Achilles nor any thing of Noble Extraction but is Sung by the Bard Virgil in the Genealogy of Aeneas and if I have not the Applause of a Pencil that Painting is able to teach others to Paint I may assume that of a Cole that draws the dead Lines which first pourfoil the Designe which though they be expunged by the Colours and lost in the Picture yet they lose not their Vertue of prescribing Order to the Colours and giving a Rule to the Design In Magnis voluisse sat est Ajax wore his Shield of Hides without Ornament horridly negligent Achilles that had his Studded with Diamonds was not therefore less strong because more beautifull none is to abandon the Enterprise for the Difficulty in the beginning If I like Geographers in their Protractions upon Maps make the same use as Plutarch doth in the Life of Theseus in excuse of his Pen draw obscure Lines at Random and Write Terra incognita I may very well obtain your favour having so many Fields to Surveigh for when he began to Write of the Lives of the Noble Hero's he could not one by one particularize the Enterprizes with which they acquired the Grandure of their Names and the Glory of Immortals because Antiquity and Oblivion its follower rendred many places unknowne many parts of their Lives hid and obscure even my Sphear of Gentry hath moved it self round Think no more on what is past Since Time in Motion makes such hast It hath no leisure to discry The Errors which are passed by I have purposely writ this small Tract as a Supplement to that Sphere of Gentry and by the way have brought in those Mottoes used by the Abbot of Picinelli in his Mondo Symbolico because the whole Art of Herauldry is nothing else but the Symbolical World and every Charge on the Shield is the Language of the Creature not understood till they were most judiciously Blazoned by the Natural Philosophy of Solomon in his words that he spake of the Heavens 99. the Earth 97. the Elements 101. the Sun 141. Moon 142. Stars 148. Planets 141. Comets 155. Meteors 154. Beasts 177. Birds 163. Fish 172. Fowl 169. Insects and Herbs with Trees 130. Plants 132. Mines 136. Minerals 134 c. Ridley's View Skill in Armoury although it be a thing now almost proper to the Heraulds of Arms who were in old Times called Feciales or Caduceatores because they were messengers of war and peace yet the ground they have is from the Civil Law to whom belongeth the ranging every man into his Room of Honour according as his place requireth onely the Heraulds do give Notes as it were of their Ranks and Degrees noting by those Ensignes as it were the Law Civil in respect of Treaties between Prince and Prince in Marshal Causes concerning Captains and Souldiers and concerning the Bearing of Arms as some being of publick Dignity and Office as of Bishops Admirals c. or of especial Dignities as of Kings and Princes so lastly of private men As by Trumpets and Drums That there be Solemne Denouncing of the War intended to the end that all dissenters may withdraw in time and to divert other Nations from adhearing that it be prosecuted by just and Honourable wayes without Treachery Corruption Breach of Faith Poyson or Secret Assassination which the Gallant Romans did disdain to act though for never so great a Victory By Crosses and Saltires That all Articles and Capitulations made be strictly kept and observed by Christians even towards Turks Pagans Jewes or Infidells By plain lines That they be Interpreted in the plainest and most equitable sence without any Art or subtilty at all By Honourable Ordinaries That an Enemy after he hath yeilded himself be not killed but kept alive for Ransome that what is gotten from the Enemy is good and lawfull Purchase though it was newly taken from some of our own People or Confederates so that it was once brought safe into the Enemies quarters Quartring Coats As Right to Kingdomes or Provinces by Donation last Will Successor or Marriage Portcullises Community or Property of the Sea and the Right of Fishing and Trading By Checkers Cantons c. That the Enemies Countrey when it offers to yeild be not lay'd Wast Burnt or Destroyed By Battlements That when a Towne is to be stormed Women Children Aged Ecclesiastical Persons so far as is possible may be spared By Torteauxes Plates Besants Gunstones c. That it be free to Friends or Confederates to Trade with the Enemy so they carry neither Victualls Money Armes or Ammunition By Fretts and Frette That Strictness and Severity of Discipline greater than in Peace be maintained within the Camp and that neither Friends Goods coming in an Enemies Bottome nor a Friends Ship though carrying Enemies Goods in Her be taken as Prize By Augmentations and severall sorts of Armes That Priviledges be granted to Souldiers beyond other men and that the Valiant be advanced to Honour and admitted to pertake of the Spoyle which he did help to get By Rebatements That the Cowardly be disgraced the Disobedient rigorously Chastised the Incorrigible cashiered and that Military Offences or Contracts and Promises made between Souldier and Souldier the Cognizance thereof be in the Court-Marshall and to be Tryed by the Lawes of Armes only By Paâ—â—y Bendy and such like Latitude of Territory and Iurisdiction by Sea or Land By Crownes and Garlands That the Aged and Worne-out Souldier be dismissed to ease with Reward and Honour And lastly By Doves Green Branches and such like Ensigns of Peace That Heraulds or Messengers sent from the Enemy be received and dismissed with safety And though in the Beginning Arms and Colours were proper to men of War Vse of Arms. to avoid confusion in the Host to discern one Company from another pag. 13. yet when it came to be a matter of Honour it was challenged no less by men of peace 103. and as these signs were taken from things natural as is noted before so also from things artificial as Colours simple 5. and mixed 18. divided by half 26. or quarters 27. or by lines direct cross 28. overthwart 29. wherein Art must follow Nature as is shewed in the second Chapter this whole Book being nothing else then an account of what Silvester de Petra Sancta in his Epistle gives you in these words Dum universam artem tesserariam expositurus studui indagare originem ejus dividere ac decussare Scutiariam 25. taenias lemniscos 5. in ea varios ducere Aves 157. Feras 177. Vndas 29. Nubes 34. Astra 145. Stirpes 132 Flores 121. Arma 23.2 Moles 209. Machinas 212. quas non alias rerum formas exarare aptare insuper galeas 2â—2 seu apertas seu clatratas 231. seu rectas 231. seu versas obliquatas 231. fastigiare Serto seu Corona 122. inumbruare plumis corimbis 168. Crucibus 76. Monilibusque 137. Vexillis inornare munire Atlantibus 164. Denique
as Tau among the Hebrews Letters in Arms signifying men of much Judgement the Arms of Toft being a Cheveron between three Text Tees perhaps no otherwise then that of Thoth to signifie his Name and Quality the Alphabet of the Hebrews ending with the Letter Tau signifying full Perfection it is advanced in chief in the Coat of Drury In the holy Tongue it signifieth a Mark and three of them are borne by the Name of Grymes Nullis praesentior aether It is a special Note of Gods Favour Apud Aegyptios singulae Litetae singulis verbis serviebunt and an especial Ensign in the Coat of Talke of Sussex who beareth the same Cross with three Crowns of Thorn in chief denoting therein Compassi ut conregnabimuâ— and the whole Alphabet doth afford fit Bearings for the Judicious and Learned and among Military Signes Letters were Notes of their Order as H Hastatorum P Principium T Triariorum And among the Hebrews Hermanus Hugo de Origine Scribend Aleph signifieth a prince Beth id est Domus Gimel id est Camelus Daleth id est Porta Zain as Zen id est Arma He and Teth and Cheth being so denominated from their sound Jod Manus as Caninus Caph Palmam interpretat Lamed id est Stimulo Mem Macula and Nun Piscem interpretatur Samech Basis as Caninus saith Aâ—jn Fons Pe Os seu vultus Tsade Hamus Coph Simium Resch quasi Ros that is a Head Schin quasi Scen id est Deus Letters being the first Signes of Bodies Bodies being the first Ensignes of Spirits by which outward Signes the minds of men became understood Signature being the onely universal Character and Colour the Paper on which they