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A42323	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 ...	Guillim, John, 1565-1621.; Barkham, John, 1572?-1642.; Logan, John, 17th cent.	1679 (1679)	Wing G2222; ESTC R12114	200,924	157

against such an offender or wrong-doer Actione Injuriarum As touching the Antiquity of these Signs which we call Arms Diodorus Siculus maketh mention that Osyris surnamed Iupiter the Iust Son to Cham the Cursed Son of Noah called of the Gentiles Ianus being banished from the blessed Tents of Shem and Iaphet by reason of the Curse fallen upon his Father was constrained to seek some remote place wherein he might settle himself his children and people for which purpose he assembled a great Army and appointed Hercules his Eldest Son Captain And in this so ancient an expedition of Wars as well Osyris himself as Hercules Macedon and Anubis his Sons and others did Paint certain Signs upon their Shields Bucklers and other Weapons which Signs were after called Arms As for example Osyris bare a Scepter Royal insigned on the top with an Eye Hercules a Lion Rampant holding a Battle-axe Macedon a Wolf and Anubis a Dog And we find in Homer and in Virgil that the Hero's had their Signs or Marks whereby their persons were distinctly known and discerned in Battel as well as their Kings and Commons had their Publick Ensigns For the Athenians bare the Owl the Persians an Anchor or Sagittary stamped on their Coins the Romans bare in Eagle Minotaur and sundry other shapes which according to Pliuy they bare in Battel unto the time of Marius who bare in his Ensign an Eagle Argent Figured and Embossed Sus une haute longue as may be seen in ancient Medals and chiefly in which is found this world Allocutio Paulus Aemilius saith that anciently the French Kings did bear Argent three Diadems Gules Others say they bare three Toads Sable in a field Vert alias Sinople which cannot be good Armory as the Masters of that Mystery do hold because of Colour upon Colour Whence they received those Arms is not certainly known unless they had them from the Romans But their opinion is more probable who by the Blazon of the Shield of France would shew that the first Franks consisting of Sicambri a people of Germany inhabiting the Marches of Frizeland towards Holland Zealand and Gelderland gave unto them Azure which resembleth the water which being calm representeth the colour of the Heavens and therein three Flowers de Lis Or which do grow plentifully in those Marches and do flourish in May and Iune Others affirm that the same was sent by an Angel from Heaven to Clovis the first Christian King of France But Gregory of Tours in his History mentioned no such thing neither doth it appear that they bare those Arms before the time of King Pepin but after the time of Lewis le Grosse at which time it seemeth that Armories began to become hereditary and were transferred from Father to Son in each Family In the first assumption of these Signs every man did take to himself some such Beast Bird Fish Serpent or other Creature as he thought best fitted his Estate or whose nature and quality did in some sort quadrate with his own or whereunto himself was in some respect in quality like or wished to be resembled unto Ex iis quibus quisque maxime delectatur qualis etiam sit ipse cognoscitur The reason is for that no man is delighted but with things that are like himself Therefore wherein any man is specially delighted himself also is found to be in quality much like unto them Zanchius de immortalitate Animarum 133. Whereof it cometh that our Souls albeit they are naturally delighted with things that please and delight the External Senses yet shall we find that by how much the mind is more generous and noble by so much the more doth it apprehend a more solid delight in things pertaining to the inward faculties than in such as pertain to the exterior senses as we may see in those Arts wherein the Phantasie is chiefly exercised whereby they receive a greater contentment of things pertaining to the mind that is to say as well Moral as Natural and Supernatural Philosophy For like as our exteriour senses are delighted with corporal and corruptible things so in like manner are our minds affected to things Spiritual and eternal and are wonderfully delighted in them by reason of the Sympathy of their natural qualities Similitudo non currit quatuor pedibus ut aiunt in Scholis many things may be like yet nothing like in all points or respects As their Institution is not new but very ancient derived almost from the beginning of the world so their use was not limited or restrained to some few particular Nations Kingdoms and Countries but most largely spread all the World over insomuch as there is no Nation Country or People so savage or barbarous but that they have their particular Signs whereby they may particularly and distinctly be known and discerned from others As in Example The Nations of the Israelites Bare for their Ensigns The Hebr. Letter Tau Scythians A Thunderbolt Egyptians An Oxe Phrygians A Swine Thracians Mars Romans An Eagle