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A85770	A display of heraldrie: manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge thereof then hath hitherto been published by any, through the benefit of method; / wherein it is now reduced by the study and industry of John Guillim ... Interlaced with much variety of history suitable to the severall occasions or subjects.	Guillim, John, 1565-1621.; Nower, Francis, d. 1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing G2219A; ESTC R177735	251,394	243

to the Sovereigne power amongst many regall immunities to that supreme jurisdiction peculiarly belonging and to none others Neverthelesse we read that Monarchicall Kings and Soveraigne States imparted this prerogative or preheminence unto others their inferiours upon speciall acceptable service done or for whatsoever private respect as we may see 1 Maccab. 15.6 Where amongst many other preheminences granted by Antiochus the sonne of Demetrius to Simon the high Priest which had been formerly granted to him by the predecessors of Antiochus he enableth him to coine money saying I give thee leave to coine money of thine own Stampe within thy country To this head must be reduced all other sorts of Bullion or Coine and whatsoever else pertaineth to Traffick or commerce By this open Purse we may understand a man of a charitable disposition and a franke and liberall Steward of the blessings which God hath bestowed upon him for the relief of the needy Of such an one S. Herome hath this saying Non memini me legisse mala morte mortuum qui libenter opera charitatis exercuit habet enim multos intercessores impossibile est multorum preces non exaudiri Though the Shooe be an habit serving for the foot which is the most inferiour part of mans body yet is it not therefore to be contemned forasmuch as it is a note of progression and very behovefull for Travellers In the Scriptures it is often taken for expedition as Psal 60. In Idumeam extendam calceamentum meum And proceeding to Idumea I will cast my Shooe over it It was an ancient custom amongst the Israelites in transferring of possessions for him that departed therewith to pluck off his Shooe and to deliver the same to his neighbour as now it is with us to passe livery and Seizin of Inheritance by the delivery of a Turffe and Sprigs taken off the ground and delivering the same to the purchaser As appeareth in the book of Ruth where it is said Now this was the manner before time in Israel concerning redeeming and changing for to stablish all things A man did pluck off his Shooe and gave it to his neighbour and this was a sure witnesse By which Ceremony he publickly acknowledged that he had transferred and put over his whole right unto the purchasor Ruth 4.7 8 9. But in after ages it seemeth the Jewes passed inheritances by Charters sealed and testified by witnesses a custom of use with us at this day at the Common Law as appeareth in the Prophesie of Jeremiah Men shall buy fields for silver and make writings and seal them and take witnesses in the Land of Benjamin and round about Jerusalem c. 3● 44 And again Jer. 32.25 And thou hast said unto me O Lord God buy unto thee a field for silver and take witnesses And I bought the field of Hananeel my Vncles son that was in Anathoth and weighed him the mony even seventeen Sheckles of silver and I subscribed the Evidence and sealed it and took witnesses and weighed him the mony in the ballances c. Now sithence I am casually fallen upon this argument of sealing of Deeds I hold it not amisse to give some little touch by the way of the first coming in of this custom of Sealing in this our Nation which is now of so frequent use amongst us First it is to be observed that our Ancestors the Saxons had not the same in use for they used onely to subscribe their names commonly adding the signe of the Crosse And I need not to prove the same by the testimony of divers witnesses for this custom continued here in England untill the time that this Realm was conquered by William Duke of Normandy who together with the state of government a thing of commom custom with absolute Conquerours did alter the before mentioned custom of testification of deeds into sealing with waxe whereupon the Norman custom 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 signes into printing waxe 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 onely and some few of his nobility besides used to Seal Afterwards Noblemen for the most part and none others At this time also as Joh. 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 Warriours they made seales ingraven with their severall Coats or Shields of Armes for difference sake as the same Author reporteth At length about the time of King Edward the third Seales became very common so as not onely those that beare Armes used to Seal but other men also fashioned to themselves Signets of their owne devising Some taking the letters of their owne names some Flowers some Knots and flourishes and other Beasts and Birds or some other things as now we behold dayly in use SECT IV. CHAP. VIII HAving exemplified such bearings as are borrowed from the two Arts of nourishing and Cloathing our Bodies the third place may justly be challenged by that Art which we call Armature What understood by Armature whereby we are defended from all outward injuries either of Foes or Weather for by Armature we understand not onely those things which appertaine to Military profession where of we will speake in it's proper place but also those defensive Sciences of Masonry and Carpentry and Metall works which doe concurre to building and other necessary strenghtning for protection of our weak Carcases For houses are mansions for our Bodies as our bodies for our Soules and the weaknesse of the one must be supplyed by the strength of the other Escocheons of this kinde are these which ensue as first for Masonry and Stone-work Reference To this head must be reduced all manner of Instruments that do pertain to the severall Trades of Bricklayers Plaisterers Pavyers and such others whose worke consisteth of Stone Lime or Morter 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 severall trades of Joyners Milwrights Cartwrights Turners Cowpers c. Reference and whatsoever other Trades whose use consisteth and is exercised in working or framing of ●imber Wainscot or any sort of Wood. And so from Tooles of Masonry and Carpentry borne 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 speake of

