twofold Line Spirewise or Pyramidal the Foundation being in the Dexter and Sinister base points of the Escocheon and the acute Angle of the Spire near to the top of the Escocheon As in Example The Content of the Chevron is the fifth part of the Field according to Leigh but Chassanaeus reckoneth the same amongst those Ordinaries that do occupy the third part of the Field You may have two Chevrons in one Field saith Leigh but not above and if they exceed that number then shall you call them Chevron ways But I suppose they might be termed much better Chevronels that is to say minute or small Chevrons for so is their blazon more certain This Charge following and the Subdivisions thereof are diversly born as well in respect of the divers location as of the variable form thereof for sometimes it is born on chief otherwhiles on base sometimes enarched sometimes reversed sometimes fretted c. as after by Examples appeareth Argent two Cheverons Sable is the Coat-Armour of Sir Ioseph Ash of Twittenham in Middlesex Baronet and of William Ash of Hatchbury in Wiltshire Esquire Gules three Cheverons Or by the Name of Mathews and is born by Lemuel Mathews A. M. Arch-Deacon of Down in the Kingdom of Ireland and by his brother Man Mathews Vicar of Swansey in Glamorganshire Or three Chevrons Gules was the Coat of Robert base Son of Henry the First who was created Earl of Gloucester by his Father and had Issue William Earl of Gloucester which William had three Daughters and Coheirs viz. Isabel who was married to King Iohn Mabel who married to the Earl of Eureux and Amicia married to Richard Earl of Clare and Glocester This Robert built the Castles of Bristol and Cardiff and the Priory of St. Iames in Bristol where he lyeth interr'd This Coat with a due difference is born by Mr. Iohn Wise of the City of London Master Plummer to the Office of his Majesties Ordnance The Subdivisions of this Ordinary are Chevronel Couple-close A Chevronel is a diminutive of a Chevron and signifieth a minute or small Chevron and containeth half the quantity of the Chevron as for Example The next in order to the Chevron is the Barr. A Barr is composed of two Equi-distant Lines drawn overthwart the Escocheon after the manner of the Fess before-mentioned as in this next Escocheon appeareth A Barr is subdivided into a Closet Barulet A Closet is a Charge abstracted from a Barr and consisteth also of two Equi-distant Lines drawn overthwart the Escocheon As in Example Azure two Barrs Or is the Coat-Armour of the ancient Family of the Burdets of Warwickshire Argent two Barrs Sable is born by Edward Brereton of Burras in Deubighshire Esquire Hitherto of a Barr Now of a Gyron A Gyron is an Ordinary consisting of two streight Lines drawn from divers parts of the Escocheon and meeting in an acute Angle in the Fess point of the same A Gyron as one saith is the same that we call in Latin Gremium which signifieth a Lap and is the space between the Thighs and thence perchance do we call the Groyn which name whether it be given to this Charge because it determines in gremio in the very lap or midst of the Escocheon or because it hath a bending like the Thigh and Leg together I cannot define Gyrons are born diversly viz. single by couples of six of eight of ten and of twelve as shall appear hereafter where I shall speak of Arms having no tincture predominating For the making this Ordinary behold this next Escocheon where you shall find one single Gyron alone which doth best express the manner thereof as in Example So much of a Gyron Now of a Canton and Quarter A Canton is an Ordinary framed of two streight Lines the one drawn perpendicularly from the Chief and the other transverse from the side of the Escocheon and meeting therewith in an acute Angle near to the corner of the Escocheon as in this next appeareth Hitherto of a Canton now of a Quarter The Quarter is an Ordinary of like composition with the Canton and holdeth the same places and hath great resemblance thereof insomuch as the same Rules and Observations that do serve for the one may be attributed to the other Quia similium similis est ratio of like things the reason is alike The only difference between them is that the Canton keepeth only a cantle or small portion of the corner of the Escocheon and the Quarter comprehendeth the full fourth part of the Escocheon as in Example Having spoken of the Canton and Quarter as much as for this present is requisite I will reserve some other their adjuncts to a more convenient place And will now speak of a Pile shewing