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A16477	VVorkes of armorie deuyded into three bookes, entituled, the concordes of armorie, the armorie of honor, and of coates and creastes, collected and gathered by Iohn Bossewell Gentleman.	Bossewell, John, heraldic writer.; Legh, Gerard, d. 1563. Accedens of armory.	1572 (1572)	STC 3393; ESTC S106250	105,447	190

to serpentes and do ●lea them when they be olde their birdes feede them and prouide meate for them volandi impotentes humeris gestant wherefore the Image of them was the token of iustice and the auncient kings had it in the tops of their septers whereby theye were admonished to auance iustice and pietie and to oppresse iniustice crueltie Inter omnes alias aues pietatis simbolum gerit de immensa earum pietate erga suos pullos refert Isidorus in lib. de natura auium Ciconiae magna cura alunt vicissim parentes iam aetate deficientes sola bonitate naturae ad id agendum impulsae inquit Aelian lib. 15. cap. 4. Of this bird came a greeke word for a prouerbe Antepelargeni which signifieth to be lyke a storke which prouerbe is to exort men to bee kinde to their parentes or to their masters whiche teache and bring them vp requiting the benefit whiche they receyued of them The Noble Citie of Excester for thensigne thereof hath in a fielde parted per pale Mars and Saturne a castell triple towred Solis supported of two Pegasus lunae wyth winges vndie Pearle and Saphiere Manes and shooes of the Topaze The creast vpon an healme on a Torce Sol and Saturne a demie Lyon Martis crowned holdinge a Mounde whereuppon is set a crosse botonie Topace manteled Rubie doubled Pearle The true fidelitie that this Citie hath alwaies borne to their liege and soueraigne is most worthely reported in diuers chronicles to the great and renowmed fame of the Citizens therein inhabitinge who moste faithfully in the time of diuers auncient prynces haue manfully defended their citie from the spoile of the rebellious enemy And amongst other vnder that most prudēt prince king Henry the seuenth when it was enuironed lyke to be enflamed by that traiterous rebel Perken warbek ouercomming fyer by fyer and fortifiyng places vnfortefied at the last they so couragiously lyke valiant chāpions defended their portes posternes and walles that after many daungerous assaultes they droue away the sayde Parken with the rablement of his rebellious army How much also how worthely are they to be commended for their faithfull seruis in the time of king Edward the sixt who being in the middest of rebells vnuitailed vnfurnished vnprepared for so long a siege dyd nobly holde out the continual and daungerous assault of the rebell for they sustayned the violence of the rebellious rout not onely when they had plenty enough of victuall but also a leuen or twelue daies after the extreme famin came on them and liuing without bread weare in courage so manfull and in duetye so constant that they thought it muche better to die the extreame deathe of hunger shewing truth to their king and loue to their countrey then to geue any place to the rebell and fauor him with ayde whose examples god graunt all cyties may follow and learne to be noble by Excester whose truethe dothe not onely deserue longe prayses but also great rewarde He beareth vert the wings of an Egle de Argent and to his creast vpon the healme on a wrethe Or Azure an head de cheual rassed de Argent pellitie betwene two winges Sable brydebled golde set on a wrethe Argent and Uert manteled Gules doubled Argent It hath bin is to be seen that Angels are painted fetherd and winged declaring vnto vs thereby as I read that they be alien and cleane from al earthly cogitacion and ben rapt vp aboue to the inuest contemplacion of the loue of god and they are also figured hauing winges to signifie their swift discourse in all things the windes are said to haue winges propter velocitatem scilicet vnde scriptura sacra dicit qui ambulat super pennas ventorum Paradine discribethe lightening to haue winges that god of eloquence Maercurie appeared to diuers winged I suppose men in these our dayes haue winges also and flye contrarye to nature but I doubt they be counterfet winges as those whom Icarus made to flye with all whiche when he had set them together with wax and ioyned to his syde faste and suer inough as he thought hee mounted vp into the ayre but so sone as y e Sonne had somwhat heated him and his wax began to melt hee fell downe into a greate ryuer where hee was drowned out of hand the whyche water was euer after called by his name Icarū mare the lyke fall had Bellerophon when hee tooke vpon hym to ascend vppon Pegasus the horse that had winges nowe what other thynge dothe these signifie vnto vs but that no man shoulde meddle with thynges aboue hys compasse He beareth Azure Gules parted with a Cheuron betwene three Candlesticks de Argent His creast y e beast Alce propre leaning to an Oke Uert set on a torce de Or and Gules manteled Sable doubled Or supported with a Beuer argent coloured