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A42323	A display of heraldry manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge thereof than hath been hitherto published by any, through the benefit of method : whereunto it is now reduced by the study and industry of John Guillim ...	Guillim, John, 1565-1621.; Barkham, John, 1572?-1642.; Logan, John, 17th cent.	1679 (1679)	Wing G2222; ESTC R12114	200,924	157

placed an Inescocheon of their Paternal Coat on the breast of the Imperial Eagle And also divers noble and worthy Families of this Land used the like bearing in the several reigns of sundry of our Kings viz. in the time of Richard the second Simon Burley bare in an Inescocheon the Arms of Husly In the time of Henry the fifth Richard Beauchampe the great Earl of Warwick bare the Arms of Spenser and Clare quarterly in an Inescocheon over his own Paternal Coat-Armour and many other in like sort Concerning the bearing of the Wives Coat-Armour by the Husband impaled or otherwise there are some that do boldly affirm That it is not permitted by Law but only tolerated through custome and do with Chassanaeus alledge for proof thereof Quod Arma non transeunt ad cognatos affines quia cognati descendentes ex femina non sunt de familia because by reason of her marriage she renounceth the Name of the Family whereof she is descended and assumeth the Name of her Husbands Family as we formerly shewed where we intreated of differences which are not permitted to the Females And an especial reason thereof may be this Quia Agnationis dignitas semper debet esse salva the Agnation which is of the Fathers side must be preserved entire and therefore the Honour or Arms of it not to be carried into another Family Now because some misunderstanding the Rule given in the sixth Chapter of the first Section where it is said That to Daughter never were any differences allowed do hold that the Husband in the impaling of his Wives Coat-Armour with his own may omit such difference as her Father admitting him to be a younger Brother or descended of a younger Brother bore to distinguish him from the elder brother I think it not amiss here to observe unto the young Student in Armory that every Gentleman of Coat-Armour which marrieth a Gentlewoman whose Father did bear any difference in his Coat ought in the impalement of his Wives Arms to retain the same difference which her Father bore as in these Examples But now to return to marshalling If a Coat-Armour that is bordured be born sole of it self then shall the bordure inviron the Coat round but if such a Coat be marshalled Paleways with another as a marriage then must that part of the bordure which respecteth the Coat annexed give place thereunto whether the Coat bordured be marshalled on the dexter part of the Escocheon or the sinister as in Example I will shew you in like manner how if a Coat-Armour bordured be honoured with a Canton quarter c. the bordure must in like manner give place unto them as in these next Examples may be seen Note that if a bordured Coat be to be marshalled amongst other Coats quarterly then shall no part of the bordure be omitted but the bordure shall environ the same round except it be honoured with a Chief Canton Quarter c. as aforesaid even as it were born alone of it self CHAP. II. FRom such marshallings as do betoken marriage I come to such as betoken a gift of the Sovereign by way of augmentation These are bestowed either for favour or merit though the very winning of favour with Sovereign Princes must be also reputed merit because Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est To win great Princes love great praise it merits Of the first sort are all those Armorial signs which the Sovereign to honour the Bearer and to dignifie his Coat-Armour doth annex to the Paternal Coat of some especial Favorites imparting unto them some parcel of his Royal Ensigns or Badges that so he may transferr to Posterities some Monument of his gracious Favour and of those some are marshalled Paleways and others otherways Of the first sort are the next Escocheons and their like wherein the priority of place is due to those of free gift which must be marshalled on the dexter side of the Escocheon before the Paternal Coat Ob reverentiam munificentiae Regalis as in Example These may serve sufficiently to exemplifie the bearing of augmentations or additions of Honour annexed to Paternal Coat-Armours Paleways Now shall follow such as are marshalled with them after some other manner for in some of them there is annexed a part in a part in other some the whole in a part By a part in a part I mean the annexing of a parcel of the Royal Ensigns or Badges of the Sovereign in or upon some one portion of the Escocheon as in or upon a Canton Chief Quarter c. as followeth in these next Examples Sometimes these augmentations are found to be born upon a Chief of the Escocheon above the Paternal Coat as in this next Example Now in the next place by the Whole in a part I mean the bearing of the Royal Ensigns of the Sovereign wholly in some part of the Escocheon as in Example Thus much