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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

libertine who takes what Arms he pleases since Arms are not in nudam notitiam but in honorem also And therefore it must come from the Fountain of Honour who is called Animata Lex and Terrestris Deus being as the Soul in the Common-wealths body the right eye in the Polyphemiz'd Statue of popularities which sweetens their visage and renders them of deformed Monsters amiable Objects This is the primum Mobile which carryes about all Orderly motions For this cause the Apostle commandeth by the spirit of God and his Apostolique Authority that Prayers and Supplications and giving of Thanks be made for all men for Kings and all that are in Authority under them that under them we may live peaceable lives in all godliness and honesty And when Holy David Sau's successor to the Kingdom not by inheritance for so Jonathan would have been nor by Usurpation for so he himself durst not have been For if his conscience smote him for cutting off the lap of Sauls Garment and He in a holy passion cryed out The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my Master the Lords anoynted to stretch forth mine hand against him seeing he is the anointed of the Lord as it is v. 6. what would have become of him If he had pull'd by sacrilegious hands the Crown from off his Masters head and put him to death to consolidate his title to his Throne But Holy David though a man of valour and victory was a man of Justice and Honour his right to be Saul's successor was of divine donation and especiall appointment of God whose all power is and who stated the Government in him as appeares 2 Sam. chap. 12. vers. ● and 8. And yet though God had determined his pleasure both as to Sauls life and Kingdom yet this blessed King who had entrance by his Oustre calls upon the most tender and pensive Instruments of passionate sadness to weep Weep saith he ye Daughters of Israel over Saul who cloathed you in Scarlet with other delights who put Ornaments of Gold upon your Apparel For surely he must be a very bad King who is not worthy peoples prayers when he is alive their teares when he is dead The supreme power was then firstly and chiefly one as in the elder Governments and as in the polity of God over the World For though he hath in the upper House of Glory Archangels and Angels who infinitely transcend us men in intellect power and dignity yet are they no participants in rule but ministring spirits to his Elect the members of this moveable House of Commons here on Earth or in the largest concession they are but tutelary of us Gloworms of ostentation and puffs of nullity the paramount power is Gods who termes himself a great King and who exercises his regality in ruling over the Kingdoms of men and giving them to whomsoever he will as the voyce from Heaven declared Dan. c. 4. v. 30. But though the supreme Power be one yet not onely one for there have been plures who like many figures in conjunction have made Numeralls of great duration and augustness Amongst the Graecians when of Aristocratique Constitution they gave honours and therefore were held lawful Judges of merits Nobilibus Athletis qui Olympia Pythia Isthmia Nemaea vicissent Graecorum majores ita Magnos instituerunt honores uti non modo in conventu stantes cum palma Corona ferunt laudes sed etiam cum revertantur in suas civitates cum victoria Triumphantes quadrigis in maenia in patrias invehebantur saith Budaeus so Lazius reports the Romans to do and so above this 1200 years have the Venetians and for a long time other later Governments But such Almanacks of Honour are not calculated for every Meridian There are Nations that will be dull Scholars to learn any lesson Antimonarchique for resolution like the Rock yields not to any stroke but the rod of Omnipotence and when God utters no voyce from Heaven against Nationall Lawes not diametrall to the revealed will his word There is a Maxime of the Law swayes much with many Neminem opportet esse legibus sapientiorem As then the Legitimus Judex in our case of honour is the Supreme so next to these Originals are the illustrious Copies drawn by their fair and magnified hands such as are Vice-royes Generalls Marshalls their civil and Military Representatives For there can be no doubt but that military rewards and honours as Arms and Knight-hood are included in their intended powers For there is no Argument more prevalent to elicit Souldiers valour then this of remuneration Thus I read in the fourth of Richard the second the Duke of Buckingham made many Knights when he entred France and again after battels well fought rewarded deserving gallants with Knighthood So the L. Admiral Howard in his voyage into Britany 4 H. 8. Anno 1512. and upon his winning Morleis 14 H. 8. Anno 1522. So the Duke of Suffolk 15 H. 8. when he gained Roy and the Earl of Hertford 36 H. 8. at Leith after the burning of Edenburgh The like 1 Ed. 6. was done by the Duke of Somerset protector of the young Kings person who Anno 1547 made above 50 Knights when he went for Scotland so did the Earl of Sussex 12 Eliz. and of Essex in Cadiz voyage And there is good reason for it for take away the power to give a badge of honour to a sonne of honour and the best rounds in the scalado of great attempts are removed si non pro fama pro nihilo est demicandum Good pay indeed and great plunder works most an end with the vulgar and ordinary stipendiary who having bruital ayms is satisfied with low and mean compensations but a spirit of elixerated mettle purely extracted from the Oare of avarice and quintessentially fixed upon the attainment of fame and the enamouring companions of Heroique vertue acquiesses in nothing but in the indubitate badges and testimonies of emeriting which his principall gives him For the courage which vehiculates his attempts and occasions his glory is Gods royal donative therefore the bravery of such a martial soul is of an immortal Origen and has no lesse Nobility then a Divine participation not essential but communicative The acceptation of the performance and the attestation of the gallantry of the subject acting it being made known by the notices and badges of conferred honour which are personal and Gentilicial For where actions performed by men do benefit posterity 't is fit the posterity of such actors should be dignified by their predecessors merit So St. Leo ad humanam pertinet laudem ut patrum decus in prole resplendeat So St. Ambrose writes of one Caepta patris dignitas in filio nobilitatur and Plyny for them all tells sonnes Magnum in Gloria patris Ornamentum Yea he is no man of honour who if worthies die issuless as often they

