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
in things sensitive the reasonable before the unreasonable as Man before Beasts and in things reasonable Immortals before Mortals as Angels before Men in which consideration Nobility is agreeable to Religion and Signs of Nobleness may be allowed in civil consideration to distinguish the Noble from the Base and the Reader may know how good one Coat may be from another if he duly consider what I have delivered in the two first Chapters albeit the good doth neither dignifie the bad nor the bad the good The Table follows A. ACHILLES Shield the Pattern propounded pag. 21. Of what colour and metal 8,23 How made 24. How divided 29. How charged 30. Parts of the same Shield 110 127 128. His Crest 232. Blazon'd by Homer 22. AGAMEMNON's Armor 182. ALEXANDER's Knot 38. ANIMALS hurtful born in Arms viz. himera 190 232. Cockatrice 189. Dragon 192. Hydra 189. Scorpion 191. Serpents 192. Toad 191. For other Animals see letter I. ARMS why called Insignia 20. The onely means to preserve from oblivion why called a Coat Arms and Names reciprocal over-charged sometimes honorable 59. Arms by Conquest 62 41. Arms according to mens inclinations 94. Arms taken from their Lords 185. Arms distinctions 13. ARTS liberal 207. Art helps Nature in a threefold manner 226. ASTROIDES 135. ATCHIEVEMENT 232 62. AENEAS his Shield and whole Atchievement 233. AUGMENTATION what 47. AUGUSTUS as much as Ample 146. B. BATTOON a spurious difference and why 59. BEARINGS is either metal or colours divided by lines as in the second Chapter or charged with Ordinaries as in the third Chapter or charged with things natural or artificial as through the whole course of this Book how the nature of the Bearer is discerned by the Bearing 135. BEASTS Hair and Nails 186. Ape 21. Ass 199. Bear 195. Beeves 196. Bevar Badger 202 Boar 200. Bull 196. Camel 195. Cat Cam-Leopardus 194. Coney 200. Deer 188. Dog and its collar 192 Dragon ibid. Elephant and Ivory ibid. Elephants snouts 193. Ermine 201. Fox 194. Goat 198. Grey 202. Hare 200. Hart 188. Hedghog 202. Horse 186. Hyaena 196. Lambs 198. Leopard 193. Leopards heads 191 192. Linx 195. Lion 178. Minotaur 197. Oxen 196. Panther 193. Porcupine 202. Rams 198. Rhinoceros 195. Sheep 199. Sow 200. Squirrel ibid. Stag 188. Tiger 193. Tortois ibid. Unicorn 201. Urchins 202. Wolf 190. Wolves heads ibid. Skins of Beasts 194 198. Horns 196. BENDS 57. BEZANTS 105. BILLITS 74. BIRDS and their parts Cock 166. Crane Chough 164. Crow 163. Doves 162. Eagle 157. Goose 163. Griffin 161. Harpy 165. Haâ—ks 168. Heron 164 169. Lapwing 167. Martlets 165. Nightingale 166. Ostrich 167. Owl 168 171. Owsle 165. Parrot ibid. Partridg 163. Peacock 162. Pelican 169. Phoenix 162. Quail Raven 163. Redshank 164. Sphinx 165. Stork 166 169. Swallow 161. Swan 169. Terwhit 167. Vulture 166. Their Feathers 168. Heads ibid. Legs 170. Wings 169. BLAZON what 13. Three sorts of Blazon by colours by precious stones and by Planets ibid. Blazon for Princes 143. BORDERS in the beginning of each Chapter Bordered grounds among the Romans 41. Border gâ—bonaâ—ed 1. Border compony 25. Border checkie 49. Border guttie 87. Border entoyre 32 99. Border verdoy 117. Border Enaluron 157. Border Enurney 177. Border purflew ibid. Border plain 199. BRIDLES 187. BRITAIN known to the Phoenicians in Homer's time 63. So called from Scurvy-grass 119. BUCKLES 136. 50 58. BUGLE Horns 196. C. CANTONS 46. CHAPLETS 121. CHEVERON 69. CHIEF 42 43 113. CHIVALTRAPS 232. CHROMATISM the knowledg of the nature of things by colours COAT 21. Plain Coat most ancient 4 18 21 25. COLOURS Colour upon colour false Herauldry 1 17. The colours of Plants 118 119 121. Of Flowers 133. Of Stones 137. Of Planets 149. Of Beasts 185. Of Complexions Seasons Winds Ages 185 167. Colours confidered in a twofold notion 3 16. What 13. Ten 1. Black foundation of matter 5 87. It s antiquity 8. It s house and exaltation 88. Gules 7. Azure 8 99. Azure proper for Seamen 9. Purple ibid. Mourning for Kings 10 11. Colours produced from Metals 18. Proper the worst colour for Beasts but five prime colours 5. Different names from Tincture 12. Colours and proportion please