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A85770	A display of heraldrie: manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge thereof then hath hitherto been published by any, through the benefit of method; / wherein it is now reduced by the study and industry of John Guillim ... Interlaced with much variety of history suitable to the severall occasions or subjects.	Guillim, John, 1565-1621.; Nower, Francis, d. 1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing G2219A; ESTC R177735	251,394	243

But their opinion is more probable who by the Blazon of the Shield of France would shew that the first Frankes consist of Sicum'bri a people of Germany inhabiting the Marches of Frizeland towards Holland Zeland and Gelderland gave unto them Azure which resembleth the water which being calme representeth the colours of the Heavens and therein three flower de Lis Or which do grow plentifully in those Marches and do flourish in May and June Others affirme that the same was sent by an Angell from Heaven to Clovis the first Christian King of France But Gregory of Towers in his History mentioned no such thing neither doth it appear that they bear those Arms before the time of King Pippine but after the time of Lewis Le Crosse 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 fitting 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 Externall 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 exteriour 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 Morall as Naturall and Supernaturall Philosophy For like as our exterior senses are delighted with corporall and corruptible things so in like manner are our minds affected to things Spirituall and eternall and are wonderfully delighted in them by reason of the Sympathy of their naturall qualities Similitudo non currit quatuor pedibus ut aiunt in Scholis Many things may be like yet nothing like in all points or respects Use of Arms universall 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 in so much 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 Scythians Egyptians Phrygians Thracians Romans Persians bare for their Ensigns The Hebrew letter Tau A Thunderbolt An Oxe A Swine Mars An Eagle Bow and Arrowes Corali a Savage people of Pontus bare two Wheeles Anciently Arms borne in Shields and Targets And Plutarch in the life of Marius saith That the Cymbrians a people inhabiting the parts of Denmark Norway and the Almaynes which in those dayes were cruell and barbarous neverthelesse had their Shields adorned with the forms and shapes of savage and cruell beasts as also their Targets and other Military Instruments suted accordingly and that in such multitudes and in such glorious and glistering manner that they dazeled the eyes of the beholders Arms generally used for particular distinction Neither were these Signs peculiarly restrained unto Nations Countries and Provinces but they were so universall as that there were no Tribe particular person or family but had their Armoriall Signs or Notes whereby they were not onely distinctly known and discerned from other forrain 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 encreased excessively Shields diversly adorned Achilles had his Shield beautifully adorned with great variety of things Celestiall as the motion of the Sun Moon Stars Planets and other the Celestiall Spheres the Scituation of the Earth the adjacent Islands the Seas with the ebbing and flowing thereof c. wherof 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 withall as Statius the Neapolitan Poet reporteth Polynices a Sphinx Agamemnon in the Trojan Wars bare in his Shield a Lyon with this Epigram Terror hic est hominum qui hunc gerit est Agamemnon Vlysses bare a Dolphin and a Typhon breathing out flames of fire First production of Arms rough and rude Perseus Medusaes head Antiochus a Lyon with a white wand Theseus an Oxe Seleucus a Bull Augustus a Sphynx with infinite others which I purposely over-pass These signs or tokens were in their first production rough-hewen as I may term them and rude as also those other notes or signs that we now call Badges or Cognizances so as they may be said to have been rather painted Emblems than exquisite tokens of honour or absolute signs or badges in the time of their first Institution they received divers denominations As Signs Ensigns Tokens Marks Cognizances c. But when in after-Ages they had been polished and refined then were these Tokens or Signs Diverse Denominations of Arms. that had been formerly after a rude fashion handled together more carefully distinguished so as those which we now call Crests or Cognizances worne upon the Helmets of Military persons in the field were distinctly known from those that were borne in Shields and Targets which we now call Arms in English and in Latine Arma. Men of ancient times devised and invented many things ingeniously and with great care and consideration but finished them not but recommended them to posterity to be by them brought to perfection according to that saying Invenit antiquitas posteri perfecerunt neither doth this derogate ought from the studious and Industry of the ancient neither is this any indignity unto them Non erubescat antiquitas saith Chassaneus si quid melius horum quae ipsa tradidit Novitas adinvenit for nothing is devised and perfected at an instant but it is continuance of time and much labour and industry that brings it to perfection These Signs Marks Notes Ensigns or whatsoever else you please to name them are not all of one sort for some

