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

Shield within a Bordure Componeè Or and Gules before the Armes of Ferrara in recognisance of the league and fidelitie wherein hee promised to stand bound to serue the King at his own charges And for the like respect Lewis the eleuenth in May 1465. allowed Pietro de Medici to beare three Flower-de-luces in his shield which I haue seene borne in cheife vpon one of his sixe Lozenges Of Difference by the Labell A second difference is by the Labell borne chieefely as the difference of the elder Brother As Edward the blacke Prince and all our Princes of Wales eldest sonnes to the King beare their Fathers Soueraigne Coate with a Labell of three points Siluer Iohn of Gauns had his Labell Ermin Edmond of Langley Duke of Yorke on his Labell Siluer nine Torteauxes Edmond Plantagenes sonne and heire of Richard Duke of Yorke Earle of Ru●land who being a Child scarce twelue yeares of age was stricken to the heart with a Dagger by the Lord Clifford at the battaile of Wakefield had vpon his Labell of fiue points Argent two Lionceaux Gules with nine Torteauxes The Coate of Vls●er and Mortim●r being ●mpaled with his owne as may be seene in the windowes of F●deringhay Castle the mansion house of the Duke of Yorke where by his father Richard Duke of Yorke and Cicely Nevill his mother hee lyeth buried whose bodies remoued out of F●deringhay Church-yard for the Chancell in the Quire wherein they first were laid in that fury of knocking Churches and sacred Monuments in the head was also felled to the ground lapped in Lead were buried in the Church by the commandement of Queene Elizabeth and a meane Monument of Plaister wrought with the Trowell erected ouer them very homely and farre vnfitting so Noble Princes I remember Master Creuse a Gentleman and my w●rthy friend who dwelt in the Colledge at the same time told me that their Coffins being opened their bodies appeared very plainly to be discerned and withall that the Dutchesse Cicely had about her necke hanging in a Silke riband a pardon from Rome which penned in a very fine Romane hand was as faire and fresh to be read as it had beene written but yesterday Of Difference by the Bend. A third difference is by the Bend Baston c. as the house of Bur●●● beareth Fr●●●● with a B●tune Gules though the proper and true Coate of 〈◊〉 is Of a Lyon Gules within an Orle of Escallops Azure Lewis Earle of Eureux in Normandy brother to Philip le B●ll bare Seme de France with a Batune Componeè Argent and Gules Iohn Earle of L●●●aster and Brother to Richard the first afterward King bare for his difference a Batune Azure If the mother be of the ligne Royall many times her Coate is preferred into the first quarter as H●nry Earle of D●●●nshire and Marqu●sse of Exeter ●●re his mother K●tharines Coate who was daughter to King Edward the fourth And the like Humphrey Stafford who was the first Duke of Buckingham by Anne Platag●n●● his mother ● the Coate of Thomas of Woodstocke whose daughter she was This Coate I remember standeth in the great Chancell window in the Church of Kimbalt●n In France it hath beene and it yet a custome among the Nobilitie to 〈◊〉 their owne proper Coates and take others as perhaps their Wi●es or the Armes of that Srig●●●● whereof they are Lords or whence they haue their Titles as Mons. Hugues brother to King Philip marrying the daughter and heire of Herbere Earle of Ver●●●d●●●s forsooke his proper Coate and bare his Wiues which was Checky Or and Azure onely three Flower-de-luces added in chiefe to shew he was of the blood And Robert Coun● de Dreux albeit he was brother to King Lewis 〈◊〉 bare Checky Azure and Or with a Bordure Gules Robert Duke of Burgogne brother to Henry the first tooke for his bearing the ancient Armes of the Dukes of Burgogne which was bendy Or and Azure within a Bordure Gules giuen by Charlemaigne to Sanson Duke of Burgogne And whereas we in England allow the base sonne his Fathers Coate with the difference of a bend Batune sinister or bordure engrailed or the like it was in France a long time forbidden I thinke vnder the Capets to the Princes of the blood as 〈◊〉 Earle of M●mfort base sonne to King Robert was forced to leaue his Fathers Coate and beare Gules a Lion à la queue fourcheè Or passeè per à lentour Argent for Le maison de France ●●●●tant les bastardes no leur endurè son armeirè c. saith Tillet The last and least obseruation is of Crests the Helmet the Mantle and doubling thereof which according to the manner of diuers Countries