of Covidius the Centurion which he used in the battel that he had against the Mysians was holden to be admirable that he bare upon his helmet a cup that one while did flash out flames of fire and other whiles would suck them in Many more examples could I give to prove as well the antiquity as the generall use of crests but holding this to be sufficient I will now proceed to give examples of things that are interposed between the mantle and the crest beginning with those of the inferiour reckoning and so to those of better worth and estimation HAving omitted in the former Sections some bearings of signall Note and Augmentations of honour bestowed for eminent service and some Presidents of bearing I have thought fit here to insert them though not in so good Method as I could wish and first I shall take notice of an eminent Addition the originall Patent being lately in my hands I shall in the next place shew you an example of a Gentleman bearing the Coat-armour of the Company he is free of impaled with his own wherein note that were he not of that quality yet he might bear the Coat of his Company in Seal Escocheon or otherwise I shall here not think it unnecessary to give you an account of the four Innes of Court or Collegia Juris consultorum being the head or chief of the residue which are called Innes of Chancery of whose Originall suppression opulency and other matters of moment I refer you to the survey of London Wevers funerall Monuments and others I shall onely give you an account of their Symbols or Arms and first of the two Temples of whom briefly thus It was an house of the Templarii or Knights Templars and after their suppression their other Lands were conferd on the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem after called Knights of Rhodes and this house came to the hands of Thomas Plantagenet Earl of Lancaster on whose attainder it was by the Crown invested on Hugh Le Despencer Earl of Glocester after to Aymer de Valence Earl of Penbrook In Edward the thirds time the Students of the Law obtained a long Lease of it for the yearly Rent of ten pound a third part of this came through many hands to the late Earls of Essex by the Sister and coheir of the last Earl and possessour whereof it came to the possession of that worthy Gentleman William Marquesse of Hartford Lord Beauchampe the instant Proprietor The Arms of another third part of which House called the Middle Temple are thus blazond In the time of King Edward the third as is confidently averd Gentlemen Students took a grant of this house from the Lord Gray then Proprietor which Honourable Society bear for their Coat Sable a Griffon Sergeant or Rampant Or. I shall give you a President of a choyce singularity viz. the Coat-Armour of the Honourable Sir Gervas Clifton of Clifton in the County of Nottingham Knight and Baronet marshalled with his seven wives which are thus described or blazoned Gules on a Cheuron Argent between three paire of Garbes Saltire-waies Or three Tuns or Barrels Sable which is the Coat of the Company of Brewers of London who were incorporated by the said King Henry the sixth 1. Sir William Ryves Attorny Generall for the Kingdome of Ireland who marryed Dorothy Daughter of Sir Richard Waldron or Walrond Knight 2 Sir Thomas Rives the Kings Advocate married Elizabeth daughter of the said Sir Richard Walrond 3 Brune Rives Doctor of Divinity and Deane of Chichester married Katherine Daughter of the same Sir Richard Walrond Knight Of this Family is also that worthy Citizen Richard Rives of London Merchant Deputy of Dowgate Ward and his brother Jâ—hn Rives Merchant being all desce ded from the ancient Family of this sirname at Damerey court near Blandford in the County of Dorcet The second Topaz a Saltier and chiefe Ruby by the name of Bruc I shall for the better illustration of this give you another example or two of Widows and then treat of Maids And in this manner are those bearings to be marshalled where the woman being a Widow will make use of both her Husbands Coats Some may perhaps object that the Label should have been in cheif and extended to the sides of the Escocheon but let them know 't is a grand errour to draw or paint them so These Labels as in Prideaux Barington Hellesby c. being a charge and part of the Coat nor is there any reason we should make the eldest brothers difference so large when we alwayes draw the differences of the younger brothers as small as may be that of Labels being a very ancient bearing but these distinctions for brother's a new though necessary invention Thus much for the bearing of Widows who may on no pretence whatsoever beare either their paternall Coat or their Husbands Coate simple or alone for if in an Escocheon or Shield then all people take it for the bearing of a man If in a Lozenge then is it the bearing proper onely to a Maid as the following examples will demonstrate This is the proper Coat of Frances Seymor daughter of Francis Lord Seymor of Trowbridge by Frances daughter and Co-heire of Sir Gilbert Prinne Knight I shall double this example in a Cousin German of this Ladies SECT VI. CHAP. VI. Peculiar Ornaments THus far have I touched things placed above the Escocheon now I will proceed to such as are placed else-where of which some are Peculiar some more Generall By such as are peculiar I meane those that are appropriate to persons having Soveraign Jurisdicton and to such as we called Nobiles Majores of which Rank a Banneret or as some call them a Baronet is the lowest These have their name of a Banner for unto them it was granted in remuneration of their approved valour in Military services to bear a square Banner after the custome of Barons and therefore are called Knights Bannerets as Master Camden hath noted saying Baneretti qui allis Baronetti cum valvasorum nomen jam desierat à Baronibus secundi erant quibus inditum nomen a vexillo concessum enim erat illis militaris virtutis ergo quadrato vexillo perinde ac Barones uti unde Equites vexillarii a nonnullis vocantur c. This order of Knight-hood was much esteemed for the honour received in the Field for Military service with great solemnity under the banner Royall displayed in the presence of the Soveraign and this hath been reputed a middle degree between Nobiles majores minores but of this dignity none hath been known alive in England since Sir Ralph Sadler c. But amongst the particular Ornaments belonging to the Coat-armours of persons having either Supreme or Inferior dignity there are some that do environ the Coat-armour round about and do chiefly belong to persons exercising Soveraign Jurisdiction and to such others as they out of their speciall favour shall communicate the same unto by
three Waterbougets Argent Bingham Thirteenth Argent a Crosse patee Azure Mâ—lpas Fourteenth Sable three Saltiers engrailed Argent Lexington Fifteenth Argent on a Crosse Gules five Mullets Sable Bodenham Sixteenth Sable three Pick-axes Argent Pigot Seventeenth Argent a Crosse patee Azure a Label Gules Bevercote Over all in an Escocheon of pretence France a Lyon Rampant Or a Cressent for a difference by the name of Beaumont Hereon three Crests first on a Wreath or Torce Or and Azure a Dragons head erased Sable mantled as the Wreath Secondly or middlemost a plume of Feathers Argent and Sable on a Wreath Argent and Azure mantled Azure doubled Argent Thirdly a Foxes head erased Gules on a Wreath Argent and Sable mantled Sable doubled Argent set on three open Helmets befitting the degree of a Knight Motto Fe mid un buen hidalgo being an Anagram of his name thus englished Faith measures a good Cavalier This is the Atchievement of Sir Wingfield Bodenham son of Sir Francis Bodenham son of Sir William Bodenham of Ryhall in the County of Rutland Knights descended of a younger son of Sir John Bodenham of Nonington in the County of Hereford Knight Here you may observe the difference betwixt the Helmet of an Esquire and a Knight being the third degree of Gentry OMNIA DESVPER THe next in order and degree of precedency is an hereditary honour entituled Baronets quasi Petit Barons of whose creation priviledges and other concernments you may be more fully satisfied in a supplement to this Book being a peculiar account of this Order He beareth two Coats quarterly First Or two Lyons Passant Gardant Gules Secondly Or a Fesse Varry between three Cinquefoyles Gules and are both borne by the name of Ducy An Inescocheon with the Armes of Vlster or Tyrone viz. Argent a sinister hand coupee Gules the Crest on a Helmet befitting a Baronet a Chapeau Gules lined Ermine thereon an Estrich rowsant Or Mantled Gules doubled Argent which is the bearing of the Honourable Sir William Ducy of Tortworth in the County of Glocester Baronet heir to his Brother Sir Richard Ducy Baronet deceased sons of Sir Robert Ducy Lord Mayor of London 1630. created Baronet 1629. Nov. 28. Knighted 1631. who by his wife Elizabeth Daughter of Richard Pyot Alderman of London had issue beside the said Sir Richard and Sir William Ducy Robert third son Hugh Ducy fourth Son and John Ducy fifth Son deceased DE BON VOVLOIR SERVIR LE ROY THis is the Atchievement of the Right Honourable William Grey Baron Grey of Warke in the County of Northumberland who was by King James created Baronet June 15. 1619. Son of Sir Ralph Grey of Chillingham in the said County Knight extracted from a long continuation of Knights of eminence and large estates in that County one of whom Sir John Grey was by King Henry the fifth for his good service in France created Earle of Tanquerville there see Vincent This Noble Gentleman was by the said King created Lord Grey of Warke to him and his heirs males 11. Feb. 1623. and is living 1660. he married the virtuous Lady Cecilia eldest Daughter and Co-heir of Sir John Wentworth of Costiel in Suffolk Knighted 1603. created Baronet 1611. by Katharine Daughter of Sir Moyle Finch and Elizabeth Countess of Winchelsey by whom he hath issue living the Honourable Thomas Grey Esquire eldest son Ralph second son and two Daughters Elizabeth and Katharine He beareth Ruby a Lyon Rampant within a Bordure engrailed Pearl by the name of Grey a Scocheon of pretence Diamond a Cheuron between three Leopards heads Topaz by the name of Wentworth For his Creast on a Barons Helmet and Wreath of his colours a Scaling Ladder Topaz the Grapple or iron Hooks Saphire his Supporter on the dexter side a Lyon gardant Purple purfled and crowned Topaz on the sinister side a Cat-a-mountain Proper viz. greyish erect on a Scroll therein his Lordships Motto De bon Vouloir Servir Le Roy. DIEV DEFENDE LE DROIT THis was the Atchievement of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Spenser Knight Baron Spenser of Wormeleiton in the County of Warwick deceased father of William now Baron Spenser which Robert Lord Spenser was most worthily advanced to that degree by our late Soveraign Lord King James Anno regni sui primo in regard of his Lordships many Noble vertues be fitting that Dignity who bare eight Coats marshalled in one Shield as followeth viz. First quarterly Pearle and Ruby the second and third charged with a Fret Topaz over all on a Bend Diamond three Escalops of the first being the ancient Coat belonging to this noble Family as a branch descended from the Spensers Earles of Gloucester and Winchester The second is Saphire a Fesse Ermine between six Sea-mewes heads erased Pearl born also by the name of Spenser The third is Ruby three Stirrops leathered in Pale Topaz by the name of Deverell The fourth is Topaz on a Crosse Ruby five Stars Pearl by the name of Lincolne The fifth is Pearl a Cheuron between three Cinquefoiles pierced Ruby by the name of Warsteede The sixth is Ermine on a Cheuron Ruby five Beisants a Cressant in chief of the second by the name of Graunt The seventh is Pearl on a bend between two Lyons Rampand a Wiverne with the wings overt of the first by the name of Rudings The eighth and last is party per Cheuron Saphire and Topaz three Lyoncels passant gardant counter-changed a chief Pearl by the name of Catlyn all within the Escocheon And above the same upon a Helmet fitting the degree of a Baron a Mantle Ruby doubled Pearl thereupon within a Crown Topaz a Griffons head with wings displayed Pearl gorged with a Gemew Ruby And for his Supporters on the Dexter side a Griffon parted per fesse Pearl and Topaz gorged with a Collar Diamond charged with three Escalops Pearl whereunto is affixed a Chain reflected over his loynes Diamond Armed Ruby And on the Sinister side a Wiverne Pearl gorged also with a Collar whereunto is affixed a Chain reflexed over the hinder parts Diamond His Motto DIEV DEFENDE LE DROIT God defend the right being a worthy testimony both of his own honourable affection to right and equity and also of his Lordships repose and confidence not in the assistance of earthly honour and wealth but in the only providence of the all-righteous and all-righting God This noble Lord was a president and patern of all honourable vertues munificence and affection to Heroick profession and knowledge I out of the obligation of my devoted mind thought it best to produce his Coat-Armour as â—e patern of all other Atchievements of that degree Of Barons THe reason of the name of Barons is not so well known in England as is their greatness Some derive it from a Greek word Baru signifying Gravity as being men whose presence should represent that which their Title doth imply The French Heralds take Barons to be Par-homines Peeres or men of equall dignity
