as in these Examples following The other sort of Stars that do shine after a diverse sort are those that we call Comets or Blazing Stars whose Form is commonly as in this next Escocheon is represented CHAP. IV. SO much of the first Member of the Distribution before delivered viz. of Constant Essences which are only those Celestial Creatures which being void of this corrupt mixture that is found in all Creatures Sublunary have a priviledge by Divine appointment from the mutability whereto all things under the Moon are subject Now come we to that other Member thereof namely such as are Inconstant Natures so far forth as there is use of them in Arms. Inconstant Natures are bodily Essences of small continuance by reason of their ignoble or base substance such are the four Elements viz. Fire Air Water and Earth Fire Winters treasure Water Somers pleasure But the Earth and Air none can ever spare Elements are simple Essences of small stability and the womb of all mixt things as Scriboâ—â—us noteth and according to some Authors called Elementa ab alendo of nourishing but Saint Hierom calleth Elementa quasi Elevamenta for their proportionable mixture in the composition of the Bodies Sublunar whereby they are made fit for Motion Of these Elements these Examples next following having a representation Fire in the Scriptures is often taken for a special token of Gods favour and that he is pleased with the Sacrifices that are done unâ—o him as when he answereth as it were by Fire like as we read Iudges 6. 21. Then the Angel of the Lord put out the end of his staff that he held in his hand and touched the flesh and unlevened bread and there arose up Fire out of the stones and consumed the flesh and unlevened bread c. And as when Eliah contended with the Prophets of Baal touching the manifestation of the true God Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the Burnt-offerings and the wood and the stones and the dust and licked up the water that was in the trench 1 Kings 18. 38. And again When Solomon had made an end of praying Fire came down from Heaven and consumed the Burnt-offerings and the Sacrifices and the glory of the Lord filled the House 2 Chron. 7. 1. The Chevron being as we before have said a memorial and token of Building it may seem the Heralds were not well advised to put flames of Fire so near it but it is no inforced conjecture to suppose that this Coat-Armour was first given to him who had restored some publick Edifice which Fire had consumed This next ensuing hath also a resemblance with it Fresh and sweet Waters are reckoned amongst Gods peculiar Blessings promised to the observers of his Laws and those of chiefest rank For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good Land a Land in the which are Rivers of Waters Fountains and Depths that spring out of the Valleys and Mountains Lev. 26. 7. CHAP. V. HAving shewed by particular Examples the bearing of simple Essences or at the least of such things as have a mutual participation of qualities with them I will now proceed to the handling of the next Member of the Distribution which comprehendeth Essences or Natures of mixt Kinds Such are Brute or without life Living By Brute Natures I understand all Essences whatsoever of mixt kind that are meerly void of life Such are Meteors which are unperfect kinds of mixture which by their strange Apparitions do move their Beholders to an Admiration and these are called Corpora sublimia because they are ingendred aloft in the Airy Region The matter whereof these Meteors are ingendred is a certain attracted fume drawn up on high by the Operation of the Sun and Stars This fume or smoak is Vapour Exhalation Vapour is a moist kind of fume extracted chiefly out of the Water and therefore is easily dissolved again thereinto and hence are watry Meteors Exhalation is a drier kind of fume attracted up from the Earth and apt to be inflamed and they are firy Meteors There are also other Meteors formed of a mixture of both these fumes Firy Meteors are forms consisting of hot Exhalations attracted into the Airy Region having a hot quality which at length breaketh into a fire And of these are Simple Mixt. Simple firy Meteors are of divers sorts and different forms whereof there is little use in Coat-Armour except of the falling Star which of Blazoners is termed a Mullet which is an Exhalation inflamed above in the Air and stricken back with a Cloud whereby it is forced to run downwards in such sort that to the Ignorant a Star seemeth to fall There is oftentimes found upon the Earth a certain gelly fallen from above and dispersed into divers points which of many is taken to be the substance of the Falling Star or Mullet Note that such Mullets born in Coat-Armour are now most usual of five points but anciently you shall find them born of six points And so I have seen them in divers very old Rolls in the Custody of that worthy Knight Sir Richard Saint George now Clarencieux King of Arms whose industrious travel in the careful Collection