or treading of all Beasts of Venery and Chase. That of a Hart Buck and all Fallow Deer Boar is termed SLot View Tract or Treading That of an Hare is tearmed according to her several Courses for when she keepeth in plain fields and chaseth about to deceive the Hounds it is said she Doubleâ—h but when she beateth the plain high-way where you may yet perceive her footing it is said she Pricketh Tearms of the Tayl. That of a Hart Buck Roe or any other Deer Boar Fox Wolf Hare and Coney is tearmed his Tayl. Single Wreath Bush or holy water sprinkle Stern Scut The fat of all sorts of Deer is called Suet. Also it may be very well said This Deer was a high Deer's Grease The fat of a Roe Boar and Hare is termed Bevy Grease Grease You shall say that a Hart Harboureth Buck Lodgeth Roe Beddeth Hare Seateh or Formeth Coney Sitteth Fox Kenneleth You shall say a Deer Hare Fox is Broken Cased Uncased You shall say Dislodge Start Unkennel Rowse Bowlt the Buck. Hare Fox Hart. Coney You shall say a Hart or Buck Roe Boar Hare or Coney Fox Wolf goeth to his the Rut. Tourn Brym Buck. Clicketting Match or to his Make. Tearms excogitated and used by Foresters Tou shall say a Hart Belloweth Buck Groaneth Roe Belleth Hare and Coney Beateth or Tappeth Fox Barketh Wolf Howleth You shall say a Litter of Cubs Nest of Rabbets Skilful Foresters and good Woodmen Do use to say a Herd Of Harts Herd All manner of Deer Bevy Roes Sounder Swine Rowt Wolyes Riches Marternes Brace or Lease Bucks Brace or Lease Foxes Brace or Lease Hares Couple Rabbets or Conies These are apt tearms of Hunting pertaining both to Beasts of Venery and of Chase. Whereas some men are of opinion that a Stag of what age soever he be shall not be called a Hart until the King or Queen have hunted him that is not so For after the fifth year of his age you shall no more call him a Stag but a Hart. So then at six years old he is called a Hart. Now if the King or Queen do hunt or chase him and he escape away alive then after such hunting or chasing he is called a Hart Royal. Note That if this Hart be by the King or Queen so hunted or chased that he be forced out of the Forest so farr that it is unlike that he will of himself return thitherto again and then the King or Queen giveth him over either for that he is weary or because he cannot recover him for that such a Hart hath shewed the King pastime for his delight and is also as Budeus noteth Eximius Cervus a goodly Hart and for that the King would have him return to the Forest again he causeth open Proclamation to be made in all Towns and Villages near to the place where the same Hart so remaineth That no manner of person or persons shall kill hurt hunt or chase him but that he may safely return to the Forest again from whence he came And then ever after such a Hart is called a Hart Royal proclaimed So that there are three sorts of Harts viz. Hart. Hart Royal. and Hart Royal proclaimed A Hind hath these Degrees First Second Third Year is called a Calf Brockets sister Hinde Good Foresters have observed that when a Hart hath past his sixth year he is generally to be called a Hart of Tenne and afterwards according to the increase of this Head Whether he be Crochod Palmed or Crowned When he breaketh Herd and draweth to the Thickets or Coverts the Foresters or Woodmen do say He taketh his hold Skilfull Woodmen describing the Head of a Hart do call the a Round Roll next the Head The Burr b Main Horn Beam c Lowest Antlier Browantliers d Next above thereunto Bezantliers e Next above that Royal. f Upper part of all Surroyal top And in a Buck's head they say c Burr b Beam d Braunche e Advancers a Palm Spellers And though every Gentleman is not an Armorist or a skilfull Woodman yet it is well-beseeming men of a generous race to have a superficial skill in either of these professions forasmuch as they both especially the former do well beseem the dignity of a Gentleman the one tending to the delight and recreation of the mind and the other to the health solace and exercise of the body that so in their mutual converse they may be able to deliver their minds in fit tearms in either kind and not in speeches either vulgar or obsolâ—te For which cause I here set down the tearms appropriated by skilfull Foresters and Woodmen to Beasts of Chase according to their several Names Seasons Degrees and Ages like as I have formerly done of Beasts of Venery as in Example Of Beasts of Chase the Buck is the first And is tearmed the First year a Fawn Second Pricket Third Sorel Fourth Sore Fifth Buck of the first head Sixth Buck or great Buck. Next to the Buck is the Doe being accounted the second Beast of Chase And is termed the First year a Fawn Second Prickets sister Third Doe The third Beast of Chase is a Fox which albeit he be said to be politick and of much subtilty yet is the variety of tearms of a Fox very scarce For in the First year he is called a Cub Second Fox Afterwarwards an old Fox or the like The Martern or Marton as some old