any Trespass or Felony whereof he is indicted and whereupon he hath pleaded Not Guilty the King by his Letters Patens shall assign some great and sage Lord of the Parliament to be High Steward of England for the day of his Arraignment who before the said day shall make a Precept to his Serjeant at Arms that is appointed to serve him during the time of his Commission to warn to appear before him Eighteen or Twenty Lords of the Parliament or Twelve at the least upon the same day And then at the time appointed when the High Steward shall be set under the Cloth of Estate upon the Arraignment of the Prisoner and having caused the Commission to be read the same Serjeant shall return his Precept and thereupon the Lords shall be called and when they have appeared and are set in their places the Conâ—â—able of the Tower shall be called to bring his Prisoner to the Barr and the High Steward shall declare to the Prisoner the cause why the King hath assembled thither those Lords and himself and perswade him to answer without fear and then he shall call the Clerk of the Crown to read his Indictment unto him and to ask him if he be Guilty or not whereunto when he hath answered Not Guilty the Clerk of the Crown shall ask him How he will be tryed and then he will say By God and his Peers Then the King's Serjeant and Attorney will give Evidence against him whereunto when the Prisoner hath made answer the Constable shall be commanded to receive the Prisoner from the Barr to some other place whilst the Lords do secretly confer together in the Court and then the Lords shall rise out of their places and consult amongst themselves and what they affirm shall be done upon their Honour without any Oath to be ministred upon them And when all or the greatest part of them shall be agreed they shall retire to their places and sit down Then the High Steward shall ask of the youngest Lord by himself if he that is Arraigned be Guilty or not of the Offence whereof he is Arraigned and then the youngest next him and so of the residue one by one until he hath asked them all and every Lord shall answer by himself And then the Steward shall send for the Prisoner again who shall be led to the Barr to whom the High Steward shall rehearse the Verdict of the Peers and give Judgment accordingly The Antiquity and Original of this kind of Tryal by the opinion of several Authors is grounded from the Statute of Magna Charta so called not in respect of the quantity but of the weight of it Coke to the Reader before his eight part fol. 2. cap. 29. beginning thus Millus liber homo c. nec super eum ibimus nec super eum mittemus nisi per legale judicium parium suorum But I take it to be more ancient than the time of Henry the Third as brought into the Realm with the Conqueror being answerable to the Norman and French Laws and agreeable with the Custom Feudale where almost all Controversies arising between the Sovereign and the Vassal are tryed per Iudicium parium suorum And if a Peer of the Realm upon his Arraignment of Treason do stand mute or will not answer directly Judgment shall be given against him as a Traytor Convict and he shall not be prest to death and thereby save the forfeiture of his Lands for Treason is out of the Statute of Westminster 1. chap. 12. 15. Ed. 4. 33. Dyer 205. But if he be Arraigned upon Indictment of Felony he may be mute This priviledge hath some restraint as well in regard of the person as in the manner of proceeding As touching the person first the Archbishops and Bishops of this Realm although they be Lords of the Parliament if they be impeached of such offence they shall not be tryed by the Peers of the Realm but by a Jury of Knights and other substantial Persons upon their Oaths the reason thereof alledged is so much as Archbishops and Bishops cannot pass in the like cases upon Peers for that they are prohibited by the Common and Ecclesiastical Laws to be judged of Life and Blood Reason would that the other Peers should not try them for this Tryal should be mutual forasmuch as it is performed upon their Honours without any Oath taken And so by the way you may see the great respect the Law hath to a Peer of the Realm when he speaketh upon his Honour even in a case concerning the life of a man and that of a Peer and therefore ought they much more to keep their Words and Promises in smaller matters when they engage their Honour for any just cause or consideration Secondly as touching these persons no Temporal Lords but they that are Lords of the Parliament shall have this kind of Tryal and therefore out of this are excluded the eldest Son and Heir apparent of a Duke in the life of his Father though he be called an Earl And it was the case of Henry Howard Earl of Surrey Son and Heir apparent to Thomas Duke of Norfolk in 38 Hen. 8. which is in Brook's Abridgment Treason 2. Likewise the Son and Heir apparent of an Earl though he be called a Lord. And all the younger Sons of Kings are Earls
Fermenaughâ—â— yâ— sd. Kingdome Esq r Katherine Gam 's daughter and Coheire of Hoo Gam 's of Newton in Brecknock shire Esq r Grand daughter to Sr. Iohn Gam 's discended by the elder house from the mighty Sr. David Gam'â— of Newton afores â— who did wonders at the battle of Agencourt who was discended from Tudor the greaâ— King of South Wales The occation of wearing the Leek was from that family vide seeâ— chapt. 4. Katherine Sedley sole daughter and heyre of Sr. Charles Sedley of South fleet in Kent Baronet OF KNIGHTHOOD IN GENERALâ— CHAP. XVI ALthough I am not of the Opinion of some that vainly derive the Order of Knighthood from St. Michael the Archangel whom they term the primier Chevalier yet I may say that it is near as ancient as Valour and Heroick Vertue and may derive its Original from Troy which bred many Noble and Renowned Knights amongst which were Hector Troilus AEneas and Antenor So among the Greeks were Agamemnon Menelaus Peleus Hercules Diomedes Telamon Vlysses and several others whose Military and Heroick Acts purchased unto them a never dying Fame And the Romans took so great care for the cherishing and advancement of Heroick and Military Vertue and Honour that they erected and dedicated Temples to Vertue and Honour and from the infancy of their Military Glory they instituted a Society of Knights which consisted of a select number And some there are that plead to have Knighthood take its rise from Romulus For say they that Romulus having settled his Government in Rome partly for Security and partly for magnificence erected or inrolled three Bands or Centuries of Knighthood or Horsmen