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
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
have descended from the Collateral Lines of the Kings of England France Scotland c. Concerning those Modern Differences before expressed in the form of Six Ranks p. 25. viz. Crescents Mollets Martlets c. notwithstanding their institution was ingenious yet hath tract of time discovered their use to be dangerous especially in Martial Affairs by reason of their darkness and unapparent forms occasioned by imposition of one Difference upon another the peril whereof hath not a little extenuated their estimation Nevertheless their invention is not therefore to be condemned inasmuch as the Events have not fallen out answerable to the intention of their first Deviser Neither can it be therefore justly said to be done without ground of Reason as a certain Author noteth Si fiâ—â— in intellectâ— operantis sit rationabilis etiamsi non sequatur quod intenditur non idcirco dicitur irrationabiliter operari Here it is to be observed that Differences do in no ways appertain unto Sisters for that they are reputed to be separated and divided from the Family whereof they are descended inasmuch as when they are once married they do lose their own Surname and do receive their denomination from the Family whereof their Husbands are descended And so much doth the word Soror notifie unto us as Sosinus saith Soror est quasi seorsim nata à familia separata To Daughters it is permitted to bear the Arms of their Father even as the Elder Brother doth after his Fathers decease without any scandal or challenge of their Elder Brother for that to Daughters never were any Differences allowed and that for three causes First Because their Coats are never or very seldom advanced in the Field forasmuch as to that Sex War is reputed odious Secondly For that the Coat-Armour is no longer born by them than during their life for the same extendeth not to their Issue Lastly Because so long as Issue continueth of any of the Brethrens Lines they are debarred from the Inheritance Yet in some â—ases they shall bear the Coat-Armour to them and their Heirs as in Example If all the Issue of the Brethren happen to become extinct then the Daughters shall Inherit the Land of their Ancestor In which case they may therewithal assume his Coat-Armour and bear the same by themselves and their Heirs for ever But betwixt 〈◊〉 Sisters be allowed no Differences of Baâ—â—es of Pedegrees the Reason whereof is for that since by them the Name of the House cannot be preserved therefore they are admitted to the Inheritance equally and are adjudged but one Heir to all intents and purposes in Laws as well Martial as Civil without any eminent Prerogative either of Honour or Possession betwixt Elder and Younger CHAP. VII SO much of the Accidents of Arms viz. Tincture and Differences comprehended in the first part of our premised distribution Now of the second Member thereof viz. Parts of Arms. The parts of Arms are The Escocheon Ornaments without the Escocheon An Escocheon is the form or representation of a Shield of what kind soever and is so called of the Latin word Scutum which hath the same signification whence also an Esquire or Page takes his name of Scutiger signifying primarily a Target-bearer And the Target is not unaptly deduced from the Latin word Tergus a Beasts hide whereof at first Shields were made whereupon Pliny saith Tergus ad scuta galeasque impeuetrabile An impenetrable hide fit to make a Shield And the Poet Statius caesis clypeos vestire juvencis With Bullocks hides they clad their Shields Whence Virgil calls Ajax his Buckler Septemplex for the sevenfold doublings of Leather As elsewhere he describes a Target duo taurea terga made of two Ox hides But the clearest Star of our Profession Mr. Clarenceaux takes it from the British word Tarjan and that from the French Thireos which Pausanias saith is the Buckler in use amongst the old Gaules If any here should ask me Why then Escocheons-should be used in Heraldry since other men are invested with Ensigns of Honour besides Martial men I answer them that as to Military men that token is proper for reward of that kind of Service so if others by their Vertues Arts or Actions advance either the honour or the welfare of their Country their service is as beâ—oveful as the otheâ— and themselves as Defenders of Preservers of their Countries Peace and Happiness as I have formerly shewed deserve likewise the reward of the Escocheon being the Hieroglyphick or Emblem of Defence and Preserving In which respect that good Prophet Elijah was called The Chariots and Horsemen of Israel And by the Civil Law Imp. in L. Advoc. C. de Advoc. an Advocate is said to be Miles a Martial man and to have the same Prerogatives in that they do civium vitam patrimonium defendere defend the Life and Livelyhood of the Subjects Touching the divers forms of Shields I will not here speak every Country almost having their divers makings amongst which the smallest were in use amongst our old Britains as being most manageable and the greatest amongst the Romans and Grecians as may appear by Alexander who being to pass a River used his Shield for his Boat and his Spear for his Ruther to guide himself over And it was ever held more dishonourable for a man to lose his Buckler than his Sword in Field because it is more praise-worthy to defend a Friend than to hurt a Foe as a Noble General once said Mallem unum Civem c. I had rather save one good Subject than kill an hundred Enemies The Accidents in this Escocheon are Points Abatements Points are certain places in an Escocheon diversly named according to their several Positions Whereof some are Middle Remote The Middle Points are those that have their location in or near to the Center of the Escocheon Such are these viz. the Honour Fess Nombril Points The Fess Point is the exact Center of the Escocheon The Honour Point is the next above the same in a direct Line The Nombril is next underneath the Fess Point answering in a like distance from the Fess Point as Gerard Leigh hath set them down Remote Points are those that have their situation naturally in places further distant from the Center of the Escocheon Of these there are Superior Inferior The Superior Remote Points are those that have their being in the upper part of the Escocheon Of these there are Middle Extremes The Superior Middle Point doth occupy the precise midst of the Chief between the two Extremes The two Superior extreme Points do possess the corners of the chief part of the Escocheon And are termed Dexter Sinister The Superior Dexter Point hath his beginning near unto the right corner of the Escocheon in the Chief thereof The Superior Sinister Point is placed near the left Angle of the Chief in opposition to the Dexter Chief whereunto as also to the Middle Chief Point it answereth in a direct Line The Inferior
