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 of HOMER on the Shield of ACHILLES A WORK of this Nature never yet extant By SYLVANUS MORGAN Arms-Painter Est aliquid prodire tenus si non datur ultra LONDON Printed by T. Hewer for Nathaniel Brook at the Angel in Cornhil and Henry Eversden at the Greyhound in S. Pauls Church-yard 1666. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DISPONIENDO ME NO MVDAN DO ME. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE EDVVARD Earl of MANCHESTER c. Lord Chamberlain to the King 's most Excellent MAJESTY one of the Commissioners for the Office of Earl-Marshal of England Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter Chancellour of the University of Cambridge and one of his MAJESTIES Privy Counsellours c. Right Honourable THis Arrogant desire of mine grounded more on your Heroick Virtues then my private Ends promiseth me your Honours Acceptance of this Expression of my self in these Faculties not much besides my Profession indebted more to love then ability sets my ambition a pitch higher then my nature in presuming to present to your Honours hands these unworthy labours The Language of your Arms speaks you every way a good Patron the Griffon representing a good Guardian the Eagle a noble President and the Lozengies are Symbols of Nobility the quickness of whose Lustre shews from what Rock they were hewn Vouchsafe then Great Mount-acute as the generous Eagle at once to view and protect under the wings of your Honours Name this Infant of mine which was consecrated yours in the first Conception wishing it no other fate then that if it deserve not to live with your Name and Memory it may dye by the Marshal Law of your dislike and though for the want of that Law many have sown Dragons teeth Crescitque seges clypeata virorum this Land hath abounded with Men Armed assuming to themselves these Ensigns of Honor yet seeing your Eagle seems to resume her youthfull habit and triumph over Time and Ruine and the best part of my Endeavours stand engaged to your generous Fraternity I hope your indulgent Pardon and Acceptance choosing much rather to lay my self down at your Honours feet then to be brought before you as a Criminal to Honour who alwayes was Your Honours in all Duty and Service to be commanded SYLVANUS MORGAN To the READER A Gentleman of the first Head Hermaelogiâ— saith one except while the Spaniard swells in being the Son of his own right hand is seldome known to refuse the Herauld more than the Nobles of Rome could Virgil after he had so solemnly sung their Extraction from Elysium and Caesar's from the Gods Deus Nobis haec otia fecit Aeneid 6. And if in my Armilogia I have seemed to gratifie all and flattred many by the opinions of Good Bearings I hope they will bear also with Me if I take Leave to talk of whole Fields of Gold and Silver possessed by the Heroes I hope they will accept of the Golden Branch from Sibylla Painters and Poets are to be excused upon Ben Johnsons account Poet never Credit gain'd By writing Truth but things like truth well fain'd Mira canunt sed non credenda Poetae There were three most noted Epoches or Computations of Times amongst the Antients higher than which Profane Story gives no light The first was the Expedition of the Argonautes to Colchis for the Golden Fleece Dr. Symson which hapned in the fifteenth year of Gideon and of the World 2743 and before our Saviour 1260. The second was from the Theban Warr which was 42 years after and the last from the Trojan War which was undertaken by the Greekes in the 19th year of Iair Judge of Israel in the year of the World 2812 before Christs time 1191 These three Memorable Expeditions administred Matter to the Heroick Muses of divers famous Witts the Gests of the first were celebrated by the Greek Muse of Apollonius Rhodius and by the Latine of Valerius Flaccus the Theban War was sung by the Sublime Papinius Statius and the Trojan War was the Theme of the Great Homer a Subject of Armes and Blazon Shields Thickned with opposed Shields Targets to Targets Nail'd Healmes stuck to Healmes and Man to Man grew they so close assail'd And