same Metall or Colour A Garbe of Wheate yet shall you finde their band sometimes of a diverse Metall or Colour from them To this Head must be referred all other sorts of Nutritive Herbes borne in Coat-Armour Reference whether they produce Graine in Eare Cod or Huske or that they be Herbes for the Pot or Sallads as Betonie Spinage Coleworts Lettice Purslain Leeks Scallions c. All which I leave to observation because I labour by all means to pass thorough this vast Sea of the infinite varieties of Nature with what convenient brevity I may because Quod brevius est semper delectabilius habetur in such things as these The shorter the sweeter SECT III. CHAP. X. Herbs lesse nutritive NExt after Herbs Nutritive let us take a taste of Herbs lesse Nutritive which are either Coronary or Physicall Coronary Herbs are such as in respect of their odoriferous smell have been of long time and yet are used for decking and trimming of the body or adorning of houses or other pleasurable use for eye or sent as also in respect of their beautifull shape and colour were most commonly bestowed in making of Crowns and Garlands of which uses they received their name of Coronary Amongst which we may reckon the Rose before expressed to be one of the chiefest as also Violets of all sorts Glove-Gilloflowers Sweet Marjoram Rosemary White Daffadill Spikenard Rose Campion Daisies c. But of all other the Flower de lis is of most esteem Estimation of the Flower de-lis having been from the first Bearing the Charge of a Regall Escocheon originally borne by the French Kings though tract of time hath made the Bearing of them more vulgar even as Purple was in ancient times a wearing onely for Princes which now hath lost that prerogative through custome Out of these several kinds I have selected some few Examples as in the Escocheons following appears He beareth Saphire a Flower de lis Pearle by the name of Digby of which Family there are many worthy accomplisht branches as George Earle of Bristol and the Lord Sherburne his son Sir Kenelme and John Digby Esquire his son who married that excellent Lady the Lady Katharine Daughter of Henry Howard late Earle of Arundell the Lord Digby of Geshull c. He bears Vert a Flower de lis Argent by the name of Fowke or Foulke an ancient and spreading Family of which a deserving Ornament is Thomas Foulke now Alderman of London He beareth Ermine a Flower de lis on a Chief Sable a Mullet Or by the name of Gaire and was borne by Sir John Gaire late Alderman and Mayor of London who left issue male John Gaire Esquire since deceased and Robert Gaire a hopefull Gentleman He beareth Or Cheuron between three Flowers de lis a Cheuron between three Flowers de Lis Sable This Coat-Armour pertaineth to the very worshipfull Sir Thomas Fanshaw Knight of the Bath his Majesties Remembrancer of his Highnes Court of Exchequer This Flower is in Latine called Iris for that it somewhat resembleth the colour of the Rainbow Some of the French confound this with the Lily as he did who doubting the validity of the Salike-Law to debarre the Females from the Crown of France would make it sure out of a stronger Law because forsooth Lilia non laborant neque nent the Lillies neither labour nor spin which reason excludes as well a Laborious Hercules as a spinning Omphale He beareth Argent on a Cheuron Gules between three flowers de lis Sables an Inescocheon of the first charged with a sinister hand couped at the wrist as the second This is the Coat-armour of that Noble Knight and Baronet Sir Basill Dixwell of Folkston in Kent deceased Whose reall expressions of true love and affection to his native Country deserves commemoration and is now borne by the honourable John Dixwell Esquire a member of this Parliament and one of the Counsell of State Nephew to the said Sir Basill Here I name of the first and as the second to avoid iteration of the same words according to the rule formerly given He beareth Gules a Fesse wavy between three Flowers de lis Or by the name of Hicks which is the Coat of Sir William Hicks of Beverston in Glocestershire Knight and Baronet now of Essex and was also the bearing of Sir Baptist Hicks Knight and Baronet Viscount Campden in Glocestershire a munificent Benefactour to that Town and also to severall places in Middlesex He beareth Sable on a Cheuron engrailed between six crosses Patee-Fitchee Cheuron charged upon Or three flowers de lis Azure each charged on the top with a Plate by the name of Smith of Nybley in the county of Glocester The Plate is the representation of Silver Bullion fitted for the stamp and therefore need not have other Blazon than its own name Armorists hold that this bearing of Sable and Or answers to Diamond joyned with Gold whereof each giveth honour to the other and it may well beseem a Bearer whose sober and well composed conditions are accompanied with the lustre of shining vertues Bend interposed He beareth Sable a Bend Argent between six Flowers de lis Or by the name of Redmere This Coat-Armour have I added in regard of the variety of bearing hereof from those before handled inasmuch as in this one Escocheon is comprehended the full number contained in both the former as also to make known in what manner these or other Charges of like Bearing must be placed the same being borne entire But if they were strowed or as I may better term it Seminated all over the Field then were it not a bend between but upon or over them forasmuch as in such bearing onely the halves of many of them or some greater or lesser portion of them would appear aswell under the Bend as in the limits or edges of the Escocheon He beareth Argent on a Crosse Sable five flowers de lis of the first This Coat-Armour in the time of King Henry the fourth appertained unto Robert le-Neve of Tivetishall in the County of Norfolke as appeareth by Seals of old Deeds and ancient Rolles of Armes from whom are descended those of that surname now remaining at Aslactun Witchingham and other places in the said County If this Crosse were seminated all over with Flowers de lis shewing upon the sides or edges thereof but the halves of some of them then it should be blazoned Semie de flowers de lis And the like is to be observed when they be so borne upon any other Ordinary or Charge He beareth Argent on a Saltire Sable five flowers de li Or This Coat-armour pertaineth to Sir Thomas Hawkins of Nash in Kent Knight I have inserted this Escocheon not onely to shew you that this flower is borne upon this kind of Ordinary but also to give demonstration that the Saltire charged containeth the third part of the field according to the rule formerly given He beareth
