Citations:caligate

English citations of caligate

• 1562, Gerard Legh, The Accedens of Armory (fourth edition, 1597), page 40b:

  These are Knightes in their offices, but not nobles, and are called knights Caligate of Armes, because they were startuppes to the middle legge.

• ibidem, in William Dugdale’s Origines Juridiciales (third edition with additions, 1680), chapter lvii: “The Inner Temple”, §: ‘Of the grand Chiſtmaſſes kept here’, 152/2:

  The Supper ended and Tables taken up, the high Constable roſe, and a while ſtood under the place of Honour, where his Atchievement was beautifully embroidered, and deviſed of ſundry matters, with the Embaſſadors of forein Nations, as he thought good, till Palaphilos King of Armes came in, his Herehaught Marſhall, and Purſivant before him; and after followed his Meſſenger and Caligate Knight; who putting off his Coronal, made his humble obeyſance to the Prince, by whom he was commanded to draw neer and understand his pleaſure; […]

• 1586, John Ferne, The Blazon of Gentrie, part I: “The Glorie of Generoſitie”, §: ‘None but coate-armors can be dubbed Knights’, page 106:

  No man ought to come to the top, before he haue paſſed the lower graces or ſteps: ſo that if he be not a Gentleman, in iudgement of lawe of Armes, which is the loweſt degree, or grace of nobleneſſe (and that none is, except he beare coate-armor) how can he aſcend to Knighthod, a higher degree of nobleneſſe? Wherefore, if ſuch a one haue deſerued, by playing the part of a caligate knight, that is, a ſouldior on foote (as Vigetius noteth it) to be aduanced to the order of knighthod by the sword: firſt, let him receiue of his Soueraigne ſome ſignes and tokens of honor, to ſet vpon his armor, and then hath he capacitie to receiue ſo great a dignity, but the reſt of the queſtion I wiſh Barthol. to reſolue.

• 1656, Thomas Blount, Glossographia, s.v. “Caligate”:

  Caligate (caligatus) that wears Stockings, Buskings, or harness for the Legs.