of such Antiquities and his free communicating of the same to the studious in that way merits much From Mullets of six points we will proceed to those of five This Coat with due differences is now born by divers Gentlemen in Norfolk Suffolk and elsewhere In Norfolk by Sir Edmond Bacon of Gillingham Baronet Bacon of Egner Esq and by Francis Bacon of Norwich Esq. And in Suffolk by Sir Edmond Bacon of Redgrave aforesaid Sir Henry Bacon of Lounde in Lovingland Baronet Sir Nicholas Bacon of Shrubland-hall in Codenham Knight of the Bath Thomas Bacon of Friston-hall Esq Philip Bacon of Wolverton Esq and Philip Bacon of Ipswich Esquire Though the falling Star it self is but the Emblem of the inconstancy of high Fortunes and unsure footing of ambitious Aspirers which may shine for a time but in a moment fall headlong from the Heaven of their high hopes yet the Mullet in Heraldry hath a more noble signification it being supposed to represent some Divine quality bestowed from above whereby men do shine in Vertue Learning and works of Piety like bright Stars on the Earth and these are Stellae dimissae è Coelo Stars let down from Heaven by God not Stellae dejectae thrown down as those which the Tayl of the Dragon threw down which are Apostates from God and their Religion nor yet Cadentes stellae falling Stars such as the stroke of Justice and their own Demerits casts down from the height of their Honours This Coat with the Arms of Vlster is born by Sir Denny Ashburnham of Bromham in the said County Baronet Argent a Chevron Sable between three Mullets pierced Gules is born by Iohn Davies of Vine-hall in Sussex Gent. So much of simple firy Meteors so far forth as there is use of them in Coat-Armour Now of such
Idolatry as that they esteemed beasts for gods as appeareth Wisd. 12. 24. For they went astray far in the ways of errour and esteemed the beasts which their enemies despised for gods being abused after the manner of children that have no understanding So long is any Animal or living Creature said to have life as he hath breath and the exercise thereof And this Rule holdeth not only in fourfooted Animals but also in those that we call Insecta and in gliding Animals also as both Galen and Pliny do teach though Aristotle denieth these latter to have breath but therein he speaketh comparatively viz. in respect of other Animals that do attract and deliver their breath more strongly and more sensibly they seem to have no breath at all One Example more I will propose which shall be of the Emmet as in this next Escocheon The Examples hitherto produced are taken oâ—ly from Reptiles gressible and though of that kind which hath more than four feet I have alledged only the two last Examples of Insecta yet there are some other of many feet which are not Insecta as the Palmer-worm Cheeslip Kitchinbobs which being touched gather themselves round like a Ball and such like which must be referred to the same head And besides all these there are yet othersome which be both gressible and volant such are those that having their livelyhood only upon the earth by the help of a kind of wings they oftentimes change their place for the acquiring of their sustenance as in Example There are other of this kind whose wings are less manifest than the Grashoppers because they are closed in a kind of case that can hardly be discerned but when they are preparing to fly for which respect they are called Vagipennae saith Calepine Quia alas vaginis quibusdam inclusas habent for carrying their wings sheathed as the Hartâ—ly Beetle Lady-cow c. which together with Locusts and such other as are both gressible and volant and many-legged are to be reduced to this head as to their proper and natural place I will close up all these with one Example of the Scorpion which Aelianus and others report to be winged in Aegypt and India though he doubts whether they are not rather bred by the heat of the Sun than by copulation and if by this latter whether they come of Eggs or come forth living CHAP. XVIII NOW touching such Creatures as we termed Gliding Those may properly be said to be such which having no feet at all do yet move and as it were slide from place to place some more slowly but othersome with a certain volubility and flexible agitation of the body do make their speedy way upon the earth with many pliant bowings and of these also some have for coverture their skin only some both skin and shell also Of the former sort are those now following with their like To the four-footed Egg-bearing Animals do the Serpents come very nigh as also other Reptiles For all Serpents have blood flesh sinews and other like parts as four-footed Animals have although not in that perfection that they have them They are indowed also with head nostrils eyes tongue teeth and with lights and spleen and other inward parts and bowels of the body but much discrepant from the members and bowels of all others Notwithstanding that Serpents are far unequal to four-footed Animals both in shape and