which among us doth bear SABLE a Bend OR between six Fountains proper doth imploy the golden means procured by the River of Stourse arising in Wiltshire from six Fountains passing through the Town of Stourton in Dorcetshire giving both Name and Arms to the Antient Barons of that Name the Name of Swale in Yorkshire bearing a Bend. Waved Silves through an Azure Field but in token of the River Swale and if I should search further into the Mysteries of these Lines I should plainly find some Foot-steps of the reason of their bearings as for example the name of Snowe beareth on a Fess between two Cotises Nebule a Lion Passant signifying that though the Sun hath the greatest force in Leo yet that being past or Passant the Weather is inclined to more Clouds Snow being above in the middle Region and so forming another manner of Line called Nebule from Nubes which because it is of a higher degree then the Water participateth of the nature of the Clouds IN ALTIS HABITAT and is the Emblem of Fame Sands Ovid l. 12. Amidst the World between Ayr Earth and Seas A place there is the Confines to all these To all that 's done though far removed appear And every whispâ—r penetrates thâ—ear The house of Fame who in the highest Tower Her Lodging takes And as the Translator of the former verses writes in Virgil Lib. the 4th where the former Lines are a comment Fame grows by motion gaines by flying force Kept under first by fear soon after shrouds Walking on Earth her head among the Clouds Virgil. l 7. A Cloud of Foot did follow the whole Strands Shield bearing Squadrons hid the Argive bands There being this Analogie between this and Turnuâ— his Shield Blunts name signifying Yellow and so called from the bright colour of his hair Blunt bearing also the head of I O to his Creast viz. a pair of Horns Clouds of foot signifie the vulgar and common Souldier who followed their Generall who was known from them all by his Creast or cogniscance that Breathed Aetnaean fire Strangely it roars and flames more fiercely grows When in the Batta I blood in Rivers flowes Black Clouds do signifie Labour and Travail USQUE IN OCCIDENTEM PARIT thus of the Bearers of this Coat that were descended from this first man which was not content till he had brought forth in our Western Isle bearing this Coat properly having been by Office Master of the Ordinance and which once kindled MICAT ARDENTIUS the blacker Cloud is attended with the hotter fire PRAEMISSA DAMNA TIMORI if the chief be of the flecked Line which is another manner of Line of the nature of the Ayr 't is a Messenger of Peace SERENITATIS NUNCIA If A olus have let loose the Winds to rage the Sea Neptune appears and puts the Winds in his bagg So did his presence calm the troubled main Then through clear Skies Neptune with gentle rein Wheels his swift Chariot Bornes anciently springing out of the Earth and so Lilbâ—rne is as Shirborne interpreted by Cambden Fons Limpidus sive clarus whence they take both Name and Arms. Shierborne beareth Argent a Lion Rampant Vert Out of the Eater came meat was Sampson's Riddle and out of the Mouth came drink he was able to testifie the Ancients conveighing Water by Lions mouthes Neither hath the Green Lion a small part in Chymical Herauldry in displaying the liquid Benefits that are attained by Coition for the Water-budget was anciently in the Family of Bourchier Spelman which were also called Boursor and Bousor Earls of Bath as bearing the Purse for the common good Boursor aevum qui it Provinciae hoc est rem pecuniariam administrat as he is called the Pursor of a Ship that layes out for the necessaries thereon though it is rather Boursor and so the Name seems to be the Original of the Coat as the Kings of Castle bear a Castle that of Lions a Lion that of Granado a Pomegranate So that sometimes there are Names declared sometimes Actions as when the famous fiery Drake had girt the World like to Aâ—neas and his Companions he left his Old Coat of the Drake Sails struck we rowe our lusty Seamen sweep The Azure Pavement of the Briny-deep The See of Winchester bears the Keys and Sword Fretted together to denote his valour as well as power that Prelate being a Count Palatine and Prelate of the Noble Order of the Garter Peterborough beareth the Keys crossed between Crosses Glocester and St. Asaph bear the Keys also And in relation to St. Peter's Land-Service all the Bishops bear the Pastoral Staff which is the Leading-staff of the Church Great Spirits do nothing mean saith Plutarch Because that sharp and active Spirit that is in them can never lie at rest by reason of its vigour but they are tossed up and down as it were in a tempest till they come to a settled composed life They that bear Fretts do denote witty and ingenious men in the Law Civil and Ecclesiastical They that bear Indented do denote the hardship of the Man of Arms. Mountacutâ—s bearing Lozenges is to shew the sharpness of the Rock they climb by and from whence Diamonds are digged and naturally formed whence their name in like manner Dautry or De Alta R pa which was of right worth thy esteem in the