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A51370 Heraldry epitomiz'd and its reason essay'd / by Silvanus Morgan... Morgan, Sylvanus, 1620-1693. 1679 (1679) Wing M2740; ESTC R32290 5,202 1

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HERALDRY Epitomiz'd And its REASON Essay'd By Silvanus Morgan Arms-Painter at the Sign of the Camden's H●●d near the Royal-Exchange ARMORY or Coats of Arms saith Monsieur Ulson is no other than the Seal or visible Character of Nobility which is the most glorious recompence that either our own Virtues or that of our Predecessors could acquire us And as a Christian ought not to be ignorant of his Christian name seeing it is the mark of his Adoption so should it be shameful for a Gentleman to be ignorant of his own Coat of Arms being the visible sign of his Nobility and shortned Symbols of his Heroical Actions or those of his Predecessors And in the general signification as Ensigns of Honour among Military men have been as anciently used in this Realm as in any other for necessity bred the use of them in Military affairs for Order and distinction both of Political Bodies Military and Civil and for particular persons as notes of Honour as may be gathered from the Sacred Scriptures on the party colour'd Coat of Joseph who had that honourable distinction and from thence was called the Trophy-bearer and the Absconditorum repertor The Blazoner of Symbolical matter as also that from Numb 2. wherein every Tribe was commanded to pitch his Tent under their Standard and under the Arms of his Father's House And not only the Armilogie of this Heroic Science was preserved but the Gamilogie and preservations of their Families by Genealogies as may be gathered from the second Chapter of Ezra where those that sought out their Genealogies among those that were reckoned by Genealogy but being not found were as polluted cast from the Priesthood For though they were in Captivity Fortuna non mutat Genus And it hath been the care of all Nations namely the Carians Lacedemonians Messonians Romans c. So let me desire my Countrymen that seeing the Learned Camden hath with some other given the first Honour of the Invention of Armory in this Part of the World to the Picts and Britains who distinguished their several particular Families by Colours adorning their Bodies by Figure and Blazon that they will accept this Introduction to the knowledge of Heraldry in the use of Arms which in strict signification the Learned Spelman hath defined thus Sunt Insignia decora Symbola ad Notitiam honorem latoris à Legitimo Judice Militibus ascripta which is handled in all its parts by Dr. Waterhouse in his Defence of Arms. And our Learned Clarenceulx Camden doth define Arms in the Military and Civil use Is quem Grammatici Ptolomae qu●m venerantur Quem Feciales simul Historici Colunt Camdeni Insignia Willi● Camden Clarenceux King of Armes 〈…〉 Camd Britania Debes natales Terrae Camdene Britannae Nonne magis debet Terra Britanna tibi Quis tanto dignus reperitur Heraldus Heraldo Quis Britonum hunc pingat pinxit ut hic Britonas Camdeni Insignia ARMS saith he are Ensigns of Honour born in Banners Shields and Coats for notice and distinctions of Families one from the other and descendable as Hereditable to Posterity which hath been very Ancient their Estimation beginning in the Holy Land becoming by little and little Hereditary their Posterity accounting it most honourable to carry the Arms that had been displayed in that most holy Service The English Nation displaying a Red Cross on a White Field The French and Portugal a white Cross in a blew Field The Irish a red Cross in a yellow Field The Spanish c. a Salter cross trunked in a white Field The Scots St. Andrew's Cross white in a blew Field And the more particular bearing in the Holy Land was the Cross Crouched and Crossed of infinite Varieties as may be seen in all Military Orders of Chevalry and Knighthood So also those particular Families that did signal Service there had their Shields adorned therewith or with Escalop-shells Pilgrims or Palmers Scrips or Staves Saracens Heads whose wreaths as they were usually born by them so now as a Triumph of the Cross are worn on the Helmets of all Christian Soldiers and in which Service some Arms were altered upon several Occasions other Gentlemen beginning to bear Arms from their Lords or whom they held in Fee or to whom they were devoted and for the granting of Arms from some great Earls and passing of Coats from one private Person to another there wants not some Precedents which were all before the reduction of the Heralds under one Regulation and as now setled under three Kings of Arms. Viz. Garter Clarenceulx and Norroy The first being for all Patents of Honour and Princely Ceremonies of Coronations Marriages and Interments of Nobility Clarenceulx being a Provincial King of Arms of the East West and South Parts of England from the River of Trent Southwards having the granting of Arms and ordering of Funerals from a Knight downwards as hath Norroy also in his own Province under the Earl Marshal to whom Gentlemen in former time would repair and by his Authority would take Arms which were registred by the Officers of Arms in the Rolls of Arms made at every Service wherein there was also a distinction between a Gentleman of Blood and a Gentleman of Coat Armour and the third from him who first had Coat Armour was a Gentleman of Coat Armour and the fifth from the first Bearer is a Gentleman of Blood and Coat Armour Nobility being agreeable to Religion Almighty God vouchsafeing to be called the Lord of Hosts affecting the Military man's Ensigns of the Sword and Shield and the Church Military hath the Shield of Faith the Breast plate of Righteousness the Sword of the Spirit and the Helmet of Salvation c. EVery Coat of Arms ought to consist of both Metal and Colour having some Analogy of the Body and Spirit of the Bearers represented by the Field and Charge Therefore it is necessary to know how to speak in the proper Language of Heraulds which is called Blazon I have here in the first place presented you with the two Metals and five Colours and two Furs most commonly used in Arms every one express'd by several hatching of Lines Viz. The Or by Pricks or Points The Argent Plain The Gules by upright Lines The Azure by Horizontal The Sable by cross Lines The Vert by Lines bending to the right and the Purpure to the left The Ermin being in its Natural colour and the Vary being always Argent and Azure though they also are varied as the Colours are variously mixed having other Names if differing in Colour from the two last mentioned All which are the common Fields in Heraldry and are subject to Division and Charge only the Vary being perfect Armory of it self And if the Shield be divided it is called Parted representing the blows or the Cuts proceeding from the hands of Warriors who having given or received the like in Combats and made a shew Peraid to their Comrades causing them to be painted upon their