vnguled Sable and an Harpie Uert Wynged de Or. The Alce discribed for the creast of the said coate armour is a wilde beast in the woods of Germany in facion skinne like to a fallowe Deere but greater hath no iointes in his legges and therefore he doth neuer lye but leane to a tree when he doth rest him The hūters knowing this do saw y e trees that they vse to leane to halfe a sunder wherby they fall downe and be taken Of the supporters the one is a Beuer a beast called in latin Fiber or Castor whose stones are vsed in medicine He hath the taile of a fishe and in the residue is like to an Otter The other assistant is an Harpie a monstruous bird hauing the visage of a maid and talons of a maruelous capacitie I dyd omit to speak any thing of the tokens aboue blazed in the coate armor nexte aforesaide whyche I shoulde haue firste desplayd but the vse of candelstickes is very well knowne to all men and wherefore theye serue Theye bee called Candelabra a candelis quasi candelafera quod candelas ferant Gold also as it is y e most principal mettal of al to worldly men so it is the soueraigne guide to marcial affaires For where Mars can not rule he taketh place Thus it is prooued that golde is victorious but assuredly the bearer thereof in coate armour ought if his field be al thereof to be supplyant and meeke The Lions in the said fielde are in their gentle nature nor haue any ferocitie in them beyng passant and ruled by the Sonne who geeueth them lyght to their trauail that they may the sooner ouercome the enemye theye considering their estate are enemies to none for al their hautye courage The Lyon liueth long because plerique dentibus defecti reperiuntur The Lyon onelye of all beastes is gentle and not lightlie angrye in supplices nam prostratis parcit et vbi saeuit in viros prius quā in faeminas fremit in infantes non nisi magna fame adactus grassatur

kynde of Nobilitie is saide to be that whiche of all others is moste excellente as when anye man dothe exceede or farre passe others in honestie gentlenesse or noblenesse of harte and dothe trauaile by the puissance of his owne renoume And he truely is to be called Noble whom not other mennes but his owne vertue hathe aduanced vnto glorie To these foure kindes Aristotle addeth the fifth that is to saie of them which did florishe in highe learninge and knowledge of thinges wonderfull and suche by righte ought to be called Noble men because they doo not only ennoblish their owne Houses whereof they descended but also make honorable the Cities and Coūtries wherein they were borne as for example Iuba the sonne of Iube kinge of Numidia beinge a childe and also a captiue Iulij Caesaris triumphum Africannm secutus est And although he thus had loste his Kingedome and libertie and was spoyled of all his honour and glorie yet he thought not vtterly to lose all his estimation Wherefore he earnestly applied him selfe to the studie of good learnynge wherein he so muche profited that in fewe yeares he attained to such knowledge as thereby he was accoumpted amongest the moste learned Writers of all Greece So that what so euer fortune had abated of his Nobilitie the same did the learning of good artes more abundantly restore to the greate augmentation of his honour Semblably Hannibal of Carthage in his greate miserie aduersitie and olde age learned the Greeke tongue and became so eloquent that he moste wisely did bothe write the actes and deedes of certaine Emperours and also noble Bookes of Martiall policie whereby he deserued righte highe commendation and aduancemente to his former Nobilitie whiche consisted not in the ancient Linage or dignitie of his Auncetours but in the greate learninge wisedome and vertue which in him was very Nobilitie and that Nobilitie brought him to dignitie Virtute decet non sanguine niti Nam genus proauos quae non fecimus ipsi Vix ea nostra voco The woordes of that prince of Oratours Cicero in his second Booke of Offices which he writte vnto his sonne Cicero doth admonish vs not onely to consider the name or fame of our parentes or Auncetours but that we must diligently take heede that we commit nothinge whereby we maie be thought vnwoorthy to beare the Ensignes of our Progenitours These are his woordes vnto his sonne If any from the beginninge of his youthe hathe the title of honorable name either receiued of his Father which to thee my Cicero I thinke to haue happened or by any chaunce or fortune on him all men caste their eyes● and of him there is seachinge what he doothe and howe he liueth And so as thoughe he shoulde leade his life in moste open lighte neither woorde nor deed of his can be vnknowne Thus it is proued that Noble men muste haue especial regarde that they maie be thought woorthy to beare that whiche they receiued of theire Grandsiers For their faultes or vices are of all men euen of the basest sorte bothe noted and reported and for theire honorable doinges and deseruinges are likewise of them commended praised Wherefore it is expediente for all those of the Nobilitie