Shield within a Bordure Componeè Or and Gules before the Armes of Ferrara in recognisance of the league and fidelitie wherein hee promised to stand bound to serue the King at his own charges And for the like respect Lewis the eleuenth in May 1465. allowed Pietro de Medici to beare three Flower-de-luces in his shield which I haue seene borne in cheife vpon one of his sixe Lozenges Of Difference by the Labell A second difference is by the Labell borne chieefely as the difference of the elder Brother As Edward the blacke Prince and all our Princes of Wales eldest sonnes to the King beare their Fathers Soueraigne Coate with a Labell of three points Siluer Iohn of Gauns had his Labell Ermin Edmond of Langley Duke of Yorke on his Labell Siluer nine Torteauxes Edmond Plantagenes sonne and heire of Richard Duke of Yorke Earle of Ruâ—land who being a Child scarce twelue yeares of age was stricken to the heart with a Dagger by the Lord Clifford at the battaile of Wakefield had vpon his Labell of fiue points Argent two Lionceaux Gules with nine Torteauxes The Coate of Vlsâ—er and Mortimâ—r being â—mpaled with his owne as may be seene in the windowes of Fâ—deringhay Castle the mansion house of the Duke of Yorke where by his father Richard Duke of Yorke and Cicely Nevill his mother hee lyeth buried whose bodies remoued out of Fâ—deringhay Church-yard for the Chancell in the Quire wherein they first were laid in that fury of knocking Churches and sacred Monuments in the head was also felled to the ground lapped in Lead were buried in the Church by the commandement of Queene Elizabeth and a meane Monument of Plaister wrought with the Trowell erected ouer them very homely and farre vnfitting so Noble Princes I remember Master Creuse a Gentleman and my wâ—rthy friend who dwelt in the Colledge at the same time told me that their Coffins being opened their bodies appeared very plainly to be discerned and withall that the Dutchesse Cicely had about her necke hanging in a Silke riband a pardon from Rome which penned in a very fine Romane hand was as faire and fresh to be read as it had beene written but yesterday Of Difference by the Bend. A third difference is by the Bend Baston c. as the house of Burâ—â—â— beareth Frâ—â—â—â— with a Bâ—tune Gules though the proper and true Coate of 〈◊〉 is Of a Lyon Gules within an Orle of Escallops Azure Lewis Earle of Eureux in Normandy brother to Philip le Bâ—ll bare Seme de France with a Batune Componeè Argent and Gules Iohn Earle of Lâ—â—â—aster and Brother to Richard the first afterward King bare for his difference a Batune Azure If the mother be of the ligne Royall many times her Coate is preferred into the first quarter as Hâ—nry Earle of Dâ—â—â—nshire and Marquâ—sse of Exeter â—â—re his mother Kâ—tharines Coate who was daughter to King Edward the fourth And the like Humphrey Stafford who was the first Duke of Buckingham by Anne Platagâ—nâ—â— his mother â— the Coate of Thomas of Woodstocke whose daughter she was This Coate I remember standeth in the great Chancell window in the Church of Kimbaltâ—n In France it hath beene and it yet a custome among the Nobilitie to 〈◊〉 their owne proper Coates and take others as perhaps their Wiâ—es or the Armes of that Srigâ—â—â—â— whereof they are Lords or whence they haue their Titles as Mons. Hugues brother to King Philip marrying the daughter and heire of Herbere Earle of Verâ—â—â—dâ—â—â—s forsooke his proper Coate and bare his Wiues which was Checky Or and Azure onely three Flower-de-luces added in chiefe to shew he was of the blood And Robert Counâ— de Dreux albeit he was brother to King Lewis 〈◊〉 bare Checky Azure and Or with a Bordure Gules Robert Duke of Burgogne brother to Henry the first tooke for his bearing the ancient Armes of the Dukes of Burgogne which was bendy Or and Azure within a Bordure Gules giuen by Charlemaigne to Sanson Duke of Burgogne And whereas we in England allow the base sonne his Fathers Coate with the difference of a bend Batune sinister or bordure engrailed or the like it was in France a long time forbidden I thinke vnder the Capets to the Princes of the blood as 〈◊〉 Earle of Mâ—mfort base sonne to King Robert was forced to leaue his Fathers Coate and beare Gules a Lion à la queue fourcheè Or passeè per à lentour Argent for Le maison de France â—â—â—â—tant les bastardes no leur endurè son armeirè c. saith Tillet The last and least obseruation is of Crests the Helmet the Mantle and doubling thereof which according to the manner of diuers Countries are diuersly borne In Germany they beare their Beauers open with Barres which we allow in England to none vnder the degree of a Baron in some places they haue no Crests at all If you would farther proceed in Nobilitie or Heraldry I would wiâ—h you to reade these bookes of 〈◊〉 obâ—â—itie in generâ—â—â— Simon Simonius de Nâ—â—ilitâ—â—e 〈…〉 at Leipsig 1572. Chassanâ—â—â—â— his Catalogus Gloria munâ—â— Hippolitus à Collibus his Axumata Nobilitatis Conclusiones de Nobilitate Doctorain published by one of Meckleburg who concealeth his name printed 1621. dedicated to the Archbishop of Breme Petrus Eritzius Counâ—â—â—â—er to the Elector of Brandenburge published Conclusiones de Nobilitate in quarto Lionellus De pracedentia â—omiâ—um Of the Spanish Nobilitie these Authors haue written Ioannes ab Arce Offalora in folio Priuilegios y Franquezas y libertades des bijos dâ—algos De Senniorio de Vizcaia c. in fol. Ludovicus de Mollâ—â—a De primogâ—niorâ—m Hispanicorum iure c. in fol. Iosephus de Sesse in Decis Aragon Decis 8. 