are written and because Lucis proprium est Color ejusque perpetuus comes cui cum nulla sit Materia neque Colori erit Therefore the Field of Metal as it representeth Light is to be preferred before that of Colour because that every man is to preferre his own Countrey as the Common Good nevertheless as the Metal is the Spirit without which the Shield iâ— as a dead Letter Where it is superiour on the Field it hath an Exaltation because that Light overcame Darkness and whereever there is an Exaltation we shall allow our Dignity more then its proper place hence it is that Metal is named before Colour Argent and Sable being most Fair Or and Sable most Rich Or and Vert most Glittering and are preferred when they come nearest to the Unity of Matter in the perfect things of the Creation every thing having a nobility of Colour or when or where they come nearest to the Unity of Form as to bear things uniform and conspicuous by Metal now if you look back to the Scheme of Colours in this Chapter you shall find that we allow the first and chief Place to the Argent or Unity as the Form Why Metal upon Mâ—tal is false Heâ—aldry and the next to the OR corporeal Matter being understood by the number two but because both Metals are allowed in Arms we will admit them to be both Unites the one of the Form and the other of the Matter now as from one issueth two so from the first an Aethereal Metal Argent issueth OR making two Unites and if you take one of those Unites for the Beginning and another for the Middle then there wants an end making Metal upon Metal Again if you put a Unite in the Beginning and another for the End then you have rwo Extremes but no Mean or Middle for seeing Gules is the first Unity of Colours and Azure next this is imperfect also because then 't is Colour upon Colour Again if you place one Unite for a Mean and the other for the End here also is imperfection because it wants a Beginning The formal fountain of Light begins with God and terminates with Man who is in the Sphere of Equality or Honour Point in the mid Heaven viz. Gules penetrating to the Centre of the Earth or Abyss whose Basis is in the Earth or Centre of Darkness whereby Black and White become most ancient and I have set all down from the Square of three by adding one which in all is ten Chapters beyond the which as Aristotle affirmeth no man hath found out any number this first is of Colours which in consideration of the Painters Art is no incroachment in me to write of in which you may principally observe with the Honourable Robert Boyle Boyl's Experiments that there are but few Simple and Primary Colours from whose various Compositions all the rest do as it were result being sufficient to exhibit a variety and number of Colours Such as those that are altogether strangers to the Painters pallets can hardly imagine Thus for instance Black and White differingly mix'd make a vast company of Darker Grayes Blue and Yellow make a huge variety of Greens Red and Yellow make Orange Tawny Red with a little White makes a Carnation Red with an Eye of Blue make a Purple and as by these simple Compositions again compounded among themselves the skilfull Painter can compound a great many more then there are yet names for so by the Composition of Colour and Metal Lines and Charges are produced infinite variety of Arms the Corpuscles whereof they consist must be such as do not destroy one anothers Texture but remains as plain as may be Tin calcin'd by fire affords a White and Lead calcin'd a Red and Copper a very Black or dark Powder and Iron may be by the action of reverberated flames be turned into a Colour almost like that of Saffron Gold is preferred before all Metals being the Symbole of Peace which nourisheth Love Sands Coment Meâ—am l. 1. and Lead of Poverty which starves it Forthwith up sprang the quick and weightless fire Met. l. 1. Whose flames unto the highest Arch aspire The next in levity and place is Aire Gross Elements to th cker Earth repair Self clâ—gg'd with weight the waters flowing round Possess the last and solid Tellus bound In our Disquisition into the formal Causes of any thing the knowledge of the nature of Colours is necessary to compleat the science in which sense Colour is as much formal as the Line which distinguisheth the Form and Matter as it ariseth from Unity is said to have Magnitude and Magnitude is no other then that which ariseth from a Point which is said to have no parts and in Greek is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Signum a Sign externally made to signifie that which is conceived in the mind being the same as Unity in Number an Instant in Time or a Sound in Musick and Armorial Marks so much in use with us at this Day are called Insignia under which word is comprised all Signs Marks and Tokens of Honour being externally made to signifie that which was conceived in the mind of the Bearer and that I may proceed to this ARMILOGIA or universal Signature which
hath been found imprinted in the minds of all Nations declaring thereby the Nobility of the minds of men who aim in these Notioâ—s to be immortallized I shall next shew the Ratio Formal is of every good Coat according as it is bounded by Lines for the Form is evidently distinguished by Division Division being an eminent Property of Matter now because it is most agreeable to Reason that Names should carry in them a suitableness to the things they express I shall endeavour all along briefly to shew also the Dignity of every Bearing usually born complicating and twisting in the apt Mottoes of the Abbot of Pichinelli in his Mondo Symbolico serving to express the nature of every thing by way of Rebus Every Coat of Arms as a Sign of Honour is to be considered in a two-fold Notion either Military or Civil because that Reason willeth and Equity ordaineth that men having done good service for their Prince or Countrey either in war or peace should be distinguished from the Vulgar and these distinctions in the first Notion is properly called ARMES and in the second a COAT though indeed it is called a Coat properly from being worn over the Arms of the Commander in Chief and Arms from being worn on his Shield by which he did Arm and defend himself Mars and Arms being an agrammatically one that by these signs he might be known in Battail by those that were under him and knew his bearing and so the more plain this was the more conspicuous also it was whereby his men were not so apt to incur a danger by mistakes Reason why plain Arms are best from the use which the overcharging of the Coat might cause by reason of its confounding their sight And because the Shield of Achilles was intended as a pattern to all other I shall propose it as t is blazoned by Homer but first framed by Vulcan at the intercession of Thetis for her Son To imbrace thy knées for new defence Stapletons Translation of Homer lib. 18. To my Loved Son alas His life prefixt so short a date had néed Spend that with Grace A Shield then for him and a Healm Fair Greves and Currets such As may renown thy Workmanship And honour him as much Vulcan having framed a perfect Shield Homer first blazonâ— by Mettall He Tin hard Brass rich Gold and Silver cast Amidst the fire then his huge Anvill plac d. Moses representing the Shield of the Creation in three termes saith Tenebra super faciem abyssi fuerunt darkness face and deep answerable to which the Antients did represent the Earth by a Cubicall Body on which as an Anvill all other things were framed hoc est tesseram Octo augul rum et Sex Laterum terram significare tradidit Plato by which figure was represented the Harmony of the whole Sphere having six plain Faces or Superficies twelve lines Eight solid Angles and 24 plain out of which did arise these proportions 6 to 12 Duplum or Diapason 6 to 8 Sesqui altrum or Diapente 12 to 8. Sesquitertiam diatessaron 8 ad 24. Triplam Diapason Diapente 6 ad 24 Dupla diapente the Shield being first made after a square form to denote immobility and constancy signified by Checkie Sa and Argent quem deus fundavit super bases suas ne demoveretur in seculum So much for the Figure the faces of the Cube compounding the first Honourable Ordinary vide the plain Cross being the exact middle point called the Honour point Propter fundamentum as I