Persians Bow and Arrows Corali a Savage people of Pontus bare 2 Wheels And Plutarch in the life of Marius saith that the Cimbrians a People inhabiting the parts of Denmark Norway and the Almains which in those days were cruel and barbarous nevertheless had their Shields adorned with the forms and shapes of savage and cruel beasts as also their Targets and other Military Instruments suited accordingly and that in such multitudes and in such glorious and glistering manner that they dazled the eyes of the beholders Neither were these Signs particularly restrained unto Nations Countries and Provinces but they were so universal as that there was no Tribe particular Person or Family but had their Armorial Signs or Notes whereby they were not only distinctly known and discerned from other forreign Tribes and Families but also apparently discerned amongst themselves one from another by means of interposition of some minute or small differences which after-comers were forced to devise for the preservation of Common peace and unity when the multitude of Bearers through long tract of time increased excessively Achilles had his Shield beautifully adorned with great variety of things Celestial as the motion of the Sun Moon Stars Planets and other the Celestial Spheres the Scituation of the Earth and the adjacent Islands the Seas with the ebbing and flowing thereof c. whereof I shall have better occasion offered to speak more at large hereafter Also Amphiaraus as Pindarus the Theban Poet affirmeth in his expedition to Thebes bare in his Shield a painted Dragon Capaneus one of the seven Captains that besieged Thebes bare the manifold headed Hydra that Hercules fought withal as Statius the Neapolitan Poet reported Polynices a Sphynx Agamemnon in the Trojan Wars bare in his Shield a Lion with this Epigram Terror hic est hominum qui nunc gerit est Agamemnon Vlysses bare a Dolphin and a Typhon breathing out flames of fire Perseus Medusa's head Autiochus a Lion with a white wand Theseus an

esteem and of no industry have for the most part not only four but manifold feet whereby we are admonished that perverse and evil disposed persons have multiplicities of affections in respect that by the motion of the feet our bodies are perduced from place to place so do our affections transferr us from one delight to another according to that saying Pes meus affectus meus eo feror quocunque feror Though some perhaps may esteem these Egg-bearing Animals unworthy the dignity of Coat-Armour yet for my own part I hold their bearing to be no less honourable than many of those that in common estimation are reputed far more worthy insomuch that they may well beseem the bearing of the greatest Potentate For if it pleased the Sovereign King of Kings to use them as his special Instruments to chastise the stubborness of such as rebelled against his Ordinance and to arm those his minute and weak Creatures with such an incredible boldness as that they feared not the face or forces of men but that the very Frogs entred the houses and chambers of the Egyptians upon the people into their ovens and into their kneading-throughs yea even into King Pharaoh's Chamber and upon his Bed Moreover if God hath vouchsafed to give to the Grashopper the Canker-worm the Catterpiller and the Palmer-worm the honourable Title of his huge great Army Why should we prize them at so low a rate as that we should disdain to bear them in Coat-Armour Since God saith by the Prophet Ioel I will render you the years which the Grashopper hath eaten the Canker-worm and the Catterpiller and the Palmer-worm my great Host which I sent among you It is therefore to be observed that they also have their actions not to be omitted in Blazon albeit not in that variable manner nor yet so copious as some others And because they are far different from those formerly handled not only in shape but also in the manner of their living in their gate and actions therefore must they receive a divers manner of Blazon They are called in Latin Reptilia or creeping things Quia reptant super terram And here we must distinguish between those things quae reptant which creep as Frogs Ants c. and those quae serpunt which glide as Snakes which latter kind we shall speak of afterward But here we mention those Reptiles which are gressible such as by means of their feet are able to go step by step from one place to another so termed à gradiendo which is proceeding by degrees And hitherto also are referred such as by skipping mounting or leaping raise their bodies above ground and so alter their station place or seat Of which kinds some have four feet some have more Such as have four feet only are these that follow with their like I have omitted in this Edition that Escocheon Sol charged with three Toads erected Saturn which according to some Authors was the Coat-Armour of the ancient Kings of France because since my last Edition I find great variety of opinions concerning this matter of which I have given a touch in the first Chapter of the first Section And in lieu thereof I do present you with the ancient Coat-Armour of the