are diuersly borne In Germany they beare their Beauers open with Barres which we allow in England to none vnder the degree of a Baron in some places they haue no Crests at all If you would farther proceed in Nobilitie or Heraldry I would wi●h you to reade these bookes of 〈◊〉 ob●●itie in gener●●● Simon Simonius de N●●ilit●●e 〈…〉 at Leipsig 1572. Chassan●●●● his Catalogus Gloria mun●● Hippolitus à Collibus his Axumata Nobilitatis Conclusiones de Nobilitate Doctorain published by one of Meckleburg who concealeth his name printed 1621. dedicated to the Archbishop of Breme Petrus Eritzius Coun●●●●er to the Elector of Brandenburge published Conclusiones de Nobilitate in quarto Lionellus De pracedentia ●omi●um Of the Spanish Nobilitie these Authors haue written Ioannes ab Arce Offalora in folio Priuilegios y Franquezas y libertades des bijos d●algos De Senniorio de Vizcaia c. in fol. Ludovicus de Moll●●a De primog●nior●m Hispanicorum iure c. in fol. Iosephus de Sesse in Decis Aragon Decis 8. 9. 10. c. Gonzales de C●rte his Nobliza del Andaluzia in fol. Of Italy Sicily Naples c. Scipie Mazzella nelle Neapoli Illustrata in quarto Paulus Merula in Cosmograph lib. 3. pt 3. in Italian Of France The Workes of Tillet Fer●● Charles L'Ois●●● Choppin Theatre d'Honneur Of Germany or the Empire Fran. Contzen his Politiques in fol. The Collections of Goldastus with some others The practise of Blazonrie Willeged the first Abbot dyed the same yeare that Off a did of very griefe it was thought for the death of his king and kinsman whom he dearely loued Anno 8●8 After him succeeded these in order Eadricke Vulsigus Wul●●●us Eadfrithus Wulsinus Who built Saint Peters Church Saint Michaels and Saint Stephens and made a faire market place in the towne Alfricke Aldredus Who digged vp and searched the ruines of Verlam-cesire which in his time were dens of theeues and whores saued all the tile and stone for the repaire of the Church and in digging vpon the North side in the vale found oaken plankes pitched Shelles peeces of oares and a rusty Anchor or two Eadmer after his death being a religious and a good man imitating his predecessour saued all the ancient coines vrnes

yet it is an Art nothing seruile and base but noble and free since we know not onely Emperors and Kings but Saints yea our blessed Sauiour to haue cured the sicke as Constantine Adrian Edward the Confessor King of England Mithridates King of Pontus whose Antidote yet beareth his name Artemisia Queene of Caria who first found the vertue of Mugwort bearing her name in Latine Gentius King of Illyricum now Sclauonia who immortally liueth in the herbe Gentiana as also Lysimachus in his Lysimachia Achilles in Achillea or the Yarrow Apollo Podalirius Moses Esay Salomon Ezechias Honor the Phisitian saith Ecclesiasticus then againe All Phisicke or medicine is from God and he shall receiue a reward from the King The skill of the Physitian shall exalt his head c. And as Ptolomy sometime obiected against Zoilus concerning Homer so may I vnto our Lordly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Physicke-haters Which of them all trebble their reuenewes can maintaine so many as one poore Galen or Hippocrates who though dead many hundreds of yeares since feed many thousands of families euen at this present I heere intend no common Chyrurgians Mountebancks vnlettered Empericks and women Doctors of whom for the most part there is more danger then of the worst disease it selfe whose practise is infamous Mechanique and base Fiftly concerning Merchants the exercise of Merchandise hath beene I confesse accounted base and much derogating from Nobilitie except it be exercised vndertaken by a generall Estate or the Deputies thereof Aristotle therefore saith That the Thebanes and Lacedaemonians had a Law that none should bee esteemed and held capable of Honor in their Common-wealth except they had ten yeares before giuen ouer Trading and Merchandise and Valerius Maximus reporteth that among other things the Romanes had to disparage Tarquinius Priscus withall and make him odious to the people was that he was a Merchants sonne Saint Chrysostome vpon that place of Mathew Hee cast out the buyers and sellers out of the Temple gathereth that Merchants hardly and seldome please God And certaine it is that the ancient Romans neuer preferred any that exercised Merchandise to any eminent place or office in their Commonwealthe perhaps agreeing in one with Aristotle who speaking of Merchants and Mechanickes saith Vilis est