the Fancy 114. Colours mixed 5 8. Their Analogies shadowed Pictures work on the vulgar 144. Colour with Metals three degrees of comparison 17. COMETS 37. COTTISES 51 58 61. COUPLE-CLOSES 69. CRESSANTS 143. CROSSES of several kinds 78. Fell from Heaven 73. CROWNS what they signifie 124. Crowning Emperors 121. Crowning of Poets 122. Crown of Oak 123 131 142. Of Ivy 124. Crown mural 42. Olympick Crown 122. Paâ—â—asado'd Crown 66. CUBE 22. D. DEGREES among Heavenly Bodies Beasts Birds c. 137. DELPH 96. DIFFERENCES for Distinctions of Houses viz. Difference for the Grandchild 5. Label for the first Son For the second Son 146. For the third Son 135. For the fourth Son 155. For the fifth Son 171. For the sixth Son 125. Differences of Noble Persons by colours 000. By Borders 105. DISTINCTIONS of necessity 13. Distinctions among Creatures shew the great Wisdom of God 137. DOCTORS of Divinity 115. Doctors of Law their Dignity 116. Doctors of Physick 215. Doctors Ensigns of Degrees 216. DOVE-COTS 199. DROPS signifie the Spirits 91. Drops of Water 88. Drops of Gold 92. Drops of Blood 93. Drops of Tears 93. Drops of Oil 94. Drops of Pitch 90. Drops how disposed 95. E. ECLIPTICK 58. EDUCATION sows the seeds of Honour 137. AEGYPTIANS three ways of propagating Knowledg 144. Wisdom of the Aegyptians fourfold 167. They worshipped the Dog 192. the Cat 194 c. ELEMENTS of Arms number and position 99. Element 20. The Hebrew letters called Elements 14. Element of Fire 43. 92. 113. 140. 149. Lightning 43. 55. Coals 43. Element of Air 34. Clouds 34. 44. 45. 91. 193. Snow 113. Thunder 35. 144. 155. Rainbow 35. Rain 92. Comets 155. Element of Water 29. 31. 37. 91. 109. Ocean 33. Sea 38. Rivers 31. 92. Bourns 36. Fountains 33. Fish-ponds 33. 36. Water-budgets 36. Tears 95. Element of Earth 25. 97. 106. 117. Rocks 34. Mountains 46. Olympus 97 Aetna 97. Piles 46. Peninsula's ibid. Isthmus 97. ENSIGNS of Sovereignty 122. 227. Ensigns Military 223. Quivers Bows Arrows Cross-Bows 229. Arrow-heads 230. Clubs Swords Helmets 231. Shield Gauntlets Launce Spears Tents Galtraps 232. Standard Ensign great Artillery 233. Drums Trumpets ibid. Spear-heads ibid. Burrs ibid. Bullets 104. Ensigns Ecclesiastical the Miter the Crosier the Bell the Lamp the Incense-pot the Cross 229. The Altar ibid. Ensigns Civil belonging to Aedifices Lime an House a Castle a City a Tower a Column a Porch a Temple the Exchange a Bridg an Arch a Pyramid 209. ERMINE 222. 194. ESQUIRES Dignity 156. F. FASCES 56. FESSE 49. FEUDS Regal Feuda Militaria Feuda Scutiferorum 230. FIELDS what 25. 88. 113. Fields equally divided have no predominancy 47. Fields are checky pally barry 41. Bendy counter-changed 42. 54. Gerrony 114. Field among the Aegyptians what 11. The place of the Officers in
of the Elements others to the graduality of opacity and light they have left our endeavours to grope them out by twilight nevertheless by those small hints Art becometh helpfull to Nature so as to preferre one Colour or Field before another Digby of Bodies Cap. 29. For if you consider the Colours Elementarily then the Black or SABLE is to be preferred Propter antiquitatem fundamentum but if in the second notion in the graduity of opacity and light then the Red Colour or GULES being made by a greater proportion of light mingled with darkness must be preferred before the AZURE or Blew being mingled with a less proportion of light mingled with darkness as may be seen by the following Scheme and consequently VERT or Green being compounded out of two original Colours becomes by that mixture the lower degree of Dignity so that what we understand by the colour of the Shield or Field is nothing else then the power that that body hath of reflecting light unto the Eye in a certain order and position being the very superficies of it and the reason why no Coat of Arms can be said to be good without Metal is because Light of all all things in the World is the most powerfull Agent upon our Eye either by it self or what cometh in with it Digby of Bodies Boyls Experimen for where Light is not Darkness is all agreeing that Colours are inherent and real Qualities Light doth but disclose and not concur to