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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

RECTA It is also the especial Ornament of Knighthood Unde Militari Cingulo decorare dicitur pro Militem facere And as Sir Henry Spelman noteth further Tribunorum enim Baltheis conscriptus fuit Militum numerus qui sub ipsis stipendium merebant in which sense also the Scripture speaks of St. Peter's military Girdle When thou wert young thou girdest thy self and went whereever thou wouldest So that to girt is a Tyron or Prentice to Arms and in imitation of his Lord in the Holy War he carried nothing in his Girdle Mat. 10. Neque aurum neque Argentum being nor onely with St. Paul ready to be bound but to die Also hence it is that so many have assumed the Fesse ut accinguntur omnes operi So that the Fesse is quasi fasciatus Girt to the holy Land First Kings proceed and Captains follow then Dr. Fuller on Frontie-piece The Helmet waits upon the Diadem The great House of Austria beareth Gules a Fesse Argent in memory of the Valour of Leopoldus at the Siege of Ptolemais who fought so long in the assaulting of that City till his Armour was all over gore-blood save the place that was covered with his Belt and so left his old Arms which were Six golden Larks having this Coat assigned him by the Emperour in the year 1191. Gore also bears the Field all over Gore Blood accompanied with this Military Girdle between three Croslets Fitched in memory of the like enterprize Gules a Fesse OR representing martial Honour which is represented by Gold that Honourable Metal which while it is tried NON LAEDITUR SED PROBATUR Me cinctus Lauro perducit ad astra triumphus Sil. Ital. Argent a Fesse Gules represents MENTEM ET CARNEM The Fesse Cotissed signifieth correspondency STRINGIMVS DVM STRINGIMVR It is so Noble an Ordinary that it represents both Nations Tribes and Families becoming good Armory for the plainness thereof For when the Tribes are fighting all alone Grantham's Translation of Homer lib. 3. You 'l then d scern the valour of each one And though the Bend seems to have a degree above the Fesse it being more raised up and esteemed as it is the Symbole of Victory yet they seem to have VNA VTRIQVE ANIMA with this difference onely the Bende is accounted as the Scarf and the Fesse as the Girdle both of them Military rewards but differing in Position and is often charged by Atchievements For since I follow Mars my warl●ke Stars bestow Besides those Darts Helms and Bost Targetss Croslets from the Foe Yet let not him that putteth on his Armour boast like him that putteth it off for the Fesse is a preparation to Battail the Band or Belt the token of Victory in which sense our Lord and Saviour after his Triumph over the World Rev. cap. 13. Sin and Death is said to wear a Golden Belt about his Papps whereas the Girdle was worn about the middle as Sir Henry Spelman observeth Nam haec sub vestimentorum appellatione venit ille inter arma censetur Zonam perdere is an argument of Poverty and Captivity to be ungirt is to be unblessed Ibit eo quo vis qui Zonam perdidit inquit It seemeth to be loosned in the Coat-Armour of Masham who beareth it Humit in token of leading Captive Josephus in his Antiquity of the Jews speaking of the Girdle of the High Priest saith Zonae circulus significat Oceanum qui utique cuncta suo Limbo circumdat The waved Fesse is agreeable to what I spoke before of the Bearing in Sir Francis Drake's Coat Casaneus saith concerning the Girdle of the High Priest that it represents the four Elements in Colours and that Fesse that is Black argues it to be the Canonical part of the Panoplia or compleat Armour of a Christian the Girdle of Verity It signifies also Virginity from whence the proverb Zonam solvere is used for the loss of Virginity Argent a Fesse Sable is like worldly felicity LV MINE ET VMBRA Gules a Fesse Argenr denotes Virginity VIRET IN ARIDO Red and White is Beauties chief Ornament as well in the Fesse as in the Face therefore those that are without fear or shame are said to be impudent ALBI ET PUDICI NESCIUS All Colours taking to invite But modest Red and spotless White For in the bearing of Arms Propria patria videtur major praestantior Barrs saith Sir Henry Spelman denoteth strength and fortitude Viros summos designat qui vel armis vel consiliis tutantur Rempublicam An eminent Example whereof may be seen in the Coat of Farfax whose Coat at first was Argent a Cheveron between three Hinds heads erased proper denoting their Forestership at Ainestdy hence all Coats by the Names of Porster that have either Deer or Broad-arrow heads or Bugle horns denote it to be a Guardian or Forester But Sir Guy Farfax of Stetton the Kings Serjeant at Law Judge of the Kings Bench was the first as bore the Black Lion over three Barrs in the time of Edward the Fourth altering it a little after to Barrs Gemelle or broken with the Lion over all to signifie the liberty of the Subject which was strongly asserted by the two Judges Father and Son and recovered from strong hands by their means and to the said Sir Guy for his wisdome sake was referred the Title of the Crown betwixt the two Houses of York and Lancaster as testifieth the Right Honourable the Earl of Mulgrave in which respect also it is supposed that the White Rose anciently on the shoulder of the Lion was a testimony of his fidelity to the House of York The Black Lion saith Ferne as his Colour cannot be changed signifieth Constancy Gravity and Courage and joined with the Bars Wisdome Policy and Providence to stop the Devices and Practises of the Enemy Lacie 's Nobil pag. 31 84. The silver Field is an allusion to the Name of Farfax which in the English Saxon Orthography was as much as Fairlocks were so denominated A pulchro Capillitio Juno saith Cambden When Pallas was sent from Heaven by the white-wristed Queen to asswage the wrath of Achilles against Agamemnon Achilles by the Yellow Curls she took Standing behind him onely gave a look The worthy Family of Barret of Aveley in the County of Essex beareth in allusion to their Name the Field Argent two Barrs Gules per Pale counterchanged and so opposing vim vi for counterchanged seems to allude to the Shield of Minerva that astonished the Beholders Daughter of Jove which doth his Buckler bear Grantham 's Translat of Hom. l. 1. Tell me why thou descendest from thy Sphere By the two Barrs Gules is signified the force of War Two Gates there be stil'd the Ports of War Ogleby's Virgil. l. 7. Sacred to Mars with reverential fear Barry representing Strength Security and Safety so Ovid Centum aerei claudunt vectes aeternaque ferri Robora c. Shut