ARMILOGIA SIVE ARS CHROMOCRITICA THE Language of Arms BY THE COLOURS METALS BEING Analogically handled according to the Nature of Things and fitted with apt Motto's to the Heroical Science of Herauldry in the Symbolical World WHEREBY Is discovered what is signified by every Honourable Partition Ordinary or Charge usually born in Coat-Armour and Mythologized to the Heroical Theam of HOMER on the Shield of ACHILLES A WORK of this Nature never yet extant By SYLVANUS MORGAN Arms-Painter Est aliquid prodire tenus si non datur ultra LONDON Printed by T. Hewer for Nathaniel Brook at the Angel in Cornhil and Henry Eversden at the Greyhound in S. Pauls Church-yard 1666. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DISPONIENDO ME NO MVDAN DO ME. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE EDVVARD Earl of MANCHESTER c. Lord Chamberlain to the King 's most Excellent MAJESTY one of the Commissioners for the Office of Earl-Marshal of England Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter Chancellour of the University of Cambridge and one of his MAJESTIES Privy Counsellours c. Right Honourable THis Arrogant desire of mine grounded more on your Heroick Virtues then my private Ends promiseth me your Honours Acceptance of this Expression of my self in these Faculties not much besides my Profession indebted more to love then ability sets my ambition a pitch higher then my nature in presuming to present to your Honours hands these unworthy labours The Language of your Arms speaks you every way a good Patron the Griffon representing a good Guardian the Eagle a noble President and the Lozengies are Symbols of Nobility the quickness of whose Lustre shews from what Rock they were hewn Vouchsafe then Great Mount-acute as the generous Eagle at once to view and protect under the wings of your Honours Name this Infant of mine which was consecrated yours in the first Conception wishing it no other fate then that if it deserve not to live with your Name and Memory it may dye by the Marshal Law of your dislike and though for the want of that Law many have sown Dragons teeth Crescitque seges clypeata virorum this Land hath abounded with Men Armed assuming to themselves these Ensigns of Honor yet seeing your Eagle seems to resume her youthfull habit and triumph over Time and Ruine and the best part of my Endeavours stand engaged to your generous Fraternity I hope your indulgent Pardon and Acceptance choosing much rather to lay my self down at your Honours feet then to be brought before you as a Criminal to Honour who alwayes was Your Honours in all Duty and Service to be commanded SYLVANUS MORGAN To the READER A Gentleman of the first Head Hermaelogiâ— saith one except while the Spaniard swells in being the Son of his own right hand is seldome known to refuse the Herauld more than the Nobles of Rome could Virgil after he had so solemnly sung their Extraction from Elysium and Caesar's from the Gods Deus Nobis haec otia fecit Aeneid 6. And if in my Armilogia I have seemed to gratifie all and flattred many by the opinions of Good Bearings I hope they will bear also with Me if I take Leave to talk of whole Fields of Gold and Silver possessed by the Heroes I hope they will accept of the Golden Branch from Sibylla Painters and Poets are to be excused upon Ben Johnsons account Poet never Credit gain'd By writing Truth but things like truth well fain'd Mira canunt sed non credenda Poetae There were three most noted Epoches or Computations of Times amongst the Antients higher than which Profane Story gives no light The first was the Expedition of the Argonautes to Colchis for the Golden Fleece Dr. Symson which hapned in the fifteenth year of Gideon and of the World 2743 and before our Saviour 1260. The second was from the Theban Warr which was 42 years after and the last from the Trojan War which was undertaken by the Greekes in the 19th year of Iair Judge of Israel in the year of the World 2812 before Christs time 1191 These three Memorable Expeditions administred Matter to the Heroick Muses of divers famous Witts the Gests of the first were celebrated by the Greek Muse of Apollonius Rhodius and by the Latine of Valerius Flaccus the Theban War was sung by the Sublime Papinius Statius and the Trojan War was the Theme of the Great Homer a Subject of Armes and Blazon Shields Thickned with opposed Shields Targets to Targets Nail'd Healmes stuck to Healmes and Man to Man grew they so close assail'd And afterwards imitated by Virgil the Prince of the Latine Poets in whose Aeneis you have a Patterne of Virtue and of Armes the Ensignes of Virtue and Nobility Mille vides Galeas Clypeosque insignia mille you have also in Homer the Lineall Genealogies of Greeks and Trojans wherein Aeneas himself Sings his Genealogy from Iove which Married Electra Sister of Morges King of Italy which Jupiter was called Cambo Blascon and was King of Italy by the Gift of Morges his Wifes Brother he was Son of Atlas or Ketim or Jupiter of Creet