afterwards imitated by Virgil the Prince of the Latine Poets in whose Aeneis you have a Patterne of Virtue and of Armes the Ensignes of Virtue and Nobility Mille vides Galeas Clypeosque insignia mille you have also in Homer the Lineall Genealogies of Greeks and Trojans wherein Aeneas himself Sings his Genealogy from Iove which Married Electra Sister of Morges King of Italy which Jupiter was called Cambo Blascon and was King of Italy by the Gift of Morges his Wifes Brother he was Son of Atlas or Ketim or Jupiter of Creet called Italus he was the Son of Dodoneus who was called Saturne of Creet and he was the Son of Tharsus who was the Son of Ketim or Helisan he was the Son of Javan Father of the Graecians whom Berosus calleth Ion and Iavan was Son of Iaphet second Son of Noah he was also called Iapetus and the Britains by their antient manner of Fight seem to derive their Genealogy from Aeneas as well as the English who claime to be descended of the antient Saxons and though I have heard that bruit of Brute cryed down by many well seen in Antiquity as well as the Tale of Troy yet Virgil being so perfect an Idiome of Heroicall Actions I cannot but allow both in my Herauldy Though I must confess with Dr. Case that Ruina Bangoriensi gloria Walliae nebulata fuit â—a Praeface ad Ethick And Chronologers scarcely agree when Troy was taken If there be any so valiant as the Greekes as to wage War against the Britains as Trojans for their usurpation of the Lady Truth and Prevail yet I fear they will hardly find her there though in the Story of Jeffery of Monmouth there be a brave Theme for one that would much vindicate the Reputation of his Countrey-Men and whether the Britaines have had the same Fortune of the Trojans I shall leave to Chronologie Palae Albion Aut venit aut videt aut vicit Brutus Amoenoe Albioni impositum à Bruto Brytania Nomen Whether Brute at Brutania anchor cast Coasted or Ken'd or conquered last Or whether the Trojans were the Planters of Italy shall not trouble me only if it gratifie Caesar and the Romans as an Exhortation from Effeminacy and stir up to Manly Exercises it is the Proper Work of Herauldry and Armes do Speak there being nothing borne in Armes but may be found on that Shield of
should retire It being a fit thing to hang his Arm in and likely that his Esquire had ready for him either as a favour of his own Mistriss or of his Masters or for either Ornament and so Hector appeared armed This said With Daybright Arms White Plume White Scarf his goodly limbs array'd The Bend is the charging posture of the Lance by which the man at Arms gives the Onset So when Achilles had shook his Lance in vain at Aeneas he stands prepared at a charging posture exciting them to be sharers and to bear Bendy with him The Graecian Orders every man of which the most look on To see their fresh Lord shake his Lance he thus put charge upon Divine Greeks stand not thus at gaze but man to man apply Your several valours 't is a task laid too unequally On me FERNE in his Glory of Generosity saith that though a man be no gentleman of Blood or Coat Armour yet having captivated in lawful WARRS any Gentleman great Lord or Prince Winning of Armes he may bear the Sheild of that Prisoner jure gentium saving in a Civil war in which the Romans allowed no tryumph and there was good reason for it because their own power was lessened but to gain from an Enemy was the best manner of bearing there were never but three saith my Authour which the Roman Histories make mention to have wone the Spolia opima vid. Romulus who slew Acron King of the Canienses Spolia opima usâ—et and Aulus Cornelius Cossus who slew Lars Tolumnius and Marcellus who slew Bridomarus or Virdomarus the Gauls General in the head of his Army that is on the top of the Pale the Spol a opima were so called either ab opibus the riches of them or ab opere because it was a work or extraordinary deed or for that opimum was all one with Amplum Livy defines them to be Spolia Dux quae Duci detraxit those spoils or Arms which one general hath taken from another which he hath slain with his own hands to bear three Pales is the