the Germans Banner-hires as being Commanders displaying Banners of their own in the Field These the Saxons called Laford whence our Word Lord and the Danes call them Thanes In ancient times the name of Barons was very large Citizens of chief Cities and Gentlemen of certain possessions enjoying that Title and about those times every Earle had a certain number of Barons under them as every Baron had Capitaneos under him But times have altered the limits of this Honour Barons being now reputed no less absolute Lords though lower than Earles and as a Gentleman is the first and lowest degree of Nobilitas Minor so now with us a Baron is reputed the First step of Nobilitas Major In which respect some have thought that in Atchievements none under a Baron may use Supporters but by ancient examples you shall find that Knights Bannerets also had that Ornament allowed them and therefore though a Banneret hath a middle place betwixt ordinary Knights and Barons yet I have omitted his Atchiemement the difference being so little betwixt it and the Barons Banneret or Baronet as some will have it by some is derived from Banner-rent because in their creation after certain Ceremonies the top of their Pennons is rent or cut off and so reduced into the form of a little Banner which they may display as Barons do But it is more probable that the Germane word Banner-hires was the originall both of Barons and Bannerets which matter skilleth not much sith this order as before we touched is now quite ceased in this Land The Atchievement of a Vicount LOYAL AV MORT THis Atchievement belongeth to the Right Honourable Sir Adam Loftus Knight Viscount Loftus of Ely within the Kingdom of Ireland Lord Chancellor of the said Realm and one of his Majesties Justices of that Kingdom who beareth Diamond a Cheuron engrailed Ermine between three Treefoyl is slipped Pearl and above the same upon an Helme fitting the degree of a Viscount a Mantle Ruby doubled Ermine next above which is placed on a Torce Pearl and Diamond a Boares head erased and erected Pearl Armed Topaz supported with two Raine Deere Ermine Attired Or and for his Motto in a Scrole LOYALL AV MORT expressing his Lordships loyall obedience to his Soveraign This Noble Lord was for his many vertues befitting such a dignity worthily advanced to this degree of Viscount by our late Soveraign King James in the twentieth year of his Raign TOVT BIEN OV RIEN THis is the Atchievement of the Right Honourable Baptist Noel Viscount Cambden Baron Noel of Ridlington and Hickes of Ilmington son and heir to Sir Edward Noel of Brook in the County of Rutland Knight created Baronet 1611. and afterward Baron of Ridlington to whom by vertue of the Intaile descended the Title of Viscount Cambden conferd on Sir Baptist Hickes who was created Viscount Hickes of Cambden in the County of Glocester in the fourth of his reign which Baptist Viscount Cambden hath issue by his third Lady Hester second Daughter and Coheir of Thomas Lord Wotton deceased the Honourable Edward Noel Esquire son and heir a very hopefull and excellently accomplisht young Gentleman of whose qualities I am not a more just admirer then to his civilities a debtor now in forrain parts He bears two Coats quarterly First Topaz Fretty Ruby a Canton Ermine by the name of Noel Secondly Ruby a Fesse Wavy between three Flowers de lis Topaz by the name of Hickes the third as the second the fourth as the first a Scocheon of pretence Pearl a Crosse formed fitchee at the foot Diamond by the name of Wotton The Crest on a Wreath of his colours a Stag passant Pearl Attired Or plac't on a Viscounts Helmet and Crown supported by two Buls Pearl Armed and Crined Diamond Mantled Ruby doubled Ermines This Family derives it self from the ancient Family of this surname at Dalby in Leicestershire Hilcot Staffordshire and Newbold in Derby-shire Of a Viscount A Viscount is a degree of dignity between a Baron and an Earle and began first to be honorary here in England in the time of our King Henry the sixth who by Patent in Parliament made John of Beaumont Viscount of Beaumont Here in this Atchievement you may observe that the Viscounts Coat-Armour is adorned with a Chaplet of sleighter making than the Coronet which beautifieth the Earles Escocheon NEC ELATA NEC DE IECTA THis is the Atchievement of the Right Honourable Heneage Earle of Winchelsey and is thus blazoned He bears four Coats quarterly First Pearl a Cheuron between three Griffons passant Diamond by the name of Finch Secondly Ruby three Lyons rampant Topaz by the name of Fitzherbert Thirdly Ruby a Mule passant within a Bordure Pearl by the name of Moyle Fourthly Topaz a Greyhound currant Diamond between three Leopards heads Saphire a Bordure engrailed Ruby by the name of Heneage and for his Crest on a Wreath of his colours a Pegasus currant Pearl gorged with a Crown winged and crined Topaz Mantled Ruby doubled Ermine supported by a Pegasus as the Crest on the dexter side and on the sinister a Griffon Sable erected on a Scrole the Motto Nec elata nec dejecta I could say much of the Antiquity and Eminence of this Family but I should seem onely to repeat what is obvious in Master Philpots Kent and elsewhere onely thus They are descended in a direct male line from Henry Fitzherbert Chamberlain to King Henry the first common Ancestour also to the Herberts Earles of Penbrook And after many Generations in the time of King Edward the first from the Mannour of Finches in Lidde were written Fitzherbert alias Fynch sometimes Herbert dictus Fynch and since onely Finch from whence in a continued line of persons eminent in their Country descended Sir Moyle Finch Knighted in the time of Queen Elizabeth created Baronet 1611. who married Elizabeth Daughter and sole Heir of Sir Thomas Heneage Vice Chamberlain Treasurer of the Chamber Chancellor of the Dutchy and one of the Privy Councel to Queen Eliz. of a very ancient Family of that surname at Haynton in the County of Lincoln which Lady in her Widow-hood was by King James in the one and twentieth year of his reign created Viscountess Maidstone and by K. Ch. in the fourth of his reign created Countesse of Winchelsey in Sussex to her and her heirs male She dying 1634. the honour fell to her then eldest son Sir Thomas Finch Knight and Baronet Earl of Winchelsey and Viscount Maidstone who in the year 1639. left his honour and estate to the succession of his son Heneage now Earl of Winchelsey 1660. who by his second wife the Lady Mary Daughter of the right Honourable William Marquess of Hartford hath issue William Viscount Maydstone Heneage second son c. The said Lady Elizabeth Countess of Winchelsey had diverse other sons of whom no issue continues except from her fourth son Sir Heneage Finch Knight Serjeant at Law and Recorder of London who by Frances
Daughter of Sir Edmund Bell left issue three sons Gentlemen of signall accomplishments Heneage Finch Esquire of the Inner Temple London first son a Person of eminent abilities and candid integrity Francis Finch of the same House Barrester at Law second Son and John Finch third son hopefull and ingenious branches of this Noble Family Of this Family is also Sir John Finch Knight sometime Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England created Lord Finch of Fordwich the sixteenth of King Charles living 1659. son of Sir Henry Finch Knight second Brother of Sir Moyle above mentioned The Atchievement of an Earle HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE VIRTVTIS LAVS ACTIO THis Atchievement thus marshalled is here set forth for the peculiar Ensigns of the Right Noble and truly Honourable Thomas Howard Earle of Arundell and Surrey Primier Earle of England Earle Marshall of the same Kingdom Lord Howard Mowbray Segrave Brus of Gower Fitz-Alan Clun Oswaldstre and Mautravers Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter and one of the Lords of his Majesties most honourable Privy Councel which noble Lord beareth Quarterly eight Coats The first whereof is Ruby on a Bend between six crosse croslets fitchee Pearl an Escocheon Topaz thereon a demy Lyon pierced through the mouth with an Arrow within a double Tressure counter-flowred of the first and is the paternall Coat of the noble flourishing Family of the Howards The second is Ruby Three Lyons passant gardant Topaz in chief a File of three points Pearl which was the Coat-armour of the Lord Thomas of Brotherton fifth son of King Edward the first and Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk The third is Checkey Topaz and Saphire which was the peculiar Armoriall Ensigns of the Earls of Warren The fourth is Ruby a Lyon Rampand Pearl Armed and Langued Saphire by the name of Mowbray The fifth is Ruby a Lyon Rampand Or Armed and Langued of the first by the name of Albaney The sixth is Pearl a Chief Saphire by the name of Clun The seventh is Diamond a Fret Topaz by the name of Mautravers The eighth is Pearl a Fesse and Canton Ruby by the name Woodvile all within the Garter And above the same upon an Helme a mantle Ruby doubled Ermine next upon which is placed on a mount Emerald within a Torce Topaz and Ruby a Horse passant Pearl holding in his mouth a slip of an Oake fructed Proper supported on the dexter side with a Lyon and on the sinister with an Horse both Pearl the last holding in his mouth an Oaken slip fructed Proper And for his Motto to make the same Atchievement absolute these words in a Scrole VIRTUTIS LAUS ACTIO This Atchievement is here proposed as instar Omnium for a patern of the Coat-Armours of Earls of which this Noble Lord is the Primier of England and therefore is his Lordships Atchievement the fittest to be here demonstrated besides whose Coat-Armour could more properly challenge a due place in a work of this nature than his who is not onely by his office of Earl Marshall proper Judge of Honour and Arms but also in his affection the most Honoured Maecenas and Noble Patron as of all learning in generall so more particularly of this of Armory which Earl some years since deceasing left these honours to Henry his eldest son who by Elizabeth Sister of James Stuart late Duke of Richmond and Lennox has left a hopefull issue viz. Thomas Earl of Arundel c. Henry second son in whom are concentred the Loyalty Courage Learning Generosity and what has else exalted the reputation of his Ancestors in the Kingdom Philip third son Charles fourth son Edward fifth son Francis sixth son and Bernard seventh son all living 1660. Of Earls The Title of an Earl is very ancient the dignity very honourable their calling being in sign of their greatness adorned with the lustre of a Coronet and themselves enobled with the stile of Princes Comites among the Ancient Romans were Counsellors and near Adherents to their highest Commanders which honour and Title being then but temporary and for life The flowers and points of a Marquess his Coronet are of even height The pearled points of the Earls Coronet are much longer than the intermixt flowers thereof is since by tract of time made perpetuall and hereditary The Saxons called them Ealdermen the Danes Earls they being as may seem at first selected out of the rest of the Nobility for commendation of their Gravity Wisdom and Experience The next degree above an Earl is a Marquess whose Atchievement I have omitted in respect that the same is chiefly differenced from that of an Earls in this that the Marquess his Coronet is Meslee that is part flowred and part Pyramidall pearled the flowers and points of equall height and the Earles is Pyramidall pointed and pearled having flowers intermixt but much shorter than the pearled points PIE REPONE TE THis is the Atchievement of the Right Honourable