and suche as desire to beare the names of Gentlemen especially aboue all others to be circumspecte in their liuinge and manners and to walke as in the day lighte Nobilitas sola est atque vnicae virtus Finis Libri primi NVMER 2. Euerie man of the children of Israell shall pitche vnder his owne Standerde and vnder the Armes of their Father Houses ¶ The second boke entituled The Armorie of Honour ¶ What they were who in olde time did beare tokens or signes of Armes NObilitie as Boetius in his thirde Booke De Consolatione Philosophiae defineth it Est laus quaedam proueniens ex meritis Parentum It is also a dignitie of Byrthe and Linage Aristotle saithe in his fourth Booke Politicorum that is Virtus diuitae antiquae The whiche definitions teach vnto vs the true knowledg of very Nobilitie which diuerse sundrie persons haue and doo yet attaine vnto by the name and good fame of their parentes other by chaunce or fortune some for theire studies some by feates of armes some for their great possessiōs or long continuance of theire bloude and aunciente house in one name and lynage and also many for their vertues onely which aboue al other ought euer to haue preheminence in praise commendation And therfore to y t kind or lynage of those men were armes first giuē as to them which excelled al others in vertue prowes goodnes of kind and such were called noble persons or gentle they did beare in their shields on their helmetꝭ or other armor certain signes or tokens to be knowne by Vt passim videre licet apud Poetas Pallas that mightie Goddesse of Battaile wisedome for because shee woulde seeme more terrible in battaile did beare for her Ensigne the monstrous and Serpentines heade of Gorgon Bacchus the sonne of Iupiter by Semeles daughter of Cadmus who wente a greate parte of the world destroyinge Tyrantes and Monsters and conquered the Countrie of India did beare vpon his Helmet the hornes of an Oxe whiche was his Creaste as it is nowe termed of the Heraultes Mars Hercules for that theire strengthe power force shoulde be well knowne did beare on theire Armour the skinnes of Lyons in Latin called Leonum exuuiae Iupiter also the sonne of Saturnus who for his prowes wisedome after his death was of all the Greekes honoured as a God called Father kinge of Gods did beare for his Ensigne a Swanne his heade with the necke All whiche Ensignes and tokens by them deliuered to theire successours Nobilitatis quòd ab heroibus nati essent specimen dabant Porus the king of the Indians when he ordered his battaile against y e greate Alexander did beare in his standerd the Image of Hercules for an encouragement of his souldiers to fight well for a note of reproufe and infamie to them that shoulde flye from the same and losse of life to them that left it in the fielde Suche veneration and Religion the Indians conceiued of Hercules that sommetime had bene their enimie Thus by whom tokens of Armes in old time were borne may partly be perceiued But yet the goodly order trade in bearing ordering of them was not then suche as it is nowe For of these before recited I finde no mention made of mettall colour terme or any other rule in what fourme they did beare them ¶ Of the fourme of Scutcheons To sette foorthe here the fourme of Scutcheons it needeth not For of sundrie fashions thereof in especially mene may plainely be seene in the booke entituled The Accidence of Armorie And therefore firste I will declare in howe sundrie

Cydaris Our Sauiour Iesus as the Scriptures doo witnesse was borne in the Cittie of Dauid called Bethelem distante from Ierusalem sixe myles and was firste called Euphrata and signifieth in the Hebrewe tongue the House of Breade Wherefore the Prophete saithe in his Psalme Ecce audiuimus eam in Euphrata c. Loe we haue hearde of the same at Enphrata and founde it in the Woode The further interpretation hereof I leaue to Diuines The Ramme here diuised for y e Crest is quarterly parted S. and Ermyne armed vnguled d'Or He is a noble beaste and best knowne in this Realme Laberius the Poete calleth them Reciprocornes for the turning backeward and eftsoones forwarde of their hornes They are also called Lanicules because they haue their skynne couered with woll Some reporte affirme that of Rammes hornes buried or hidde in the grounde is broughte forthe an Herbe called Asparagus in Englishe Sperage Christe was called Aries a Ramme Propter Principatum for his Soueraignetie and Dominion The Ringe is the most principall ornamente to beautifie the hand of man or woman But in wearing of them oftentimes is found detestable prid offence and displeasure bothe to God and Man Are not oftentimes gemmes therein enclosed whiche stir prouoke the wearer thereof to filthye lust abominable vices are not oftener in place of stones which are called pretious known to be enclosed familiar diuels seruing to worke nothing that is good and godly but contrary altogether bothe to grace godlinesse God graunte that no Christian man be founde to weare suche Ringes I reade in a prophane