the Germans Banner-hires as being Commanders displaying Banners of their own in the Field These the Saxons called Laford whence our Word Lord and the Danes call them Thanes In ancient times the name of Barons was very large Citizens of chief Cities and Gentlemen of certain possessions enjoying that Title and about those times every Earle had a certain number of Barons under them as every Baron had Capitaneos under him But times have altered the limits of this Honour Barons being now reputed no less absolute Lords though lower than Earles and as a Gentleman is the first and lowest degree of Nobilitas Minor so now with us a Baron is reputed the First step of Nobilitas Major In which respect some have thought that in Atchievements none under a Baron may use Supporters but by ancient examples you shall find that Knights Bannerets also had that Ornament allowed them and therefore though a Banneret hath a middle place betwixt ordinary Knights and Barons yet I have omitted his Atchiemement the difference being so little betwixt it and the Barons Banneret or Baronet as some will have it by some is derived from Banner-rent because in their creation after certain Ceremonies the top of their Pennons is rent or cut off and so reduced into the form of a little Banner which they may display as Barons do But it is more probable that the Germane word Banner-hires was the originall both of Barons and Bannerets which matter skilleth not much sith this order as before we touched is now quite ceased in this Land The Atchievement of a Vicount LOYAL AV MORT THis Atchievement belongeth to the Right Honourable Sir Adam Loftus Knight Viscount Loftus of Ely within the Kingdom of Ireland Lord Chancellor of the said Realm and one of his Majesties Justices of that Kingdom who beareth Diamond a Cheuron engrailed Ermine between three Treefoyl is slipped Pearl and above the same upon an Helme fitting the degree of a Viscount a Mantle Ruby doubled Ermine next above which is placed on a Torce Pearl and Diamond a Boares head erased and erected Pearl Armed Topaz supported with two Raine Deere Ermine Attired Or and for his Motto in a Scrole LOYALL AV MORT expressing his Lordships loyall obedience to his Soveraign This Noble Lord was for his many vertues befitting such a dignity worthily advanced to this degree of Viscount by our late Soveraign King James in the twentieth year of his Raign TOVT BIEN OV RIEN THis is the Atchievement of the Right Honourable Baptist Noel Viscount Cambden Baron Noel of Ridlington and Hickes of Ilmington son and heir to Sir Edward Noel of Brook in the County of Rutland Knight created Baronet 1611. and afterward Baron of Ridlington to whom by vertue of the Intaile descended the Title of Viscount Cambden conferd on Sir Baptist Hickes who was created Viscount Hickes of Cambden in the County of Glocester in the fourth of his reign which Baptist Viscount Cambden hath issue by his third Lady Hester second Daughter and Coheir of Thomas Lord Wotton deceased the Honourable Edward Noel Esquire son and heir a very hopefull and excellently accomplisht young Gentleman of whose qualities I am not a more just admirer then to his civilities a debtor now in forrain parts He bears two Coats quarterly First Topaz Fretty Ruby a Canton Ermine by the name of Noel Secondly Ruby a Fesse Wavy between three Flowers de lis Topaz by the name of Hickes the third as the second the fourth as the first a Scocheon of pretence Pearl a Crosse formed fitchee at the foot Diamond by the name of Wotton The Crest on a Wreath of his colours a Stag passant Pearl Attired Or plac't on a Viscounts Helmet and Crown supported by two Buls Pearl Armed and Crined Diamond Mantled Ruby doubled Ermines This Family derives it self from the ancient Family of this surname at Dalby in Leicestershire Hilcot Staffordshire and Newbold in Derby-shire Of a Viscount A Viscount is a degree of dignity between a Baron and an Earle and began first to be honorary here in England in the time of our King Henry the sixth who by Patent in Parliament made John of Beaumont Viscount of Beaumont Here in this Atchievement you may observe that the Viscounts Coat-Armour is adorned with a Chaplet of sleighter making than the Coronet which beautifieth the Earles Escocheon NEC ELATA NEC DE IECTA THis is the Atchievement of the Right Honourable Heneage Earle of Winchelsey and is thus blazoned He bears four Coats quarterly First Pearl a Cheuron between three Griffons passant Diamond by the name of Finch Secondly Ruby three Lyons rampant Topaz by the name of Fitzherbert Thirdly Ruby a Mule passant within a Bordure Pearl by the name of Moyle Fourthly Topaz a Greyhound currant Diamond between three Leopards heads Saphire a Bordure engrailed Ruby by the name of Heneage and for his Crest on a Wreath of his colours a Pegasus currant Pearl gorged with a Crown winged and crined Topaz Mantled Ruby doubled Ermine supported by a Pegasus as the Crest on the dexter side and on the sinister a Griffon Sable erected on a Scrole the Motto Nec elata nec dejecta I could say much of the Antiquity and Eminence of this Family but I should seem onely to repeat what is obvious in Master Philpots Kent and elsewhere onely thus They are descended in a direct male line from Henry Fitzherbert Chamberlain to King Henry the first common Ancestour also to the Herberts Earles of Penbrook And after many Generations in the time of King Edward the first from the Mannour of Finches in Lidde were written Fitzherbert alias Fynch sometimes Herbert dictus Fynch and since onely Finch from whence in a continued line of persons eminent in their Country descended Sir Moyle Finch Knighted in the time of Queen Elizabeth created Baronet 1611. who married Elizabeth Daughter and sole Heir of Sir Thomas Heneage Vice Chamberlain Treasurer of the Chamber Chancellor of the Dutchy and one of the Privy Councel to Queen Eliz. of a very ancient Family of that surname at Haynton in the County of Lincoln which Lady in her Widow-hood was by King James in the one and twentieth year of his reign created Viscountess Maidstone and by K. Ch. in the fourth of his reign created Countesse of Winchelsey in Sussex to her and her heirs male She dying 1634. the honour fell to her then eldest son Sir Thomas Finch Knight and Baronet Earl of Winchelsey and Viscount Maidstone who in the year 1639. left his honour and estate to the succession of his son Heneage now Earl of Winchelsey 1660. who by his second wife the Lady Mary Daughter of the right Honourable William Marquess of Hartford hath issue William Viscount Maydstone Heneage second son c. The said Lady Elizabeth Countess of Winchelsey had diverse other sons of whom no issue continues except from her fourth son Sir Heneage Finch Knight Serjeant at Law and Recorder of London who by Frances
Daughter of Sir Edmund Bell left issue three sons Gentlemen of signall accomplishments Heneage Finch Esquire of the Inner Temple London first son a Person of eminent abilities and candid integrity Francis Finch of the same House Barrester at Law second Son and John Finch third son hopefull and ingenious branches of this Noble Family Of this Family is also Sir John Finch Knight sometime Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England created Lord Finch of Fordwich the sixteenth of King Charles living 1659. son of Sir Henry Finch Knight second Brother of Sir Moyle above mentioned The Atchievement of an Earle HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE VIRTVTIS LAVS ACTIO THis Atchievement thus marshalled is here set forth for the peculiar Ensigns of the Right Noble and truly Honourable Thomas Howard Earle of Arundell and Surrey Primier Earle of England Earle Marshall of the same Kingdom Lord Howard Mowbray Segrave Brus of Gower Fitz-Alan Clun Oswaldstre and Mautravers Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter and one of the Lords of his Majesties most honourable Privy Councel which noble Lord beareth Quarterly eight Coats The first whereof is Ruby on a Bend between six crosse croslets fitchee Pearl an Escocheon Topaz thereon a demy Lyon pierced through the mouth with an Arrow within a double Tressure counter-flowred of the first and is the paternall Coat of the noble flourishing Family of the Howards The second is Ruby Three Lyons passant gardant Topaz in chief a File of three points Pearl which was the Coat-armour of the Lord Thomas of Brotherton fifth son of King Edward the first and Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk The third is Checkey Topaz and Saphire which was the peculiar Armoriall Ensigns of