Peacham's Compleat gentleman, 1634 . The field is Gules a Fefledauncete ermine, betweene10. billets, Or 2. and i. bythe name of Harby, of whichFamily are Ed-ward Harby ofAdfton in the County ofNorthampton^ Clement^ lob^ andErafmus Harby of LondonMarchants, Vncles to the faidEd-ward Harby. He beareth Silver, aPine treewith the Apples proper, it isborne by the name of Pine groweth abundantlyvpon the cold mountaines ofNor-way, in Denmarke^ Lief-landy and thofe countries,whence wee have them forMaftes for fliippes. There aretwo forts of them, the maleand female, the one called P/-naS
Peacham's Compleat gentleman, 1634 . The field is Gules a Fefledauncete ermine, betweene10. billets, Or 2. and i. bythe name of Harby, of whichFamily are Ed-ward Harby ofAdfton in the County ofNorthampton^ Clement^ lob^ andErafmus Harby of LondonMarchants, Vncles to the faidEd-ward Harby. He beareth Silver, aPine treewith the Apples proper, it isborne by the name of Pine groweth abundantlyvpon the cold mountaines ofNor-way, in Denmarke^ Lief-landy and thofe countries,whence wee have them forMaftes for fliippes. There aretwo forts of them, the maleand female, the one called P/-naSler or the wilde Pine, the other female, onely Vmns :which hath caufed a generall errour among our Schoole-mafters in conftruing that in the Grammar, Mas pinuf^Mas OleaBer, whereof the moft ignorant conftrue it P/»«f,a Pine tree, Mas, the Mafculine. Thofe that thinkethemfelves of better iudgement turne it to Sfinus, (andfo many Grammers have it printed) but that is as falfe as the. 211 The praHice of BlaT^ the other, Spinm being ever by confent of all Didtionariesand Authors, the foeminine gender: the truth is, MasFinus, the male or the Pine tree; for indeed Lilly mighthave faid (to have put it out of queftion) Finajter, MasOleajier^ but then it had beene an harfh and unpleafingCacemphaton^ as your owne eare will tell you : but this bythe way.
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