9. 10. c. Gonzales de Câ—rte his Nobliza del Andaluzia in fol. Of Italy Sicily Naples c. Scipie Mazzella nelle Neapoli Illustrata in quarto Paulus Merula in Cosmograph lib. 3. pt 3. in Italian Of France The Workes of Tillet Ferâ—â— Charles L'Oisâ—â—â— Choppin Theatre d'Honneur Of Germany or the Empire Fran. Contzen his Politiques in fol. The Collections of Goldastus with some others The practise of Blazonrie Willeged the first Abbot dyed the same yeare that Off a did of very griefe it was thought for the death of his king and kinsman whom he dearely loued Anno 8â—8 After him succeeded these in order Eadricke Vulsigus Wulâ—â—â—us Eadfrithus Wulsinus Who built Saint Peters Church Saint Michaels and Saint Stephens and made a faire market place in the towne Alfricke Aldredus Who digged vp and searched the ruines of Verlam-cesire which in his time were dens of theeues and whores saued all the tile and stone for the repaire of the Church and in digging vpon the North side in the vale found oaken plankes pitched Shelles peeces of oares and a rusty Anchor or two Eadmer after his death being a religious and a good man imitating his predecessour saued all the ancient coines vrnes
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 Frâ—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 Edelâ—â—â—â—â— Wiclesfield Cagesâ—o cum suis Berechund Rikeâ—aresworth Bacheworth Crokâ—leie Michelfield Britchwell Watford Bilsey Merdell Haldenham Sprâ—t Enefeild Stâ—â—â—â—â—â— Hâ—â—â—â—â—ted Winelesham Biscopscoâ— Câ—dâ—â—â—dune and Mildâ—â—dune Egelsride his sonne and successour gaue Sandruge and Penefield Alfrickâ— Abbot of this Church after Archbishop Leofrick his brother gaue Kingesbury Câ—ealdwich Westwic Flamsted Nortâ—â—â— Râ—â—â—â—hang Wâ—â—â—â—field Birstan and Vpton AEthelwold Bish. of Dorchester gaue Girshuna Cuicumba Tyme Aegelwin Redburne ThuangnaÌ„ Lingley Grenburga One Tholfe gaue Estune and Oxaw One Sexi gaue Hâ—chamsted One Haâ—dh gaue Newhaâ— and Beandise Therefeld a religious woman gaue Sceanlâ—a Bridel Aegelwina another gaue Batesden Offal and Standune One Aegelbert gaue Craniford Aâ—â—an Cutesham Winsimus gaue Esenden Osulsus and his wife gaue Stâ—dham and Wilsinâ—â— 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 Godsâ—all who came into England with Q. Adelize of Loâ—â—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 Suffolkeâ— to the Abbey of Sâ— Iohn Baptist in Colchester leauing issue a son named Sâ— 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 Bordesâ—ey in Buckinghamshiere Sâ— 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 Lâ—â—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 â—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 Richardâ— de Sackâ—yle Agaiâ—e Sâ— Iordan de Sackuill Knight grandâ— childe to the said Iordan de Sackuill was taken prisoner at the battaile of Eâ—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 Waâ—d was like wise imprisoned in the Castle of Deuer Ann. 3. Eâ—n 1. and afterward by the speciall command of the said King did marry Ermynâ—â—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 Sâ— 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 Lâ—nds in Sussex c. Which William Earle of Devonshâ— was sonne of Sâ— 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 Gâ—râ—ms whose issue
a beautifull body Memorable as making to our purpose is that speech of Sigâ—smund the Emperoâ—r to a Doctor of the Ciuill Law who when he had receiued Knighthood at the Emperours hands left forthwith the societie of his fellow Doctors kept company altogether with the Knights which the Emperour well obseruing smilingly before the open assembly saide vnto him Foole who preferest Knighthood before Learning and thy degree I can make a thousand Knights in one day but cannot make a Doctor in a thousand yeares Now for as much as the Weale publique of euery Estate is preserued Armiâ— consilio this faire Tree by two maine branches disspreddeth her selfe into the Militarie Ciuil Discipline vnder the first I place Valor and Greatnesse of Spirit vnder the other Iustice knowledge of the Lawes which â— Consilij fons Magnificence and Eloquence For true Fortitude and greatnesse of Spirit were ennobled we reade Iphicrates that braue Athenian who ouerthrew in a set battaile the Lacedaemonians stopt the furie of Epaminondas and became Lieutenant Generall to Artaxerxes King of Persia yet but the sonne of a poore Cobler Eumenes one of the best Captaines for valour and aduice Alexander had was the sonne of an ordinarie Carter Dioclesian was the sonne of Scriuener or Book-binder Valentinian of a Rope-maker Maximinus of a Smith Pertinax of a Wood-monger Seruius Tullus sonne of a Bond-woman thence his name Seruius Tarquinius Priscus of a poore Merchant or rather Pedler in Corinth Hugh Capet the first of that name King of France the sonne of a Butcher in Paris who when Lewis the sixth sonne of Lothary was poisoned by Blanch his Wife for Adulterie being a stout fellow and of a resolute Spirit hauing gathered a company like himselfe and taking his aduantage of the time