strength yet will they not give place to many of them for sharpness of wit It is a Creature full of subtilty as Moses testifieth Gen. 3. And the Serpent was more subtile than any Beast of the field For besides his exterior senses he is crafty and subtile in preserving his life in making choice of his lurking dens in acquiring his food in hatching up his brood in expelling from him and putting off his old slough So that for good cause did our Saviour exhort us in goodness to imitate the wisdome of the Serpent These few Examples may serve instead of many which might be brought of Serpents of sundry other names and natures which all are hither to be referred Now let us see one Example of such gliding or sliding Animals as are more slow-paced and have both skin and shell to cover them of which number is the Snail reckoned of all other that are born in Coat-Armour the slowest And no marvel since it carrieth on her back no less a burden than her whole house for which cause she is called Tardigrada Domiporta the slow-going House-bearer CHAP. XIX A Second general Member of our Division of living Creatures concerning such as live above the Earth in the Air as are the Fowls and Birds of all sorts and as we distinguished the former by their feet so the same Method we will follow in these Their feet therefore are in some whole or conjoyned in others divided The whole-footed do in a sort resemble the palm of a mans hand and are therefore in Latin called Palmipedes such as the Swan Goose Duck and for the most part all River Fowls as partly shall appear hereafter by Examples But here I hold it necessary entring into this Discourse to set down some general Rules or Notes concerning the bearing of Birds or Fowls that the Reader may know whither to resort for a resolution of such doubts as may arise touching their bearing Fowls or Birds are of more worthy bearing in Coat-Armour than Fishes because they do more participate of air and fire the two noblest and highest Elements than of water or earth All fowls of whatsoever kind must be born in Coat-Armour as is best fitting the propriety of their natural actions of going sitting standing flying c. Otherwise such Armory shall be said to be false because Ars imitatur naturam in quantum potest Art as much as possible it can doth imitate Nature All Birds are mustered under the name of Fowls as under their Genus or General and so may seem after a sort to be one Nevertheless in their Species or several kinds they differ much touching their particular qualities for some of them are simple some others subtile some solitary some sociable some melodious some articulate some docible some doltish and indocible some of long continuance and some only of a few months lasting Leigh saith That Birds in an Escocheon shall be numbred unto Ten and if they exceed that number then they shall be said to be sans number and shall be so blazoned But Chassaneus saith that they shall be numbred unto sixteen and of such bearing and blazoning he giveth instances of Monsieur Montmorancie and of the Lord Lovale Concerning the beaks or bills and feet of Birds most Armorists finding them to be of a different colour from the rest of the body do term them all generally membred But under reformation of the skill I hold that as there is a difference in the Nobility of Birds so ought they to have distinct terms of blazon So that all those that either are
Meteors as are of mixt kind according to the distribution before delivered in the next president These are firy Meteors bred of an Exhalation somewhat more gross and impure than those before specified by reason of a more thick and slimy vapour whereof they be ingendred Meteors of this kind are Thunder Lightning Thunder is an inflamed Exhalation which by his powerful force breaketh thorow the Clouds violently with great noise and terror The forcible power thereof is rather apprehended by the ear than subjected to the sight nevertheless the ancient times have devised a certain imaginary form whereby they would express the forcible power thereof as also of the Lightning Thunder is supposed to be ingendred two manner of ways viz. when either a hot or dry vapour is inclosed in a cold and moist Cloud and being unable to contain it self therein by reason of the contrariety it laboureth by all means to find a vent and so striving by all means to get passage it maketh way with great vehemency and horror of sound such as a glowing Gad of Iron or any other firy matter maketh when water is infused thereupon in abundance or that it is therein drenched it maketh a furious and murmuring sound Such is that weak and feeble sort of Thunder that seemeth to be ingendred in some Region of the Air far remote from us yielding only for a small time a kind of turbulent noise or murmuring Or else it is ingendred in a more violent manner to wit when this inclosed dry and combustible matter being inâ—lamed in the Clouds of contrary qualities doth break out with vehemency then doth it yield a terrible and forcible