County of Sussex bear the same Lozenges or Diamond forms in their Arms to Symbolize whence his Noble Name who can look upon the Bars waved with the â—ressants Sable in the Coat of Watterton if he be acquainted with any Antiquity but that he may easily conjecture that the Planter of that Family seemed to take his name from the same reason that the Pelasgi did the ancient Inhabitants of the Graecian Isles of whose Antiquity because the Arcadians could give none but a slender account boasted to be descended from the Moons In like manner Ellis in Yorkshire have the Cross charged with five Cressants and to their cognizance a naked Woman or Helen with this Motto HUIC HABEO NON TIBI What doth it imply but some fair Woman as Helen was was in strife for and for whom the Greeks and Trojans produced so great a war love of Ladies producing the Bearing of Maiden-heads Hom. Il. lib. 3. That they were forced though whispering to say what man can blame The Greeks and Trojans to endure for so admir'd a Dame But to bring it nearer home in the honour of Christian Souldiers who will not think but that this Coat was gained in the holy Land when the Christian Cross was rewarded by the Cressants And albeit Montanus derives the name Elis from whence he supposeth the Greeks called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from Elishas eating himself in Greece who was Japhets eldest Son Origines Sacrae Homer calls those that were under the conduct of Achilles Hellens as well from a City called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 founded by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Son
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
hath been found imprinted in the minds of all Nations declaring thereby the Nobility of the minds of men who aim in these Notioâ—s to be immortallized I shall next shew the Ratio Formal is of every good Coat according as it is bounded by Lines for the Form is evidently distinguished by Division Division being an eminent Property of Matter now because it is most agreeable to Reason that Names should carry in them a suitableness to the things they express I shall endeavour all along briefly to shew also the Dignity of every Bearing usually born complicating and twisting in the apt Mottoes of the Abbot of Pichinelli in his Mondo Symbolico serving to express the nature of every thing by way of Rebus Every Coat of Arms as a Sign of Honour is to be considered in a two-fold Notion either Military or Civil because that Reason willeth and Equity ordaineth that men having done good service for their Prince or Countrey either in war or peace should be distinguished from the Vulgar and these distinctions in the first Notion is properly called ARMES and in the second a COAT though indeed it is called a Coat properly from being worn over the Arms of the Commander in Chief and Arms from being worn on his Shield by which he did Arm and defend himself Mars and Arms being an agrammatically one that by these signs he might be known in Battail by those that were under him and knew his bearing and so the more plain this was the more conspicuous also it was whereby his men were not so apt to incur a danger by mistakes Reason why plain Arms are best from the use which the overcharging of the Coat might cause by reason of its confounding their sight And because the Shield of Achilles was intended as a pattern to all other I shall propose it as t is blazoned by Homer but first framed by Vulcan at the intercession of Thetis for her Son To imbrace thy knées for new defence Stapletons Translation of Homer lib. 18. To my Loved Son alas His life prefixt so short a date had néed Spend that with Grace A Shield then for him and a Healm Fair Greves and Currets such As may renown thy Workmanship And honour him as much Vulcan having framed a perfect Shield Homer first blazonâ— by Mettall He Tin hard Brass rich Gold and Silver cast Amidst the fire then his huge Anvill plac d. Moses representing the Shield of the Creation in three termes saith Tenebra super faciem abyssi fuerunt darkness face and deep answerable to which the Antients did represent the Earth by a Cubicall Body on which as an Anvill all other things were framed hoc est tesseram Octo augul rum et Sex Laterum terram significare tradidit Plato by which figure was represented the Harmony of the whole Sphere having six plain Faces or Superficies twelve lines Eight solid Angles and 24 plain out of which did arise these proportions 6 to 12 Duplum or Diapason 6 to 8 Sesqui altrum or Diapente 12 to 8. Sesquitertiam diatessaron 8 ad 24. Triplam Diapason Diapente 6 ad 24 Dupla diapente the Shield being first made after a square form to denote immobility and constancy signified by Checkie Sa and Argent quem deus fundavit super bases suas ne demoveretur in seculum So much for the Figure the faces of the Cube compounding the first Honourable Ordinary vide the plain Cross being the exact middle point called the Honour point Propter fundamentum as I noted before B the exact middle chief A the dexter chief point O the sinister chief point V the exact