Foresters or Woodmen do tearm them being the fourth Beast of Chase hath these tearms He is called the First year a Martern Cub Second Martern The fifth and last Beast of Chase is the Roe whose proper tearms pertaining to Chase are these He is said to be the First year a Kid. Second Girl Third Hein use Fourth Roe-buck of the first head Fifth Farr Roe-buck These Beasts of Chase do make their abode all the day time in the Fields and upon the Hills and high Mountains where they may see round about them afar off for preventing their danger For these are more timerous of their own safety than dangerous and harmful to men And in the night time when men be at rest and all things quiet then do they make their repair to the Corn-fields and Medows for food and relief for which respect they are called Campesties because they do haunt the Field and Champion grounds more than the Woods and thick Coverts or Thickets as we do most usually observe them This Coat with the difference of a second Brother is born by Iohn Bowen of Swansey in the said County Esq This Coat is also born by the Right Honourable William Earl of Devonshire Baron Cavendish of Hardwick and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Derby Gules three Bucks heads cabosed Argent is born by the Name of D'oyley and is the Coat-Armour of Sir VVilliam D'oyley of St. Margarets VVestminster in Middlesex Kt. Son and Heir of Sir VVilliam D'oyley of Shotisham in Norfolk Knight and Baronet Gules three Stags heads cabosed Or attired Argent is born
the same in a kind of Bonnet called corruptly a Lettice Cap. Now as touching Colores medii or mixed Colours it is to be understood that they are raised by the contemperation or mixture of the two Simples formerly handled as may appear by the Definition of Scribonius who saith Mixtus color est qui ex Simplicium contemperatione producitur All mixt or midling Colours that we call Colores medii are reckoned more Noble or Ignoble by participation that is to say as they do partake more or less of the nobility of white which is resembled to light or of black which hath a resemblance of darkness or deprivation of light Of these according to Scribonius some are Exactly compounded of both Simples Declining more to the one than to the other in an unequal proportion Purpure Colour hath some resemblance of a withered red Rose which after long gathering the glorious lustre thereof fading becometh somewhat blackish as if it were a proportionable commixture of Red and Black together This Colour hath its Denomination of a certain Fish called in Latin Purpura a kind of Shell-fish whereof in times past great store have been found near to that famous City of Tyrus situated next to the Sea-coast in the Country of Phoeuicia this kind of Fish hath in the mouth of it an excellent and precious liquor or juyce of singular use in dying of â—loaths the invention and use whereof was first found out by the Tyrians for which cause this Colour is called Tyrius Color They must be taken alive and that chiefly in the Spring Season at which time the juyce is most plentiful in them at other Seasons it is more scarce They are gathered alive and cast together on a heap that so by their continual motion they may vent out this rich liquor together with their spirit which done in some near place or other provided for the clean keeping thereof it is taken up and spared for necessary purposes This Colour in ancient time was of that precious esteem as that none but Kings and Princes and their Favourites might wear the same as we may see Dan. 5. 16. Now if thou canst read the writing and shew me the interpretation thereof thou shalt be clothed with Purple and shalt have a chain of Gold about thy neck Also 1 Macchab. 10. 20. And Alexander sent Jonathan a Purple Robe and a Crown of Gold And again When his Accusers saw his Honour as it was proclaimed and that he was cloathed in Purple they fled all away Hereof perhaps it cometh that this Colour is found of so rare use in Armorial Signs Moreover it is said And the King commanded that they should take off the Garment of Jonathan and cloath him in Purple and so they did 1 Macchab. 10. 62. I have purposely for the avoiding of prolixity omitted here to speak of the Elements Vertues and Complexions which every one of these Metals and Colours are respectively resembled unto because Ferne in his Blazon of Gentry hath a large Discourse of the same subject to which I referr the Reader CHAP. IV. HItherto of Colours and Metals Now of Furrs according to the Series and Course of our Distribution before delivered pag. 10. Furrs used in Arms are taken for the Skins of certain Beasts stripped from the Bodies and artificially trimmed for the furring doubling or lining of Robes and Garments serving as well for State and Magnificence as for wholsome and necessary use And these thus trimmed and imployed are called in Latin pellicei à pellendo of driving away quite contrary in sense though like in sound to pellices à