Henry Marquess of Dorchester Earl of Kingston upon Hull Viscount Newarke Lord Pierrepont and Maunvers and Herris and is thus blazoned His Lordship bears eight Coats quarterly First Pearle semy de Cinquefoiles Ruby a Lyon Rampant Diamond by the name of the Lord Pierrepont Secondly Pearl six Annulets Diamond by the name of the Lord Maunvers Thirdly Saphire three Hedg-hoggs Topaz by the name of the Lord Herris Fourthly Diamond a Lion Rampant Pearle Crowned Topaz which is the bearing of Lord Segrave Fiftly Ruby a Lion within a bordure Engrailed Topaz by the name of Rees ap Teuder Prince of South-Wales Sixtly Diamond three garbes Pearl being the Coat of the King of Lemster Seventhly Ruby three wheat sheaves Topaz a bordure of Scotland by the name of Coming Earle of Northumberland Eightly Ruby a lion rampant a la double queve Pearle by the name of the Lord Mantfort Earle of Lycester for his Crest on a helmet placed on a Marquesses crowne a Torce or Wreath of his colours thereon a Fox passant Ruby supported by two Lyons Diamond mantled Ruby doubled Ermine his motto PIE REPONE TE This noble Person not more illustrious by his quality then by the Advantages of nature and industry the great assertor of Learning in this Nation decended from a noble family of signall eminence out of which is Robert de Petraponte sive Pierpont who was cal'd by writ among the Peers of England to the Parliament by King Edw. 3. and afterwards in process of time Robert Pierpont was Created Viscount Newarke and Lord Pierpont afterwards Created Earle of Kingston upon Hull after whose death our Soveraign King Charles conferd the honour of Marquess of Dorchester on Henry Earle of Kingston his Son the present Inheritor of these Titles ennobled also by his Mother who was Gertrude Daughter and Coheir of Henry Talbot Son of George and brother to Gilbert Earle of Shrewsbury Lord Talbot Strange Furnivall Verdon and Lovetoft FOY POVR DEVOIR THis is the Atchievement of the Right Honourable William Seymour
of France 3 Peter de Foix Captain Bouche quarterly of Foix and Bearne viz. Or 3 Pallets Gules Secondly Or two Cowes passant Gules with collars and bels Azure 4 William Mountacute Earl Salisbury c. Argent 3 Lozenges in Fesse Gules 5 John de Lâ—sle Gules a Lyon passant gardant Or crowned Argent 6 Sir John Beauchamp Knight Gules a Fesse between six Martlets Or 7 Sir Hugh Courtney Knight Or three Torteauxes 8 Sir John Grey of Codnor Knight Barry of 6 Argent and Azure in chief three Torteauxes 9 Sir Miles Stapylton Knight Argent a Lion Rampant Sable 10 Sir Hugh Wrotesely Or three Piles Sable a Canton Ermine 11 Sir John Chandois Or a pile Gules 12 Sir Otho Holland Knight Azure semy de Flower de lis a Lion Rampant gardant Argent 13 Sir Sanchy Dampredicourt Knight Gules three bars humet Argent 14 Edward Prince of Wales called the Black Prince Quarterly France and England a Label Argent 15 Thomas Beauchamp Earl of Warwicke Gules a Fesse between six Croslets Or. 16 Ralph Stafford Earl of Stafford Or a Cheuron Gules 17 Roger Mortimer Earl of March Barry of 6. Or and Azure on a chief of the second a pale between two Esquires Base dexter and sinister of the first an â—nescocheon Argent 18 Sir Bartholomew de Burgherst or Burwash Knight Gules a Lion Rempâ—nt with two tayls Or. 19 John Lord Mohun Gules a Mâ—â—nch Ermine the Hand proper holding a Flower de lis Or. 20 Sir Thomas Holland Knight after Earl of Kent vide 12. 21 Sir Richard Fitz-Simon Knight Azure a Lion Rampant Ermine 22 Sir Thomas Wale Knight Or a Lion Rampant Gules 23 Sir Neele Loringe Knight quarterly Argent and Gules a bend of the second 24 Sir James Audeley Knight Gules a Fret Or a border Argent 25 Sir Henry Eâ—me Knight Or a barre and demy Lion issuant Gules 26 Sir Walter Paveley Barry of 6. Or and Sable a bend Argent The founders being many of them dead others were elected in their rooms 27 RIchard of Bourdeaux after King of England by the name of King Richard the second France and England quarterly 28 Lionel of Antwerp Duke of Clarence Earl of Vlster second son of King Edward the third France and England quarterly a Label of three points Argent as many Cantons Gules 29 John called of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster c. third son to King Edward France and England quarterly a Label Ermine 30 Edmond of Langley 4th son to King Edward the third Earl of Cambridge and Duke of Yorke Quarterly France and England a Label Argent charged with nine Torteauxes 31 John Montfort the valiant Duke of Brittain and Earl of Richmond Checky Or and Azure a border of England a Canton Ermine 32 Humprey de Bohun Earl of Hereford Azure a bend inter two Cottizes and six Lions rampant Or. 33 William de Bohun Earl of Northampton brother to Humphrey Azure on a Bend cottized between six Lions rampant Or 3. Mullets Sable 34 John Hastings Earl of Pembrook Or a Maunch Gules 34 Thomas Beauchamp Earl of Warwicke vide 15. 35 Richard Fitzallan Earl of Arundell Gules a Lion Rampant Or. 36 Robert Vfford Earl of Suffolk Sable a Crosse engrailed Or. 37 Hugh Stafford Earl of Stafford bears as 16. 38 Ingeram de Coucy Earl of Bedford and Soisons Barry of 6. Varry and Gules 39 Guiscard d'Angolesm Earl of Huntington Or billetty a Lion Rampant Azure 40 Edward Lord Spencer Quarterly Argent and Gules in the second and third a Fret Or over all a bend Sable 41 William Baron Latimer Gules a Crosse patee Or. 42 Reginold Baron Cobham of Sterborow Gules on a cheuron Or 3 Estoils Sable 43 John Lord Nevill of Raby Gules a Saltier Argent 44 Ralph Lord Basset of Drayton Or 3. Piles Gules a Canton Ermine 45 Sir Walter Manny Knight Banneret Sable a Crosse voided Argent 46 Sir Thomas Vfford Knight Sable a Crosse engrail'd Or. 47 Sir Thomas Felton Knight Gules two Lions passant Ermine 48 Sir Francis Van-Hall Knight Azure a Bend Crenelle Argent 49 Sir Allan Boxhull Knight Or a Lion Rampant double Quevee Azure Fretty Argent 50 Sir Richard Pembruge Knight Argent a Chief Azure a Bend Fusillee Gules Sur le tout 51 Sir Thomas Vtred Knight Or on a Crosse Flory Gules three Escallops of the Field 52 Sir Thomas Banester Knight Argent a Crosse Patee Sable 53 Sir Richard la Vache Knight Atgent 3. Buls heads cabossed Sable 54 Sir Guy de Bryan Or three Piles Azure Richard the second King of England began his Reign 55 THomas of Woodstock Duke of Glocester 4th son to King Edward the third France and England a Border Argent 56 Henry of Bolinbrook Earl of Derby Duke of Hereford Lancaster after King of England vide 29. 57 William Duke of Guelderland Azure a Lion Rampant Or. 58 Will of Henault Duke of Holland and Henault and Zealand Quarterly the first fourth Or a Lion Rampant Sable the second and third Or a Lion Rampant Gules 59 Thomas Holland Earl of Kent whose Grandfather vide 20. bears England a Border Argent York made him bear Edw the Confessors Arms impaled with these 60 John Holland Earl of Huntington and Duke of Exeter Uncle to the above named Thomas halfe brother to King Richard the 2d England a Border of France 61 Thomas Mowbray Duke of Norfolke Earl of Nottingham Gules a Lion Rampant Argent 62 Edward Plantaginet Earl of Rutland and Corke Duke of Albemart and after Duke of Yorke See his father N o 30. 63 Michael De la-poool Earl of Suffolk bears Azure a Fesse between three Leopards heads Or. 64 William Scroop Earl of Wiltshire Azure a Bend Or. 65 William Beauchamp Lord Abergaveny Gules a Fesse inter six Croslets Or. 66 John Lord Beaumont France a Lion Rampant Or. 67 William Lord Willoughby Or Fretty Azure 68 Richard Lord Grey Barry of 6 Argent and Azure in chief 3 Torteauxes a Label Ermine 69 Nicholas Sarnesfield Knight Azure an Eagle displayed Argent Crowned Or. 70 Philip de la Vache Argent 3 Testes de Vaches Sable as 53. 71. Sir Robert Knolles Knight Azure Crusulee a Crosse Moline Voided Or. 72 Guy de Bryan Comme 54. 73 Sir Simon Burley Knight Or three Bars Sable in chief two Pallets of the second an Inescocheon Barry Or and Gules 74 John Devereux Knight Argent a Fesse Gules in chief three Torteauxes 75 Brian Stapleton vide 8. 76 Richard Burley as 73. 77 Peter Courtney as 7. 78 John Burley as the 73. 79 John Bourchier Argent a Crosse engrailed Gules between four Waterbougets Sable 80 Thomas Grandson Paly of six Argent and Azure on a Bend Gules three Escallops Or. 81 Lewis Clifford Checky Or and Azure a Fesse Gules 82 Robert Dunstavill 83 Robert of Namur Or a Lyon Rampant Sable suppressed by a batune Gules Henry the fourth began his raign of whom see 84 HEnry Prince of Wales after King by the name of Henry the fifth France
I proceed to the Compound bordures above specified Simple bordures I will give some few examples of other severall formes of simple bordures Quia simpli iâ— pâ—iora fuerunt compositis as followeth The next sort of Bordure that I will note unto you Bordures invecked is a bordure invecked and the same is formed as appeareth in this next Escocheon Sir Perducas Dalbreth to the French return'd Who Guly shield about his neck did fling Wrapt with dent bordure silver shining This bordure is said to be indented because it seemeth to be composed as it were of teeth whereof the same hath a resemblance as well in property as in form for teeth especially those of beasts of ravenous kind or of prey have that part of their teeth next to their gums broad and strong and their points sharp after the manner above specified Isiodor and they are called in Latine dentes à demendo as Isiodorus noteth which signifieth to take away or diminish Quia aâ—iquid de cibis sâ—mper demuâ—t In the same manner also doe every of these Iâ—dentings entring into the Field lessen and take away some part of them as they goe Note Note that all sorts of bordu es are subject to charging with things as well Artificial as Naturaâ—l as by examples following in part shall appear wherein I purpose not to be curious either in their number or yet in their order but as they shall come to hand so will I set them down in their proper places Hitherto of bordures simple now of such as are compounded as followeth Sometimes you shall find the Bordures chaâ—ged with things living as in these examples A like bordure did Jasper Earle of Pembroke bear Iasper Earle of Pembroke Bordure Enaluron of Martlets that was half-brother to King Henry the Sixth and was created Duke of Bedford by that most prudent Prince King Henry the Seventh Sometimes you shall find two of these sorts of bordures before handled commixt in one as in these next examples following Bordure charged with things inanimate Otherwhiles you shall have bordures charged with other sorts of things inanimate or without life as in this next example As this Bordure is gobonated so shall you find Bordures either Bendy or Bendwaies or charged with Bends as in this next Escocheon in part may appear There resteth yet one example more of bordurings which I have here placed to the end the same may serve instead of many particular demonstrations otherwise requisite for the full understanding of the manifold severall sorts of diapering that may be used in bordures as in example This kind of bearing diaper in coat-armour is sometimes seen in Coats of France and Belgia but very rare or never in England as Sir John Ferne noteth Diaper saith he is known of every man to be a fantasticall work of knots within which are wrought the signes or formes of things either quick or dead according to the invention of the work-master as it is well known in Ypres Bruges and some Cities of Heynault In the blazon of such Coats you must first name the colour or metall of the Field As touching their first severall Charges imposed upon these bordures afore-handled I should not I acknowledge have made mention of them at all in this place the order of my Method respected sed propter necessitatem nonnunquam recedendum est à regulis But the occasion offered to treat of the differences of bordures in this place enforced me to make untimely mention of those Charges to the intent I might yeeld some satisfaction to the Reader touching these variable formes which I could no way better perform than by demonstrative examples Exempla enim ponimus ut sentiant addiscentes Notwithstanding that I take here onely mentioned a bordure and imborduring for Ancient differences yet I doe not thereupon conclude Ancien differences their first use Antiquated that Antiquity was not acquainted with any other than these but the reason that I doe not particularly here discourse at large of those other Ancient differences is because the use of divers of them now as differences is antiquated and some of them are now used as Ordinaries or some other Charge of