middle bass G surmounting the chief the dexter and sinister base being without the limits of the Cross become more debased and so are less in Dignity which eight points answers to the eight solid Angles of the Cube as the 6 Quadralaterial sides represent the faces of the same the first visible Coat being Checkered though the internal Coat was Gyrony and proceeded from the Center and so constituted 24 plain Angles still answerng its first proportion and these 6 faces became the constant and firm matter or field for every good Coat and while it stood without a charge 't is alluded to by Ovid. Stat vi terra suo vi stando Vesta vocatur Fastorum Earth stands alone and therefore Vesta called The Vestal or Virgin fire being nothing else then that pure light without which there was no colour Heaven Earth Water and darkness appearing in an instant Holy History as the Field on which all the effects of a most amorous and sage prodigality were to be displayed and this heap of Water and Earth was the Object of him who alone was able to chase away its shadows and convert its dust into Gold and Chrystal for as Bricks take their Original from Clay so doth Nobility from mean Extraction Tin and Brass are Mettals of Alloy while the Golden Shield-bearer is the Heroical Person as the same Poet notes in the discription of the same Shield Which being forged of Gold Must néeds have Golden Furniture and men might so behold They represented Deities the People Vulcan forged Of meaner Metall where that was to be urged For though Honour is the reward of Vertue yet the Mechanick may not vie with the Eldest Son of Honour for his Atchievement it is not only the Shield but the Adornment of the same that Thetis craved and Vulcan wished to accomplish so as to preserve his Honour from base Oblivion To hide him from his heavy death when fate shall séek for him As well as with Renowned Arms to fit his Golden Limbe By what you may observe in the former lines it is plain that the first Rule of Blazon is to name the Field first and then to observe the points of the Escoutcheon whether dexter or sinister On the broad Stock his Tonges in his left hand His right a Massie Hammer doth command First Forged and strong and Ample Shield of Hew Most rarely divers round about he threw Next observe to name the partisians and charge Thrée radient Rings a silver lore behind The Shield charged with five files in which his mind Expressed in Divine variety Which brings me to the form or Division by line Whose several files bound by the aeternal hand Wrap the Infant World in her first Swadling-band The Conclusion of the Chapter To the Honourable Robert Boyle Fellow of the Royal Society who beareth Party per Bend Crenele Argent and Gules SIR THis Chapter claims a great part of it Light from You You having given Form to the Matter and the formal Metal laying hold on the material Colour createth a good Coat whereby the refracted Line maketh five Consecutions And if the Analogy of Kercher hold good that by Argent is signified God and by Gules Man your Coat represents the good hold You have taken in your Seraphick Love by fixing both your Arms to the Poles of the World
as wait upon the Prince Thirdly such Doctors as being not about the Prince are excellent in Learning Fourthly come Knights without any place of preferment Lastly Doctors of meaner gifts and places and what esteem the Law hath for Justice sake my Lord is not unknown since the Doctor of Law gives place onely to the Divine Oracles of God and it is Justice only that beareth the Scales to balance the whole world by and that which makes it Standard is the Kings Authority by which you act Fabius was accounted the Shield of Rome for defending it by Wisdome the Round Form being the Emblem And Marcellus was accounted the Sword for his Valour Both being the proper Ensigns of a Knight both being put in your Hands and in your Arms they are not only the Hand of Power but the Ensigns of Valour and Wisdome And so the Advocate is a man at Arms. CHAP. VI. Of the visible Charges of the third Days Work in the Creation under the Regiment of Mars or the Red Shield GUles was the proper illumination of the third Days Work Gules a Border OR Verdey of Trefoils Vert. and the Partition was Party per pale Colour and Metal Though it be hard to know the disposition of the first three Days Work which was before the Creation of the Sun yet by the Creation of Light there was a manifest division of the Field per pale whereby the Waters were commanded into one place So that the Field of this Day consisted of dry Land and Sea and in the last three Days God adorned beautified and replenished the World setting in the Firmament of Heaven the Sun Moon and Stars filling the Earth with Beasts the Air with Fowl and the Sea with Fish giving to Creatures Vegetative and growing their seeds in themselves of all which in their Order And having already seen the dry Land parted by Springs and Rivers Lines and Ordinaries which are called Honourable for that like Royal Rivers they have navigable Fountains Come I now to the Earth is it is adorned with