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A09195	The compleat gentleman fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman. By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.	Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?; Delaram, Francis, 1589 or 90-1627, engraver.	1622 (1622)	STC 19502; ESTC S114333	134,242	209

and other antiquities hee could finde there Leofricke was sonne to the Earle of Kent and after being chosen to be Archbishop of Canterburie he refused it this Abbot in a time of dearth solde all the Iewels of his Church to buy bread for the poore After him succeeded Alfricke Leostan Fr●theric Paul In this Abbot were giuen to the Monastery of Saint Albanes the Celles of Wallingford of Tinnemuth of Bealvare of Hertford and Binham Richard who liued in the time of William Rusus when the Cell of Saint Marie de Wymonaham or Windham in Norfolke was giuen vnto this Abbey beeing sounded by William de Albeney father to William de Albeney first Earle of Arundell Gaufridus who founded the Nunnery of Sopwell therby on the other side of the riuer founded and so called vpon this occasion two poore women hauing built themselues a small cabben liued in that place a very austere life praying and seruing God with great deuotion and for that they liued for the most part with no other sustenance saue bread and the water of a Well there wherein they vsed to soppe or dippe their bread it had saith mine Author a Monke sometime of that Abbey the name of Sopwell Then Radulphus Robert Simon Garmus Iohn William c. Off a gaue to this his Abby of Saint Albans these towns following viz. Thei l Edel●●●●● Wiclesfield Cages●o cum suis Berechund Rike●aresworth Bacheworth Crok●leie Michelfield Britchwell Watford Bilsey Merdell Haldenham Spr●t Enefeild St●●●●●● H●●●●●ted Winelesham Biscopsco● C●d●●●dune and Mild●●dune Egelsride his sonne and successour gaue Sandruge and Penefield Alfrick● Abbot of this Church after Archbishop Leofrick his brother gaue Kingesbury C●ealdwich Westwic Flamsted Nort●●● R●●●●hang W●●●●field Birstan and Vpton AEthelwold Bish. of Dorchester gaue Girshuna Cuicumba Tyme Aegelwin Redburne Thuangnā Lingley Grenburga One Tholfe gaue Estune and Oxaw One Sexi gaue H●chamsted One Ha●dh gaue Newha● and Beandise Therefeld a religious woman gaue Sceanl●a Bridel Aegelwina another gaue Batesden Offal and Standune One Aegelbert gaue Craniford A●●an Cutesham Winsimus gaue Esenden Osulsus and his wife gaue St●dham and Wilsin●● others Walden Cudicote Scephal Bethell with sundry other Celles Churches and goodly possessions of me vnnamed If I should set you downe the inestimable wealth consisting in Plate Iewells Bookes costly Hangings Altar-cloathes and the like which by our English Kings Nobilitie and others haue from the foundation vnto the dissolution with the sundry priuiledges this Abby had I should weary my selfe with writing and you with reading but I omit them hauing onely proposed a mirrour to the eyes not of the Church pillars of ancient but the Church pillers of our times The Auncestors of this Noble family were Frenchmen borne taking their Surname of a Towne in Normandy called Sackuill whereof they were Lords and came into England to the aide of Duke William the Conquerour as appeareth by an auncient Manuscript or Chronicle of Brittaine now in the Custody of Mr. Edward Gwinn where he is called a Chiefetaine and is the seauenth man ranked in a Catalogue of names there for as it may be obserued out of Mr. Camdens Remaines that the better sort about the time of the Conquest began to take vp Surnames so againe they were not setled amongst the common people vntill the Raigne of King Edward the second He moreouer affirmeth that the most ancient and of best account were deriued from places whereof this name of Sackuill is one and to adde yet more vnto it Ordericus Vitalis the Monke in his Normane story saith that Herbrann de Sackuill was liuing in the time of William the Conquerour being father of three Noble Knights Iordan William and Robert de Sackuill and of a vertuous and beautifull Ladie named Auice who was married to Walter Lord of Alfage Hugleuill by whom shee had issue Iordan L. of Alfage Hugleuill that married Iulian the daughter of one Gods●all who came into England with Q. Adelize of Lo●●ine the Wife to King Henry the first After whose death the said Queene married to William de Albency Earle of Arundell from whom the now Right Honorable Thomas Earle of Arundell and Surry and Earle Marshall of England is descended S. Iordan de Sackuill Knight the eldest sonne was Sewer of England by the gift of the said Conquerour but liued and died in Normandy S. Robert de Sackuill Knight the yonger sonne liued in England and gaue together with his body the Mannor of Wickham in Suffolke● to the Abbey of S● Iohn Baptist in Colchester leauing issue a son named S● Iordan de Sackuill a very eminent man in the time of King Richard the first as appeareth by a Charter of the said King made to the Monkes of Bordes●ey in Buckinghamshiere S● Iordan de Sackuill that obtained of King Iohn a Friday Market weekely and a Faire once a yeare in his Towne of Sackuill in Normandy as saith the Kings Publike Records