VVorkes of armorie deuyded into three bookes, entituled, the concordes of armorie, the armorie of honor, and of coates and creastes, collected and gathered by Iohn Bossewell Gentleman.

Title

VVorkes of armorie deuyded into three bookes, entituled, the concordes of armorie, the armorie of honor, and of coates and creastes, collected and gathered by Iohn Bossewell Gentleman.

Author

Bossewell, John, heraldic writer.

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[London] :: In ædibus Richardi Totelli,

Anno domini. 1572. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.

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Heraldry -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• To the right honorable and his singuler good lorde, Sir William Cecil Baron of Burghleigh, Knight of the moste noble order of the Garter, Lorde highe Treasorer of Englande, master of the courtes of wardes and Liueries, Chauncellour of the Uniuersitie of Cambridge, and one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Counsaile, Iohn Bossewel wisheth long healthe with encrease of honor.
• Cilenus censure of the auc∣thor, in his high court of Herehaultry.
• ¶The names of the aucthors aswell Latines as others, out of the whiche these workes are chiefelye collected and amplified.
• ¶ The Concordes of Armorie, with the description of the foure Cardinall vertues, and other preceptes and rules, necessarie to be known of all those, which would accōpt them selues to come of gentle blood.
  • De praedictis 9. gemmis.
  • ¶Degrees of Rulers.
  • ¶ Of Cheualrye, the vertuous preceptes.
  • ¶ Preceptes of gentlenes.
  • ¶ Vices, whiche are repugnant to Generositie, and not to be frequented, and vsed of any, whiche would haue the name of a Gentle∣man. Videlicet.
  • ¶ Heauenly Preceptes. Videlicet
  • ¶ Preceptes Heroicall.
  • ¶ Graces woorthy.
  • ¶ Giftes heauenly.
  • ¶ Preceptes iusticiarie.
  • ¶ Reioisings in Armes.
  • ¶ Lawe of Armes, whereof it is grounded.
  • ¶ Sixe sundrie differences in Armes for brethren.
  • ¶ Seuen signes, or tokens whiche are figured in Armes round, and are blazed properly with seueral termes.
  • ¶ Proper termes for diuerse tokens borne in Armes.
  • ¶ Sundrie wayes to blaze Armes.
  • ¶Three superlatiues, or degrees in Armes.
  • ¶Poynctes in escocheons.
  • ¶Particions in Escocheons.
  • ¶Honorable Ordinaries
  • ¶Of the fiue Greeke letters Mysticall.
  • ¶Sentences concerning generositie, col∣lected out of sundrye Aucthors, and firste cer∣tayne verses, made by G. Chaucer, teaching what is gentlenes, or who is worthy to bee called gentle.
  • ¶Scogan in his worke which hee writte vnto the Lordes and gentelmen of the kynges house.
  • ¶Nobilitie is from God.
  • ¶Of fiue kindes of Nobilitie, whereof the laste was added by Aristotle.
• ¶ The second boke entituled, The Armorie of Honour.
  • ¶What they were, who in olde time did beare tokens, or signes of Armes.
  • ¶ Of the fourme of Scutcheons.
  • ¶Of Signes borne in Armes.
  • ¶ Of Armes quartered.
  • ¶Of Armes parted per Pale.
  • ¶ Of Armes parted per Fesse.
  • ¶Of a cheife in Armes.
  • ¶Of Armes Palee.
  • Armes Barrie.
  • ¶ Of Bendes.
  • ¶ Foure Cotes of sundrie deuises.
  • ¶ Differences betwene Fusilles, Lozenges, and Mascles.
  • ¶ Cheurons.
  • ¶ Of Armes enbordured, or with bordurs.
  • ¶Of quarters & cantons.
  • ¶Of Armes Checkey.
  • ¶ The final determinacion of the controuersie aforesayde.
• ¶ The thirde boke entituled of Cotes & Crestes.
  • ¶Deuises heroiques, of the twelue la∣bours, perfourmed by Hercules.
• colophon