some variable Examples of the divers bearing thereof A Pile is an Ordinary consisting of a twofold Line formed after the manner of a Wedge that is to say broad at the upper end and so lessening by degrees throughout with a comely narrowness and Taper growth meeting together at the lower end in an acute Angle as in this next Escocheon appeareth The Pile I take to be derived from Pilum an ancient Weapon peculiar to the Romans shaped somewhat like a Dart without Feathers but thicker at the great end and waxing smaller Taper-wise being about five foot in length and sharpned at the point with Steel And such were the offensive Arms of the Hastati and Principes as Polybius of the Roman Militia affirmeth And Generals themselves have born them in their Marches perhaps to encourage the Souldiers by their Examples all which is proved by the excellent Lucan lib. 1. who lamenting the misery of a Civil War thus complains Totis concussi viribus orbis In commune nefas infestisque obvia signis Signa pares aquilas Pila minantia Pilis where arm'd to impious war The force of all the quaking world from far Is met dire Standards against Standards dash Eagles 'gainst Eagles 'gainst Piles Piles do clash And Lib. 7. sceleris sed crimine nullo Externum maculent Chalybem stetit omne coactum Circa Pila nef as But no dire crime could stain the Strangers Steel Nought could do mischief but the Roman Pile Lastly describing Cato's magnanimity in his rough March through Lybia he thus singeth Lib. 9. Ipse manu sua Pila gerens c. Thus Englished Himself afoot before his wearied Bands Marches with Pile in hand and not commands This Coat is also born by his Uncle the Right Honourable Denzel Holles Baron Holles of Ifield and one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. whose only Son and Heir apparent is Sir Francis Holles of Winterborn St. Martyn in Dorsetshire Baronet who hath Issue now living Denzel Holles c. Sometimes you shall find this Ordinary born transposed or reversed contrary to the usual form of their bearing viz. with their points upward which naturally ought to be downwards being supposed to be a piece of
Accidents should have such power in them For Aristotle Physicorum 1. saith Accidentia possunt miraculose non alias mutare subjectum Accidents change not their Subject but by Miracle Addition doubtless and Subtraction are of greater force than Transmutation or Location yet is there no such power in them as that they can alter the essence of any thing Quia augmentum vel diminutio saith Chassanaeus circa accidentia contractuum non reponunt contractum in diverso esse neque per ea intelligitur ab eo in substantialibus recessus the adding or diminishing of Accidents makes not the thing lose the nature of his being This Coat with the Arms of Vlster is born by Sir Iohn Molineux of Teversal in Nottinghamshire Baronetâ— and with the Arms of Vlster with a due difference is born by Darcy Molineux of Mansfield in the said County Esq Nephew to the said Sir Iohn Leigh in Blazoning of this form of Cross maketh no mention at all of the piercing thereof perhaps because it resembleth the Ink of a Mill which is evermore pierced This is termed Quarter pierced quasi Quadrate pierced for that the piercing is square as a Trencher The Augmentation born on the Bend was granted unto the Right Noble Thomas Duke of Norfolk and to his Descendants by King Henry the Eighth for his signal Service as General of the Army which gave that remarkable overthrow at Floding to King Iames the Fourth of Scotland which said Duke was by King Henry the Seventh created Knight of the Garter and made Lord High Treasurer of England So much of the Cross with the Accidents thereof Now of that other Ordinary that is framed also of a fourfold Line that is to say a Saltire A Saltire is an Ordinary consisting of a fourfold Line whereof two are drawn from the Dexter chief towards the Sinister base corners and the other from the Sinister chief towards the Dexter base points and do meet about the midst by couples in acute Angles I know the Learned Geometer will find many more Lines here than I do mention but as I said of Lines in the Cross this our description greeth best with Heralds and our purpose Azure a Saltier Argent is the Coat-Armour of Sir William York of Burton-Pedwardin in Lincolnshire Knight Sable a Saltier Argent is born by the name of Ducket of Steeple-Morden in Cambridgeshire In old time saith Leigh this was made of the height of a man and was driven full of Pins the use whereof was to scale the Walls therewith to which