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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

Jonathans whose Lands would not long own them for their Lords did not thy Widows and Daughters portions pay off their encumbrances and clear up those mists which hinder their view of them as their own till they be removed Shew me O ye contemners of Cities and Corporations wherein ye exceed Citizens and the Issues and products of them Is there any part of the World or this Nation more hospitable then London whose Families whose poor are better provided for then Londons where are there any subjects in England that in plenty and variety of entertainments exceed the Maiors and Sheriffs Tables to which all commers that are of fashion and worth though unknown are welcom was not that Table think ye well furnish'd which in one day entertained Edward King of England the Kings of France Scotland Cyprus Edward Prince of Wales with a grand Train of Nobles and was not he a brave subject who then also kept his Hall for welcom of all commers This did Henry Piccard Maior of London in the year 1363. And to make the solemnity more ample his Lady did at the same time maintain a treatment apart for all female Honours of noble degree Are there any charities in England surviving that furious deluge of Hen. the 8th which are more extensive and liberal then those of Londons Fraternities and Hospitalls both in London and other parts of the Nation all which either were founded or augmented by Citizens some few there have bin erected by other persons of great honour charity and worthiness whose devotion therein I doubt not but God has accepted But though I dare not presume to write that the Gleanings of Londons Ephraims are beyond the vintage of those Abiezers yet I may modestly and truly aver that London both in the number and exact care and Government of them according to the Statutes of their foundation is more exact and remarkable then others are and those that trust them shall upon search find them the best executors of trusts mistake me not I am no conjured Creature of Londons wherein truth and Justice Religion and Order defie her I must not justifie her Magna est veritas praevalebit If the faithful City become a harlot if its silver become drosse and its wine be turned to water as once God by his Prophet complained of Jerusalem far be it from me to endeavour her defence But if she when most disfigured and in her least commendable dress has witnesses of Gubernative Honour and Pristine fidelity though she has Apoplectique fits and is under the rigour of storms which role her up and down from Coast to Coast till her Pilots seem to forsake their Compass and her commoners their Sails and Tackle God forbid any Christian any Englishman should wish or hope to see her in ashes God forbid any one that is written man should so indulge the Gourd of his passion and transitory greatness which perhaps came up in a night and may perish in a night as the phrase is Jonah c. 4. v 10. As to repine at Gods merciful sparing of that great City wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right and their left hand and also much Cattle v. 10. O London I wish peace may be within thy Walls and prosperity within thy pallaces that Religion Order Trade Charity may never suffer a finall Eclipse in thee That the riches of thy Citizens which Popes have termed puteus inexhaustus may rather be the delight of Scholars eyes who with Pope Innocent shall desire to see divitias Londini delicias Westmonasterii then of a Ruffians fists who would desire to plunder thee And blessed be God for thy riches and the good provision thy Citizens thrift has made for not onely their Children but for the ample maintenance of the churches and Churchmen in thee for as thou art abundant in sacred edifices so that the great Cambden thy learned Sonne sayes Templis undique aedibus sacris ita fulget ut religio pietas sibi delubrum hic collocasse videatur and those so nobly kept and adorned as little more can be desired to their Ornament unless St. Pauls thy viduated Mother Church might be repaired which in these sad changes by being unchaptred and revenueless is now in a great measure ready to be a colluvies of ruines excepting onely this Venust Monument of Antique Christianities devotion This St. Pauls at London once not inferior to that St. Peters at Rome though now likely to have no long duration but in that paper Monument which a skilful painful and well accomplish'd Antiquary has erected to her perpetuity all the Parish Churches are in a comely dress worthy that orderly Religion the Citizens profess And the Ministers in them maugre all the malice of fanatiques and antiministerial dissenters are better provided for then in most parts of the Nation besides For though some curse the patrimonium Crucifixi and would dip their morsels in potions like that of the Jewes to our Lord yet others more in number weight and worth with holy Moses bless their basket and their store and let their bounties run most fluently to those secondary Apostles as the precious remains of Christ the Churches High Priest which he hath left to negotiate the conversion of souls and to propatage his Gospel till the number of his Elect be accomplished and till he deliver up the Kingdom to God the Father But I return to London which I find of great consequence to her Supremes for when the Lords and great men had her to back the Lord Marshall s words to Walter Alb●net are Bene scitis quam magnum comm●●um est vobis nobis servare civitatem Londoniarum quae est receptaculum nostrum And when King Richard the second favoured her in so unusual a way ●o indulgence as Sir Edw. Cook notes confirming her liberties licet usi non fuerint vel abusi fuerunt it concludes that she has ever been esteemed the darling of her Royal Governour and the Nonsuch of England in supply of accommodations for peace warre So that London so ancient and so magnificent a City so abounding in rich stout grave and well moderated Citizens so dignified with freedoms and franchises of exemption from vassallage so prosperous and contributive to the structure of English Honour being the parental ayre of Princes Prelates Peers Knights Gentlemen and others who in regard of high desert are not unworthy their company must not be omitted in the roll of Honour as she is none of the lowest steps to it For in the Saxons time Estate in Land or money made men pares cum Thayno dignitate And Estates have ever been gainable in London if anywhere And that not onely by ungentle practices such as Mr. Fern termes Doubleness of Tongue violation of faith with the rest of their trumperies and deceits for which saith he they must be contented to stand