sound not unlike a great piece of Ordnance when it is overcharged And this sound thus ingendred is called Thunder This sort of sound is used oftentimes Metaphorically as when God threatneth his Judgments against Sin he is said to thunder them out In this sense doth Petrarch use the same saying Deus ideo tonat in Coelis ut tu in terras bene vivas quodque amoxe debueras saltem metu facias For unless God loved man he would never threaten him but rather punish him forasmuch as man doth evermore minister many and those grievous occasions of execution of Gods Judgments Lightning is a vehement â—ruption of an inflamed Exhalation proceeding from Thunder which though it is in time after the Thunder yet is first represented to our senses by reason that our sight is far more subtil and apprehensive than is our hearing And in regard that Thunder and Lightning do both proceed from one self cause they have in such their imaginary fiction conjoyned them both under one form after this manner His Inference had been truer thus If God should Thunder-strike still when he sin doth see All men would soon be spent yet God still arm'd should be Hitherto of Firy Meteors now of such as be watry Watry Meteors are certain cold and moist Vapours copiously attracted by the powerful operation of the Heavenly Bodies into the Air and there transmutated into their several forms Of these there are divers sorts whereof Clouds are most usually born in Coat-Armour A Cloud is a gross Vapour attracted into the middle Region of the Air and there thickned by reason of the coldness of the place having in it store of matter apt to ingender water A Cloud according to Zanchius is a moist thick Vapour attracted from the waters by the heat of the Sun unto the middle Region of the Air and there thickned by the coldness thereof and so continueth until it be again dissolved by the Suns heat and so converted into rain and doth distill down in drops Zanch. de Meteoris aqueis 483. The Clouds are said to be Gods Chariots as we may see Psalmâ— 104. He layeth the beams of his Chambers in the waters and maketh the Clouds his Chariot and walketh upon the wings of the winds The Clouds are Gods Instruments wherein he containeth and retaineth at his pleasure the shours of Rain as in Bottles as we may see Iob 38. 37. Who can number the Clouds by wisdom Or who can cease the Bottles of Heaven The Clouds are resembled to a Spunge replenished with water and God with the hand of his Providence wringeth the Spunge moderately not pressing out all the moisture thereof at once but leasurely and by little and little after a gentle and soaking manner No Pencil can make a true representation of Clouds because every instant and moment of time doth add unto them some kind of alteration whereby it differeth from that it was late before nevertheless former times have coyned of these also a conceited form as in these next Escocheons may be seen This Coat is also born by Sir Henry Blount of Tittonhanger in Hartfordshire Knight In the Clouds hath the Rain-bow his temporary Residence and therefore next let us cast our eyes on it CHAP. VI. HItherto have we prosecuted our intendment touching things of mixt nature which are brute or liveless Now proceed we to the consideration of things of mixt Nature having life Mixt Natures that are living are Corporeal Essences endued with a Vegetable Soul for here we use this word Soul as also the word Life in his largest signification A Vegetable Soul is a faculty or power that giveth life unto Bodies Whereby they do live After a sort or Perfectly Such as do live after a sort or less perfectly are all sorts of Mettals which because they are supposed to grow and increase in the Earth we will for our present use ascribe life unto them Mettals are Bodies imperfectly living and are decocted in the Veins of the Earth Of these some are naturally Liquefiable Not Liquefiable or less Liquefiable The Liquefiable are Gold Silver Copper Tin Lead and other of like kind The not or hardly Liquefiable are Precious Brittle Those that are altogether hard are Stones of all sorts Stones are bred of a waterish moisture and of an oily kind of Earth firmly compacted together Of Stones some are Precious Base Stones precious are of that sort that we call in Latin Gemmae which are of estimation either for that they are rarely to be gotten or for some vertue phansied to be in them or for that they are such as wherewith mans Eye is wonderfully delighted by reason of their pureness and beautiful transparent substance Of which kind are the Diamond Topaz Escarbuncle Emerald Ruby and such like Of which sorts twelve of chiefest note were appointed by God himself to be used in the principal Ornament of the High Priest when he appeared before the Lord presenting therein the Names of the Twelve Tribes of Israel to shew how precious in his sight is the People and Nation which serveth him as himself prescribeth But of all these several kinds the Escarbuncle is of most use in Arms and is born as in these next Escocheons appeareth So much of precious Stones now of those which are Base such we esteem all those to be