pellicendo for drawing all to them because they do repel and resist the extremities of cold and preserve the Bodies that are covered with them in good temperature These are used as well in doublings of the Mantles pertaining to Coat-Armours as in the Court-Armours themselves Furrs do consist either of One colour alone or More colours than one Furrs consisting of more than one Colour are either of Two Colours or More than two Such Furrs as are compounded of two Colours only are sorted either with Black and are either Black mixt with white as Ermyn and Ermyns or Black mixt with Yellow as Ermynois and Pean or without Black such are according to Leigh Verrey sez A. and B. and Verrey Or and Vert. Knowledge is no way better or more readily attained than by Demonstration Scire enim est per demonstrationem intelligere saith Aristotle I will therefore give you particular example of their several Bearings Mr. Boswell is of this Opinion That Ermyn and Ermyns ought never to be sorted in Arms with the Metal of their colour because saith he they are but Furrs and have no proper Blazon with any Metal Yet doth he particularly Blazon the Coat of Walcot fol. 106. in the Atchievement of the Right Honourable Lord Sir William Cecil Knight late Lord Treasurer of England where he might fitly have taken exception against such bearing if he could have produced any good ground for warranting such his Opinion in default whereof he there passeth the same over with silence knowing that Antiquity and Custome which hath the vigour of a Law where there is no Law written are powerful in things of this nature he secretly relinquisheth his Opinion forasmuch as it is manifest that not only Walcot but Kingsmell and many others both ancient and modern have used such bearing without contradiction These are other sorts of Furrs or Doublings consisting also of two only Colours which as they are much different in form so do they also receive a diverse Blazon from these before specified which are these that follow and their like Sometimes it was permitted to men grown to years to use a kind of short Cloak called Penula in time of wars though it were in substance but sleight and thin For Alexander Severus the Emperour in favour of aged men did grant them a Priviledge for wearing of this kind of Garments Wolf Lazius lib. 8. The Garments of the Tribune of the People and of the Plebeian Sect were most commonly this Penula before mentioned like as also was Sagum which was a Souldiers Cloak or Cassock and Endromis which was an hairy Garment much like an Irish Mantle and Hood These were apt Garments for repelling of Cold. These were not Habits beseeming an Emperour or chief Commander to wear nevertheless we read that Caligula ware oftentimes Depictas Penulas Alex. lib. 5. Amongst the rest this is to be observed That Consuls were habited sometimes in Coat-Armors called Paludamenta and sometimes in Kirtles called Trabeae which was a kind of Garment worn by Kings under their Mantles of State So that they were sometimes said to be Trabeati and sometimes to be Paludati according to these several Habits Also the Lictores were Officers that usually attended these Consuls and were like unto Sergeants or Ministers appointed to inflict corporal punishment upon Offenders and were most commonly in number Twelve
under the said King Edward until he was restored to his Estate in Gascoign by the Peace made betwixt the two Crowns Ruby a Lion rampant Pearl was the Coat-Armour of Roger Mowbray a Norman who was made Earl of Northumberland by William the Conqueror He flew in Battel Malcombe King of Scots and his eldest Son but after rebelling against William Rufus was taken prisoner in Northumberland and kept in Winchester prison till the reign of Henry the First and then died without issue after whose decease King Henry the First gave all his Lands and Arms to the Lord Nigell de Albaine whose Son was called Mowbray of whom descended the Mowbrays Dukes of Norfolk And this Coat is now quartered by the honourable and flourishing Family of the Howards Ruby a Lion rampant Topaz is the Coat-Armour of the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Carbery Baron Vaughan of Emblin and Molingar and one of the Lords of his Majesties most honourable Privy Council Saphire a Lion rampant Pearl is the Coat of the Right Honourable Iohn Lord Crew Baron of Stean descended from Eustace Crew who came into England with William the Conqueror and was made Baron of Monthalte Argent a Lion rampant Sable is the Coat-Armour of the Stapletons of Yorkshire Sable a Lion rampant Argent is born by Edmond Lewis Carn-Lloyd in Glamorganshire Esquire and by Edward Lewis of the Van in the said County Esquire As touching the bearing of the Lion after this manner I hold that then he may be truly said to be rampant when he standeth so directly upright as that the crown of his head doth answer to the plant of his foot whereupon he standeth in a perpendicular line and not by placing of the