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A42323	A display of heraldry manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge thereof than hath been hitherto published by any, through the benefit of method : whereunto it is now reduced by the study and industry of John Guillim ...	Guillim, John, 1565-1621.; Barkham, John, 1572?-1642.; Logan, John, 17th cent.	1679 (1679)	Wing G2222; ESTC R12114	200,924	157

placed an Inescocheon of their Paternal Coat on the breast of the Imperial Eagle And also divers noble and worthy Families of this Land used the like bearing in the several reigns of sundry of our Kings viz. in the time of Richard the second Simon Burley bare in an Inescocheon the Arms of Husly In the time of Henry the fifth Richard Beauchampe the great Earl of Warwick bare the Arms of Spenser and Clare quarterly in an Inescocheon over his own Paternal Coat-Armour and many other in like sort Concerning the bearing of the Wives Coat-Armour by the Husband impaled or otherwise there are some that do boldly affirm That it is not permitted by Law but only tolerated through custome and do with Chassanaeus alledge for proof thereof Quod Arma non transeunt ad cognatos affines quia cognati descendentes ex femina non sunt de familia because by reason of her marriage she renounceth the Name of the Family whereof she is descended and assumeth the Name of her Husbands Family as we formerly shewed where we intreated of differences which are not permitted to the Females And an especial reason thereof may be this Quia Agnationis dignitas semper debet esse salva the Agnation which is of the Fathers side must be preserved entire and therefore the Honour or Arms of it not to be carried into another Family Now because some misunderstanding the Rule given in the sixth Chapter of the first Section where it is said That to Daughter never were any differences allowed do hold that the Husband in the impaling of his Wives Coat-Armour with his own may omit such difference as her Father admitting him to be a younger Brother or descended of a younger Brother bore to distinguish him from the elder brother I think it not amiss here to observe unto the young Student in Armory that every Gentleman of Coat-Armour which marrieth a Gentlewoman whose Father did bear any difference in his Coat ought in the impalement of his Wives Arms to retain the same difference which her Father bore as in these Examples But now to return to marshalling If a Coat-Armour that is bordured be born sole of it self then shall the bordure inviron the Coat round but if such a Coat be marshalled Paleways with another as a marriage then must that part of the bordure which respecteth the Coat annexed give place thereunto whether the Coat bordured be marshalled on the dexter part of the Escocheon or the sinister as in Example I will shew you in like manner how if a Coat-Armour bordured be honoured with a Canton quarter c. the bordure must in like manner give place unto them as in these next Examples may be seen Note that if a bordured Coat be to be marshalled amongst other Coats quarterly then shall no part of the bordure be omitted but the bordure shall environ the same round except it be honoured with a Chief Canton Quarter c. as aforesaid even as it were born alone of it self CHAP. II. FRom such marshallings as do betoken marriage I come to such as betoken a gift of the Sovereign by way of augmentation These are bestowed either for favour or merit though the very winning of favour with Sovereign Princes must be also reputed merit because Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est To win great Princes love great praise it merits Of the first sort are all those Armorial signs which the Sovereign to honour the Bearer and to dignifie his Coat-Armour doth annex to the Paternal Coat of some especial Favorites imparting unto them some parcel of his Royal Ensigns or Badges that so he may transferr to Posterities some Monument of his gracious Favour and of those some are marshalled Paleways and others otherways Of the first sort are the next Escocheons and their like wherein the priority of place is due to those of free gift which must be marshalled on the dexter side of the Escocheon before the Paternal Coat Ob reverentiam munificentiae Regalis as in Example These may serve sufficiently to exemplifie the bearing of augmentations or additions of Honour annexed to Paternal Coat-Armours Paleways Now shall follow such as are marshalled with them after some other manner for in some of them there is annexed a part in a part in other some the whole in a part By a part in a part I mean the annexing of a parcel of the Royal Ensigns or Badges of the Sovereign in or upon some one portion of the Escocheon as in or upon a Canton Chief Quarter c. as followeth in these next Examples Sometimes these augmentations are found to be born upon a Chief of the Escocheon above the Paternal Coat as in this next Example Now in the next place by the Whole in a part I mean the bearing of the Royal Ensigns of the Sovereign wholly in some part of the Escocheon as in Example Thus much for tokens of the Sovereigns Favour which kind of gifts though the proceed also from high merit for the most part in the receivers yet we rather entitle them favours than merits because their gratitude is the greater by whom such Princely regards are rather imputed to their Sovereigns meer bounty than to their own desert CHAP. III. IN the precedent Chapter enough hath been said of augmentations or additions of Honour bestowed by the Sovereign in token of Princely Favour Now of such as he giveth in remuneration of merit either immediately by himself or mediately by his General or Vicegerent either in requital of acceptable service performed or for encouragement to future honourable attempts which is then chiefly effected when vertue is duly rewarded Such remunerations are conferred upon men imployed