and distempered humour of the State carried himselfe and his businesse so that he got the Crowne from the true heire Charles the Vnckle of Lewis Lamusius the third King of the Lombards was the sonne of a common Strumpet found laid and couered with leaues in a ditch by King Agelmond who by chance riding that way and espying a thing stirre in the ditch touched it with the point of his Lance to see what it was which the Infant with the hand taking fast hold of the King amazed and imagining it as a presage of some good fortune toward the child caused it to be taken out of the ditch and to bee brought vp which after nursed in the lap of Fortune by many degrees of Honor got the Crowne of Lombardy Neither are the truly valorous or any way vertuous ashamed of their so meane Parentage but rather glorie in themselues that their merit hath aduanced them aboue so many thousands farre better descended And hence you shall many times heare them freely discourse of their beginning and plainely relate their bringing vp what their Parents were I remember when I was in the Low-Countries and liued with Sir Iohn Ogle at Virecht the reply of that valiant Gentleman Colonell Edmondes to a Countrey-man of his newly come out of Scotland went Currant who desiring entertainment of him told him My Lord his Father and such Knights and Gentle-men his Couzins and Kinsmen were in good health Quoth Colonell Edmondes Gentlemen to his friends by beleeue not one word hee sayes my Father is but a poore Baker of Edenbourgh and workes hard for his liuing whom this knaue would make a Lord to currie fauour with me and make ye beleeue I am a great man borne c. So that the valiant Souldier you see measureth out of the whole cloath his Honour with his sword and hence in ancient times came Rome Athens Carthage and of late the Ottoman Empire to their greatnesse Honor being then highly prized euery one aymed at Nobilitie and none refused the most desperate attempts for the good of his Countrey Thus the Decij Cato Marcellus with infinite others became ennobled and had their Altars Statues Columnes c. and were welnigh adored with as great respect as their Gods themselues From no lesse meanesse of birth and beginning we find many great and famous Bishops Ciuilians Orators Poets c. to haue attained to the greatest dignities both of Church and Common-wealth and to haue checked with their Fortunes euen Glorie her selfe Pope Iohn the two and twentieth was a poore Shooe-makers sonne Nicholas the fifth was sonne of a Poulter Sixtâ—â— the fift of a Hog-heard Alphenus but a Tailors Apprentice who running from his Master went to Rome and there studied the Ciuill Law and so profited that for his learning and wisedome he was after created Consull Vlpian but meanely borne yet Tutor to Alexander the Emperour Cicero was borne and brought vp at Arpinum a poore and obscure Village Virgil the sonne of a Potter Horace of a Trumpeter Theophrastus of a Botcher with infinite others I might alledge as well of ancient as moderne times For doing Iustice the Romanes of a priuate man and a stranger chose Numa for their King and on the contrary as Plutarch writeth comparing them together Lycurgus of a King for Iustice sake made himselfe a priuate man for A goodly thing saith Plutarch it is by doing iustly to obtaine a Kingdome and as glorious to prefer Iustice before a kingdome for the vertue of the one Numa made him so esteemed and honoured that he was of all thought worthy of it of the other so great that he scorned it In like manner for their good Lawes and doing Iustice were aduanced to their Thrones and goodly Tribunals Minos Rhadamantus though subiects of Poets fables Aratus Solon c. And how fairely beyond their Lawrels the name of Iust became Aristides Traiant Agesilaus with many others I leaue to Historie to report For Magnificence and obliging the places wherein they liued by great benefits were ennobled Tarquinius Priscus a stranger and a banished man and of later times Cosmo di Medici in Florence vpon whose vertues as vpon a faire prospect or some princely Palace giue me leaue a little as a traueller to breathe my selfe and shew you afarre off the faire Tutrets of his more then royall Magnificence being but a priuate man as I finde it recorded in his Historie by Machiauell This Cosmo saith he was the most esteemed and most famous Citizen being no man of warre that euer had beene in the memorie of man either in Florence or any other Citie because he did not onely excell all others of his time in Authoritis and Riches but also in Liberalitie and Wisedoms For among other qualities which aduanced him to be chiefe of his Countrey he was more then other men liberall and magnificent which liberalitie appeared much more after his death then before For his sonne Piero found by his Fathers Records that there was not any Citizen of estimation to whom Cosmo had not lent great summes of Money and many times also he did lend to those Gentlemen whom he knew