left foot in the dexter corner of the Escocheon as Leigh would have it As the former Example sheweth the gesture of the Lion pursuing his prey so this sheweth his gesture in seizing on it when he hath attained it Ruby a Lion rampant within a Bordure engrailed Pearl is born by the Right Honourable Ralph Lord Grey Baron of Warke of whose Family was Sir Iohn Grey who for his good Service in France was by King Henry the Fifth created Earl of Tanquerville in the said Kingdom This Coat is also born by Sir Roger Mostyn of Mostyn in Flintshire Knight and Baronet and by William Mostyn of Rhyd in the said County Esquire Argent three Lions rampant and a Chief Gules is the Coat-Armour of Sir Henry Yelverton of Easton-Manduit in Northamptonshire Baronet The Lion saith Farnesius is a lively Image of a good Souldier who must be valiant of Courage strong of Body politick in Counsel and a foe to fear Such a one was the most valiant Prince Richard the Second surnamed Cour de Lion whose renowned Adventures suited with all courage and politick care gave him the eternal Name of the Lion-heart This Coat is also born by the Right Honourable William Herbert Earl and Baron of Powis and by the Right Honourable Edward Lord Herbert Baron of Cherbury and Castle-Island This Coat is also born by the Family of the Progers amongst whom is Charles Proger Herbert of Gwerndy in Monmouthshire Esq one of the Gentlemen of his Majesties Privy chamber By Edward Proger Herbert Esq one of the Grooms of his Majesties Bed-chamber And by Henry Proger Herbert Esq one of his Majesties Ecqueties Ermyn on a Chief Azure three Lions rampant Or by the Name of Aucher and is the Coat-Armour of Sir Anthony Aucher of Bishops-bourn in the County of Kent Knight and Baronet Sable two Lions rampant combatant Or is born by Nicholas Carter of London Dr. in Physick Leigh saith That these were two Lions of sundry Regions which of manhood must combate only for Government For the Lion is as desirous of mastery as a couragious Prince is ambitious of Honour which if it be in a just Title and Claim is a vertue in a King and no way to be disliked For it was a Royal Apothegm worthy that great King Nemo me major nisi qui justior I acknowledge no King greater than my self but he that is juster There are yet other forms of bearing the Lion than are hitherto expressed as in these next Escocheons may be seen This Coat is also born by Thomas Wyndham of Tale in Devonshire Esq one of the Grooms of his now Majesties Bedchamber third Son of Sir Edmond Wyndham of Cathanger in Somersetshire Knight Marshal of his Majesties most Honourable Houshold and lineally descended of the ancient Family of the Wyndhams of Crown-Thorp in Norfolk The Lion beareth his tail after a diverse manner insomuch as we may thereby if not certainly know yet give a near ghess what a mood he is in for the present viz. whether he be furiously bent or peaceable or majestically affected And these qualities are manifestly discerned by the Inversion Eversion or Extension c. of his tail Here may rise a Question Whether the bearing of the tail of the Lion in any of these several manners be a sufficient difference to prevent all causes of challenge For my own part albeit I have not read or seen in Gerard Leigh Boswell Ferne or any other Armorial Writers the state of this Question handled I hold that they be differences sufficient to debarr all challenge My Reasons are these first Sufficit quod inter arma mea tua talis sit differentia qua detur diversitas And again Nova forma dat novum esse rei I hold them not only to be differences secundum quid but simpliciter that is to say absolute and essential differences Furthermore Data una dissimilitudine etiam paria judicabuntur diversa Moreover experience sheweth us That the least addition or subtraction in Armorial signs maketh them cease to be the same that they were Omnia Arma Arithmeticis figuris sunt simillima quibus si quid addas vel subtrahas non remanet eadem species as I have formerly shewed Finally for approbation of these my Opinions I will add this infallible Assertion Ea differunt quorum definitiones differunt These are my Reasons that induce me to be of this Opinion that the diverse manner of bearing of the tail of the Lion as aforesaid are or may be without exception essential differences which nevertheless I referr to the judicious censure of the Learned in this Profession who perhaps may convince me with more forceable grounds But because Demonstration is the best of Arguments to convince the incredulous it is apparent that Buxton's Coat before mentioned differs not from that of Smeres but only in the manner of the bearing of the tail both of them being Argent a Lion rampant Sable only in Buxton's Coat the tail is elevated and turned over the head of the Lion as it more plainly appears before in this present Chapter Now as touching particularizing of the beforementioned assertion I say that the Eversion of the tail of the Lion is an express token of his placability or tractableness as