the first he called Romene from his own Name the second Titience from Titus Tacitus and the third Luceria whereof mention is made by Livy And this Inrollment consisted of Three hundred stout and personable men chosen out of the chiefest Families and were to attend him as his Life-guard both in Peace and War and were called Celeres or Equites from their personal Valour and dexterity in Martial Affairs And to add to the Honour of Knighthood the Romans oft-times made the Knights Judges for the management of their Civil Affairs yet continued they of the Equestrian Order The Romans called their Knights Milites or Miles and Equites or Equites Aurati the Italians and Spaniards Cavalieri the French Chevaliers and the English Knights The Addition of Sir is attributed to the Names of all Knights as Sir Iohn Sir Thomas and the like And to Baronets the said Addition of Sir is granted unto them by a peculiar Clause in their Patents of Creation although they are not dubbed Knights No man is born a Knight of any Title or Degree whatsoever but made so either before a Battel to encourage him to adventure his Life or after the â—ight as an advancement to Honour for their valiant Acts. And although Knighthood according to its first Institution was only a Military Honour yet of later days it hath beenâ— frequently seen that meritorious persons in Civil Affairs have this degree of Honour conferred upon them Nor arâ— Kings Princes or Potentates at any time limitted or confined their bestowing this Dignity being at all times free to bestow it on whomsoever they shall in their Princely favour think worthy to be advanced to the said Honour either for their Merit Birth of Estate The Ensigns or Ornaments belonging to Knighthood are many each Country or Kingdom having those peculiar to it self I shall name some of the chief To the Knights of the Equestrian Order amongst the ancient Romans was given a Horse or a Gold Ring The Germans gave the Badge of the Shield and Launce The French anciently gave also the Shield and Launce as Favin notes but since they used the Equestrian Target Another Knightly Ornament is the Military Belt first made of Leather which afterwards came to be richly adorned with Gold and precious Stones and to this Belt was added a Sword Other Ornaments were gilt or golden Spurs and golden Collars of SS But these have been for a long time laid aside and instead thereof is only used Dubbing with a naked Sword to Knights Batchelors which I shall speak of when I treat of Knights Batchelors Many have been and yet are the Degrees and Order of Knighthood in Christendom each Kingdom having some appropriated to themselves which though many of them are now extinct yet I shall touch upon them as I find them Recorded by Sir William Segar in his Volume of Honour Military and Civil and by Elias Ashmole Esq in his incomparable Volume of the Order of the Garter to which I refer the Curious Reader for his further satisfaction And of these Degrees or Orders I shall first treat of those used amongst us beginning with that of the most Noble Order of the Garter next with the Knights Bannerets then with Baronets this being their proper place according to precedency although something improper as not being of any degree of Knighthood next with Knights of the Bath then with Knights Batchelors and so conclude with those Degrees of Knighthood in Foreign Kingdoms and Countries His Royall Highness Iames Duke of Yorke and Albany Kt. of the most noble order of the Garter and sole brother to his sacred maty King Charles the 2d. c a. The Effigies of the most honble Henry Somerset Marques and Earle of Worcester Ld. Herbert Baron of Chipston Raglon and Gowen Lord President and Ld. Leivtenant of Wales and the Marches Lord Leivtenant of the Countyes of Glocester Hereford and Monmouth and of the Cilty and County of Bristol Knight of the most noble order of the Garter and one of the Lords of his matys most honble Privy Councell The Effigies of the Right honble Henry Bennet Earle and Baron of Arlington Viscount Thetsord Knight of the most noble order of the Garter Lord Chamberlaine of his Ma â—â—s Household and one of the Lords of his most Honourable privy Councell c a. KNIGHTS Of the most Noble Order of the Garter OR St GEORGE CHAP. XVII IT was the custome and policy of puissant Princes in all Ages to invite and secure to themselves persons of Renown and such Heroick Spirits were encouraged with Remarks of Honour viz. eminent priviledges of Place different Habits and additional Titles to distinguish them from the Vulgar besides other opulent Rewards And amongst those persons the more eminent or excellent of merit were placed in a Superior Orb that their Glory might be the more splendid to the World Such were King David's mighty men the Satrapae of Persia the Orders Military amongst the Romans and the many Institutions of Knighthood in Christendome But of all Orders purely Military now extant I must prefer this of St. George which we call the Garter not only because it is our own Nation or that none are commonly admitted but Peers but for the excellency of it self First for its Antiquity Secondly for its glorious Institution by that Renowned
the former which is by lybelling secret slandering or defaming of others for this privy Backbiter doth not by words impeach his Adversary in so manifest and turbulent manner as the cholerick Menacer in his fury doth but seeming to sit quietly in his Study doth more deeply wound his Fame and Credit than the other boisterous person doth for he in a moment threatneth to do more than peradventure he is either able or hath courage to perform in all his life For his Passion thus discovering the Malice of his Heart doth give his Adversary warning to defend himself from him But this secret Canker the Libeller concealeth his Name hideth himself in a Corner and privily sâ—ingeth his Reputation and Credit and he knoweth not how to right himself and the greater is this Offence if done to a publick Magistrate or Minister of State for then it may bring a disturbance to the peace of the King and Kingdom And if it be against a private person the staining his Reputation will cause him not to be at quiet in Body and Mind until he hath found his Enemy which many times may lie so secretly hid that he cannot be discovered and then probably one innocent upon some suspicion or other may come to suffer for it Sometimes the malicious Defamer poureth forth his poyson in writing by a Scandalous Book Ballad Epigram or Rhime near the place where the party so abused doth most converse In which cases the