bearing of the Wâ—seman Prov. 9. Sapientia domum suam aedificaverit excisis columnis suis septem The Pale is taken for a Column Pierius and is the Symbole of Stability it consisteth of the third part of the Escoution and representeth fortitude and sublime Glory The main reason of erecting pillars to memory of men was that their names might be lifted up above the vulger Quantam statuam faciet populus Romanus quantam Columnum quae res tuas gestas loquatur Hercules set up his two pillars with a non plus ultra as if one Hero could have limited the ocean only between the the streights of Pallets of his own atcheivements but how are the Pallets of right Reason inlarged by Columbus Pallets less then Pales having discovered a new world unknown to to the Ancients and both for Art and Arms beeng famed Et lituo pugnas insignis obibat hasta He having obtained the priviledge from the King of Castile Columbus his discovery to quarter the Armes of his house with the addition of the new world he had discovered neither were the English any way behind in their famous long navigation and though Hercules was a man of mettal he neither discovercd the American Gold nor the Brittish Tin in the Isles thereof which was the true Casiterides from whence that metal came to the Greeks albeit that Pliny writeth that Midacritus first carried Lead from Cassiteres Howel insert of Hist 721. Britain known to the Phenicians which Dionysius mentioneth under the name of Hesperides which are proved to be no other then the British Isles and were known in the Heroical times long before Homer who makes mention of that Metal in the Sheild of Achilles Nomen Arma locum servant He saith moreover that Metal was bought of the Phaenicians by the Greeks and fetched from the Islands of Silly off from the promontory of Cornwal eight leagues in number 145 being the same that from their plenty of Tin were called Cassiterides and from their site Hesperides and so the ancient Britains had as much reason to set up pillars to their sublime glory as ever Hercules had for it is very well observed that there wants not some minds with great wings and wits with large sails if there were any to shew the lure to them that flyeth or to open the Port to those that would lance out Alexander called Achilles fortunate because from himself he had valour and from Homer Encomiums from him Self merit and from Homer glory Argent a pale Sable hath reference to the funeral Pale of the Ancients built of Oke and pitch Trees Homer making that of Patroclus to be 100 foot in length Piceae Piceaen flammis alimenta supremes It was built in form of an Altar whose every spark flyes upward Gules a Pale OR is the flame of a noble soul Ditantur flammae non unquam opulentior illo Ante cinis The flames are precious made no dust before was ere so rich Gems crackle massy Ore dissolves Et pictis exsudant vestibus aurum Gules a pale Argent what better doth it represent then as Haniball in the Funeral of Paulus Aemilius having first condoled his death he to the flames commits his purple vest and Souilders Coats Aeneas also whom like arms invest By his example doth excite the rest For to beare the Pale is to admonish the mind to be raised to that pitch of Royall fortitude that neither the Surprisalls of Love nor the Assaults of malice nor the Sieges of hope nor the Batteries of desperation nor the the Scaladoes of Audacity Finally that neither Arms nor Arts or any affliction shall force the Royall Hart to surrender or yeild either at discretion or Articles in all which Aeneas was an eminent example Whence came that incomparable speech of Aeneas to his Son Et Pater Aeneas Avunculus excitet Hector let thy Fathers Fame and Vncle Hector to brave acts inflame That is stand upright to the fame of your Ancestors for the Mother of Ascaneus was sister to Hector The Pale is often charged with soveraign Ensignes and in particular in the coat of the honorable Lionel Lord Cranfield Earl of Middlesex who beareth OR on a pale AZURE three flower de Liz of the field this charge in Virgils words being as it were struere ingentem piram becoming an honorable Augmentation or an ordinary of honour and though the Lilly of the field neither sow nor reap yet good husbandry may as well stand with great honour as breadth consist with height the Pale then represents a Pillar of the Common-wealth which because he is great will not bear the less for can that be too low for a Lord that is high enough for a King the Kings of Arragon bearing D'OR a quatre pel's de gueules in memory that one of the Kings thereof dipping his finger in the blood of new