which both for their ordinary and base imployments and also for that they are easily to be had of all men are of small estimation as are these next following with their like So much of Mettals or Minerals for I use the word in the largest sense that are hard and not liquefiable there are other also which we reckoned to be hardly liquefiable in respect of their brittle nature such are Alom Salt Amber Chalk c. but there is no use of them in Arms. Because in this Chapter I have spoken of precious Stones divers of which are of use in Heraldry for blazoning of the Coat-Armours of Nobility as my self have often occasion to do in sundry parts of this Work before I proceed further I will set down those several Stones as they answer to their several Mettals and Colours together with the Planets also which I use only in the Atchievements of Kings and great Princes Selected Forms of Blazon before mentioned Mettal and Colours 1. Or 2. Argent 3. Gules 4. Azure 5. Sable 6. Vert 7. Purpure 8. Tenn 9. Sanguine Precious Stones 1. Topaz 2. Pearl 3. Ruby 4. Saphire 5. Diamond 6. Emerald 7. Amethyst 8. Jacynth 9. Sardonyx Planets 1. Sol. 2. Luna 3. Mars 4. Jupiter 5. Saturn 6. Venus 7. Mercury 8. Dragons head 9. Dragons tayl CHAP. VII SO much touching Examples of such Natures as do live after a sort In the next place succeed those things which do live perfectly or properly such Natures are those as have in them express and manifest tokens of a living Soul Of this kind some are Vegetable Sensitive Forasmuch as I am now to treat of Vegetable Animals and of their particular kinds I must excuse my self in two things before I enter into the exemplifying of them The one that there is no cause that any man should expect at my hands an express demonstration of each particular Species of them and that I should run through and display their manifold and almost innumerable kinds for that would be a tedious travel and besides an infinite and unnecessary charge and cost and withal far wide from the project of my prefixed purpose The other thing and the same more pertinent to that I do intend is That in handling of Vegetables and Sensitives I purpose only to distribute their several ranks of Distribution according to their Order to them prescribed by Nature which to express is my chiefest drift and the principal scope that I do aim at Of the perfect sort of Creatures there are many kinds whereof some are of more perfection and more worthy than others according to their more excellent kind of life or worthiness of soul. Of these the less perfect sort of Bodies were first created and then such as were of more perfection Plants are more worthy than Mettals and Animals of more reckoning than Plants therefore were these first created and those afterwards Of Animals wherewith God did adorn the Air the Waters and the Earth there are divers kinds whereof some were more worthy than others in the Creation of these did God observe the same order Between the Creation of Plants and Animals it pleased God in his unsearchable wisdom to interpose the creation of the Stars wherewith he beautified the Heavens he did it to this end to give us to understand That albeit the Sun with his light and motion together with the Stars do concur in the generation of Plants and Animals nevertheless their Generation is not to be attributed simply to the influence and power of these Celestial Bodies but only to the Omnipotency of God inasmuch as by his powerful Word he commanded the Earth to produce all sorts of Plants and their Fruits before the Stars were created From the most fertile and pleasant Garden of Eden unto the most barren and desolate Wilderness may we see and behold the great and wonderful works of God and take occasion to extol his Omnipotency Wisdom and Mercy As we may observe Isai. 41. 9. I will set in the Wilderness the Cedar the Shittah tree and the Myrhe tree and the Pine tree and I will set in the Wilderness the Firr tree the Elm and the Box together Therefore let them see and know and let them consider and understand together that the hand of the Lord hath done this and that the holy One of Israel hath created it v. 20. Hence we may gather that there is no object so mean that presenteth it self to our view but will minister some just occasion to glorifie God Men are accustomed to attribute the propagation of these either to the influence of Nature or to the travel and industry of man but these were produced before any other of like kind could be found upon the face of the Earth whereof it might be imagined they might receive being for as yet there had never fallen any rain to fructifie the Earth whereby it might produce green herbs nor as yet was Man created that might manure and till the Ground for that purpose therefore neither were they produced naturally or of their own accord nor yet by the Art Skill or Industry of Man but by the immediate Word and Commandment of God The reason that moved Moses to give an instance of Plants and Herbs how that they were produced by the vertue and power of Gods Word only and not naturally or by the skill and industry of man neither yet of Animals nor of any other of the infinite number of things created Genes 1. 