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A51369	Armilogia, sive, Ars chromocritica The language of arms by the colours & metals being analogically handled according to the nature of things, and fitted with apt motto's to the heroical science of herauldry in the symbolical world : whereby is discovered what is signified by every honourable partition, ordinary, or charge, usually born in coat-armour, and mythologized to the heroical theam [sic] of Homer on the shield of Achilles : a work of this nature never yet extant / by Sylvanus Morgan ...	Morgan, Sylvanus, 1620-1693.	1666 (1666)	Wing M2738; ESTC R16382	99,548	200

of Deucalion and though perhaps you may say as once an Eminent King of Arms said That these are pleasant Vanities yet it plainly demonstrateth that as men gave names to Towns and Cities so they gave names to men and so become reciprocal for I do this but onely to hint at some reason of the Bearing which every one desires to hear of Lines being promiscuously drawn and to the vulgar seem nothing without a charge or Bearing thereupon Lamprides in the life of Alexander Severus saith That he gave such Lands as he won out of the Enemies hands to his Lords Marchers and his Souldiers that they should be theirs and their Heirs for ever so they would be Souldiers neither should they come at any time into the hands of any private person saying They would more lustily serve if they fought for their own land which opinion cometh next to the ancient Border'd Grou●d among the Romans This manner of dividing the Field by halfs or quarters or by Lines direct cross overthwart or such other declareth how Art must follow Nature of that which it dorh figure and not otherwise What reason can be given why the three Brothers of Warren Gourney and Mortimer should every one bear a severall Coat and derive their Sirnames to posterity all of them yet retaining the Metal and Colour of OR and AZURE the one Checky the other Pally and the other Barry But chiefly for distinction as Aristotle noteth Formam esse qua res ab alia differt these being as it were several dissections of Jupiter's Brain by the Man Midwife though these divisions also might have an eye to the Heroes of Old Helms of high proof the Work and Shields compleat With Sallow wrought Checky being wrought on their Shields by the weaving of Sallow to corroborate and strengthen them Earl Warren had Checky in his Field Again Sir Ancell Gourney who was at the winning of Acome with King Richard the First where he took Prisoner the King of the Moors bare Pally of fix pieces OR and Azure and in remembrance of his so noble Atchievement he bare the said King armed in Mail rendring up of his sword and parted in the Girdle-place counterchanged was given by Sir Richard Gourney late Lord Mayor of London This claps on Mail which finest gold did guild Then takes his faithfull sword and solid Shield Great stately Transomes stood a lofty Tower Of great defence ' gainst this with all their power Th' Italians draw this work to overthrow Became the whole endeavour of the foe Argent a Chief Azure VERTETUR IN DIEM the Azure being of the nature of the Light RECTA DIFFUNDITUR and is the Colour of Justice therefore attributed to Jupiter Sometimes the Chief is Nobile to shew the benefits we receive from above Tum Pater Omnipotens c. Almighty Aether in a fatning showre Dropt in the lap of his sweet Spouse Ornari res ipsa negat contenta doceri Now what I have said concerning all the Fields before going are said to be parted but cannot properly be said to be charged because there is neither Metal nor Colour predominant But when these Lines limit a space above the Field they do constitute certain Charges or Honourable Ordinaries which I come next to treat of as the Nexus Materiae cum forma But when these Divisions are charged with any thing of Sovereignty it denotes high merit from the Prince and are called augmentation of Honour though it take from the first Bearing Frederick the Fourth Emperour of Germany giving to Laurence Hutton of Hutton John in Westmorland a Canton charged with a Falchion in Bend Proper as a parcel of the Arms of Soliman the Second for that in the Wars of Hungary he had won in the Field the Standard of the said Solyman joyned to his own Arms which was Gules a Fesse OR between three Cushions Argent tassled gold and charged with three Flower-de-luces and to his Crest parcel of the Imperial Arms viz. On a Wreath Gold and Azure two Eagles heads and necks in Saltire couped Sable issuing through a Coronet gold and were by especial favour declared to be added to his own Coat Cushions signifying rest and repose By what hath been said that God did in the beginning cause a double property in one Essence whereby the one was potential and no wayes yet Enacted by the brightness of his Emanation