noted before B the exact middle chief A the dexter chief point O the sinister chief point V the exact middle bass G surmounting the chief the dexter and sinister base being without the limits of the Cross become more debased and so are less in Dignity which eight points answers to the eight solid Angles of the Cube as the 6 Quadralaterial sides represent the faces of the same the first visible Coat being Checkered though the internal Coat was Gyrony and proceeded from the Center and so constituted 24 plain Angles still answerng its first proportion and these 6 faces became the constant and firm matter or field for every good Coat and while it stood without a charge 't is alluded to by Ovid. Stat vi terra suo vi stando Vesta vocatur Fastorum Earth stands alone and therefore Vesta called The Vestal or Virgin fire being nothing else then that pure light without which there was no colour Heaven Earth Water and darkness appearing in an instant Holy History as the Field on which all the effects of a most amorous and sage prodigality were to be displayed and this heap of Water and Earth was the Object of him who alone was able to chase away its shadows and convert its dust into Gold and Chrystal for as Bricks take their Original from Clay so doth Nobility from mean Extraction Tin and Brass are Mettals of Alloy while the Golden Shield-bearer is the Heroical Person as the same Poet notes in the discription of the same Shield Which being forged of Gold Must néeds have Golden Furniture and men might so behold They represented Deities the People Vulcan forged Of meaner Metall where that was to be urged For though Honour is the reward of Vertue yet the Mechanick may not vie with the Eldest Son of Honour for his Atchievement it is not only the Shield but the Adornment of the same that Thetis craved and Vulcan wished to accomplish so as to preserve his Honour from base Oblivion To hide him from his heavy death when fate shall séek for him As well as with Renowned Arms to fit his Golden Limbe By what you may observe in the former lines it is plain that the first Rule of Blazon is to name the Field first and then to observe the points of the Escoutcheon whether dexter or sinister On the broad Stock his Tonges in his left hand His right a Massie Hammer doth command First Forged and strong and Ample Shield of Hew Most rarely divers round about he threw Next observe to name the partisians and charge Thrée radient Rings a silver lore behind The Shield charged with five files in which his mind Expressed in Divine variety Which brings me to the form or Division by line Whose several files bound by the aeternal hand Wrap the Infant World in her first Swadling-band The Conclusion of the Chapter To the Honourable Robert Boyle Fellow of the Royal Society who beareth Party per Bend Crenele Argent and Gules SIR THis Chapter claims a great part of it Light from You You having given Form to the Matter and the formal Metal laying hold on the material Colour createth a good Coat whereby the refracted Line maketh five Consecutions And if the Analogy of Kercher hold good that by Argent is signified God and by Gules Man your Coat represents the good hold You have taken in your Seraphick Love by fixing both your Arms to the Poles of the World
their Saltire Silver yet the Field is Red and that for valour as our Country-man Michael Draiton on the Barrons Warr Upon his Surcot valiant Nevile bore A Silver Saltire upon Martial Red. Where the Rose is upon their Saltire it is to denote them to be descended from the sixth Brother of the house of Bergaveny which house is now the prime Barony of the Kingdome This Ordinary consisteth of the fift part of the Feild and Ingenii Largitor necessity being the Minister of Policy for if the Saltire be charged it shall be enlarged to a third part Goe on but ever go resolv'd Iliad l. 4. all other Gods have vowed To Cross thy partial course for Troy in all that makes it proud The vitiousnesse of the undertakers being made one of the great impediments of the success in the Holy Land Fuller's Holy War l. 5. c. 24. where Saladine the great Conqueror of the East could boast of nothing but a Black shirt that he bore to his Grave and that Famous General and first Christian Worthy Godfrey of Bulloine chose rather the Cross then the Crown and though it was born before in Armes it was most commonly and generally used since the Holy Warre the plain Cross or as we call it St. George his Cross being the Mother of all the rest and we have it from Lucius Marinus Siculus that St. George appeared in white Armour with a flaming Cross upon his breast to Peter of Arragon by whose help he obtained a Memorable victory against the Mâ—ors which Shield he assumed for that of Arragon adding four Moores Kings heads that were slain in that Battail which happened about the year 1096. Hierom Blancas reports that Garsia Ximenâ—s first King of the Suprarbienses when his Army was shrewdly put to it in the year of our Lord 724. saw in the Aire a Red Cross as it were in a golden Shield upon a Green Oak whereupon he took that for his own and the Kingdomes Armes Inigo also tells us That when Arista the fifth King of the Suprarbienses was fighting against the Moors there appeared to him a silver sharp-pointed Cross in the right Angle of an Azure Shield and that it was then made that King 's Arms. And as the Authour of the Holy War observeth That as by the Transposition of a few letters a world of words are made so by the varying of this Cross either in Foâ—m Colour or Metal are made infinite several Coats Patee when the ends are broad Fichee whose bottom is sharp to be fixed on the Ground Wavee which those may justly challenge who sailed thither through the miseries of the Sea or Sea of miseries Molinee because like to the Rind of a Mill Floâ—id or Garlanded with Flowers crossed being crossed at every Extream potent from the similitude that the ends have to a Crutch and this sort of Cross was that of Jerusalem most frequently used in this War being Party England bearing Gules a Cross Argent Ireland OR a Cross Gules France OR a Cross Azure Scotland Azure a Saltire Argent c. And so Jerusalem is the praise of the whole Earth the main Cross in the middle attended by the four Crossets or little Crosses typifying the Cross and Martyrdome of our Saviour extended to the four parts of the World Haec alienatos Deo conjunxit Nicholas Upton de studio Militari in his fourth Book accounts the Cross the most worthy of all Bearings and to have the precedency and making use of the words of John Chrysostome in his Sermon on the Cross hath these words Crux nobis totius beatitudinis causa est haec nos a caecitate erroris liberavit So the Christian Souldier runs not from his Colours Haec debellatos quieti sociavit The crouched Fryars came into England about 1244. and were so called from wearing a Cross on their staves backs haec peregrinos cives ostendit and so they went out Pilgrims and returned Palmers Crux spes est Christianorum and therefore signed with it in Baptism Resurrectio Mortuorum and therefore born flowred Dux caecorum vita d seratorum baculus claudorum consolatio pauperum Gube â—atrix navigantium The Seaman can never sail safe without the Cross-yard nor the poor be sustained without the potent Cross of Providence Lastly he concludeth it to be Portus periclitantium and so born anchored It is â—â—â—us obsessorum and so born fitched and though even in the Church of God some have superstitiously dreamed this figure to be a healthful sign yet Suscipere Crucem is used as a Phrase to signifie the going to the Holy Land haec ratio tentandi aditus this is the way to enter into glory Una enim eademque ad Virtutem via patet omnibus And the imitation of our Ancestours Virtue is a brave spur to Honour But how many pretend the Câ—oâ—â— whose Ancestours never were at the Holy Land or never returned to leave their Bearings to boast on But among Sovereign Rewards the Cross it self is a Noble one and a sign of Sovereign Favour the Noble City of London bearing it first plain till augmented by the signal service of Sir William Walworth with the Dagger the famous City of York bearing the same Field and Cross rewarded with five Lions of England and that of Lincoln the same with one Lion in the