the Earls of Warren The fourth is Ruby a Lyon Rampand Pearl Armed and Langued Saphire by the name of Mowbray The fifth is Ruby a Lyon Rampand Or Armed and Langued of the first by the name of Albaney The sixth is Pearl a Chief Saphire by the name of Clun The seventh is Diamond a Fret Topaz by the name of Mautravers The eighth is Pearl a Fesse and Canton Ruby by the name Woodvile all within the Garter And above the same upon an Helme a mantle Ruby doubled Ermine next upon which is placed on a mount Emerald within a Torce Topaz and Ruby a Horse passant Pearl holding in his mouth a slip of an Oake fructed Proper supported on the dexter side with a Lyon and on the sinister with an Horse both Pearl the last holding in his mouth an Oaken slip fructed Proper And for his Motto to make the same Atchievement absolute these words in a Scrole VIRTUTIS LAUS ACTIO This Atchievement is here proposed as instar Omnium for a patern of the Coat-Armours of Earls of which this Noble Lord is the Primier of England and therefore is his Lordships Atchievement the fittest to be here demonstrated besides whose Coat-Armour could more properly challenge a due place in a work of this nature than his who is not onely by his office of Earl Marshall proper Judge of Honour and Arms but also in his affection the most Honoured Maecenas and Noble Patron as of all learning in generall so more particularly of this of Armory which Earl some years since deceasing left these honours to Henry his eldest son who by Elizabeth Sister of James Stuart late Duke of Richmond and Lennox has left a hopefull issue viz. Thomas Earl of Arundel c. Henry second son in whom are concentred the Loyalty Courage Learning Generosity and what has else exalted the reputation of his Ancestors in the Kingdom Philip third son Charles fourth son Edward fifth son Francis sixth son and Bernard seventh son all living 1660. Of Earls The Title of an Earl is very ancient the dignity very honourable their calling being in sign of their greatness adorned with the lustre of a Coronet and themselves enobled with the stile of Princes Comites among the Ancient Romans were Counsellors and near Adherents to their highest Commanders which honour and Title being then but temporary and for life The flowers and points of a Marquess his Coronet are of even height The pearled points of the Earls Coronet are much longer than the intermixt flowers thereof is since by tract of time made perpetuall and hereditary The Saxons called them Ealdermen the Danes Earls they being as may seem at first selected out of the rest of the Nobility for commendation of their Gravity Wisdom and Experience The next degree above an Earl is a Marquess whose Atchievement I have omitted in respect that the same is chiefly differenced from that of an Earls in this that the Marquess his Coronet is Meslee that is part flowred and part Pyramidall pearled the flowers and points of equall height and the Earles is Pyramidall pointed and pearled having flowers intermixt but much shorter than the pearled points PIE REPONE TE THis is the Atchievement of the Right Honourable Henry Marquess of Dorchester Earl of Kingston upon Hull Viscount Newarke Lord Pierrepont and Maunvers and Herris and is thus blazoned His Lordship bears eight Coats quarterly First Pearle semy de Cinquefoiles Ruby a Lyon Rampant Diamond by the name of the Lord Pierrepont Secondly Pearl six Annulets Diamond by the name of the Lord Maunvers Thirdly Saphire three Hedg-hoggs Topaz by the name of the Lord Herris Fourthly Diamond a Lion Rampant Pearle Crowned Topaz which is the bearing of Lord Segrave Fiftly Ruby a Lion within a bordure Engrailed Topaz by the name of Rees ap Teuder Prince of South-Wales Sixtly Diamond three garbes Pearl being the Coat of the King of Lemster Seventhly Ruby three wheat sheaves Topaz a bordure of Scotland by the name of Coming Earle of Northumberland Eightly Ruby a lion rampant a la double queve Pearle by the name of the Lord Mantfort Earle of Lycester for his Crest on a helmet placed on a Marquesses crowne a Torce or Wreath of his colours thereon a Fox passant Ruby supported by two Lyons Diamond mantled Ruby doubled Ermine his motto PIE REPONE TE This noble Person not more illustrious by his quality then by the Advantages of nature and industry the great assertor of Learning in this Nation decended from a noble family of signall eminence out of which is Robert de Petraponte sive Pierpont who was cal'd by writ among the Peers of England to the Parliament by King Edw. 3. and afterwards in process of time Robert Pierpont was Created Viscount Newarke and Lord Pierpont afterwards Created Earle of Kingston upon Hull after whose death our Soveraign King Charles conferd the honour of Marquess of Dorchester on Henry Earle of Kingston his Son the present Inheritor of these Titles ennobled also by his Mother who was Gertrude Daughter and Coheir of Henry Talbot Son of George and brother to Gilbert Earle of Shrewsbury Lord Talbot Strange Furnivall Verdon and Lovetoft FOY POVR DEVOIR THis is the Atchievement of the Right Honourable William Seymour
Marquess and Earl of Hartford Baron Seymour and Beauchamp invested in the Title of Marquess Hartford by King Charles June the third 1641. in the seventeenth year of his reign Grandchild and Heir to Edward created Earl of Hartford in the first year of Queen Elizabeth by Katharine Daughter and Heir of Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk and Frances his Wife eldest Daughter and Coheir of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk and Mary his Wife Queen Dowager of France second Sister and at last Coheir of King Henry the eighth which Earl Edward was Son of Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset c. Brother to Queen Jane Mother of King Edward 6. to whom he was Protectour He bears six Coats quarterly First Topaz on a Pile Ruby between six Flowers de lis Saphire three Lyons of England which was an Agumentation of King Henry the eighth Secondly Ruby two wings impaled Topaz Milles calls them two wings volant Brook two wings conjoynd in Fesse and another two wings in Lure by the name of Seymour Thirdly Varry by the name of Beauchampe Fourthly Pearl three demy Lyons Rampant Ruby Fifthly per Bend Pearl and Ruby three Roses counter-changed Sixthly and lastly Pearl on a Bend Ruby three Leopards heads Topaz on which a Marquesses Crown thereon a Helmet of the same quality then for his Crest out of a Crown a Phoenix sacrificing her self all proper Mantled Ruby doubled Ermine Supported on the dexter side by an Unicorn Pearl gorged with a Crown chained Armed and Crined Topaz on the sinister side by a Bull Saphire gorged with a Crown and String reflexed Armed and Crined Topaz his Motto Foy pour devoir these have been the ancient quarterings of this noble Family and are continued though they have the same right as above appears to Grey Brandon and the Arms of England also with a due difference FIDEI COTICVLA CRVX THis is the Atchievement of the High and Mighty Prince George Duke Marquess and Earl of Buckingham Earl of Coventry Viscount Villiers and Baron of Whaddon whose Family were of signall note in Leicestershire for many hundred years whose Marshallings are thus blazoned He bears six Coats quarterly First Pearl on a Cross Ruby five Escallops Topaz which was an Augmentation as I am inform'd conferd upon one of this Family for service in the holy Land as appears by the bearing Secondly Diamond a Fesse between three Cinquefoyles Pearl by the name of Villiers Thirdly Topaz two Bars Saphire a Chief quarterly two Flowers de lis of France and a Lyon