in the Tower of L●●don Holiinshed fol. 186. doth there ranke Iordan de Sackuill as a Baron calling him one of the assistants to the 25. Peeres of this Realme to see the Liberties of Magna Charta confirmed And for further proofe that they were men of no meane ●anke it is apparent in the Red booke of the Excheaquer in the 12. and 13. yeeres of the said Kings Raigne in these words Hubertus de Anestie tenes 2. food in Anestie parua Hornmcad dimid 〈◊〉 in Anestie de Honore Richard● de Sack●yle Agai●e S● Iordan de Sackuill Knight grand● childe to the said Iordan de Sackuill was taken prisoner at the battaile of E●esham for siding with the Barons against King Henry the third in the 49. yeare of His Raigne whose sonne and heire named Andrew Sackuill being vnder age at the time of his fathers death and the Kings Wa●d was like wise imprisoned in the Castle of Deuer Ann. 3. E●n 1. and afterward by the speciall command of the said King did marry Ermyn●●de an Honourable Ladie of the houshold to Queene 〈◊〉 or whereby he not onely gained the Kings fauour but the greatest part of his Inheritance againe From whom the aforesaid Richard Earle of Dorset with S● Edward Sackuill Knight of the Bathe his brother and others are descended one of whose Auncestors by marrying a daughter and co-heire of Rase de Denn sonne of Rodbert Pincerna that held the Lordship of Buckhurst with diuers other Mannors and Lands in Sussex about the time of the Normain Conquest In right of which marriage they haue euer since continued Lords of the said Mannor of Buckhurst with diners other Manors and L●nds in Sussex c. Which William Earle of Devonsh● was sonne of S● William Cavendish of Chattesworth in the said Countie of Derby knight Treasurer of the Chamber to King Henry the eight Edward the sixt and Queene Marie by his wife Elizabeth daughter of lohn Hardwick of Hardwick Esquire The Auncestors of this Noble Familie called themselues G●r●ms whose issue

to haue need His magnificence appeared by diuers his building For within the Citie of Florence hee builded the Abbaits and Temples of S. Marco S. Lorenzo and the Monastery of S. Verdiana in the mountains of Fiesole S. Girolamo with the Abbey thereto belonging Also in Mugello he did not only repaire the Church for the Friers but tooke it downe and built it anew Besides those magnificent buildings in S. Croce in S. Agnoli and S. Miniato he made Altars and sumptu●●● Chappels All which Temples and Chappels besides the buildings of them were by him paued and furnished throughly with all things necessarie With these publique buildings wee may number his priuate houses whereof one within the Citie mee●e for so great a personage and foure other without at Carriaggi at Fiesole at Casaggiuolo and at Trebio all Palaces fitter for Princes then priuate persons And because his magnificent houses in Italy did not in his opinion make him famous enough he builded in Ierusalem an Hospitall to receiue poore and diseased Pilgrims In which worke he consumed great summes of Money And albeit these buildings and euery other his actions were princely and that in Florence he liued like a Prince yet so gouerned by wisedome as he neuer exceeded the bounds of ciuill modestie For in his conuersation in riding in marrying his Children and Kinsfolkes he was like vnto all other modest and discree●e Citizens because he well kn●w that extraordinarie things which are of all men with admiration beheld do● procure more enuy then those which without ostentation be honestly couered I omit as followeth shortly after his great and excessiue charge in entertaining of learned men of all professions to instruct the youth of Florence his bountie to Argiropolo a Gracian and Marsilio Fi●ins whom he maintained for the exercise of his owne studies in his house and gaue him goodly lands neere his house of Carreggi men in that time of singular learning because Vertue reares him rather to wonder then Imitation To proceed no lesse respect and honour is to be attributed to Eloquence whereby so many haue raised their esteeme and fortunes as able to draw Ciuilitie out of Barbarisme and sway whole kingdomes by leading with Celticke Hercules the rude multitude by the eares Marke Anthony contending against Augustus for the Romane Empire assured himselfe he could neuer obtaine his purpose while Cicero liued therefore he procured his death The like did Antipater a Successor to Alexander by Demosthenes aspiring to the Monarchy of Greece And not long since a poore Mahumetan Priest by his smooth tongue got the Crowne of Morocco from the right heire being of the house of Giuseph or Ioseph And much hurt it may doe if like a mad mans sword it be vsed by a turbulent and mutinous Orator otherwise we must hold it a principall meanes of correcting ill manners reforming lawes humbling aspiring minds and vpholding all vertue For as Serpents are charmed with words so the most sauage and cruell natures by Eloquence which some interpret to be the meaning of Mercuries golden Rod with those Serpents wreathed about it Much therefore it concerneth Princes not onely to countenance honest and eloquent Orators but to maintaine such neere about them as no meane props if occasion serue to