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
Reason above the Vulgar and your Charge declares they were eminenâ—ly conspicuous Mullets are among the Stars of the first Magnitude and the greater Planets have Concomitants to wait upon them 'T is better to be on then in Chief the la er is subject to Errour whereas the former is bounded by a Rational Line Riches and Honour are the two Twins born at once in your House nursed up by Vertue and preserved in your self to this Day Your Grandfather being Francis fourth Son and afterwards became the second House of Oliver First Lord St. John of Blet so hath entitled you to that of Esquire who by the common Name we give him in Latine seems to have his Origen either for that he carried the Armour of the King Duke or other great Personages Patroclus being Achilles his Armour Bearer or rather as some suppose the Footman himself armed in the field however they were always men of good account as those that won themselves credit out of the Wars and so their estimation remained in their Posterity and as those were in time before so are these which are in our dayes as descending for the most part from their worthy Ancestors esteemed the Prime sort of Esquires who are descended of Nobles CHAP. VIII Of the visible Charges of the Fifth Dayes Work under the Regiment of Venus or the Green Shield VErdure is a state of happiness and felicity Vert a Border OR Enaluron of 4 Marilets Sable and Eatoyre of as many Escalops Gales the Golden branch growing at the entrance of Elyzium where Venus Doves are as honourable as Joves Eagle Concerning the Bearing of Birds if I should say no more than that of the old Eagle PROVOCAT EXEMPLO It were enough to stir you all up to the imitation of virtue the Eagle beâ—ring PRAESIDIA MAJESTATIS deserving the first place because in the War of the Gyants an Eagle supply'd Jove with Armes Jupiter and Saturn were kings and waged War upon a difference of Land to which Jupiter Marching out saw the prediction of an Eagle by which when he had overcome it was reported that the Eagle brought him weapons from this good luck it was that the Eagle is in the Emperial Ensignes Sic Aquilae clarum firmavit Jupiter omen It is borne in a three-fold manner viz. Procidens Volaus Erectus vel Expausus In the first posture it is made Bearing the Armes of Jupiter and among the Romans in the fourth Legion of the Decemani and in the Shields of the Elder Constantine in the East and on many ancient Military Ensignes of the Romans In which posture it is borne among us by Roper of Derbyshire quasi de Rubro spado it argueth generosity NIL FULMINA TERRENT And where the Wing and the Sword go together 't is to shew that Art can do as much as Armes as Emanuel Thesaurus noteth on Caesars Commentaries Quae modo fulmineum vibrabat dextera ferrum Pacatos calamos sanguinolentâ—a regit In the second posture of Volant it is also found among all the Roman Legions being a Golden Eagle with the Wings Elevated upon the top of a silver Spear the Bearers whereof were called Aquiliseri It was antiently borne in the Shields of the younger Herculani and in this prepared posture it is said to descend to the Table of Augustus Ab Jove consuerat divisam sumere Mensam Te Similem cernens credidit esse Jovem Some suppose that this kind of Bearing with two Heads was in memory of the two inauspicious birds or Ravens that hovered over the head of Caesar and were struck to the ground by the Eagle others again attribute it to the division of the Empire into the East and West by Constantine the Great Translating his Seat to Constantinople making as it were two head Cityes under one Emperour like the