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A96070	A discourse and defence of arms and armory, shewing the nature and rises of arms and honour in England, from the camp, the court, the city: under the two later of which, are contained universities and inns of court. / By Edward Waterhous Esq;.	Waterhouse, Edward, 1619-1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing W1044; Thomason E1839_1; ESTC R204049	70,136	238

libertine who takes what Arms he pleases since Arms are not in nudam notitiam but in honorem also And therefore it must come from the Fountain of Honour who is called Animata Lex and Terrestris Deus being as the Soul in the Common-wealths body the right eye in the Polyphemiz'd Statue of popularities which sweetens their visage and renders them of deformed Monsters amiable Objects This is the primum Mobile which carryes about all Orderly motions For this cause the Apostle commandeth by the spirit of God and his Apostolique Authority that Prayers and Supplications and giving of Thanks be made for all men for Kings and all that are in Authority under them that under them we may live peaceable lives in all godliness and honesty And when Holy David Sau's successor to the Kingdom not by inheritance for so Jonathan would have been nor by Usurpation for so he himself durst not have been For if his conscience smote him for cutting off the lap of Sauls Garment and He in a holy passion cryed out The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my Master the Lords anoynted to stretch forth mine hand against him seeing he is the anointed of the Lord as it is v. 6. what would have become of him If he had pull'd by sacrilegious hands the Crown from off his Masters head and put him to death to consolidate his title to his Throne But Holy David though a man of valour and victory was a man of Justice and Honour his right to be Saul's successor was of divine donation and especiall appointment of God whose all power is and who stated the Government in him as appeares 2 Sam. chap. 12. vers. ● and 8. And yet though God had determined his pleasure both as to Sauls life and Kingdom yet this blessed King who had entrance by his Oustre calls upon the most tender and pensive Instruments of passionate sadness to weep Weep saith he ye Daughters of Israel over Saul who cloathed you in Scarlet with other delights who put Ornaments of Gold upon your Apparel For surely he must be a very bad King who is not worthy peoples prayers when he is alive their teares when he is dead The supreme power was then firstly and chiefly one as in the elder Governments and as in the polity of God over the World For though he hath in the upper House of Glory Archangels and Angels who infinitely transcend us men in intellect power and dignity yet are they no participants in rule but ministring spirits to his Elect the members of this moveable House of Commons here on Earth or in the largest concession they are but tutelary of us Gloworms of ostentation and puffs of nullity the paramount power is Gods who termes himself a great King and who exercises his regality in ruling over the Kingdoms of men and giving them to whomsoever he will as the voyce from Heaven declared Dan. c. 4. v. 30. But though the supreme Power be one yet not onely one for there have been plures who like many figures in conjunction have made Numeralls of great duration and augustness Amongst the Graecians when of Aristocratique Constitution they gave honours and therefore were held lawful Judges of merits Nobilibus Athletis qui Olympia Pythia Isthmia Nemaea vicissent Graecorum majores ita Magnos instituerunt honores uti non modo in conventu stantes cum palma Corona ferunt laudes sed etiam cum revertantur in suas civitates cum victoria Triumphantes quadrigis in maenia in patrias invehebantur saith Budaeus so Lazius reports the Romans to do and so above this 1200 years have the Venetians and for a long time other later Governments But such Almanacks of Honour are not calculated for every Meridian There are Nations that will be dull Scholars to learn any lesson Antimonarchique for resolution like the Rock yields not to any stroke but the rod of Omnipotence and when God utters no voyce from Heaven against Nationall Lawes not diametrall to the revealed will his word There is a Maxime of the Law swayes much with many Neminem opportet esse legibus sapientiorem As then the Legitimus Judex in our case of honour is the Supreme so next to these Originals are the illustrious Copies drawn by their fair and magnified hands such as are Vice-royes Generalls Marshalls their civil and Military Representatives For there can be no doubt but that military rewards and honours as Arms and Knight-hood are included in their intended powers For there is no Argument more prevalent to elicit Souldiers valour then this of remuneration Thus I read in the fourth of Richard the second the Duke of Buckingham made many Knights when he entred France and again after battels well fought rewarded deserving gallants with Knighthood So the L. Admiral Howard in his voyage into Britany 4 H. 8. Anno 1512. and upon his winning Morleis 14 H. 8. Anno 1522. So the Duke of Suffolk 15 H. 8. when he gained Roy and the Earl of Hertford 36 H. 8. at Leith after the burning of Edenburgh The like 1 Ed. 6. was done by the Duke of Somerset protector of the young Kings person who Anno 1547 made above 50 Knights when he went for Scotland so did the Earl of Sussex 12 Eliz. and of Essex in Cadiz voyage And there is good reason for it for take away the power to give a badge of honour to a sonne of honour and the best rounds in the scalado of great attempts are removed si non pro fama pro nihilo est demicandum Good pay indeed and great plunder works most an end with the vulgar and ordinary stipendiary who having bruital ayms is satisfied with low and mean compensations but a spirit of elixerated mettle purely extracted from the Oare of avarice and quintessentially fixed upon the attainment of fame and the enamouring companions of Heroique vertue acquiesses in nothing but in the indubitate badges and testimonies of emeriting which his principall gives him For the courage which vehiculates his attempts and occasions his glory is Gods royal donative therefore the bravery of such a martial soul is of an immortal Origen and has no lesse Nobility then a Divine participation not essential but communicative The acceptation of the performance and the attestation of the gallantry of the subject acting it being made known by the notices and badges of conferred honour which are personal and Gentilicial For where actions performed by men do benefit posterity 't is fit the posterity of such actors should be dignified by their predecessors merit So St. Leo ad humanam pertinet laudem ut patrum decus in prole resplendeat So St. Ambrose writes of one Caepta patris dignitas in filio nobilitatur and Plyny for them all tells sonnes Magnum in Gloria patris Ornamentum Yea he is no man of honour who if worthies die issuless as often they