same Charge born by a Family in this Kingdom Bara in his Book intituled Les Blazones dez Armories giveth an Example of two Lizards erected one against another as if they were combatant and termeth them rampant a term very unfitly applied to Reptiles to whom the terms of mounting leaping or skipping are much more proper To this head must be reduced Crocodiles Salamanders Chamelions Ewets Lizards and whatsoever other Egg-bearing Reptile having only four feet as to their natural and proper place There resteth yet one other sort of this kind of Reptiles which are diversly shaped from all the former and are called in Latin Insecta animalia because that being divided in their body between their head and belly their parts do seem so divided as if they hang'd only together by small strings having no flesh blood sinues c. And there are also Insecta which slie but here we speak only of Terrestrials leaving the other to their due place And because such bearing is rare I am inforced rather than to pass them over with silence to use Coats of Device for expressing their sundry forms as in Example A very remarkable Note doth Farnesius propose unto us taken from this poor despised Creature the Spider touching the Procreation of Children It is a matter of great consequence of what Parents a man is descended If we desire saith he to have a good race of Horses a litter of special good Hounds for game choice Plants and Stocks to plant our Orchards and Gardens with delectable fruits do we not use our uttermost endeavour to effect them How much greater should our care and providence be in the procreation of our Children The first instruction that the Children receive is in the veins and bowels of their Parents whereof we may take an Example from Spiders which are no sooner hatched and excluded out of their Eggs but forthwith they practise to make webs as if they had brought with them even out of their Mothers womb together with their life the artificial skill of webbing Holy and reverent is that piety that we owe to our Parents Parens enim est genitor parens patria parens denique est ipse Deus For he that begot us is our parent our Countrey is our parent and lastly God himself is our parent It hath been often questioned Why the Father loveth the Son more dearly tenderly and affectionately than the Son doth the Father The Reason is this Quia patris amor in filium à natura est filij in parentem ab officio The affectionate love of the Father proceedeth of Nature that of the Son of duty Therefore the sacred Law hath decreed Amabis patrem matrem tuam Thou shalt love thy Father and Mother but not contrariwise For where the Law of Nature speaketh there is no need it should be assisted by Commandment Notwithstanding even naturally the love of the Son to the Father is great We may learn saith Zanchius by these minute Animals how many and how great instructions we may receive from the universal number of Creatures that God hath given us for Instructors and teachers of Moral Discipline so that we will open our eyes to behold them and listen to God's disciplining us in them Admirable doubtless is the Omnipotency of God in these Creatures for as St. Hierome saith Epist. ad Heliod Creatorem non in Caelo tantum miramur c. We do not admire God's power in heaven only and in the earth the Sun Elephants Camels Oxen Boars Lions c. but also in his smallest Creatures the Ant Flea Fly and small Worm and others of like kind whose bodies or shapes are better known unto us than their names So much were the Israelites assotted in

had the two Angels that came unto Lot Gen. 19. And as God gave them Bodies for that time so did he give them also the Faculties answerable to such Bodies viz. to walk talk eat drink and such like These Bodies and bodily Faculties were given them to the end they might more familiarly converse and discourse with the godly to whom they were sent and the better perform the charge enjoyned them insomuch as they did unfeignedly eat and drink as Zanchius noteth whereby they did the better conceal their proper Nature until such time as they should make known unto men what they were indeed Hereupon it seemeth the Ancients of fore-past Ages have used the bearing of Angels in Coat-Armours according to those bodily shapes and habits wherein they appeared unto men as in Example After Angels Cherubims whose use in Armory is less frequent are to be handled Of these I find two Examples of several bearing the one out of Hieron Bara expressing the sole bearing of a Cherub another out of Leigh of a Cherub born upon an Ordinary to which I have thought fit to add a Coat of Name for a more manifest proof of their use in Arms as also to shew that they are born as well with Ordinaries between them as upon Ordinaries In our Division we distinguished these from Angels because by most they are taken for a distinct Order above ordinary Angels taking that Name from the fulness or abundance of Divine and Mystical Science Thus have you Examples of Cherubims born not only Sole but also upon and with Ordinaries CHAP. II. FRom things Natural that are meerly formal we come