prow of Aenaeas Ship Aeneas Ship the Admiral before Upon her Prow two Phrygian Lions bore Which denoted the Ensign of the Ship those of Burthen carrying them on their Masts as the Eagle was carried on a Staff farr above for more conspicuosness But Justus Lipsius observes upon that Military Ensign which is seen in Rome upon the Column of Antonius that then it could not have reference to the division of the Empire much less could it belong to any Souldier but that rather it had respect to one and the same Roman Emperour with the Wings expanded or displayed where the right wing is spread over the Eastern parts and the left over the Western parts thereof and two heads is no more than Counsel or Advice The Roman Consuls being two joyned to the Body of the People of Rome and were so called a Consulendo and in Caesar the two heads signified no otherwise than the Civil and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in him with his Wings expanded to Protect the People of his Empire So you see why the Black Eagle is preferred before other and for the other Colours see my Sphaere of Gentry it is a reward for Service in many English Coats as in that of Laurence Hutton of Hutton John in Cumberland having the two heads thereof in Reward circled about with a Crown by Fredrick the Fourth Emperour of Germany for the Honour that he gained in his Wars in Hungary against Soliman the Second having gained the Standard of the Enemy with the Honour of the Day So also the Coat of Browne hath rhe Eagle displayed in chiefe for some special Service performed by the first bearer thereof in Ambassage to the Emperour as testifieth Guilime If you turn your eyes to several other Nations you shall find the Persians bore it from the time of Cyrus to the overthrow of that Monarchy the Eagle being principally taken for an aspicious and fortunate Omen The Silver Eagle is preferred with the Sable Qu a sit fulgentior atque conspectior and of any other Colour it is noble ET VISU ET VOLATU and is therefore a proper bearing for Men of an accurat and clear Judgment as is noted in the bearing of Edward Cook Esquire being a Man of great Estimation and Admiration in his perspicuous knowledge of the Law worthy to be a Judge who was among them as the Eagle among other Birds So Julius Caesar is said to bear a Sphinx a bird with a human face whose subtilties could not be discovered but by an Oedipus only to shew the clearness of his understanding To bear more Eagles than one is called Eaglets and among the A gyptians Per Aquilam falconem rem maximae velocitates saith Keecher and so doth the Cross between the four Falcons in the Coat of the Right Honourable Thomas Wriothesley Earl of Southampton and Lord Treasurer of England whose Falcons if they rouse their wings is equal to the swiftness of the Eagles Una Aquila innumeras Exagitabit aves Homer is said by Alexander Paphius as Estachius testifieth to be born of Aegyptian Parents his Nurse being a certain Prophetess and the daughter of Oris Isis
his Cradle whereas these contrarily are like to be strangled by the Snakes about their necks whose Tradition is that a Childe was borne so in that Family but I rather think it from the name Vachan that is little in the British language PREMAT NE PERIMAT is to crush the Serpent betimes and to use the Foot before it grow too strong for the Armes which if Eve had done there had never been any Naked Women borne in Armes no not the Head of a Maiden but since they are borne by Marrow it sheweth the power of Love with Beauty and by Thirkeld as having released a Lady from Imprisonment as themselves relate Thus have I shewed you the Human parts disjoyned and naked by which you may perceive that MENS UNA SAPIENS PLURIUM VINCIT MANUS Now I shall proceed to shew you them joyned and Armed with Clothes so that in the middle of the Scheame you see our First Parents standing impailed the Man being Baron and the Woman the Femme side Honourable Furrs and on the Mans side you have the Choice of Shields to defend being honourable Furrs or Skins of Beasts and on the Womans side you have as many Loâ—engies call them Spindles if you