and in that respect is termed Darkness Privation Voluntity opposite to Light and a friend to Death and rest and the other was actual and pure Brightness which is termed Light Position and Voluntity a friend to Life and Action So that Matter without the third Vnity of the informed Light could not be endued with the title of Goodness nor can the Matter of Arms be good till it shall be able to undergo all the Changes and Alterations that the active Form of the Metals and Lines can put upon it whereof upon it the plain Line is like the first shadow and the curved like the second as that Umbra prima est absentia primae lucis secunda secundae sic deinceps Conclusion of this Chapter To Sir Henry Blunt of Tettenhanger in the County of Hartford Knight SIR The Nebule Line in your Coat hath already inroll'd you in the House of Fame your Travels having made you far famous have lifted your Head above the Clouds Nevertheless what is now mounted in the Air was at first in Plano viz. Lozengy OR and Sable as Matter and Form compounded together for the Honour of so good a House and is removed from its first Simplicity for the distinction of a numerous Progeny the Field you bear shews your Ancestours were men of high Agitations CHAP. III. Of the Matter and Form of Coat Armour conjunct in the Honourable Ordinaries Rex Solium Doctor Cathedram Judexque Tribunal Possidet ac Sedem Praesul Praetorque Curale The Military man onely being girt in a standing posture and in the Heroical Age it was of great esteem as may principally be seen in Homer Qui Atridarum Balthea aurea facit Hectoris puniceum Diomedis discolorem it being a reward for great Warriours and Military Captains in which sense Joab had a reward of ten Shekels and an Arming Belt The Augmentation Coat born by Pelham was in memory of the disarming his Enemy in the Field when he cut the Belt off and took him Prisoner retaining the Buckles on it In like manner West as a cognizance of his Valour continues to wear the Chape of the Sword Aulica quippe Comes rexi patrimonia clarus Et me a patricio fulserunt Cingula cultu It is rewarded with sovereign Ensigns in the Coat of some of the Earls of Worcester in testimony of their Extraction from Henry Beauford Duke of Somerset Great Granchild of John so named of Beauford in France who was Son of John of Gaunt It consisteth of the third part of the Field and is as it were the path to Virtue TRAMITE

ARMILOGIA SIVE ARS CHROMOCRITICA THE Language of Arms BY THE COLOURS METALS BEING Analogically handled according to the Nature of Things and fitted with apt Motto's to the Heroical Science of Herauldry in the Symbolical World WHEREBY Is discovered what is signified by every Honourable Partition Ordinary or Charge usually born in Coat-Armour and Mythologized to the Heroical Theam of HOMER on the Shield of ACHILLES A WORK of this Nature never yet extant By SYLVANUS MORGAN Arms-Painter Est aliquid prodire tenus si non datur ultra LONDON Printed by T. Hewer for Nathaniel Brook at the Angel in Cornhil and Henry Eversden at the Greyhound in S. Pauls Church-yard 1666. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DISPONIENDO ME NO MVDAN DO ME. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE EDVVARD Earl of MANCHESTER c. Lord Chamberlain to the King 's most Excellent MAJESTY one of the Commissioners for the Office of Earl-Marshal of England Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter Chancellour of the University of Cambridge and one of his MAJESTIES Privy Counsellours c. Right Honourable THis Arrogant desire of mine grounded more on your Heroick Virtues then my private Ends promiseth me your Honours Acceptance of this Expression of my self in these Faculties not much besides my Profession indebted more to love then ability sets my ambition a pitch higher then my nature in presuming to present to your Honours hands these unworthy labours The Language of your Arms speaks you every way a good Patron the Griffon representing a good Guardian the Eagle a noble President and the Lozengies are Symbols of Nobility the quickness of whose Lustre shews from what Rock they were hewn Vouchsafe then Great Mount-acute as the generous Eagle at once to view and protect under the wings of your Honours Name this Infant of mine which was consecrated yours in the first Conception wishing it no other fate then that if it deserve not to live with your Name and Memory it may dye by the Marshal Law of your dislike and though for the want of that Law many have sown Dragons teeth Crescitque seges clypeata virorum this Land hath abounded with Men Armed assuming to themselves these Ensigns of Honor yet seeing your Eagle seems to resume her youthfull habit and triumph over Time and Ruine and the best part of my Endeavours stand engaged to your generous Fraternity I hope