end the Pins served commodiously In those days saith he the Walls of a Town were but low as appeareth by the Walls of Rome which Rhemus easily leaped over and the Walls of Winchester which were overlooked by Colebrand the Chieftain of the Danes who was slain by Guy Earl of Warwick who was Champion for King Athelstane Argent a Saltier engrailed Sable by the Name of Middleton This with the Arms of Vlster is the Coat-Armour of Sir George Middleton of Leighton near Warton in Lancashire Baronet CHAP. VIII HAving hitherto shewed at large the several forms of making of such Charges as we call honourable Ordinaries Order requireth that I should now shew their diverse manner of Bearing according to our prefixed Distribution These are born Simple Compound Those are said to be born Simple when only Ordinaries do appear in the Field These Ordinaries comprehend One sort Divers sorts Ordinaries are said to be of one sort when only one kind of them is born in the Field without mixture of any other Whose bearing is Single Manifold By single Bearing I understand some one Ordinary born alone in the Escocheon such are these precedent Examples before handled By manifold bearing of Ordinaries I mean the bearing of divers Ordinaries of the same kind whether the same be born of themselves alone or else conjunctly with some of their Subdivisions Which form of bearing is twofold viz. One upon another One besides another What is meant by the bearing of Ordinaries of one kind one upon another may be easily conceived by these four Escocheons next following Proceed we now to Examples of Ordinaries of the same kind born one besides another such are these next following and their like The Field is Argent two Bends Gules This Coat-Armour I find in an ancient Manuscript of Collection of Englishmens Arms in Metal and Colours with the Blazon in French of the time of our Henry the Sixth as it is apparent by the Character of the Letter over which Coat-Armour is there written the Bearers name viz. Monsieur Iohn Haget from whom Mr. Bartholomew Haget late Consul of Aleppo deriveth his descent This Book at this present remaineth in the custody of a worthy Friend of mine a curious Collector and careful Preserver of such ancient Monuments Gules two Bends the upper Or and the lower Argent was born by Milo Fitz-water who by King Henry the First was made Earl of Hereford and Constable of England and Lord of the Forest of Dean in right of his Wife Daughter and Heir of Bernard Newmarch Lord of Brecknock This Coat is now quartered by Sir Ralph Verney of Middle Claydon in Buckinghamshire Mr. Boswell in his Works of Armory observeth That the Bearer of such Bends as these or of the like Coat-Armour may be thought to have done some great enterprise upon the Seas worthy of perpetual commendation As for Ordinaries of other sorts born likewise one besides another of the same kind behold these next Examples Now from Ordinaries of the same kind born one upon another with their extracted Subdivisions proceed we to Ordinaries of divers kinds and their Diminutives abstracted from them eftsoons found likewise born both one upon another and one besides another Such are these next following and their like Now for Ordinaries of divers kinds born one besides another you shall have these Examples ensuing Robert Lisle who was a Baron in the times of King Edward the Second and Edward the Third bore the same Coat-Armour And divers ancient and eminent Nobles of this Kingdom do rightfully quarter these Arms being descended from the Heirs generally of the Family of Lisle Or a Fess between two Chevrons Gules was the Coat of Anselme Lord Fitz-water in the time of the Conquest of whom did descend Walter Fitz-water who had a Daughter and Heir that married to Robert Radcliff Father of Robert Radcliff Lord Fitz-water of whom descended Robert Radcliff Earl of Sussex and Viscount Fitz-water of which Family of Sir Francis Radcliff of Dilston in Northumberland Baronet now living 1675. The End of the Second Section Naturalia sunt specula eorum quae non videntur THis Third Section beginneth to treat of such Charges of Coat-Armours as are called Common Charges whereof some be Natural and meerly formal such are Angels and Spirits and others are both Formal and Material as the Sun Moon Stars as also such Natures as are Sublunary whether they be living after a sort as all
