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A51369	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 [sic] of Homer on the shield of Achilles : a work of this nature never yet extant / by Sylvanus Morgan ...	Morgan, Sylvanus, 1620-1693.	1666 (1666)	Wing M2738; ESTC R16382	99,548	200

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-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 Hermaelogi● 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 ●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 M●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 Ximen●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 Fo●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 Flo●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 ●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 ●●●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 C●o●● 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 Fo●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 eminen●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 be●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 sanguinolent●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