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 Late Pursuivant at ARMS The Fifth Edition much enlarged with great variety of BEARINGS To which is added a TREATISE of HONOUR Military and Civil According to the Laws and Customs of ENGLAND collected out of the most Authentick Authors both Ancient and Modern by Capt. IOHN LOGAN ILLUSTRATEED With variety of SCVLPTVRES sutable to the several Subjects to which is added a Catalogue of the Atchievements of the NOBILITY of England with divers of the GENTRY for Examples of BEARINGS LONDON Printed by S. Roycroft for R. Blome and are sold by Francis Tyton Henry Brome Thomas Basset Richard Chiswell Iohn Wright and Thomas Sawbridge MDCLXXIX TO The most August CHARLES THE SECOND King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. Dread Sovereign HERE is a Firmament of Stars that shine not without your Benign Beam you are the Sun of our Hemisphere that sets a splendour on the Nobility For as they are Jewels and Ornaments to your Crown so they derive their lustre and value from thence From your Breast as from a Fountain the young Plants of Honour are cherisht and nurst up Your vertuous Atchievements are their Warrant and Example and your Bounty the Guerdon of their Merit And as all the Roman Emperours after Julius Caesar were desirous to be called Imperatores Caesares from him so shall all succeeding Princes in this our Albion in emulation of your Vertues be ambitious to bear your Name to Eternity Deign then Great Sir a gracious Reflex upon and Acceptation of this Display of Heraldry which though in it self is excellent yet thus illustrated by your Name will admit of no Comparison but render to the Publisher a share of Honour in that he is permitted into your Presence Being In all humility Your Majesties most submissive and obedient Subject and Servant RICHARD BLOME TO THE RIGHT NOBLE Henry Duke of Norfolk EARL-MARSHAL of ENGLAND Earl of Arundel Surrey Norfolk and Norwich Lord Howard Moubray Segrave Brews of Gower Fitz-Allen Clun Oswalstree Maltravers Graystock and Howard of Castle-Rising c. AND TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBERT Earl of ALISBVRY and ELGIN VISCOUNT Bruce of Ampthill Baron Bruce of Whorlton Skelton and Kinloss Hereditary High-Steward of the Honour of Ampthill Lord Lieutenant of the County of Bedford and High-Steward of Leicester and one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Councel his Graces Substitute for the Officiating the said Office of Earl-Marshal Most Honoured Lords THIS Treatise next to his Sacred Majesty Honours Grand General must necessarily be dependant on your Lordships Honours Earl-Marshal to whose Protection and Patronage it is also most humbly Dedicated by My Lords Your Graces and Honours most Submissive Servant Richard Blome To the most Concerned the NOBILITY AND GENTRY My Lords and Gentlemen THis inestimable Piece of Heraldry that had past the Press four times with much approbation had the unhappy Fate in the last to have a Blot in its Escocheon viz. the Insertion of Oliver's Creatures which as no Merit could enter them in such a Regiment but Vsurpation so we have in this Impression exploded them and inserted the Persons Titles and Dignities of such as his Majesty since his blessed Restauration conferred Honour upon that so the Corn may be intire of one Sheaf and the Grapes of one Vine To this Impression is added A Treatise of Honour Military and Civil which I do own to have received from Captain David Logan of Idbury in Oxfordshire whose Manuscript is not exactly observed by omitting the Quotations in his Papers as being unwilling to swell the Volume unto too large a bulk and the rather being confident he asserts nothing without the Authority of good Authors putting my Confidence in his Care who is tender enough of his Honour and Loyalty Vertues inherent in his Blood and Name witness the Scotisâ— Histories although unfortunate therein three or four Ages ago Nor may this Treatise be without some Errors committed by the Press and that occasioned by his great distance in the Countrey which if any shall be corrected in the next Impression begging the Readers pardon for the present R. B. Mr. Guillim's PREFACE TO THE READER HOW difficult a thing it is to produce form out of things shapeless and deformed and to prescribe limits to things confused there is none but may easily perceive if he shall take but a sleight view of the Chaos-like contemperation of things not only diverse but repugnant in Nature hitherto concorporated in the generous Profession of Heraldry as the forms of the pure Caelestial Bodies mix'd with gross Terrestrials Earthly Animals with Watery Savage Beasts with Tame Whole-footed Beasts with Divided Reptiles with things Gressible Fowls of Prey with Home-bred these again with River-Fowls Airy Insecta with Earthly also things Natural with Artificial Arts Liberal with Mechanical Military with Rustical and Rustick with Civil Which