of England by the name of Manors Fourthly Ruby three Waterbougets Pearl Fifthly Saphire a Catherne Wheele Topaz Sixthly Topaz two Cheurons and a Border Ruby by the name of Trusbut a Martlet for a difference which foure last Coats are borne by his grace as the principall of many he may quarter in right of his Mother Katharine Daughter and sole heir of Francis Manors sixth Earl of Rutland Lord Roos of Hamelake Belvoir and Trusbut c. And for his Crest on a Crown Ducall and Helmet befitting that degree a Lyon Rampant Pearl Crowned Topaz standing on a Wreath or Torce of his colours Mantled Ruby and Ermine supported by a Horse on the dexter side daple Grey and on the sinister by a Stag Pearl Attired Proper his Motto Fidei coticula Crux The chief Attributes of God are his Power Wisdome Goodnesse in all which the nearer any King cometh to the imitation of that prime Idea the more truly doth he deserve that glorious name and expresse the noble nature of a King Which all Countries in part have shewed by the severall Titles given to their Soveraigns most Nations calling them Reges for government which cannot be as it should be without the said three Regall properties and the Saxons our ancestors call them Kings of Cynning a word signifying both cunning or wisdome and also Power whereby all Kings can do much more than good Kings will do The beginning of Kingly power was from the first created man who was made an absolute but fatherly Soveraign over all and the necessity of such a Chief was so great even in the eye of Nature that as there are no flocks or heards of beasts but have one leader of their own kind so there is no Nation so brutish or barbarous but have found the necessity and use of having a King over them to rule them and administer justice to them which is the prime office of a King and that such hath alwayes been the office of Kings of this our Island our own ancient and learnedst Lawyers testify For Rex saith Bracton non alius debet judicare si solus ad id sufficere posset c. Whence a latter learned Lawyer gathereth most truly that though the King substitute other to minister justice under him yet himself is not discharged of that authority when himself please as often as our Kings have done in person to sit and take notice of causes and likewise the Royall Oath at his Coronation runneth Facies fieri in omnibus judiciis tuis aequam certam justitiam c. And that such was the Kings absolute Jurisdiction in this Kingdom before the Conquest also the same Author so copiously proveth that it is ignorance to deny it and folly to enlarge the proof of it And yet saith Aeneas Silvius It is the manner of Kings in writing to use the plurall number as Mandamus Volumus Facimus c. As appeareth Epist 105. where he saith Reges cum scribunt etsi dominatum habent ut quicquid placet Legis vigorem habeat ea tamen moderatione utuntur cum scribunt ut aliquid praecipientes non se solos videri velint fecisse sed cum aliorum consilio They do temper their Soveraign Jurisdiction with such moderation that it may appear they prescribe and command not without counsell and advice of others Touching the greatnesse of the Kings of this Island and precedence before any other Kings these are two main reasons First that the King of this Land Lucius was the first Christian King of the world as also Constantine the first Emperour publickly planting Christianity Secondly for that of all Kings Christian the King of Britain is the most and indeed onely absolute Monarch he being no way subordinate to any Potentate Spirituall or Temporall in causes either Ecclesiasticall or Civill as other Kings are through their own default Moreover the King of England is both Anointed as no other King is but onely the French of Sicilie and of Jerusalem and he is also crowned which honour the Kings of Spain Portugall Arragon Navarre and many other Princes have not God grant that as our Country hath been blessed with prerogatives above all other Kingdoms and with the blessing both of all earthly felicities and Heavenly graces beyond any other and with more puissant victorious learned religious Kings than all the people whatsoever as the world seeth at this day so we may go beyond all Nations in thankfulnesse to so
differentiae signorum Nevertheless in practice it falleth out otherwise as in this Coat here expressed and others following may be seen For we find that Labels are borne both single and manifold without any other manner of Charge so that it is clear that they are borne sometimes for Armes and not alwayes for Differences of Armes as by the second Escocheon following more plainly appeareth Note that as the Burdures before mentioned so also these Files are oftentimes charged with things as well quick as dead whereof I will give you some few examples in thse next Escocheons The Labell of the Heire apparent saith Wyrley is seldom transferred unto the second brother The Labell transferred upon occasion Wyrley but when the Inheritance goeth to the daughters of the Eldest brother in which case it was permitted unto him to bear the File as heir male of his family and as one that remained in expectancy of the Inheritance if the issue of his Neeces should fail Note that the second brother Rule might not intrude himself into the absolute Signes of his family the Inheritance being in his Neeces or Kinswomen Hugh de Hastings being a second brother and his posterity did bear a Labell for their difference upon the like occasion and for the reasons here mentioned Forasmuch as it hath been anciently questioned and for ought that I could ever see resteth as yet undecided by Bartholus Budaeus and other Judicious persons of their times whether Files or Labels should be borne with even points or odde some holding that they could not be borne but odde others maintaining they might be used indifferently as well even as odde In my former Impression I followed the stronger opinion and in all the precedent examples have produced patterns of unequall points Neverthelesse not so resting satisfied I have sithence endeavoured to examine their use the faithfullest interpreter of things doubtfull to which end I took occasion to peruse certain Miscellanean notes of Seals which I had gathered long agoe by which Seals it appeared they had been anciently used to be borne as well even as odde whereupon out of my desire to clear all doubts and to make every thing as perspicuous and manifold as I could I resolved to cut such Seals as came to my hands for the better approbation of this my assertion and content of the Reader and withall to set them down according to order of even bearing viz. 2. 4. 