I will make more apparent by this next Example Azure a Maunch Or. This with the distinction of a Crescent Gules charged with another Or is the Paternal Coat-Armour of Edward Conyers Esq principal Store-keeper of his Majesties Ordnance and Armour in the Tower of London who is descended from the Family of Conyers late of Wakerly in the County of Northampton being a branch of that ancient Family of the Conyers of Sockburne within the Bishoprick of Durham whose Ancestors in the Reign of William the Conqueror had the Office of Constable of the Castle of Durham granted to them in Fee which Estate is yet continuing in the same Family though not in the same Name being descended to an only Daughter of 〈…〉 Conyers of Sockburne Esq who married the Right Honourable Francis late Earl of Shrewsbury From this Family is likewise descended the Right Honourable Conyers Lord Darcy Meynell and Conyers of Hornby Castle in the County of York whose Grand-father Thomas Darâ—y Esq married Elizabeth daughter and heir of Iohn Lord Conyers of Hornby And thence is also descended Tristram Conyers of Walthamstow in the County of Essex Serjeant at Law As touching Apparel we find that though the same be made chiefly to clothe our nakedness yet shall we find that they were not only ordained by the invention of man but also allowed and for some special end expresly commanded by God himself to be made and provided as well for glory as also for ornament and comliness as appeareth Exod. 28. Likewise thou shalt embroider the fine linnen Coat and thou shalt make the Mitre of fine linnen and thou shalt make the Girdle of needle work And for Aaron 's sons thou shalt make Coats and thou shalt make for them Girdles and Bonnets shalt thou make for them for glory and for beauty Rich Garments and costly Jewels are reckoned Ornaments as appeareth 2 Sam. 1. 24. Ye daughters of Israel weep over Saul who clothed you in scarlet with other delights who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel And they be called Ornaments because they do illustrate and adorn or beautifie the person that is garnished with them To this Head may be reduced all sorts of things whatsoever pertaining to the adorning decking or triming of the body as Combs Glasses Head-brushes Curling-bodkins c. and also Purses Knives c. Sir Thomas Palmer of Leigh near Tunbridge in Kent Kt. Grand-father to the elder Sir Henry Palmer Kt. before recited was owner of the Mannors of Tottington and Eccles in Aylesford and Boxley adjoying to Snodland aforesaid which came unto this Family by a match with a daughter of the Lord Poynings And Katharine Palmer this Sir Thomas Palmer's sister was married to Iohn Roe of Boxley in Kent Gent. Father of Reginald Roe of Leigh aforesaid Gent. Ancestor to Sir Thomas Roe Kt. living 1632. whose worthy merit in the discharge of many Embassages wherein he hath been imployed by this State deserves to be remembred with an honourable Character In respect we are now come to speak of Stamps and Coins I hold it not impertinent by the way to give some little touch of the Royalty of Coining It is therefore to be observed that the power to coin money hath been evermore reckoned to be one of the Prerogatives that in our common Law we do call Iura Regalia and pertaineth to the Sovereign Power amongst many Regal Immunities to that Supream Jurisdiction peculiarly belonging and to none others Nevertheless we read that Monarchical Kings and Sovereign States have imparted this Prerogative or Preheminence unto others their inferiours upon special acceptable service done or for whatsoever private respect as we may see Maccab. 15. 6. where amongst many other preheminences granted by Antiochus the son of Demetrius to Simon the high Priest which had been formerly granted to him by the Predecessors of Antiochus he enableth him to coin money saying I give thee leave to coin money of thine own stamp within thy Countrey To this Head must be reduced all other sorts of Bullion or Coin and whatever else pertaineth to traffick or commerce By this open Purse we may understand a man of a charitable disposition and a frank and liberal steward of the blessings which God hath bestowed upon him for the relief of the needyâ— Of such an one St. Hierome hath this saying Non memini me legisse mala morte mortuum qui libenter opera charitatis exercuit habet enim multos intercessores impossibile est multorum preces non exaudiri Though the shoe be an habit serving for the foot which is the most inferiour part of mans body yet it is not therefore to be contemned forasmuch as it is a note of progression and very behoveful for travellers In the Scriptures it is often taken for expedition as Psal. 60. In Idumaeam extendam calceamentum