the Field which I shall afterward handle but not here because it sutes not with my intended method others of those Ancient ones are still in use as differences but to demonstrate some other younger brother than anciently they did and therefore now tearmed modern by changing of their first use Let it therefore suffice onely to name some of those first sort here mentioned as Orles Cotizes Bends c. Which how they then were disposed of in the Terminall Collaterall and Fixall Coat-Armours I refer you to Sir John Ferne and others who have writ plentifully of them In those elder times also the variation of Metall or Colour Transposition of Charge yea sometime change of the Charge or of part of the Charge transmutation of Metall into Furre and such like were used for distinctions of Families as you may observe in divers Authors and in the Coat-Armours of younger branches of many Ancient Families SECT I. CHAP. VI. Modern differences HItherto of the ancient manner of differencing Coat-Armours Next such as we call modern differences come in order to be handled I call those modern differences that are of a latter institution and put in use sithence the invention of bordures Such are these that follow and their like viz. the File Crescent Mullet Martlet Annulet Flower de-lis c. Files what What these Files are I cannot certainly avouch because I find that divers Authors and those very judiciall in matters of this kind doe diversly judge of them Opinion of Upton according to their severall conceits Vpton a man much commended for his skill in blazon and of some Armorists supposed to have been the first that made observation of their use but they are therein much deceived for that such use was made of them many ages before Vptons time calleth them Points such as men usually fasten their garments withall and saith they may be borne either even or odde to the number of nine Of Budaeus Budaeus an ancient Writer affirmeth them to be Tongs and that they may not be borne but odde Of Alciatus Alciatus in his Parergon nameth them Plaitez or Plaits of garments Bartolus calleth them Candles Some other Authors call them Files Of Bartolus and others Lambeaux or Labels In this so great uncertainty I forbear to determine any thing seeing those so learned cannot certainly resolve among themselves what they are Onely concerning their diverse manner of bearing these examples following will give light wherein I will begin with their single bearing and so will I proceed to their compound use Upton Vpton saith that Files are not borne for Armes but for differences of Armes Tales lingulae sive labellae saith he non dicuntur proprie signa sed
Marquess and Earl of Hartford Baron Seymour and Beauchamp invested in the Title of Marquess Hartford by King Charles June the third 1641. in the seventeenth year of his reign Grandchild and Heir to Edward created Earl of Hartford in the first year of Queen Elizabeth by Katharine Daughter and Heir of Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk and Frances his Wife eldest Daughter and Coheir of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk and Mary his Wife Queen Dowager of France second Sister and at last Coheir of King Henry the eighth which Earl Edward was Son of Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset c. Brother to Queen Jane Mother of King Edward 6. to whom he was Protectour He bears six Coats quarterly First Topaz on a Pile Ruby between six Flowers de lis Saphire three Lyons of England which was an Agumentation of King Henry the eighth Secondly Ruby two wings impaled Topaz Milles calls them two wings volant Brook two wings conjoynd in Fesse and another two wings in Lure by the name of Seymour Thirdly Varry by the name of Beauchampe Fourthly Pearl three demy Lyons Rampant Ruby Fifthly per Bend Pearl and Ruby three Roses counter-changed Sixthly and lastly Pearl on a Bend Ruby three Leopards heads Topaz on which a Marquesses Crown thereon a Helmet of the same quality then for his Crest out of a Crown a Phoenix sacrificing her self all proper Mantled Ruby doubled Ermine Supported on the dexter side by an Unicorn Pearl gorged with a Crown chained Armed and Crined Topaz on the sinister side by a Bull Saphire gorged with a Crown and String reflexed Armed and Crined Topaz his Motto Foy pour devoir these have been the ancient quarterings of this noble Family and are continued though they have the same right as above appears to Grey Brandon and the Arms of England also with a due difference FIDEI COTICVLA CRVX THis is the Atchievement of the High and Mighty Prince George Duke Marquess and Earl of Buckingham Earl of Coventry Viscount Villiers and Baron of Whaddon whose Family were of signall note in Leicestershire for many hundred years whose Marshallings are thus blazoned He bears six Coats quarterly First Pearl on a Cross Ruby five Escallops Topaz which was an Augmentation as I am inform'd conferd upon one of this Family for service in the holy Land as appears by the bearing Secondly Diamond a Fesse between three Cinquefoyles Pearl by the name of Villiers Thirdly Topaz two Bars Saphire a Chief quarterly two Flowers de lis of France and a Lyon of England by the name of Manors Fourthly Ruby three Waterbougets Pearl Fifthly Saphire a Catherne Wheele Topaz Sixthly Topaz two Cheurons and a Border Ruby by the name of Trusbut a Martlet for a difference which foure last Coats are borne by his grace as the principall of many he may quarter in right of his Mother Katharine Daughter and sole heir of Francis Manors sixth Earl of Rutland Lord Roos of Hamelake Belvoir and Trusbut c. And for his Crest on a Crown Ducall and Helmet befitting that degree a Lyon Rampant Pearl Crowned Topaz standing on a Wreath or Torce of his colours Mantled Ruby and Ermine supported by a Horse on the dexter side daple Grey and on the sinister by a Stag Pearl Attired Proper his Motto Fidei coticula Crux The chief Attributes of God are his Power Wisdome Goodnesse in all which the nearer any King cometh to the imitation of that prime Idea the more truly doth he deserve that glorious name and expresse the noble nature of a King Which all Countries in part have shewed by the severall Titles given to their Soveraigns most Nations calling them Reges for government which cannot be as it should be without the said three Regall properties and the Saxons our ancestors call them Kings of Cynning a word signifying both cunning or wisdome and also Power whereby all Kings can do much more than good Kings will do The beginning of Kingly power was from the first created man who was made an absolute but fatherly Soveraign over all and the necessity of such a Chief was so great even in the eye of Nature that as there are no flocks or heards of beasts but have one leader of their own kind so there is no Nation so brutish or barbarous but have found the necessity and use of having a King over them to rule them and administer justice to them which is the prime office of a King and that such hath alwayes been the office of Kings of this our Island our own ancient and learnedst Lawyers testify For Rex saith Bracton non alius debet judicare si solus ad id sufficere posset c. Whence a latter learned Lawyer gathereth most truly that though the King substitute other to minister justice under him yet himself is not discharged of that authority when himself please as often as our Kings have done in person to sit and take notice of causes and likewise the Royall Oath at his Coronation runneth Facies fieri in omnibus judiciis tuis aequam certam justitiam c. And that such was the Kings absolute Jurisdiction in this Kingdom before the Conquest also the same Author so copiously proveth that it is ignorance to deny it and folly to enlarge the proof of it And yet saith Aeneas Silvius It is the manner of Kings in writing to use the plurall number as Mandamus Volumus Facimus c. As appeareth Epist 105. where he saith Reges cum scribunt etsi dominatum habent ut quicquid placet Legis vigorem habeat ea tamen moderatione utuntur cum scribunt ut aliquid praecipientes non se solos videri velint fecisse sed cum aliorum consilio They do temper their Soveraign Jurisdiction with such moderation that it may appear they prescribe and command not without counsell and advice of others Touching the greatnesse of the Kings of this Island and precedence before any other Kings these are two main reasons First that the King of this Land Lucius was the first Christian King of the world as also Constantine the first Emperour publickly planting Christianity Secondly for that of all Kings Christian the King of Britain is the most and indeed onely absolute Monarch he being no way subordinate to any Potentate Spirituall or Temporall in causes either Ecclesiasticall or Civill as other Kings are through their own default Moreover the King of England is both Anointed as no other King is but onely the French of Sicilie and of Jerusalem and he is also crowned which honour the Kings of Spain Portugall Arragon Navarre and many other Princes have not God grant that as our Country hath been blessed with prerogatives above all other Kingdoms and with the blessing both of all earthly felicities and Heavenly graces beyond any other and with more puissant victorious learned religious Kings than all the people whatsoever as the world seeth at this day so we may go beyond all Nations in thankfulnesse to so
Queen Eliz. began her happy Reign 1558. and was Soveraign Lady of the Garter France and England quarterly Soveraign Princes 331 MAximilian the Emperour Comme 216. 332 Charles the 9th King of France Comme son pere 333 Henry the 3d. King of France Demesne 334 Frederick King of Denmark Comme 109. 335 Adolph Duke of Holstatia De mesn with a Label 336 John Cassimire Count Palatine of the Rhine Quarterly the 1. and 4 Sable a Lion Rampant Or the 2d and 3d. Paly Bendy Argent and Azure Dukes 337 FRancis Duke of Mon morency Comme 265. 338 Thomas Howard last Duke of Norfolk Comme son pere 269. 339 Fredericke Duke of Wittenberg Or three Stags horns placed barways Sable Marquess 340 William Parr Marquess of Northampton 267. Earls 341 THomas Piercy Earl of Northumberland 273. 342 George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury Comme son pere 275. 343 Henry Stanly Earl of Derby Comme son pere 311. 344 VVilliam Somerset Earl of Worcester Or on a Fesse France and England quarterly bordered gobony Argent and Azure 345 Henry Manors Earl of Rutland Comme son pere 278. 346 Henry Hastings Earl of Huntington Comme son pere 312. 347 Ambrose Sutton alias Dudly Earl of VVarwicke Comme son pere 264. 348 Francis Russell Earl of Bedford as his father 283. 349 Henry Herbert Earl of Penbrook Comme son pere 313. 350 Robert Dudly Earl of Leicester comme son Frere Ambrose 347. 351 VValter Devereux Earl of Essex Comme son pere 286. 352 Edward Manors Earl of Rutland Comme son frere 345. 353 Henry Ratcliffe Earl of Sussex brother and heir of Thomas who is also said to be Knight of the Garter also sons of Henry de quo 324. 354 Robert Devereux Earl of Essex Comme son pere 286. 355 Gilbert Talbot Earl of Shrewbury Comme son pere 228. 356 George Clifford Earl of Cumberland Checky or and Azure a Fesse Gules 357 Henry Piercy Earl of Northumberland Comme son frere 341. 358 Edward Somerset Earl of Worcester France and England quarterly within a Border gobony Argent and Azure 359 Robert Ratchiffe Earl of Sussex Comme son pere 353. 360 William Stanly Earl of Derby Com. son pere 343. Barons 361 ARthur Grey Baron of Wilton Comme 327. 362 Charles Howard Lord Effingham Comme son pere 326. 363 Edmund Bruges Lord Chandos Argent on a Cross Sable a Leopards head Or. 364 Henry Cary Lord Hunsdon Argent on a Bend Sable 3 Roses of the field 365 William Cecil Lord Burleigh Barry of 10. Argent and Azure on 6 Escocheons Sable as many Lions rampant of the first 366 William Brook Lord Cobham Vide 316. 367 Henry Scroop Lord Bolton Azure a Bend Or. 368 Thomas Sackvile Lord Buckhurst Quarterly Or and Gules a bend Varry 369 Thomas Lord Burgh Azure three Flowerdelis Ermine 370 Edmund Lord Sheffield Argent a Cheuron between 3 Garbs Gules 371 Thomas Howard Lord Walden Earl of Suffolk afterward Comme son pere 362. with a Cressent 372 George Cary Lord Hunsdon Comme 364. 373 Charles Blount Lord Mountjoy after Earl of Devon Vide 293 374 Henry Brook Lord Cobham Vide 366. 