suscipienda yet by that authority the Yeoman or Handicrafts Tradesman could be compelled because he ought to be a man of blood and to have a fortune able to support the charge that dignity would contract Ne dignitas hujus ordinis vilesceret therefore by the Law he should have a Knights fee which is about five Hydes and in measure is 480 Acres reckoning 96 Acres to the Hyde and if men were not thus estated they were incapable of this dignity as were they also of being Coroners Or to serve for Parliament Or to enjoy other freedoms which Knighthood had which was instituted ad arma militaria suscipienda pro bono publico saith Sir Ed. Cook After as the Nation grew more numerous and honours appeared in request that every back might bear its own burden and one man of a name not bee injuriously molested for another this Statute of 1 of Hen. the 5th enjoynes that all Gentlemen and other persons should express their additions thence came the Addition Armiger and Generosus to be in use as Gentilicial affixes for they were primarily Military and have become distinctions civil onely by the adoption of Custom and the prevalence of peace whereby the Gown hath brought the helmet to the Barre and trains of artillery have vailed bonnet to the Trayn of Councel and owned the Senatorian Robe as the fountain of that legal being they had and the security of that pay they could expect 'T was so amongst the Romans till their Souldiers grew lawless and lost the honour of their promises And when Carthage so much doted on Military designs sacrosanctarum legum Justitiae politicarum rerum cultum aut abjecerat aut neglexerit which Servilius mentions as the cause of her ruine and conclusive downfall And therefore well it becomes the Civil Magistrate to be head For in him are lodged the Nations brain its vital and animal spirits in him is the life blood which assists to all Heroique and important affaires and carries Government afloat from the rocky shoares and fatal Catastrophe's of Anarchy and Tyranny The Holy Oracle tells us councel and strength are for the Warre First Councel then strength Councel to design and strength to execute Councel to command and strength to promote obedience For in that the Orator is brought forth as saying Ego meis Majoribus virtute mea praeluxi si prius noti non fuerint a me accipiant initium memoriae suae I am thorowly confirmed in the conviction that Nobility and Honour of Gentility and Arms bearing is as worthily merited by Learning as by courage Far be it from me to curtail that honourable esteem which our Ancestors gave Souldiers and Equestrian spirits that were an ingratitude to those lines from whence mine own Ancestors came and a baston of allay to that Gentleman who should extenuate the merit of military Grandees Our land lawes liberties were of old effects of that vertue courage and constancy the noble Gallants of England expressed in the field against the enemies of their Governours and Government and peace being the consectary of Gods blessing on that laudable resolution which gives being to the life and lustre of arts and professions of civil conversation ill expresses her self to her genitor If she do not bless the womb that bare her and the paps that gave her suck If the world rang of English Prowess when our Ancestors engaged in the Holy Land and made Conquests and gainings neerer home 'T would be a shame for an Englishman to declame against a Souldier or to account Furs and Emblems of Councel better armory then habiliments of Warres such as are Sword Shield Lance 'T is written of Johannes Galleacius that he so loved valiant men that he would purchase them to his party at any rate profiteri enim erat solitus nihil esse ea mercatura nobilius qua viri insignes pararentur For without question while Souldiers are choyce men who with the Gospel Centarion love Gods Nation and rayse and uphold Synagogues to his worship they are worthy to give the Lyon of the tribe of Judah in their banner and such Crucesignati may expect the King of Saints their Protector while they are for him the defender of the faith they will not dare to do violence to what ever has his Image and Superscription on it nor need they fear to suffer infamy or losse of life or member There is an act of Indempnity secures them He that honours me I will honour while they are promoters of order and a refuge to Gods exiles as were by Institution most military Orders They ought to be Companions in Government with the Gownmen and they have thriven the better for such Companions and Councellors in their conduct Alexander was no puisne in the worlds Militia when by the 27 year of his age he had subdued the most noted part of the world and wept that he had not another World to conquer yet he regulated his Motions by the Councell of Learned men and thought Achilles who had Homer the Trumpet of his glory more fortunate then himself whose memory could not be kept but in the Urnes of their wits and the repertories of their writings T is true Souldiers have the start of Scholars in their Eagled strength by the confidence of which they soar high making as they think their nest above Controll but their Egs may be sucked by industrious Ants and their Enterprises become addle thorough the diligent and accute vigilancies of those pen and inkhorn men which some Pseudomilites and reputed Martialists do vilifie Indeed there have been Souldiers oppressors of Religion and Learning and their professors who have come in with Attila's Motto Ira dei ego sum Orbis vastitas and have sacked Countries rifled Academies and disbanded Convents of Devotionaries no exception of Rome or his holiness in her to whom the Castle of St. Angelo became no refuge nor was any reverence expressed to his Pontificial Robes neither has the world wanted examples of the danger of armed men who with John of Leyden force their pretended setting up of Christ to be believed while they intend his suppression in those two great offices of Magistracy and Ministry which he has appointed and they would annihilate these Milites do therefore not deserve the renown of Warriors quia non habent virtutes necessarias ad militiam For a true Souldier and no Romulus Caesar or Alexander is too big for this name is a man of liberal and insordid principles true of his word f●difragous to none of a Justice like that of Marshall Bauciquaut under Charles the sixth of France who being Governour of Genoa expressed so signal Justice that it was usual for men to say to those that had injured them If you will not right me my Lord Marshall will and so abundant in pity this brave Souldier was that he instituted the order of the white Lady for defence of afflicted