their liues and manners and come neere in the light of knowledge vnto him who must protect and defend them by establishing Religion ordaining Lawes by so much as the Sunne from his Orbe of Empire ought he to out-runne the rest in a vertuous race and out-shine them in knowledge by how much he is mounted neerer to heauen and so in view of all that his least eclipse is taken to a minute What tell me can be more glorious or worthy the Scepter then to know God aright the Mysteries of our saluation in Iesus Christ to conuerse with God in soule and oftner then the meere naturall man to aduance him in his Creatures to bee able with Salomon to dispute from the loftiest Cedar on Libanus to the lowest Hysop vpon the wall to bee the Coâ—duit Pipe and instrument whereby as in a goodly Garden the sweete streames of heauens blessings are conueied in pietie peace and plentie to the nourishing of thousands and the flourishing of the most ingenious Arts and Sciences Wherefore saith the Kingly Prophet Erudimini Reges c. as if he should say How can you Kings Iudges of the earth vnderstand the grounds of your Religion the foundation and beginnings of your Lawes the ends of your duties and callings much lesse determine of such controuersies as daily arise within your Realmes and circuits define in matters of Faith publique Iustice your priuate and Oeconomicke affaires if from your cradles yee haue beene nursed as Solomons foole with ignorance brutish Ignorance mother of all miserie that infecteth your best actions with folly ranketh you next to the beast maketh your talke and discourse loathsome and heauy to the hearer as a burthen vpon the way your selues to be abused by your vassals as blinde men by their Boyes and to bee led vp and downe at the will and pleasure of them whose eyes and eares you borrow Hence the royall Salomon aboue all riches of God desired wisedome and vnderstanding that hee might gouerne and go before so mighty a people And the ancient Romanes when their voyces were demaunded at the Election of their Emperor cryed with one consent Quis melior quamâ— literatus Hence the Persians would elect none for their King except he were a great Philosopher and great Alexander acknowledged his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from his Master Aristotle Rome saw her best daies vnder her most learned Kings and Emperours as Numâ— Augustus Titus Antoninus Constantino Theodosius and some others Plutarch giueth the reason Learning saith hee reformeth the life and maâ—â—ers and affoordeth the wholesomest aduice for the gouernment of a Common-wealth I am not ignorant but that as all goodnesse else shee hath met with her mortall enemies the Champions of Ignorance as Licinius gaue for his Mot or Poesie Postes Reipublica literae and Lewis the eleuenth King of France would euer charge his sonne to learne no more Latine then this Qui nescit dissimulare nescit regnare but these are the fancies of a few and those of ignorant and corrupted iudgements Since learning then ioyned with the feare of God is so faithfull a guide that without it Princes vndergoe but lamely as Chrysostome saith their greatest affaires they are blinde in discretion ignorant in knowledge rude and barbarous in manners and liuing the necessitie of it in Princes and Nobilitie may easily be gathered who howsoeuer they slatter themselues with the fauourable Sun-shine of their great Estates and Fortunes are indeede of no other account and reckoning with men of wisedome and vnderstanding then Glowormes that onely shine in the darke of Ignorance and are admired of Ideots and the vulgar for the out-side Statues or huge Colossos full of Lead and rubbish within or the Aegyptian Asse that thought himselfe worshipfull for bearing golden Isis vpon his backe Sigismund King of the Romanes and sonne to Charles the fourth Emperour greatly complained at the Councell of Constance of his Princes and Nobilitie whereof there was no one that could answer an Embassadour who made a speech in Latine whereat Lodouicke the Elector Palatine tooke such a deepe disdaine in himselfe that with teares ashamed he much lamented his want of learning and presently hereupon returning home beganne albeit hee was very old to learne his Latine tongue Eberhard also the first Duke of Wirtenberge at an assembly of many Princes in Italy who discoursed excellently in Latine while he stood still and could say nothing in a rage strook his Tutor or Gouernor there present for not applying him to his Booke when he was young I gladly alledge these examples as by a publike Councell to condemne Opinion of Heresie beleeuing to teach and teaching to beleeue the vnnecessitie of Learning in Nobilitie an error as preiudiciall to our Land as sometime was that rotten Chest to Aethiopia whose corrupted ayre vented after many hundreds of yeares brought a plague not onely vpon that Country but ouer the whole world I ceasse to vrge further the necessitie and dignitie of Learning hauing as Octauiâ—s said to Decius a Captaine of Anthonies to the vnderstanding spoken sufficient but to the ignorant too much had I said lesse CHAP. 3. Of the time of Learning Dutie of Masters and what the fittest Method to be obserued AS the Spring is the onely fitting seede time for graine setting and planting in Garden and Orchard So youth the Aprill of mans life is the most naturall and conuenient season to scatter the Seeds of knowledge vpon the ground of the mind 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Plato It behooueth in youth out of hand to desire and bend our minds to Learning neither as good Husbands while time serueth let slip one houre for saith he elsewhere Our