called Italus he was the Son of Dodoneus who was called Saturne of Creet and he was the Son of Tharsus who was the Son of Ketim or Helisan he was the Son of Javan Father of the Graecians whom Berosus calleth Ion and Iavan was Son of Iaphet second Son of Noah he was also called Iapetus and the Britains by their antient manner of Fight seem to derive their Genealogy from Aeneas as well as the English who claime to be descended of the antient Saxons and though I have heard that bruit of Brute cryed down by many well seen in Antiquity as well as the Tale of Troy yet Virgil being so perfect an Idiome of Heroicall Actions I cannot but allow both in my Herauldy Though I must confess with Dr. Case that Ruina Bangoriensi gloria Walliae nebulata fuit â—a Praeface ad Ethick And Chronologers scarcely agree when Troy was taken If there be any so valiant as the Greekes as to wage War against the Britains as Trojans for their usurpation of the Lady Truth and Prevail yet I fear they will hardly find her there though in the Story of Jeffery of Monmouth there be a brave Theme for one that would much vindicate the Reputation of his Countrey-Men and whether the Britaines have had the same Fortune of the Trojans I shall leave to Chronologie Palae Albion Aut venit aut videt aut vicit Brutus Amoenoe Albioni impositum à Bruto Brytania Nomen Whether Brute at Brutania anchor cast Coasted or Ken'd or conquered last Or whether the Trojans were the Planters of Italy shall not trouble me only if it gratifie Caesar and the Romans as an Exhortation from Effeminacy and stir up to Manly Exercises it is the Proper Work of Herauldry and Armes do Speak there being nothing borne in Armes but may be found on that Shield of
their Saltire Silver yet the Field is Red and that for valour as our Country-man Michael Draiton on the Barrons Warr Upon his Surcot valiant Nevile bore A Silver Saltire upon Martial Red. Where the Rose is upon their Saltire it is to denote them to be descended from the sixth Brother of the house of Bergaveny which house is now the prime Barony of the Kingdome This Ordinary consisteth of the fift part of the Feild and Ingenii Largitor necessity being the Minister of Policy for if the Saltire be charged it shall be enlarged to a third part Goe on but ever go resolv'd Iliad l. 4. all other Gods have vowed To Cross thy partial course for Troy in all that makes it proud The vitiousnesse of the undertakers being made one of the great impediments of the success in the Holy Land Fuller's Holy War l. 5. c. 24. where Saladine the great Conqueror of the East could boast of nothing but a Black shirt that he bore to his Grave and that Famous General and first Christian Worthy Godfrey of Bulloine chose rather the Cross then the Crown and though it was born before in Armes it was most commonly and generally used since the Holy Warre the plain Cross or as we call it St. George his Cross being the Mother of all the rest and we have it from Lucius Marinus Siculus that St. George appeared in white Armour with a flaming Cross upon his breast to Peter of Arragon by whose help he obtained a Memorable victory against the Mâ—ors which Shield he assumed for that of Arragon adding four Moores Kings heads that were slain in that Battail which happened about the year 1096. Hierom Blancas reports that Garsia Ximenâ—s first King of the Suprarbienses when his Army was shrewdly put to it in the year of our Lord 724. saw in the Aire a Red Cross as it were in a golden Shield upon a Green Oak whereupon he took that for his own and the Kingdomes Armes Inigo also tells us That when Arista the fifth King of the Suprarbienses was fighting against the Moors there appeared to him a silver sharp-pointed Cross in the right Angle of an Azure Shield and that it was then made that King 's Arms. And as the Authour of the Holy War observeth That as by the Transposition of a few letters a world of words are made so by the varying of this Cross either in Foâ—m Colour or Metal are made infinite several Coats Patee when the ends are broad Fichee whose bottom is sharp to be fixed on the Ground Wavee which those may justly challenge who sailed thither through the miseries of the Sea or Sea of miseries Molinee because like to the Rind of a Mill Floâ—id or Garlanded with Flowers crossed being crossed at every Extream potent from the similitude that the ends have to a Crutch and this sort of Cross was that of Jerusalem most frequently used in this War being Party England bearing Gules a Cross Argent Ireland OR a Cross Gules France OR a Cross Azure Scotland Azure a Saltire Argent c. And so Jerusalem is the praise of the whole Earth the main Cross in the middle attended by the four Crossets or little Crosses typifying the Cross and Martyrdome of our Saviour extended to the four parts of the World Haec alienatos Deo conjunxit Nicholas Upton de studio Militari in his fourth Book accounts the Cross the most worthy of all Bearings and to have the precedency and making use of the