to such as are Natural and Material Those are said to be Essences Material that do consist of a Body subject to motion and alteration Natura materiata est essentia in corpore motui obnoxio subsistens A material Nature is an Essence subsisting in a Body subject to motion These are Simple Mixt. Simple are certain Orbicular or Round Bodies or bodily Essences originally consisting of an unmixed matter Of these some are Constant. Inconstant Those are said to be constant Natures which in respect of their perfection are of most lasting continuance such are the Celestial Globes and the Stars The heavenly Spheres or Globes are Ummoveable Moveable The Unmoveable is holden to be that uttermost Sphere that glistereth so gloriously as that it dazeleth the sharpest sight of man and is called Caelum Empyreum the fiery Heaven whereof we shall be better able to judge and speak when God shall bring us thither and yet our Star-gazers will take upon them to talk so confidently and particularly of those incomprehensible Bodies as if they had been there and surveyed every corner thereof This Celestial Globe according to Scribonius is the Mansion Place and Place of all the heavenly Natures wherein the Angels and other the blessed of God do with endless joy behold the presence of Almighty God face to face To this place according to the same Author were Enoch Elias and Paul rapt up before their deaths But now for more orderly progression herein forasmuch as we have occasion here offered to speak of a Sphere we will first shew what a Sphere is and so proceed to the rest A Sphere is a figure or body exactly round of all parts and void of all Angles and Corners The spherical or round form is of all other the most perfect as also the most beautiful capable and fit for motion in as much as it is void of all corners which might give impediment to moving therefore is this form most agreeable to the Heavens and Celestial Bodies which are evermore in continual and restless motion It was requisite then that the perfectest Body such as the Heavens are should receive the perfectest form which is the orbicular or round figure Figura Sphaerica saith Aristotle lib de Coelo Mundo est omnium figurarum nobilior The motion of the Heavens is the most sincere and unlaboured of all motions Movetur enim sine labore fatigatione Arist. de Coelo 2. As also it is said in Ecclesiast 16. 26. The Lord hath set his works in good order from the beginning and part of them be sundred from the other when the first made them He hath garnished his works for ever and their beginning so long as they shall endure they are not hungry nor wearied in their labours nor cease from their offices Verse 27. Again None of them hindreth another neither was any of them disobedient to his words Verse 28. He buildeth his Spheres in the Heaven and hath laid the foundations of the Globe of Elements in the Earth he calleth the waters of the Sea and poureth them out upon the open Earth the LORD is his Name Amos 9. 6. The matter whereof the Heavens are composed hath in it this natural property not to be moved violently neither yet naturally to rest As the same Author testifieth in these words Natura materiae Coeli est innatu non movere violenter non quiescere naturaliter Lib. de Coelo without intermission is the motion of the Heavens Therefore are high and noble Spirits resembled to the Celestial Bodies according to Lipsius Alti aethereique animi ut ipse aether semper gaudent motu Men of etherial or heavenly Spir its cannot be idle but are evermore in action and exercise of things commendable and vertuous being thereto moved and quickned by an honest and free disposition and affection of the will and desire of the mind Omnia enim honesta opera saith Seneca voluntas inchoat occasio perficit But vertue hardly receiveth her due merit at all seasons Nevertheless Saepe honorata est virtus etiam ubi eam fefellit exitus The circular Motion receiveth beginning in it self and hath the smoothest passage for in all other forms you shall find Angels either more or less which do give impediments to motion whereby they give occasion of some stay or rest as I have said before Therefore it behooved that the sincerest Body should be fitted with the simplest form and motion In this kind of motion of the Heavens is signified the very eternity of God wherein there is neither beginning nor ending to be found and therefore it is rightly said by the Apostle The invisible things of God are conceived and understood by his creatures as also his Everlasting Power and Divine Essence whereof his visible works are the express Characters Mercurius Trismegistus in his description of God resembleth him to a Sphere saying Deus est Sphaera qui ratione sapientiaque comprehenditur cujus centrum est ubique circumferentia verò nusquam c. God is a Sphere that is apprehended by reason whose center is every where and his circumference no where For God hath neither beginning nor ending he wants beginning because he was not made by any but was himself the Creator of all things And he is void of ending by reason that he had no beginning Nam