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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

England until the time that this Realm was conquered by William Duke of Normandy who together with the state of Government a thing of common custome with absolute Conquerors did alter the before mentioned custome of testification of Deeds into sealing with wax whereupon the Norman custome of sealing of Deeds at length prevailed amongst us Insomuch that the before mentioned use of the Saxons therein was utterly abolished as witnesseth Ingulphus the Abbot of Crowland saying The Normans do change the making of writings which were wont to be firmed in England with crosses of gold and other holy signs into printing wax And they rejected also the manner of English writing This change was not effected all at once but took place by degrees so that first the King only and some few of his Nobility besides used to seal afterwards Noblemen for the most part and none others At this time also as Ioh. Ross. noteth they used to grave in their seals their own Pictures and Counterfeits covered with a long Coat over their Armours After this Gentlemen of the better sort took up this fashion and because they were not all warriors they made seals ingraven with their several Coats or Shields of Arms for difference sake as the same Author reporteth At length about the time of King Edward the third seals became very common so as not only those that bear Arms used to seal but other men also fashioned to themselves signets of their own devising some taking the letters of their own names some flowers some knots and flourishes and other beasts and birds or some other things as now we behold daily in use CHAP. VIII HAVING exemplified such bearings as are borrowed from the two Arts of nourishing and clothing our bodies the third place may justly be challenged by that Art which we call Armature whereby we are defended from all outward injuries either of foes or weather For by Armature we understand not only those things which appertain to Military Profession whereof we will speak in its proper place but also those defensive Sciences of Masonry and Carpentry and Metal works which do concurr to building and other necessary strengthening for protection of our weak Carkasses For house are mansions for our bodies as our bodies for our souls and the weakness of the one must be supplied by the strength of the other Escocheons of this kind are these which ensue as first for Masonry and Stone-work To this Head must be reduced all manner of Instruments that do pertain to the several Trades of Bricklaiers Plaisterers Paviers and such others whose work consisteth of Stone Lime or Mortar So much may suffice for Examples for Masonry Now we come to Carpentry as may appear by these next following Escocheons Under this Head must be comprehended all sorts of Instruments whereof there is use in Coat-Armours pertaining to the several Trades of Joyners Milwrights Cartwrights Turners Coopers c and whatsoever other Trades whose use consisteth and is exercised in working or framing of Timber Wainscot or any sort of Wood. And so from Tools of Masonry and Carpentry born in Coat-Armour we come to Instruments of metal-Metal-work the other Species of Armature whether the same be malleable and wrought by Hammer or Fusil and formed by fire Next will I speak of such as are formed of Fusible Metals so called à fundendo because they are liquid and poured forth into the mold wherein they are to be framed but one Example shall serve Hitherto I have only given Examples of the Instruments of the said Arts I will proceed to some Examples of the works and effects of the same CHAP. IX AMONGST the sundry works of the foresaid Artizans some are fixed and permanent as Buildings either prophane for ordinary use of dwelling or sacred as Temples for Gods service and some others are moveable as Tents c. Examples whereof we will now produce Castles and Towers are strengths and fences fortified most commonly on the tops of hills or other lofty or well-fenced places by nature as well for descrying of the Enemy afar off as for repulsing him upon his approach whereupon they are called in Latin Arces ab arcendo of keeping the Enemy aloof or repulsing and foiling him and do serve rather for a place of retreat for the timorous to lurk in than for the valorous to perform any noble feat of Martial activity in acording to Petrarch where he saith Arces scito non receptacula fortium sed inertium esse latibula The greatest valour is shewed in aperto Marte in the Champian field therefore the most valiant and resolute Generals and Commanders have evermore reckoned it a chief honour to grapple with the Enemy hand to hand and do reckon those Victories most honourable that are a●chieved with most prodigal effusion of blood as witnesseth the same Author saying Militia nisi largo sangu●ne magnisque periculis honestetur non militiae sed militaris ignaviae nomen tenet non Regum modo judicio sed vulgi Castles and Towers have proved many times very pernicious unto such as have reposed trust in their safety For there have been many that living out of Castles or Towers lived securely and free from danger who afterwards taking stomach to them upon a conceived safety in their strength became turbulent and betook them to their holds and have finally perished in them and so their adventurous temerity hath been there chastised or rather subdued where it took beginning The Lion is a magnanimous Beast and of an invincible courage and is not daunted with any occurrent neither being laid down will he be rowsed but at his pleasure as appeareth Gen. 49. 9. Iudah as a Lion's whelp shalt thou come up from the spoil my son He shall lie down and couch as a Lion and as a Lionness and who shall stir him Moreover of his incomparable strength and noble courage a certain Author saith Leo fortissimus Bestiarum ad nullius pavebit occursum The Lion the strongest of all Beasts feareth not the encounter of any After these buildings of prophane and vulgar use we should annex Examples of buildings sacred as Churches c. in stead whereof we will content our selves with these Examples following Pillars the Hieroglyphicks of Fortitude and Constancy were erected for divers ends and purposes Sometimes to limit out the bounds of the possessions of people that bordered one upon another Sometimes for memories of vows made as that which was erected by Iacob at Bethel Gen. 28. 18. Sometimes for Ornament as those of the Temple 1 Kings 7. 15. Sometimes for Testimonies of Covenants as that which was erected by Iacob for a memorial between him and Laban Gen. 31. 44 45. Sometimes for Monuments to extoll the valour worth and merits of well-deserving men as those that were decreed by the Senate and people of Rome to men of special desert and approved vertue Sometimes they were set up for preservation of Names of Families from oblivion of which sort