produce White things are generally cold and dry and are therefore by Nature ordained to be receptacles and conservers of heat and moisture as Physicians note and so naturally the Fire or heat flies uppermost and is above the Aire that having a degree of moisture more then it Contrariwise Black and Green which is near of Kin to Black are growing Colours and are the Dye of heat incorporated in abundance of wet The Chymists those Spiritual Heraulds do deliver that the Salt of natural Bodies doth carry a powerfull stroke in the Tinctures and Varnish of all things yielding delectable and various Colours and as Nature is ingenious and subtile in all her operations so she hath left an Art endowed with the like subtilty and industry for Heraulds after the example of Chymists finding that nothing can display its own virtue untill the confusion of the excrements and impurities be throughout banished have made choice as it were after the example of Nature of Water and Fire her Coadjutors in the Generation of Metals which are so much the more perfect as they have been better mundified and digested in the stomack of the Earth Hence it is that OR and ARGENT is preferred among Metals and GULES AZURE and SABLE among the Colours the others of VERT and PURPURE being mixed and so of less dignity So that you see that Colour is nothing else but Light mingled with Darkness which ingeniously they have declared by rational Lines obumbrating as it were the Field which Lines I therefore call rational because Natura effectum suum attingit Lineis rectis iisque brevissimis and therefore the most plain Coat is the most honourable and because Color Lux sub eodem sunt genere ergo apta sunt in se agere as you shall plainly perceive by this Scheme of Colours described by Kercher in his Ars Magna lib. 1. cap. 2. and Analogized wherein the prime Original Colours are opposed by the mixed Homer Neptunum contra bellabat Phoebus Apollo Adversus Martem certabat Pallas Athenae Phoebus Apollo there with Neptune jars Pallas of Athens foul with Mars at Wars ARGENT SABLE CINERIVS VERT FVSCVS INCARNATVS OR AVREVS PVRPVRE PVRPVREVS SVBRVBEVS SVBAIBVM SVBCAERVIEVM ALBUS Lux pura Lux Dulce Ignis Pueritia Intellectus Deus FLAVUS Lux tincta Umbra tenuissima Dulce temperatum Aer vel Aether Adolescentia Opinio Angelus RUBEUS Lux colorata Umbra moderata 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aurorae medium Juventus Error Homo CAERULEUS Umbra Umbra densa Acidum Aqua Virilitas Pertinacia Brutum NIGER Tenebrae Tenebrae Amarum Terra Senectus Ignorantia Planta Though Black be in the last place yet because it is the foundation of Matter it is accounted Honourable and according to the Stoical Principle of the beginning of the World by reason it doth proceed as it were from the Hyle or confused matter it is accounted but the base point without being joyned with Metal so that every Colour without Metal is Essence without Quality and Quality is more or less noble accordingly Through twenty holes made to his Hearth at once Blew twenty pair Hom. Il. lib. 18. That fired his Coals sometimes with soft Sometimes with vehement Aire It is the Note of Power Constitue rem in sua claritate restitue figmentum in suum locum and presents magnanimity it is debased by being mingled with Azure and so produceth the Purple and with Black the Subrubeus and it is exalted by the Martial Man The Azure being preferred among Ecclesiastical Persons as one saith Multum convenit Episcopis caeteris viris Ecclesiasticis being fit for contemplative Persons Quia per ipsum representatur nobilis Aer Blue Seas the figur'd Skies the Moon unhorn'd The Heaven with all its sparkling fires adorn'd Under the Wind below in SABLE shade There the Black winged Night her first Egge laid Of humane life a Scheme to us propose Virgil. Of Virtuâ—s path on the right hand doth lie This way tending to Generation is called Bendy Dexter when that on the left hand tending to Corruption becomes the Colour of Mourning as the same Poet notes From its Summit the deluded fall And dash'd ' mongst rocks find there a Funeral The Green is the sacred Colour among the Turks who expect carnal delights in green Fields it is