Centre virtually as much as the other five The University of Camb idge a Cross Ermine charged with a Foâ—k to shew the purity of those Springs of Learning and very many Companies and Corporations as the Artillery the Military Societies by all which you may perceive plainly by the Coats the Language of the Bearing I could insist upon many Noble Families whose Bearing denoteth their Atchievements signally that of the Viliers Duke of Buckingham being five Escalop shells on a plain Cross speaking his Predecessours valour in the Holy War For Sir Nicholas Villiers Knight followed Edward the First in his Wars in the Holy Land and then assumed that Coat whereas before he bare Sable three Cinque foils Argent Upsall Captain of the Crossbow-men to the Conquerour bare Argent a Cross Sable And Painell Captain of 300. Foot bare Gules a Cross flory Argent At the same time Seward an English man Victualler of the Camp to the said William the First bearing A gent a Cross Florie Salle And Stephen Son to the Earl of Campaigne who was made Earl of Awmarle by William the Conquerour bare Gules a Cross Flory Varry And Ivon Lord Vessy who came into England with Duke William bare OR a Plain Cross Salle Jeffery Botetort Lord Botetort bare OR a Cross ingrailed Sable And in what esteem the Cross was before the Conquest may plainly be seen in the Coats of the Saxon Kings Egbert nineteenth King of the West-Saxons and first Monarch of English men bearing Azure a Cross Patonce OR Edelbert Brother to Edelhald Azure a Cross Form OR Edelbred Brother and Successour to Edelbert OR a Cross Forme flowry Azure
be displayed the most ancient Field being that of Saturn or the Earth of quality cold and dry not altering the Coldness as a quality Active but his Driness as a quality Passive so that this Field doth become a Souldier as well as a Scholar for many good Scholars make brave Souldiers To bear Argent and Sable is to be in his own House and to bear Sable and OR is to be in its Exaltation the one being most fair with reference to Truth which doth not love concealment and the other most Rich with reference to Nobility said to be nought else but ancient Riches which indeed is Occulta Qualitas in the Field of the first Day The Matter first God out of nothing drew And then adds Beauty to that Matter new Now the Seminal Form of all things lay round and contracted at first but spread when they bring any part of the Creation into Act as Drops of Rain spread when they are fallen to the Ground so that the first Charge that presents it self is that of Drops whereof some are of the nature of fire dissolved onely by the Calcination and Sublimation Others of that of Water viz. Distillation and Dissolution that which hath reference to Dissolution is those Drops which are of Water called Gutta de Eau of Colour White seu aqua in lucem condita It is of heavenly Extraction and signifieth Divine Grace for Rain saith one is the Pledge of Gods favours and Dew the Symbole of his Grace Behold hear the Anvil on which all other Shields are formed Haec est Mater universalis rerum omnium quippe in cujus ventre spermata rerum continentur videlicet Coelorum Astrorum Animalium Vegetabilium Gemmarum Metallorum Heaven and Earth having been in obscurity behold the Break of Day and those delightful Colours that play upon the Water a Day which having first received the Light gives glory and splendour to all Days Behold this first Figure divided after the manner of the immutable property of Light which is such that issuing from the Centre it carries together with it Rectitude So that it neither knows nor can diffuse it self any otherwise then by right Lines called Gyrony Seraphim Thrones Dominions Virtues Powers Principalities Archangells Angells Cherubims The Chromatism of Drops The Funeral Pile among the Romans was erected with Oke and Pitch Trees as most combustible materials according to the quality of the Person deceased according to Virgil they did struere ingentem pyrum as it were 4.3.2.1 lessening upward its Form whereas the Pile of Matter terminated in Point E NUBIBUS ETE MONTIBUS is Grace and Cooperation All Drops at first came down from above either in silver Dew or golden Rain The Cardinal of Turnon used for a sign or Symbol silver Drops to signifie Manna and thereby heavenly food expressing his desire thereby NON QUAE SVPER TERRAM And these Bearings of Drops as Guilâ—am denoteth doth well become a Souldier of that Christian Legion called Fulminatrix at whose Prayer in a great drought as Eusebius noteth as the Prayer of Eliah Heaven was opened So Sampson being hard bestead for marvellous thirst called on God and found Fons Invocationis Water issuing out of the jaw bone of an Ass wherewith before he had slain one thousand men so that by the way you may note that any thing whatever be it never so simple is capable of the grace of God and though Drops to the Vulgar may seem to be very mean yet therein is contained many miseries Drope sometimes Mayor of London bare Gutte and on a Chief a Lion to denote his Name as well as Fame in founding the Aquaduct in Cornhill communicating those Drops from his Well Head usually issuing from Lions mouths and this leads me to the other sort of Drop viz. that of Gold which are known by their weight PONDVS ABVNDIS Some Rivers abound with golden Sand each Drop whereof is Gutte de OR which is golden Rain and PENDENT ONVSTAE Gold being the most digested Metal therefore every Drop MATVRITATE INCLINANTVR and being understood to be molten PERFICITVRIGNE Golden Rain is a fine speculation in artificial Fire-works which IN TENEBRIS LVCET De stercore aurum colligere is the work of a prudent Preacher in the words of Jeremy PRETIOSVM A VILI It is made liquid by fire HVMOR ABIGNE and may signifie an anxious Lover whose passions are excellently expressed in these Verses Aspice quam variis distringar Vestia curis Uror heu nostro manat ab igne liquor Sum Nilus fumque Aetna simul restringuite flammam O lacrymae lacrymas ebibe flamma meas Which the Eclogue seems to construe in other Verses and is rendred in English by Ogilby thus Betwixt extremes is there no mean he says Love hath regard to no such things as these Not Love with tears FLETVS AERVMNAS LEVAT and are sometimes ease to a Martial mind which often feels the scorching Drops of Loves Flame according to which in the Argument of the 10. Eclogue of Virgil's Bucolicks The wise and valiant men oft feel the flames Of cruel Love and follow wanton Dames Jupiter descended on Danae in a golden showre the Amber Drops that were pressed from the Poplar Trees on the Shield of Thetis were Gutte de OR From these clear Dropping Trees Tears yearly flow Met. lib. 2. They hardned by the Sun to Amber grow Hence you may observe the usefulness and commendableness of Industry that makes the Gentleman Oyl gladdeth the heart of man and is the Symbol of Consecration prophetically spoken of our Saviour who was anointed with Oyl of Gladness above his Fellows So that to anoint Guttatim Drop-meal by the way of Distillation id est FOE CVNDITATEM INFVNDVNT The memory of Jacob's setting up the Stone he had rested on for a Pillar and pouring Oyl upon it and calling it Bethel was preserved under the anointing Stones which the Phoenicians from Bethel call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from whence came the anointing Stones among the Heathen which Arnobius calls Lubricatum Lapidem ex Olivae unguine sordidatum So that the anointing Stones then with Oyl was the Symbol of Consecration all Drops indeed signifying Persons set apart to several Works DE COELO EXPECTANS PLVVIAM Many Works better in cold night are done Or when the pearly Morning brings the Sun Night to mow Stubble and dry Meddows chuse Night not neglects to pay refreshing Dews Conclusion of this Chapter To Sir Thomas Player junior SIR AMong the Romans for ought that I have read there is but one Order of Knights as testifieth Sir Thomas Ridley and they are next in degree to the Senatours themselves as with us they are next to the Peers though indeed Cujacius following our Modern French Heraldry maketh three sorts one whereof he calleth Chevalliers the other Bannerets the third Bachilers but setteth down no proper difference of the one from the other though our Use doth demonstrate the same However it was
