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The elements of armories
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Bolton, Edmund, 1575?-1633?
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1610
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THE ELEMENTS OF ARMORIES AT LONDON Printed by GEORGE ELD 1610. C. SALLVSTIVS CRISPVS Verumenimuerò is demùm mihi viuere et frui animâ videtur qui aliquo negotio intentus praeclari facinoris aut ARTIS BONAE famam quaerit TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE HENRIE EARLE OF NORTHAMPTON BARON HOWARD OF MARNHILL LORD PRIVIE SEALT LORD WARDEN OF THE CINQVE FORTS ONE OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS FOR THE EARLE-MARSHALSHIP OF ENGLAND KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER VVORTHIE OF ALL THE HONORS DVE TO HIGH VVISDOME VIRTVE AND LEARNING HIS MOST HONORED GOOD LORD E. B. VVILLINGLIE HVMBLIE AND DESERVEDLIE DEDICATETH THESE HIS ELEMENTS OF ARMORIES The Opinions and Offices of sundry choyce and quallified Gentlemen friendes to the Author touching these his ELEMENTS of ARMORIES A Letter to the Author from the worthy WILLIAM SEGAR Esquire GARTER principall King of Armes SYR I haue viewed your Elementary Booke of Armories and in my poore iudgment doe approue the same no lesse singular for the deuice then generall for the matter and absolutely the best of any in that kind Your labours deserue encouragements by how much they are written freely and ingeniously and may be called as well the ALIMENTS as the ELEMENTS of ARMORIES for that they nourish the mind of the Reader with a profitable and pleasing satiety of excellent matter Finis coronat opus Your good Wine needs no Garland Yet because it was your pleasure I should deliuer you mine opinion thereof I haue aduentured to say thus much And with the same recommend my loue vnto you 14. April 1610. Your louing friend WILLIAM SEGAR GARTER A Letter to the Author from the excellently learned in our Antiquities and in all other humane literature WILLIAM CAMDEN Esquire CLARENCEVX King of Armes SYR whereas your desire is that I should deliuer my full opinion of your Booke which you lately sent and submitted to my censure I assure you if my iudgement be any which I acknowledge to bee very little you haue with that iudicious learning insight handled ARMORIE the subiect of my profession that I cannot but approue it as both learnedly and diligently discouered from his first cradle And could not but allow it if I were Censor librorum publicâ authoritate constitutus as you know I am not Pardon me that I am so breefe for neyther my head nor my hand can as yet performe that which they should and would vntill the Almighty shall restore me to former health to whose protection I commend you and yours resting 11. Iune 1609. Your louing friend WILLIAM CAMDEN CLARENCEVX A LETTER TO THE AVTHOR FROM HIS LATE DEARE FRIEND the Graue and Courtly THOMAS BEDINGFIELD Esquire late Maister of his Maiesties Tents and Toilz c. deceased SYR your ELEMENTS of ARMORIES I haue seene but censure them I dare not Blinde eyes can iudge no colours and ignorance may not meddle with excellent conceit This only I will admire your Work wish you to proceed If you permit these discourses to wander abroad they shall meet with more men to maruail then vnderstand them That is the worst I returned them in haste fearing to foule the paper or iniury the Inck. From Clerckenwel 27. Mar. 1609. Your very louing friend THOMAS BEDINGFIELD Postscr SYR if you adde or write more I pray you make me a partaker I say with PETRARK Stanco non satio mai A LETTER TO THE AVTHOR from the learned young Gentleman I. B. of Grace-dieu in the County of LEICESTER Esquier SYR I haue here with many thanks returned to you your profound discourse of the ELEMENTS of ARMORIES which I haue read ouer with great profit delight for I confesse that till now I neuer saw any thing in this kind worthy the entertainment of a studious mind wherin you haue most commendably shewed your skill finding out rare and vnknowne beauties in an Art whose highest perfection the meanest wits if they could blazon and repeat Pedigrees durst heretofore but shall not now challenge Our sight which of all senses wee hold y e dearest you haue made more precious vnto vs by teaching vs the excellent proportions of our visible obiects In performance wherof as you haue followed none so haue you left it at a rash and desperate aduenture for any to follow you For he that only considers your choice copie of matter without forcing will find it an hard talk to equall your Inuention not to speake of your iudiciall Method wherin you haue made your Workmanship excell your Subiect though it bee most worthy of all ingenuous industry Beleeue me SYR in a word I cannot but highly admire your attempt so wel performed and among many others will be an earnest furtherer of that benefit which this dull age of ours in this our country carelesse of al but gainful Arts claimeth at your hands In which hope I rest 29. Nouemb. 1609. Your most louing friend IOHN BEAVMONT H. C. To the Gentleman Reader IF thou desire to knowe the reason why Thou doo'st in Sheild the Armes of honour bear This Booke will say that they by nature were The HIEROGLYPHICKS of Nobility It shewes beside how Art doth beautifie What Nature doth inspire and how each-where All Arts conion'd in this Art do appeare By structure of a choyce Phylosophie GEOMETRIE giues Lines in ordred Place Numbers ARITHMETICK and thou may'st see How all in OPTICK Colours honour thee But since that Virtue which adorn'd the race From whence thou did'st descend was ground of al Haue care to follow it or all will fall M r. HVGH HOLLAND To his learned friend M r. E. B. the Author vpon his ELEMENTS of ARMORIE'S MY maister CAMDEN sacred King of Armes Who bounds with heau'n aswell as sea our soile So prosed and so praised hath thy toyle As here no need is of my sorry charmes To boast it though my braines APOLLO warmes Where like in IOVE'S MINERVA keeps a coile Yet I a Drone shall but thy Hony spoile Thou art the Maister BE of all the swarmes Deepe is his iudgement spatious is his witte And high his fame that can in Armes enfold VVhat eyther Sea or Land or Heauen hold Philosophers are in a greeuous fitte To see whil'st Enuy doth with Reason Storme New ELEMENTS new MATTER and new FORM. Another of the same by Apostrophe to PHOEBVS finishing in a symbolicall allusion to the most noble Earle of NORTHHAMPTON ON bolt on PHOEBVS spend thy golden Shafts And guild these Papers with thy glorious rayes Crown euery leaf with leaues of flowring Bayes And crown the Author with thy laurell grafts They treat the mystical'st of generous Crafts That shewes what Arms were born in Antique daies By whom where why and how many wayes On Sheilds and blades not set in dugeon haftes Thou MINERVA grace them in the sight Of that great Lord whose iudgment they rely on For as no Eye dare face thy glorious light VVhen as Thou reignest in the golden Lion So dare no Curre