6. c. before I would conclude this Chapter of files As in example This piece of Evidence resteth amongst the writings or deeds of George Thorpe of Wanneswell Esquire and one of his Majesties Gent. Pensioners whose residence is in the Parish of Barckley in the County of Gloucester An example of a file with four points followeth in this next Escocheon This Coat might have been more aptly placed hereafter in the second Section amongst Ordinaries of diverse kinds borne one upon another But that I desired to place all my Labels of even points together without interruption though I digressed somewhat therein by giving way to necessity albeit with breach of Rule and Order Nonnunquam enim propter excellentiam seu necessitatem receditur à Regulis This form of bearing of Files with four points is also warranted by Rowles of great Antiquity As appeareth by the Coat of Sir Thomas Leyhourne that bare Azure six Lionceux Rampant Or a File of four points Gules which I doe here passe over as well for brevity as for impertinency thereof to this place in respect of the Lions the principall charge thereof Note here a strange bearing of a File Will. de C. fil Will. de Curli c. pro Salute Antecess c. terr in Territorio de Langle 20. Henr. 3. Teste Hug. le Poer Vicecom Warwick Henr. de Napford Roberto de Clopton milit This example serveth to confirm my former assertion that Files are not onely borne for differences but sometimes for the onely Charge of the Coat-Armour as appeareth by the Coat of Henlington whereof I have given Example elsewhere and herein we may observe a rare form of position thereof in bend Sinister For the shunning of multiplicity of Examples I will give an instance of a Coat-Armour comprehending both sorts of Files viz. even and odde points which for that it is simple and unmixt with any Ordinary or Common Charge may serve instead of all As in example Now if any man will demand of me why I doe spend my oyle and travell in things of so small moment To such I answer that so long as I travell to find out the truth I reckon my travell well bestowed though the matter be of never so small importance Suave enim est in minimis etiam vera scire There is yet another form of bearing of files diverse from these before mentioned which albeit the same be not in use with us but seemeth to be a Nationall Custom peculiar to the Kingdome of France Neverthelesse sithence I have undertaken to treat amongst things of the use of Blazoning Coat-Armour I would not willingly omit any forme of bearing or other remarkable thing that might make either my self or the Reader more expert in the use of Blazon This forme of bearing files which I will now shew you is not distant some little space from the upper part of the Chief after the most usuall fashion but groweth immediatly out of the Chief it self In like sort divers other noble Houses of France viz. of Valois of berry and of Allencon have Bordures either plain or engrailed or charged with Reysants those of Everâ—ux bastons Or and Argent and they of Burbon bastons Gules Here may rise a question not unworthy our observation viz Whether like as the eldest brother is preferred before the second so the son of the eldest brother shall in like sort be preferred or take place before his Vncle And this hath been holden a great and difficult question a long season untill at length O ho the Emperour of Germany being at Trevere with his Barons this matter was there questioned he ordained that the cause should be decided by Combat wherin the Nephew hardly obtained the victory which because it was deemed to have proceeded by the secret Judgment of God it was decreed that from thenceforth the Nephew should be preferred before the Vncle Of this mind are Nich. Boerius Lucas de Penna and John de Montoleno that the Nephew should take place The like question hath risen in France between the second daughter and the son of the elder sister as well in Avionin a city of Narbone in France as in other parts therof Chassa in Catalogo suo de Glor. which remained long undetermined At length it was finally adjudged in the Court of Parliament holden at Paris for the Nephewes for whom also it was likewise decreed in the City of Avinon If any man shall demand of me how it commeth to pass that the Diminutions or Differences of Armes before
never went out but still gave light yet was not maintained with any kind of Oyle or other fatty matter or substance and this was holden for a speciall miraculous thing yet might the same be performed by some other naturall means as with a certain kind of stone that is found in Arcadia and is called Asphestus which is said to be of that nature that being once kindled and set on fire doth never extinguish or go out neither is it thereby consumed or wasted Zan. lib. 4. de potent daemon chap. 12. pag. 255. There are doubtlesse both in herbs and stones admirable virtues not manifest whereby strange and unwonted effects may be wrought Therefore men being ignorant of the efficacy and forcible vertues of things naturall and apprehending only their effects by sight do forth with conceive that there is wrought some strange or great miracle whereas indeed it is nothing lesse but a matter proceeding meerly from some naturall cause Besides these aforesaid there are sundry other Instruments of Houshold use as Mortars Gridirons c. which we leave to observation And to this may be referred Candles torches c. The great Turke Solimannus gave foure Candles for his Device one burning the other three extinct to signifie that other Religions were nothing light in respect of his or that the other parts of the World should lose their beauty by the brightnesse of his glory Endlesse is the swift passage of time which we shall better discerne if we looke backwards to the times that have already overslipped us The best meanes we can devise to bridle time is to be evermore well exercised in some honest vertuous and laudable worke so shall it not escape us fruitlessely acording to that saying of Petrarch Virtute industria bonarumque artium studijs fraenari possunt tempora non quia fugiant sed ne pereant So shall we be sure to carry a hand over time and not time over us so shall we if not clippe his wings that he glide not from us yet shall we so attach him that he shall not so passe us but that we shall make some good use of him that he passe us not unprofitably Time slippeth from us suddenly and outstrippeth us which onely we ought greedily to seize upon and in no case barter or exchange the same for any costly price or reward let us though late yet not too late begin to love and hold time in estimation which onely a man may lawfully and honestly covet Let us bethink our selves of the shortnesse of our time and our own frailty and endeavour our selves to make good use thereof and let us not then as Seneca admonisheth us begin to live when life begins to leave us To this place are Clocks Watches and such like Instruments representing the swift incessant motion of time to be referred wherein we may observe that every wheele therein is moved by some other of more swift motion than it selfe hath whereby is verified this saying Quilibet motus mensuratur per velociorem motum seipso SECT IV. CHAP. X. The Art of Armature NExt to Armature with the appendices thereof succeedeth Navigation whereunto pertain all sorts of Ships and Boats with their severall parts their Huls Stem Sterne Masts Tops Tacklings Sailes Oares Cables Anchors c. Whereof divers are borne in Coat-armour as shall by these next examples partly appear He is second son to Nathaniel Terne of much Wenlock in the County of Salop lately deceased and of Sarah Daughter and Coheir to Edmund Hill of the Court of Hill in Tenbury in the same County by whom he had also issue William eldest son Henry third son Nathaniel deceased SECT IV. CHAP. XI THE last of the aforesaid Arts we reckoned to be Venation which Plato divideth into three Species Hunting Hawking and Fishing all which because they tend to the providing of sustenance for man Farnesius doth therefore account a Species of Agriculture The dangerous chases of the Bear the wild Boare Bull c. whether the same be performed on horse-back or on foot hath a resemblance of Military practise for it maketh a man provident in assaulting as also valorous in sustaining the brunt of the enemy it maketh them politick for choice of places of advantage and enableth them to tolerate hunger thirst labour stormes tempests c. all which are most requisite for such as do professe a military course of life What valorous commanders those men have proved that have