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London's armory accuratly delineated in a graphical display of all the arms crests supportes mantles & mottos of every distinct company and corporate societie in the honourable city of London as they truly bear them faithfully collected from their severall patents which have been approved and confirmed by divers kings at arms in their visitations a work never till now exactly perfected or truly published by any and with rectisy many essentiall mistakes and manifest absurdities committed in painting & carving.
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Wallis, Richard, b. ca. 1643.
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1677
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Wing W620; ESTC R9805
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To Sr. John Frederick Kt Alderman London's Armory is dedicated Presented by your Worsh s hum b servt. Rich d Wallis London's Armory Accuratly delineated in a Graphical display of all the Arms Crests Supporters Mantles Mottos of every distinct Company and Corporate Societie in the Honourable City of London as they truly bear them faithfully Collected from their severall Patents which have been approved and Confirmed by Divers Kings at Arms in their Visitations A Work never till now exactly perfected or truly Published by any and will rectify many essentiall Mistakes and manifest Absurdities Committed in Painting Carving London Printed for the Author Rich Wallis Citizen Arms painter of London are to be sold by him at his Shop against the Royall Exchange 1677 HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT CHARLES R. CHARLES The Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all our Loving Subjects of what Degree Condition and Quality soever within Our Kingdoms and Dominions Greeting Whereas We have been given to Understand That Our Trusty and Well-beloved Subject Richard Wallis Arms-Painter in Our City of London hath with much Pains and Charge Endeavoured to attain a Perfect and General Collection of the Arms proper to every Society or Corporation within Our said City and hath at length Finished the same after a most exact and curious manner And the said Richard Wallis having humbly besought Us to Grant him a Priviledg for the sole Printing of his said Book We have thought fit for his Encouragement to gratifie him therein Know Ye therefore That it is Our Royal Pleasure and We do by these presents not only give him the said Richard Wallis full Leave Licence and Authority to Print the said Book But strictly Charge Prohibite and Forbid all Our Subjects to Reprint within any Our Kingdoms the said Book in any Volume or any part thereof or to Import Buy Vend Utter or Distribute any Copies or Exemplaries of the same Reprinted beyond the Seas within the term of Fifteen Years next ensuing the Publishing hereof without the Consent and Approbation of the said Richard Wallis his Heirs Executors or Assigns as they and every of them so Offending will answer the contrary not only by the Forfeiture of the said Books Copies or Exemplaries but at their Utmost Peril Whereof as well the Wardens and Company of Stationers of Our City of London as all and singular Our Officers of the Customs in this Port of London or any other Place within Our Dominions and all other Our Officers and Ministers whom it may concern are to take particular Notice that due Observance be given to this Our Royal Command Given under Our Signet and Sign Manual at Our Court at Whitehall the Twelfth day of May 1677. in the Nine and Twentieth Year of Our Reign By His Majesties Command Joseph Williamson TO THE Right Honourable Sir THOMAS DAVIES Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London AND To all the Right Worshipful Society of Senatours his Brethren in this Supream Unparaleld and Renowned Metropolis for Wealth Beauty Honour and Good Government Right Honourable and Right Worshipful MIsconception and Erroneous Tradition which have so much perverted and corrupted the radical path and order of Primitive Invention and almost obliterated the true Intentions of Antiquity both in Philosophy and History have also in this general Infection traduced even Heraldry witness the manifold Errors and egregious Mistakes which by industrious Enquiry and sedulous Search I have discovered in divers of the Companies Escutcheons and Corporations Coats of Arms in this Honourable City of London since they were first conferred upon them in the gracious Grants of their respective Patents under the Great Seals of several Kings of England committed through the stupidity and careless performances of divers Artificers viz. Painters Plaisterers Gravers and Carvers whose absurdities are of late advanced in the most eminent and conspicuous Places of very beautiful and stately Structures who were first of all unadvisedly misled by putting faith in false Copies such as have been lately and now are exposed to publick Sale in Graving and Printing Which when I had sufficiently considered I was much concerned what dishonourable reflections it might cast upon so many Worshipful Companies and Worthy Corporations and was troubled to think that those Loyal Societies who have so much Truth in their Hearts should have so much Error in their Arms and began to think of a Reformation which with much care and cost I obtained by the conveniency of surveying distinctly their ancient Patents wherein I found in what manner the several Kings of Arms had from time to time given them their Shields Charge Crests Supporters and Motto's which I forthwith Copied for some with the examination of Ancient Records for others and reduced them to truth and order in the exactness of Draught and curiosity of Sculpture So large that a judicious Eye with pleasure may behold them So true to the Rules of Dimension Proportion Correlation Position Posture and Symmetry that now they will endure the most curious examinations of the Nicest Criticks and consequently prove and continue authentick Copies for Futurity and also be a likely means to suppress and annihilate all those erroneous Draughts that have misguided the over-credulous Imitators And having with great Charge and Labour thus finisht this my Undertaking and knowing how much your Lordship and Ye his Brethren concern your selves in Advancing and Rewarding all Endeavours for the preservation of the Honour of this Famous City and the several Societies and Corporations thereof I cannot but promise my self that this my Work will be graciously received and entertained by such Indulgent Patrous and accordingly be esteemed and valued by the several Societies and Corporations to whom as I have hereby endeavoured to express my Zeal for their Service so I shall make it the business of my Life to approve my self Your Lordships and Worships Most Humble and Most Faithful Servant Richard Wallis The Preface HAving designed nothing to my self in this Work but the advancement of Truth and discouragement of Falshood and particularly with respect to those Worshipful Societies and Corporations that have too long suffered thereby in their Coats of Arms. I shall not use any artifice to gain the approbation of Generous Judgments Accurate Artists and Curious Disquisitors to whom I leave it to certifie their enquiries by comparison The turning over the leaves of this little Volume of Variety proves not only profitable to the Judicious Artists but also delightful to all those Persons of Qualitie who sometimes are pleased to advance Heraldry into the honour of their Recreations which indeed is a Contemplation full of pleasing diversities and agreable to every Noble and Generous Disposition being in substance the most refined part of Natural Philosophy while it assumeth also the principles of Geometry by putting into use almost every Square Angle and