375 Thomas Cecil Lord Burleigh Comme son pere 365. Knights 376 HEnry Sidney Or a Pheon Azure 377 Christopher Hatton Azure a Cheuron between 3 Garbs Or. 378 Francis Knolles Azure Crusuly a Cross moline voided Or. 379 Henry Lee. Argent a Fesse between 3 Cressents Sable 380 James the first of England and sixth of Scotland began his Reigne 1603. Quarterly the first and last FRance and England the 2d Or a Lion Rampant within a double Tressure Gules for Scotland The third For Ireland Azure a Harp Or. stringed Argent 382 Henry Prince of Wales de mesne a Label Argent 383 Lewis Duke of Lennox and after of Richmond Quarterly the first and fourth France a Border Gules semy de Femoulx Or the second and third Or a Fesse Checky Argent and Azure a Border engrailed Gules an Inescocheon Argent a Saltire engrailed between 4 Cinquefoyls Gules 384 Henry Wriothesley Earl of Southampton Vide 284. 385 John Erskin Earl of Mar. Argent a Pale Sable 386 William Herbert Earl of Pembrook Per pale Azure and Gules 3 Lions rampant Argent 387 Vlricke Duke of Alsatia 388 Henry Howard Earl of Northampton Comme son pere 272. a Cressent 389 Robert Cecil Earl of Salisbury Comme son pere 365. 390 Thomas Howard Viscount Binden second son of Thomas third Duke of Norfolk 262. 391 George Hume Earl of Dunbar Vert and Lion rampant Argent 392 Philip Herbert Earl of Montgomery afterward Earl of Penbrook Comme son pere 386. 393 Thomas Howard Earle of Arundel Gules on a Bend between 6 Croslets Argent an Inescocheon Or charged with a demy Lion within a double Tressure vulned in the mouth with an Arrow Gules 394 Thomas Erskin Viscount Fenton Vide 385. 395 Robert Carr Viscount Rochester after Earl of Somerset Gules on a Cheuron Argent 3 Mullets Sable a Lion of England 396 William Knolls Viscount Wallingeford after Earl of Banbury Comme son pere 378. 397 Francis Earl of Rutland Vide 346. 398 George Villiers afterward Duke of Buckingham Argent on a Cross Gules 5 Escallops Or. 399 Robert Sidney Viscount Lisle after Earl of Leicester Comme son pere 376. 400 James Hamilton Marquess Hamilton Earl of Cambridge Gules 3. Cinquefoyles pierced Ermine 401 Christierne Duke of Brunswick Quarterly the first Gules 2 Lions passant gardant Or the second Or semy de mens hearts Gules a Lion Rampant Azure The third Azure a Lion Rampant Argent 4th Gules a Lion Rampant Or a Border compony Argent and Azure 402 Claudius of Lorrain Duke of Chereceuse Or on a Bend Gules three Doves Argent 403 William Lord Burleigh Earl of Exeter Comme son pere 365. 404 Edward Sackvil Earl of Dorcet Comme 368. 405 Henry Rich Earl of Holland Gules a Cheuron between 3 Crosses botony Or a Crescent Sable 406 Thomas Howard Earl of Barkshire 2d Comme son pere 375. with another Crescent 407 Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden Azure 3 Crowns Or. 408 Henry of Nassau Prince of Orange Quarterly the first Sable Bilettee a Lion Rampant Or. The second Or a Lion Rampant gardant Gules crowned Azure 409 James Marquess Hamilton Comme son pere 400. 410 Theophilus Howard Earl of Suffolk Comme son pere 371. 411 Richard Weston Earl of Portland Or an Eagle regardant Sable 412 Robert Bertue Earl of Lindsey Argent 3 battering Rams barways in pale Azure garnished Or. 413 William Cecil Earl of Salisbury Comme son pere 389. 414 Henry Danvers Earl of Danby Gules a Cheuron between 3 Mullets of six points Or. 415 James Duke of Richmond and Lenox Comme 383. 416 William Douglas Argent on a Chief Sable two Mullets of the first 417 Algernon Piercy Earl of Northumberland 273. TO The Honourable and truly Noble Sir EDMOND BACON of Redgrave in the County of Suffolke BARONET SIR YOu
Somerset Esquire Or two bars Gules in chief 3 Torteauxes 163 Decemb. 19. William Masham of Highlaver in the county of Essex Esquire Or a Fesse Humet Gules between 2 Lions passant Sable 164 Decemb. 21. John Colebrond of Botham in the county of Sussex Esq Azure 3 Levels with Plummets Or. 165 Jan. 4. Sir John Hotham of Scarborough in the county of Yorke Knight Or on a Bend Sable 3 Mullets Argent 166 Jan. 14. Francis Mansell of Muddlescomb in the county of Carmarthen Esq Argent a Cheuron between 3 Maunches Sable a Crescent for a difference 167 Jan. 18. Edward Powell of Penkelly in the county of Hereford Esquire Or a Cheuron between 3 Lions gambes or pawes erased Gules 168 Feb. 16. Sir John Gerrard or Garrard of Lamer in Com Hertf. a Fess Sable a Lion passant of the first 169 Feb. 23. Sir Richard Grosvenour of Eaton in Co Chester Kt. Azure a Garb Or. 170 March 11. Sir Henry Mody of Garesdon in Com Wiltsh Knight Gules a Fesse engrailed between 3 Harpyes Argent crined Or. 171 Mar. 17. John Barker of Grimston Hall in Trimley in Suffolke Esquire Per Fesse embattel'd Or and Azure 3 Martlets counterchang'd 172 Mar. 18. Sir VVilliam Button of Alcon in the county of Wilts Knight Erm. a Fesse Gules March 26. 1622. 123 John Gage of Forle in the county of Sussex Gyronny of 4. Argent and Azure a Saltier Gules 174 May 14. William Goring of Burton in Com Sussex Esquire Argent a Cheuron between 3. Annulets Gules 175 May 18. Peter Courteen of Aldington in the county of Worcester Or a Tabot passant Sable 176 May 23. Sir Richard Norton of Rotherfield in the county of Southampt Knight Vert a Lion Rampant Or alibi Argent 177 May 30. Sir John Leventhorp of Shingle Hall in Com Hartford Knight Argent a Bend gobony Sable and Gules cottized of the last 178 June 3. Capell Bedell of Hamerton in the county of Huntington Esquire Gules a Cheuron engrailed between three Escallops Argent 179 June 13. John Darell of Westwoodhey in the county of Berks. Extinct Azure a Lion Rampant Or crowned Argent a Crescent for a difference 180 June 15. William Williams of Veynol in the county of Carnarvan Esq Gules a Cheuron Ermine between three mens heads coupee Proper crined Or. 181 June 18. Sir Francis Ashby of Hartfield in Com Middlesex Azure a Cheuron between 3 Eagles with two heads Or. 182 July 3. Sir Anthony Ashley of Saint Giles Winborn in the county of Dorcet Kt. Ext. Azure a Cinquefoyl Ermine a border engrailed Or. 183 July 4. John Cooper of Rockbourn in the county of Southampton Gules a Bend engrailed between 6 Lions Rampant Or. 184 July 17. Edmund Prideaux of Netherton in Com Devon Argent a Cheuron Sable a Label Gules 185 July 21. Sir Thomas Haselrig of Nousley in the county of Leicester Knight Argent a Cheuron between 3 Hasle leaves Vert. 186 July 22. Sir Thomas Burton of Stockerstone in the county of Leicester Sable a Cheuron between 3 Owls Argent crowned Or. 187 July 24. Francis Foliamb of Walton in Com Derby Esquire Sable a Bend between six Escallops Or. 188 July 30. Edward Yate of Buckland in Com Berks Esquire Per Fesse embattel'd Argent and Sable 3 Yates counterchang'd 189 Aug. 1. George Chudley of Ashton in Com Devon Esquire Ermine three Lions Rampant Gules 190 Aug. 13. Will Meredith of Stansty in Com Denbigh Esquire now of Leeds in Com Cantij Azure a Lion Rampant Or. 191 Aug. 20. Francis Drake of Buckland in Com Devon Esquire Argent a Wivern Gules 192 Octob. 22. Hugh Midleton of Ruthin in Com Denbigh Esquire Argent on a Pile Vert three Wolves heads erased of the field 193 Nov. 12. Gifford Thornhurst of Agne Court Kent Ermine on a chief Gules two Leopards heads Or. 194 Nov. 16. Percy Herbert of Redcastle in Com Montgomery Esquire Per pale Azure and Gules three Lions Rampant Argent 195 Decemb. 7. Sir Robert Fisher of Packington in Com VVarwicke Knight Argent a Cheuron Varry between 3 demy Lions Rampant Gules 196 Decemb. 18. Hardolph Wastneys of Hendon in the county of Nottingham Esq Sable a Lion Rampant with two tayls Argent collered Gules 197 Decemb 20. Sir Henry Skipwith of Prestwould in the county of Lincoln Knight Barry of 6. Gules and on a chief Argent a Greyhound current Sable 198 Decemb. 22. Tho Harris or Herris of Boreatton in the county of Salop Esquire Or 3 Hedghogs or Urchins Azure 199 Decemb. 23. Nicholas Tempest of Stella in the Bishoprick of Durham Esquire Argent a Bend between six Martlets Sable 200 Feb 16. Francis Cottington of Hanworth in Com Middlesex Esquire since a Baron Azure on a Fesse between 3 Roses Or as many Hunters horns Sable The bugles have since been left out April 12. 1623. 201 Thomas Harris of Tong Castle in the county of Salop Esq Ext. Barry of 8. Ermine and Azure 3 Annulets Or. 202 June 28. Edw. Barkham of Southacre in Com Norfolk Esquire Paly of six Argent and gules a Cheuron Or. 203 July 4. John Corbet of Sprouston in Com Norfolk Esquire Or a Raven Proper a Cinquefoyle Gules for a difference 204 Aug. 13. Sir Thomas Playters of Sotterley in the county of Suffolke Bendy wavy of 6. Argent and Azure King CHARLES July 27. 1626. 205 SIr John Ashfield of Netherhall in the county of Suffolke Sable a Fesse engrailed between 3. Flowers-deluce Argent 206 Sept. 8. Henry Harpur of S. Calke in the county of Derby Esquire Argent a Lion Rampant within a Border engrailed Sable 207 Decemb. 20. Edward Seabright of Befford in Com Worcester Esquire Argent 3 Cinquefoyls Sable 208 Jan. 29. John Beaumont of Grace-dieu in Com Leicester France a Lyon Rampant Or. 209 Feb. 1. Sir Edward Dering of Surrenden Dering in Com Kent Or a Saltier Sable 210 Feb. 5. George Kempe of Pentlow in Com Essex Esquire Argent a Cheuron engrailed Gules between 3 Estoils Azure 211 Mar. 10. Will Brereton of Hanford in Com Chester Esq Argent 2 Bars Sable over all a Cross formee floury Gules charged with five Besants 212 Mar. 12. Patricke Curwen of Workington in Com Cumberland Esquire created Baronet Argent Fretty Gules a Chiefe Azure 213 Sir William Russel of Whitley in Co Worcester Argent a Cheuron Azure between 3 Croslets Sable 214 Mar. 14. John Spencer of Offley in Com. Hertford Quarterly Argent and Gules Fretty Or on a Bend Sable three Flowerdelis of the first 215 Mar. 17. Sir Giles Escourte of Newton in Com Wilts Knight Ermine on a chief Gules 3 Stars Or. April 19 1627. 216 Thomas Alisbury Mr. of Requests Azure a crosse Argent 217 April 21. Thomas Style of Wateringbury in Com Kent Esquire Sable a Fesse ingrailed fretty of the field between 3 Flowerdelis Or a border of the second 218 Frederick Cornwallis of Bramhall in Com Suffolk Esquire Sable Guttee Argent on a Fesse Or three Choughes proper 219 Drue Drury in Com Norfolk
A DISPLAY OF HERALDRIE MANIFESTING A more easie access to the knowledge therof then hath hitherto been published by any through the benefit of METHOD Wherein it is now reduced by the Study and Industry of JOHN GUILLIM late Pursuivant at ARMES Interlaced with much variety of History suitable to the severall Occasions or Subjects The fourth Edition Corrected and much enlarged by the Author himselfe in his life time Together with his own Addition of explaining the tearms of Hawking and Hunting for the use and delight of GENTLEMEN And now to this fourth Edition are added about three hundred new Coats and Bearings of eminent Families in their proper Sections never before inserted As also a true Register of the Blazons of all the Knights of the Garter from the first Installment to the last And also of all the Baronets from their first Creation to the last Faithfully collested by FRANCIS NOVVER Arms-Painter and Student in Heraldry in Bartholomew Lane London Quod quisque privatim accipit tenetur in communem usum depromere Vnius labor multorum laborem allevat LONDON Printed by T. R. for Jacob Blome 1660. TO NONE BUT GENTLEMEN HAving attempted an Addition of some hundreds of Coats to the following Discourse or Display of Heraldry more through the importunity and for the advantage of the Printer not so conscious of my insufficiencies as my self then prompted by any inclinations of my own who though a great doter on yet can ill spare so much time where the sole return is the reputation of having by affection elected the Profession I pretend to not by chance fal'n on it I thought it might be expected I should apologize according to forme for my Selfe and the Presse For the latter I shall give Billa vera for the former I will justifie the Blazonry though I know it sometimes wave the common road I may through inanimadversion have sayd too little of some Families but I think too much of none there are three onely in the Book I could wish omitted and twice that number inserted It may be objected the Book was as usefull before but I am sure much more delightfull now the major part of the former Coats being namelesse and some such as were never borne or will be or of extinct Families Not but there are also divers Presidents of bearing in this Edition that were omitted in the former To be briefe if any person thinke I have abated any thing of his due right let him suspend his judgement and command my attendance and I shall endeavour to evince As I am not incapable of reason no man shall sooner acknowledge his errors Then Your humble Servant FRANCIS NOWER Old Exchange London LENVOY TO THE