words of John Chrysostome in his Sermon on the Cross hath these words Crux nobis totius beatitudinis causa est haec nos a caecitate erroris liberavit So the Christian Souldier runs not from his Colours Haec debellatos quieti sociavit The crouched Fryars came into England about 1244. and were so called from wearing a Cross on their staves backs haec peregrinos cives ostendit and so they went out Pilgrims and returned Palmers Crux spes est Christianorum and therefore signed with it in Baptism Resurrectio Mortuorum and therefore born flowred Dux caecorum vita d seratorum baculus claudorum consolatio pauperum Gube â—atrix navigantium The Seaman can never sail safe without the Cross-yard nor the poor be sustained without the potent Cross of Providence Lastly he concludeth it to be Portus periclitantium and so born anchored It is â—â—â—us obsessorum and so born fitched and though even in the Church of God some have superstitiously dreamed this figure to be a healthful sign yet Suscipere Crucem is used as a Phrase to signifie the going to the Holy Land haec ratio tentandi aditus this is the way to enter into glory Una enim eademque ad Virtutem via patet omnibus And the imitation of our Ancestours Virtue is a brave spur to Honour But how many pretend the Câ—oâ—â— whose Ancestours never were at the Holy Land or never returned to leave their Bearings to boast on But among Sovereign Rewards the Cross it self is a Noble one and a sign of Sovereign Favour the Noble City of London bearing it first plain till augmented by the signal service of Sir William Walworth with the Dagger the famous City of York bearing the same Field and Cross rewarded with five Lions of England and that of Lincoln the same with one Lion in the Centre virtually as much as the other five The University of Camb idge a Cross Ermine charged with a Foâ—k to shew the purity of those Springs of Learning and very many Companies and Corporations as the Artillery the Military Societies by all which you may perceive plainly by the Coats the Language of the Bearing I could insist upon many Noble Families whose Bearing denoteth their Atchievements signally that of the Viliers Duke of Buckingham being five Escalop shells on a plain Cross speaking his Predecessours valour in the Holy War For Sir Nicholas Villiers Knight followed Edward the First in his Wars in the Holy Land and then assumed that Coat whereas before he bare Sable three Cinque foils Argent Upsall Captain of the Crossbow-men to the Conquerour bare Argent a Cross Sable And Painell Captain of 300. Foot bare Gules a Cross flory Argent At the same time Seward an English man Victualler of the Camp to the said William the First bearing A gent a Cross Florie Salle And Stephen Son to the Earl of Campaigne who was made Earl of Awmarle by William the Conquerour bare Gules a Cross Flory Varry And Ivon Lord Vessy who came into England with Duke William bare OR a Plain Cross Salle Jeffery Botetort Lord Botetort bare OR a Cross ingrailed Sable And in what esteem the Cross was before the Conquest may plainly be seen in the Coats of the Saxon Kings Egbert nineteenth King of the West-Saxons and first Monarch of English men bearing Azure a Cross Patonce OR Edelbert Brother to Edelhald Azure a Cross Form OR Edelbred Brother and Successour to Edelbert OR a Cross Forme flowry Azure
Reason above the Vulgar and your Charge declares they were eminenâ—ly conspicuous Mullets are among the Stars of the first Magnitude and the greater Planets have Concomitants to wait upon them 'T is better to be on then in Chief the la er is subject to Errour whereas the former is bounded by a Rational Line Riches and Honour are the two Twins born at once in your House nursed up by Vertue and preserved in your self to this Day Your Grandfather being Francis fourth Son and afterwards became the second House of Oliver First Lord St. John of Blet so hath entitled you to that of Esquire who by the common Name we give him in Latine seems to have his Origen either for that he carried the Armour of the King Duke or other great Personages Patroclus being Achilles his Armour Bearer or rather as some suppose the Footman himself armed in the field however they were always men of good account as those that won themselves credit out of the Wars and so their estimation remained in their Posterity and as those were in time before so are these which are in our dayes as descending for the most part from their worthy Ancestors esteemed the Prime sort of Esquires who are descended of Nobles CHAP. VIII Of the visible Charges of the Fifth Dayes Work under the Regiment of Venus or the Green Shield VErdure is a state of happiness and felicity Vert a Border OR Enaluron of 4 Marilets Sable and Eatoyre of as many Escalops Gales the Golden branch growing at the entrance of Elyzium where Venus Doves are as honourable as Joves Eagle Concerning the Bearing of Birds if I should say no more than that of the old Eagle PROVOCAT EXEMPLO It were enough to stir you all