11. was this because the Generation of Plants and Herbs might be much more doubted of than the original of other things Of the first springing of Trees in the Creation Moses saith Et germinare fecerat Iehova Elohim è terra omnem arborem concupiscibilem id est visu bonam ad escam which words do comprehend all the desirable qualities of Fruit trees for in them we expect that their fruits should be either delightful to the Eye or that they should be fit for food and wholsom and that they be also fragrant and sweet smelling For the fruits of Trees the better they be the more odoriferous they are That the Trees wherewith Paradise was planted had all these qualities it is manifest by the words of Moses in that he saith Concupiscibilem ad visum bonam ad escam whereby we gather that the sight is delighted with things beautiful and glorious the smell with sweet and pleasant savours and the palate with things of sweet and pleasant taste And none of these are in themselves evil for such was the constitution of Adam before he transgressed that he might have delighted himself in them all without offence and to that end did God create them that he should use them with thanksgiving Moses describeth unto us two principal qualities of the Garden of Paradise whereby he laieth before us the pleasantness of the situation thereof and also the beauty and fertility of the soil The first of these qualities was that it was
their heads in such sort above the waters to refresh themselves with the cool and temperate air but especially when the waters do so rage and boyl in the depth of the seas against some tempestuous storm that they cannot endure the unwonted heat thereof All fishes being born transverse the Escocheon must in blazon be termed Naiant of the word Nato to swim for in such manner do they bear themselves in the waters when they swim Concerning both the variety and the innumerable multitude of fishes Pliny is of a pretty fantastical conceit affirming that the seeds and universal elements of the world are so sundry ways commixed one with another partly by the blowing of the winds and partly by the rowling and agitation of the sea that it may be truly said according to the vulgar opinion That whatsoever is ingendred or bred in any part of the world besides the same is to be found in the sea besides many things more in it which no where else are to be seen A fish if you will believe Farnesius is called piscis a pascendo Quia ad rem nullam nisi ad pastum natus est he is bred only to eat and to be eaten Of fishes some have hard and crusty coverings others have a softer outside and those latter are also of two sorts some having only skin and others scales Scaled fishes by their fins are both adorned greatly assisted also in their swiming but Congers Eels Lampreys and such like may seem in respect of the smalness of their fins to have received them of nature rather for ornament than for use in swiming especially because they lye most in the bottom of the waters and therefore less need their fins Of these several kinds I will briefly give some few Examples wherein I rather purpose to lay open their divers forms of bearing in Coat-Armour than meddle with their unlimitable particular kinds as in Example CHAP. XXIII THE hardiness of scaly fish whereof we have before spoken is not continuate but plated fitting for motion but there is another sort of hard covering which is continuate Of which sort some are crusted other some are shelled as Examples shall shew The claws of the forefeet of this sort of fish are called forcipata brachia Cancrorum of forceps which signifieth a pair of Tongs or Pincers or such like alluding to their quality which is to pinch and hold fast whatsoever they do seize upon Which Institution doubtless was grounded upon great reason to shew the stedfast amity and constant fidelity that ought to be between brethren and companions of one society and brotherhood For take one of these fishes and divide the shells and endeavour to sort them with I will not say hundreds but millions of other shells of fishes of the same kind and you shall never match them throughout therefore do they resemble the indissoluble friendship that ought to be in Fraternities and Societies because there can be according to Cicero Offic. 