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
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
placed an Inescocheon of their Paternal Coat on the breast of the Imperial Eagle And also divers noble and worthy Families of this Land used the like bearing in the several reigns of sundry of our Kings viz. in the time of Richard the second Simon Burley bare in an Inescocheon the Arms of Husly In the time of Henry the fifth Richard Beauchampe the great Earl of Warwick bare the Arms of Spenser and Clare quarterly in an Inescocheon over his own Paternal Coat-Armour and many other in like sort Concerning the bearing of the Wives Coat-Armour by the Husband impaled or otherwise there are some that do boldly affirm That it is not permitted by Law but only tolerated through custome and do with Chassanaeus alledge for proof thereof Quod Arma non transeunt ad cognatos affines quia cognati descendentes ex femina non sunt de familia because by reason of her marriage she renounceth the Name of the Family whereof she is descended and assumeth the Name of her Husbands Family as we formerly shewed where we intreated of differences which are not permitted to the Females And an especial reason thereof may be this Quia Agnationis dignitas semper debet esse salva the Agnation which is of the Fathers side must be preserved entire and therefore the Honour or Arms of it not to be carried into another Family Now because some misunderstanding the Rule given in the sixth Chapter of the first Section where it is said That to Daughter never were any differences allowed do hold that the Husband in the impaling of his Wives Coat-Armour with his own may omit such difference as her Father admitting him to be a younger Brother or descended of a younger Brother bore to distinguish him from the elder brother I think it not amiss here to observe unto the young Student in Armory that every Gentleman of Coat-Armour which marrieth a Gentlewoman whose Father did bear any difference in his Coat ought in the impalement of his Wives Arms to retain the same difference which her Father bore as in these Examples But now to return to marshalling If a Coat-Armour that is bordured be born sole of it self then shall the bordure inviron the Coat round but if such a Coat be marshalled Paleways with another as a marriage then must that part of the bordure which respecteth the Coat annexed give place thereunto whether the Coat bordured be marshalled on the dexter part of the Escocheon or the sinister as in Example I will shew you in like manner how if a Coat-Armour bordured be honoured with a Canton quarter c. the bordure must in like manner give place unto them as in these next Examples may be seen Note that if a bordured Coat be to be marshalled amongst other Coats quarterly then shall no part of the bordure be omitted but the bordure shall environ the same round except it be honoured with a Chief Canton Quarter c. as aforesaid even as it were born alone of it self CHAP. II. FRom such marshallings as do betoken marriage I come to such as betoken a gift of the Sovereign by way of augmentation These are bestowed either for favour or merit though the very winning of favour with Sovereign Princes must be also reputed merit because Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est To win great Princes love great praise it merits Of the first sort are all those Armorial signs which the Sovereign to honour the Bearer and to dignifie his Coat-Armour doth annex to the Paternal Coat of some especial Favorites imparting unto them some parcel of his Royal Ensigns or Badges that so he may transferr to Posterities some Monument of his gracious Favour and of those some are marshalled Paleways and others otherways Of the first sort are the next Escocheons and their like wherein the priority of place is due to those of free gift which must be marshalled on the dexter side of the Escocheon before the Paternal Coat Ob reverentiam munificentiae Regalis as in Example These may serve sufficiently to exemplifie the bearing of augmentations or additions of Honour annexed to Paternal Coat-Armours Paleways Now shall follow such as are marshalled with them after some other manner for in some of them there is annexed a part in a part in other some the whole in a part By a part in a part I mean the annexing of a parcel of the Royal Ensigns or Badges of the Sovereign in or upon some one portion of the Escocheon as in or upon a Canton Chief Quarter c. as followeth in these next Examples Sometimes these augmentations are found to be born upon a Chief of the Escocheon above the Paternal Coat as in this next Example Now in the next place by the Whole in a part I mean the bearing of the Royal Ensigns of the Sovereign wholly in some part of the Escocheon as in Example Thus much for tokens of the Sovereigns Favour which kind of gifts though the proceed also from high merit for the most part in the receivers yet we rather entitle them favours than merits because their gratitude is the greater by whom such Princely regards are rather imputed to their Sovereigns meer bounty than to their own desert CHAP. III. IN the precedent Chapter enough hath been said of augmentations or additions of Honour bestowed by the Sovereign in token of Princely Favour Now of such as he giveth in remuneration of merit either immediately by himself or mediately by his General or Vicegerent either in requital of acceptable service performed or for encouragement to future honourable attempts which is then chiefly effected when vertue is duly rewarded Such remunerations are conferred upon men imployed either in warfare be it secular or spiritual or in affairs civil Of the first sort were those that were professed in the several orders of spiritual Knighthood of late use in this Land but now abolished viz. the Knights of Saint Iohn of Ierusalem and Knights Templers of which the first is the chiefest whose beginning saith Sir Iohn Ferne was in the time of Godfrey first Christian King of Ierusalem The profession of this Order was to fight for Gods honour against the Infidels and as they were taught by the Romish Synagogue for holy St. Iohn This Order was begun in the Year of Grace 1120. Their Habit was a long Gown or Robe of black with a white Cross upon the breast The Ensign Armorial of their Order was an Escocheon Gules a plain Cross Argent And this is now known for the Arms of Savoy by reason that the first Amadeus or Amy Earl of Savoy being in Arms with the Brethren of this spiritual Knighthood at the siege of Acres after that their Grand-master was slain by the Saracens least the Infidels should thereupon take a greater confidence of Victory by knowledge of his death at their request he did put on the Armour of their slain General and the long Robe of black Cloth with the