for tokens of the Sovereigns Favour which kind of gifts though the proceed also from high merit for the most part in the receivers yet we rather entitle them favours than merits because their gratitude is the greater by whom such Princely regards are rather imputed to their Sovereigns meer bounty than to their own desert CHAP. III. IN the precedent Chapter enough hath been said of augmentations or additions of Honour bestowed by the Sovereign in token of Princely Favour Now of such as he giveth in remuneration of merit either immediately by himself or mediately by his General or Vicegerent either in requital of acceptable service performed or for encouragement to future honourable attempts which is then chiefly effected when vertue is duly rewarded Such remunerations are conferred upon men imployed either in warfare be it secular or spiritual or in affairs civil Of the first sort were those that were professed in the several orders of spiritual Knighthood of late use in this Land but now abolished viz. the Knights of Saint Iohn of Ierusalem and Knights Templers of which the first is the chiefest whose beginning saith Sir Iohn Ferne was in the time of Godfrey first Christian King of Ierusalem The profession of this Order was to fight for Gods honour against the Infidels and as they were taught by the Romish Synagogue for holy St. Iohn This Order was begun in the Year of Grace 1120. Their Habit was a long Gown or Robe of black with a white Cross upon the breast The Ensign Armorial of their Order was an Escocheon Gules a plain Cross Argent And this is now known for the Arms of Savoy by reason that the first Amadeus or Amy Earl of Savoy being in Arms with the Brethren of this spiritual Knighthood at the siege of Acres after that their Grand-master was slain by the Saracens least the Infidels should thereupon take a greater confidence of Victory by knowledge of his death at their request he did put on the Armour of their slain General and the long Robe of black Cloth with the

up in Sheaves as Wheat Rie Cumin c. as in part by these next Examples may appear Among the manifold blessings promised by God to the observers of his Laws plenty of Corn is reckoned one of the chiefest Lev. 26. 3. If ye walk in my statutes and keep my commandements and do them then will I give you rain in due season and the Land shall yield her increase and the Trees of the field shall yield their fruit and your threshing shall reach unto the Vintage and the Vintage shall reach unto the sowing time and you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land safely And again Deut. 8. 7. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good Land a Land of Brooks of Water of Fountains and Depths that spring out of Valleys and Hills a Land of Wheat and Barley and Vines and Figg-trees and Pomegranats a Land of Oyl-olive and Honey a Land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness thou shalt not lack any thing in it a Land whose Stones are Iron and out of whose Hills thou mayest digg Brass These sorts of Grain are most usually born in Coat-Armour bound up in sheaves and banded of the same Metal or Colour yet shall you find their Band sometimes of a diverse Metal or Colour from them Azure a Cheveron between three Garbs Or is the Coat-Armour of the Hattons the chief Ornament now existing in the person of the Right Honourable Christopher Lord Hatton of Kirby Governour of his Majesties Island of Garnsey To this Head must be referred all other sorts of Nutritive Herbs born in Coat-Armour whether they produce Grain in Ear Cod or Husk or that they be Herbs for the Pot or Salads as Betony Spinage Coleworts Lettice Purslain Leeks Scallions c. All which I leave to observation because I labour by all means to pass thorow this vast Sea of the infinite varieties of Nature with what convenient brevity I may because Quod brevius est semper delectabilius habetur in such things as these The shorter the sweeter CHAP. X. NEXT after Herbs Nutritive let us take a taste of Herbs less Nutritive which are either Coronary or Physical Coronary herbs are such as in respect of their odoriferous smell have been of long time and yet are used for decking and triming of the body or adorning of houses or other pleasurable use for eye or scent as also in respect of their beautiful shape and colour were most commonly bestowed in making of Crowns and Garlands of which uses they received their name of Coronary Amongst which we may reckon the Rose before expressed to be one of the chie●est as also Violets of all sorts Clove-Gilliflowers Sweet Majoram Rosemary White Daffodil Spikenard Rose Campion Daisies c. But of all other the Flower de lis is of most esteem having been from the first bearing the Charge of a Regal Escocheon originally born by the French Kings though tract of time hath made the bearing of them more vulgar even as purple was in ancient times a wearing only for Princes which now hath lost that prerogative through custome Out of these several kinds I have selected some few Examples as in the Escocheons following appear Sable a Cheveron between three Flowers