up to the imitation of virtue the Eagle beâ—ring PRAESIDIA MAJESTATIS deserving the first place because in the War of the Gyants an Eagle supply'd Jove with Armes Jupiter and Saturn were kings and waged War upon a difference of Land to which Jupiter Marching out saw the prediction of an Eagle by which when he had overcome it was reported that the Eagle brought him weapons from this good luck it was that the Eagle is in the Emperial Ensignes Sic Aquilae clarum firmavit Jupiter omen It is borne in a three-fold manner viz. Procidens Volaus Erectus vel Expausus In the first posture it is made Bearing the Armes of Jupiter and among the Romans in the fourth Legion of the Decemani and in the Shields of the Elder Constantine in the East and on many ancient Military Ensignes of the Romans In which posture it is borne among us by Roper of Derbyshire quasi de Rubro spado it argueth generosity NIL FULMINA TERRENT And where the Wing and the Sword go together 't is to shew that Art can do as much as Armes as Emanuel Thesaurus noteth on Caesars Commentaries Quae modo fulmineum vibrabat dextera ferrum Pacatos calamos sanguinolentâ—a regit In the second posture of Volant it is also found among all the Roman Legions being a Golden Eagle with the Wings Elevated upon the top of a silver Spear the Bearers whereof were called Aquiliseri It was antiently borne in the Shields of the younger Herculani and in this prepared posture it is said to descend to the Table of Augustus Ab Jove consuerat divisam sumere Mensam Te Similem cernens credidit esse Jovem Some suppose that this kind of Bearing with two Heads was in memory of the two inauspicious birds or Ravens that hovered over the head of Caesar and were struck to the ground by the Eagle others again attribute it to the division of the Empire into the East and West by Constantine the Great Translating his Seat to Constantinople making as it were two head Cityes under one Emperour like the prow of Aenaeas Ship Aeneas Ship the Admiral before Upon her Prow two Phrygian Lions bore Which denoted the Ensign of the Ship those of Burthen carrying them on their Masts as the Eagle was carried on a Staff farr above for more conspicuosness But Justus Lipsius observes upon that Military Ensign which is seen in Rome upon the Column of Antonius that then it could not have reference to the division of the Empire much less could it belong to any Souldier but that rather it had respect to one and the same Roman Emperour with the Wings expanded or displayed where the right wing is spread over the Eastern parts and the left over the Western parts thereof and two heads is no more than Counsel or Advice The Roman Consuls being two joyned to the Body of the People of Rome and were so called a Consulendo and in Caesar the two heads signified no otherwise than the Civil and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in him with his Wings expanded to Protect the People of his Empire So you see why the Black Eagle is preferred before other and for the other Colours see my Sphaere of Gentry it is a reward for Service in many English Coats as in that of Laurence Hutton of Hutton John in Cumberland having the two heads thereof in Reward circled about with a Crown by Fredrick the Fourth Emperour of Germany for the Honour that he gained in his Wars in Hungary against Soliman the Second having gained the Standard of the Enemy with the Honour of the Day So also the Coat of Browne hath rhe Eagle displayed in chiefe for some special Service performed by the first bearer thereof in Ambassage to the Emperour as testifieth Guilime If you turn your eyes to several other Nations you shall find the Persians bore it from the time of Cyrus to the overthrow of that Monarchy the Eagle being principally taken for an aspicious and fortunate Omen The Silver Eagle is preferred with the Sable Qu a sit fulgentior atque conspectior and of any other Colour it is noble ET VISU ET VOLATU and is therefore a proper bearing for Men of an accurat and clear Judgment as is noted in the bearing of Edward Cook Esquire being a Man of great Estimation and Admiration in his perspicuous knowledge of the Law worthy to be a Judge who was among them as the Eagle among other Birds So Julius Caesar is said to bear a Sphinx a bird with a human face whose subtilties could not be discovered but by an Oedipus only to shew the clearness of his understanding To bear more Eagles than one is called Eaglets and among the A gyptians Per Aquilam falconem rem maximae velocitates saith Keecher and so doth the Cross between the four Falcons in the Coat of the Right Honourable Thomas Wriothesley Earl of Southampton and Lord Treasurer of England whose Falcons if they rouse their wings is equal to the swiftness of the Eagles Una Aquila innumeras Exagitabit aves Homer is said by Alexander Paphius as Estachius testifieth to be born of Aegyptian Parents his Nurse being a certain Prophetess and the daughter of Oris Isis
