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A42323	A display of heraldry manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge thereof than hath been hitherto published by any, through the benefit of method : whereunto it is now reduced by the study and industry of John Guillim ...	Guillim, John, 1565-1621.; Barkham, John, 1572?-1642.; Logan, John, 17th cent.	1679 (1679)	Wing G2222; ESTC R12114	200,924	157

quicquid finitur in sua principiaresolvitur Whatsoever hath an end the same is resolved into that it was at the first As touching the Substance of the Heavens Scribonius saith that it is Corpus constans ex aqua in firmissimam essentiam instar pellis extensae concameratum It is a Body saith he consisting of Water in the most solid Substance thereof spread out Vault-ways like a Skin Though it may seem to thee courteous Reader that I undertake a needless labour in manifesting that the glorious Heavens and Earth were formed and framed by the most powerful God a thing so frequent in the Sacred Scriptures and also so clear as that no man can doubt thereof yet give me leave for my own particular who do labour to apprehend every occasion to publish the glory of the Eternal ●nd Omnipotent God which is the main and principal end of our Creation especially since the Order of my Method requireth the same and that bonum aliquod saepius repetitum delectat Give me leave I say in this my latter impression to reprove my self for my too much neglected duty in my former that so though very late yet at the last I may prefer the Glory of God before the Order of Method The Moveable Sphere of the Heaven is the Firmament The Firmament is that continual moving Heaven which with his swift Revolution swayeth all the Inferiour Orbs and is called in Latin Firmamentum according to Scribonius à firmitate that is of the stability thereof meaning as I conceive either the durable subsisting of it or else the unmoveableness of the two Poles Artick and Antartick otherwise one self same thing cannot be said to be moveable and constant but in a diverse respect even as an Ironwheel in a Clock though still in motion yet both in respect of the metalline solidity and of the sure fastning to the Axle it may be said to be Firm and Unmoveable If any man bear a representation of the Heavens in his Coat-Armour whether the same have the likeness of a Solid or Armil Sphere they must be reduced to this head of this kind did the famous Archimede chuse for his Device who before his death commanded that a Sphere should be engraven on his Sepulchre And such a bearing is honourable for any great Professor of Astronomy not such witless Wizards and Fortune-tellers as usually deceive the World with their idle Predictions but those Noble Spirits whose eagle-Eagle-eyes search out the true Natures Revolutions and Properties of those Supernal Essences The regardful consideration of the Heavens and the Ornaments thereof together with their certain and orderly motions should mightily move and provoke us to raise up our thoughts from the love and contemplation of base and earthly Objects whereon we usually dote to the admiration of his unspeakable power and love of his incomprehensible goodness who made such a wonderful Architecture first to serve for our use in this life and afterward to be our blessed Palace and Mansion in a better life For though all creatures demonstrate the wisdom of their wonderful Workmaster yet the Heavens especially declare his glory and the Firmament his handy-work which made the godly King David to rise out of his Bed in the night to behold the Heavens and thereby to call to mind the perversity of Man which never keeps the course that God prescribeth whereas those Bodies though void of sense yet from their first Creation never faltered in their endless journeys Now since I have demonstrated and laid open unto you what a Sphere is the form perfection dignity property motion substance thereof and the like I will now shew unto you an Example of a Shield illustrated with manifold variety of Celestial Bodies c. which will be very necessary and commodious to be inserted in this place These were the Ornaments wherewith the Shield of that famous and valiant Grecian Captain Achilles was illustrated and garnished Which he caused to be engraven therein to the end that the mind of the beholders of them might be raised thereby to a considerate contemplation and meditation of the admirable power and wisdom of the Omnipotent Creator of them Which duty whosoever performeth he accomplisheth the sum and effect of all true Nobility This Shield did Vulcan garnish with variety of Stars of manifold kinds and added thereto the skilful feats and practises as well of Peace as of Wars and all their rights and offices omitting in a manner nothing pertaining to the well-governing of the Assemblies and Societies of Men. By this invention did he labour to manifest unto us than there is no Shield more powerful to resist the vehement and violent assaults of adverse Fortune that for a man to be furnished throughout with the compleat Armour of Cardinal Vertues so shall he be fitted and prepared to sustain whatsoever brunt or forcible encounter shall assail them If we shall compare this Shield of Achilles thus garnished and furnished with manifold varieties of things both Celestial and Terrestrial with those Coat-Armours that consist of Lyons Griffins Eagles and such other Animals or ravenous Creatures we shall find that to be more available to chase away and foil all passionate perturbations of the mind occasioned by the concurrence of some sudden and unexpected danger than any or all of these together can be by how much that compriseth a mixture of calamities and comforts together For as the Globe of the Earth doth represent unto us the dreadful and dismal dangers that attend our mortal state by reason of the manifold mutability of things Sublunary to the daunting oftimes of the most valiant so contrariwise the Celestial forms do represent unto us an Antidote or Preservative against all dangerous events and accidents when we call to mind that those Celestial powers or rather Gods power in them is able to divert or mitigate in a moment all harmful events and dangers whatsoever be they never so deadly For these Celestial Bodies are Gods mighty and strong Army wherewith he oftentimes discomfiteth and subdueth his Enemies and such as seek the spoil and destruction of his chosen people as we may see Iudges 5. 20. They fought from heaven even the Stars in their courses fought against Sisera The Sun stayed his course at the prayer of Joshua 10. 12. And the Sun abode and the Moon stood still until the people avenged themselves upon their enemies Verse 13. And there was no day like that before it nor after it that the Lord hearkned to the voice of man for the Lord fought for Israel And again Ecclesiast 46. 4. Stood not the Sun still by his means and one day was as long as two Verse 14. By these visible forms we should be incited and provoked upon their view to invocate the most powerful God for his aid and deliverance when we find our selves any way distressed or beset with perils by the Example of Ioshua He called unto the most High Governour when the Enemies pressed upon