confused mixture hath not a little discouraged many persons otherwise well affected to the study of Armory and impaired the estimation of the Profession For redress whereof my self though unablest of many have done my best in this my Display of Heraldry to dissolve this deformed Lump distributing and digesting each particular thereof into his peculiar Rank wherein albeit the issue of my Enterprise be not answerable to the height of my desires yet do I assure my self my labour herein will not be altogether fruitless forasmuch as hereby I have broken the Ice and made way to some after-comers of greater Gifts and riper Judgment that they may give a fairer body to this my delineated rough draught or shadow of a new-framâ—d method For if men of greatest skill have failed to give absolute form to their works notwithstanding their best endeavours with little reason may such perfection be expected from me whose Talent is so small as that I am forced to build wholly upon other mens Foundations and therefore may be thought to have undertaken an idle task in writing of things formerly handled and published by persons of more sufficiency and greater judgment Notwithstanding who knoweth not that as every man hath his proper conceit and invention so hath he his several drift and purpose so as divers men writing of one self Argument do handle the same diversty which being so what letteth that every of us writing in a diverse kind may not without offence to other use our uttermost endeavours to give unto this erst unshapely and disproportionable profession of Heraldry a true Symmetria and proportionable correspondence of each part to other Inasmuch if I be not deceived both they and my self do all aim at one mark which is so to adorn and beautifie this Science as that it being purged from her wonted deformities may become more plausible to many and be
sunt in honore pares Mules Abbots and Abbesses are alike They bear the weapons but cannot strike Pearl a Cheveron Ruby between three Leopards heads Diamond is the Coat-Armour of the Right Honourable Francis Viscount Newport of Bradford Baron Newport of High-Ercall Lord Lieutenant of the County of Salop Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold and one of the Lords of his most Honourable Privy Council Vert a Cheveron between three Leopards heads Or is the Coat of Sir Barrow Fitch of Woodham-walter in Essex Kt. Sable a Cheveron between three Leopards heads Argent is the Coat of Mr. Tho. Hawes of the City of London Merchant Or a Cheveron between three Leopards heads Sable with the Arms of Vlster is the Coat-Armour of Sir Charles Wheler of Burbury in Warwickshire Baronet anciently of Martin-Hussingtre in the County of Worcester Or on a Bend Azure three Leopards heads Argent is the Coat of Iohn Mingay of Gimingham in Norfolk Esq Now in the blazon of this next ensuing Escocheon I in this present Edition shall upon better consideration differ from that which I gave it in my former Secundae cogitationes saepè sunt meliores CHAP. XXVI ANOTHER sort there is of exorbitantâ— Animals much more prodigious than all the former such are those Creatures formed or rather deformed with the confused shapes of Creatures of different kinds and qualities These according to some Authors are called in Latin Monstra à Monstrando for foreshewing some strange events These Monsters saith St. Augustine cannot be reckoned amongst those good Creatures that God created before the transgression of Adam for those did God when he took the survey of them pronounce to be valdè bona for they had in them neither access nor defect but were the perfect workmanship of God's Creation And of them Zanchius saith that Eorum deformitas habet usus cum Deo serviant ad gloriam ipsius illustrandam electis ad salutem promovendam If man had not transgressed the Law of his Maker this dreadful deformity in likelyhood had not happened in the procreation of Animals which some Philosophers do call Peccata Naturae Errors in Nature Quoniam uatura impeditur in horum generatione ne possit quale velit producere Animal Some examples in this kind here ensue Vert a Griffon rampant Or is the Coat of Richard Coleling of Coreley in Shropshire Esq Principal Secretary to the Right Honourable Henry Earl of St. Albans Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold Azure a Griffon sergreant or rampant Or is the Coat of Sir Iohn Read of Brocket-hall in Hartfordshire Baronet As also by the Name of Cursellis and by Mr. Iames Cursellis of London Merchant Sable a Griffon sergreant Or is the Coat of the Honourable Society of Grays-Inn being one of the four Inns of Court The erecting of the fore-leggs of this Griffon is an evident testimony of his readiness for action which addeth a second force of his attempt and promiseth a successful event of his enterprise by reason he uniteth force and industry together The Griffon having attained his full growth will never be taken alive wherein he doth adumbrate or rather lively