much affected by young persons because Pallent omnis amans hic est Color aptus amanti Of it self it signifies Bountifulness in God Spiritus Jehovae implet orbem terrarum It hath its Exaltation by participating of Gold becoming thereby most glittering representing that felicity which the Heroes enjoy in the Elysian fields at whose entrance Aenaeas fixed his golden Branch Largior hic campos aether lumine vestit Purpureo Which larger skies cloath'd with a Purple Hue. Purple being of a magisterial Dignity and Honour yet coming so near to Mourning that it is not esteemed in the Shields of the Nobles it being a Colour of an ill Omen as Aeneas is said to cover the body of Mysenus with Purpureaesque super vestis velamina nota And over him his Purple garment spread Which ever since hath been the Mourning for Kings Where the Field is Metal it is as the Light and where it is Colour it is as the Splendour the one as the first Light and the other as the second And what is expressed by these Colours and Metals is nothing else then to strive to excell in Virtue the Argent Piety the
You have brought that Light to the World both in Your Experiments of Colours and Metalline Solutions I must conclude That till then Darkness was upon the face of the Earth CHAP. II. The Form of Arms or Division by Lines shewing the Formal Reason of every Partition IN the dividing the Field it makes it more fruitful SAUCIATA FERACIOR Sanguine a Border compony Argent and Sa. though the first Shield was plain NON SEMPER INUTILIS is the benefit of Education Among the Agyptians how much did they understand by Form They observed eight and forty Constellations whereof four and twenty were placed in the Southern Hemisphere which as Plutarch testifieth they called Urnam lucis Osiridis regnum dextrum mundi latus salubre beneficium and as many on the Northern part which they count the left side of the world Malignum venisicum foemininum tenebrarum originem which according to Zoroaster is described by several Lines Pyramidically ascending and descending intermixing a Colour and Metal together Lucan having prepared a Field for the Spirit of Pompey shews Sequitur convexa tonantes Cicero de Oratore Party per Fesse Up to the round it hies Where SABLE aire doth kiss the star-bearing skies Per Pale is the Line of Justice balancing as it were the world whereas to decline to the left hand was malignum venificum seminum tenebrarum originem Party per Bend Sinister which is the Reason that the Bend sinister is accounted spurious and base albeit it is not so except it be Humit and cut off for then it hindreth Succession by the cutting of the Line it is called per Bend sinister and while it is whole dividing the Shield in two equal parts it representeth the Aequator making the Days and Nights equal being at right Angles with the Pol s but by reason of its Position inclining to fall down into its first Matter it is not accounted so Honourable It denoteth Condescention These Lines again are more or less Noble according to the agitation or activity of the Spirit thereof and if according to Thales and the wisest Philosophers Aquam esse primam rerum materiam The first Division that was made by the Elements the next after the plain Line whose Dignity RECTA DIFFUNDITUR is that of the Water which indeed is Congregatio aquarum in locum suum whereby the fluid Matter runs Barwise or Bendwise Hic Undas imitatur habet quoque nomen ab undis Servius saith That on the Grecians Shields Neptune was figured and on the Trojans Minerva they being called Cecropidae true Trojans that were of the ancient Blood who being led by the Queen of Martials feared not to meet their enemies the Graecians Minerva Within a Vale close to a flood whose stream Vs'd to give all their Cattel drink they there enambush'd them And a little after the Greeks having received the Alarum Being then in Counsel set Then they start up take horse and soon their enemies met Wherein is excellently described the Cavalry and Infantry dealing indented Lines on the Shields of the Opposers described on the warlike City Two Cities in the Spatious Sheild he built with goodly State Of divers Languages men the one did nuptial