ground is hard and our horses be wild withall if we meane to reape a plentifull haruest take we the counsell of Adrastus in Euripides To looke that the seed be good For in the foundation of youth well ordered and taught consists saith Plato againe the flourishing of the Common-wealth This tender Age is like water spilt vpon a table which with a finger wee may draw and direct which way we list or like the young Hop which if wanting a pole taketh hold of the next hedge so that now is the time as Waxe to worke it plyant to any forme How many excellent wits haue we in this Land that smell of the Caske by neglecting their young time when they should haue learned Horace his Quo semel once fit for the best Wine since too bad for the best Vineger who growne to yeares of discretion and solid vnderstanding deepely bewaile their misspent or misguided youth with too late wishing as I haue heard many that they had lost a ioynt halte their estates so that they had beene held to their Bookes when they were young The most and without cause lay the fault vpon bad Masters to say truth it is a generall plague and complaint of the whole
in processe of time assumed to themselues the Surname of Cavendish as being Lords of the Towne and Mannor of Cavendish in Suffolke out of which familie disbranched that famous Trauailer Mr. Thomas Cavendish who was the third that trauailed about the world whose voyage you shall finde set downe at large in the English Discouerers written by Mr. 〈◊〉 It is borne by the name of Hobart and was the proper Coate of Sir Iames Hobart Knight Atturney Generall vnto King Henry the seauenth a right good man withall of great learning and wisedome hee builded the Church of Loddâ—n and Saint Olaues commonly called Saint Toolies bridge in the County of Norfolke This worthy Knight lyeth buryed vnder a faire monument in the middle I le on the Northside in Christs Church in Norwich But it is now borne with the Coate of Vister by the gift of King Iames vnto him as a Barronet by the Honourable and Nobly minded Sir Henry Hobart Knight and Baronet Lord chiefe Iustice of the Common Pleas of Blickling in the County of Norfolke whose vprightnesse in Iustice and loue to his country hath like his owne Starre communicatiue of it selfe dispersed the fairer beames into all places Râ—x dilect◠〈◊〉 sâ—o Roberto de Woodhouse Archidiacone de Richmâ—nd Thesaâ—rario sâ—o salutem Negotiaâ—os statum regni contingentia c. vobis mandamus â—irmiter iâ—iungentes quod omnibus alijs praterâ—issis c. Beside I haue sâ—ene the will of King Henry the fourth and Heâ—rie the fifth where one was a gentleman of Henry the fourth's chamber and by his will made one of his executors as also he was to Henry the fifth who wrote his letter to the Pâ—ior and Chapter of the Church of the Trinitie in Norwich to giue him leaue to build himselfe a Chappell in their Church So that from time to time they haue held an Honourable place and at this day are worthy stayes and pillars of Iustice in their Countries Nor must I heere let fall the worth of two sons of this Gentleman Sir Thomas Woodhouse Knight who marryed Blanch Sister to the right Honourable Henry now Viscount Rochfâ—rt and Master Roger Woodhouse his brother Gentlemen not onely learned but accomplished in what euer may lend Lustre to worth and true gentilitie This was also the Coate of Sir Thomas Louell Knight of the Garter made by King Henrie the seuenth of whose hoâ—se hee was Treasurer and President of the Counsell This Sir Thomas Louell was a fift sonne of Sir Ralphe Louell of Barton Bendish in the Countie of Norfolke This his Coate with the Garter about it standeth ouer Lincolnes Inne Gate He founded the Nunnery of Halliwell where was also his house on a wall of which not maâ—y yeares since was to be read this inscription All ye Nuns of Halliwell Pray ye both day and night For the Soule of Sir Thomas Louell Whom Harry the 〈◊〉 made Knight It appeareth also that Sir William Louell Lord Morley was Knight of the Garter for in Morley Church the seate of his Baronnie is yet remaining in a Glasse window which I haue seene this Coate with the Garter about it This Coate Armour is verie ancient as is proued by sundry bookes of Armes Church windowes and seuerall deeds wherof I haue seene two bearing date Anno 18. Richard the 2. with seales of this very Coate fixed thereunto with this inscription about the same viz Sigillum Robertide Ashfield as also another deed bearing date Anno 3. Henrie the fixt made from Robert the sonne of Iohn Ashfeild of Stow-Langton Esquire to Simon Finchanâ— and Iohn Whitlocke with a faire Seale of red Waxe whereupon was a Griffâ—â— Sâ—iant with his wings displayed ouer whose body is this Armes with this inscription about the whoâ—e Seale viz S. Robertide Ashfeild Armig. The aboue named Robert Ashfeild builded the Church of Stow Langton in the Quire whereof which I haue seene hee lyeth butied vnder a faire Marble he was seruant vnto the blacke Prince whom he followed in his warres in France This Coate is thus borne by Sir lohn Ashfeild Knight sole heire of that Family now Gentleman of the bedde Chamber to Prince Charles This ancient name and family of Crow was anciently of Suffolke for about the time of K. Edward the 4. Thomas Crow of Suffolke the elder purchased Bradsted in Kent whose sonne Thomas