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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

Pandarus wherehence The blood of Menelaus down to the Calves and Ancles to the Ground For nothing decks a Souldier so as doth an honour'd wound The Shield of Walmesley seems to have a reference to that Minerva it being Gules on a Chief Ermine two Heurts these Blue Balls being as it were the eyes of Minerva for these whose eyes are of this kind of Aereal Colour Tanquam Minervae filii are said to be most ingenious Unde Minerva Glaucopis dicatur Hence it is that the Owl is dedicated to her and signifieth prudent men Wisdome saith Ego rotunditatem Coelorum circumivi sola Ecles 24. Et in profunditatem Abyssorum ambulavi in fluctibus maris in tota terra Marcus Agrippa was honoured with an Azure Banner from Augustus after a Victory obtained by him in the Sicilian Sea Again if you consider the Martial Field she comes forth armed with a Crystal Shield for God having made man unarmed gave him therefore a perspicuous understanding and reason to arm himself the Chief representing the most superiour part of Man the natural power of the inferiour Air being nothing else but Vita vaporis which if we follow the common Path by this Line separating it from the starry Heaven we may find that the Shield as well as the Air hath three Regions whereof the highest is exceeding hot fitly represented by the Chief indented by reason of its Vicinitude to the fiery Element and Stars by the force of whose Beam it receiveth heat and so being charged upon may signifie one whose active heat hath kindled his undertakings The second or middle Region which is always cold is fitly represented by the Nebule or waved Line for that as that Region of its own nature would be warmer were it not cooled by a cold Occasion by the reflection of the Sun Beams So this may aptly signifie a Person whose fortune frowns and keeps him under though IN ANGVSTIIS ELEVATVR The lower Region is something contrary to the former for it is said to be hot and moist fitly represented by the ingrailed Line hot by reason of the Sun Beams meeting with the Earth and moist by reason of the proper Nature of the Air being partly indented and partly waved And thus very fitly by these Elementary Qualities are signified men of different Qualities and by each of these Charges is signified mens several Talents all Meteors being of three sorts either fiery watery or airy to which Lines are suited in the SPHERE of GENTRY and are of several fashions according to diverse disposing of the Matter so the reward was always suited to the Bearer The Heralds made the people peace the Seniors then did bear The voiceful Heralds scepters sate within a sacred Sphere On polish'd stones and gave by turns their sentence in the Court Two Talents Gold were given to him that judged in justest sort So that here is the just Law of Arms in the Court of Honour having a Peny of Plate for the just Plaintiff and a Bezant of Gold for the just Judge polished Stones Torteauxes Heurts Pomises and Gunstons for in the Shield of Achilles there was two Cities that of Political Nobility and that of Martial Ornament bestowing Military Rewards on Military Persons and honourable Robes on Persons of civil Endowments Princes and Nobles bearing Ermine as Ensigns of Magistracy and Ornaments of Entertainments and Globes and Mounds as Signs of Government and Conquest The one did Nuptial celebrate Observing at them solemn Feasts Other where A solemn Court of Law was kept where throngs of people werr The Question was a Fiue imposed on one that slew The Friend of him that followed it and for the Fine did sue Whieh tother pleaded he had paid the adverse part deny'd And openly affirm'd he had no penny satisfi'd Volvuntur nec fas una est consistere parte Ut coepit cursus verum est pars cuilibet aequae And see Queis sunt humanum terrestria curae The Naturalist doth attribute to the Second Days Work the appearances of many Suns and fiery Pillars and Beams and Rainbows c. But because they are effects of the fourth Days Work I shall refer them thither onely by the way note this as of the Chief as of a chief Commander It representeth Dignity ELEVOR UT FULGEAM If there be an Augmentation in Chief the Sun draws up the Cloud QUIA RESPEXIT and if it breaks forth into Beams DISSOLVAR UT SOLVAM If the Field or Chief be enlightened by Sun or Star 't is by grace and favour SPLENDOR EX ME. If with Roundles it