been trained up in the Art of Hunting when they have come to the administration and managing of Martiall Affaires the Persians can sufficiently witnesse unto us who had no better means to become expert Souldiers than their dayly exercise of Hunting As also the History of Mithridates King of Pontus who was so much transported with the love of Hunting as that according to Farnesius by the space of seven years he took not the benefit of any house either in City or Country to lye in by means whereof he so enabled and enured his body to sustain all hardnesse that afterward he became a scourge and terrour to the Romans And therefore this noble kind of Venation is priviledged from the title of an Illiberal Art being a Princely and Generous Exercise The priviledge of Venation but those onely who use it for a trade of life to make gain thereof are to be marshalled in the rank of Mechanicks and Illiberal Artizans As touching the number of examples of things pertaining to this noble exercise of Hunting proposed for the first Species of Venation I purpose to be very brief not in respect of their scarcity but because of the manifold imployments of the workman for the present that he is not able to furnish me with more And having ended with them I will proceed according to order with the other two Species of Venation viz. Hawking and Fishing The Skill of Fishing is diversly exercised viz. sometimes with Nets sometimes with Hooks other whiles with Sammon-spears or Eele-spears and sometimes with Ginnes with Puttes Weeles c. all which are found borne in Coat-armour now first of Nets These are most usually borne in Armes piece-meal or in fragments which are the same if I be not deceived which we call in Blazon Frets because the Frenchmen call a Net Retz and we by intermixture of Language have added thereunto the letter F. These fragments are sometimes borne single and other-whiles manifold as appeareth by these next examples There is also borne Gules eight Losenges Argent 4.3.1 by the name of Preston SECT IV. CHAP. XII ARTS Mechanicall of more necessary use for the nourishing and preserving of Mans body we have proposed in the preceding examples there yet rest other Arts of a second rank which tend rather to the embellishing and beautifying of Natures works than to the necessary supply of humane uses yea some of them such as are rather boites to please the senses than means to further mans good Yet because the custom
be shewed hereafter in place convenient A Gentleman of blood being a younger brother before apt differences of Coat-armour were devised used to take two of his nearest Coats and to marshall them together in one shield parted per Cheuron after the manner expressed in this next Escocheon Leigh holdeth that this sort of bearing is not otherwise blazoned than quarterly But some Blazoners are of opinion that when this composition consisteth meerly of metals and colour or of any the before mentioned furres and colour without any charge occupying the quarters of the Escocheon such bearing is more aptly blazoned parted per Crosse but if they be charged then they hold it best blazoned quarterly Two other sorts of parted per pile I find which for their rare use I have thought fit to insert into this place whereof the first is as in this next Escocheon The other sort of partition per pyle taketh beginning from the two base points Dexter and Sinister and do meet in the exact middle chief point of the Escocheon as in this next example As touching such coat-armour of partition as are charged all over these few examples may suffice I do blazon this coat-armour by precious stones in respect the Bearer hereof is enoblished by his rare vertues and approved loyall services done to Queen Elizabeth of blessed memory and to the Kings Majesty late deceased as also in regard of his so many learned and judicious works publickly manifested in sundry volumes extant and approved by men of best judgment in that kind As these last mentioned Coats are framed of strait lines of partition so shall you find others composed of sundry lines before spoken of in the beginning of the second Section of this Book as well of those sorts that I call cornered lines as of those that are bunched And as these last handled do utterly exclude all mixture of the Tinctures whereof they are formed by reason of the straightnesse of the lines wherewith they be divided so contrariwse those Arms that do consist of those other sorts of lines do admit participation and intermixture of one colour with another for which cause they are of Leigh termed Missils à miscendo of mingling to whom I will refer you touching Coats of that kind for that he hath exemplified them at large in his Accidens of Armory SECT V. CHAP. II. IN the former chapter are comprehended such Coat-armours as consist of single and manifold lines as well charged as simple Other kind of bearing oâ— partition Now shall be handled such other kinds of bearing which albeit they consist of lines of Partition as the last spoken of do yet by reason of the variable apposition of some one or more lines of partition they do constitute another form of bearing and receive also a diverse denomination being called coats counter-changed or transmuted All which shall briefly yet plainly appear by the few examples following Counter-changing Counterchâ—ged what Resemblancâ— or Transmutation is an intermixture of severall metalls or colours both in field and charge occasioned by the apposition of some one or more lines of partition Such coat-armours may be fitly resembled to the party coloured Garments so much esteemed in ancent time 2 Sam. 13.4 as they were hâ—ld meet for the daughters of Kings during the time of their virginity So we read of Thamar the daughter of king David Erat induta tunica versicolore sic enim vestiebantur filiae Regis virgines pallis Gen. 7.3 and so we read that Joseph the speciall beloved son of Israel was by his father clad in a coat of divers colours Touching the high estimation of which kind of Garments Judg. 5.30 we find where the mother of Sisera discoursing with her Ladies touching her sons overlong stay after the battel against the Israelites said Partiuntur praedam puellam unam imo duas in personam quamcunque praeda versicolorum est Siserae praeda versicolorum Phrygionicum opus c. Bends saith Sir John Ferne or any other principall charges Ordinary may be parted of two colours or more And such bearing is no novelty in Armes but are as ancient as the Norman conquest and before so as they are both honourable and Ancient Of which sort of bearing you shall in part see in these next ensuing Escocheons Sometimes you shall find coat-armours parted per pale Indented and counter-changed as in this next Escocheon SECT V. CHAP. III. Armes abstracted from Ordinaries THere are certain other kinds of bearing of Armes having no colour predominating and are named of the severall things from whence they are derived for such are abstracted either from charges ordinary or common Of the first sort are such as being derived from some of the Ordinaries intreated of formerly have their derivation either manifest and do keep their name or else Obscure and do lose their name Those are said to have a manifest derivation whose Originall is apparently discerned to be abstracted from some of the said Ordinaries as from Pale Bend Fesse Barre c. Such are these that follow and their like Sometimes you shall find a coat-armour composed of more then of six of these pieces as in this next example Note that these and such others are no less subject to charging both in part and over then those