ova decumana and fluctus decumani There have been in all Authors notable words joyned in consort with it Tully has decorum elegans and Justa omnia decora sunt and Color albus praecipue deo Decorus est and speaking of an Orator he sayes ad rerum dignitatem apte quasi Decore Loqui And all gratefull things have been expressed by it Nigro Crine Decorus so Plebs decora cultu so Statius Aedes decorae decorus sermo decorum silentium frequent in Horace to which add Lacrymae Decorae and Os decorum in Terence together with Decora Caesaries in Virgil all which notes that by Decora there is intended such a temper amentum ad pondus as is justifiable before the severest Tribunal of Justice as in Consorts notes answer each other to a Symphony so in Armory there must be regularity No man at the Feast of honour must be his own Carver standing dishes of altess and dresses of majestique composition are not to be touched the officer of Arms appointed to weigh out doles of reward is sworn to deal uprightly and in Master Fern's words give to every man according to merit and that with the most aptnesse to the setting forth and signifying of the virtuous desert whereby the first bearer was advanced to the bearing of Arms so he And if it were otherwise Arms would beget not prevent confusion for every mans ambition would feed on the daynties of regality and contemn those proportions that are more becoming them It is favour enough that they have the Wall of the Plebs too much that they scorn an equall and abide no superiour For as the Lawes of Nations so the particular Law of gentility in England denyes Arms to be borne by any but those that either have them by descent or grant or purchase in the Field from the body or badg of any prisoner they in open and lawfull war take and this it does to obviate that tympanous humour that swells up lawless and light minds into a rude and arrogant usurpation of the rights of Nobility and Gentry of which tribe they are not naturaliz'd Therefore H. 5. by Proclamation did inhibit Quod nullus cujuscunque status gradus seu conditionis fuerit hujumodi arma sive Tunicas armorum in se sumat nisi ipse Jure antecessorio vel ex donatione alicujus ad hoc sufficientem potestatem habentis ea possident aut possidere debent quod ipse arma sive Tunicas illas ex cujus dono optinet demonstrationis suae personis ad hoc per nos assignatis seu assignandis manifeste demonstret exceptis illis qui nobiscum apud Bellum de Agen Court arma portabant c. And herein the Law of Arms in England is but in affirmance of the Law of Nations and avowes that order which is practised in the civilized world For as God in the creation and preservation of things is the great exemplar of order giving in the compagination of Heaven and Earth and the dominion and subjection in them a document to mortal manageries which are then only vehiculated to their central point when conform to the protoplast in the direct line of regularity So have all ages and people by a plenarty of consent coincided to promote distinctions and differences between man and man that there be as Saint Pauls phrase is no Scisme in the body of Government which without could not be avoyded The frame of this great world cannot subsist without a God the light not be if the Sun were superseded the Firmament the Earth not be fertile if not irrigated Man not live if not cooled by ayre and strengthned by food no more could communityes continue their neighbour-hood without Government the first born of order And this however paradoxall to levelling Anarchists yet has been accounted Canon not only by those Elder Asiatique Nations whose polity had all the dimensions of order in it but also by the puissant people of Rome whose practice may be thought most swasive with this high courag'd and military Age For as they intrusted not the poorer sort which they called Proletarii and Capitecenses with Arms of war nisi in tumultu maximo but kept their Militia in the hands of men of blood and fortune as Nabis the Spartan in Livy who opposing the Romans Custom to the Spartans sayes Vos a censu equitem a censu peditem legitis So did they not indulge mean persons Arms of honour No nor accommodations much below them it was denyed servants to have their head covered for when once the pileus was put on their head it betokened Emancipation according to that of Perseus Haec mera libertas haec nobis Pilea donant hence when those that were shaven became freemen they are said by Livy Seneca and others vocari ad pileum in which regard when Brutus was the best Trump in the Roman State he caused mony to be stamped in memoriall of his parricide cum pilio duobus pugionibus imposito Nor was any man eligible to be Tribune if one of the Equestrian order till he had served in the wars ten years as Pedestrians were to serve twenty years They indeed allowed to merits rewards and admissions to honour by grand paw's and deliberate steps of ascent yea to one like Sicinius Dentatus who served his Country one hundred and twenty battayles and brought from them woundy Testimonies of valour they thought no honour too great though the person on whom it was bestowed ab ortu was but a Terrae filius or a sese ortus or a man of the first head as we say that is of a nuper exorta nobilitas which Pliny calls subita Imago and after whom Budaeus But in other cases the Patricians and Senators were so jealous of their glory and perfulgency that they allowed none participants with them on ordinary and nummary accounts They they were the men who took pleasure in the adorning the portraytures of their Ancestors and erecting such Statues and Emblems of their honour as in a kind gave them a temporal immortality with these were their Porches and Medalls adorn'd and with these were their Rooms of State made venerable yea Polybius tells us To these Statues did they annually devote a solemnity Which Tully perstringed in that tart passage to Piso Obrepsisti ad honores errore hominum commendatione fermosarum Imaginum quarum simile nihil habes praeter colorem So he but this with his leave I take rather written ad hominum then chargeable on the Roman Grandees for as most of them had great personal worth so did they preserve this memory of their Ancestors to excite them to a patrization and to a generous conformity to if not a transcendency above them for though it be true that it was one end of theirs to live in the fame of generous Sirs who had been men of honour and office in