1. Nulla firma Amicitia nisi inter aequales The consideration whereof it I be not deceived moved the first Founders of this Order to sort them in the collar of this order by couples for that all others do disagree with them Secundum magis vel minus and none do concurt together with them in all points but only those that nature hath conformed and made agreeable to each other in all points CHAP. XXIV WE have long insisted in the bearings of Animals or living Creatures unreasonable distinguishing them according to their kinds sorting them into several ranks placed them under sundry heads exemplifying their manifold use and forms of bearing in Coat-Armour to the end that they might give better life and warrant to such Rules and Observations as concerning them are formerly given The last place I have here reserved to the most noble Creature and first in estimation I mean Man whom God hath indued with a reasonable Soul and for whose sake he crcated all other things subjecting them to his sovereignty that they should serve man and man should serve God Thou hast given him saith David sovereignty over all the works of thy hands and hast put all things in subjection under his feet all sheep and oxen and all beasts of the field the fowls of the air and fishes of the sea c. For God made man in his own image not only in giving him an understanding soul and an holy will but also a sovereign jurisdiction over these inferiour creatures even as Kings are the Image of God in a more peculiar manner because God hath given them sovereignty over men Neither is the beauty of the body it self lightly to be regarded whose admirable proportions and uses made Galen a heathen to acknowledge the infinite wisdome of an eternal Creator And that godly King to break out into terms of admiration saying Thine eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect and in thy book were all my members written which day by day were fashioned when as yet there was none of them Inasmuch as we are now come to treat of man the most excellent of all God's creatures and for whose sake all things else were created let us take a considerate view of the order of the Creation and we shall find many forcible motives to stir us up to the glorifying of our gracious God that hath so graciously and abundantly provided for our sustentation and maintenance before we were yet created that so we may be provoked with more circumspection and regard to meditate upon Gods admirable Omnipotency Mercy and gracious Providence and be induced more regardfully to ponder and consider the inexplicable glory of the heavens and their most beautiful ornaments the fruitfulness and riches of the earth the infinite variety of shapes colours qualities and operations of Animals and Vegetables of all which there is not the least or whatsoever we hold most contemptible but will minister unto us just cause to glorifie God's Omnipotency Mercy and Wisdome Man as touching his body hath a threefold estate viz. Esse in Creatione Non esse Morte Semper esse Resurrectione God hath created man and placed him in this world to the end he should be a diligent searcher viewer and beholder of all his works and withal that he should not be only a Spectator but also a serious and zealous Enarrator of his infinite wisdome power and mercy in that he hath most powerfully created them most wisely disposed them and most providently conserveth them in their several ranks and subordinate places and offices But when we speak of man we must not understand him to be that outward form or lineaments of body that is subjected to our visible sense but the mind of each man is the man indeed not that part of him that may be demonstrated by pointing of the finger The mind of man penetrateth and passeth through all things in a moment more swiftly than the stars more speedily than imagination yea with more
that every wheel therein is moved by some other of more swift motion that it self hath whereby is verified this saying Quilibet motus mensuratur per velociorem motum seipso CHAP. X. NEXT to Armature with the appendices thereof succeedeth Navigation whereunto pertain all sorts of Ships and Boats with their several parts their Hulls Stems Sterns Masts Tops Tacklings Sails Oars Cables Anchors c. whereof divers are born in Coat-Armour as shall by these next Examples partly appear He beareth Gules three pieces of Masts couped with their tops Argent by the Name of Cromer The invention of the Mast as also of the cross piece whereunto the Sail is fastened and is therefore called Sail-yard came saith Polydore from Daedalus that excellent Engineer of Athens who is famous for making the Artificial Cow wherein Pasiphae that Monster of womankind did put her self and so enjoyed her lust and bestial desires with a Bull with whom she was in love He beareth Gules three Sails Argent by the Name of Cavell alià s Locavell Pliny ascribeth the invention of Sails to Icarus the son of Daedalus who for this Device is said by Poets to have flown with Artificial wings In a natural conflict saith Alex. ab Alex to strike Sail or take down the Flag at the command of another is a token of yielding or submission which is yet observed by men of Naval Profession There are three things saith one which excell all other for beautiful shew a goodly man at Arms bravely mounted on a warlike Steed a Woman of fair and gooâ—â—y feature bearing a great belly and a goodly ship in her ruff and under full