last exemplified as by the ensuing examples is apparant Without that charge this is the coat of another Family of this name of which is that eminent Divine and Excellent Antiquary Doctor Sanderson of the Country of Lincoln SECT V. CHAP. IV. HAving given Examples of Coats abstracted from Ordinaries by a manifest derivation Of such as derived aâ—â— an obscure manner now followeth in order to speak of such as have their derivation from them after a more obscure manner as in example Now I will shew you a coat-armour which although it be of this kind yet doth it much differ from the former This shall suffice for coat-armours having an obscure derivation from some of the Ordinaries and do keep their name Of such as do lose the name of their Ordinaries whereof they are composed I find onely one sort which is checkie And this form of bearing is also chargeable both in part and all over as shall appear by these next examples wherein I do omit to exemplifie the single sort of bearing Aâ—iden Arm. 1â— because the same is manifestly and universally known but will explain the compound onely as followeth Concerning coat-armous having no colour predominating and are derived from Ordinaries that which hath been spoken is sufficient I will now conclude with one example of such as are abstracted for common charges viz. for Fusils Mascles and Losenges which being born all over the Field are termed in blazon Fusely Losengie Masculy that is Fusil-ways Losenge-ways Mascle-wayes These also are found charged and that all over as in this example Jo. Buddenus in Wainflets life affirmeth his name to be Patten of which Family this is the
some Noble Family yet are they themselves but ignoble persons Foure parts of Nobility In which respect Aristotle discoursing of nobility makes foure parts thereof the first of Riches the second of Bloud the third of Learning the fourth of Vertue and to the two last he ascribeth the first place of true Gentry because Boores may be rich and Rake-hels may be of ancient bloud but vertue and knowledge cannot harbour but where God and nature hath left their noble endowments Which made Bartholus to say that good men and wise men were nobles in Gods sight as rich men and great men were nobles in mens eyes Threefold Nobility according to Bartho Yet the same Bartholus ascribeth the due honour unto each kind of Nobility which he maketh to be three-fold Theologicall Naturall Politicall the first and chief consisteth in Piety and vertues of grace the second in the noble qualities of Nature the third in the degrees of estimation in the Common-wealth This last is it we here chiefly meddle with not that we reject the two former but that we suppose we live in such a State where the two first kinds of Nobility are rewarded with the last kind and thereby made more illustrious The common phrase of forrain Nations is different from ours Different phrase of Nations concerning the Titles of men of reputation they esteeming every man Noble which hath any excellency remarkable above others so saith Iodocus Clicthovius Nobilitas est generis vel alterius rei excellentia ac dignitas whereas we English repute none noble under the degree of a Baron and with them Generosus is a greater title than Nobilis whereas with us it is much inferiour The truth is that the two titles of Nobility and Gentry are of equall esteem in the use of Heraldry though custom hath equally divided them and applyed the first to Gentry of the highest degree and the latter to Nobles of the lowest rank Distinct orders of Gentry And amongst these Gentlemen of low note there are also sundry Orders as some by bloud some by office some by possessions some by sacred Academicall dignity all which come not within the verge of this our purpose till the State hath honoured them with the bearing of Coat-Armours as the Ensigns of their worth CONCILII NVTRIX TACI TVRNIAS The Atchievement of a Gentleman HE beareth two Coats quarterly first Argent a Fesse Ermine cottised Sable by the name of Harlstone secondly Sable a Cheuron between three Leopards heads Or by the name of Wentworth and for his Crest on a Helmet befitting his degree mantled Gules doubled Argent out of a Crown Or a Stags Head Ermine attired Or bearing a Hawthorne bush with berries proper And for his Motto Concilii nutrix taciturnitas This is the Atchievement or Bearing of Robert Harlestone now Secretary to the Right Honourable William Lenthall Esquire Master of the Rolls and Speaker of the Parliament begun the third of November 1640. second Son of John Harlestone of South Osindon in the County of Essex and of Jane Daughter and Coheire of Philip Wentworth a younger Brother of the Lord Wentworth of Netlested Of this Family have been divers eminent persons as Sir John Harl ston Governour of Hauure-du-grace in the time of Edward the fourth Richard Harleston Valectus de Camera to the King and conquered for the Crown of England the Islands of Garnesey and Jersey COLENS DEVM ET REGEM The Atchievement of an Esquire HE beareth two Coats impaled Baron and Femme the first Gules on a Bend Or three Martlets Sable by the name of Collins the second Azure a Fesse between three Chesse-rooks Or by the name of Bodenham ensigned with Helmets befitting the persons quality on Wreaths of the Colours of the Coats on the first a demy Griffon Or collered Argent the second a Dragons head erased Sable The Motto Colens deum regem This is the bearing of Samuel Collins Doctor in Physick late Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge onely Son of John Collins late Parson of Retherfield in Sussex descended from the ancient Family of the Collins of the Counties of Somerset and Devon which Doctor marryed Anne eldest Daughter of John Bodenham Esquire lineally descended from the Knightly and ancient Family of the Bodenhams of Wiltshire and Herefordshire alli'd to divers of the ancient Families of the Nobility and Gentry The Dignity of an Esquire is the second degree of Gentry the reason of whose denomination we gave elsewhere As in the first rank of Gentry so in this there are sundry kinds according to the custom of this Kingdom concerning which point you may read learned Master Cambden in his Britannia and by the custom of England Doctors whether of Divinity Civil Law or Physick are esteemed Esquires HE bears two Coats quarterly viz. First Argent three Bears heads erased Sable musled Or by the name of Langham Secondly Ermine a Cheuron Gules within a Bordure engrailed Sable by the name of Revel the Creast on a Helmet befitting his quality and Wreath of his Colours a Bears head erased Sable musled Or mantled Gules doubled Argent which is the bearing of that worthy Gentleman John Langham of London and Cottesbrook in the County of Northampton Esquire descended in a direct male line from Henry de Langham who probably took the denomination deriv'd to his posterity from Langham in the County of Rutland for his son William de Langham held three Caracuts of Land in Langham in that County who by his son William was Grandfather of Robert Langham living the forty fourth of Edward the third who marryed Margaret Daughter and Heir of Sir John Revell of Newbold in Warwick-shire relict of Sir Stephen Mallory of Leicestershire Knight which John Langham by Elizabeth his wife 30. Ed. 1. Daughter of James Bunce Esquire is the happy Father of a hopefull and accomplisht issue viz. James Langham Esquire William Stephen and Thomas Langham and as many daughters Elizabeth lately deceased wife of Philip Botiler of Woodhall in Hertford-shire Esquire Anne wife of Sir Martin Lumley Baronet Rebecca and Sarah unmarried 1659. FE MID VN BVEN HIDALGO The Atchievement of a Knight HE beareth eighteen Coats quartered The first Azure a Fesse between three Chesse-rooks Or by the name of Bodenham Second Or on a Fesse Sable a Lyon passant Argent by the name of Huish Third Gules three Bars gobony Argent and Sable by the name of Delabau Fourth Sable a Bucks head cabossed Or by the name of Wells Fifth Or a Lyon Rampant Vert a la double queve by the name of Dudley Sixth Argent a quarter Sable a Cressent Gules by the name of Sutten Seventh Or two Lyons passant Azure by the name of Somery Eighth Azure a Crosse patee Argent by the name of Lexington Ninth Sable three Garbes Argent banded Gules by the name of _____ Tenth Gules a Cinque-foyle Ermine Bellamont Eleventh Argent three Bars embattilee Gules Barry Twelfth Or on a Fesse Gules