therefore spightful high shows and Sots of yesterday declaym against Nobility and Gentility yet all sober men and times have made it a great step to trusts and commands the Roman Salii or Priests to Mars were men of greatest authority and of most leading note such as Appius Claudius Scipio Africanus L. Bibaculus Antoninus and sundry others of the grandest renown yet these were to be ex patriciis Liberi Cives qui neutro Parente Orbati essent And when to this advantage of blood they joyned that other of personal vertue making that a conspicuous Plume in the Cap of generosity {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Such an one deserves prayse for his advantagiousness to mankind The Poet tells us that vertue is the merit of fame Non census non opes nec clarum nomen avorum Sed probitas Magnum ingeniumque facit And Tully vindicates himself against Salust thus Sanctius est me meis gestis florere quam Majorum auctoritatibus inniti ita vivere ut sine posteris meis Nobilitas initium virtutis exemplum yea when envy and ill will has spit out her poyson worth will have compurgators from the breasts of Enemies Photius Leostenes when his detractors spitefully asked him what good had betided the common-wealth in his Pretorship replyed {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ye have replyed he saved your breath and spent none of it in sad Orations bewayling mens unfortunate deaths but every man has been buryed {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} with their Fathers not forced to abandon their houses and live and dye strangers to their own Land but preserved in peace and justice to a sober and sacred Serenity of life which is the Crown of Government and the commendation of the Governours No doubt then but there are vertues suitable to particular Persons and Callings as Piety to a Divine Fortitude to a Souldier Industry to a Tradesman Learning to a Philosopher Memory to an Orator Justice to a Magistrate but to a Gentleman well born and well bred all or most of these are in some degree or other requisite And the Law of honour in all Nations as it qualifies a Gentleman for any conferrable honour the greatest title of honour being but an Improvement of Gentility so it requires the choyce of men to fill up that roll out of which the select Jewels of Nobility are extracted Nihil aliud est vera Nobilitas quam vita humana clara virtutibus per Electionem et habitum animae intellectualis exterius operantis saith Vpton Therefore all Supremes in their Patents and grants of Dignity have these or suchlike passages regalis nostrae dignitatis fastidium non solum ornari sed augeri etiam prospicimus dum viris virtutibus claris et in rebus gerendis strenuis honorum titulos dispensaremus Or after the mention of the justness to reward Vertue praesertim quos parentum praeteritorum nobilitavit memoria propriarum virtutum merita clara obedientia condecorant ut praemiata virtus roboretur intrinsecus multos alliciat ad virtuosos actus to shew to the World that they hold none meet subjects of honour who have not vertuous minds as well as great Estates therefore Budaeus out of Aristotle calls {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and proposes three contenders laying claim to it Liberty Riches Vertue some will have them in other terms Riches Lineage Vertue Science so Mr. Leigh I shall consider honour in England as having this threefold rise The Camp the Court the City these with their Appurtenances have been the Trojan-Horse out of which have appeared the great Actors on the Stage of Nobility For unto eminent persons arising from these is Honour due and to such there will honour be ever given For God forbid either the mean Originalls of brave men should betray them to a stupid neglect of concurring with that providence which may open the Prospect to their future felicity Tullus Hostiliur wore out his swadling clouts in a poor cottage and spent his youth in tending cattel Et validior aetas Romanum rexit Imperium Or the heroique spirits of men well born and nobly set out to display their merit should not have encouragements {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to make them contemn danger which Polybius sayes wrought so mightily with the Roman Youth that they expressed more joy to hear their General recite at the head of the Army their valiant acts and be themselves beheld as deservers of their Coronae Hastae Armillae Torques Phalera Spolia and the rest of their manly renumerations then fear of danger or death in those atchievements they undertook Honour there is no doubt is the reward of vertue and vertue the stimulation to valour Learned men have spent long treatises in the definition and prayse of honour as that Golden Fleece which attended by Dragons will be assaulted by magnanimous Jasons 'T is the great minds Dalilah and Sampsons of courage will buy it at the price not onely of many other mens but of their own lives Sabellicus makes Fame the tinder which kindles sparks of mettle into flames of action This roused up those early Knights Romulus and Numa to shew themselves ambo sperarunt diversum a mortalitate yea and of Hercules he writes Haec illi vel noverca infestior quae nunquam passa esteum quiescere haec durior quam ille imperiosus Eurysteus per quem tam varie exercitatus est Alcmenae filius deinque fuisset ille nunquam tantus si spem de immortalitate famae nunquam animo concupisset O honour thou art the wind in the sailes of Industry which brings it to its Port Thou art the Musique of the Spheares the sweet notes whereof those early queristors onely hear who are by the prayses of Myltiades kept alwayes waking Thou art the mortall moveable Heaven for which men contend to and comfort themselves in death Collige●te Hieronime stabit vetus memoria facti mors acerba fama perpetua was spoke like a Roman In a word Honour branch'd out into Divine Moral Politique is a large field Histories abound in Instances of it coming in upon the spring tydes of opinion and carried aloft upon the wing of Providence the arbiter of this Universe some we read courting honour as their chief good and bayting all the hooks they ●●ve to catch advantages when they are but nibling and smile upon them onely with a half face Valour beauty learning fidelity temperance justice and all sorts of excellencies have been exchang'd for fame yea some Artizans have been so transported with the thoughts of renown that they have coveted no better pay then perpetuity for a Master-piece in which they have expended the flower of their lives Egnatius tells us that the Venetians being to build that famous Church to St. Mark invited with great promise of