the Honour of the first Knights that they were Citizens of Rome Et Custos Pugnax Your Father being Knight and Chamberlain your Self being Knight and Lt. Collonel hath entitled you both to the bearing of the Pale as the Lance of the Chevallier and Gutte de Sang as being willing to spend your Bloods for your Countrey This is what your Coat doth admonish when the Field of your Nativity shall be obscured in Sable Weeds to be raised up to that pitch of fortitude as the noble Romans were in preferring their own Countrey before their Lives And this is the use of your Arms the Ensigns of Gentility CHAP. V. Of the visible Charges of the Second Days Work in the Creation under the Regiment of Jupiter or the Blue Shield BLue or Azure is extended as the Firmament is or parted per Chief Azure a Border OR Entoyre of eight Heurts the waters above and below Number and Position are two of the first Elements of Arms. This Day the Earth was in Base and the Firmament in Chief The first superiour face of the Cube was that of Azure lying next above the Water the Seat of Jupiter who is said to espouse Juno or the Aire the upper Region whereof was called Aether and the lower Aire and was of the same birth with Dies By th' Almighty Architect it was decreed That Night the Day the Day should Night succeed Heaven and Light being the Symbols of the same thing so Jove and Juno are said to have dominion in the Air called by some Lux aurea having in it both Light and Heat and therefore Jupiter is so called from Juvans Pater This Chapter is parted per Chief as it is said in Job God bindeth up his Waters in thick Clouds and the Clouds are not rent under them And in Moses his description it is said God said Let there be a Firmament in the midst of the Waters c. And God called the Firmament Heaven which in our Saxon Orthography signifieth lifted up or exalted the Second Day being no less glorious then that wherein God created Light in which saith one God chose to raise up the Firmament like a Globe of Gold and Azure which might serve to divide the seven Orbs of the Planets from the Imperial Heaven disposing in every Annulet a solid corporeal Gem this Day being the Creation of corporeal Matter the Charge whereof was Roundells being more or less noble according to the Bodies they represent every Rundle this Day representing a Cressant being inlightened but in part and so it becomes the difference for the second Brother as this is the second Day being receptaculum tam lucis quam tenebrarum I have chose to put every Roundle in its Field And because Light was made by God worthy of the chief Praise not because it is beautifull in it self but because every thing it seeth it makes beautiful I have parted this Scheme in Chief as the principal seat of the Intellect divided by a several Line of plain flecked Nebule Wavy Ingrailed Crenele Invecked Indented Partisions per Chief Flecked Nebule Wavy Ingrayled Crenelle Invecked Dancette Maine Chief Now as every one of these Lines differ from one another as the several Passions of the soul so are they more or less in esteem and though the Brain hath no sense as Cassidore affirmeth yet for that the Nerves as so many several Lines are fixed in it and from it receive the Spirits for the noblest operations of the Soul sensum membris reliquis tradit I shall therefore note to you by the way how every Line is as a Beam in the great Chamber of Heaven and every Charge is as a Gem in the Imperial Crown of the Almighty qui fecit lapidem angularem and seeing numeri figurae notant Ideas rerum I shall proceed to the Round Form representing Dominion therefore born by Kings in the Mound signifying his own Orb Heaven Earth and Seas each in his proper bound The Moons bright Orbs with all the Spangled round By the Battelled Line the Aegyptians did signifie the Battlements of Heaven which compasseth about the Scheme representing Discretions Arch Towring beyond the Spheres and all on fire Thron'd above Jove far brighter and far higher The Silver having this property NON LAEDITVR SED PROBATVR and the Pila alba signifieth Rem probatam The Aegyptians to express their Eneph or Creatour of the World described an old man in a blue Mantle with an Egge in his Mouth which was the Emblem of the world every Roundle in Gods hand being yet imperfect Sicut Moneta est informis donec imago Regis ei per Cuneum imprimatur ita ratio nostra deformis est donec per Gratiam Dei illustretur Plates signifying one of a clear Conscience SI DESIT OMNIA NIHIL This Day had three conspicuous Globes Heaven Earth and Sea Tu mihi Terra Deus mihi Mare tu mihi Coelum Denique cuncta mihi es te sine cuncta nihil The golden Ball was esteemed the inestimable price of Beauty the giving away thereof from Juno was one of the main Causes why she hated the Trojans being cast in the contention of Beauty in the judgement of Paris Pryam's Son Bezants being the Emblems of Perfection as well for their Matter as Form which NVNQVAM JACET while it is moved AGILITATE ET PONDERE it argueth a constant mind in an unstable condition for every Roundle STAT DVM VOLVITVR and therefore are called Roundles when they are counterchanged EXCITO DVM EXCITOR and so is propounded for an example The words of the Wise are as Apples of Gold IN PVNCTO in tables of Silver and being once spoken CVRRIT NON CADIT It signifies one that is the same he seems for QUO QVO VERTAS for Bezants are the Revenues that diminish not with use nor consume with time being always in the same esteem and equally beneficial It is an Argument of Trust and denoteth a faithful Person he that was faithful in one Talent was made Lord of all for such a Cause perhaps it was that Pitts Teller of the Exchequer bare a Fess Checky between three Bezants to denote both his Office and Fidelity it representeth also Faith Scilicet ut fulvum spectatur in ignibus aurum Tempore sic duro est inspicienda fides Whereby they become coloured with the juice of the Grape Then round about their wheaten Plates invade We eat our Trenchers too Ascanius said Aeneas taking of the words remembers what his Father Anchises had long before told him When thou dear Son on foreign shoars being set Sharp hunger Trenchers shall inforce to eat Then let the weary rest remember there To build a City and strong Bulwarks rear Heurts chiefly signifie Wisdome as being the Issue of Jupiter's Brain Heurts in a Martial Mans Shield are as so many Scars in his Body esteemed more Honourable then that Beauty wherewith at first he was adorned So Menelaus having received a Hurt from
as wait upon the Prince Thirdly such Doctors as being not about the Prince are excellent in Learning Fourthly come Knights without any place of preferment Lastly Doctors of meaner gifts and places and what esteem the Law hath for Justice sake my Lord is not unknown since the Doctor of Law gives place onely to the Divine Oracles of God and it is Justice only that beareth the Scales to balance the whole world by and that which makes it Standard is the Kings Authority by which you act Fabius was accounted the Shield of Rome for defending it by Wisdome the Round Form being the Emblem And Marcellus was accounted the Sword for his Valour Both being the proper Ensigns of a Knight both being put in your Hands and in your Arms they are not only the Hand of Power but the Ensigns of Valour and Wisdome And so the Advocate is a man at Arms. CHAP. VI. Of the visible Charges of the third Days Work in the Creation under the Regiment of Mars or the Red Shield GUles was the proper illumination of the third Days Work Gules a Border OR Verdey of Trefoils Vert. and the Partition was Party per pale Colour and Metal Though it be hard to know the disposition of the first three Days Work which was before the Creation of the Sun yet by the Creation of Light there was a manifest division of the Field per pale whereby the Waters were commanded into one place So that the Field of this Day consisted of dry Land and Sea and in the last three Days God adorned beautified and replenished the World setting in the Firmament of Heaven the Sun Moon and Stars filling the Earth with Beasts the Air with Fowl and the Sea with Fish giving to Creatures Vegetative and growing their seeds in themselves of all which in their Order