please the first side is Ermin Ermines Erminois and vary the Womans the first is Togam splendentem candidam Suppose it if you please a Linnen Garment first Spun from Flax before the use of Wool PULCHRITVDINEM COMPLENT Vestments Ecclesiasticall making a Garment fit for her Beloved Quis est iste qui venit de Edome saith the Prophet Isaiah tinctus vestibus de Bosra valde speciosus est in stola sua Linnen Vestments being used both by the Hebrews and Aegyptians were made by Women and was accounted more cleane and pure than that was flaid off other Animals and therefore worne by the Priests the Orale was a Linnen Vaile to cast over his head his Miter was of Linnen as the Poet testifieth Nunc Dea Linigera colitur celeberrima turba That was like the Admirable Maze For fair Haired Ariadne made by Dedalus And in it Youths and Virgins Danced all young and beauteous And glewed in one an others Palmes Weeds which the Winde did Toss The Virgins Wore How the Armes of Women ought to be borne The difference being this that Maidens weare their Coats of Armes in a Lozenge single and in their Sleeves Nobilitas sub amore jacet according to Ovid and the Mourning for Maidens being worne joyned to the sleeve under Love Neither are Marryed Women denyed their Coat though both are denyed a Helme or Crest they being fitter for the Spindle than the Sword Apta quidem telae sed inepta est faemina telo Indignumque viro subdere cola collo Therefore the lone Woman or Widow beareth her Armes also in a Lozenge but under Covert Barne joyned with her Husbands Nec Turpe marito est Aspera pro charo bella tulisse thoro And therefore is that side of the Woman also joyned to his Sleeve as it were for Protection from his Armes and he must have Coverings from her Art the Reele for her Yarne IMPLICATA DISTINGUIT and signifieth negotiation Molilitate viget viresque ACQUIRIT EUNDO Three Hanks of Cotton is born by the name of Cotton and makes a good Coat Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis oves As of Daughters so of Widows of Peers Ridley 's View while they live sole unmarried they retain the nobility of their husbands but if they marry then they are invested with the condition of their second Husbands be it honourable or otherwise which notwithstanding is practised contrarily amongst us Investure is the same that we call Creation Adam having a Grant of Tenure to the whole Creation with all Rites and Solemnities thereunto belonging so long as he bare Allegiance to his Lord and his Posterity have right of Succession about which Heraldry is conversant and when every one knows his own Coat The Fates conspiring with eternal doom Said to their Spindles Let such Ages come And Conquerours laws ordains For willing Realms and Heaven with valour gains Acestes having shot before Aeneas his Arrow fired and was rewarded by him with a chaffed Cup of Anchises as Argenton beareth three Cups in token of an honourable Tenure of Wimondley in Hartfords which our Lawyers term Grand Sergeancy namely that the Lords thereof should serve unto the Kings of England upon their Coronation Day the first Cup as it were the Kings Cup-bearer which Office is now divolved on the Allingtons Littleton where he treats of Feuds or Tenures so far forth as they are used in England such as are all those that are called in Latine Feuda militaria Several Tenures and Feuda Scutiferorum which are by the Laws of the Land termed by the names of Knight-service and Escuage whereof some are temporal others are perpetual Temporal are such as are annuities to Lawyers for Counsel Pensions to Physicians Fees for keeping of Towers and Castles c. And perpetual are such as a man hath by Grant from the Sovereign or Lord of the Soil to have hold use occupy or enjoy Honours Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments to him and his heirs upon condition that the said party his heirs and successours do homage and fealty to his Lord his heirs or successours for such honours c. Of Feuds Regal some are Ecclesiastick as for Archbishops and Bishops who holding them have right to bear Miters and Crosiers Staves Palls c. Others are Civil as Dukedomes