set forth the property of a valorous Souldier whose magnanimity is such as he had rather expose himself to all dangers and even to death it self than to become a Captive As a Lion rampant is figured erectus elevatus mordax ore radens pedibus so may a Bear Griffon or whatsoever other Animal of fierce nature as aforesaid that is shaped in like form and action For the Lion is not said to be rampant because he representeth the shape of a Lion but in respect of his fierce and cruel action so this in like manner using the same actions may apertly participate the same terms of blazon his double shape notwithstanding Similium enim similis est ratio The Poets do feign that Dragons do keep or according to our English phrase sit abrood upon Riches and Treasures which are therefore committed to their charge because of their admirable sharpness of sight and for that they are supposed of all other living things to be the most valiant Adag col 515. whereof Ovid. Metamorph. 7. Pervigilem superest herbis sopire Draconem The Dragons are naturally so hot that they cannot be cooled by drinking of water but still gape for the Air to refresh them as appeareth Ieremiah 14. 6. And the wild Asses did stand in the high places they snuffed up the wind like Dragons their eyes did fail because there was no grass Nescio quis teneros oculus mihi fascinat Agnoâ—â— I know not what wicked eye hath bewitched my tender Lambs To these must be added Montegres Satyrs Monk-fishes as also Lions-dragons Lions-poisons and whatsoever other double shaped Animal of any two or more of the particular kinds before handled CHAP. XXVII UNTO this will I add some sorts of Animals which although they be duly shaped and therefore may seem to agree with those of the same kind formerly treated of yet do they much differ from them either in their unnatural postures and gestures or else being with some liberty-debarring instrument by mans industry and invention restrained of their natural freedom as by a chain or the like and therefore could not according to Methods strict rule have been handled promiscuously among the former Some few Examples of this kind of bearing of Animals of this sort in Coat-Armour I here present unto your view Argent a Lion rampant regardant Sable is the Coat of Thomas Mathew of Castle-Mengch in Glamorganshire Esq Or a Lion rampant regardant Sable is born by Iohn Lloyd of Keyswyn in Merionethshire Esq. This action doth manifest an inward and degenerate perturbation of the mind which is meerly repugnant to the most couragious nature of the Lion Cujus natura est imperterrita according to the saying Leo fortissimus bestiarum ad nullius pavebit occursum The form of bearing of the Lion regardant albeit in respect of his courage and magnanimity it be contrary to his natural quality for that it may be thought and is indeed generally holden to be a chief note of timorousness which is meerly contrary to his generous nature yet nevertheless it is good Armory not only in him but also in all other Animals of like bearing so long as they are born significantly and it fitteth our profession to interpret all sorts of bearing to the best that is to say to the most honour of their Bearers To the end therefore that I may give some satisfaction touching the commendable bearing thereof to such as do hold the contrary I hold the same form of bearing to be born not only in the Lion but in whatsoever other Animals significantly and therefore commendably forasmuch as such action betokeneth a diligent circumspection or regardful consideration of fore-passed events of things and comparing of them with things present that he may give a conjectural ghess of the effects of things yet to come and resting
I will make more apparent by this next Example Azure a Maunch Or. This with the distinction of a Crescent Gules charged with another Or is the Paternal Coat-Armour of Edward Conyers Esq principal Store-keeper of his Majesties Ordnance and Armour in the Tower of London who is descended from the Family of Conyers late of Wakerly in the County of Northampton being a branch of that ancient Family of the Conyers of Sockburne within the Bishoprick of Durham whose Ancestors in the Reign of William the Conqueror had the Office of Constable of the Castle of Durham granted to them in Fee which Estate is yet continuing in the same Family though not in the same Name being descended to an only Daughter of 〈…〉 Conyers of Sockburne Esq who married the Right Honourable Francis late Earl of Shrewsbury From this Family is likewise descended the Right Honourable Conyers Lord Darcy Meynell and Conyers of Hornby Castle in the County of York whose Grand-father Thomas Darâ—y Esq married Elizabeth daughter and heir of Iohn Lord Conyers of Hornby And thence is also descended Tristram Conyers of Walthamstow in the County of Essex Serjeant at Law As touching Apparel we find that though the same be made chiefly to clothe our nakedness yet shall we find that they were not only ordained by the invention of man but also allowed and for some special end expresly commanded by God himself to be made and provided as well for glory as also for ornament and comliness as appeareth Exod. 28. Likewise thou shalt embroider the fine linnen Coat and thou shalt make the Mitre of fine linnen and thou shalt make the Girdle of needle work And for Aaron 's sons thou shalt make Coats and thou shalt make for them Girdles and Bonnets shalt thou make for them for glory and for beauty Rich Garments and costly Jewels are reckoned Ornaments as appeareth 2 Sam. 1. 