Crow the yoâ—ger married Ioane the onely daughter and heire of Nicholas Boare son of Iohn sonne of Richard Boare that married Lora the daughter of Simon Stocket of Bradsted in Kent The aforesaid Ioane brought to Thomas her husband his house called Stockets with a Chancell built by the aboue named Simon Stockets as appeareth by a French deede tempore Edw. 2. As also a house and certaine land called Boars by whom shee had issue Iohn Crow the elder father of Henry Crow father of William Crow of Bradsted Esq. who married Anne the second daughter and coheire of Iohn Sackuill of Chiddingleigh in Sussex Esq. The said Mannor of Chiddingleigh hath beene in the possession of the Sackuills aboue three hundred yeeres and at this day is part of the inheritance of the Right Honorable Richard Sackuill Earle of Dorset and Baron of Buckâ—urst which William Crow and Annâ— his wife hath issue Sackuill Crow their sonne and heire now liuing with others This Coate of Talbot belongeth vnto the Right worshipfull Master Thomas Talbot Doctour of the Ciuill Law of Miliers Hall in Wimâ—ndham in the Countie of Norfolke a very learned and honest Gentleman If you would proceede further in blazonry and the true knowledge of the desâ—â—â—ts of our English Nobility I refer you to that exact iust and elaborate worke of my singular and learned friend Master Augustine Vincent Rouge-croix very shortly to be publishedâ— which let it be vnto you of all that haue written in that kinde instar omnium So I referre you henceforward to your priuate reading and obseruation CHAP. 14. Of Exercise of the Body I Now from your priuate studie and contemplation bring you abroad into the open fields for exercise of your Body by some honest recreation since Aristotle requireth the same in the Education of Nobilitie and all youth Since the mind from the Ability of the Body gathereth her strength and vigor Anciently by the Ciuill Law these kinds of Exercises were onely allowed of that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which are the exercise of Armes by single combate as running at Tilt-barrians c. coiting throwing the hammer sledge and such like Running iumping leaping and lastly wrestling for the first it is the most Noble those Epithites of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 haue beene the attributes of Kings and Princes whose delight in auncient times was to ride and mannage great horses Hereby you are ennabled for command and the seruice of your Country And what saith Tullis can bee more glorious then to bee able to preserue and
seasoning your talke at the table among graue and serious discourses with conceipts of wit and pleasant inuention as ingenious Epigrammes Emblemes Anagrammes merry tales wittie questions and answers Mistakings as a melancholy Gentleman sitting one day at a table where I was started vp vpon the suddaine and meaning to say I must goe buy a dagger by transposition of the letters said Sir I must goe dye a begger A plaine country man being called at an Assize to bee a witnesse about a piece of land that was in controuersie the Iudge calling said vnto him Sirrha how call you that water that runnes on the South-side of this close My Lord quoth the fellow our water comes without calling A poore souldier with his musket and rest in Breda came one day in and set him downe at the nether end of the Prince of Orange his table as he was at dinner whitâ—â—r none might bee priuiledged vnder the degree of a Gentleman at the least to come the Gentleman-vsher of the Prince demanded of him if hee were a Gentleman yes quoth the Souldier my father was a Goldsmith of Andwarpe but what can you doe in your fathers trade quoth he I can set stones in mortar for he was a bricklaier and helped Masons in their workes For Epigrammes Pasquine will afford you the best and quickest I know You shall haue them all bound in two volumes I remember hee tells vs once vpon a Sunday morning Pasquine had a sowle shirt put on and being asked the cause Pasquine made answer because my Laundresse is become a Countesse You shall haue a taste of some of my Anagramâ— such as they are Vpon the Prince CAROLVS ô Clarus Charles Prince of Wales All Fraunce cries ô helpe vs. Of the Queene of Bohemia and Princesse Palatine of the Rhene my gracious Ladie ELISABETHA STEVARTA Has Artes beata velit Being requested by a Noble and Religious Ladie who was sister to the old Lord De la Ware to try what her name would afford it gaue me this IANE WEST Entua Iesû And vpon the name of a braue and beautifull Ladie wife to Sr. Robert Mordaunt sonne and heire to Sr. Le Straunge Mordaunt Knight and Barronet in the Country of Norfolke Amie Mordaunt Tumore Dianam Tumore Dianam Minerua domat Me induat amor Nuda ó te miram Vi tandem amor Vpon the name of a faire Gentlewoman this in Italian ANNA DVDLAEIA Eâ—la nuda Diana Vpon a sweete and modest young Gentlewoman Mistris MARIA MEVTAS Tuame amaris To comfort my selfe liuing in a Towne where I found not a Scholler to conuerse withall nor the kindest respect as I thought I gaue this my Poesie the same backward and forward SVBI DVRA ARVDIBVS Of M. Doctor Hall Deane of Worcester this added to the body of a Glorie wherein was written Iehouah in Hebrew resembling the Deitie IOSEPH HALL All his Hope Of a vertuous and faire Gentlewoman at the