vphold a State and the onely keies to bring in tune a discordant Common-wealth But it shall not be amisse ere I proceede further to remoue certaine doubts which as rubs clog the cleere passage of our Discourse and the first concerning Bastardie whether Bastards may be said to be Nobly borne or not I answere with Iustinian Sordes inter praecipuos nominarinon merentur Yet it is the custome with vs and in France to allow them for Noble by giuing them sometimes their Fathers proper Coate with a bend Sinister as Reignald Earle of Cornewall base sonne to the Conquerour bare his Fathers two Leopards passant gardant or in a field Gules with a bend sinister Azure The like Hamlin base sonne to Geoffrey Plantagenet Earle of Surrey● Some their fathers whole Coate or part of the same in bend dexter as Iohn Beauford a Bastard of Somerset bare partie per pale argent and Azure a bend of England with a labell of France Sir Roger de Clarendon base son to the Blacke Prince his fathers three Feathers on a bend Sable the field Or. I willingly produce these examples to confirme our custome of ennobling them and though the Law leaneth not on their side yet stand they in the head of the troope with the most deseruing yea and many times according to Euripides proue better ●hen the legitimate Who are more famous then Remus and Romulus who laid the first stone of Rome more couragious and truly valiant then Hercules Alexander our King Arthur of Britaine and William the first more critically learned then Christopher Longolius Iacobus Faber more modest and of better life then Coelius Calgaguinus the delight of his Ferrara with infinite others and where decretals and Schoolemen may beare the bell those two Grandes Gratian and Lombard A second question ariseth whether he that is Noble descended may by his vice and basenesse lose his Nobilitie or no. It is answered that if he that is ignoble and inglorious may acquire Nobilitie by Vertue the other may very well lose it by his Vice But such are the miserable corruptions of our times that Vices go for prime Vertues and to be drunke sweare wench follow the fashion to do iust nothing are the attributes and marks now adaies of a great part of our Gentry Hence the Agrigentines expelled their Phalaris the Romanes extinguished the memorie of the whole race of the Tarquines with those Monsters of Nature Nero Heliogabalus c. the Sicilians Dionysins the later with others Thirdly whether Pouertie impeacheth or staineth Nobilitie I answere Riches are an ornament not the cause of Nobilitie and many times wee see there lyeth more worth vnder a thrid-bare Cloake and within a thatched Cottage then the richest Robe or stateliest Palace Witnesse the Noble Curij and Fabritij taken from a poore dinner of Turneps and Water-cresses in an earthen dish to leade the Romane Army and conquer the most potent Kings of the world Fourthly concerning Aduocates and Physitians whether we may rancke them with the ennobled or no. Aduocates or Counsellors being Interpreters of the Law their place is commendable and themselues most necessarie Instruments in a Common-wealth wherefore saith the Ciuill Law their calling is honorable they ought to be freed of mulcts publike charges and all impositions and to be written or sent vnto as vnto persons of especiall worth and dignitie Touching Physitians though the profession by some hath beene thought seruile and in times past was practised by seruants as Domitian saith Seneca imper auit medico seruo vt venenum sibi daret and that slouenly Epithite of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be by Aristophanes bestowed vpon Aesculapius

cassocke and affecteth the wearing of the richest iewels the French huge feathers Scarlet and gold lace the English his armes rich and a good sword the Italians pride is in his Neapolitan Courser the Germanes and low Dutch to be dawbed with gold and pearle wherein say they there is no losse except they be lost But herein I giue no prescripon I now come to your diet wherein be not onely frugall for the sauing of your purse but moderate in regard of your health which is empaired by nothing more then excesse in eating and drinking let me also adde Tobacco taking Many dishes breede many diseases dulleth the mind and vnderstanding and not onely shorten but take away life We reade of Augustus that he was neuer curious in his di●t but content with ordinary and common viandes And Cato the Censor sayling into Spaine dranke of no other drinke then the rowers or slaues of his owne galley And Timotheus Duke of Athens was wont to say whō Plato invited home to him to supper they found thēselues neuer distempered Contrary to our Feastmakers who suppose the glory of entertainment and giuing the best welcome to consist in needelesse superfluities and profuse waste of the good Creatures as Scylla made a banquet that lasted many dayes where there was such excessiue abundance that infinite plenty of victualls were throwne into the Riuer and excellent wine aboue forty yeares old spilt and made no account of but by surfetting and banquetting at last he gat a most miserable disease and dyed full of lice And Ca●sar in regard of his Lybian triumph at one banquet filled