celebrate Observing at them Solemn Feast Wherein first is the Office of the Herald to record Marriages and Civil Rights due to the Nobility and by noting them by certain Signs of Armory Arms what which is defined to be no other thing then the Seal and visible Character of Nobility which is the most glorious recompence that either our own vertue or that of our Predecessors could acquire us Stirring us up to the Imitation of Vertue for as another well observes that when men have once fortified themselves with a setled Fortune of Wealth they naturally look upward for though the Myrmidons trembled at the sight of Achille's Shield the precious Metall of the Arms was such yet the noble Bearer thereof upon the sight of it was excited in Courage Fata aspera rumpes Sterne Anger entred in his Eyes as if the day-Star rose For beside the outward Splendor of the first City he saw the glorious Atchievements of the Martial City The other City otherwayes employed as busily Two Armies glittering in Arms of one Confederacy Besieged it and parly had with those within the Town Two wayes they stood resolved to see the City overthrown Or that the Citizens should heap in two parts all their Wealth And give them half they neither like but Arm themselves by stealth Met. l. 15 Tempus edax rerum tuque invid of a vetustas Omnia destruitis vitiatis dentibus aevi The Pile that lies in the Water is the Emblem of immortall vertue because it remains PERPETUO SONITU it argueth patience INUNDATIONE FERAX 't is the nature of an Heroical mind Brown 's Enquiry l. 7. c. 17. ANGUSTIIS ELEV ATUR and indeed the true Ather though it be as Liquid as Water yet it hath in it the fierce principle of Fire The Greeks to express the great Waves do use the number of three that is the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is a concurrence of three Waves in one whence arose the Proverb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nay now a trifluctuation of evils which Erasmus renders Malorum fluctus decumanus and though the termes are different yet they are made to signifie the same thing the number 10. to explain the number of three and the single number of one wave the collective concurrence of more so by all these Lines dividing of the Fields this manner of way is understood the watry Element waved being a proper bearing for Seamen and for the most part consisteth of Argent and Azure The shore they leave and cover all the deep Aen. l. 3. And silver foam from Azure billowes sweep If the Water come from the Fountain Head OMNIBUS AFFLUENTER and signifies Bounty and is not drawn dry NEC ACTU NEC HAUSTU if it descend MOTU PERENNI it signifies divine Grace if it ascend SURGIT NE DETUR INANE So that to bear Dauncete signifies LATET IGNIS IN UNDA there is in it sparks of Magnificence having passed dangerous Seas is a Coat rewarded with this sort of bearing from the King LATE DIFFUNDITVR who as he is the Fountain of Honour NUNQUAM SICCABITUR ASTU as he is the Ocean DEJICIT ET EXTOLLIT deserving men are known by the Coat they bear and though Water be the Emblem of the multitude that are like the foaming Sea that SORDIDA VOMIT yet FRENANT ARENAE for though Death and Hell NON DICUNT SUFFICIT Hercules his clrusing of the Augean Stable being so performed yet the Water is the Emblem of a liberal person as the wise man noteth Proverbs the 5th Deriventur fontes tui foras in plate is aquas tuas divide how have the Romans immortalized their names by aquaeducts Hercules his cleansing of the Augean Stable being so performed that Family
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