meum And proceeding to Idumea I will cast my shoe over it It was an ancient custome amongst the Israelites in transferring of possessions for him that departed therewith to pluck off his shoe and to deliver the same to his neighbour as now it is with us to pass livery and seisâ— of Inheritance by the delivery of a turf and sprigs taken off the ground and delivering the same to the Purchaser as appeareth in the Book of Ruth where it is said Now this was the manner before time in Israel concerning râ—deeming and changing for to stablish all things A man did pluck off his shoe and gave it to his neighbour and this was a sure witness By which Ceremony he publickly acknowledged that he had transferred and put over his whole right unto the Purchaser Ruth 4. 7 8 9. But in after Ages it seemeth the Jews passed Inheritances by Charters sealed and testified by witnesses a custome of use with us at this day at the Common Law as appeareth in the Prophesie of Ieremiah Men shall buy fields for money and make writings and seal them and take witnesses in the Land of Benjamin and round about Jerusalem c. 32. 44. And again Ier. 32. 25 And thon hast said unto me O Lord God buy unto thee a field for silver and take witnesses And I bought the field of Hananeel my Uncles son that was in Anathoth and weighed him the money even seventeen shekels of silver And I subscribed the Evidence and sealed it and took witnesses and weighed him the money in the balances c. Now since I am casually fallen upon this Argument of sealing of Deeds I hold it not amiss to give some little touch by the way of the first coming in of this custome of sealing in this our Nation which is now of so frequent use amongst us First it is to be observed that our Ancestors the Saxons had not the same in use for they used only to subscribe their Names commonly adding the sign of the Cross. And I need not to prove the same by the testimony of divers witnesses for this custome continued here in
in Middlesex Gent. 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 ennoblished by his rare vertues and approved loyal Services done to Queen Elizabeth of blessed memory and to the King's 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 This Coat with a due difference is born by Colonel Thomas Sackvile of Selscome in Sussex a person that served King Charles the First in all his Civil Warrs and was one of the Captains of his Life-guards at the Battel of Edg-hill He was Son of Sir Thomas Sackvile of the said place Knight of the Bath and is now married to Margaret Daughter of Sir Henry Compton of Brambletye in the aforesaid County also Knight of the Bath by his first wife the Lady Cicely Sackvile Daughter to Robert Earl of Dorset As these last mentioned Coats are framed of straight 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 straightness of the lines wherewith they be divided so contrariwise 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 Miscils à miscendo of mingling to whom I will referr you touching Coats of that kind for that he hath exemplified them at large in his Accidence of Armory CHAP. II. IN the former Chapter are comprehended such Coat-Armours as consist of single and manifold lines as well charged as simple Now shall be handled such other kinds of hearing 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 omore lines of Partition they do constitute another form of bearing and receive also a diverse denomination being called Coats counterchanged or transmuted All which shall brieflyâ— yet plainly appear by the few Examples following Counterchanging or transmutation is an intermixture of several Metals 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-garements so much esteemed in ancient time as they were held meet for the Daughters of Kings during the time of their virginity So we read of Thamar the Daughter of King David Erat induta tuâ—ica verse-colore sic enim vestiebantur filiae Regis virgines pallis and so we read that Ioseph the special beloved Son of Israel was by his Father clad in a Coat of divers colours Touching the high estimation of which kind of garments we find where the Mother of Sisera discoursing with her Ladies touching her Son 's over-long stay after the Battel against the Israelites said Partiuntur praedam puellam â—uamâ— imo duas in personam quamcunque praeda versicolorum est Siserae praeda versicolorum Phrygioncium opus c. Bends saith Sir Iohn Ferne or any other principal Charges Ordinary may be parted of two colours on more And such bearing is no novelty in Arms 