two and twenty thousand roomes with ghests and gaue to euery Citizen in Rome ten bushels of wheate and as many pounds of oyle and besides three hundred pence in mony We reade of one Smyndirides who was so much giuen to feasting and his ease that hee saw not the Sunne rising nor setting in twenty yeares and the Sybarites forbad all Smiths and knocking in the streetes and what thing soeuer that made any noise to bee within the City walls that they might eate and sleepe whereupon they banished cocks out of the city and invented the vse of chamberpots and bad women a yeare before to their feasts that they might haue leisure enough to make themselues fine and braue with gold and Iewels Aboue all learne betimes to auoide excessiue drinking then which there is no one vice more common and reigning and ill beseeming a Gentleman which if growne to an habit is hardly left remembring that hereby you become not fit for any thing hauing your reason degraded your body distempered your soule hazarded your esteeme and reputation abased while you sit taking your vnwholesome healthes vt iam vertigine tectum Ambulet geminis exsurgat mensa lucernis Vntill the house about doth turne And on the board two candles seeme to burne By the Leuiticall law who had a glutton or a drunkard to their Sonne they were to bring him before the Elders of the City and see him stoned to death And in Spain● at this day they haue a law that the word of him that hath beene convicted of drunkennesse shall not bee taken in any testimony Within these fiftie or threescore yeares it was a rare thing with vs in England to see a Drunken man our Nation carrying the name of the most sober and temperate of any other in the world But since we had to doe in the quarrell of the Netherlands about the time of Sir Iohn Norrice his first being there the custome of drinking and pledging healthes was brought ouer into England wherein let the Dutch bee their owne Iudges it we equall them not yea I thinke rather excell them Tricongius and the old Romanes had lawes and statutes concerning the Art of drinking which it seemes are reuiued and by our drunkards obserued to an haire It being enacted that he who after his drinks faltered not in his speech vomited not n●yther reeled if he dranke off his cups clean●ly seek not his wind in his draughs spit not left nothing in the pot nor spilt any vpon the ground he had the prize was accounted the brauest man If they were contented herewith it were well but they daily inue●t new and damnable kinds of carrow●ing as that in North-holland and Frizeland though among the baser sort of vpsi● Monikedam which is after you haue drunke out the drinke to your friend or companion you must breake the glasse full vpon his face and if you misse you must drinke againe whence proceede quarrelling re●iling and many times execrable murthers as Alexander was slain in his drunkennesse and Domitius Nero's father slew Liberius out right because he would not pledge him a whole carrowse and hence arise most quarrells among our gallant drunkards vnto whom if you reade a lecture of sobrietie and how in former ages their forefathers dranke water they sweare water is the frogges drinke and ordained onely for the driuing of milles and carrying of boates Neither desire I you should be so abstemious as not to remember a friend with an hearty draught since wine was created to make the heart merry for what is the life of man if it want wine Moderately taken it preserueth health comforteth and disperseth the naturall heate ouer all the whole body allayes cholericke humours expelling the same with the sweate c. tempereth Melancholly And as one saith hath in it selfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a drawing vertue to procure friendship At your meate to be liberall and freely merry is very healthy and comely and many times the stranger or guest will take more content in the chearelinesse of your countenance then in your meate Augustus the Emperour had alwayes his mirth greater then his feasts And Suctonius saith of Titus Vespasians Sonne he had euer his table furnished with mirth and good company And the old Lord Treasurer of England Lord William Burghley how emploied soeuer in State affaires at his table hee would lay all businesse by and bee heartily merry Charles the Great vsed at his meates to haue some History read whereof hee would afterwards discourse And Francis the first King of France would commonly dispute of History Cosmography Poetry His Maiesty our Soueraigne altogether in points and profound questions of Diuinity When I was in Virocht and liued at the table of that Honourable Gentleman Sir Iohn Ogle Lord Gouernour whither resorted many great Schollers and Captaines English Scottish French and Dutch it had beene enough to haue made a Scholler or Souldier to haue obserued the seuerall disputations and discourses among many strangers one while of sundry formes of battailes sometime of Fortification of fireworkes History Antiquities Heraldrie pronunciation of Languages c. that his table seemed many times a little Academic In your discourse be free and affable giuing entertainment in a sweete and liberall manner and with a cheerefull courtesie