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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67873	Honor rediviuus [sic] or An analysis of honor and armory. by Matt: Carter Esq.; Honor redivivus.	Carter, Matthew, fl. 1660.; Gaywood, Richard, fl. 1650-1680, engraver.	1660 (1660)	Wing C659; ESTC R209970	103,447	261

with little hazard Corona Obsidialis which was made of grass for him that had preserved an Army besiged Corona Civica for him that saved a Citizen from the Enemy made of Oaken boughs Corona Olivaris of Olive leavs for victory in the Olympick games And Corona Populea for young men that were found industrious and studious in the exercises of vertues But I find that amongst these rewards of honor the Crown made of Ivy called Corona Hederalis was only appropriated to the Poets and here we see the great encouragement given to Vertue which was an age doubtlesse when it was much exercised in all its species When vertuous moderation received an estimation in the minds of young Nobility before 〈◊〉 voluptuousnesse And Honor more aimed at by steps of Vertue than the engrossing parsimoniousnesse or expending profusenesse of the 〈◊〉 and unsatisfying uncertainty of riches 〈◊〉 doubtlesse a most Noble Age. And why should any man make himself so 〈◊〉 concern'd in the true honor of his creation as to set himself so little before the irrational 〈◊〉 as the Examples of ou idle and 〈◊〉 Age do too often demonstrate whilest all men naturally are ambitious of honor And why should not any man blush to be seen reaching at it that is only the recompence of vertue till by some virtuous testimony he hath declared his desert Certain I am no generous and noble spirit ever breathed in any age that did not present some opportunities of exercising virtue in one degree or other and the reward in some measure is ever a concomitant to Heroick and Ingenious merit Or should it in some case fail the truly generous soul though it misse its reward yet it thinks it honor to have deserved Honor and satisfies it self with that encouragement Thus I have given a succinct account of all manner of Bearings Some will here expect that I should now lay down rules to discover the worth of the Atchiever by the nature of the Atchivement as Guillim and others have 〈◊〉 It may be conjectured how far a Coat-Armor is more or lesse honorable by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of worth in the thing born but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 farther from thence to a 〈◊〉 of the quality of the merit for which that 〈◊〉 was a reward is altogether uncertain Therefore for conclusion I shal instance one Escutcheon of Examples more which I think though not difficult to blazon not easily reducible to any such judgement yet the Families well known of noble and 〈◊〉 Descent The first is Sab. a Crosse engrailed Or in the dexter Cant on a mullet Arg. an Inescutcheon of Ulstre the addition of a Knight Baronet being the Coat-Armor of Sir Tho. Peyton of Knolton in East-Kent Knight and 〈◊〉 The second is Ermin on a chief Azure three Lyoncels Rampant Or. The atchivement of Sir Anthony Aucher of Little-bourn in East-Kent The third is barry of twelve Or and Sable by Sir James and Sir Thomas Thynne of Long leak in Wiltshire The fourth is Arg. on a Cheveron Sab. three Escollop-shels Or between three peelets charged with as many Martlets of the first all within a border Vert by Anthony Hammon of St. Albons in East-Kent Esq The fifth is Arg. on a bend Az. three 〈◊〉 heads cabossed Or. On an Escutcheon of pretence Arg. a Cheveron Sab. betwixt three Ravens by Thomas Stanley of Cumberlow in Hertfordshire Esq the paternal coat his right by descent with the distinstion of the third house of the Earls of Derby the Escutcheon of pretence as by match with the daughter and heir of Sir James Enyon of Flower in Northamptonshire Where observe that although a man marry the daughter and heir of a Coat-Armor yet he hath not the power of quartering it but only to empale it or bear it thus in an 〈◊〉 of pretence the liberty of quartering being in the heir who enjoyes both their Coats by right of blood Observe also that if any thing be thus hid by an addition either Canton or Escutcheon of pretence it is notwithstanding to be nominated That no detriment be to the Coat The sixth is Gules three barbed arrows Arg. headed Or by Edward Hales of Tunstal in Kent Esq The seventh is Arg. a Cheveron between three Milrines Sab. by Roger James of Rigale in Surrey Esquire The eighth within a bordure bezanty Sab. Arg. an Imperial Eagle by the Family of the Killigrews in Cornwall The ninth Arg. a fesse Ermines between six Mullets Sab. by Steven Penckhurst of Buxsted in Sussex Esquire And now I hope I have not passed by any one thing that can be called pertinent to this discourse without some touch perhaps satisfactory enough to any indifferent contemplation The End of Armory The Orders of Knighthood in most places of Christendome and in particular first of the Order of St. George in England The Creation Robe of a Knight of y e Garter AS to Knighthood in generall enough hath been already discoursed in the first part of this Treatise I come now to speak of the severall Otders and especially those that are called Soveraign amongst which I must needs esteem that of the Garter or St. George in England to be as Noble as any in the World not from that epidemick humor of most Writers because it is of my own Nation but for the excellency of it self especially in that according to the Articles of its foundation none are to be admitted to the Honor but such as are Peers of the Realm For the first occasion of the erecting these Soveraign Orders of Knighthood above the more common was that as all Honors were instituted for the reward and encouragement of deserving persons so these for persons of more eminence or more excellent merit to receive a character that might in a higher nature than ordinary blazon their merit to the world And that Order or fraternity must needs be esteemed of greatest honor where the King shall submit himselfe to the badge of it This Order of the Garter we find to be instituted by Edward the third after a return from the Warrs against the French and Scots with eminent victories The occasion Sir William Segar says was but slight alluding as I conceive to the story of the King 's taking up the Countesse of Salisburies Garter Which he wearing on his own leg caused a jealousie in the Queen And from thence received the motto life Hony soit qui mal y pens Evill to him that evill imagines But I am of opinion that this humor arose from the French stories only who would be apt enough to endeavour an abatement of the honor of it lest its glory should appear too illustrious in the eye of the World and out-shine or eclipse their then blazing Star And that we may a little examine the truth let us observe the ridiculousnesse of the coherence of these merry scandalizers First they differ in their time as shall appear anon then concerning the Lady they take notice of to make up the pretty Romance the mistake is