charge borne by a Family in this Kingdome Bara in his Book intituled Les Blazones dez Armories giveth an example of two Lizards erected one against another as if they were Combatand and termeth them Rampand a terme very unfitly applyed to Reptiles to whom the terms of mounting leaping or skipping are much more proper To this head must be reduced Crocodyles Salamanders Camelions Ewtes Lizards and whatsoever other Egge-bearing Reptile having onely four feet as to their naturall 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 Latine Insecta Animalia because that being divided in their body between their head and belly their parts do seem so divided as if they hanged onely together by small strings having no flesh blood sinewes c. And there are also insecta which flye Insects that live upon the earth but here we speak onely of Terrestrials leaving the other to their due place and because such bearing is rare I am inforced rather than to passe them over with silence to use Coats of Device for expressing their sundry formes as in example What understood by the Spider Vpton saith that he hath seen Spiders borne in Coat-armour by a certain Lombard By the Spider we may understand a painfull and industrious person occupied in some honest and necessary businesse a man carefull of his private estate and of good foresight in repairing of small decayes and preventing of wracks The Spider her self is poysonfull and deadly yet is her web reckoned an Antidote against poyson notwithstanding the same is extracted out of her wombe In like sort saith Aelianus out of the poysonfull contagion and infectious venome of sin and transgression the Soveraign powers do take occasion to extract and establish wholesome and profitable lawes Pro. 30.28 against such notorious crimes Of the Spider Salomon writeth in this manner The Spider taketh hold with her hands and is in Kings Palaces Example touching procreation A very remarkable note doth Farnesius propose unto us taken from this poore 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 rase of Horses a litter of speciall 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 veines and bowels of their Parents whereof we may take an Example from Spiders which are no sooner hatched and excluded out of their Egs but forthwith they practise to make webs as if they had brought with them even out of their Mothers wombe together with their life the Artificiall 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 Country is our parent and lastly God himself is our parent It hath been often questioned why the Father loveth the Son more de●●ly tenderly and affectionately than the Son doth the Father The reason is this Quia patris amor in filium a natura est filii 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 thy Mother but not contrariwise for where the Law of Nature speaketh there is no need it should be assisted by Commandement 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 universall number of creatures that God hath given us for instructors and teachers of Morall Discipline so that we will open our eyes to behold them and listen to Gods disciplining us in them Admirable doubtlesse is the Omnipotency of God in these his creatures for as Saint Hierome saith Epist ad Heliod Creatorem non in Coelo tantum miramur c. We do not admire Gods power in Heaven only and in earth the Sun Elephants Camels Oxen Boares Lyons c. but also in his smallest creatures the Ant Flea Flye and small Worme and others of like kind whose bodies or shapes are better known unto us than their names So much were the Israelites assotted in Idolatry as that they esteemed beasts for Gods as appeareth Wisdome 12.24 For they went astray farre in the wayes of errour and esteemed the beasts which their enemies despised for gods being abused after the manner of children that have no understanding So long is any Animal or living creature said to have life Breathing a token of life as he hath breath and the exercise thereof And this rule holdeth not onely in four-footed Animals but also in those that we call Insecta and in gliding Animals also As both Galen and Pliny do teach though Aristotle denieth these latter to have breath but therein he speaketh comparatively viz. in respect of other Animals that do attract and deliver their breath more strongly and more sensibly they seem to have no breath at all One example more I will propose which shall be of the Emmet is in this next Escocheon The examples hitherto produced are taken onely from Reptiles gressible and though of that kind which hath more than four feet I have alleadged only the two last Examples of Insecta yet there are some other of many feet which are not insecta as the Palmer-worme Cheeslip Kitchinbobs which being touched gather themselves round like a Ball and such like which must be referred to the same head And besides all these there are yet other some which be both Gressible and volant such are these that having their livelihood onely upon the earth by the help of a kind of wings they