Law hath provided that the party delinquent when he is found out and discovered shall be severely punished for he may either be Indicted by the ordinary Course of the Common Law and if it be an exorbitant Offence then by Pillory loss of Ears Whipping c. or the party grieved may have an Action upon the Case against the Offender and recover his Damages And in this it is not material whether the Libel be true or false or the party scandalized be alive or dead or be of a good or ill Name yet our Laws are so made as to punnish him and such like men by a due Course of Justice And to conclude this matter concerning Wrongs done to the Name and Dignity of a Nobleman this may be added That it is usual for any person to usurp the Arms of another Further if a Nobleman's Coat-Armour and Sword of other Gentleman 's bearing Arms at the solemnizing of their Funerals is set up in the Church for the Honour of the deceased and is by the covetousness of the Incumbent that pretendeth right thereunto as Offerings due unto him afterwards taken down or if they be defaced by any other such are to be severely punished as Malefactors And in that case the Action shall not be given to the Widow though she be Executrix or Administratrix of her Husband's Goods for such things which serve for the Honour of the party deceased are not to be accounted inter bona Testatoris And the Heir shall have his Action as the Defender of his Ancestor's Honour But the wrong is offered to the House and Blood and therein specially to the Heir qui est totius geniturae splendor and therefore to him accrueth the right of Action for so it is reported by Sir Iohn Fern in his Glory of Generosity fol. 83. that the Lady Withers Case in 9 Edw. 4. 14. hath been adjudged OF VISCOUNTS CHAP. VII THE next Degree of Honour to an Earl is a Viscount which was anciently a Name of Office under an Earl who being an immediate Officer of the King 's in their County for that their personal attendance was oft-times required at the Court had his Deputy to look after the Affairs of the County which at this day is an Office and called a Sheriff retaining the Name of his Substitution in Latin therefore called Vicecomes But about the Eighteenth of Henry the Sixth it became a Degree of Honour who conferred this Title upon Iohn Lord Beaumont by Letters Patent A Viscount is created by Patent as an Earl hath a Hood Surcoat and Mantle which hath on it two Guards and a half of white plain Furr without Ermins And his Coronet is only pearled with a row of Pearls close to the Chaplet He hath the Title of the Right Honourable and truly Noble or Potent Lord He may have a Taveress in his own House and his Viscountess may have her Train born up by a Woman out of her Superior's presence and in their presence by a Man The Effigies of the Right honble Thomas Belasise viscount Falconbergh of Henknowle Baron Falconbergh of Yarum Ld. Leiuetenant of the North rideing of York shire And one of ye. Lords of his maties most honble Priuy Councell ct R. Whiâ—â— sculp The Rt. Honourable George Sauile Viscount Halifax Baron Sauile The Rt. Honourable Robert Paston Viscounâ— Yarmouth Baron Paston of Paston The Rt. Honourable Francis Viscount Nervport â—f Bradford Baron Nervport of High Ercâ—ll Ld. Leutenant of ye. County of Salop. Treasurer of his matys Household one of ye. Lds of his matys most honble Privy Councell The Rt. Honâ—rblâ— Thomaâ— Needham Lâ—rd Viscount Killmurrâ—y of the Kingdome of Ireland The Rt. Honorable Wiâ—liam Viscount Brouncker of Lyonâ— and Baron Brouncker of Nâ—â— Castle in the Kingdome of Ireland a. The R t Honâ—rable Charles Ld. Fairfax Viscount Emula in the Kingdome of Ireland The Rt. Honorable Maurice Berkeleyâ— Baron Beckeley of Rathdowne Viscount Fitz Harding of â—ear hauen in the Kingdome of Ireland The Right Honourable Leicester Devoreux Viscount Hereford and Baron Ferrers of Chartley. The Right Honourable Francis Browne Viscount Montague The Right Honourable William Finnâ—â— Viscount and Baron Say and Seale The Right honble Edward Viscount Conway Barâ—n of Ragley in England and Viscount of Kilultagh in Ireland Leivetenant Generall of the Horse and one of the Lords of his Majestys moâ—t honble privy for the said Kinâ—dome of Ireland The Rt. Honourable Baptist Noel Viscounâ— Baron Noel of Ridlington and Elmington And Lord Leiutenant of Rutlandshire The Right Honourable William Howard Viscount and Baron Stafford The Rt. Honourable Thomas Bellasisâ—â— Viscount Folconbergh of Henknowle 〈◊〉 Falconbergh of Yarum Lord Leivtenant of North rideing of Yorkeshire one of the Ldâ— of his 〈◊〉 Most honble Priuy Councell â—he Rt. Honourable Iohn Mordant 〈…〉 Mordant of Aveland and Baron of Rygate The most Reverend Father in god Gilbert Sheldon by Divine Providence Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Primate Metropolitan of all England one of yâ— Lords of his matys most honble privy Councell The most Reverend Father in God Richard Sterne by Divine Prouidence Lord Arch-Bishop of Yorke Primate and Metropolitane of England c a. The Right Reverend Father in god Humfrey Hinchman by Divine permission Lord Bishop of London Grand Almoner to his Maty one of the Lords of his matys most honble privy Councell c a. The Right Reverend Father in God Seth by Diuine permission Lord Bisshop of sarum Chancellor
again into the Hall where he shall sit at Table with the Knights and being risen and retired into his Chamber his Attire is taken off and again clothed with a blew Robe having on his left Shoulder a Lace of white Silk hanging to be worn upon all his Garments from that day forwards till he have gained some Honour and Renown for some Feats of Arms or some Prince or Lady of Quality cut that Lace from his Shoulder After Dinner the Knights must come to the Knight and conduct him into the King's presence to return him thanks for these Honours and so takes his leave of the King and the Governours craving his pardon for any miscarriage and claiming their Fees according to the Custom of the Court also take their leaves of the Knight I shall conclude this Chapter with giving an Account of the Knights made at the Coronation of his Majesty Knights of the Bath made at the Coronation of his Majesty King CHARLES the Second EDward Lord Clinton now Earl of Lincoln Iohn Egerton Viscount Brackley eldest Son to the Earl of Bridgwater Sir Philip Herbert then second Son to the Earl of Pembroke Sir William Egerton second Son to the Earl of Bridgwater Sir Vere Fane second Son to the Earl of Westmoreland Sir Charles Berkley eldest Son to George Lord Berkley Sir Henry Bellasis