request of my friend who barâ— her good will FRANCIS BARNEY Barres in Fancy And this Theodâ—sia Dixon A DEO DIXIT HONOS or O Dea dixit Honos Of my good friend M. Doct. Dowland in regard hee had slipt many opportunities in aduancing his fortunes and a rare Lutâ—nist as any of our Nation beside one of our greatest Masters of Musicke for composing I gaue him an Embleme with this IOANNES DOVLANDVS Annos Iudendo hausi There were at one time in Rome very wittie and vnhappy libels cast forth vpon the whole CoÌ„sistory of Cardinals in the nature of Emblemes I remember Cardinal Farnesi had for his part a storke deuouring a frogge with this Mordeo non mordeâ—tes Bellarmine a Tiger fast chained to a post in a scroule proceeding from the beasts mouth in Italian Da mi mia libertà vederete chi io Sono that is giue me my Libertie you shall see what I am meaning perhaps he would be no longer c. And those were very knauish that were throwne vp and downe the Court of France the Escotcheon or Armes of the partie on the one side of a pastboard and some ingenious deuice on the other as one had the Armes of the house of di Medici of Florence on the one side on the other an inkhorne with the mouth turned downward with this tart Pasquil Elle faut d'encre and so of the whole Court Emblemes and Impresa's if ingeniously conceipted are of daintie deuice and much esteeme The Inuention of the Italian herein is very singular neither doe our English wits come much behind them but rather equall them euery way The best that I haue seene haue beene the deuises of Tiâ—tings whereof many are reserued in the priuate Gallery at White Hall of Sr. Phillip Sidnâ—ie's the Earle of Cumberland Sr. Henry Leigh the late Earle of Essex with many others most of which I once collected with intent to publish them but the charge disswaded me But aboue all in your talke and discourse haue a care euer to speake the truth remembring there is nothing that can more preiudice your esteeme then to be lauishtongued in speaking that which is false and disgracefully of others in their absence The Persians and Indians had a law that whosoeuer had beene thrice conuicted of speaking vntruth should vpon paine of death neuer speake word all his life after Cato would suffer no man to bee praised or dispraised but vsed alwaies such discourse as was profitable to the hearers for as one saith Dictâ—ria minuum Maiestatem Iestes and scoffes doe lessen Maiâ—stie and greatnesse and should be farre from great personages and men of wisedome CHAP. 16. Of Trauaile I Will conclude with Trauaile which many disallow in Gentlemen yea and some great trauellers themselues but mee thinkes they are as one who hath filled his owne belly and denieth the dish to his fellow In my opinion nothing rectifieth and confirmeth more the iudgment of a Gentleman in forteine affaires teacheth him knowledge of himselfe and setleth his affection more sure to his owne Country then Trauaile doth for if it be the common Law of Nature that the learned should haue rule ouer and instruct the ignorant the experienced the vnexperienced what concerneth more Nobility taking place aboue other then to be learned and wise and where may wisedome be had but from many men and in many places Hereupon we find the most eminent and wise men of the world to haue beene the greatest Trauailers to omit the Patriarches and Apostles themselues in holy writ as Plato Pythagoras Aristotle Theophrastus Osyris King of Aegypt who trauelled a great part of the world and caused to be engrauen vpon his Sepulcher Heere vnder I lie King Osyris eldest sonne of Saturne who haue left no part of the world vnsearched whitherto I haue not come teaching againe whatsoeuer I haue found for the vse and commoditie of mankinde And Xenophon to intimate vnto vs the benefit and excellent vse of Trauaile saith that Cambyses by his
augmentation to the Armories of the Palsgraue of the Râ—ine in regard of Vienna so brauely defended by Phillip Earle Palatine together with the Count Solmas against the furie of Solyman who laid siedge to it with aboue 300000. men yet glad at the rumour of the Emperour Charles his comming to shew his backe For Solyman as himselfe was wont to say seared not Charles as he was Emperour of Germany but that good fortune which euer attended him in his greatest enterprises And no doubt but the blessing of God was vpon him as being one of the most religious iust and worthiest Princes that euer liued The family of the Haies in Scotland bare Arg. three Escotcheons Gules vpon this occasion At what time the Danes inuaded Scotland and in a set batraile had put the Scots to the worst one Hay with his two sonnes being at plow not farre off and seeing his Countrey-men flying froÌ„ their enemies to come vp a narrow Lane walled with stone on both sides towards him with their Plowbeames in their hands meeting them at the lanes end in despite beate them backe to charge their enemies afresh reuiling their cowardize that now hazarded the whole kingdome whereupon with a stout resolution they put themselues againe into array and returning backe vpon the Danes who were both disordered and in a feare lest a new supply had come downe to the Scots succour ouerthrew them vtterly and regained a most memorable victory Heâ—eupon Hay was by the King ennobled and had giuen him for