Sail. He beareth Gules an Anchor in Pale Argent the timber or cross piece thereof Or by the Name of Goodreed Anacharsis saith Pliny made Anchors first with two Hooks The Anchor signifieth succour in extremities and therefore the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews resembleth Hope to the Anchor where it is said Vt spem propositam teneamus quam velut animae anchor aâ— habemus tutam firmam because Hope doth establish and confirm our Faith against all the tempestuous Gusts of adverse occurrents Cosmus Medices Duke of Hetruria gave two Anchors for his Impress with this word Duabus meaning it was good to have two holds to trust to But Richard the First King of England gave a Sun on two Anchors with this Motto Christo Duce a worthy and Princely choice of so heavenly a Pilot. He beareth Sable a Cheveron between 3 Anchors Argent by the Name of Holder and is the Coat-Armour of Thomas Holder of South-Wheatly in Nottinghamshire Esq. late Auditor General to his Royal Highness the Duke of York a Person of approved Loyalty to the Crown all along the late Rebellion Or on a Pile engrailed Azure three Anchors of the Field by the Name of Byde and is the Coat-Armour of Skynner Byde Esq. son and heir of Sir Thomas Byde of Ware-Park in Hertfordshire Kt. and with a due difference is the Coat of Edward Byde of Lincolus-Inn in Middlesex Esq. Azure a Fess Or in Chief three Anchors of the second by the Name of Terne and is born by Christopher Terne Dr. in Physick Fellow of the Colledge of Physicians in London Physician to St. Bartholomews Hospital and Reader of Anatomy to the Company of Barbers-Chirurgions London He beareth Azure a Ruther or Helm of a Ship Argent By the help of this Helm doth the Pilot wield the Ship at will through the most violent Seas Some men are of opinion that the first invention of the Helm of a Ship was taken from the observation of a Kite flying or rather gliding in the Air that by turning of his tail one while one way another while another way doth guide his course in the Air whereby it seemeth that Nature would manifest in the clear Air what was behoveful to be practised in the deep waters So necessary is the use of this Instrument as that without it no shipping can be directed in a certain course but would be evermore in peril of splitting upon Shoals and Rocks through the forcible current and surging waves of the Sea and the violence of the boysterous winds notwithstanding the might of the skilfullest Pilots or Mariners to their great hazard and astonishment as we may see Psalm 107. 25 26 c. For at his word the stormy wind ariseth which lifteth up the waves thereof They are carried up to heaven and down again to the deep their soul melteth away because of the trouble They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their wits ends Other parts of Ships have been born both in Coat-Armour and Impresses Horatius â—onsaga gave the Prow of a Ship tied to a Plow-wheel with a Laurel over it signifying his quiet Countrey life after his Naval life And Cardinal Raphael Riarius affecting the Papacy gave an Oar on the Globe of the Earth with this word Hoc opus shewing what a Pilot he would be if he had the Command He beareth Or a Lighter-boat in Fess Gules This Coat-Armour pertaineth to the Family deWolfo of Sweuland Like to this was born in Devise by the Prince Iam Bentivolious who opened his meaning with this word Me video in Mari sine gubernatore I find my self in the Sea without a Pilot. Such is the condition of a Common-wealth without a Ruler or a man without Reason tossed with every wave of affection But in these tossings of Fortunes waves wise was the resolution of Vicount Hugo de Melan whose Device was a Ship without any tackling to stay it with this word In silentio spe fortitudo mea My strength is in silence patience and hope The Field is Mars the Hull of a Ship having only a Main Mast and a top without any tackling Sol. This is the Coat-Armour of the high and mighty Prince Duke Albertus de Alasco of Polonia who did bear the same also for his Crest with this Motto Deus dabit vela God will give Sails shewing that heavenly guidance is that whereby worldly affairs are governed and that we must not altogether rely on humane helps He beareth Argent a Ship with three Masts a Sail trussed up and hoisted to the top of the Main Yard shrouded Sable by the Name of Meeres Andreas Doreo Admiral of Spain gave for his Impress a Ship under full Sail with this heavenly Motto Omnia Fortunae committo I commit all to Fortune But another of that Name Admiral to Charles the Fifth gave the same Device with a much more Christian-like word Non dormit qui custodit He that is keeper is no sleeper He beareth Azure a Galley passing under full Sail Or. This is a Coat of Spanish bearing which Nation much useth this kind of vessel on the Mediterranean and calmer Seas the Rowers therein being so many captived slaves chained fast to their feat lest they should rebell against the Ministers of their oppression The first Ship we read of