And having already seen the dry Land parted by Springs and Rivers Lines and Ordinaries which are called Honourable for that like Royal Rivers they have navigable Fountains Come I now to the Earth is it is adorned with all manner of Plants with the plenty and pleasure thereof which by the virtue of Gods command INCULTA SYLVESCIT Fert Casia non culta seges totosque per agros Floret odoratis terra benigna rosis Where Casia springs unsown throughout the field And to sweet Roses unforc'd birth doth yield Grass The first thing that represents it self to the eye as a Charge is Grass and is born by Til ssey of Lancashire and that it is a good Bearing you have the Testimony of Sacred Writ And God saw that it was good this Bearing representing Humility as the Grass is trodden down and neglected yet is advanced to crown even the temples of Caesar How often have we seen that from neglected seed hath sprung up many great Palms though the Thunder of an evil Tongue no Laurel can resist nor greatness of Merit exempt which made Scipio Africanus change his Profession of Warriour to Husbandman and with the self-same hand which in the parching sand of Africa he had planted glorious Palms of Victory he did cultivate a little Farm the noble Romans accounting it an honour to be called Lentulus Piso Fabius c. from flowers and fruits answerable to which we have Lilly Rose Pear Nut c. whose Arms declare their Names Pliny was of opinion that Nature before she set her self to make the Lilly did prepare her self as it were by making the rough Draught and Model Convolunce a white and simple flower Pythagoras forbad the use of Beans onely to hint to his Scholars to avoid ambition for Magistracy though the man that sits on the Banks of Flowers in peace may prepare his Shield as in the Coat of Sir Thomas Chambrelan being a white Escoutcheon within an Orle of Cinquefoils according to Virgil's Advice Remember to provide if the Divine Glory of Tillage thou intendest thine NOCTIS NON DEFICIT HUMOR is the Glory of Generosity the Semper vive DUM OPPRIMITUR CRESGIT The Burrage is a Blue Cinquefoil ET FERT GAUDIA CORDI While the Narcissus is of golden Colour and signifieth beautiful Youth Sedges is born in Arms by the Name of Sickes and Sylvanus Comes adorn'd with rural Boughs Lillies and Fennel dangling on his Brows The noble Plantagenet is a Caterfoil Caterfoils which HIEME FLORET and is born by the noble Duke of Albemarle as a Slip of the same Plant which Scotland tried IN DIE FRIGORIS his fidelity being still verdant DUM CAETERA LANGUENT yea at such a time VT REMOTISSIMO SOLE And though Honour like a Flower BREVIS EST VSVS yet the remembrance of his Name like the lovely Amaranthus NVNQVAM LANGVESCIT The Cinquefoil is the Gillyflower of Heraldry IN QVOSCVNQVE COLORES Cinquefoils If it be Metal FVLCIT ET ORNAT Salts are the Colours of all Bodies whence they receive their Degrees of Lustre or Obscurity All Flowers are Emblems of this mortal Life STATIM LANGVENT while some Leaves are notwithstanding Symbols of Immortality FOLIVM EJVS NON DEFLVIT And what Laurel leaves signifie 't is plain VINCENTI DABITVR Augustus and Germanicus Titus and Adrian Antonius Philosophus Alexander Constantine and Theodosius were all crowned with a double Lawrel as Sages and as Emperours Chaplets being always signs of Mastership Chaplets and therefore to this Day are Masters of Societies elected by Laurel Chaplets about their Brows Laurel the crowning of Sages and Poets proceeding from a kind of Example of it which was under the old Roman Emperours the giving of Crowns of Laurel to them as the Ensigns of Degrees of Mastership in Poetry and that by Imperial Authority either by the Emperours themselves or by Counts Palatines or others having such delegate Authority having continued ever since the time of Frederick the First with Laurel a Ring also being given them as in the Letters Testimonial of Reasner and Jacobus Grasserus both Counts Palatine to Michael Bartchios Julii 8. 1618. Imperiali authoritate fronti ejus ingeniosissimae Lauream Poeticam imposuimus Crowning of Poets dextram in diviniore hac Poeseos harmonia exercitatissimam annulo aureo exornavimus And in those of Reasner to Casparus Wagnerus Decemb. 29. 1593. Te per Laurus impositionem annuli traditionem Poetam Laureatum fecimus And as Mr. Selden farther observeth as from the use of the old Empire the latter took their Example of Crowning with Laurel being anciently received into England John Skelton had the title of Laureat under Henry the Eighth And at the same time Robert Whittington called himself Grammaticae Magister Protovates Angliae in florentissima Oxoniensi Academia Laureatus And under Edward the Fourth John Kay by the title of his humble Poet Laureat dedicateth to him the Siege of Rhodes in Prose the custome of Crowning Poets continuing unto the time of Theodosius as it is observed upon Ausonius who lived then and writes Tu pene ab ipsis orsus incunabulis
Priest from whose breasts oftentimes honey flowed in the mouth of the Infant after which in the night he is said to have utred nine several Notes of voices of fowles viz. of a Swallow a Peacock a Dove a Crow a Partrich a Red-Shanks a Staire a Blackbird and a Nightingal and being a little Boy was found playing in his bed with nine Doves the Moral whereof may be this By the Swallow was signified his Industry and Promptness and readiness and such is the nobleness of this birds mind Vâ— VITAM POTIUS QUAM LIBERTATEM Speed beareth two Swallows in Chiefe as a note of his mind and industry in his Chronicle and why it is borne in the Coat of Arundell is declared at large in my Sphear of Gentry by the Swallow also is signified his noble Muse TENDAM PAULUM MODO TOLLAR IN ALTUM Poesy like the Swallow must be free AMICA NON SERVA it brings tidings of the Spring By the Peacock is denoted the property of proper valour SIBI MET PULCHERRIMA MERCES and spreads the Tayle of Troy UT SIC PULCHRIOR and so admires himself TRAHIT MUTATQUE VICISSIM Homer tells both their glory and their woe together ET CANTU MAEROR Though indeed the Grecians had this property of the Peacock to be admirers of themselves being encouraged by Junâ— they are borne by Smith perhaps because Vulcan was an enemy to the Trojans Mulciber in Trojam pro Troja stabat Apollo Two Doves from Heav'ns ethereal round Stooping light gently on the verdant Ground The Elysian Fields having a Wood neer for none but pure and pious Birds from which all Ravenous and Obscoen ones were driven away so that what is signified by the Dove is plain and though it be true that Aquila non generat c. Yet when an Eagle brought a young Stock-Dove and laid it in the Cradle of Diadumenus the Son of Macrinus it signified that he should be Emperour because that day he was born an old Woman brought his Mother a Present of Pigeons Sir John Frederick bears three of these Birds in a Chiefe and the field of the same Metall of Aeneas his branch and how farr the Symbole of his Name hath suited with his Moderation in Government when he was Lord Major let even his enemies speak Where one desired Boughes they pearch when Rayes Through Branches of discolour'd Gold displayes The Crow is a contrary colour to the Dove Crow and was placed on the fist of Minerva for the Ingenuity thereof LABORE ET INDUSTRIA Even as the Geese were placed on the Shield of Aeneas for their vigilancy when time should come giving notice of the approach of the Gaules enemies to the Romans in memory whereof the Picture of a Goose was kept in the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus And why Corbet beareth a Raven in a field Or is as Camden saith because the name signifieth a Raven it is a very fair Coat seeing every Crow thinks his own Bird fairest it is the Symbole of Garulity and the Hierroglyphick of Long life and so Homer hath perpetuised the honour of his Countrey-men And though Birds of a chattering nature do much interrupt the Meditation of the Mind yet the Crow was never discharged from the service of Minerva till her unacceptable intelligence Truth not seldome being obnoxious to danger and a Raven of all other birds is sacred to Apollo being its voice is articulate and significant By the voice of the Partridg which Homer imitated Partridge was signified one