either in warfare be it secular or spiritual or in affairs civil Of the first sort were those that were professed in the several orders of spiritual Knighthood of late use in this Land but now abolished viz. the Knights of Saint Iohn of Ierusalem and Knights Templers of which the first is the chiefest whose beginning saith Sir Iohn Ferne was in the time of Godfrey first Christian King of Ierusalem The profession of this Order was to fight for Gods honour against the Infidels and as they were taught by the Romish Synagogue for holy St. Iohn This Order was begun in the Year of Grace 1120. Their Habit was a long Gown or Robe of black with a white Cross upon the breast The Ensign Armorial of their Order was an Escocheon Gules a plain Cross Argent And this is now known for the Arms of Savoy by reason that the first Amadeus or Amy Earl of Savoy being in Arms with the Brethren of this spiritual Knighthood at the siege of Acres after that their Grand-master was slain by the Saracens least the Infidels should thereupon take a greater confidence of Victory by knowledge of his death at their request he did put on the Armour of their slain General and the long Robe of black Cloth with the

is that mentioned in 2 Sam. 18. 18. Now Absolom in his life time had taken and reared up for himself a Pillar which is in the King's dale for he said I have no son to keep my Name in remembrance and he called the Pillar after his own Name and it is called unto this day Absolom 's Pillar To these we will add one Example of a work moveable as in this next Escocheon Tabernacles or Tents were the chief habitation of our Fathers in the first Age of the World as we may see Gen. 12. 8. Such kind of habitations did best fit their uses for the often removing of their Seats to refresh their Cattel with change of Pastures sometimes at hand and otherwhiles in places remote which they could not commodiously do if they had been still commorant in solid and settled buildings Such is the manner of the Tartarians at this day they have no Cities Towns or Villages to inhabit but the open and Champian fields in Tents after the manner of the ancient Scythians because they are in manner all Herdsmen In the Winter season they plant themselves in the Plains and Valleys and in the Summer they live in mountainous places where they may find the rankest and best Pasture Of this sort are the Ships and Boats hereafter to be handled and all other navigable Vessels in respect that during the time that men do undergo any voyage they are to them a kind of Domestical habitation Now proceed we to Examples of buildings ordained for sacred use whereof in these immediately ensuing Because we have here spoken of Buildings and Houses it will not be much amiss to add hereunto such Escocheons as are derived from Instruments of Houshold use such are these ensuing These and such other Utensils do serve as well for Ornament as Necessity whereas others there are which serve for necessity only as in Example Now in respect we are in hand to speak of Hospitality it shall not be amiss to give some little touch by the way of the bountiful hospitality of Kings in former Ages whereof I find King Solomon to be the most famous president for his daily expences that I read of wherein he exceeded all others that preceded or succeeded him as we may see 1 Kings 4. 22. where it is said And Solomon 's victuals for one day were thirty measures of fine flour and sixty measures of meal ten fat Oxen and twenty Oxen of the Pastures and one hundred Sheep beside Harts Robucks and fallow Deer and fatted Fowl From King Solomon's House-keeping descend we now to the Hospitality of the ancient Kings of this Land I find in an ancient Manuscript that King Lud commanded his houshold Officers to have in daily custome to cover the Tables in the Hall from seven of the clock in the morning till seven in the evening His daily Diet was not much in rare and delicate Viands but that he kept it constantly with all good Cates as could be gotten and at the four great Feasts he caused Proclamations to be made in all Countries for all manner of people to come thither Moreover the same Author maketh mention of a very memorable and most royal Feast that Cassibelane made upon his second Triumph over the Roman Emperour And forasmuch as it is a chief point to be observed of him that shall cite Authority for any thing that he writeth or speaketh of to use the express words of his Author which he voucheth I will therefore deliver it as he himself relateth the same Domus Regis Cassibelani standeth for a special note which after his second triumph upon the Emperour gave out his Royal Commandments to all the Gentiles in Britany to come with their Wives to magnifie his Feast For which he slew forty thousand Kine and Oxen one hundred thousand Sheep thirthy thousand Deer and other wild Beasts of the Wood besides the divers kinds of Pulline Coneys wild Fowl and tame of Sea and Land with much other purveyance of victual with many disguisings plays minstrelsie and sports We read of a certain Church dedicated to Venus wherein was a Lamp that burnt continually and never went out but still gave light yet was not maintained with any kind of Oyl or other fatty matter or substance and this was holden for a special miraculous thing yet might the same be performed by some other natural means as with a certain kind of stone that is found in Arcadia and is called Asbestus which is said to be of that nature that being once kindled and set on fire doth never extinguish or go out neither is it thereby consumed or wasted Zan. lib. 4. de potent daemon chap. 12. pag. 255. There are doubtless both in herbs and stones admirable vertues not manifest whereby strange and unwonted effects may be wrought Therefore men being ignorant of the efficacy and forcible vertues of things natural and apprehending only their effects by sight do forthwith conceive that there is