AUTHOR BY WILLIAM SEGAR Garter Principall King of Armes KInd freind and fellow since it is your will I should my verdict give of this your skill I say your Art was never so displai'd Better compos'd nor Ground-work truer laid To raise a Fabrick to your lasting name Your painfull study curious search and care In turning over Books both known and rare Your great Expenses and your little Gains To countervaile a Guerdon for your pains Doth make your Merit to exceed your Fame But let me tell you this will be the harme In Arming others you Your self disarme Our Art is now Anatomized so As who knowes not what we our selves do know Our Corne in others Mill is ill apaid Bees suck the Flowers others eat their Hony Poor digge the Mines Rich men have the Mony Sheep beare the fleece others weare the Wooll And some plant Vines and some the Grapes do pull Sic vos non vobis may to us be said We blazon Armes and some esteem them not We write of Honour others do it blot We uphold Honour others pluck us down Burying themselves in base Oblivion Such are the effects of our defective Age. Peevish Precisenesse loves no Heraldry Crosses in Armes they hold Idolatry All Funeral 's pompe and Honour but a vaunt Made Honour onely by the Honorant Shortly no difference 'twixt the Lord and Page Honours Recusants do so multiply As Armes the Ensigns of Nobility Must be laid down they are too glorious Plain idleshewes and superstitious Plebeian basenesse doth them so esteem Degrees in bloud the steps of pride and scorne All Adams children none are Gentle born Degrees of state titles of Ceremony Brethren in Christ greatnesse is Tyranny O impure Purity that so doth deem Well gentle Guillims you have done your part I would Reward might follow your desert As Shadowes follow bodies in the Sun Shadowes alas are not substantiall Shadowes and Rewards prove nothing at all For being both pursu'd away they run John St. George to the Author THough Indian Ants that scrape in Mines of Gold Dare not for Treasure make exchange with death Yet braver minds for honour dare be bold Couragiously to sacrifice their breath A precious Gem is Armes the subject of thy pen Which as a Diamond when thou didst find Rude and uncut to bring the same to shape And Lustre fit thy Purse thy Pen thy Mind Did all conspire this Work to undertake Which now perform'd let Goldsmiths judge the price Till Aesops Cock and Indian Ants be wise And thy Guerdon seem not worth a mite To such base Prisers deem it not the lesse For higher spirits will judge thereof aright And they at last too late will all confesse That Gold and earthly Pleasures do bewitch But Grace and Honour onely make men Rich. JOHN St. GEORGE TO The the Right Honourable and truly Noble my very good Lord WILLIAM Marquess and Earle of Hertford Viscount Beauchamp and Lord Seymour and one of the Honourable Privy Councell to the late King CHARLES My Lord MY Grand-Father RICHARD ADAMS did in his life time think it a principal happiness that he was numbred in the Register of those who had the honour to serve your Lordship nor did his service rest in a naked expression only but was also practicall for he was a most affectionate lover and sincere honourer of your Lordship as being indeed oblig'd unto it by those many important favours you continually showr'd upon him To exhibit to the world some testimony of my gratefull acknowledgement for those signall engagements I have by the fourth Impression of this well accepted Treatise of Heraldry gained an opportunity to insert your Honors Coat as a pattern of the Atchievment of a Marquess of ENGLAND and do devote the whole VVorke to your Lordships Patronage wherein I hope I shall not in any wise diminish or obscure the lustre of your thrice noble Family it having been my endeavour and designe to improve if it were possible the estimate of it which is still the chiefestaym and onely intention of My Lord The most obliged to your Name and House RICH BLOME To his neerest and dearest Kinsman John Guillim Pursevant of Arms Tho. Guillim wisheth his own best wishes THis large display of thy Mysterious Art Each where displays such Lustre
to your left So then accounting the coat to be his that weareth it you cannot erre in your judgement touching the true distinction of the dexter side of the Escocheon that is due to the man as to the more worthy from the sinister part that is allotted to the woman or the inferiour The manner of such impaling of coat-armours of distinct Families as Baron and Femme by persons Temporall is diverse from this before mentioned for they do evermore give the preheminence of the dexter side to the man leaving the sinister to the woman as in example If these were not hereditary coat-armours yet should they have this form of Marshalling and none other because the same is common as well to single marriages having no hereditary possessions as to those that be hereditary Prerogative of hereditary Coats Onely in this these have a prerogative which the other have not that the baron having received issue by his Femme it is in his choyce whether he will still bear her coat in this sort or else in an inescocheon upon his own because he pretendeth God giving life to such his issue to bear the same coat of his Wife to him and to his heirs for which cause this Escocheon thus borne Escocheon of pretence why so called is called an Escocheon of pretence Moreover the heir of these two inheritors shall bear these two hereditary coats of his Father and Mother to himself and his heirs quarterly to shew that the inheritance aswell of the possessions as of the coat-armours are invested in them and their posterity whereas if the Wife be no heir neither her husband nor child shall have further to do with her coat than to set up the same in their house Pale-wayes after the foresaid manner so to continue the memoriall of the fathers match with such a family Example whereof behold in this Escocheon following He beareth two coats quarterly as followeth The first is Argent a Lyon Rampand Ermines gorged with a collar Or langued and armed Gules by the name of Guillim The second is Pale-wayes of six Argent and Sable on a bend Or three Pheons of the second the third as the second the fourth as the first by the name of Hatheway And in this manner shall you blazon all coats of like bearing as in example Sir Thomas Hussey of Hemington in Com. Lin. Baronet bears these Coats but the Crosse commonly in the first place Sir William Hussey Justice of the Kings Bench temp Edw. 4. bare both Coats Alternatim he was Father of the Lord John Hussey and of Sir Giles Hussey from whom these are descended And sometimes you shall find four severall Coats borne quarterly for the reason aforesaid as in example This form of bearing divers Coats marshalled together in one Escocheon impaled as aforesaid was in use neer hand within a thousand years sithence within the Realm of France as appeareth by Frances de Rosiers lib. Stemmatum Lotharingiae Fran. Rosiers in Exempl diplomat divers Caesar Reg. Princ. fo 2. where amongst many Trnascripts of Kings Charters made to religious Houses under their Seals of Arms he mentioneth one made by Dagoberi King of France to Modoaldus Archbishop of Trevers for the Cell of Saint Maurice of Toledo in Spain which Charter was sealed with three Seals Anno Dom. 622. His words are thse Hoc diploma tribus sigillis firmatum est primo aureo Dagoberti which was as he had formerly described it habens insculptum scutum liliis plenum secundo cereo Cuniberti tertio etiam cereo Clodulphi in quo est scutum partitum impressum prior pars decorata cruce ac Escarbocle seu Carbunculo altera fascia Dat. Kal. Maii Anno Dominicae incarnationis 622. Bearing of many Coat-Armours Concerning the orderly bearing of such Coat-Armours Paleways in one Eschocheon note that Gerard Leigh making mention of the marshalling of divers Femmes with one Baron saith If a man do mary two wives they shall be both placed on the left side in the same Escocheon with him as parted per pale The first wives Coat shall stand on the Chief part and the second on the Base Or he may set them both in pale with his own the first wives Coat next to himself and his second uttermost And if he have three wives then the two first matches shall stand on the Chief part and the third shall have the whole Base And if he have a fourth wife she must participate the one half of the Base with the third wife and so will they seem to be so many Coats quartered But here you must observe that those forms of impalings are meant of hereditary Coats whereby the Husband stood in expectancy of advancing his Family through the possibility of reciving issue that so those hereditary possessions of his wife might be united to his own Patrimony It was an ancient way of impaling to take half the Husbands Coat and with that to joyn as much of the wives as appeareth in an old Roll wherein the three Lions being the Arms of England are dimidiated and impaled with half the Pales of Arragon The like hath also been practised with quartered Coats by leaving out half of them as in example And for the antiquity of bearing divers coats quartered in one Eschocheon the same Author Quarterly bearing misliked Francis de Rosiers reciteth a Charter of Renate King of Angiers Sicilie and Jerusalem c. Concerning his receiving of the brethren of the Monastery named Belprey into his protection Actum Nanceii Anno 1435. adding in the end thereof these words Arma Aragoniae Siciliae Hierusalem Andes Whereby if I mistake him not he gives us to understand that his Seal of Arms did comprehend all these coats born togother quarterly in one Escocheon because he holdeth the same form of description of Seals of that kind throughout all his collection of Charters As touching this quarterly bearing of many coats pertaining to sundry Families together in one Escocheon William Wicley doth utterly mislike it Antiquity of quartering holding the same to be better befitting a Pedegree to be locked up in a Chest as an evidence serving for approbation of the alliances of Families or inducements to title of Lands rather then multitudes of them should be heaped together in or upon any thing ordained for military use For Banners Standards and other like martiall Ensigns were ordained for no other use but for a Commander to lead or be known by in the field to which purpose these marks should be made apparant and easie to be discerned which cannot be where many coats are thronged together and so become unfit to the field and therefore to be abolished of Commanders In what case the same is admitted Only he holdeth it expedient that a Prince or Noble man having title to some Countrey for the obtaining whereof he is enforced to make war should shew forth his Standard of the Arms of that Country quartered with
