Honor rediviuus [sic] or An analysis of honor and armory. by Matt: Carter Esq.
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Honor rediviuus [sic] or An analysis of honor and armory. by Matt: Carter Esq.
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Carter, Matthew, fl. 1660.
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London :: printed for Henry Herringman 1660 and are to be sould by Henry Herringman at the Ancker on the lowest side of the New-Exchange,
[1660]
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Orders of knighthood and chivalry -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Heraldry -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Nobility -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
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Of the Marquesse.
THis word Marquesse at the first was used to all Earls and Barons, that were Lords Marchers, or Lords of Frontires; and came afterward into a Title of speciall dignity, be∣tween that of Duke and Earl: beginning in the time of Richard the second, who created Robert de Vere (Earl of Oxford) Marquesse of Dublin, Per gladii cincturam, & circuli aurei suo capiti positionem; The form of the Patent was then, and many ages since very various, but it is now regulated to one method; which is the same in a manner with that of Earl,
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only the word Marchio is put in the place of Comes: the ceremony of Creation much at one, and the title hereditary; the annuity * 1.1 money in their Patent is forty marks.
And here, by the way, I cannot but observe one note of Mr. Seldens; that John Beaufort Earl of Somerset, modestly refused to be made Marquesse of Dorset, by Henry the fourth, be∣cause the title was then so strange, and new in the Kingdome.
The Marquesse is honored with a Coronet of gold flurred, the points and flowers of e∣quall height; whereas of the Earls, the pearled points are much longer then the flowers. His Mantle also doubled Ermine, as is the Earls also; but the Earls is but of four, and the Mar∣quesses is of five: the doubling of the Vis∣count, is to be understood, to be but of Mini∣ver, or plain white Fur, so is the Barons; the Barons of two, the Vice-counts of three doub∣lings. * 1.2