his Cradle whereas these contrarily are like to be strangled by the Snakes about their necks whose Tradition is that a Childe was borne so in that Family but I rather think it from the name Vachan that is little in the British language PREMAT NE PERIMAT is to crush the Serpent betimes and to use the Foot before it grow too strong for the Armes which if Eve had done there had never been any Naked Women borne in Armes no not the Head of a Maiden but since they are borne by Marrow it sheweth the power of Love with Beauty and by Thirkeld as having released a Lady from Imprisonment as themselves relate Thus have I shewed you the Human parts disjoyned and naked by which you may perceive that MENS UNA SAPIENS PLURIUM VINCIT MANUS Now I shall proceed to shew you them joyned and Armed with Clothes so that in the middle of the Scheame you see our First Parents standing impailed the Man being Baron and the Woman the Femme side Honourable Furrs and on the Mans side you have the Choice of Shields to defend being honourable Furrs or Skins of Beasts and on the Womans side you have as many Loâ—engies call them Spindles if you please the first side is Ermin Ermines Erminois and vary the Womans the first is Togam splendentem candidam Suppose it if you please a Linnen Garment first Spun from Flax before the use of Wool PULCHRITVDINEM COMPLENT Vestments Ecclesiasticall making a Garment fit for her Beloved Quis est iste qui venit de Edome saith the Prophet Isaiah tinctus vestibus de Bosra valde speciosus est in stola sua Linnen Vestments being used both by the Hebrews and Aegyptians were made by Women and was accounted more cleane and pure than that was flaid off other Animals and therefore worne by the Priests the Orale was a Linnen Vaile to cast over his head his Miter was of Linnen as the Poet testifieth Nunc Dea Linigera colitur celeberrima turba That was like the Admirable Maze For fair Haired Ariadne made by Dedalus And in it Youths and Virgins Danced all young and beauteous And glewed in one an others Palmes Weeds which the Winde did Toss The Virgins Wore How the Armes of Women ought to be borne The difference being this that Maidens weare their Coats of Armes in a Lozenge single and in their Sleeves Nobilitas sub amore jacet according to Ovid and the Mourning for Maidens being worne joyned to the sleeve under Love Neither are Marryed Women denyed their Coat though both are denyed a Helme or Crest they being fitter for the Spindle than the Sword Apta quidem telae sed inepta est faemina telo Indignumque viro subdere cola collo Therefore the lone Woman or Widow beareth her Armes also in a Lozenge but under Covert Barne joyned with her Husbands Nec Turpe marito est Aspera pro charo bella tulisse thoro And therefore is that side of the Woman also joyned to his Sleeve as it were for Protection from his Armes and he must have Coverings from her Art the Reele for her Yarne IMPLICATA DISTINGUIT and signifieth negotiation Molilitate viget viresque ACQUIRIT EUNDO Three Hanks of Cotton is born by the name of Cotton and makes a good Coat Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis oves As of Daughters so of Widows of Peers Ridley 's View while they live sole unmarried they retain the nobility of their husbands but if they marry then they are invested with the condition of their second Husbands be it honourable or otherwise which notwithstanding is practised contrarily amongst us Investure is the same that we call Creation Adam having a Grant of Tenure to the whole Creation with all Rites and Solemnities thereunto belonging so long as he bare Allegiance to his Lord and his Posterity have right of Succession about which Heraldry is conversant and when every one knows his own Coat The Fates conspiring with eternal doom Said to their Spindles Let such Ages come And Conquerours laws ordains For willing Realms and Heaven with valour gains Acestes having shot before Aeneas his Arrow fired and was rewarded by him with a chaffed Cup of Anchises as Argenton beareth three Cups in token of an honourable Tenure of Wimondley in Hartfords which our Lawyers term Grand Sergeancy namely that the Lords thereof should serve unto the Kings of England upon their Coronation Day the first Cup as it were the Kings Cup-bearer which Office is now divolved on the Allingtons Littleton where he treats of Feuds or Tenures so far forth as they are used in England such as are all those that are called in Latine Feuda militaria Several Tenures and Feuda Scutiferorum which are by the Laws of the Land termed by the names of Knight-service and Escuage whereof some are temporal others are perpetual Temporal are such as are annuities to Lawyers for Counsel Pensions to Physicians Fees for keeping of Towers and Castles c. And perpetual are such as a man hath by Grant from the Sovereign or Lord of the Soil to have hold use occupy or enjoy Honours Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments to him and his heirs upon condition that the said party his heirs and successours do homage