of excellent invention whence the Fable that Perdix rejoycing at the miseries of Dedalus while he buried his Son Dedalus envying the Boyes invention of the Saw and Compasses at twelve years of Age threw him from the top of Minervaes Tower he was supported by the Goddess and by her converted into a bird of that Name There being no envy so great and deadly as is betwixt Men of the same Profession This the Author hath experience of as well from those who have formerly writ of this Science as those who were his licensers for to remove the rivall of their Praises and ever since the Partridg never flyes high INTER CURAS TRANQUILLE DEGENTEM Great height great downfalls ballance still Be Great and Glorious they that will MANUS SUB PENNIS was the Animals of Ezechiel to shew that the Works of the hand and the desires of the Mind ought to go together this made Handcock beare three Cocks in Chief and a Hand beneath to shew the vigilancy and the labour of the bearer for one that is agitated by generous thoughts had rather by himself trace out a way to Heaven than to tread in others Tracts on Earth Plurimum enim ad inveniendum contulit qui speravâ—t posse reperire The Crane what does it signifie but Pietas erga parentes venenatoribus gratae Hearne So also is the Hearne He that beareth the Redshank hath overcome incendiaries QUOD SIS ESSE VELIS is proper to the Cornish Chough and they that bear them are such who like Aeneas have overcome many dangers of the Harpyes Virgill gives you this account No Monster like to these no Plague more sell Nor sharper vengeance Heaven ere call'd from Hell The Fowle have Virgin faces and hooked Clawes Still purging bellies alwayes greedy Mawes Choughe The Cornish Chough amongst us denoteth more especially West-Countrey Gentlemen where these birds are more frequent Cornwallis bearing three on a Fesse as being originally of Cornwall whence they have their Denomination as well as the Bird which is black of Body but with red legs By the mystical conjunction of Hawk and Lion in the Griffin the Aegyptians did signifie the genial or syderious Sun the great celerity thereof and the strength and vigour of it in its operations and its activity in Leo. By it also the Genius of Nilus was understood according to Kercher and to bear Birds of prey or Monstruosities is but with Hercules to overcome Centaurs or the unclean Birds of the Stymphanian lake Harpyes in the one Carnales affectus virtute animi mortificat in the other Libidinem velut pestem fugit So that to bear a Bird with a Womans face as the Earl of Oxford doth and likewise the Families of Astley and Moodys doth denote men of subtile and aenigmatical Wits who prevail more in their minds then bodies according to that of Ovid Met. lib. 11. Virtutem antiquam majores corpore vires The Parrot Avis argutula atque etiam humanitus garriens Parrots How many younger Brothers shall we find who with the Martlet have raised themselves by the wing Martlets Difference of the fourth Brother These are attributed to these Princes by Speed and others rather then by the help of their legs that is by sailing and becoming Merchant men Quin longas peregrinationes edocet soris vel equo vel industria victum honoremque quaeritat And therefore it was born in the Shields of Edgar sirnamed Pacificus
IN ANNVM The Spider NVNQVAM OCIATVR and though they be but small DISCINDVNT MAGNA Salamander The Salamander represents integrity which will last in the sire of affliction Nempe illaesa manet semper integritas Frog Horsleech Wasp Mice Fly Glow-worm Moth. Toads Mecoenas had a Frog to his device that liv'd both on land and water True love is like the Salamander whose Motto is DVRABO and the Horsleech MORDENDO SANAT Calumny is like a Wasps sting NON PENETRANT Mitford beareth three Mice and represents the condition of a wicked man FORIS PVGNAE INTVS TIMORES and so the Mole-want ATRIS OBSCVRA TENEBRIS The Fly is the Emblem of Impudence ET ABACTA REDIT The Glow-worm IN TENEBRIS LVCET and the Moth that playes with the light represents BREVIS ET DAMNOSA VOLVPTAS The Toads were born in the French Arms in memory of a Victory obtained in a field full of them Rebatements in Heraldry Quem dies vidit veniens superbum Hunc dies vidit fugiens jacentem Who after his Fall did recover himself by the most accomplish'd liberal Sciences of Arithmetick Musick Geometry Perspective Pictor Fortification The Sciences of Motion and Time Cosmography Astronomy Geomancy And so it is easie to discern what was the Colour and which was the Metal and he needed no Arms while he did want no Coat the Creatures being subject to him while now he is become subject to them in the succession of the Signs as Manlius hath it Namque Aries Capiti Taurus Cervicibus haeret Brachia sub Geminis censentur Pectora Cancro Te Scapulae Nemaee vocant teque Ilia Virgo Libra colit Clunes Scorpius Inguine gaudet Et femur Arcitenens genua Capricornus amavit Cruraque defendit Juvenis vestigia Piscis But methinks I hear the little World claim his Gentility from his Sovereign Et formavit Dominus Deus hominem expulverem de terra insufflavit in faciem ejus spiraculum vitae fuit homo in animam viventem And as if he were yet ignorant in Heraldry blaming his Descendents for bringing him in the last place to whom by virtue of his Charter to rule over the c. He is Gods Vicegerent Gen. 2. qui habet honorem Coeli Terrae Solis Lunae and being able to know the Creatures by name is able also best to know the Language of Arms for I know not which the compleat world to call The senseless world or man the rational One claims compleat in bigness and in birth Saith she 's compleat for man was last brought forth Man speaks again and stands in his defence Because he 's rul'd by reason not by sence But reason wont prevail the sensless arm Thinking that naked man can do no harm But he by reason pla nly doth denote He can both Arm and likewise thrash their Coat Bearing their spoils upon his glitring Shield And hence it comes we say he bears the Field Whereon perhaps some savage Beast was slain And by this means did an Atchievement gain Virtue with Vice are vary and do note Armed with virtue is the better Coat Bucol Eclt 4. And great Atchievements of thy Parents learn And what true virtue if thy self discern Selden's Titles of Honour Nobility or Gentry is nothing else but an inheritance of remarkable estate and virtue derived from Ancestours which in the considerations of Philosophers was grounded on natural and moral Nobility or on that which was as proportionable to what we in the later times call Nobilitas Christiana as the heighth of virtue in Paganism could be to the best exercise of Religion The Names of God in Scripture were preserved among the Phoenician Theology translated by Philo Biblius as witnesseth Origines sacrae the darkness on the face of the deep the Creation of Angels and of Mankind out of the Earth Yet there can be no question as Selden farther observeth but that they handled civil Nobility or Gentry which by the Academicks or Platonicks and Peripateticks especially reckoned among external things that are good and by the Stoicks among such as are indifferent onely Vossius conceived That the memory of Adam was preserved among the old Germans of whom Tacitus speaks Celebrant antiquis carminibus Tuistonem Deum terra editum filium Mannum originem gentis conditoresque Either by Tuisto Adam is understood who was formed of the Earth and by Mannus Noah or otherwise by Tuisto God may be understood and by Manus Adam Cornes or Saturn under which name the Greeks preserved the memory of Adam all confessing to have been a Man and that the first of Men Saturn they say was the son of Heaven and Earth that is a Mettall and a Colour a Heroe he taught Men Husbandry so did Adam beside the power which Saturn had and was deposed from doth fitly set out the Dominion of Man in the Golden Age which he lost by his own folly all Ensignes of wilde beasts Instruments of labour being then useless No Earth shall Harrowes feel nor Vine the Hook The Golden Age. And hardy Plowmen shall their Steers unyoke Nor Wool deceive with artificial dye But in the Meadowes Rams in Scarlet lye Or else their Silver fleeces turned to Gold And Princely Purple simple Lambes infold Lastly him they called Noble