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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	brother_n	king_n	wales_n	2,591	5	10.1644	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16308	The elements of armories	Bolton, Edmund, 1575?-1633?	1610 (1610)	STC 3220; ESTC S114354	76,668	212

take a rubbe or twentie at the suspition of insufficiencie The Contents 1. This part peeced to the beginning with repetitions concerning Armes and Gentlemen 2. Blazon 3. The two first considerations 4. The Continent of Armories 5. The Triangular or SAMNITE shield ours 6. The ancient vsuall stuffe of shields 7. The black Princes honorarie Targat at CANTERBVRIE 8. FROISARD cited 9. A zealous digressiō to our Prince 10. IOHN of GAVNTS honorarie Shield in Saint PAVLES 11. The like in antiquitie 10. Blazon makes nothing to the present purpose CHAP. 11. EVSTACE I Forget not what you deliuered in the beginning and thinke it worth the labour to approue my memory vnto you therein by repetition ARMS speaking in the vulgar and aequiuocall extension of the word were you said certaine painted hereditable and Armoriall markes of honor by which Gentlemen were distinguisht first from the vulgar and then one from the other and GENTLEMEN simply and for the present only for it is to bee supposed that you would giue a more exquisie Idaea did you depourtray him vnto vs in his perfection were the bearers of such markes or tokens To these if you thinke good to adde for mee the knowledge of what BLAZON is before you proceed any farther I shall seeme to haue the whole praeparatorie generalities of matter to ensue A. BLAZON is the description of Armes and their appurtenances by the receiued termes or other apt expression of things by words E. To blaze then is in Armory the same which in other faculties is to describe and BLAZON and description are vniuocall A. So I suppose though some Maisters teach that wee must not before a soueraigne Prince vse the terme blaze but descriue so as then an Armorist shall not bee said to blaze but to descriue a coate E. What things are first now in the name of GOD to bee considered A. Two The Continent and the Content E. Are there any such terms in Armory or do you only borrow them to expresse your selfe A. Borrow them onely as I shall perhaps bee enforced to do many others Which all men that write either new things or newly of old matters will not onely pardon but approue E. What do you call the Continent in Armories A. The very same which the word importeth and no other that is the shield or contayning part of it selfe considered without any mixture or marke E. What forme hath the shield A. It hath as many as Caruers or Painters please but this triangular is become most vsuall and in a sort the proper for that the shield in generall beeing inuented for defence of the body of man and applied therevnto carries a three-cornerd or triquet-figure the body of man decreasing as it were in latitude from the shoulders downeward And as the chiefe of ROMANE historians SALLVST writes that his nation borrowed their armes and militarie weapons from the SAMNITES so was this the peculiar figure of the SAMNITE sheild as the noble Author TITVS LIVIVS PATAVINVS describes it and giues the reason of that shaping to bee Mobilitatis causâ The ROMANS digrest notwithstanding from this paterne rather vsing Oual Imbricate and other figures Heere I could create a new Worke did I take occasion to dilate of the figures of Sheilds which were scarse the same in any two nations POLYBIVS and other famous writers make it cleare that the hides of beasts were the common couerings of sheilds the ordinarie stuffe vnderneath beeing some tough wood or other as Sallow and some-time for the more lightnesse twiggs wouen for so I vnderstand that of LVCAN nudâ iam crate fluëntes Inuadunt clypeos Our SAXON ancestors vsed shields of skin among whom for that the Artificer put sheep-fells to that purpose the great ATHELSTANE King of ENGLAND vtterly forbad by a lawe such deceit as in the printed booke of SAXON lawes is extant to bee seene With this vsage of agglewing or fastning hard tanned hides for defense agrees their Etymologie who deriue Scutum the LATIN of a shield from the GREEKE word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a skinne The Triangular or SAMNIT was vniuersallie among vs the antient fashion of shields for men of Armes but not the onely For assurance whereof I will delight you with two diuerse proportions the one of an honorary belonging to the most renowned EDVVARD Prince of WALES the other an honorarie also appertaining to his third brother King of CASTILE and LeON Duke of LANCASTER The sayd victorious Princes toombe is in the goodly Cathedral Church erected to the honor of CHRIST in CANTERBVRIE There beside his quilted coat-armour with halfe-sleeues Taberd-fashion and his Triangular sheild both of them painted with the royall Armories of our Kings and differenced with siluer labels hangs this kinde of Pauis or Targat curiously for those times embost and painted the Scucheon in the bosse beeing worne out and the Armes which it seemes were the same with his coate-armour and not any peculiar deuise defaced and is altogether of the same kinde with that vpon which FROISARD reports the dead body of the Lord ROBERT of DVRAS and nephew to the Cardinall of PIERREGOVRT was laid and sent vnto that Cardinall from the battell of POICTIERS where the Blacke Prince obtained a victorie the renowne whereof is immortall I can hardly here containe my selfe from offring vp a duty of praise to the remembrance of this matchlesse Gentleman Lambe in peace Lion in warre and of all the world in his time the most martiall Worthy and most fortunate Generall Aspire right excellent HENRIE ô let it need no expiation that thy great Fathers most lowely subiect should thus presume by his example to whose Title and Principalitie thou art lineall successor to things greater then the example That as thou art the proper blossome of all the royall HENRIES and EDVVARDS of this thy Fathers inheritance so wee may in thee acknowledge the summe of all their CHRISTIAN vertues proouing thy selfe thereby a greater Thing then to bee the Monarch not onely of all great BRITAINE but of all the World The other honorarie shield is in the most magnificent Temple dedicated to the memorie of the glorious Apostle Saint PAVL in LONDON where it hangs at the sayd Dukes Moniment and is farre different from the first In the curious neere view and handling whereof as I tooke singular delight so was it worthy no lesse diligence and therefore I will heere showe you both the Figure and Fabrick It is very conuex toward the bearer whether by warping through age or as made of purpose It hath in dimension more then three quarters of a yeard of length aboue halfe a yeard in breadth next to the body is a canuas glew'd to a boord vpon that thin board are broad thin axicles slices or plates of horne naild fast and againe ouer them twenty and sixe thicke peeces of the like all meeting or centring about a round plate of the same in the nauell of the sheild and ouer all is a leather