Points do occupy the Base of the Escocheon and thereof have their denomination and are called Inferior because they are seated in the lower parts thereof Of these also there are both Middle Remote Note that each of these do answer in opposition unto the several Superior Chief Points above mentioned in a direct Line insomuch as by them the Location of these might be easily conceived without any further Description of them Quia posito uno contrariorum ponitur alterum Nevertheless because those things that are delivered dividedly are best conceived and understood I will particularize these as I have done the former beginning with the Middle Point The knowledge of these Points is very requisite in respect that when divers of these Points are occupied with sundry things of different kinds as oftentimes it falleth out in some Escocheons you may be able thereby to assign unto each Point his apt and peculiar Name according to the Dignity of his place For no man can perfectly Blazon any such Coat unless he doth rightly understand the particular Points of the Escocheon CHAP. VIII WE come now from Points the first part in our partition of Accidents of an Escocheon to the second part which is Abatements An Abatement is an accidental Mark annexed to Coat-Armour denoting some ungentleman-like dishonourable or disloyal demeanour quality or stain in the Bearer whereby the Dignity of the Coat-Armour is greatly abased Abatements do consist in Diminution Reversing Diminution is a blemishing or defacing of some particular Point or Points of the Escocheon by reason of the imposition of some stain and Colour thereupon Note that all these Marks of Diminution in the Escocheons next following must be evermore of some one of the stainand Colours viz. Tawny or Murrey and must in no wise be of Metal neither must they be charged in any case for so should they be Additions of Worship These are placed on The Midle Some other part of the Escocheon Such as are placed in the Middle are expressed in these next two Escocheons following whereof the first is a Delf as in this Example Such Diminutions as are placed upon some other part of the Escocheon Do occupy One point alone More than one That which occupieth one alone is called a Dexter point parted an Example whereof you may see in this next Escocheon Such Diminutions as do occupy more than one point of the Escocheon Do comprehend Four points Less than four That Diminution of the former sort is this which you see in this Escocheon and is due to him that is sloathful in the Wars Those Diminutions that do comprehend fewer than four Are either of Three Two Such are said to comprehend three Points whose Lines do bound so many within their Limits as in Example He beareth Or Point Champain Tenn This is the first of those Diminutions that do comprehend three Points and is formed of one Arch-line which taketh his beginning from the Dexter Base and including the middlemost and endeth in the Sinister Base Point This is due unto him that killeth his Prisoner humbly submitting himself with his own hands though in extreme need it is allowed by the Law of Arms rather to kill than to hazzard himself to be slain Always saith Sir Iohn Froysard by right of Arms a man ought to grieve his Enemy and good company of Arms is mercy to Knights and Souldiers That Abatement that comprehendeth only two Points of the Escocheon is called a Gusset and is formed of a Traverse Line drawn either from the Dexter or Sinister Chief Point of the Escocheon tending to the Honour Point and descending from thence perpendicularly to the extream base parts of the Escocheon as in this next Example appeareth wherein are expressed both the Dexter and Sinister Goars Hitherto of such Abatements as do abase the estimation of the Coat-Armour whereunto they are annexed in some parts or points of them only being the first sort of Abatements whereof we promised to speak Now followeth the last and worst of all the rest which is a Coat-Armour reversed Reversing is a preposterous manner of location of a Coat-Armour by turning of the whole Escocheon upside down contrary to the usual form of bearing after this manner As touching persons convicted of High Treason in the Justice of the Law of Arms for the further coercion of so heinous a Fact as Treason is and for a further punishment both of the Traytor and of his whole Progeny it is to be observed that if a Gentleman of Coat-Armour hath Issue divers Sons and committeth Treason he hath forfeited his Coat-Armour for ever neither may his Issue bear the same Quia eorum memoria destrui debet For that the memory of them may utterly be extinguished For since it is held they may be lawfully killed seeing they are said to be Enemies to the King and People much more is it lawful to prohibit to their Heirs together with the Inheritance their Arms also and stile of Gentry Insomuch as some are of Opinion that the Son loseth Iura Sepulchrorum the Rights and Ceremonies of Burial accustomed to Gentry And of Marcus Manlius who was condemned of Treason against the Roman State we find a Law that none should ever bear that name A notable Example whereof we saw of late on the Instrument of that Devillish Parricide on the late puissant King of France for the obliterating of the Name and Memory of such a Villain out of that Kingdom And in Ireland such Traytors as are convicted by the Acts and Ordinances of the High Court of Parliament are by force thereof adjudged to suffer damage in their Name State Preheminence Dignities and Honour to them due in fore-passed times As in all their Offices Lordships Castles Mannors and in all their Hereditaments whatsoever Moreover that they shall sustain corruption of their Blood and Family and both himself and his Posterity are by force of such Conviction and Judgment disabled to demand receive or recover of any man by descent from any of their Ancestors either Lineal or Collateral neither are the Children of persons so convicted permitted to make their Pedegree or to derive themselves from such Parents Finally if such an one were invested with any honourable Dignity the Laws adjudge not only his Coat-Armour to be razed and his Shield reversed but also his Spear truncked his Spurrs hewen from his Heels his Horse docked his Sword to be broken upon his Helmet his Crest divided his Statues pulled down his Blood corrupted and his Body to death nisi speciali Regis rescripto intervenerit gratia without the Kings special pardon his Family at an end his Possessions taken away and for a greater terrour given to some other Family whose profitable Service to the King and State may better deserve it So loathsome is this Offence to Nobility that she cannot suffer the Marks of him that hath offended in so high a degree to possess any place with her Ensigns but that the same shall