eldest Son to the Lord Bellasis Sir Henry Hyde now Earl of Clarendon Sir Rowland Bellasis Brother to Viscount Faulconberg Sir Henry Capell Sir Iohn Vaughan now eldest Son to the Earl of Carbery Sir Charles Stanley Grandchild to the late Earl of Derby Sir Francis Fane Sir Henry Fane Grandchildren to the Earl of Westmoreland Sir William Portman Baronet Sir Richard Temple Baronet Sir William Ducy Baronet Sir Thomas Trevor Baronet Sir Iohn Scudamore Baronet Sir William Gardiner Baronet Sir Charles Cornwallis afterwards Lord Cornwallis Sir Iohn Nicholas Sir Iohn Monson Sir Bourcher VVray Sir Iohn Coventry Sir Edward Hungerford Sir Iohn Knevett Sir Philip Boteler Sir Adrian Scroop Sir Richard Knightley Sir Henry Heron. Sir Iohn Lewkenor Sir George Brown Sir William Tyrringhum Sir Francis Godolphin Sir Edward Baynton Sir Greville Verney Sir Edward Harley Sir Edward VValpool Sir Francis Popham Sir Edward VVise. Sir Christopher Calthrop Sir Richard Edgcombe Sir William Bromley Sir Thomas Bridges Sir Thomas Fanshaw Sir Iohn Denham Sir Nicholas Bacon Sir Iames Altham Sir Thomas VVendy Sir Iohn Bramston Sir George Freeman Sir Nicholas Slaning Sir Richard Ingoldsby Sir Iohn Rolle Sir Edward Heath Sir William Morley Sir Iohn Bennet Sir Hugh Smith Sir Simon Leech Sir Henry Chester Sir Robert Atkyns now one of the Justices of the Common Pleas. Sir Robert Gayre Sir Richard Powle Sir Hugh Ducy Sir Stephen Hales Sir Ralph Bash. Sir Thomas VVhitmore OF Knights Batchelors With what is incident to that Degree of KNIGHTHOOD According to the Laws of England CHAP. XXI THE particular kinds of Services by which Lands of Inheritance are distinguished are two viz. Knights of Service and Knights of Soccage And in ancient time Tenure by Knights Service was called Regale servitiâ—m because it was done to and for the King and Realm and forinsecum servitium as appeareth in the 19 Edw. 2. Avowry 224. 26. Ass. p. 66. 7. Hen. 4. 19. Coke's seventh Part 8. a. Calvin's case because they who hold by Escuage ought to do and perform their Services out of the Realm Litt. 35. ideo forinsecum dici potest sit quia capitur foris hujusmodi servitia persolvuntur ratione Tenementorum non Personarum And as Knights-Service-Land requireth the service of the Tenant in Warfare and Battel abroad so Soccage-Tenure commandeth the attendance at the Plough the one by Manhood defending the King or his Lord's life and person the other by industry maintaining with Rents Corn and Victuals his Estate and Family For Kings did thus order their own Lands and Tenements one part they kept and detained in their own hands and in them stately Houses and Castles were erected and made for their habitations and defence of their Persons and of the Realm also Forests and Parks were there made for their Majesties Recreation One other part thereof was given to the Nobles and others of their Chivalry reserving Tenure by Knights Service The third part was bestowed upon men of meaner condition and quality with reservation of Soccage-Tenure And in this manner the Dukes and Nobles amongst their Menials and Followers dissipated a great part of their Lands viz. to their Gentlemen of quality to hold by Knights Service and to other of meaner condition by Soccage-Tenure The Right Honourable S. Ioseph Williams on of Milbeck hall in Cumberland Knight one of his Majestys principall Secretarys of State c a. The Honourable Sr. Robert Atkins of Totteridge in Hertford shire and of Sapperton in Glocester shire Knight of the Bath and one of his matys Iustices of the ComÌ„on pleas c a. Sr. Iohn Bennet of Dawly in Midd sx Kt. of the honble order of the Bath Leivtenant to his maties Band of Gentlemen Pentioners and eldest brother to the Rt. honble Henry Earle of Arlington who was first maried to Elizabeth Countess of Mulgrave daughter to the Earle of Midd sx and now to Bridget Howe of the Family of Sr. Grubham Howe Sr. Robert Southwell Knight one of the Clerkes attending his Majesty King Charles the Second in his most Honourable privy Councell câ—t Sr. Hugh Wyndham of Silton in Dorsetshire Kt. one of the Iustices of his matys Court of Comon pleas at Westminster eighth sonn of S. Iohn Wyndham of Orchard-Wyndham in Somersetshire Kt who was lineally descended from the antient Family of the Wyndhams of Felbrigg in Norfolk â—ownâ—r therâ—of Sr. Thomas Daniell of Beswick in the East Rideing of Yorkshire Kt. Major to his matys Regiment of Foot Guards and Captaine of his matys Archchiffe Fort in Dover Sr. Thomas Mompessonâ— antiently Montpintsonâ— of Bathampton in Wiltshire Knight a person of eminent Loyalty and suffering in the late trouble whose Family have been of greate antiquity in the said County Sr. Thomas Lynch of Great Sonkey in Lancashire Kt. one of the Gentlemen of his matyâ— privy Chamber in ordinary and late Governour of his Ma â—â—â— Island of Jamaica decended of the Lincâ—â—s of Groves in Kent and is now maried to Vere Herbert 2â— daughter of Sr. Edw Herbert sometyme Lord Keeper of the groâ—t seaâ—e Sr. William Pelham of Brocklesby in Lincolnshire Kt. whose Grandfatâ—er Sr. William Pelham of the said place Kt. who was descended of the antient family of the Pelhams of Langhtoniâ—â— sussex was employed under Queen Eliz in the offices of L d cheife Justice of Ireland Marshall of the English forces sentinto the Low Countrys Mastâ—â— of her ordnanceâ— and one of her privy Councell Sr Thomas Daviâ—s of the Citty of London Knight Ld. Maior thereof Anno 1677. Sr. William Prichard of the Citty of London Kt. and Alderman now maried to Sarah daughter of Francis
is the Bishop's Palace This City is governed by a Mayor seven Masters sixteen Burgesses a Recorder Town-Clerk c. and hath the election of Parliament men It offers to view amongst other remarkables four Steeples and three Churches whereof two are Parochial viz. Trinity and St. Michaels that an ancient well built Church in form Cathedral which being impaired by a late fall of its beautiful Spire is since restored to its former lustre at a vast expence and charge this a stately large and brave inlightned Fabrick a curious Shell whose Content is one hundred yards in length and seven and twenty yards in breadth besides several Isles and Chappels both on the North and South sides thereof supported by neat and slender Pillars with five Isles whose Steeple for tower and lofty tapering Spire gives place to none in England Bablack Church one of the three is a solid Antique Structure its form Collegiate where Divine Offices are performed but at some Festivals in the year It hath gloried in a matchless Wall and though its form