Earldomes Viscounts and Lords to whom belongs part of the Regalia as Crowns Swords Staves of Authority Parcere subjectis debellare superbos Cup. The Cup being the Symbol of Royal Dainties is here a military Reward The Arrow-head what doth it signifie but a setting apart to the Kings service Pheons as is continued in the Custome-house to this day Sir John Harrison one of the Farmers of his Majesties Customes of London bearing five Pheon heads on a Cross which they bare long before the separation to that Office perhaps as having won the Prize among the Games that were rewarded by the Prince Aeneas straight all those would exercise The nimble Shaft invites and plac'd the Prize Some say Harbottles Coat is three Clubs Clubs and denotes Valour so the Club is SVI VINDEX and When shame and well known valour force revives And headlong everywhere he dares and drives Arms. 'T is said that the Lacedemonians invented the Helmet and Moses the Crown Mantles of Estate were first invented for use as Tents by Lamech TECTVM MILITIBVS AMPLUM Epeus invented the battering Ram. The use of the Shield was to defend the Body ETIAM POST FVNERA CUSTOS Of the Gauntlet TEGIT AC FERIT Scudmore beareth three Stirrups to mount the War-horse and Devic three Chivaltraps to dismount the Horseman Some Arms are offensive some defensive all of them in the Atchievement of a Knight with his
in things sensitive the reasonable before the unreasonable as Man before Beasts and in things reasonable Immortals before Mortals as Angels before Men in which consideration Nobility is agreeable to Religion and Signs of Nobleness may be allowed in civil consideration to distinguish the Noble from the Base and the Reader may know how good one Coat may be from another if he duly consider what I have delivered in the two first Chapters albeit the good doth neither dignifie the bad nor the bad the good The Table follows A. ACHILLES Shield the Pattern propounded pag. 21. Of what colour and metal 8,23 How made 24. How divided 29. How charged 30. Parts of the same Shield 110 127 128. His Crest 232. Blazon'd by Homer 22. AGAMEMNON's Armor 182. ALEXANDER's Knot 38. ANIMALS hurtful born in Arms viz. himera 190 232. Cockatrice 189. Dragon 192. Hydra 189. Scorpion 191. Serpents 192. Toad 191. For other Animals see letter I. ARMS why called Insignia 20. The onely means to preserve from oblivion why called a Coat Arms and Names reciprocal over-charged sometimes honorable 59. Arms by Conquest 62 41. Arms according to mens inclinations 94. Arms taken from their Lords 185. Arms distinctions 13. ARTS liberal 207. Art helps Nature in a threefold manner 226. ASTROIDES 135. ATCHIEVEMENT 232 62. AENEAS his Shield and whole Atchievement 233. AUGMENTATION what 47. AUGUSTUS as much as Ample 146. B. BATTOON a spurious difference and why 59. BEARINGS is either metal or colours divided by lines as in the second Chapter or charged with Ordinaries as in the third Chapter or charged with things natural or artificial as through the whole course of this Book how the nature of the Bearer is discerned by the Bearing 135. BEASTS Hair and Nails 186. Ape 21. Ass 199. Bear 195. Beeves 196. Bevar Badger 202 Boar 200. Bull 196. Camel 195. Cat Cam-Leopardus 194. Coney 200. Deer 188. Dog and its collar 192 Dragon ibid. Elephant and Ivory ibid. Elephants snouts 193. Ermine 201. Fox 194. Goat 198. Grey 202. Hare 200. Hart 188. Hedghog 202. Horse 186. Hyaena 196. Lambs 198. Leopard 193. Leopards heads 191 192. Linx 195. Lion 178. Minotaur 197. Oxen 196. Panther 193. Porcupine 202. Rams 198. Rhinoceros 195. Sheep 199. Sow 200. Squirrel ibid. Stag 188. Tiger 193. Tortois ibid. Unicorn 201. Urchins 202. Wolf 190. Wolves heads ibid. Skins of Beasts 194 198. Horns 196. BENDS 57. BEZANTS 105. BILLITS 74. BIRDS and their parts Cock 166. Crane Chough 164. Crow 163. Doves 162. Eagle 157. Goose 163. Griffin 161. Harpy 165. Haâ—ks 168. Heron 164 169. Lapwing 167. Martlets 165. Nightingale 166. Ostrich 167. Owl 168 171. Owsle 165. Parrot ibid. Partridg 163. Peacock 162. Pelican 169. Phoenix 162. Quail Raven 163. Redshank 164. Sphinx 165. Stork 166 169. Swallow 161. Swan 169. Terwhit 167. Vulture 166. Their Feathers 168. Heads ibid. Legs 170. Wings 169. BLAZON what 13. Three sorts of Blazon by colours by precious stones and by Planets ibid. Blazon for Princes 143. BORDERS in the beginning of each Chapter Bordered grounds among the Romans 41. Border gâ—bonaâ—ed 1. Border compony 25. Border checkie 49. Border guttie 87. Border entoyre 32 99. Border verdoy 117. Border Enaluron 157. Border Enurney 177. Border purflew ibid. Border plain 199. BRIDLES 187. BRITAIN known to the Phoenicians in Homer's time 63. So called from Scurvy-grass 119. BUCKLES 136. 