24. Ye daughters of Israel weep over Saul who clothed you in scarlet with other delights who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel And they be called Ornaments because they do illustrate and adorn or beautifie the person that is garnished with them To this Head may be reduced all sorts of things whatsoever pertaining to the adorning decking or triming of the body as Combs Glasses Head-brushes Curling-bodkins c. and also Purses Knives c. Sir Thomas Palmer of Leigh near Tunbridge in Kent Kt. Grand-father to the elder Sir Henry Palmer Kt. before recited was owner of the Mannors of Tottington and Eccles in Aylesford and Boxley adjoying to Snodland aforesaid which came unto this Family by a match with a daughter of the Lord Poynings And Katharine Palmer this Sir Thomas Palmer's sister was married to Iohn Roe of Boxley in Kent Gent. Father of Reginald Roe of Leigh aforesaid Gent. Ancestor to Sir Thomas Roe Kt. living 1632. whose worthy merit in the discharge of many Embassages wherein he hath been imployed by this State deserves to be remembred with an honourable Character In respect we are now come to speak of Stamps and Coins I hold it not impertinent by the way to give some little touch of the Royalty of Coining It is therefore to be observed that the power to coin money hath been evermore reckoned to be one of the Prerogatives that in our common Law we do call Iura Regalia and pertaineth to the Sovereign Power amongst many Regal Immunities to that Supream Jurisdiction peculiarly belonging and to none others Nevertheless we read that Monarchical Kings and Sovereign States have imparted this Prerogative or Preheminence unto others their inferiours upon special acceptable service done or for whatsoever private respect as we may see Maccab. 15. 6. where amongst many other preheminences granted by Antiochus the son of Demetrius to Simon the high Priest which had been formerly granted to him by the Predecessors of Antiochus he enableth him to coin money saying I give thee leave to coin money of thine own stamp within thy Countrey To this Head must be reduced all other sorts of Bullion or Coin and whatever else pertaineth to traffick or commerce By this open Purse we may understand a man of a charitable disposition and a frank and liberal steward of the blessings which God hath bestowed upon him for the relief of the needyâ— Of such an one St. Hierome 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 shoe be an habit serving for the foot which is the most inferiour part of mans body yet it is not therefore to be contemned forasmuch as it is a note of progression and very behoveful for travellers In the Scriptures it is often taken for expedition as Psal. 60. In Idumaeam extendam calceamentum meum And proceeding to Idumea I will cast my shoe over it It was an ancient custome amongst the Israelites in transferring of possessions for him that departed therewith to pluck off his shoe and to deliver the same to his neighbour as now it is with us to pass livery and seisâ— of Inheritance by the delivery of a turf 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 râ—deeming and changing for to stablish all things A man did pluck off his shoe and gave it to his neighbour and this was a sure witness By which Ceremony he publickly acknowledged that he had transferred and put over his whole right unto the Purchaser Ruth 4. 7 8 9. But in after Ages it seemeth the Jews passed Inheritances by Charters sealed and testified by witnesses a custome of use with us at this day at the Common Law as appeareth in the Prophesie of Ieremiah Men shall buy fields for money and make writings and seal them and take witnesses in the Land of Benjamin and round about Jerusalem c. 32. 44. And again Ier. 32. 25 And thon 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 Uncles son that was in Anathoth and weighed him the money even seventeen shekels of silver And I subscribed the Evidence and sealed it and took witnesses and weighed him the money in the balances c. Now since I am casually fallen upon this Argument of sealing of Deeds I hold it not amiss to give some little touch by the way of the first coming in of this custome 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 only to subscribe their Names commonly adding the sign of the Cross. And I need not to prove the same by the testimony of divers witnesses for this custome continued here in