never went out but still gave light yet was not maintained with any kind of Oyle or other fatty matter or substance and this was holden for a speciall miraculous thing yet might the same be performed by some other naturall means as with a certain kind of stone that is found in Arcadia and is called Asphestus 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 doubtlesse both in herbs and stones admirable virtues not manifest whereby strange and unwonted effects may be wrought Therefore men being ignorant of the efficacy and forcible vertues of things naturall and apprehending only their effects by sight do forth with conceive that there is wrought some strange or great miracle whereas indeed it is nothing lesse but a matter proceeding meerly from some naturall 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 Turke Solimannus gave foure 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 brightnesse of his glory Endlesse is the swift passage of time which we shall better discerne if we looke backwards to the times that have already overslipped us The best meanes we can devise to bridle time is to be evermore well exercised in some honest vertuous and laudable worke so shall it not escape us fruitlessely acording to that saying of Petrarch Virtute industria bonarumque artium studijs 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 clippe his wings that he glide not from us yet shall we so attach him that he shall not so passe us but that we shall make some good use of him that he passe us not unprofitably Time slippeth from us suddenly and outstrippeth us which onely 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 onely a man may lawfully and honestly covet Let us bethink our selves of the shortnesse 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 that every wheele therein is moved by some other of more swift motion than it selfe hath whereby is verified this saying Quilibet motus mensuratur per velociorem motum seipso SECT IV. CHAP. X. The Art of Armature NExt to Armature with the appendices thereof succeedeth Navigation whereunto pertain all sorts of Ships and Boats with their severall parts their Huls Stem Sterne Masts Tops Tacklings Sailes Oares Cables Anchors c. Whereof divers are borne in Coat-armour as shall by these next examples partly appear He is second son to Nathaniel Terne of much Wenlock in the County of Salop lately deceased and of Sarah Daughter and Coheir to Edmund Hill of the Court of Hill in Tenbury in the same County by whom he had also issue William eldest son Henry third son Nathaniel deceased SECT IV. CHAP. XI THE last of the aforesaid Arts we reckoned to be Venation which Plato divideth into three Species Hunting Hawking and Fishing all which because they tend to the providing of sustenance for man Farnesius doth therefore account a Species of Agriculture The dangerous chases of the Bear the wild Boare Bull c. whether the same be performed on horse-back or on foot hath a resemblance of Military practise for it maketh a man provident in assaulting as also valorous in sustaining the brunt of the enemy it maketh them politick for choice of places of advantage and enableth them to tolerate hunger thirst labour stormes tempests c. all which are most requisite for such as do professe a military course of life What valorous commanders those men have proved that have been trained up in the Art of Hunting when they have come to the administration and managing of Martiall Affaires the Persians can sufficiently witnesse unto us who had no better means to become expert Souldiers than their dayly exercise of Hunting As also the History of Mithridates King of Pontus who was so much transported with the love of Hunting as that according to Farnesius by the space of seven years he took not the benefit of any house either in City or Country to lye in by means whereof he so enabled and enured his body to sustain all hardnesse that afterward he became a scourge and terrour to the Romans And therefore this noble kind of Venation is priviledged from the title of an Illiberal Art being a Princely and Generous Exercise The priviledge of Venation but those onely who use it for a trade of life to make gain thereof are to be marshalled in the rank of Mechanicks and Illiberal Artizans As touching the number of examples of things pertaining to this noble exercise of Hunting proposed for the first Species of Venation I purpose to be very brief not in respect of their scarcity but because of the manifold imployments of the workman for the present that he is not able to furnish me with more And having ended with them I will proceed according to order with the other two Species of Venation viz. Hawking and Fishing The Skill of Fishing is diversly exercised viz. sometimes with Nets sometimes with Hooks other whiles with Sammon-spears or Eele-spears and sometimes with Ginnes with Puttes Weeles c. all which are found borne in Coat-armour now first of Nets These are most usually borne in Armes piece-meal or in fragments which are the same if I be not deceived which we call in Blazon Frets because the Frenchmen call a Net Retz and we by intermixture of Language have added thereunto the letter F. These fragments are sometimes borne single and other-whiles manifold as appeareth by these next examples There is also borne Gules eight Losenges Argent 4.3.1 by the name of Preston SECT IV. CHAP. XII ARTS Mechanicall of more necessary use for the nourishing and preserving of Mans body we have proposed in the preceding examples there yet rest other Arts of a second rank which tend rather to the embellishing and beautifying of Natures works than to the necessary supply of humane uses yea some of them such as are rather boites to please the senses than means to further mans good Yet because the custom