representeth innocence IN ALTIS HABITAT those of the pure Element of Fire representing generosity OPES NON ANIMUM for the noble mind is like the Snow Ball DUM AGITUR AUGETUR And to bear Plates or Bezants is the two marks which Machivel propounds viz. Riches and Glory which as Sir Walter Raleigh saith Whoever will shoot at must set on and take off an iron Back to a weak woodden Bow that it may fit both the strong and the feeble for the weak in counsel have often as good success as those of the best judgement as may be seen by the judgement of Paris which gave the golden Ball to Venus rather then Pallas So that though Honour and Riches differ in themselves yet round Forms are attributed to Wisdome and Fortune whereof Athenaeus From Wisdome Fortune differs far And yet in works most like they are Proportion attracting the eyes and Colour delighting the Fancy the Metal giving the lively motion by its bright eye and the Line the orderly disposition of every good Coat and where the Charge hath a suitable invention it both allures the mind and charms the senses of the Bearer to do nought but noble Conclusion of this Chapter To the Honourable Sir Orlando Bridgman Knight and Baronet Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas c. Honour'd Sir BEtween Knights and Doctors of the Law hath ever been Question for Precedency since either of them hath been in credit in Commonweals as testifieth that learned Knight and Doctor of the Civil Law Sir Thomas Ridley as may appear both by the comparison that Tully maketh between Lucius Murena a Knight of Rome and Publius Sulpitius a Lawyer either of them standing for the Consulship which although it be disputable in foreign Countreys where the Civil Law is in credit yet here among us where all preferments taken from it and the Professors thereof are shut up as it were into a narrow Corner of their Profession it is without controversie and the Prioity thereof indubitable But this is the Resolution of those which are learned in the Point that in such Acts as concern Learning a Doctor is to be preferred before a Knight but in Acts that concern Military Knowledge a Knight takes place before a Doctor But in other Acts that are neither proper to the one nor to the other first are preferred such Doctors as attend about the Prince Secondly such Knights

of Deucalion and though perhaps you may say as once an Eminent King of Arms said That these are pleasant Vanities yet it plainly demonstrateth that as men gave names to Towns and Cities so they gave names to men and so become reciprocal for I do this but onely to hint at some reason of the Bearing which every one desires to hear of Lines being promiscuously drawn and to the vulgar seem nothing without a charge or Bearing thereupon Lamprides in the life of Alexander Severus saith That he gave such Lands as he won out of the Enemies hands to his Lords Marchers and his Souldiers that they should be theirs and their Heirs for ever so they would be Souldiers neither should they come at any time into the hands of any private person saying They would more lustily serve if they fought for their own land which opinion cometh next to the ancient Border'd Grou●d among the Romans This manner of dividing the Field by halfs or quarters or by Lines direct cross overthwart or such other declareth how Art must follow Nature of that which it dorh figure and not otherwise What reason can be given why the three Brothers of Warren Gourney and Mortimer should every one bear a severall Coat and derive their Sirnames to posterity all of them yet retaining the Metal and Colour of OR and AZURE the one Checky the other Pally and the other Barry But chiefly for distinction as Aristotle noteth Formam esse qua res ab alia differt these being as it were several dissections of Jupiter's Brain by the Man Midwife though these divisions also might have an eye to the Heroes of Old Helms of high proof the Work and Shields compleat With Sallow wrought Checky being wrought on their Shields by the weaving of Sallow to corroborate and strengthen them Earl Warren had Checky in his Field Again Sir Ancell Gourney who was at the winning of Acome with King Richard the First where he took Prisoner the King of the Moors bare Pally of fix pieces OR and Azure and in remembrance of his so noble Atchievement he bare the said King armed in Mail rendring up of his sword and parted in the Girdle-place counterchanged was given by Sir Richard Gourney late