de lis Argent is the Coat-Armour of Sir Lionel Ienkins Kt. Judge of his Majesties high Court of Admiralty and of the Prerogative Court Or a Cheveron Sable between three Flowers de lis Azure and is the Coat-Armour of Iohn Millecent of Barham-hall in the Parish of Linton in Cambridgeshire Esq. CHAP. XI HAving hitherto handled that part of our distribution which comprehendeth things Vegetable proceed we now to the other concerning things sensitive which are all sorts of Animals or Creatures indued with senses The senses as likewise the sensitive Soul are things in themselves not visible and therefore estranged from the Herald's uses But because they reside in bodies of differing parts and qualities from any other beforementioned therefore in handling of these sensitive Creatures I hold it requisite to begin with their parts for of them the whole is raised and these are either the parts contained or containing or sustaining But since we are now to speak of things sensitive and amongst them first of Terrestrial Animals and their parts it shall not be impertinent to produce some few causes amongst many why these Terrestrial Animals and Man were created in one day viz. the sixth day First because God had appointed the Earth to be the joint habitation of man and beast together Secondly in respect of the near resemblance both of bodily parts and natural properties that these Terrestrials have of Man in respect either of Fowls or of Fishes Lastly for that very many of them were to serve for man's ease and necessary use As Oxen to till the ground Horses for his ease in travel Dogs to be watchful keepers of his house and others for other his necessary and Domestical uses There is no Animal but hath at the least these parts viz. Head wherewithal to receive food and wherein their senses have their residence a Belly to receive and concoct his meat Intrails whereby to eject the superfluities or excrements of aliment Members also serving for the use and exercise of the senses and others ordained for motion from place to place for without these Members he cannot receive food or nutriment neither feel nor move Therefore there is neither labouring beast or beast of savage kind domestical reptiles or other that can be without these bodily parts By the name of Soul and Life wherewith all sorts of Animals are endued from God Moses teacheth us that there is no living creature to be found that hath not either true and natural blood or at the least some kind of hot humour that is to it instead of blood Anima enim cujusque Animalis in Sanguine est as Moses teacheth Leviticus 17. and in sundry other places and in the common received opinion of all men In humido calido consistit vita That which is spoken of divers kinds of Insecta that there is no blood to be found in them it is to be understood to be meant of true perfect and natural blood but of necessity they must have instead thereof some kind of humour in them that hath the quality of blood viz. that is both hot and moist as afaresaid else can they not live Concerning Animals in general it is not to be doubted but that all sorts of them as well those of savage and ravenous kind as those of domestical and labouring kind as also venomous Serpents of themselves and of their own nature were themselves good and might be good to others and profitable for man's use for asmuch as it is said Et vidit Elohim quod bonum But in that they are now become noisome and painful to man that is per Accidens for this is occasioned by the sin and transgression of man whereby all things became accursed for

Arms of the said Order and then demeaned himself with such valour in Battel that after he had slain the Admiral of the Saracens with his own hand he sunk and put to flight the most part of their Foists Ships and Gallies and in fine redeemed the City of Acres from a perillous Naval siege For which benefit done to Religion the Knights of the said Order requested the said Earl of Savoy to advance for his Coat-Armour this Ensign here mentioned Since which time all those that entred the said Order have also had their Paternal Coat-Armour insigned with this Cross on the Chief of their Paternal Coat as followeth To these donative augmentations of Arms I will add certain Arms Assumptive which are such as a man of his proper right may assume as the guerdon of his valorous service with the approbation of his Sovereign and of the Herald As if a man being no Gentleman of blood or Coat-Armour or else being a Gentleman of blood and Coat-Armour shall captivate or take prisoner in any lawful warrs any Gentleman great Lord or Prince as saith Sir Iohn Ferne he may bear the shield of that prisoner and enjoy it to him and his heirs for ever if the same be not by like infortune regained be he Christian or Pagan for that is but a vain and frivolous distinction These are such as the Bearers or some of their Ancestors have forced from the enemy either in compelling him to flight and so to forsake his Arms or Ensigns or by strong hand surprise him prisoner in justo bello or having slain him so gained to himself jure gentium an