Peacham, Henry: The compleat gentleman : fashioning him absolute in the most necessary and commendable qualities, concerning mind, or body, that may be required in a person of honor. To which is added the gentlemans exercise or, an exquisite practise, as well for drawing all manner of beasts, as for making colours, to be used in painting, limming, &c (London, 1661)

the Vratthe os Blazonry.
He beareth Sable, Deux
flanches Ermine. Snr le tout
vne elhille a hvicl rates, on
miens d9or. Ihefirstin-
stitution of this Coat was
with a star of eight points,
as appeareth by sundry
Churches in Norfolk/ ,
where this family had its
beginning, where it is as
1 have Teen it drawn with
six. It is ignorantly mista-
ken, for the eight points
were fitted to the proportion of the field, thereby ad-
ding more lustre and beauty to the Coat, dispreading
chemselves from the nombrill or middle part of the
Escotcheon.
It is born by the name of Hobart, and was the pro-
per Coat of Sir James Hobart Knight, Atturney Ge-
nerali unto King Henry the seventh, a right good man*
and of great Learning and Wisdom; he built the
Church of Loddon, and Saint Qlaves, commonly cal-
led Saint Toolies Bridge in the County of Norsolk^
This worthy Knight lyeth buried under a fair mo-
nument in the middle lie on the Northside in Ghrisl
Church in Norwich, But it is now born ( with the Coat
of lllfter by the gift of King James unto him as a Bar-
ronet) by the Honorable and Nobly minded Sir Hen*
ry Hobart of Blickjng3 in the County of Norsolk/?,
Knight and Baronet, late Lord Chief Justice of the
Common PleaJ j whofe uprigHtness in Justice, and love
to his Countrey, hath (lik e his own Star communica-
tive os it self ) dispersed the fairer beams into alt pla-
ces: he hath left the same tohisworthy Son andsuc-
oesTox Sir John Hobart Knight and Baronet.
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