Honor military, and ciuill contained in foure bookes. Viz. 1. Iustice, and iurisdiction military. 2. Knighthood in generall, and particular. 3. Combats for life, and triumph. 4. Precedencie of great estates, and others.

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Title: Honor military, and ciuill contained in foure bookes. Viz. 1. Iustice, and iurisdiction military. 2. Knighthood in generall, and particular. 3. Combats for life, and triumph. 4. Precedencie of great estates, and others.
Author: Segar, William, Sir, d. 1633.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: By Robert Barker, printer to the Queenes most Excellent Maiestie,; Anno Dom. 1602.
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Subject terms: Titles of honor and nobility -- Early works to 1800.; Knights and knighthood -- Early works to 1800.; Sports tournaments -- Early works to 1800.; Tournaments, Medieval -- Early works to 1800.; Precedence -- Early works to 1800.
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CHAP. 6.

Of Queenes.

NExt and neerest vnto the King, his Queene is to take place, because the weareth a Regall Crowne, which no other per∣son but a King may doe.

It seemeth also that a Queene ought to sit on the Kings right hand: which honour the sacred Scriptures do allow,

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Psal. 45. Astitit Regina à dextris tuis in vestitu deaurato. And if she be a may∣den Queene Soueraigne, and absolute, shee is In pari dignitate with a King, & may precede him also according to the dignitie of her kingdome. And if she be a Queene of three entiere kingdomes (as our Soueraigne is) she may assume the title of an Empresse.

Also Officers and ministers appertaining vnto a Queene absolute, are priuiledged equall with the Officers of Kings, and may take place accor∣dingly Lu de Pen. Ca. de priuilegijs.

Note also that albeit a Queene be the daughter of a Duke or an Earle, or any other inferior degree, yet shall she be called Queene by the dignitie of her husband. And if she be the daughter of a King, superior to her hus∣band, then may she also reteine the dignitie of her fathers daughter. Iac. Re∣buff. & alij dig▪ lib. 12. which was the reason that the Lady Claudia daugh∣ter vnto King Lewis the 12. did take place before the Lady Loysia of Sauoy, notwithstanding shee was mother to King Francis the first. So did the daughter precede the mother.

Yet some doe hold that a Kings mother ought be preferred before all o∣thers: alleaging the Text, Positus est thronus matris iuxta thronum Regis, the 3. of Kings. We reade also in the same place, that King Solomon beholding his mother comming towards him, adored her, and caused a Throne to be set on his right hand. Which seemeth indeede to be her place, in absence of the Queene, not otherwise: as mine Author writeth.