and fealty to his Lord his heirs or successours for such honours c. Of Feuds Regal some are Ecclesiastick as for Archbishops and Bishops who holding them have right to bear Miters and Crosiers Staves Palls c. Others are Civil as Dukedomes Earldomes Viscounts and Lords to whom belongs part of the Regalia as Crowns Swords Staves of Authority Parcere subjectis debellare superbos Cup. The Cup being the Symbol of Royal Dainties is here a military Reward The Arrow-head what doth it signifie but a setting apart to the Kings service Pheons as is continued in the Custome-house to this day Sir John Harrison one of the Farmers of his Majesties Customes of London bearing five Pheon heads on a Cross which they bare long before the separation to that Office perhaps as having won the Prize among the Games that were rewarded by the Prince Aeneas straight all those would exercise The nimble Shaft invites and plac'd the Prize Some say Harbottles Coat is three Clubs Clubs and denotes Valour so the Club is SVI VINDEX and When shame and well known valour force revives And headlong everywhere he dares and drives Arms. 'T is said that the Lacedemonians invented the Helmet and Moses the Crown Mantles of Estate were first invented for use as Tents by Lamech TECTVM MILITIBVS AMPLUM Epeus invented the battering Ram. The use of the Shield was to defend the Body ETIAM POST FVNERA CUSTOS Of the Gauntlet TEGIT AC FERIT Scudmore beareth three Stirrups to mount the War-horse and Devic three Chivaltraps to dismount the Horseman Some Arms are offensive some defensive all of them in the Atchievement of a Knight with his
Contriver but surprised with a deep melancholy of what I had so rashly written I called my meditations to a strict accompt to examine what motive should make me run so far to meet the ambition of my Countrey-men or my own affection the remembrance of some grievances seconded by mine imbred nature never taught to fawn on misprision began to check my officious Pen as guilty of too much weakness in medling with that which belonged to the Heraulds when suddenly as in a vision there appeared to me Calliope the Goddess of Herauldry who with a discontented Countenance and harsh Language seemed to chide me in this manner Fond Son who taught thy undeserved praise To crown my Art thus with their thankless Bayes Carpenter Geog. l. 2. pag. 267â— What Legacies bequeath'd that Soil to thee But fruitless hopes and helpless poverty Which of these Worthies whom thou crown'st with Bayes Will e're thy wants relieve or fortunes raise How oft hast thou drawn out thy precious time To tutor in their Arms their youthly prime Who like respectless and untutred Swains With loss and obloquy reward thy pains Such are the Darlings whom thou mak'st to ride In a triumphant Chair by Honours side Thus thou unwise giv'st immortality To those whose base reproaches follow thee Even those thou knowest thee they do accuse To my disgrace and grief thy hapless Muse And vaunt'st thou still upon their Worships Names That owe to me their worth to thee their shames Thy wants inforce thee still with me to stay When each Pedant or makes or finds his way To play and stake it at that lawless game Selling my Honours for to buy their shame By griping Brokers since the fatal time That fair Astraea left thy thankless Clime Thus thy admired Mistriss Charity Set strangers in he lap and shut out thee Hast thou been honour'd by my sacred breath ' Mongst rude Arcadians thus to beg a death Be rul'd by me my poor but yet lov'd Son Trust not their smiles whâ—se wrongs have thee undone Although the least among my learned Sons Thy fortune told thee that I lov'd thee once Mount up thy mind let not forc'd want conspire To sell thy Scarlet to a worthless Squire Nor grace with Minivere or Ermine he That hates his Countrey in not loving thee Or if thy Nature with constraint descends Below her own delights to practick ends What greater glory can thy ashes have Then thus preserv'd so near thy Mothers grave All thy endowments owed to my womb Return them back I 'le there erect thy Tomb And I will promise thy neglected bones A firmer Monument then speechless stones And since my Art 's restor'd to 'ts pristine hue Which former times admir'd ours never knew I 'le give thy milky Soul a Pen to write Though all the world be turn'd a Proselyte All this time as in a Fit of Phrensie I have spoken I scarce know what my self I fear too much to or of my Countrey and Art and too little for the present Purpose Now as one suddenly awaked out of sleep no otherwise then in a dream I remember the Occasion we have all a Semel insanivimus and as a learned man of this University seems to maintain No man hath had the happiness to be exempted from this imputation And therefore I hope my Reader will pardon me this once if in such a general concourse and conspiracy of mad men I sometimes shew my self mad for company having a Licence for it concluding with that Proverb Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura insaniae And if like Phaeton I have provoked Jove view but the Lightning before and the Thunder after and repeat but this Epitaph at my End Hic fitus est Phaethon currus auriga paterni Quem si non tenuit magnis tamen excidit ausis I Have read this Tract of Mr. Morgan's intituled Armilogia c. and have corrected some mistakes therein relating to particular Families But as for the Body thereof being Hieroglyphical and Poetical Significations and Derivations of all manner of Bearings in Armory They are such as in my judgement would have better fitted the Romantick and Knight-errant Ages then this we live in as being to use the Phrase of a former King of Arms pleasant Vanities However it may possibly please some of that old fancifull humour for whose delight and satisfaction I see no inconvenience to give leave for the printing thereof with those Characters if either of the Provincial King of Arms shall agree with me for the publishing thereof EDW. WALKER Garter Principal King of Arms. Heraulds Office Feb. 19. 1664. IN this Book are such and so many strange conceits and wild fancies that I do not know of what advantage the Printing of it can be to any man that soberly desires to be instructed in the true knowledge of those Marks and Ensigns of Honour which are called Arms as to the use and progress of them from their first rise and original it giving no rational or historical Account thereof But to those who are affected with Romances it may perhaps be pleasing enough and therefore for their sakes I could be content it were Printed provided that thereby I be not understood to allow and approve of it much less to recommend it in regard my discretion in so doing might I fear be called in question WIL. DUGDALE Norroy Feb. 21. 1664. Books of the AUTHOURS already extant LOndon King CHARLES his Augusta or City Royal of the Founders Names and oldest Honours of that City an Historical and Antiquarian Work in Verse with Annotations in 4to Printed An. 1648. Horologiographia Optica Dialling universal and particular speculative and practical together with Topothesia or a feigned Description of the Court of Art in 4to Printed An. 1652. The Sphere of Gentry deduced from the Principals of Nature an Historical and Genealogical Work of Arms and Blazon in four Books in Folio Printed 1661. Armilogia sive Ars Chromocritica or the Language of Arms c. Books ready for the Press THe Genealogies of the Stocks and Families of the Noble Romans Patricians and Plaebeians gathered out of Richard Streinnius and augmented from the Miscellanies of Peter Servius in 4to The Genealogies of all the Kings of England since the time it was named England viz. from King Egbert the first Monarch thereof until King CHARLES the Second 4to Patriarchae or the Scripture Genealogies amplified pointing out the Begining and Ends of the four Monarchies and the Hebrew Moneths brought to ours whereby may be known upon what Day of the Moneth the remarkable Actions through the Old Testament hapned c. Folio Flavius Vigetius Renatus his Institutions of Military Affairs in five Books Translated out of Latine c. The Author doth also advise that he had and can still procure several Pieces of John Norden his SPECULUM BRITANNIAE viz. Kent Essex Surrey Sussex Hampshire the Isles of Whight Gersey and Garnsey THE V-indicative Mood SHEWING A REASON TRVE or FALSE WHY
Edward sirnamed Senior Son to King Alfred bare Azure a Cross Patonce between four Crowns the flowring Cross being the Emblem of future Glory Athelston eldest Son to King Edward the Senior bare per Saltire Gules and Azure a Cross Botton OR Eldred Brother of King Edmond bare Vert a Cross pattee fitched Argent and in the Dexter Canton the Virgin in a Glory Edwin his successour the same of King Egbert Edgar sirnamed Pacifius Azure a Cross Pattee between 4 Marlets OR Edward the Son of King Edgar the same Cross between 5 Martleâ—s Edeldred Son to King Edgar by his second wife bare only OR a C oss potent fitched Azure and Edmond surnamed Ironside eldest Son to King Edeldred by his first wife bare Azure a Cross patonce between fower Martlets St. Edward the Confessor Son to King Edeldred bare the same Cross with five Martlets and for the esteem that the English Nation hath of the plain Cross it is easily discerned seeing they have alwayes used it in their Standards and Ensigns to this day King Edward the third joyning it before the Armes of England and France in his institution of the Garter the Cross denoting all Divine and Moral virtue as OR a Cross gules denoteth Faith HAC PACIS FOEDERA FIRMES OR a Cross vert denoteth Hope Seth plantavit ramum Arboris vitae ex qua arbore deinde Moyses virgam suam fabricavit saith Raby Jochnides Argent a Cross gules signifieth Charity or a crosse Sable is Fortitude Argent a Cross Azure is prudence Azure a Cross Argent is the colour and Metal of Justice for when Astrea left the Earth she was fixed in Heaven Argent a Cross Vert denoteth Temperance it is a bearing of much