Lord Mayor of London This claps on Mail which finest gold did guild Then takes his faithfull sword and solid Shield Great stately Transomes stood a lofty Tower Of great defence ' gainst this with all their power Th' Italians draw this work to overthrow Became the whole endeavour of the foe Argent a Chief Azure VERTETUR IN DIEM the Azure being of the nature of the Light RECTA DIFFUNDITUR and is the Colour of Justice therefore attributed to Jupiter Sometimes the Chief is Nobile to shew the benefits we receive from above Tum Pater Omnipotens c. Almighty Aether in a fatning showre Dropt in the lap of his sweet Spouse Ornari res ipsa negat contenta doceri Now what I have said concerning all the Fields before going are said to be parted but cannot properly be said to be charged because there is neither Metal nor Colour predominant But when these Lines limit a space above the Field they do constitute certain Charges or Honourable Ordinaries which I come next to treat of as the Nexus Materiae cum forma But when these Divisions are charged with any thing of Sovereignty it denotes high merit from the Prince and are called augmentation of Honour though it take from the first Bearing Frederick the Fourth Emperour of Germany giving to Laurence Hutton of Hutton John in Westmorland a Canton charged with a Falchion in Bend Proper as a parcel of the Arms of Soliman the Second for that in the Wars of Hungary he had won in the Field the Standard of the said Solyman joyned to his own Arms which was Gules a Fesse OR between three Cushions Argent tassled gold and charged with three Flower-de-luces and to his Crest parcel of the Imperial Arms viz. On a Wreath Gold and Azure two Eagles heads and necks in Saltire couped Sable issuing through a Coronet gold and were by especial favour declared to be added to his own Coat Cushions signifying rest and repose By what hath been said that God did in the beginning cause a double property in one Essence whereby the one was potential and no wayes yet Enacted by the brightness of his Emanation and in that respect is termed Darkness Privation Voluntity opposite to Light and a friend to Death and rest and the other was actual and pure Brightness which is termed Light Position and Voluntity a friend to Life and Action So that Matter without the third Vnity of the informed Light could not be endued with the title of Goodness nor can the Matter of Arms be good till it shall be able to undergo all the Changes and Alterations that the active Form of the Metals and Lines can put upon it whereof upon it the plain Line is like the first shadow and the curved like the second as that Umbra prima est absentia primae lucis secunda secundae sic deinceps Conclusion of this Chapter To Sir Henry Blunt of Tettenhanger in the County of Hartford Knight SIR The Nebule Line in your Coat hath already inroll'd you in the House of Fame your Travels having made you far famous have lifted your Head above the Clouds Nevertheless what is now mounted in the Air was at first in Plano viz. Lozengy OR and Sable as Matter and Form compounded together for the Honour of so good a House and is removed from its first Simplicity for the distinction of a numerous Progeny the Field you bear shews your Ancestours were men of high Agitations CHAP. III. Of the Matter and Form of Coat Armour conjunct in the Honourable Ordinaries Rex Solium Doctor Cathedram Judexque Tribunal Possidet ac Sedem Praesul Praetorque Curale The Military man onely being girt in a standing posture and in the Heroical Age it was of great esteem as may principally be seen in Homer Qui Atridarum Balthea aurea facit Hectoris puniceum Diomedis discolorem it being a reward for great Warriours and Military Captains in which sense Joab had a reward of ten Shekels and an Arming Belt The Augmentation Coat born by Pelham was in memory of the disarming his Enemy in the Field when he cut the Belt off and took him Prisoner retaining the Buckles on it In like manner West as a cognizance of his Valour continues to wear the Chape of the Sword Aulica quippe Comes rexi patrimonia clarus Et me a patricio fulserunt Cingula cultu It is rewarded with sovereign Ensigns in the Coat of some of the Earls of Worcester in testimony of their Extraction from Henry Beauford Duke of Somerset Great Granchild of John so named of Beauford in France who was Son of John of Gaunt It consisteth of the third part of the Field and is as it were the path to Virtue TRAMITE