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 counterchanged as in this next Escocheon As there is counterchanging as in these precedent Examples so also may you observe the like bearing Barr-ways as in this next Escocheon CHAP. III. THERE are certain other kinds of bearing of Arms having no colour predominating and are named of the several 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 Original is apparently discerned to be abstracted from some of the said Ordinaries as from Pale Bend Fess Barr c. Such are these that follow and their like Barry of six pieces Or and Azure by the Name of Constable These were anciently the Arms of one Fulco de Oyry a noble Baron of this Realm whose Daughter and Heir the Ancestor of these Constables had married and bore the Arms of the said Fulk according to the usual custome of that Age. Sometimes you shall find a Coat-Armour composed of more than 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 all over than those last exemplified as by the ensuing Examples is apparent This Coat with the Arms of Vlster is now born by Sir Robert Shirley of Staunton-Harold in Leicestershire of Chartley in Staffordshire of Ettington in Warwickshire and of Shirley Brailsford and Edneston in Darbyshire Baronet CHAP. IV. HAVING given Examples of Coats abstracted from Ordinaries by a manifest derivation 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 observe 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 only one sort which is checky 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 because the same is manifestly and universally known but will explain the compound only as followeth Of this Family of the Cliffords have been many Persons eminent in their Generations both in Peace and Warr and of late years George Earl of Cumberland famous for his many Services under Queen Elizabeth especially his taking Porto Rico in America from the Spaniards and since him Thomas Lord Clifford Baron of Chudleigh in Devonshire late Lord High Treasurer of England under his Majesty King Charles the Second Concerning Coat-Armours having no colour predominating and are derived from Ordinaries that which hath been spoken is sufficient I will now conclude with two Examples of such as are abstracted for common Charges viz. from Fusils Mascles and Lozenges which being born all over the Field are termed in blazony Fusily Lozengy Masculy that is Fusil-ways Lozenge-ways Mascle-ways These also are found charged
Dorcas daughter of Richard Graves Esq deceased late Reader of Lincolns-Inn aforesaid He beareth Argent a Cross betwen four Spread-Eagles Gules by the Name of Strachey and is born by Iohn Strachey of Sutton-Court in Somersetshire Esq. He beareth Argent three Palmers Staves Sable the heads rests ends Or by the Name of Palmer and is the Coat-Armour of William Palmer of Winthorp in Lincolnshire Esq Captain of a Troop in the Regiment of his Graceâ— the Duke of Monmouth Captain-General of all his Majesties Land-Forces He beareth Gules on a Bend Or three Martlets Sable by the Name of Brabazon and is the Paternal Coat-Armour of Edward Brabazon of Ballyarthur in the County of Wickloe in the Kingdom of Ireland Esq second Son of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Meath deceased He beareth Ermyn on a Bend Sable two Hands and Arms to the Elbows issuing out of Clouds at the Elbows all proper holding an Horshoe Or by the Name of Borlace and is the Coat-Armour of Humphrey Borlace of Treluddro in the County of Cornwall Esq. He beareth Sable a Bend Ermyn between two Cottises flory Or by the Name of Keck and is the Paternal Coat-Armour of Anthony Keck of the Inner Temple London Esq He beareth Or a Bend engrailed between six Roses Gules by the Name of Warner and is the Paternal Coat-Armour of Iohn Warner of Brakenthwaite in the Parish of Kirby-Overblow in the West-Riding of Yorkshire Esq lineally descended from the Warners of Wárner-Hall in Essex Argent a Fess humid Gules between three Ravens rising to fly Sable born by Richard Peirce of the City of London Esq. He beareth Argent a Fess Nebule Gules between three Eagles displayed Sable by the Name of Cudmore and is the Coat-Armour of Thomas Cudmore of Kelvedon in Essex Esq son and heir of Thomas Cudmore Esq deceased by Dorothy eldest Daughter and Coheir of Sir Thomas Cecill Kt. son of Thomas Earl of Exeter by Dorothy Daughter and Coheir of Iohn Nevill Lord Latimer son and heir of Iohn Lord Latimer by Dorothy Daughter and Coheir of Sir George Vere Ktâ— which said Sir Thomas died Anno 1662. and