your indulgent Pardon and Acceptance choosing much rather to lay my self down at your Honours feet then to be brought before you as a Criminal to Honour who alwayes was Your Honours in all Duty and Service to be commanded SYLVANUS MORGAN To the READER A Gentleman of the first Head Hermaelogi● saith one except while the Spaniard swells in being the Son of his own right hand is seldome known to refuse the Herauld more than the Nobles of Rome could Virgil after he had so solemnly sung their Extraction from Elysium and Caesar's from the Gods Deus Nobis haec otia fecit Aeneid 6. And if in my Armilogia I have seemed to gratifie all and flattred many by the opinions of Good Bearings I hope they will bear also with Me if I take Leave to talk of whole Fields of Gold and Silver possessed by the Heroes I hope they will accept of the Golden Branch from Sibylla Painters and Poets are to be excused upon Ben Johnsons account Poet never Credit gain'd By writing Truth but things like truth well fain'd Mira canunt sed non credenda Poetae There were three most noted Epoches or Computations of Times amongst the Antients higher than which Profane Story gives no light The first was the Expedition of the Argonautes to Colchis for the Golden Fleece Dr. Symson which hapned in the fifteenth year of Gideon and of the World 2743 and before our Saviour 1260. The second was from the Theban Warr which was 42 years after and the last from the Trojan War which was undertaken by the Greekes in the 19th year of Iair Judge of Israel in the year of the World 2812 before Christs time 1191 These three Memorable Expeditions administred Matter to the Heroick Muses of divers famous Witts the Gests of the first were celebrated by the Greek Muse of Apollonius Rhodius and by the Latine of Valerius Flaccus the Theban War was sung by the Sublime Papinius Statius and the Trojan War was the Theme of the Great Homer a Subject of Armes and Blazon Shields Thickned with opposed Shields Targets to Targets Nail'd Healmes stuck to Healmes and Man to Man grew they so close assail'd And afterwards imitated by Virgil the Prince of the Latine Poets in whose Aeneis you have a Patterne of Virtue and of Armes the Ensignes of Virtue and Nobility Mille vides Galeas Clypeosque insignia mille you have also in Homer the Lineall Genealogies of Greeks and Trojans wherein Aeneas himself Sings his Genealogy from Iove which Married Electra Sister of Morges King of Italy which Jupiter was called Cambo Blascon and was King of Italy by the Gift of Morges his Wifes Brother he was Son of Atlas or Ketim or Jupiter of Creet called Italus he was the Son of Dodoneus who was called Saturne of Creet and he was the Son of Tharsus who was the Son of Ketim or Helisan he was the Son of Javan Father of the Graecians whom Berosus calleth Ion and Iavan was Son of Iaphet second Son of Noah he was also called Iapetus and the Britains by their antient manner of Fight seem to derive their Genealogy from Aeneas as well as the English who claime to be descended of the antient Saxons and though I have heard that bruit of Brute cryed down by many well seen in Antiquity as well as the Tale of Troy yet Virgil being so perfect an Idiome of Heroicall Actions I cannot but allow both in my Herauldy Though I must confess with Dr. Case that Ruina Bangoriensi gloria Walliae nebulata fuit ●a Praeface ad Ethick And Chronologers scarcely agree when Troy was taken If there be any so valiant as the Greekes as to wage War against the Britains as Trojans for their usurpation of the Lady Truth and Prevail yet I fear they will hardly find her there though in the Story of Jeffery of Monmouth there be a brave Theme for one that would much vindicate the Reputation of his Countrey-Men and whether the Britaines have had the same Fortune of the Trojans I shall leave to Chronologie Palae Albion Aut venit aut videt aut vicit Brutus Amoenoe Albioni impositum à Bruto Brytania Nomen Whether Brute at Brutania anchor cast Coasted or Ken'd or conquered last Or whether the Trojans were the Planters of Italy shall not trouble me only if it gratifie Caesar and the Romans as an Exhortation from Effeminacy and stir up to Manly Exercises it is the Proper Work of Herauldry and Armes do Speak there being nothing borne in Armes but may be found on that Shield of

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 M●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 Ximen●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 Fo●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 Flo●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 ●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 ●●●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 C●o●● 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 Fo●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