that had his own inbred Dignity and Greatness of Spirit of all which this is the best kind of Nobility among whom Moses there having been never any no more than a Man more Noble than Moses for greatness of Spirit refusing the Crown while a Child and born in Servitude in Aegypt whose memory is fresh among the Canaanites in the Story of Bacchus a Dog being made the companion of Bacchus which was the signification of Caleb who so faithfully adheared to Moses all whose Atcheivements in the Sacred Story being exactly Traced in the Origines Sacrae So that what hath been said among the bearers of Armes some bear them as notes of their Parents Merit others as signes of their own Spirit some are stirred up by the Imitation of Ancestours to magnificence and splendor like the several dayes Creation wherein every one had an Honorary Attribute the First Day being as you have seen Egregius the second Spectabilis the third Perfectissimus the fourth Clarissimus the fifth Illustris and the sixth Superillustris by reason of the Nobleman And you may plainly see as Politicians speak there is a Nobility without Heraldry a natural Dignity Gentility without Heraldry whereby one Man is Ranked with another and Filed before him accordingly to the Quality of his deserts and preheminence of his good Parts Religio Medici Though the corruption of these Times and the Bias of this present Practice wheeles an other way thus it was in the first and Primitive Common-Wealth and is yet in the Integrity and Cradle of well-ordered Politics till corruption getteth ground ruder desires labouring after that which wiser considerations contemne every
one having liberty to amasse to heap up Riches and therewith a license or faculty to do or Purchase any thing Perit omnes in illo cujus Lous est in Origine Sola Conclusion of this Chapter To Doctor Baldwin Hamey Esquire and of the Physicians Colledge London SIR THe Physicians of the Princes Body Constantine in old time honoured with the Title of Earles whereof those that had been Professors of Law and other Sciences twenty years together deserved by the Law to be made Earles by the twelfth Book of the Code and though now they are without that Dignity yet Divinity Law and Physick are as it were the three Graces of Humane life and are set in Prima cera in the first place of the Table and to honour the Physician is a debt Precedency at first proceeding from priority of Birth among Men that were of equal Dignity and afterward Priority of Choise or Creation among men of the same dignity gave the Precedence as the several Eminency or Honour in secular Offices was esteemed by the nature of the Imployment by the long or short Robe by the Usefulness of them to the State and of the Power joyned with them Of how much use the Physician is is not at all doubted and of what honour may appear by that Instrument of Doctorship of Philosophy and Physick produced by the learned Selden c. wherein beside all the Priviledges and Honours due to a Doctor of Philosophy and Physick it is also granted Sibique libros clusos apertos biretrum in capite annulum in digito osculum pacis ac sedem sive cathredam omniaque singula Doctoratus infignia All these you having received made you one of the Long Robe and the Paludamentum of your Ancestors shew Ut acccinguntur omnes operi and as a Cheif in your Profession the Roe is current above the Fesse and the Nature of the Stars is submitted to your Candid Interpretation and like a Mullet of Six Points Excitat dirigit it hastning to things above and it is your happiness to be born and framed to virtue and to grow up from the seeds of Nature rather than the inoculation and forced Graffes of Education Of Precedency NOw having thus Run through all the Natural Charges usually borne or that possibly may be borne on the Sheild of Nobles there yet remains the Nobleman himself as the Emperour and King who though he be reckoned among his Nobility because he should not be puft up with the Glory of his Place and conceive he were of more Excellent Mould than the rest though indeed we are all one yet he is both by the Ordinance of God and Man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Apostle termes him among them that is Supreame Soveraigne above the rest I have therefore reserved the last Chapter for himself only who as the Head hath vouchsafed to make them as it were Members of his Body and so by them derives the power of his Government the King having the Precedency and Protoclisie or fore-sitting in all Assemblies and such others as have Precedency As the Lords Treasurer President of the Council Privyseal Great Chamberlain High Constable Earl Marshall L. Admirall L. Steward of the House L. Chamberlain c. or Fore-sitting have it by the Princes indulgence The Queene Shining by his beames hath the like Prerogative as Himself hath after Them next in Place are the Kings Children among whom the Male is ever Preferred before the Female and among the Male the Eldest have the Preheminency in going sitting speaking respect c. after the Kings Children follow in the next Rank Dukes then Marquisses then Earles then Viscounts and lastly Barons all which have Dignities either Heritable or Granted by the Bounty of the Prince whereupon their Nobility was founded even as the first Man Adam's was in Paradise as followeth Now a New Race from Heaven descends to Earth O Chast Lucina aid the blessed Birth Adam Seth Enos Cainan Mahalaeel Iared Enoch Methuselah Lamech Noah Tithia Shem Iaphet Cham Eve Cain Henoch Iared Methusael Lamech Spes in Coelis Pes in Terris CHAP. X. Of Man in consideration of his Ecclesiasticall and Civill Jurisdiction as the end of the Creation and considered in his Military and Politicall Profession both in an un-Armed and naked condition and an Armed and Cloathed Indowment AMong the Noble Romans they did alwayes set the Statues of their Ancestours before their houses Argent an Orle Gules Ut eorum virtut sâ—non solum posteri legerent sed etiam imitarentur and at Funeral occasions caused them to be carried before the Hearse The like example shall I set before them that claim Gentility from Adam whose Spade pleades for the Ancient Trojan Sheild Neither doth it disparage Gentility to aske Who was the Gentleman when Adam digged Serranus to the Plough did set his hand Boys Translation of Claudian in 6 Aeneid Thatch'd Houses were by the Lictor entred and The Fasces hung on Willow Posts the Corne Inn'd by a Consul and he who had worn The Trabea till'd the Ground And Eves Spindle pleads for the Lozeng bearing of the Lady the Mans Atcheivement being gained in the Field abroad and the Womans at home Whilst his dear Wife her web weaves fine and strong Shortning long labour with a pleasant song Ridley's View The Daughters of Great Houses so long as they Marry to any that are in degree of Peeres retaine their Fathers dignity but if they Marry under the degree then they lose their Fathers Place and follow the degree of their Husbands which notwithstanding is practised otherwise amongst us though indeed Homo mensura omnium rerum Parts of Man his head is the symbole of right reason being the seat of his soul ANIMA INTERNA RECLUDIT the Heart is the fortress of Fidelity HIC MURUS AHENEUS ESTO the Hand admonisheth the bearer FIDE ET VIDE so as to look to himself the open hand is PROCUL AB ICTU and the Clutched Fist HIS GRAVIORA an extended hand denoteth Reason a Clutched Hand force Rhetorick can perswade Philosophy convince the extention of the Right Hand is in signification of a Peace-maker according to Quintilian Fit ille habitus qui esse in statuis Pacificator solet qui protenso Brachio manum inflexo pollice extendit and as Kercher saith Per manum dextram extensosque digitos hominem liberalem sincerum The Roman Ensigne under Romulus was a bundle of Grass tyed to a Pole which was called Manipulus and was afterwards changed into a left hand and the Souldiers which were under one Ensigne were called Manipulares of which Ovid Fastor Lib. 3. Pertica suspensos portabant longa Maniplos Unde Maniplaris nomina miles habet The French Man had more colour being in Armes They in brancht Cassocks shine with gold their fair necks be adorned Others again among the Britaines bear Childrens heads Contrary to Hercules who strangled Snakes in