, Abraham Hartwell, A Collection of Curious Discourses Written by Eminent Antiquaries upon Several Heads in Our English Antiquities. Together with Mr. Thomas Hearne’s Preface and Appendix to the Former Edition. To which are Added a Great Number of Antiquary Discourses Written by the Same Authors. Most of Them Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts. ... In Two Volumes Chapter Nº LXXXV. Of the Same Of the Antiquity, Variety, and Reason of Motts, with Arms of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England., He [Judas Maccabeus] was termed Mackabæus, becauſe he carried in his ſtandard, or vexillum militare, theſe four Hebrew letters, Mem, Chaph, Beth, and Jod, or M. C. B. and J. whereunto their points being added, which are their vowells, (for others they have none) his mott was Mackabai, whereof he took his name. Theſe four letters are the acroſtickes or initiall letters of theſe four wordes in the fifteenth chapter of the book of Exodus, Mi Chamocha Baalim Jehovah, which is in Latin Quis ſicut tu Deorum Jehova? "Who among the gods is like you, O Adonai?", w:Book of Exodus
1603, Hugh Holland, Pancharis: The First Booke. Containing the Preparation of the Loue betweene w:Owen Tudor Chapter To Sir w, I have written an acroſticke ſonet to his Maieſtie, a canzonet to the Queene, and another acroſticke unto the Price; whoſe ſervant I am by vow, and ſubordinate ſubject by birth.