wrought some strange or great miracle whereas indeed it is nothing less but a matter proceeding meerly from some natural cause Besides these aforesaid there are sundry other Instruments of houshold use as Mortars Gridirons c. which we leave to observation And to this may be referred Candles Torches c. The great Turk Solimannus gave four Candles for his Device one burning the other three extinct to signifie that other Religions were nothing light in respect of his or that the other parts of the world should lose their beauty by the brightness of his glory Endless is the swift passage of time which we shall better discern if we look backwards to the times that have already over-slipped us The best means we can devise to bridle time is to be evermore well exercised in some honest vertuous and laudable work so shall it not escape us fruitlesly according to that saying of Petrarch Virtute industria bonarumque artium studiis fraenari possunt tempora non quia fugiant sed ne pereant So shall we be sure to carry a hand over time and not time over us so shall we if not clip his wings that he glide not from us yet so attach him that he shall not so pass us but that we shall make some good use of him that he pass us not unprofitably Time slippeth from us suddenly and out-strippeth us which only we ought greedily to seize upon and in no case barter or exchange the same for any costly price or reward Let us though late yet not too late begin to love and hold time in estimation which only a man may lawfully and honestly covet Let us bethink our selves of the shortness of our time and our own frailty and endeavour our selves to make good use thereof and let us not then as Seneca admonisheth us begin to live when life begins to leave us To this place are Clocks Watches and such like Instruments representing the swift incessant motion of time to be referred wherein we may observe

be his that weareth it you cannot erre in your judgment 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 Temporal is divers 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 Only in this these have a prerogative which the other have not that the Baron having received Issue by his Femme it is in his choice whether he will still bear her Coat in this sort or else in an Inescocheon upon his own because he pretendeth God giveth 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 born 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 as well 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 Paleways after the foresaid manner so to continue the memorial of the Fathers match with such a Family Examples whereof behold in hese following Escocheons These Coats are thus born by William Mountagu Esq son and heir to the Honourable William Mountagu Lord Chief Baron of his Majesties Court of Exchequer This form of bearing of divers Coats marshalled together in one Escocheon impaled as aforesaid was in use near hand within a thousand years since within the Realm of France as appeareth by Frances de Rosiers lib. Stemmatum Lotharingiae where amongst many Transcripts of Kings Charters made to Religious Houses under their Seals of Arms he mentioneth one made by Dagobert King of France to Modoaldus Archbishop of Trevers for the Cell of St. Maurice of Toledo in Spain which Charter was sealed with three Seals His words are these 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. Gal. Maij Anno Dominicae Incarnationis 622. Concerning the orderly bearing of such Coat-Armours Paleways in one Escocheon note that Gerard Leigh making mention of the marshalling of divers Femmes with one Baron saith If a man do marry 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 i●palings are meant of Hereditary Coats whereby the Husband stood in expectancy of advancing his Family through the possibility of receiving 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 Escocheon the same Author Francis de Rosiers reciteth a Charter of Renate King of Angiers Sicily and Ierusalem c. concerning his receiving of the Brethren of the Monastery named Belprey into his protection Actum Nanceij Anno 1435. adding in the end thereof these words Arma Arragoniae Siciliae Hierusalem Andes Whereby if I mistake him not he giveth us to understand that his Seal of Arms did comprehend all these Coats born together 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 holding the same to be better fitting a Pedigree 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 than multitudes of them should be heaped together in or upon any thing ordained for Military use For Banners Standards and other like Martial 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 apparent 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 Only he holdeth it expedient that a Prince or Noble-man having title to some Countrey for the obtaining whereof he is inforced to make warr should shew forth his Standard of the Arms of that Countrey quartered with his own amongst those people which in right and conscience do owe him obedience that they may be thereby induced the sooner to submit themselves to him as to their true and lawful Sovereign or Lord. So did Edward the third King of England when he set on foot his title to the Kingdom of France shewing forth the Arms of France quartered in his Royal Banner with the Arms of England But for such persons as are but Commanders under them it is very absurd since thereof ensue oftentimes many dangerous errors Et irrecuperabilis est error qui violentiâ Martis committitur Having before made mention of an Inescocheon and of the bearing of the Arms of the Femme by the Baron after Issue received by her she being an Inheritrix I will now here give you an Example as well to shew the occasion of such bearing as also the manner and situation thereof As for antiquity of bearing of Inescocheons I find them very anciently used a long time by the Emperours of Germany for they always