was irregular for a defensible Fortification yet was it built strong broad high and large in circumference now only guessed at by its ruins and its twelve lofty Ports oâ— Gates yet standing No place compares with this City for a most beautiful Cross of large dimensions and height adorned with variety of Statues Figures and Sculptures richly laid over with Gold and set off with becoming Colours It hath among others one magnificent Hall called Aula Sanctae Mariae fit for a celebrious Congress or Assembly Here is a fair Grammar School founded by Iohn Hales Esquire yet styled Schola Regis Henrici Octavi and another School of late erection for poor Children by Mr. Christopher Davenport late Alderman Appendant to both is a Library with learned Authors both Print and Manuscripts of which Schools the Mayor and Aldermen of this City are Visitors The Hospitals are 2 well and plentifully providing for twenty Blue-Coats eleven poor men in black Gowns and two Nurses in the one and eight other married Couples in blue Gowns in the other and a Nurse To it is annexed very large and rich Commons great Annual Loans and Gâ—fts distributed amongst poor young and hopeful Tradesmen together with frequent remembrances of some noble Benefactor or other who intrustred the City to dispose of their bounty to others as among themselves viz. forty pounds per Annum to St. Iohns Colledge in Oxford and forty pounds per Annum to several other Cor-Proporations Also near the said City at a Pool called Swanswell is a Spring which filleth a seven Inch Diameter of which water the quantity of five Tun an hour is daily raised to the top of a Turret six and thirty foot high by a stream out of the said Pool containing nine cubical Inches which moveth an overshot Wheel and a triangular Crank with Ballances and Buckets being an heaving or lifting Engine from hence the water is conveyed into the Streets of the City and Houses of such Inhabitants as will and do take the said water at an Annual Rent This Water-work was begun by Thomas Sargenson Mason and Bartholomew Bewley Plumber in the year 1630. and hath been since altered and put into the form it now worketh in the year 1658. and so continued by Thomas Bewley Son of the said Bartholomew who is the present prietor The City is owner of a rich Delf or Mine of Coles near adjoyning to it which is hoped will in a little time add much to its Revenue the present Undertakers using that method for the mastering of the Water which the inadvertency of former Undertakers either could not contrive or at least not effectually prosecute The staple Commodity of the place is Cloth but to how low an ebb that trade is now come to every place can report and competently judge as well as this City It s Government consists of Annual Officers ten Aldermen or Justices with two standing Councels viz. the Upper the Second or Common-Councel The Annual Officers are the Mayor Recorder two Sheriffs Steward Coroner two Chamberlains tow Wardens and some other Attendant and Ministring Officers The Mayor is the eye of the Body the King 's immediate Lieutenant having the precedency of all Prince Henry himself when in Coventry refused to take the better hand of him when modestly the Mayor offered it saying He would not resume a right of his Fathers Graunts This Authority is Solitary or Social Solitary as to be Clerk of the King's Market Steward and Marshal of the King's House to be in Commission for Arrays and Head of the twelve Companies Social in the upper Councel which consists of Aldermen and some Candidates for the Majoralty where he orders and manageth the particular Affairs and Revenues of the City distributes the bounty of Benefactors sometimes calling in the Assistance of the second Councel arbitrarily chosen by him and his Brethren out of the wealthiest and discreetest Citizens and consisting of five and twenty who are as Witnesses of their just administrations as well as Advisors in all Alienations of City Lands and Grants of other nature The Aldermen are Justices of the Peace in as full Latitude as any other having ten Wards or Precincts assigned them with an Appropriation of a Ward to each Alderman as to some respects though otherwise every one is Justice throughout both as to the City and County of the City which is of large extent Of these Justices there are of the Quorum four viz. the Mayor Recorder and two eldest Aldermen The Mayor's Insignia are a Sword a Hat of Maintenance a great Mace and six smaller with a Tip-staff the Robes black lined with Furr and on solemn and festival days Scarlet lined with Foins The present Aldermen and Justices for the year 1676. are William Ielliff Alderman now Mayor the second time the Right Honourable Iames Earl of Northampton one of his Majesties Privy Council Recorder Ioseph Chambers Iames Nailer Iulius Billers William Vale Ralph Phillips Nathaniel Harryman Thomas King Thomas Bewley Abell Brooksby Humfry Burton Coroner Sir Richard Hopkins Kt. Serjeant at Law Steward As to the Rights Immunities Priviledges when and by whom granted together with all other things coincident to this City from its first appearance to its ascending Grandure and Declining or Cadency they are most amply and learnedly mentioned to our hand by the Pen of the learned Mr. Dugdale Norroy King of Arms to whom we referr the Reader The Arms belonging to this City are parted per Pale Gules and Vert an Elephant Argent on a Mount proper bearing a Castle on his back Or. WARWICK the Shire-Town of good account being the place where the Assizes and general Sessions for the County are kept it is indifferent large containing two Parish Churches besides some demolished its Houses are well built its Streets spacious and good is a place well inhabited and enjoyeth a good trade especially for Mault It is governed by a Mayor twelve Brethren four