and of Edward the Martyr and of Edmond sirnamed Ironside and of St. Edward the Confessor INTAMINATIS FULGET HONORIBUS Ella the first King of the Mercians An. Christi 488. bare six Martlets 3 2 1. PLVS VIGILA Peter Read of Grimingham in Norfolk though his Coat be very full having three Birds on a triumphal Bend waved within a Border yet is honoured with a Canton of Barbary for his service at Tunis Camden 's Remains The Hawk and Eagles head signified Vision and Gods all-seeing Power Et per accipitris imaginem Naturam Universi sâ—u spiritum Mundi intelligebant per aquilam falconem rem maximae velocitatis ob summam harum avium pernicitatem figurabant I shall leave the application to the worthy Bearers thereof viz. Aubrey and Honeywood cum multis aliis Birds denote swiftness in the Wings and therefore Mercury is called Mercurius pennatus being winged cap a pe Feathers Now for Feathers those of the Estrich have had the esteem ever since Edward the Black Prince gained them at the Battel of Poytiers and have honoured the Coat of Drax in a Chief and Clarendon on a Bend who was natural Son to the black Prince both serving under that victorious Prince Son to King Edward the Third they were ancient military Ornaments as appeareth by that of Virgil Cujus Olorinae surgunt de vertice pennae And as the same Poet testifieth that Vulcan the Armour-bearer of the Aegyptians was signified by the Scarabaeus his words are these Vulcanum indicantes Scarabaeum Vulturem pingunt Scarabee and the Valthre Minervam vero Vulturem Scarabaeum And as Caelius Calcaginus noteth upon this nicity I know not saith he Quid inconvenientiae importat incongruitatis quomodo enim uni duo Symbola inter se opposita responderent which the learned Kercher hath thus ingeniously varied Vulcanum indicantes Scarabaeum pingunt Minervam vero simul cum Vulcano Vulturem Scarabaeum By reason that Art and Arms ought to go together because that neither Saturn nor Jupiter nor Mars nor Venus nor Love are of any power unless they be helped by industry and Mechanical Arts. In the Coat of Sewell there is a Ch veron between three Scarabees perhaps to denote as Peter Servius in his Chapter of the Toga virilis according to the Proverb Sua unicuique Minerva for saith he Etiamsi omnia ad Arma spectent Togam tamen tractare licet libet for the winged and laborious Bee shews whence he derives his Pedegree and thus I have shewed you one part of the Creation on this Day viz. Gestatorum avium Regem numenque verendum Phaebeum Cignum Samiae Paphiaeque volucrem Et quam Pallas amat And the reason why Birds are of all Colours Chromotism of Birds is as Kercher saith because Originem suam partim ex aqua partim ex aere trahant And I now pass from the Air or Juno to Seaborn Venus and take a short view of those Creatures in the waters whose increase is admirable and therefore the Hebrews did account their Letter He to be the Conjugal Letter being the fifth in the Alphabet and the Symbol of Conjugal affection was the Annulet attributed to the fifth Brother The Owl among the Hieroglyphicks Owl Signum est sapientiae acquisitae quoniam sicuti Noctua nocte operatur de die quiescit ita sapientes qui fugiunt tumultum negotiorum mundi tranquillam vitam agunt in contemplationibus suis sicuti nocte silentio noctua Now for the Ensigns of this Day that yet remain viz. of Fish Fish Varia hinc insignia illinc Syrenas Delphinas itemque immania Cete Atque Physeteras quodcunque nat aequore aperto Fluminibus Nilus regnatorum Crocodilum The Sea-horse is a particular Bearing Sea-Horse appropriate to Merchants and Merchants Societies and is born by Tuckers of Devonshire by Wilkinson holding of an Escalop shell and for the same cause is born Mairmen or Maids The Earl of Sandwich bears Sea supporters to denote his Dominion on the Sea signifying for the most part conversation in the deep waters and for the Dolphin it is the King of Sea Animals Dolphins and was born in the Shield of Vlysses and is testified by Plutarch to be in memory of the Dolphin by whom his Son Telemachus was preserved It was born also in the Shield of Aeneas according to Virgil Aen. lib. 8. About the Ring bright silver Dolphins glide Brush with their Sterns the deep and waves divide And such a Coat with three Escalops on a Pale is born by the name of Stone Escalops and Pollard of Devonshire beareth three Mullets or Pollard-Fishes being of the shape of a Star and its nature is AD LVCEM VENIVNT Luce beareth three Lucies ASTV NONVI Lucies And Gascoign bears the head thereof on a Pale it is cut off NON VI SED ARTE Crabb beareth three Crabs Crabs and Bridger beareth them RETROCEDENTES ACCEDIT The Mottos both for Fowl and Fish are already printed in the Sphere of Gentry And to conclude this Chapter as one saith the