three Waterbougets Argent Bingham Thirteenth Argent a Crosse patee Azure Mâ—lpas Fourteenth Sable three Saltiers engrailed Argent Lexington Fifteenth Argent on a Crosse Gules five Mullets Sable Bodenham Sixteenth Sable three Pick-axes Argent Pigot Seventeenth Argent a Crosse patee Azure a Label Gules Bevercote Over all in an Escocheon of pretence France a Lyon Rampant Or a Cressent for a difference by the name of Beaumont Hereon three Crests first on a Wreath or Torce Or and Azure a Dragons head erased Sable mantled as the Wreath Secondly or middlemost a plume of Feathers Argent and Sable on a Wreath Argent and Azure mantled Azure doubled Argent Thirdly a Foxes head erased Gules on a Wreath Argent and Sable mantled Sable doubled Argent set on three open Helmets befitting the degree of a Knight Motto Fe mid un buen hidalgo being an Anagram of his name thus englished Faith measures a good Cavalier This is the Atchievement of Sir Wingfield Bodenham son of Sir Francis Bodenham son of Sir William Bodenham of Ryhall in the County of Rutland Knights descended of a younger son of Sir John Bodenham of Nonington in the County of Hereford Knight Here you may observe the difference betwixt the Helmet of an Esquire and a Knight being the third degree of Gentry OMNIA DESVPER THe next in order and degree of precedency is an hereditary honour entituled Baronets quasi Petit Barons of whose creation priviledges and other concernments you may be more fully satisfied in a supplement to this Book being a peculiar account of this Order He beareth two Coats quarterly First Or two Lyons Passant Gardant Gules Secondly Or a Fesse Varry between three Cinquefoyles Gules and are both borne by the name of Ducy An Inescocheon with the Armes of Vlster or Tyrone viz. Argent a sinister hand coupee Gules the Crest on a Helmet befitting a Baronet a Chapeau Gules lined Ermine thereon an Estrich rowsant Or Mantled Gules doubled Argent which is the bearing of the Honourable Sir William Ducy of Tortworth in the County of Glocester Baronet heir to his Brother Sir Richard Ducy Baronet deceased sons of Sir Robert Ducy Lord Mayor of London 1630. created Baronet 1629. Nov. 28. Knighted 1631. who by his wife Elizabeth Daughter of Richard Pyot Alderman of London had issue beside the said Sir Richard and Sir William Ducy Robert third son Hugh Ducy fourth Son and John Ducy fifth Son deceased DE BON VOVLOIR SERVIR LE ROY THis is the Atchievement of the Right Honourable William Grey Baron Grey of Warke in the County of Northumberland who was by King James created Baronet June 15. 1619. Son of Sir Ralph Grey of Chillingham in the said County Knight extracted from a long continuation of Knights of eminence and large estates in that County one of whom Sir John Grey was by King Henry the fifth for his good service in France created Earle of Tanquerville there see Vincent This Noble Gentleman was by the said King created Lord Grey of Warke to him and his heirs males 11. Feb. 1623. and is living 1660. he married the virtuous Lady Cecilia eldest Daughter and Co-heir of Sir John Wentworth of Costiel in Suffolk Knighted 1603. created Baronet 1611. by Katharine Daughter of Sir Moyle Finch and Elizabeth Countess of Winchelsey by whom he hath issue living the Honourable Thomas Grey Esquire eldest son Ralph second son and two Daughters Elizabeth and Katharine He beareth Ruby a Lyon Rampant within a Bordure engrailed Pearl by the name of Grey a Scocheon of pretence Diamond a Cheuron between three Leopards heads Topaz by the name of Wentworth For his Creast on a Barons Helmet and Wreath of his colours a Scaling Ladder Topaz the Grapple or iron Hooks Saphire his Supporter on the dexter side a Lyon gardant Purple purfled and crowned Topaz on the sinister side a Cat-a-mountain Proper viz. greyish erect on a Scroll therein his Lordships Motto De bon Vouloir Servir Le Roy. DIEV DEFENDE LE DROIT THis was the Atchievement of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Spenser Knight Baron Spenser of Wormeleiton in the County of Warwick deceased father of William now Baron Spenser which Robert Lord Spenser was most worthily advanced to that degree by our late Soveraign Lord King James Anno regni sui primo in regard of his Lordships many Noble vertues be fitting that Dignity who bare eight Coats marshalled in one Shield as followeth viz. First quarterly Pearle and Ruby the second and third charged with a Fret Topaz over all on a Bend Diamond three Escalops of the first being the ancient Coat belonging to this noble Family as a branch descended from the Spensers Earles of Gloucester and Winchester The second is Saphire a Fesse Ermine between six Sea-mewes heads erased Pearl born also by the name of Spenser The third is Ruby three Stirrops leathered in Pale Topaz by the name of Deverell The fourth is Topaz on a Crosse Ruby five Stars Pearl by the name of Lincolne The fifth is Pearl a Cheuron between three Cinquefoiles pierced Ruby by the name of Warsteede The sixth is Ermine on a Cheuron Ruby five Beisants a Cressant in chief of the second by the name of Graunt The seventh is Pearl on a bend between two Lyons Rampand a Wiverne with the wings overt of the first by the name of Rudings The eighth and last is party per Cheuron Saphire and Topaz three Lyoncels passant gardant counter-changed a chief Pearl by the name of Catlyn all within the Escocheon And above the same upon a Helmet fitting the degree of a Baron a Mantle Ruby doubled Pearl thereupon within a Crown Topaz a Griffons head with wings displayed Pearl gorged with a Gemew Ruby And for his Supporters on the Dexter side a Griffon parted per fesse Pearl and Topaz gorged with a Collar Diamond charged with three Escalops Pearl whereunto is affixed a Chain reflected over his loynes Diamond Armed Ruby And on the Sinister side a Wiverne Pearl gorged also with a Collar whereunto is affixed a Chain reflexed over the hinder parts Diamond His Motto DIEV DEFENDE LE DROIT God defend the right being a worthy testimony both of his own honourable affection to right and equity and also of his Lordships repose and confidence not in the assistance of earthly honour and wealth but in the only providence of the all-righteous and all-righting God This noble Lord was a president and patern of all honourable vertues munificence and affection to Heroick profession and knowledge I out of the obligation of my devoted mind thought it best to produce his Coat-Armour as â—e patern of all other Atchievements of that degree Of Barons THe reason of the name of Barons is not so well known in England as is their greatness Some derive it from a Greek word Baru signifying Gravity as being men whose presence should represent that which their Title doth imply The French Heralds take Barons to be Par-homines Peeres or men of equall dignity