reason because it is right Angled and if you please hear the reason of the bearing among the Aâ—gyptians Abnephi delivers in these words â—rucem autem circulatam Misraim a Noe per Patrem Cham accepit ille ab Adame quae quidem nihil aliud est nisi character Mysteriosus cujus epe Angelus Raziel Adamum maxima quaevis Mysteria edocebat qui Character per continuam successionem posteris temporibus per Noe ad Cham ab hoc per Misraim ad Aegyptos pervenit Cham quoque in usum magicum convertit multa eo Miracula prodigia edidit But should I seek the reasons of all bearing of the Cross I should either lose my self in Aegyptian darkness or Cross the Readers expectation Antiquity buried those with their Leggs a Cross who took upon them the Cross and were marked with the Cross who took upon them Sacred warfare to recover the Holy Land from the Mahometans and Turks in which respect the Umfrauviles bear on their Escoutcheon Crusilie a Noble man of which Family lieth buried Croslegged in the ancient Minster of Hexteldesham in Northumberland The Bohuns under King Henry the First which flourished unto King Henry the Seventh's days bare as Cambden testifieth a Cross Azure in a Field OR and they were by inheritance the Kings Sprigurnels that is the Sealers of his Writs The Inhabitants of the Town of Colchester affirm That Flavia Julia Helena Mother of Constantine the Great was born and bred there being the Daughter of King â—oel and in memory of the Cross which she found they give for their Arms a Cross Enraguled between four Crowns Azure three Crowns in Pale by King Edmond Son of Edward the senior Conclusion of this Chapter To William Gore of Cambridge Esq and Barrister of Grayes Inn fourth Son of Sir John Gore of Gilston in Hertfordshire SIR AS you were thought fit to be remembred in the Sphere of Gentry So I thought it unfit you should be forgot in this Armilogia least your Arms should speak and tell the World I forgot since you suffered with me at the firing of my House and may th se Crosses your Ancestours took up at the Holy Land be born by you and those that shall descend from you till they return to the Holy Land which is above where there shall need neither Material Field nor Formal Charge and though here we meet with Cross upon Cross yet what hath hitherto been said is but a preparation to Adam's Shield being charged with the visible Creation as Ensigns of Nobility and Ordinaries of Honour Your Field is the same Ground that Adam was taken out of charged with three Cross Croslets and the Fesse representeth the Girdle of Verity a Bearing fit for Angels and Men for so the Seraphims took delight to bear the Cross from Aceldama and the Christian Knight was Girt to bear the same Your Fathers Motto was Compassi ut conâ—egnabimus Gules hath reference to the first sufferings for Christianity and OR hath reference to the Glorious Reward that followeth here then is your Sword and Shield in your Military Affairs in this life and your Crown is reserved to the Life to come for those whose constancy to Truth keeps under the Sense by the Girdle of Reason and as you are a Student of Law you study Reason And so Sir I submit my self to your Trial having brought in all I have hitherto writ as a praeexistent Matter without Form and come now to the Works of the Creation CHAP. IV. Of the visible Charges of the first Days Work in the Creation under the Regiment of Saturn or the Black Shield SAble was the first Field especially representing old Time and the first face of the Cube But I having already shewed the Matter and Form of Arms apart and the Dominion that the Form hath over the Matter in those Forms that are Stationary Symbols having their place assigned them in the Escoutcheon and are called Honorable Come I now to the Logical Substances or created Beings usually applyed as Honourable Charges either in the Field or on the Ordinary I purpose for the better methods sake to proceed as in my Sphere of Gentry with the particular Days works in the Creation Aristotle saith in his Eighth Book of Physicks Natura non agit inordinate neque operationibus suis facit saltum unde causa ordinis rerum ipsarum quae ratione constant ordine I shall take my beginning with Saturn or Time and that because experienced old Age deservedly challengeth respect and honour He is described with a half extinguished Light his face as it were meagre and pale for that the best of the Blood is exhausted in the operations of the mind and the face thereby left exsanguine and discoloured and therefore Nazianzen calleth paleness pulchrum sublimium virorum florem as a note of men of profound and studious contemplations and therefore aptly by Metal and Colours are represented the minds of the Bearers God having cemented the minds of men saith Plato with Metals into the Pesant Iron into those of Princes Gold and into every one else between these he hath infused their Metal proper to their State Aridam vocavit Deus terram that is the Field whereon all other Charges are to