50 58. BUGLE Horns 196. C. CANTONS 46. CHAPLETS 121. CHEVERON 69. CHIEF 42 43 113. CHIVALTRAPS 232. CHROMATISM the knowledg of the nature of things by colours COAT 21. Plain Coat most ancient 4 18 21 25. COLOURS Colour upon colour false Herauldry 1 17. The colours of Plants 118 119 121. Of Flowers 133. Of Stones 137. Of Planets 149. Of Beasts 185. Of Complexions Seasons Winds Ages 185 167. Colours confidered in a twofold notion 3 16. What 13. Ten 1. Black foundation of matter 5 87. It s antiquity 8. It s house and exaltation 88. Gules 7. Azure 8 99. Azure proper for Seamen 9. Purple ibid. Mourning for Kings 10 11. Colours produced from Metals 18. Proper the worst colour for Beasts but five prime colours 5. Different names from Tincture 12. Colours and proportion please the Fancy 114. Colours mixed 5 8. Their Analogies shadowed Pictures work on the vulgar 144. Colour with Metals three degrees of comparison 17. COMETS 37. COTTISES 51 58 61. COUPLE-CLOSES 69. CRESSANTS 143. CROSSES of several kinds 78. Fell from Heaven 73. CROWNS what they signifie 124. Crowning Emperors 121. Crowning of Poets 122. Crown of Oak 123 131 142. Of Ivy 124. Crown mural 42. Olympick Crown 122. Paâ—â—asado'd Crown 66. CUBE 22. D. DEGREES among Heavenly Bodies Beasts Birds c. 137. DELPH 96. DIFFERENCES for Distinctions of Houses viz. Difference for the Grandchild 5. Label for the first Son For the second Son 146. For the third Son 135. For the fourth Son 155. For the fifth Son 171. For the sixth Son 125. Differences of Noble Persons by colours 000. By Borders 105. DISTINCTIONS of necessity 13. Distinctions among Creatures shew the great Wisdom of God 137. DOCTORS of Divinity 115. Doctors of Law their Dignity 116. Doctors of Physick 215. Doctors Ensigns of Degrees 216. DOVE-COTS 199. DROPS signifie the Spirits 91. Drops of Water 88. Drops of Gold 92. Drops of Blood 93. Drops of Tears 93. Drops of Oil 94. Drops of Pitch 90. Drops how disposed 95. E. ECLIPTICK 58. EDUCATION sows the seeds of Honour 137. AEGYPTIANS three ways of propagating Knowledg 144. Wisdom of the Aegyptians fourfold 167. They worshipped the Dog 192. the Cat 194 c. ELEMENTS of Arms number and position 99. Element 20. The Hebrew letters called Elements 14. Element of Fire 43. 92. 113. 140. 149. Lightning 43. 55. Coals 43. Element of Air 34. Clouds 34. 44. 45. 91. 193. Snow 113. Thunder 35. 144. 155. Rainbow 35. Rain 92. Comets 155. Element of Water 29. 31. 37. 91. 109. Ocean 33. Sea 38. Rivers 31. 92. Bourns 36. Fountains 33. Fish-ponds 33. 36. Water-budgets 36. Tears 95. Element of Earth 25. 97. 106. 117. Rocks 34. Mountains 46. Olympus 97 Aetna 97. Piles 46. Peninsula's ibid. Isthmus 97. ENSIGNS of Sovereignty 122. 227. Ensigns Military 223. Quivers Bows Arrows Cross-Bows 229. Arrow-heads 230. Clubs Swords Helmets 231. Shield Gauntlets Launce Spears Tents Galtraps 232. Standard Ensign great Artillery 233. Drums Trumpets ibid. Spear-heads ibid. Burrs ibid. Bullets 104. Ensigns Ecclesiastical the Miter the Crosier the Bell the Lamp the Incense-pot the Cross 229. The Altar ibid. Ensigns Civil belonging to Aedifices Lime an House a Castle a City a Tower a Column a Porch a Temple the Exchange a Bridg an Arch a Pyramid 209. ERMINE 222. 194. ESQUIRES Dignity 156. F. FASCES 56. FESSE 49. FEUDS Regal Feuda Militaria Feuda Scutiferorum 230. FIELDS what 25. 88. 113. Fields equally divided have no predominancy 47. Fields are checky pally barry 41. Bendy counter-changed 42. 54. Gerrony 114. Field among the Aegyptians what 11. The place of the Officers in