the Dove in Castile ibid. Ordo de la Scama in Castile ibid. Knights of the Lily in Aragon ibid. Knights of Mountjoy ibid. Knights of Acon or Acres ibid. Knights of St. James in Galicia 126 Knights of St. Saviour in Aragon ibid. Knights of St. Julian de Pereyro or of Alcantara ibid. Knights of Calatrava in Castile ibid. Knights of Truxillo ibid. Knights of our Lady and of St. George of Montesa in Valencia 127 Knights of St. Mary de Merced in Aragon ibid. Knights of the Rosary in Toledo ibid. Orders of Knighthood in Flanders Knights of the Golden Fleece or Toison d'Or 128 Orders of Knighthood in Portugal Knights d'Avis 129 Knights of the Wing of St. Michael ibid. Knights of St. James 130 Knights of Christ ibid. Orders of Knighthood in France Knights of Iesus Christ 131 Knights of the Passion of Iesus Christ ibid. Knights of the blessed Virgin Mary of Mount-Carmel 132 Knights of St. Michael ibid. Knights of St. Esprit ibid. Knights of the Order of the Genet 133 Knights of the Crown Royal amongst the Frizons ibid. Knights of our Lady of the Star ibid. Knights of the Thistle of Bourbon ibid. Knights of the Porcupine 134 Knights of the Croissant of Anjou ibid. The Order of the Ermyne in Bretagne ibid. Degrees of Knighthood in Italy Knights of St. Mary the Glorious 135 Knights of the Holy Ghost in Saxia at Rome ibid. The Constantinian Angelick Knights of Saint George formerly in Greece 136 Knights of St. Peter at Rome ibid. Knights of St. George at Rome ibid. Knights of St. Paul at Rome ibid. Knights called Pios at Rome ibid. Knights of Loretto ibid. Knights of the Glorious Virgin Mary at Rome 137 Knights of Jesus at Rome ibidâ— Knights de la Calza in Venice ibid. Knights of St. Mark in Venice ibid. Knights of St. George at Genoa ibid. Knights of St. Stephen at Florence 138 Knights of the Knot in Naples ibid. Knights of the Argonauts of St. Nicholas in Naples ibid. Knights of the Ermyne in Naples ibid. Degrees of Knighthood in Savoy Knights of the Annunciation 139 Knights of St. Maurice 140 Knights of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus ibid Knights of the Bear in Switzerland 141 Degrees of Knighthood in Germany Knights of the Tutonick Order of Prusia 142 Knights of St. Jerom 143 Knights of St. George in Austria and Carinthia ibid. Knights of St. Michael the Archangel ibid. Knights of St. Anthony of Hainolt 144 Knights of the Tusin Order in Bohemia ibid. Knights of St. Hubert in Juliers ibid. Knights of the Order of St. James in Holland ibid. Degrees of Knighthood in Swedeland Knights of the Brician Order 145 Knights of Seraphins ibid. Knights of Amarantha ibid. Knights of the Order of the Elephant in Denmark 146 Degrees of Knighthood in Poland Knights of Christ or of the Sword-Bearers in Livonia 147 Knights of the white Eagle ibid. Knights of the Order of the Dragon overthrown in Hungary 148 Knights of the Order of the sword in Cyprus ibid. Knights of St. Anthony in AEthiopia 149 Knights of the Burgundian Cross in Tunis ibid. Knights of the West-Indies 150 Chap. XXV Of Esquiresâ— 151 Chap. XXVI Of Gentlemen 154 The priviledges of the Gentry 156 Chap. XXVII Of Yeomen 158 Chap. I. The second Part of Honour Civil treats of the Priviledges Coat-Armour c. of London and the Cities and chief Towns Corporate in England 161 London its Government Courts c. 162 The Names of the Lord Mayor and Aldermeâ— 164 The Incorporated Companies of Merchants ibid. The chief Companies of London 167 Chap. II. Treats of the Cities and Shire-Towns of England Counties Towns fâ—l Berks Reading 170 Bedfordshire Bedford ibid. Bucks Buckingham ibid. Cambridgshire Cambridge ibid. Cambridgshire Ely ibid. Cheshire Chester 171 Cornwall Launston ibid. Cumberland Carlisle ibid. Derbyshire Derby ibid. Devonshire â—xeter ibid. Devonshire Barnstable ibid. Dorsetshire Dorchester 172 Durham Durham ibid. Essex Colchester ibid. Glocestershire Bristoll ibid. Glocestershire Bristoll Merchants ibid. Glocestershire Glocester 173 Hantshire Winchester ibid. Hantshire Southampton ibid. Hertfordshire Hertford ibid. Herefordshire Hereford ibid. Huntingtonshire Huntington 174 Kent Canterbury ibid. Kent Rochester ibid. Lancashire Lancaster ibid. Leicestershire Leicester ibid. Lincolnshire Lincoln ibid. Lincolnshire Stamforâ— 175 Monmouthshire Monmoutâ— ibid. Norfolk Norwich ibid. Northamptonshire Northampton ibid. Northamptonshire Peterborow ibid. Northumberland Newcastle ibid. Nottinghamshire Nottingham 176 Oxfordshire Oxford ibid. Rutlandshire Oakham ibid. Shropshire Shrewsbury ibid. Somersetshire Bath 177 Somersetshire Wells 177 Staffordshire Litchfield ibid. Staffordshire Stafford ibid. Suffolk Ipswich ibid. Sussex Chichester ibid. Warwickshire Coventrey 178 Westmoreland Apleby 179 Wiltshire Salisbury 181 Worcestershire Worcester ibid. Yorkshire York ibid. Yorkshire Hull ibid. Yorkshire Richmond ibid. A TABLE of the Effigies and Atchievements of the Nobility and Gentry in the Treatise of Honour Civil and Military The Effigies of the Duke of Albemarle fol. 9 The Effigies of the Earls of Carlisle 10 The Effigies of the Earls of Craven ibid. The Effigies of the Lord Bellasis ibid. The Effigies of Bertram Ashburnham ibid. The Effigies of the Lord Chancellor Finch 14 The Effigies of the Earl of Shaftesbury as Lord Chancellor 14 His Majesties Effigies 19 His Majesties Atchievement 19 DUKES The Effigies of the Duke of Buckingham 32 Atchievements numb â—ol D. of Albemarle 6 32 D. of Buckingham 5 32 D. of Grafton 11 32 D. of Monmouth 7 32 D. of Newcastle 8 32 D. of Norfolk 3 32 D. of Richmond 10 32 Prince Rupert 2 32 D. of Somerset 4 32 D. of Southampton 9 32 D. of York 1 32 MARQUISSES Effigies of the Marquiss of Winchester 37 Atchievements   Marquisses of Dorchester 3 37 Marquisses of Winchester 1 37 Marquisses of Worcester 2 37 EARLS Effigies of the Earls of Aylesbury 39 Effigies of the Earls of Burford 39 Atchievements A E. of Airly 77 39 E. of Anglesey 51 39 E. of Arlington 57 39 E. of Aylesbury 55 39 B E. of Banbury 29 39 E. of Bath 52 39 E. of Bedford 7 39 E. of Berkshire 26 39 E. of Brecknock D. of Ormond 47 39 E. of Bridgwater 15 39 E. of Bristoll 21 39 E. of Bullingbrook 23 39 E. of Burford 68 39 E. of Burlington 56 39 C  numb so E. of Cardigan 50 39 E. of Carlisle 53 39 E. of Carnarvan 36 39 E. of Castlemaine 80 39 E. of Chesterfield 38 39 E. of Clare 22 39 E. of Clarendon 48 39 E. of Craven 54 39 D E. of Danby 64 39 E. of Derby 4 39 E. of Denbigh 20 39 E. of Devonshire 19 39 E. of Donegall 76 39 E. of Dorset and Middlesex 12 39 E. of Dover 32 39 E. of Downe 79 39 E. of Droheda 74 39 E E. of Essex 49 39 E. of Exeter 14 39 F E. of Feversham 67 39 E. of Fingall 75 39 G E. of Guilford D. Lotherdale 62 39 H E. of Huntington 6 39 I E. of Incsiquin 73 39 K E. of Kent 3 39 E. of Kildare 78 39 L E. of Langford