history that Gyges seruant to Caudales kinge of Lydea had a Ringe of suche vertue that when the broder part therof was turned to the palme of his hande he was seene of no man but he might see all thinges and when he turned the Ringe of the contrary part he was him selfe seene openly By the meane wherof he slue Caudales and committed adultrie with his wife and so of a lasie shepheard he was made a cursed kinge The byrde called an Osprey is of suche whitenesse on his breaste and winges that when he houereth ouer any runnynge water or fishe Poole all the fishe therein turneth vp theire bellies and so he taketh his praye Hee is taken to be a kynde of Eagles that haunteth aboute the Sea The Bergander is a byrde of the kinde of Geese somewhat longer and bigger then a Ducke liuing in the water breeding sometime in Conye holes sometime in hollowe places in Rockes This byrd is here figured bearing the herbe Hiacinthe with the floure proper It hathe leaues like a Porret an hande breadth in height lesse then a maydes little finger grene of colour y e toppe lying down ful of purple floures and the roote rounde The floure springeth out in spring time with the Uiolet and before the Rose It is commonly called here in Englande Crowetoes The Creste here seene is an Erodye Golde Guttie set on a Torce Siluer Gules Calepine saithe that the byrd Erodius is the greatest fowle that flyeth ouercommeth and deuoureth the Eagle Other write that in time of treadinge he sweateth bloude The fielde of thys Cote Armoure is verte three cuppes couered in Pale betwene ij flasques d' Or charged with two clustres of grappes propre And to the Creste vppon the helme a kynges heade with a Diademe crowned set on a Chapeau Sable turned vp Ermyne manteled verte dobled Argente cotized of two Equicerues propre thys Apothegme added sato prudentia maior The torne corpse of Pentheus and the cause of hys death sufficiently displayeth all the sayde ensignes who as the fables do reporte was kynge of the Thebanes whose father was called Echion and hys mother Agaue Thys Pentheus despised the Sacrifice of Bacchus the god of wyne or the droncken god wherefore hys owne mother Agaue cut of hys heade and hys sisters with the other companye of women which than did celebrate the feaste and sacrifice of the sayde Bacchus and tore hys bodye all to pieces The Equicerne as I reade is a beaste in the Oriente forma cerui aequi compositum in forme or shape of an harte and an horse ioyned together hauing hornes a longe mayne to the shoulders a bearde vnder hys chynne like vnto the goate and fete rounde clouen like an harte is as greate as an harte Thys Beaste is founde in Indie about great ryuers He hath a tayle lyke an Olyphante in colour blacke or baye For the Creste it is thus assigned vpon the helme on a wreathe d'Or and Sable a Cardnell volante beaked and legged Argente all the reste proper manteled verte dobled Argente Thys lyttle byrde is here figured gesante a seade of the thistle for that she lyueth by the seades of them vnde illi inditum nomen She hath a redde heade yealowe winges distincte with white and blacke Cardnales imperata faciunt autore Plinio nec voce tantum sed pedibus ore pro manibus They are taught to do anye thing not onely with y e voice but also with the fete and byll in steade of handes Thys Poesie is also added Tendit in ardua virtus The Tarandule is a beaste cōmōly called a Buffe which is like an Oxe but that he hath a bearde like a Goate Medusa a Ladie of whom fables do reporte that by Minerua her heares were tourned into Adders and they whiche beheld her were tourned into stones whom Perseus that noble knyght afterwarde slewe Almighty God being greatly displeased with the pryde of Nabuchodonozor for that hee woulde haue his image honored for god sodeinly transformed him into an horrible mōstre hauing the heade of an Oxe the feete of a Beare and the tayle of a Lyon who dyd eate hey as a Beaste And after he had donne penaunce in that forme God beyng moued with mercie and accepting for hym the continual prayers of Daniel the prophete restored hym to hys pristinate forme who afterwarde lyued wel and commaunded that the very god of heauen should bee onely honored Whoso should beare these ensignes let hym onely feare serue obey and giue al prayse honor and glory to God for euer and euer Thys Byrde deuised for the creaste hath a long bill and redde legges whiche drincketh as though it dyd byte the water She dippeth all her meate in the water also quem pede ad rostrum veluti manu affert that is whiche she conueyeth to her bill as with an hande She is moste estemed in Concagena a parte of Syria and is taken of some to bee the Pellycane ▪ The Icon or forme of the same birde I haue caused thus to bee figured portant a water Rose propre This Eagle also in the breste is charged with a mans harte propre wherein ys conteyned a deuyne misterye B. Beareth on a torce Perle and Rubye a Meleuete Saturne beaked and membred Veneris Thys Byrde is otherwise called Onocrotalus and is like to a Swanne