lieth buried in Stamford-Baron in Northamptonshire amongst his Ancestors Per Pale Vert and Ermyn an Eagle displayed This Coat is born by Richard Goodlad of the City of London Esq. He beareth Gules a Cheveron Ermyn between three Flowers de Lis Argent by the Name of Crome and is the Paternal Coat-Armour of Valentine Crome of Mayden-Early in Berkshire Esq decended from the ancient Family of Lewis in Yorkshire Argent a Fess between three Flowers de Lis Sable by the Name of Evance which said Coat is born by Iohn Evance of the City of London Esq He beareth Gules a Quaterfoil Or by the Name of Rowe and is born by Anthony Rowe of St. Martins in the Fields in Middlesex Esq third son of Sir Tho. Rowe of Moswellhill in the said County Kt. Argent a Cheveron between three Cinquefoils Gules is born by Charles Beauvoir of the City of London Esq descended from the Family of the Beauvoirs in the Island of Garnsey He beareth Or two Barrs Azure in Chief three Escallop-hells Gules by the Name of Clark and is the Coat-Armour of Edward Clark of the Inner Temple London Esq son and heir of Edward Clark of Chipley in Somersetshire Esq He beareth Vert a Greyhound current in Bend Argent collared Gules studded Or by the Name of Blome and is born by Richard Blome of Abergwilly in Gaermarthenshire Esq by Io. Blome of Sevenoke in Kent Gent. and by Richard Blome of Chobham in the Parish of Westham in Essex Gent. This Coat being false cut in the body of the Book is here rectified He beareth Gules a Cheveron â—ngrailed Ermyn between three Eagles Argent by the Name of Child This with the Arms of Vlster is the Coat-Armour of Sir Iosias Child of Wanstead in the County of Essex Baronet He beareth Argent a Bend Sable in the sinister Chief a Garb Gules by the Name of Whitworth and is the Coat-Armour of Richard Whitworth of Adbaston in the County of Stafford Gent. He beareth Sable on a Bend Argent three Lozenges of the Field by the Name of Carington and was the Coat-Armour of Iohn Carington of Sponton in the North Riding of Yorkshire Gent. deceased second son of William Carington of Sponton aforesaid Esq who was second Brother to Iohn Carington of Carington in Cheshire Esq Thus having largely treated of all the parts of Atchievements our next business will be to represent them conjoyned together for which we will referr the Reader to the second part viz. Honour Military and Civil TO THE Generous Reader My Task is past my Care is but begun My Pains must suffer Censures for reward Yet hope I have now my great pains are done That gentle Spirits will quite them with regard For when my love to Gentry here they find My love with love they must requite by kind But if the ungentle Brood of Envies Grooms Misdoom my Pains no force they do their kind And I 'le do mine which is to scorn their Dooms That use unkindly a kind well-willing mind Thus I resolve Look now who will hereon My Task is past and all my Care is gone A Conclusion BUt He alone that 's free from all defect And only cannot erre true Wisdom's Sire Can without error all in All effect But weak are men in acting their desire This Work is filde but not without a flaw Yet filde with Pain Care Cost and all in all But as it were by force of Natures Law It hath some faults which on the Printers fall No Book so blest that ever scap'd the Press For ought I ever read or heard without Correctors full'st of Art and Carefulness Cannot prevent it Faults will flee about But here 's not many so the easier may Each gentle Reader rub away their stains Then when the verbal Blots were done away I hope their profit will exceed their pains Besides it may be thought a fault in me To have omitted some few differences Of Coronets of high'st and low'st degree But this I may not well a fault confess For 'twixt a Duke and Marquess Coronets Is so small odds as it is scarce discern'd As here i' th' Earl and Vicounts frontilets May by judicious Artists now be learn'd Then these are faults that Reason doth excuse And were committed wilfully because Where is no difference there is no abuse To Grace Arms Nature Order or their Laws This breaks no Rule of Order though there be An Order in Degrees concerning This If Order were infring'd then should I flee From my chief purpose and my Mark should miss ORDER is Natures beauty and the way To Order is by Rules that Art hath found Defect and excess in those Rules bewray Order's defective Nature 's much deform'd But ORDER is the Center of that GOD That is unbounded and All circumscribes Then if this Work hath any likelyhood Of the least good the