huiusmodi vita virtuti aduersa The kind of life is base and contrary to vertue But some may obiect vnto me the great Estates of Venice Genoa Florence Luca c. where their Nobilitie is nothing disparaged by the exercise of Merchandise I answer as their Coines at home they may raise themselues high or lower at their pleasure but abroad like Citie Maiors in other Countries they fall vnder value and a great deale short of their reckoning But if the owner of the Earth and all that therein is hath so bestowed and disposed of his blessings that no one Countrey affordeth all things but must be beholden not onely to her neighbours but euen the most remote Regions and Common-wealths cannot stand without Trade and Commerce buying and selling I cannot by the leaue of so reuerend iudgements but account the honest Merchant among the number of Benefactors to his Countrey while he exposeth as well his life as goods to the hazzard of infinite dangers sometime for medicinall Drugges and preseruatiues of our liues in extremitie of sicknesse another for our food or cloathing in t●mes of scarsitie and want haply for vsefull necessaries for our vocations and callings or lastly for those Sensus animi oblectamenta which the Almightie prouidence hath purposely for our solace and recreation and for no other end else created as Apes Parrots Peacockes Canarie and all singing Birds rarest Flowers for colour and smell pretious Stones of all sorts Pearle Amber Corall Cristall all manner of sweete odou●s fruites infinitely differing in forme and taste Colours of all sorts for painting dying c. but I proceed Sixt and lastly touching Mechanicall Arts and Artists whosoeuer labour for their liuelihood and gaine haue no share at all in Nobilitie or Gentry As Painters Stage-players● Tamblers ordinary Fidlers Inne-keepers Fencers Iuglers Dancers Mountebancks Bearewards and the like except the custome of the place determine the contrary as Her●d●tus and Xenophon witnesse to haue beene obserued both among the Aegyptians Scythians and Corinthians The reason is because their bodies are spent with labour and trauaile and men that are at their worke Assidui accibui vmbratiles esse cogumur Yea if a Noble man borne in captiuitie or constrained through any other necessitie shall exercise any manuall occupation or Art hee by the opinion of some loseth his Nobilitie Ciuill but not Christian and shall at his returne bee restored Where I said the custome of the Country I intend thus by the law of Mahomet the Grand Signior or great Turke himselfe is bound to exercise some manuall Trade or Occupation for none must be idle as Solyman the Magnificent that so threatned Vienna his trade was making of Arrow-heads Achmat the last horne rings for Archers and the like From the roote and branches let vs taste the fruite which fall not like the Apples of Sodoms with a light touch into nothing but are as those of Hesperides golden and out of the vulgar reach First Noble or Gentlemen ought to bee preferred in Fees Honors Offices and other dignities of command and gouernment before the common people They are to be admitted neere and about the person of the Prince to be of his Counsel in warre and to beare his Standard We ought to giue credit to a Noble or Gentleman before any of the inferior sort He must not be arrested or pleaded against vpon cosenage We must attend him and come to his house and not ●e to ours His punishment ought to be more fauourable honorable vpon his tryall and that to bee by his Peeres of the same Noble ranke He ought in all sittings meetings and salutations to haue the vpper hand and greatest respect They must be cited by Bill or Writing to make their appearance In criminall causes Noblemen may appeare by their Arturney or Procurator They ought to take their recreations of hunting hawking c. freely without controule in all places Their imprisonment ought not to bee in base manner or so strict as others They may eate the best and daintiest meate that the place affordeth to weare at their pleasure Gold Iewels the best apparell and of what fashion they please c. Beside Nobilitie stirreth vp emulation in great Spirits not onely of equalling others but excelling them as in Cimon the elder Scipio Africanus Decius the sonne Alexander Edward our Blacke Prince and many others It many times procureth a good marriage as in Germany where a faire Coate and a Crest is often preferred before a good reuenew It is a spurre in braue and good Spirits to beare in mind those things which their Ancestors haue