and England quarterly 85 Thomas of Lancaster Duke of Clarence second son France and England a Label of three points Ermine on each point a Canton Gules 86 John Duke of Bedford Regent of France third son France and England and a Label of five points per Pale Ermine of France 87 Humphrey Duke of Glocester fourth Son Quarterly France and England a Border Argent 88 Thomas Beauford Duke of Exeter son of John of Gaunt France and England Quarterly a Border gobony Argent and Azure 89 Robert Count Palatine Duke of Bavaria Quarterly Sable a Lyon Rampant Crowned Or and Paly Bendy Argent and Azure 90 John Beaufort Earl of Somerset comme son frere 88. 91 Thomas Fitz-Allan Earl of Arundell Gules a Lyon Rampant Or. 92 Edmund Stafford Earl of Stafford Or a Cheuron Gules 93 Edmund Holland Earl of Kent England a Border Argent 20. and 60. 94 Râ—lf Nevill Earl of Westmerland Gules a Saltier Argent Barons 95 GIlbert Lord Talbot Gules a Lyon Rampant within a Border engrailed Or. 96 Gilbert Lord Roos Gules three Waterbougets Argent 97 Thomas Lord Morley Argent a Lyon Rampant Sable Crowned Or. 98 Edward Lord Powis Or a Lyons Gambe or Paw coupee in Bend Gules 99 John Lord Lovell Barry Nebulee of six Or and Gules 100 Hugh Lord Burnell Argent a Lyon Rampant Sable Crowned Or. 101 John Cornwall Knight Lord Fanhope Argent a Lyon Rampant Gules Crowned Or a Border Sable Beazanty 102 William of Arundell Knight Gules a Lyon Rampant Or. 103 Sir John Stanley Steward and great Master of the houshold Argent on a Bend Azure three Bucks heads cabossed Or. 103 Robert Vmfreville Gules Crusilee patee a Cinquefoyle Or. 104 Sir Thomas Ramston Constable of the Tower Gules three Rams heads Argent 105 Sir Thomas Erpingham Vert an Inescocheon within an Orle of Martlets Argent 106 Sir John Sulby Ermine four Bars Gules Henry the fifth began his reign 1412. 107 SIgismund King of Hungaria Bohemia Marquess of Bradenburg King of Romans Quarterly Hungary and Bohemy an Escocheon of Pretence of Bradenburg 108 John King of Portugal Argent five Escocheons in Cross Azure each charged with five Besants Salter-wise a Border Gules thereon eight Castles Or. 109 Christien King of Denmark Or semy de mens hearts Gules three Lyons passant gardant Azure crowned of the first 110 Philip Le bon second of the name Duke of Burgundy quarterly the first Austria modern viz. Gules a Fesse Argent the second France a Border gobony Argent and Gules being Burgundy modern the third Burgundy ancient Bendy Or and Azure the fourth Brabant Sable a Lyon Rampant Or over all Flanders Or a Lyon Rampant Sable 111 John Holland Earl of Huntington Duke of Exeter England a Border of France 112 William de la Poole Earl after Marquesse lastly Duke of Suffolk Azure a Fesse between three Leopards heads Or. 113 John Mowbray Earl Marshall after Duke of Norfolk Gules a Lyon Rampant Argent 114 Thomas Montague Earl of Salisbury Argent three Lozenges in Fesse Gules 115 Richard de Vere Earl of Oxford Quarterly Gules and Or in the first a Mullet Argent 116 Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick Gules a Fesse between six Croslets Or. 117 Thomas Lord Camoys Or on a Chief Gules three Beasants 118 John Lord Clifford Checky Or and Azure a Fesse Gules 119 Robert Lord Willoughby Or Fretty Azure 120 William Philip Lord Bardolfe Azure three Cinqueâ—oyles Or. 121 Henry Lord Fitzhugh Azure three Cheurons interlac'd Or. 122 Lewis Robsart Lord Bourchier Vert a Lyon Rampant Or vulned in the shoulder 123 Hugh-Stafford Lord Bourchier Or a Cheuron Gules a Border engrailed Sable 124 Walter Lord Hungerford Sable two Bars in chief three Rondels Argent 125 Sir Simon Felbridge Or a Lyon Rampant alibi saliant Gules 126 Sir John Gray Knight Barry of six Argent and Azure in chief three Torteauxes 127 Sir John Dabrigcourt Ermine three Bars humer Gules 128 Sir John Robsart as above 129 Franck Van Clux a German Lord. Quarterly per Fesse embatteled Gules and Or in the second and third a Branch Vert. 130 Sir William Harington Sable a Fret Argent 131 Sir John Blount Knight Barry Nebulee Or and Sable 132 King Henry the sixth began his reign 1422. Quarterly France and England 133 ALbert Duke of Austria c. after Emperour Gules a Fesse Argent 134 Fredericke Duke of Austria Emperour his brother Gules a Fesse Argent 134. Edward King of Portugal as above 108. 135 Alphonsus King of Arragon Or 4. Pales Gules 136 Casimir King of Poland Quarterly the 1. and 4. Gules an Eagle Argent The second and third Gules a Lithuanian horsman Proper An Inescocheon of Sweden Azure 3 Crowns Or. 137 Edward Prince of Wales onely child to King Henry the sixth Quarterly France and England a Label Argent 138 Peter of Portugal Duke of Combre son of King John as above 139 Henry of Portugal Duke of Visco as his brother Peter 140 Conrad Duke of Brunswick Quarterly Gules two Lions passant gardant Or and Or a Lion Rampant Azure an Orle of mens hearts Gules 141 Richard Duke of Yorke Quarterly France and England a Label Gules charg'd with nine Torteauxes 142 John Beaufort Earl after Duke of Somerset Quarterly France and England a Border gobony Argent and Azure 143 Edmund his brother Earl of Moriton in Normandy after Duke of Somerset 144 Jasper Earl of Penbrook Duke of Bedford Quarterly France and England a Border Azure Martlette Or. 145 John Moubray Duke of Norfolke Gules a Lion Rampant Argent 146 Humphrey Earl of Stafford after Duke of Buckingham Or a Cheuron Gules 147 Gaston de Foix Earl of Longueville quarterly Foix Bearn The first Argent two Cowes passant Gules Armed and with bels about their necks Or the second Or 3 Pallets Gules a Label over all Sable charged with 15 Escallops Argent 148 John de Foix Earl of Candalia alibi Kendall beareth as his brother 149 Alvarus d'Almada Count of Aurange Or a Crosse Gules a Border compony Argent and the second He also bare Azure on a Bend Gules between 2 Eagles Sable three Croslets Fitchee Or. 150 John Fitz-Allan sixth Earl of Arundell of that sirname Gules a Lion rampant Or. 151 Richard Nevill Earl of Salisbury Gules a Saltier Argent a Label gobony Argent and Azure 152 Richard Nevill called make-Make-King or the great Earl of Warwicke son of Richard Earl of Salisbury as his Father 153 John Lord Talbot after Earl of Shrewsbury Gules a Lion Rampant within a Border engrailed Or. 154 John Lord Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury his son 155 James Butler Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond Or a chief indented Azure 156 William Nevill younger sonne of Ralph first Earl of Westmerland Lord Falconbride afterward Earl of Kent Gules a Saltier Argent a Mullet Sable 157 Richard Woodvile Earl Rivers Argent a Fesse and Canton Gules 158 Henry Viscount Bourchier after Earl of Essex Argent a Crosse engrailed Gules between four waterbougets Sable 159 John
Beaumont Viscount Beaumont France and Lion Rampant Or. 160 John Sutton Lord Dudly Or a Lion Rampant with two tayls Vert. 161 Thomas Lord Scales Gules 6. Escallops Argent 3. 2. 1. 162 John Lord Grey of Ruthin Barry of 6. Argent and Azure in chief three Torteauxes 163 Ralph Lord Butler of Sudely Gules a Fesse Checky Argent and Sable between six Croslets Or. 164 Lionell Lord Wells Or a Lion Rampant double quevee Sable 165 John Bourchier Lord Berners bears as 158. 166 Thomas Lord Stanly Argent on a Bend Azure three Bucks heads caboshed Or. 167 William Lord Bonvill Sable six Mullets Argent 3. 2. 1. 168 John Lord Wenlocke Argent a Cheuron between 3 Blackamores heads erased Sable 169 John Lord Beauchamp of Powiche Gules a Fesse between six Croslets Or. 170 Thomas Lord Hoo. Quarterly Sable and Argent 171 Sir John Ratcliffe Argent a Bend engrailed Sable 172 Sir John Fastolfe Quarterly Or and Azure on a Bend Gules 3 Croslets Argent 173 Thomas Kiriel or Cryol Or two Cheurons and a Canton Gules 174 Edward Hall Argent a Cheuron engrailed between 3 Talbots heads erased Sable 175 King Edward the fourth began his Reign 1460. Quarterly France and England 176 FErdinand King of Sicily and Naples Or four Pales Gules a Batune Sinister Argent 177 John King of Portugall Comme 108. 178 Charles Duke of Burgundy Vide 110. 179 Francis Sfortia Duke of Millane Argent a Serpent palewayes or erect devouring an Infant issuant Proper 180 Hercules d'Esti Duke of Ferrara Quarterly the first and 4th Or an Eagle Sable the second and third Bendy Or and Azure 181 Richard Duke of Yorke the Kings second son Quarterly France England a Label Argent thereon 9 Torteauxes 182 Richard Duke of Glocester afterward King quarterly of France and England a Label Ermine charged with 3 Cantons Gules A certain French Author and divers catalogues English bring in George Duke of Clarence but I think them mistaken 183 John Moubray Duke of Norfolke Gules a Lion Rampant Argent 184 John Lord Howard after Duke of Norfolke Gules a bend between sixe Croslets Fitchee Argent 185 John de la Pool Duke of Suffolke Azure a Fesse between 3 Leopards heads Or. 186 Humphrey Stafford Duke of Buckingham Or a Cheuron Gules 187 John Nevill Marque Mountacute as his father with a Cressent vide 152. 188 Thomas Grey Marq. Dorcet Barry of 6. Argent and Azure in Chief 3 Torteauxes a Label Ermine 189 James Douglas Earl Douglas in Scotland Azure a Lion Rampant Argent crowned Or. 190 William Fitz-Allan 8th Earl of Arundell Comme son Frere 150. 191 Thomas Lord Maltravers his son after ninth Earl of Arundel 192 Anthony Lord Scale after Earl Rivers Comme son pere 157. 193 William Lord Herbert after Earl of Penbrook Per pale Azure and Gules 3 Lions Rampant Argent 194 John Stafford Earl of Wiltshire younger son of Humphrey Duke of Bucks Comme son pere 186. 195 Henry Piercy Earl of Northumberland Or a Lion rampant Azure quartered with Gules 3 Lucyes hauriant Argent 196 John Tiptoft Earl of Worcester Argent a Saltier engrailed Gules 197 Galliard Duras Or a Lion rampant Azure over all a Bendlet Argent 198 John Lord Scroop of Bolton Or a Bend Azure 199 Walter Devereux Lord Ferrers of Chartley. 200 Walter Blount Lord Mountjoy Barry Nebulee Or and Sable 201 William Lord Hastings Argent a Maunch Sable 202 Sir John Astly Azure a Cinquefoyl Argent a Border engrailed Or. 203. Sir William Chamberlain Gules a Cheuron between 3 Escallops Or. 204 Sir William Parr Argent 2 Bars Azure a Border engrailed Sable 205 Sir Robert Harecourt Gules two Bars Or. 206 Sir Thomas Montgomery Gules a Cheuron between 3 Flowerdeluces Or. 207 Edward the fifth began his Reign we cannot say came to the Crown which continued 40 days onely or thereabout under whom no Knights of the Garter were made France and England quarterly 207 Richard the third King of England began his Reign June 22. 1483. France and England quarterly 208 THomas Howard Earl of Surry after Duke of Norfolke as his Father 184. 209 Thomas Lord Stanly after Earl of Derby 166. 210 Francis Viscount Lovel Barry Nebulee Or and Gules 211 Sir John Coniers Azure a Maunch Or. 212 Sir Richard Ratcliff Knight Arg. a Bend engrailed Sable 213 Sir Thomas Burgh Azure three Flowerdelis Ermine 214 Sir Richard Tunstall Sable three Combs Argent 215 Henry the seventh began his reign 1485. France and England Quarterly 216 MAximilian King of the Romans after Emperour Or an Eagle with two headâ— Sable on the breast an Inescocheon Gules charged with a Fesse Argent 217 John King of Portugall comme 108. 218 John King of Denmark comme 109. 219 Philip King of Castile and son to the Emperour Quarterly Castile and Leon. 220 Alphonsus Duke of Calabria and Naples King of Sicily and Hierusalem Quarterly the first Auragon the 2d Calabria viz. Argent a Crosse potent Sable 221 Arthur Prince of Wales France and England a Label Argent 222 Henry Duke of Yorke Comme son frere with 9 Torteauxes 223 Vibaldus or Hubault Count of Montferrat Duke of Vrbin 224 Edward Stafford Duke of Buckingham Comme son Pere 186. 225 Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorcet Comme son Pere 188. 226 John Vere the 13th vel 14th Earl of Oxford Quarterly Gules and Or in the first a Mullet Argent 227 Henry Piercy Earl of Northumberland Comme son Pere 195. 228 George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury Comme 154. 229 Henry Bourchier Earl of Essex Comme 158. 230 Richard Grey Earl of Kent Comme 162. 231 Edward Courtney Earl of Devonshire Or 3 Torteauxes 232 Henry Lord Stafford after Earl of Wiltshire Comme son Frere 224. 233 Edmund de la Pool Earl of Suffolk Comme son Pere 185. 234 Charles Somerset Knight Banneret after Earl of Worcester Quarterly France and England a Border gobony Argent and Azure a Batune Sinister Argent 235 Gerald Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare Argent a Saltire Gules Viscounts 236 John Wells Viscount Wells Comme 164. Barons 237 George Stanley Lord Strange Comme son pere 209. 238 William Stanley Lord Chamberlain de Mesme 239 John Lord Dynham Gules a Fesse Lozengy Ermine 240 Robert Willoughby Lord Brook Sable a Cross engariled Or. Knights 241 GIles D'anbeny Argent a Fesse Lozengy Gules 242 Edward Poynings Barry of 6. Or and vert a Bend Gules 243 Edward Woodvil Comme 157. 244 George Talbot Comme 228. 245 John Cheney Azure six Lions Rampant Argent and Canton Ermine Ermine on a Bend Sable three Martlets Or. 246 Richard Guildford Or a Saltier entre 4 Martlets Sable on a Canton Argent a Pomgranate Proper 247 Thomas Lovell Argent a Cheuron Azure between 3 Squirrels seiant Gules 248 Thomas Brandon Barry of tenne Argent and Gules a Lion Rampant Or crowned per pale of the first and second 249 Reynold Bray Argent a Cheuron between 3 Eagles legs erased Sable 250 Sir Ryce ap