oftentimes change their place for the acquiring of their sustenance as in example Vagipennae why so called There are other of this kind whose wings are lesse manifest than the Grashoppers because they are closed in a kind of case that can hardly be discerned but when they are preparing to flye for which respect they are called vagipennae saith Calipine Quia alas vaginis quibusdam inclusas habent for carrying their wings sheathed as the Hartflye Beetle Lady-cow c. which together with Locusts and such other as are both Gressible and volant and many-legged are to be reduced to this head as to their proper and naturall place I will close up all these with one example of the Scorpion which Aeianus and others report to be winged in Aegypt and India though he doubts whether they are not rather bred by the heat of

they did the better conceal their proper nature untill such time as they should make known unto men what they were indeed Hereupon it seemeth the Ancients of forepassed 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 SECT III. CHAP. II. FRom things naturall that are mearly formal Of naturall and materiall things Materiall defined we come to such as are Naturall and Materiall Those are said to be Essences Material that do consist of a Body subjected 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 unmixted 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 Constant natures The heavenly Sphears or Globes are Vnmoveable Moveable Sphears The Vnmoveable is holden to be that uttermost Sphear that glistereth so gloriously as that it dazeleth the sharpest sight of man Immoveable and is called Coelum 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 celestiall Globe according to Scribonius is the Mansion place and Pallace 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 Sphear we will first shew what a Sphear is and so proceed to the rest A Sphear is a figure or body exactly round of all parts Sphear what Sphericall forme perfectest and void of all angles and corners The Sphericall or round forme is of all other the most perfect as also the most beautifull capable and fit for motion in as much as it is voide of all corners which might give impediment to moving therefore is this forme most agreable to the Heavens and Celestiall bodies which are evermore in continuall and restless motion It was requisite that the perfectest body such as the heavens are should receive the perfectest form which is the orbicular or round figure Figura Sphaerica saith Arist 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 Eccl. 16.26 The Lord hath set his Works in good Order from the beginning and part of them he sundred from the other when he 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 Ver. 27. Again None of them hindreth another neither was any of them disobedient to his words Ver. 28. He buildeth his Sphears in the Heaven and hath laid the foundations of the Globe of Elements in the earth he calleth the waters of the Sea and powreth 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 naturall property Not to be moved violently neither yet naturally to rest As the same Author testifieth in these words Natura materiae Coeli est innata 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 celestiall bodies according to Lipsius A●ti ae●her●ique animi ut ipse aether semper gaudent motu Men of ethereall or heavenly spirits cannot be idle but are evermore in action and exercise of things commendable and vertuous being thereto moved and quickened 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 Neverthelesse 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 Angles either more or lesse which do give impediments to motion whereby they give occasion of some stay or rest as I have said before Therefore it behoveth that the sincerest body should be fitted with the simplest form and motion In this kind of motions 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 expresse Characters Mercurius Trismegistus in his description of God resembleth him to a Sphear saying Deus est Sphaera qui ratione sapientiaque comprehenditur cujus centrum est ubique circumferentia vero nusquam c. God is a Sphear 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 quicquid finitur in sua principia resolvitur Whatsoever hath an end the same is resolved into that it was at the first Substance of the Heavens As touching the substance of the Heavens Scribonius saith that it is Corpus constans ex aqua in firmissimam essentiam instar pellis extensae concameratum It is a body sath he co●●●sting of Water in the most solid substance thereof spread out v●uit-w●●e like a skin Though it may seem to th●e Courteous Reader that I doe undertake a needlesse labour is manifesting that the glorious Heavens and Earth were formed and framed by the most powerfull God a thing so frequent in the sacred Scriptures and also so clear as that no man can doubt thereof yet give me leave for my own particular who do labor to apprehend every occasion to publish the glory of the Eternall and Omnipotent God which is the 〈◊〉 and principall end of our Creation especially sithence the order of my Method requireth the same and that bonum aliquod soepius repetitum delecta● Give me leave I say in this my latter impression to reprove my selfe for my too