Civil Law must needs be very ancient for field nor fight cannot be continued without the Law therefore 't is to be presumed it began when Battels were first fought in the World and the bearing of Arms was come to some perfection at the Siege of Troy for Hector of Troy bore Sable two Lyons combattant Or. It is written by an ancient Author called Gesta Trojanor â— that a Knight was made before any Coat-Armour and how Asterial who came from the Line of Iapheth had a Son named Olibion who was a strong and mighty man and when the people multiplyed being without a Governour and were warred upon by the people of Cham they all cryed upon Olibion to be their Governour which accepting of and men being mustered under him his Father made to his Son a Garland of Nine divers precious Stones in token of Chivalry Then Olibion kneeled down and his Father took Iapheth's Faulchion that Tubal made before the Flood and smote him nine times on the right shoulder in token of the nine Vertues of Chivalry Also Asterial gave to his Son Olibion a Target made of an Olive Tree with three Corners two above his Face and one beneath to the ground-ward Principles of Honour and Vertue that every Gentleman ought to be endowed with TO love honour and fear God to walk after his Commandments and to his power defend and maintain the Christian Religion To be loyal and serviceable to his Prince and Country To use Military Exercises To frequent the War and to prefer Honour before worldly wealth to be charitable to the distresâ—ed and to support Widows and Orphans To reverence Magistrates and those placed in Authority To cherish and encourage Truth Vertue and Honesty and to eschew Riot Intemperance Sloth and all dishonest Recreations and Company To be of a courteous gentle and affable deportment to all men and to detest pride and haughtiness To be of an open and liberal heart delighting in Hospitalityâ— according to the Talent that God hath blest him with To be true and just in his word and dealing and in all respects give no cause of Offence Of Precedency THe Degrees of Honour which are in this Kingdom observed and according to which they have precedency may be comprehended under two Heads viz. Nobiles Majores and Nobiles Minores Those comprehended under Majores are Dukes of the Royal Blood Archbishops Marquiâ—â—es Earls Viscounts Bishops and Barons And those under Minores are Knights of the Garter â—f no otherwise dignified Knights Bannerets Baronets Knights of the Bath Knights Batchelors Esquires and Gentlemen And all or most of these Degrees of Honour are speculatively distinguished the one from the other in their Ensigns or Shields of Honour as shall be shewed in the Chapter of each particular Degree Touching place of Precedency amonst the Peers or those under the Name of Nobiles Majores it is to be observed That all Nobles of each Degree take place according to their Seniority of Creation and not of years unless they are descended of the Blood Royal and then they take place of all others of the same Degree That after the King the Princes of the Blood viz. the Sons Grandsons Brothers and Nephews of the King take place Then these great Officers of the Church and Crown are to precede all other of the Nobility viz. the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Archbishop of York the Lord Treasurer of England the Lord President of the Privy Council and the Lord Privy Seal Next Dukes Marquisses Dukes eldest Sons Earls Marquisses eldest Sons Dukes younger Sons Viscounts Earls eldest Sons Marquisses younger Sons Bishops Barons Viscounts eldest Sons Earls youngest Sons Barons eldest Sons Privy Councellors Judges and Masters of the Chancery Viscounts younger sons Barons younger sons Knights of the Garter if no otherwise dignified which is seldom sound Knights Bannerets Baronets Knights of the Bath Knights Batchelors Colonels Serjeants at Law Doctors and Esquires which may be comprehended under â—ive Heads 1. Esquires unto the King's Body 2. The Descendants by the Male Line from a Peer of the Realm 3. The eldest sons of Baronets and Knights 4. The two Esquires attending upon Knights of the Bath at their making And 5. Officiary Esquires as Justices of the Peace Barresters at Law Lieutenant Colonels Majors and Captains and lastly Gentlemen Note That these great Officers of Court of what Degree soever they are of take place above all others of the said Degree viz. the Master of the Horse Lord Chamberlain of England Lord High Consâ—able of England Lord Marshal of England Lord Admiral of England Lord Steward and Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold So the Secretaries of State if Peers take place of all of that Degree except these great Officers aforesaid Note That the Ladies take place or precedency according to the Degree or Quality of their Husbands ☞ Note That in a Volume lately published by me entituled Britannia being a Description of his Majesties Dominions in page 33. the precedency of the Nobility and Gentry is treated of wherein the Masters of the Chancery are placed next after Serjeants at Law which Error happened through wrong Information their right place being next after Iudges as is here set down Note That it was decreed by King Iames That the younger sons of Viscounts and Barons should yield place to all Knights of the Garter to all Bannerets made under the Standard Royal his Majesty being present to all Privy Councellors Master of the Wards Chancellor and under Treasurer of the Exchequer Chancellor of the Dutchy Chief Justice of the King's Bench Master of the Rolls Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Chief Baron of the Exchequer and to all other Judges and Barons of the degree of the Coif by reason of their Honourable imploy in his Majesties Courts of Justice Note That as there are some great Officers as aâ—oresaid that take place above the Nobility of a higher Degree so are there some persons who for their Dignities Ecclesiastick Degrees in the Universities and Ofâ—icers in an Army although neither Knights nor Gentlemen born take place amongsâ— them Thus all Deans Chancellors Prebends Doctors of Divinity Law and Physick are usually placed before most sorts of Esquires All Colonels are Honourable and by the Law of Arms ought to precede simple Knights so are all Field Officers Master of the Artillery Quarter-Master General c. All Batchelors of Divinity Law and Physick all Masters of Arts Barrestors in the Inns of Court Captains and other Commissionate Officers in the Army or those by Patent-places in his Majesties Houshold may equal and some of them precede any Gentleman that hath none of these qualifications But how unjustly these Priviledges are possessed by some of these pretenders and how contrary this usage is to the Laws of Honour see the Chapter of Gentlemen I think it here convenient to give you an Account of the Cavalcade of his Mâ—â—â—â—ties passing through