is that mentioned in 2 Sam. 18. 18. Now Absolom in his life time had taken and reared up for himself a Pillar which is in the King's dale for he said I have no son to keep my Name in remembrance and he called the Pillar after his own Name and it is called unto this day Absolom 's Pillar To these we will add one Example of a work moveable as in this next Escocheon Tabernacles or Tents were the chief habitation of our Fathers in the first Age of the World as we may see Gen. 12. 8. Such kind of habitations did best fit their uses for the often removing of their Seats to refresh their Cattel with change of Pastures sometimes at hand and otherwhiles in places remote which they could not commodiously do if they had been still commorant in solid and settled buildings Such is the manner of the Tartarians at this day they have no Cities Towns or Villages to inhabit but the open and Champian fields in Tents after the manner of the ancient Scythians because they are in manner all Herdsmen In the Winter season they plant themselves in the Plains and Valleys and in the Summer they live in mountainous places where they may find the rankest and best Pasture Of this sort are the Ships and Boats hereafter to be handled and all other navigable Vessels in respect that during the time that men do undergo any voyage they are to them a kind of Domestical habitation Now proceed we to Examples of buildings ordained for sacred use whereof in these immediately ensuing Because we have here spoken of Buildings and Houses it will not be much amiss to add hereunto such Escocheons as are derived from Instruments of Houshold use such are these ensuing These and such other Utensils do serve as well for Ornament as Necessity whereas others there are which serve for necessity only as in Example Now in respect we are in hand to speak of Hospitality it shall not be amiss to give some little touch by the way of the bountiful hospitality of Kings in former Ages whereof I find King Solomon to be the most famous president for his daily expences that I read of wherein he exceeded all others that preceded or succeeded him as we may see 1 Kings 4. 22. where it is said And Solomon 's victuals for one day were thirty measures of fine flour and sixty measures of meal ten fat Oxen and twenty Oxen of the Pastures and one hundred Sheep beside Harts Robucks and fallow Deer and fatted Fowl From King Solomon's House-keeping descend we now to the Hospitality of the ancient Kings of this Land I find in an ancient Manuscript that King Lud commanded his houshold Officers to have in daily custome to cover the Tables in the Hall from seven of the clock in the morning till seven in the evening His daily Diet was not much in rare and delicate Viands but that he kept it constantly with all good Cates as could be gotten and at the four great Feasts he caused Proclamations to be made in all Countries for all manner of people to come thither Moreover the same Author maketh mention of a very memorable and most royal Feast that Cassibelane made upon his second Triumph over the Roman Emperour And forasmuch as it is a chief point to be observed of him that shall cite Authority for any thing that he writeth or speaketh of to use the express words of his Author which he voucheth I will therefore deliver it as he himself relateth the same Domus Regis Cassibelani standeth for a special note which after his second triumph upon the Emperour gave out his Royal Commandments to all the Gentiles in Britany to come with their Wives to magnifie his Feast For which he slew forty thousand Kine and Oxen one hundred thousand Sheep thirthy thousand Deer and other wild Beasts of the Wood besides the divers kinds of Pulline Coneys wild Fowl and tame of Sea and Land with much other purveyance of victual with many disguisings plays minstrelsie and sports We read of a certain Church dedicated to Venus wherein was a Lamp that burnt continually and never went out but still gave light yet was not maintained with any kind of Oyl or other fatty matter or substance and this was holden for a special miraculous thing yet might the same be performed by some other natural means as with a certain kind of stone that is found in Arcadia and is called Asbestus which is said to be of that nature that being once kindled and set on fire doth never extinguish or go out neither is it thereby consumed or wasted Zan. lib. 4. de potent daemon chap. 12. pag. 255. There are doubtless both in herbs and stones admirable vertues not manifest whereby strange and unwonted effects may be wrought Therefore men being ignorant of the efficacy and forcible vertues of things natural and apprehending only their effects by sight do forthwith conceive that there is wrought some strange or great miracle whereas indeed it is nothing less but a matter proceeding meerly from some natural cause Besides these aforesaid there are sundry other Instruments of houshold use as Mortars Gridirons c. which we leave to observation And to this may be referred Candles Torches c. The great Turk Solimannus gave four Candles for his Device one burning the other three extinct to signifie that other Religions were nothing light in respect of his or that the other parts of the world should lose their beauty by the brightness of his glory Endless is the swift passage of time which we shall better discern if we look backwards to the times that have already over-slipped us The best means we can devise to bridle time is to be evermore well exercised in some honest vertuous and laudable work so shall it not escape us fruitlesly according to that saying of Petrarch Virtute industria bonarumque artium studiis fraenari possunt tempora non quia fugiant sed ne pereant So shall we be sure to carry a hand over time and not time over us so shall we if not clip his wings that he glide not from us yet so attach him that he shall not so pass us but that we shall make some good use of him that he pass us not unprofitably Time slippeth from us suddenly and out-strippeth us which only we ought greedily to seize upon and in no case barter or exchange the same for any costly price or reward Let us though late yet not too late begin to love and hold time in estimation which only a man may lawfully and honestly covet Let us bethink our selves of the shortness of our time and our own frailty and endeavour our selves to make good use thereof and let us not then as Seneca admonisheth us begin to live when life begins to leave us To this place are Clocks Watches and such like Instruments representing the swift incessant motion of time to be referred wherein we may observe