Sea is the Stable of the Horse-fish the Stall of the Kine-fish the Sty of the Hog-fish the Kenel of the Dog-fish and in all things the Sea is the Ape of the Land Egge beareth to his Creast the Sea Horse head Sea Horse in memory of his Discovery of Greenland Trade and the Eagle to denote the heighth of the Enterprize every Bearing being an Ensign of Nobility Grashoppers as among the Athenians they bare golden Grashoppers from the opinion of not knowing their own Originals So though we know not the Original of many navigable Rivers yet we know AGITATIONE PVRGANTVR And beautifull Venus is drawn on the water by Swans having even a green Field under the water yielding many precious Plants GERMINANS DE PROFVNDO neither is the Field Vert otherwise then a good Bearing though not so frequent and is that of Venus the green Field representing the Princes Colours Nullas recipit tua gloria metas Hinc Maria hinc Montes hinc totus denique Mundus Vix agit hinc hominem pecudum volucrumque libido Conclusion of this Chapter To Robert Hook Gentleman Fellow of the Royal Society and Geometry Reader in Gresham Colledge SIR THe main end of your Philosophical Transactions being for the cherishing of ingenious Endeavours and Undertakings and for the inviting others for to search and try and find out new things doth appear to me a noble design And though you have for the prosecution of natural knowledge already appointed several Committies according to the several inclinations and studies of their members to execute the said design yet I have often wondred that the visible marks of Honour I mean Arms the knowledge thereof among Gentlemen or as the French call them les Gentlehommes whose proper Ensigns are Coat Armours by which they are distinguished from the Vulgar should be
so little sought into that the Micrographia thereof of which in Nature you have given us so ample a testimony is not so much as once sought into and though Gentlmen have their beginning either of Blood as that they are born of worshipful Parents or that they have done something worthily in peace or war yet none know how they come by their Arms yet it is apparent how they all proceed from small beginnings dain then to give one Microscopical View both upon the Fantastical and Metalline Colours which this Art hath made and out of which Heroical Science may be collected a faithful History of Nature and know that the Escalop-shell had this honour Ut Iulius Caesar ejus usum nisi certis personis aetatibus perque certos dies ademit according to Tranquillus and the reason may be propter speciosam venustatem and they that took up the Cross with this Shell did at the first Bearing find their fortune counterchanged And in these divisions of Shields there is the Mathematicks of Honour as worthy your Examination as des Cartes his Hypothesis of Colours by which it will appear that Heraldry is a study for the Virtuosi wherein there is nothing so vile rude and course but sheweth aboundance of curiosity and excellent Geometry and Mechanism as you may see in the next Chapter where the Gentleman shall assume Arms not onely from the works of Mature which hitherto hath adorned his Shield buc from Arts improvement of Nature in Animals Vegetatives and Minerals and how the Liberal Arts contribute to the Ensigns of the Noble Person from his skill in Arithmetick Musick Geometry Painting Perspective Astronomy Fortification Cosmoâ—raphy c. and frrm the Mechanicks for improvements of Sciences CHAP. IX Of the visible Charges of the Sixth Days Work under the Regiment of Mercury or the Purpure Shield PUrpure is a colour of Aloy as proper also is no Creature in Armes Purpure a Bordure Quarterly the first Gules Enurny of three Lioncels passant Gardant OR the second Purpure Ermyne being born proper is accounted good bearing except it be a Creature of one of the perfect colours in Armory and then it hath preheminence and the reason is because Umbra plena perfecta dicitur ad quam nullus radius corporis luminosi pertingit and is obscure by the mixture of shadows which Creatures differ in their Native Colour The Period of the Fifth Day being finished wherein we have Treated of Creatures living in the