and Country in process of time obtained the name of Barons and were admitted into the Peerage and had their Titles affixed to them and their Heirs And this was the usuage and custome of the Saxon Kings to consult their Affairs without the election of the Commons as both Ethelred and Edwin did But whether this be a truth or only opinion I leave to others to dispute Certain it is they always retained some Ensigns of Honour equal to the Nobility being allowed to bear their Arms with Supporters which is denied to all others under the Degree of a Baron Also they take place before all Viscounts and Barons younger Sons as also before all Baronets and were of such esteem that divers Knights Batchelors and Esquires have served under them This Order in France was Hereditary but with us only for life to the meritorious person yet esteemed a Glory and Honour to their Family The Ceremony of their Creation is most Noble The King or his General which is very rare at the head of his Army drawn up into Battalia after a Victory under the Royal Standard displayed attended with all the Field Officers and Nobles af the Court receives the Knight led between two renowned Knights or valiant Men at Arms having his Pennon or Guydon of Arms in his Hand and before them the Heralds who proclaim his valiant Atchievements for which he deserves to be made a Knight Banneret and to display his Banner in the Field then the King or General says unto him Advances toy Banneret and causeth the point of his Pennon to be rent of and the new Knight having the Trumpets before him sounding the Nobles and Officers accompanying him is remitted to his Tent where they are nobly entertained To this degree of Knighthood doth belong peculiar Robes and other Ornaments at their Creation A Banneret thus made may bear his Banner displayed in an Army Royal and set his Arms thereon with Supporters as may the Nobles Of this Order there is at present none extant and the last I read of was Sir Iohn Smith made so after Edghill fight for rescuing the King's Standard from the Rebels in that Battel who was afterwards flain in his said Majesties Service at Alresford in Hantshire To this degree of Honour Sir William de la More Ancestor to the present Edward More of More-hall and Bank-hall in Lancashire Esq was advanced by Edward the black Prince for his eminent Service done at the Battel of Poictiers in France The Portrature and Coate Armour of Sr. William de la More Ancestor of ye. present Sr. Edw. More of Moreâ—hall and Bankeâ—hall in Lancashire Baronet wch sd. Sr. Will was made Kt. Banneret by Edw ye. Black Prince at ye. Battle of Poictiers in France The Rt. Honouraâ—le Sr. George Caâ—teret of Nawnes in Bedford shire Kt. Baronet Vice Chamberlaine of his Majestys Household and one of his Majestys most Honourable privy Councell c a. the 45â— Bart. by Creation The honble Sr Hâ—rbotle Grimston of Gore ham bury in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Baronet Speaker of the honble house of Comon 〈◊〉 â—irst Parliament vnder his Majesty King Châ—â—â—eâ—â—he 2d and at present Master of the Rollâ— the 87 Bart. by Creation Sr. Edmund Bacon of Redgrave in Suffolk Primier Bart. of England the first Bart. by Creation Sr Francis Radcliffe of Dilston in Northumberland Bar t of which Familyâ— there haue been six Earleâ— of Sâ—â—râ—x fiue of them were Ktâ— of the Garter besides S â— Iohn Radclyffe Kt. of ye. Garter tâ—mÌ„ps K. Hon 6th â—◠〈◊〉 Rodclyffe alâ—oe Kt. of ye. Garter temÌ„ps K. Rich. 3d. q. 18 Bart. by Creation Sr. Richard Atkins of Much Haddam in the County of Hertford Knight and Baronet The 4 Sâ— Bart. by creation Sr. Francis Gerard of Harrow Hill in Middlesex and of Aston Clinton in the County of Buckingham Knight and Baronet The 126. Bar â— by creation Sr. Tho. Mauleverer of Allerton-Mauleverer in the West rideing of York shire Barnt now maried to Katherine sole daughter heyre of Sr. Miles Stapleton of Wihill in ye. Sd. rideing of Yorkshire Kt. deceased The Barnt by creation Sr. Iohn Wittewronge of Rothamsted in the parish of Harpenden in the County of Hertford K â— and Bart. descended from the Wittewronges in Flanders whose Grandfather Iaques Wittewronge of Gaunt in the sd. province did thence transplant himselfe and family into this Kingdome Anno. 1564. The Bart. by creation Sr. Tho Pâ—yton of Knowlton in the County of Kent Bart. descenâ—d from the Peyton's of Peyton Hallâ— Suffolk who had by his first wife Margaret daughter and heyre of Sr. John Bernard of Jâ—esham in Cambridg shire much land and many children from whom are descended the Peyton's of Suffolk Cambride shire Kent and the Isle of Eley his second wife was Margaret daughter and Coheyre of Sr. Hugh Francie s by whome he had also much land and many Children and from whome are descended the Peyton's of Sr. Edmondsbury Warwick shire Worcester shire and Glocester sh. the 61. Bar. by creation Sr. Anthony Craven of Sparsholt in Berkshire Knight and Baronet of the name and family of the Right Honourable William Earle of Craven ct The 648. Bart. by creation Sr. Henry Puckering alias Newton of the priory near the Borough of Warwick in Warwickshire Bart. now maried to Elizabeth daughter of Tho. Murrey Esq. â— secretary to King Charles the first whâ—â—â—rince of Walâ—â— The â—24 Bart. by creatâ—â—n Sr. Phillip Matheiâ—s of Edmonton in Middx. Bart. Now Maried to Ann eldest doughter of Sr. Tho Wolstonholme of Minsingden in ye. Sd. Parish of Edmonton Bart. the 6â—4 Bart. by Creation Sr. Thomas Tempest of Stelle in the Bishoprick of Durham Bart. the â—99 Bar t by Creation Sr. John Molinevx of Teversaâ—â— in ye. County of Nottingham Bart. the 3â— Bart. by Creation â—r. William Walter of Sarsden in Oxfordshire Bart. â—â—â—ended from ye. antienâ—family of ye. Walters of Warwiâ—â—â—â—â—re whose late wife was ye. Lady Mary Tuston dau◠〈◊〉 ye. Rtâ— honble Nicholas Earle of Thanet deceaâ—eâ— ye. 352 Bart. by Creation Sâ— Iohn Osborn of Chickâ—ands in ye. County of Bedford Baronet the 468 Bart. by Creation Sr. Robert Vyner of ye. Citty of London K â— Baro â— And Lord Major thereof Anno. Domini 1675 ye. 658 Bart. by Creation Sr. Thomas Wolstenholme of Minsingden in ye. Parisâ— of Edmunton in the County of Middlesex Baronet the 747 Bart. by Creation Sr. Peter Gleane of Hardwick in ye. County of Norfolk Baronet ye. 770. Bart. by Creation Sr. Robert Iason of Broadsomerford in Wiltshire Baronet now maried to Ann daughter of George Dacres of Cheston in the County of Hertford Esq. yâ— 672 Bart. by Creation Sr. Thomas Wilbraham of Woodhey in ye. County of Chester Baronett now maried to Elizâ— sole Daugâ—ter heyr of Edward Mitton of Weston vndâ—â— LozzardinÌ„ ye. County of Stafford â— Esq ye. â—4â—8 Bart. by Creation Sr. Thomas Myddelton of Chirk â— Castle in Denbighshir Bart. first Maried to Elizabeth daughter of Sr.