his bearing in a field Siluer three Escotcheons Gules the rest a Plow-man with his Plow-beame on his shoulder and withall for his maintenance as much Land as a Faulcon put off from hand could sly ouer erc she did alight which Land in Scotland is to this day called Hay his Land and the Faulcon alighting vpon a stone about seuen miles off gaue it the name of the Falcons stone euen to this day Armes againe are sometimes taken from professions and those meanes by which the bearers haue raised themselues to honourable place as the Dukes of Florence for that they are descended from the family Di Medicâ— or Phisitians bare in a field Azure sixe Lozenges Sometimes they are wonne in the field from Infidels for no Christian may directly beare anothers Coate by his sword as was the Coate of Millan from a Saraceâ— it being an Infant naisant or issuing from the mouth of a Serpent And after the winning of Granadâ— from the Moores in the times of Ferdin 〈◊〉 and Isâ—bell Kings of Castile the Pomgranate the Armes of that kingdome was placed in the bast of the Escotcheon Royall and in regard it was gained principally by the meanes of Archerie the Bow and Quiuer of Arrowes was stamped vpon the Spanish sixpence which remaineth at this day to be seene Coates sometimes are by stealth purchased shuffled into Records and Monuments by Painters Glasiers Caruers and such But I trust so good an order hath beene lately established by the Right Honorable the late CoÌ„missioners for the Office of the Earle Marshalship carefull respect of the Heralds with vs that all hope of sinister dealing in that kind is quite cut off from such mercenary abusers of Nobilitie Many times gained at a cheaper rate by bearing as the Boores in Germany and the Netherlands what they list themselues neither can their owne Inuentions content them but into what land or place soeuer they trauaile if they espy a fairer Coate then their owne for they esteeme Coates faire or good as our Naturals according to the varietie of colours after their returne they set it vp in Glasse for them and their heires with the Crest and open Beauer as if they were all Princes as at Wodrichom or Worcom hard by Louestein I found ouer a Tradesman Coate no worse Crest then the three Feathers in the Crown and in many other places whole Coates of the French Nobilitie Heereof examples in those parts are so frequent that I must say Inopem me copia fecit Now being acquainted with your colours the points and euery place of the Escotchcon which the Accidence of Armorie of Master Guillims Display will at large instruct you in begin to practise the Blazon of those Coats which consist of bare and simple lines without charge as that ancient Coate of Waldgraâ—â— who beareth onely party per pale Arg. and Gules and the Citie of Virecht partie per bend of the same Then your fields equally compounded of moe lines as Quarterly Bâ—ndey Barrey Gyronned Checkey Masculie c. Withall know the names and vse of all manner of your crooked lines as Endemed Embatâ—elled Nebulè or Vndeè Danncéâ—â—â—è c. Know then those Honorable and prime places or Ordinaries with their Species as the cheese so called of Chef in French that of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because it possesseth the head or vpper third part of the Escotcheon The Fesse holding the middle third part of the shield containeth vnder it the Barre Barrulet Coste Barresgemells c. The Bend the Bendlet single and double Cotize Next know the Furres Counterchangings Bordures Tressures Orles Frets all formes of Crosses differences of Brothers Roundles of euery kind as Beasanâ—s Plaâ—es Pommices c. Then proceede to the blazon of all vegetable things as Flowers Trees c. Then to all quicke and liuing things as Beasts Birds Fishes Serpents and the like When you haue done know Honorable additaments whether they be by way of augmentation or markes and differences of alliance Coates of augmentation as those of Queene Katherine Parre Queene Katherine Howard and Queene Iane Seymor conferred by King Henry the eight By Cantons as Ferdinand King of Spaine honoured Sir Henry Guilford with a Canton of Granado and King Iames Molinâ— the Vâ—neâ—ian Embassadour with a Canton of the Rose of England and Thistle of Scotland empaled Then ensue differences of alliance by Bordures Labels Bends Quarterings and the like By the Bordure no where more frequent then in the Soueraignes Coate when the blood Roiall was deriued into so many veines to the distemper of the whole body vnder the dissention of Yorke and Lancaster Thomas of Woodstocke as also Humphrey Duke of Glocester who lyeth buried in the Abbey of S. Albanes vpon the South-side of the Quire and not in Paules bare the Soueraigne Coate within a Bordure Argent Richard Plantagenet sonne and heire of Richard Earle of Cambridge Duke of Yorke and father to Edward the fourth bare quarterly France and England within a Bordure Argent charged with Lionceeaux purpure Edmund of Hadham sonne of Owen Tuder by Queene Katherine the Soueraigne Coat within a Bordure Azure with Martlets and Flower-de-luces Or. Iohn Beaufort sonne of Iohn of Gaunt and his posteritie the same within a bordure Componeè Argent and Azure Charles the seuenth King of France in the yeare 1436. gaue leaue vnto Nicholas Duke of Ferrara to beare the Armes of France in a