Ayre and Water come I now to the Conclusion of the whole Creation by every Species in such as live upon the Earth which are of two sorts the Brute Beasts and Man as the Colophon or conclusion of all things else in whose Nature is placed the greatest Dignity of any visible Creature Who beareth them all in Shield Coat Armour or otherwise where and when he pleaseth without let molestation or hinderance according to the Law of Armes with their due differences according to his first Letters Patents let him have dominion c. Gerere potestatem id est Magistratum saith Cicero ad Herennium The Lyon being the emblem of Power the first Beast that I shall present is that of the Lion whose colour or metall though it be not that of nature is yet more noble and soveraigne En vexilla feris depicta Leonibus albis Fulvis coeruleis rubeis nigrisque minaci Ungue hiante ORE Two Lions Argent and Combitant was said to be on the Shield of Achilles according to that of Sir Jacob Garrad thus described by Homer Two horrid Lyons Rampt ' and seiz'd and tug and below still Both Men and Dogs came yet they tore the head and lapt their fill Of Black Blood Deus cuique dat Arma and in this blazon you have the word Rampant for Magnanimity the word Seised for Saliand Tore for Erased and for Armed and Langued They tore and Lapt their fill So that to bear the White Lion Rampant signifieth one like S. Jerome that brave Lyon which from the Cave of Bethelem made the Roaring of his voice be heard through the World to the Terror of Heresie and the astonishment of vice Hercules his wearing of the Lyons Skin being but to shew the subduing of vice by virtue Dum superbiam iram vera domat mansuitudine At the Death of Pandarus Aeneas seemes to Blazon the Coat of one of the Conquerors of Northwales thus Bold as a Lyon of his strength he hid him with his Shield Shook round his Launce and horribly did threaten all the Field Making as it were a Border ingrailed from the proper Strokes of valour The Lyon Rampant was born both by Caesar and Pompey and though the Lyon is the proper Ensigne of Majesty yet it must be made alway Armed because that Majesty is unsafe that is not secured by Power so that the Lyon is atributed to Princes Presidents Generals and all Heroicall Commanders and as Dr. Brown noteth probably upon some Coelestial account the Great Mogull or Indian King doth bear for his Armes a Lyon and a Sun both Gold the Dormant Lyon is the Emblem of Vigilancy ET DORMIO ET VIGILO and so is the Signe Leo in Heaven if it be Roused FORTIBUS RESISTIT and becomes Passant SUB PEDIBUS TERRAM and in every one of these predsients you shall find UBIQUE Leo the first is Couchant as the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah TERTIA DIE RESURGIT it represents Watchfulness Regni Clementia Custos 1 Couchant 2 Rampant 3 Passant 4 Passant Gardant 5 Saliant 6 Seiant 7 Regardantâ— 8 Double headed 9 Double-Queen and Crowned The Second is Rampant Argent in a field Gules ET LUX ADDET VIRES The Third is Passant which NON MUTAT FORTUNA GENUS The Fourth is Passant Gardant and signifieth a strong and prudent Person FORTITUDINEM MEAM AD TE CUSTODIAM The Fifth is Saliant and signifieth Diligence INDUSTRIA ET LABORE The Sixt is Seiant Kercher obilis lib. 2. cap. 5. and signifies Magnanimity PUSILLA NEGLIGIT Sedere denotat Humilitatem circumactio prudentiam The Seventh Rampant Regardant representing a Noble Mind however which NEC ASPICIT NEC TORVE VULT ASPICI and though it turne the neck Se non fugere sed utilitatem a tergo positam sequitur The Eighth is a Lion Double Headed Azure in a field OR and is a singular bearing of prudence FORTITUDINEM PRUDENTIA and the last is Double Queve or Forked Tail and Crowned UT SCIAT REGNARE Double Queve So the Armes of Bohemia was changed from an Eagle to a Lyon with two tailes in token of the League of Friendship between Uladislaus King of Bohemia and Frederick Barbarosa for having been both the Head and Taile of the Victory obtained by the meanes of Ulaudislaus in assisting Fredrick with Men and Money against Milayne and as Barthol de Saxofer in his Tract of Armes testifieth he had this bearing given him by the King of Bohemia Ut Ego