absolute interest in the Ensigns of his conquered Foe And in this sense may that assertion of Bertolus be verified where he saith Et jam populares propria authoritate arma sibi assumere possunt but not otherwise because the base sort of men having no generous blood in them are not capable of Armorial Ensigns which are the badges of noble disposition or generous birth and therefore they ought not to be bestowed upon such persons Quia entia nolunt malè disponi Arist. Met. But in this sense it may be understood that he that is not descended of gentle blood is holden worthy to bear the Coat-Armour that he hath gained for the apparent tokens of vertue and valour that are found in him That the vanquisher may bear the Arms of the vanquished I shall make apparent by this next Example CHAP. IV. COncerning Coat-Armours marshalled within the Escocheon whereof the occasions are manifest we have hitherto intreated now of such as have their occasions less manifest Those are such as being hereditary Coat-Armours are so obscurely marshalled in one Escocheon as that thereby the beholder can yield no reason or yet conjectural probability of such their union nor may well discern them to be distinct Coats So as it often falleth out that they are mistaken for some new coined Coat rather than two Coats of distinct Families and so reckoned to be a Coat too bad to be born And such marshalling is either one above another or one upon another Of the first sort may we reckon the Coat-Armour of Browne before exemplified as also these following and their like Another form of bearing of divers Coats upon like occasion much different from this doth the same Author commend that is to say the bearing of the Mothers Arms upon the Fathers by the heir in a Bend And this doth he reckon to be the best manner of bearing such Arms saying Optimus certè modus portandi diversa arma in uno scuto habetur in istis Bendis quia habens patrimonium à suo patre dimissum alias certas terras per matrem sibi provenientes quibus quidem terris maternis certa appropriantur Arma ab antiquo ut fortè quia ipsa arma materna sortiuntur nomen progeniei suae Tunc ipse haeres si voluerit potest portare Arma integra sui patris in scuto plano in tali Benda potest portare Arma materna Of this form of bearing you may see a demonstration in this next Eschocheon Not unaptly may these Coats be said to be obscurely marshalled when the occasion thereof cannot be either certainly discerned or yet probably conjectured neither can it be with reason conceived whether the Superiour be born for the Fathers Coat or for the Mothers And thus much shall suffice concerning Coat-Armours marshalled within the Escocheon CHAP. V. AMongst the various bearings of Coat-Armour in this Book the Authour Mr. Guillim hath given no example of the bearing of women in a Lozenge as not under Covert Baron which being very necessary to be taken notice of I have here inserted the Arms of o●e few who for their Vertues and generous Educations may deservedly be made the Patterns of Bearings in this kind This manner of bearing in Lozenges by unmarried women may seem to take its rise or original from the Fusil or Spindle of Yarn single women being called Spinsters Nunquam à Lancea transibat ad fusum says Favine speaking of Salique Land It never past from the Launce to the Fusil Lozenge or Spindle But Plutarch gives a more noble and ancient derivation of this form of bearing where he tells us in the life of Theseus That in the City of Megara in his time the Tombs of Stone wherein the bodies of the Amazons lay in●erred were cut in the form or fashion of a Lozenge in imitation of their shields according to the manner of Greece Thus much for the bearing of Widows who may on no pretence whatsoever bear either their Paternal-Coat or their Husbands single for if in an Escocheon or Shield then it will be taken for the bearing of a man and if in a Lozenge then the bearing proper for a Maiden Gentlewoman CHAP. VI. IN the former Chapters hath been treated of such Coat-Armours as are marshalled within the Escocheon in order it now succeedeth to speak of marshalling without the Escocheon These are certain Ornaments externally annexed to the Coat-Armour of any Gentleman by reason of his advancement to some honour or place of eminency by the gracious favour of the Sovereign as an honourable addition to his generous birth Of these there are divers particulars which being conjoyned and annexed to a Coat-Armour do constitute an Atchievement An Atchievement according to Leigh is the Arms of every Gentleman well marshalled with the Supporters Helmet Wreath and Crests with Mantles and Words which of Heralds is properly called in Blazon Heawme and Timbre The French word Heaulme which we call in English an Helmet seemeth to have given derivation to that word Heawme And the word Timmer to our Timbre for that in the Almain Tongue is the same that we in Latin call Apex or Summitas acuminata and betokeneth the Crest that is usually born upon the Helmet For so doth Kiltanus Dufflene expound it calling it Timber of Timber van Den Helme which is as much to