Thomas Argent a Cheuron Sable between three Cornish Choughes Proper 251 John Savage Argent six Lions Rampant Sable 252 Richard Pool Per pale Or and Sable a Saltire engrailed counterchanged 253 Henry the Eighth began his Reign 1509. France and England Quarterly Soveraign Princes 254 CHarles the fifth Emperour the German Eagle with a Scucheon of Pretence of Leon Castile Austria and Burgundy 255 Ferdinand King of the Romans after Emperour Comme son frere 107. 256 Francis King of France France 257 Emanuel King of Portugal Comme 108. 258 James the fifth King of Scots Or a Lion Rampant within a double Trescheur Gules Dukes 259 HEnry Fitz-Roy son to the King Duke of Richmond and Somerset France and England a Border quarterly Ermine and compony Argent and Azure a Batune Sinister of the second an Inescocheon quarterly Gules and Varry Or and Vert a Lion Rampant Argent on a Chief Azure a Castle between two Bucks head caboshed Argent 260 Julian de Medicis brother to Pope Leo the tenth Or 8 Roundles in Orle that in chief of France the other 7 Gules 261 Edward Seymor Earl of after Duke of Somerset Gules two Wings impaled Or. 262 Thomas Howard Earl of Surry after Duke of Norfolk Comme son pere 208. 263 Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke Comme son pere 248. 264 John Sutton called Dudley Viscount L'isle after Duke of Northumberland Or a Lion Rampant with two tayls Vert. 265 Anne Duke of Mont-morency Or a Crosle Gules between 16. Eagles Azure Marquesses 266 HEnry Courtney Earl of Devon Marquesse of Exeter Or three Torteauxes 267 William Parre Earl of Essex Marquesse of Northampton comme 204. 268 William Paulet Lord Saint John afterward Earl of Wiltshire and Marquesse of Winchester Sable three Swords in point Argent Earles 269 HEnry Howard Earl of Surrey comme son pere 262. 270 Thomas Bullen Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond Argent a Cheuron Gules between three Bulls heads coupee Sable 271 William Fitz Allan Earl of Arundel comme son pere 190. 272 John Vert fifteenth Earl of Oxford comme 115. 273 Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland comme son pere 227. 274 Ralf Nevill Earl of Westmerland Gules a Saltier Argent 275 Francis Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury comme son pere 228. 276 Philip Chabot Earl of Newblanc Admirall of France Or three Chabots chubs or chevin fish Gules 277 Henry Fitz-Allen Lord Maltravers comme son pere 271. 278 Thomas Monros Lord Rosse after Earl of Rutland Or two Bars Azure a Chief quarterly two Flowers de lis of France and a Lyon of England 279 Robert Radcliffe Viscount Fitz-Walter afterward Earl of Sussex comme 212. 280 Henry Clifford Earl of Cumberland vide 118. 281 William Fitz-William Earl of Southampton Lozengy Argent and Gules 282 Thomas Lord Cromwell after Earl of Essex Azure on a Fesse between three Lyons Rampant Or a Rose Gules between two Choughs Proper 283 John Lord Russell after Earl of Bedford Argent a Lyon Rampant Gules on a Chief Sable three Escallops of the first 284 Thomas Lord Wriothesley afterward Earl of Southampton Azure a Crosse Or between four Falcons Argent Viscounts 285 ARthur Plantaginet Viscount Lisle son of King Edward the fourth Quarterly the first France and England the second and third Vlster viz. Or a Crosse Gules the fourth Mortimer vide 16. a Batune Azure an Inescocheon an Inescocheon of Grey Valence Quincy Talbot Beauchampe and L' Isle quartered with a Label Argent 286 Walter Devoreux Lord Ferrers Viscount Hereford Argent a Fesse Gules in chief three Torteauxes 287 Edward Howard Admirall of England comme son pere 208. 288 George Nevill Lord Abergaveney Gules on a Saltier Argent a Rose of the first Barons 289 THomas West Lord De-la-ware Argent a Fesse indented Sable 290 Thomas Lord Dacrees of Gilsland Gules 3 Escallops Argent 291 Thomas Lord Darcy Azure crusuly 3 Cinquefoyls Argent 292 Edward Sutton Lord Dudly Or a Lion Rampant with two tayls Vert. 293 William Blound Lord Mountjoy Barry Nebulee of six Or and Sable 294 Edward Stanley Lord Mounteagle comme 209. with a Crescent 295 William Lord Sands Argent a Cross raguly Sable 296 Henry Lord Marney Gules a Lion Rampant Gardant Argent 297 Thomas Lord Audely of Walden Quarterly per Fesse indented Or and Azure in each of the last an Eagle Or a Bend of the second charged with a Fret between two Martlets of the first Knights 298 JOhn Gage Comptroller of the Houshold Gyronny of 4. Azure and Argent a Saltire Gules 299 Henry Guilford Master of the horse comme 246. 300 Nicholas Carew Master of the horse Or 3 Lions passant in pale Sable 301 Anthony Brown Sable 3 Lions passant in Bend double cotised Argent 302 Thomas Cheney Warden of the Cinque-ports Comme 245. 303 Richard Wingfield Argent on a Bend Gules cottises Sable 3 pair of wings impaled of the first an Estoil of 16 rayes 304 Sir Anthony Wingfield De mesne sanz Difference 305 Anthony St. Leger Deputy of Ireland Azure Fretty Argent a Chief Or. 306 John Wallop Captain of Guismes Argent a Bend wavy Sable 307 Edward the sixth began his Reign 1546. Quarterly France and England Soveraign Prince 308 HEenry the second King of France Duke 309 HEnry Grey Marquess Dorcet after Duke of Suffolk 188. Earls 310 HEnry Nevil Earl of Westmerland Gules a Saltire Argent 311 Edward Stanly Earl of Derby vide 209. 312 Francis Hastings Earl of Huntington Argent a Maunch Sable 313 William Herbert Earl of Penbrook Per pale Azure and Gules 3 Lions rampant Argent a Border gobony Or and the second bezanty Barons 314 THomas Seymour Baron Sudele Comme son frere 261. with a Creicent 315 Thomas West Lord De-la-ware Comme 289. 316 George Brook Lord Cobham Gules on a Cheuron Argent a Lion rampant Sable crowned Or. 317 Edward Lord Clinton after Earle of Lincoln Argent 6 Croslets Fitchee Sable on a Chief Azure 2 Mullets Or. 318 William Paget Lord Beudesert Sable on a Crosse engrailed between four Eagles Argent five Lions passant of the first 319 Thomas Lord Darcy of Chich. Arg. 3 Cinquefoyls Gules Knight 320 ANdrew Sutton alias Dudley Knight Or a Lion rampant with a double tail Vert a Crescent 321 Mary Queen of England Soveraign of the Garter began her Reign 1553. France and England quarterly on the Sinister side and on the Dexter Soveraign Princes 322 PHilip 2d King of Spain Quarterly the first Castile and Leon quarterly 323 Emanuel Philibert Duke of Savoy Vide fol. Earls 324 Henry Ratcliffe Earle of Sussex Comme son pere 279. 325 Anthony Brown Viscount Mountague Comme son pere 301. 326 William Howard Lord Effingham Comme son pere 208. with a Mullet Sable 327 William Grey Baron of VVilton Barry of 6. Argent and Azure in Chief 3 Torteauxes a Label of five points Argent 328 Edward Hastings Lord Loughborough Comme son frere 312. 329 Robert Rochester Knight dyed before the Instalment 330
being so much concern'd in the subsequent Catalogue of those Baronets who were invested with that Dignity and Title by the Royal Munificence of our late Monarchs I did believe that there was an Obligation incumbent upon me to offer up this Register to your Patronage and that inforc'd from these two Reasons First The Antiquity and Noblenesse of your Extraction did invite it Secondly You being the premier Baronet that leads up the Van of those worthy persons that have been formerly dignified with that honorary Title did appeare almost to exact this Dedication which I hope will by you be as benignly received as it is really consecrated to your Name By Sir Your most humble Servant RICHARD BLOME AN ACCOUNT OR REGISTER Of the NAMES and ARMES of all the BARONETS of ENGLAND IT will not be necessary to say much of this Dignity because herewith we imprint a precedent of their Patent as also Instructions by King James their Founder to the Commissioners by him appointed for taking notice of the qualifications of the persons so advanc'd which were at the first precisely observ'd the said King promised not to encrease the number above two hundred which he exceeded by foure onely ending at Sir Thomas Playters the 204 th Of which before that Kings death and since there are remov'd to a higher dignity or extinct for want of Issue-male 46. or 47. most of which I have taken notice of by the way There are some few eight or ten whereof two Dutchmen at the latter end whose Coats I thought better omitted then to have inserted upon uncertain grounds the printed Catalogue being defective as to their place of Habitation or County which in some I have supplyed And the Heralds at Oxford not keeping so punctuall an account of them in the hurry of a Civill War as formerly Fr. Nower By the KING The INSTRUCTIONS within mentioned to be observed by Our COMMISSIONERS within named FOrasmuch as We have been pleased to authorize you to Treat and conclude with a certain number of Knights and Esquires as they shall present themselves unto you with such offers of assistance for the service of Ireland and under such Conditions as are conteined in these Presents wherein We do repose great trust and confidence in your discretions and integrities knowing well that in such cases there are so many circumstances incident as require a choice care and consideration We do hereby require you to take such course as may make known abroad both Our purpose and the Authority given unto you That by the more publique notice thereof those persons who are disposed to advance so good a worke may in time understand where and to whom to addresse themselves for the same For which purpose We require you to appoint some certain place and times for their Access which We think fittest to be at the Council Chamber at Whitehall upon Wednesdays and Fridays in the afternoon where you shall make known to them as they come that those who desire to be admitted into the dignity of Baronets must maintain the number of 30. foot Souldiers in Ireland for three years after the rate of eight pence sterling Money of England by the day And the wages of one whole year to be paid into Our Receipt upon the passing of the Patent Provided alwayes that you proceed with none except it shall appear unto you upon good proof that they are men for quality state of living and good reputation worthy of the same And that they are at the least descended of a Grandfather by the Fathers side that bare Armes And have also of certain yearly revenue in Lands of inheritance in possession one Thousand pounds per Annum de claro Or lands of the old Rent as good in accompt as one Thousand pounds per Annum of improved Rents Or at the least two parts in three parts to be divided of Lands to the said values in possession and the other third part in reversion expectant upon one life onely holding by Dower or in Joynture And for the Order to be observed in ranking those that shall receive the dignity of a Baronet although it is to be wished that those Knights which have now place before other Knights in respect of the time of their Creation may be ranked before others Caeteris paribus yet because this is a Dignity which shall be Hereditary wherein divers circumstances are more considerable then such a Marke as is but Temporarie that is to say of being now a Knight in time before another Our pleasure is you shall not be so precise in placing those that shall receive this Dignity but that an Esquire of great Antiquity and extraordinary living may be ranked in this choise before some Knights And so of Knights a man of greater living more Remarkable for his house years or calling in the Common-wealth may be now preferred in this Degree before one that was made a Knight before him Next because there is nothing of Honour or of value which is known to be sought or desired be the Motives never so good but may receive scandall from some who wanting the same good affection to the publique or being in other considerations incapable can be contented out of envy to those that are so preferred to cast aspersions and imputations upon them As if they came by this dignity for any other consideration but that which concerneth this so publique and memorable a worke You shall take order That the party who shall receive this dignity may take his Oath that neither he nor any for him hath directly or indirectly given any more for attaining the degree or any precedence in it then that which is necessary for the maintenance of the number of Souldiers in such sort as aforesaid saving the charges of passing his Patent And because We are not ignorant that in the distribution of all Honours most men will be desirous to attain to so high a place as they may in the Judgement whereof being matter of dignity there cannot be too great caution used to avoid the interruption that private partialities may breed in so worthy a Competition Forasmuch as it is well known that it can concern no other person so much to prevent all such inconveniences as it must do Our selfe from whom all Honour and Dignity either Temporary or Hereditary hath his onely root and beginning You shall publish and declare to all whom it may concern That for the better warrant of your own Actions in this matter of Precedency wherein We finde you so desirous to avoid all just exceptions We are determined upon view of all those Patents which shall be subscribed by you before the same passe Our great Seal to take the especiall care upon Vs to order and rank every man in his due place And therein always to use the particular counsel and advice that you Our Commissioners shall give Vs of whose integrity and circumspection We have so good experience and are so well perswaded as We