all manner of Plants with the plenty and pleasure thereof which by the virtue of Gods command INCULTA SYLVESCIT Fert Casia non culta seges totosque per agros Floret odoratis terra benigna rosis Where Casia springs unsown throughout the field And to sweet Roses unforc'd birth doth yield Grass The first thing that represents it self to the eye as a Charge is Grass and is born by Til ssey of Lancashire and that it is a good Bearing you have the Testimony of Sacred Writ And God saw that it was good this Bearing representing Humility as the Grass is trodden down and neglected yet is advanced to crown even the temples of Caesar How often have we seen that from neglected seed hath sprung up many great Palms though the Thunder of an evil Tongue no Laurel can resist nor greatness of Merit exempt which made Scipio Africanus change his Profession of Warriour to Husbandman and with the self-same hand which in the parching sand of Africa he had planted glorious Palms of Victory he did cultivate a little Farm the noble Romans accounting it an honour to be called Lentulus Piso Fabius c. from flowers and fruits answerable to which we have Lilly Rose Pear Nut c. whose Arms declare their Names Pliny was of opinion that Nature before she set her self to make the Lilly did prepare her self as it were by making the rough Draught and Model Convolunce a white and simple flower Pythagoras forbad the use of Beans onely to hint to his Scholars to avoid ambition for Magistracy though the man that sits on the Banks of Flowers in peace may prepare his Shield as in the Coat of Sir Thomas Chambrelan being a white Escoutcheon within an Orle of Cinquefoils according to Virgil's Advice Remember to provide if the Divine Glory of Tillage thou intendest thine NOCTIS NON DEFICIT HUMOR is the Glory of Generosity the Semper vive DUM OPPRIMITUR CRESGIT The Burrage is a Blue Cinquefoil ET FERT GAUDIA CORDI While the Narcissus is of golden Colour and signifieth beautiful Youth Sedges is born in Arms by the Name of Sickes and Sylvanus Comes adorn'd with rural Boughs Lillies and Fennel dangling on his Brows The noble Plantagenet is a Caterfoil Caterfoils which HIEME FLORET and is born by the noble Duke of Albemarle as a Slip of the same Plant which Scotland tried IN DIE FRIGORIS his fidelity being still verdant DUM CAETERA LANGUENT yea at such a time VT REMOTISSIMO SOLE And though Honour like a Flower BREVIS EST VSVS yet the remembrance of his Name like the lovely Amaranthus NVNQVAM LANGVESCIT The Cinquefoil is the Gillyflower of Heraldry IN QVOSCVNQVE COLORES Cinquefoils If it be Metal FVLCIT ET ORNAT Salts are the Colours of all Bodies whence they receive their Degrees of Lustre or Obscurity All Flowers are Emblems of this mortal Life STATIM LANGVENT while some Leaves are notwithstanding Symbols of Immortality FOLIVM EJVS NON DEFLVIT And what Laurel leaves signifie 't is plain VINCENTI DABITVR Augustus and Germanicus Titus and Adrian Antonius Philosophus Alexander Constantine and Theodosius were all crowned with a double Lawrel as Sages and as Emperours Chaplets being always signs of Mastership Chaplets and therefore to this Day are Masters of Societies elected by Laurel Chaplets about their Brows Laurel the crowning of Sages and Poets proceeding from a kind of Example of it which was under the old Roman Emperours the giving of Crowns of Laurel to them as the Ensigns of Degrees of Mastership in Poetry and that by Imperial Authority either by the Emperours themselves or by Counts Palatines or others having such delegate Authority having continued ever since the time of Frederick the First with Laurel a Ring also being given them as in the Letters Testimonial of Reasner and Jacobus Grasserus both Counts Palatine to Michael Bartchios Julii 8. 1618. Imperiali authoritate fronti ejus ingeniosissimae Lauream Poeticam imposuimus Crowning of Poets dextram in diviniore hac Poeseos harmonia exercitatissimam annulo aureo exornavimus And in those of Reasner to Casparus Wagnerus Decemb. 29. 1593. Te per Laurus impositionem annuli traditionem Poetam Laureatum fecimus And as Mr. Selden farther observeth as from the use of the old Empire the latter took their Example of Crowning with Laurel being anciently received into England John Skelton had the title of Laureat under Henry the Eighth And at the same time Robert Whittington called himself Grammaticae Magister Protovates Angliae in florentissima Oxoniensi Academia Laureatus And under Edward the Fourth John Kay by the title of his humble Poet Laureat dedicateth to him the Siege of Rhodes in Prose the custome of Crowning Poets continuing unto the time of Theodosius as it is observed upon Ausonius who lived then and writes Tu pene ab ipsis orsus incunabulis
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
be displayed the most ancient Field being that of Saturn or the Earth of quality cold and dry not altering the Coldness as a quality Active but his Driness as a quality Passive so that this Field doth become a Souldier as well as a Scholar for many good Scholars make brave Souldiers To bear Argent and Sable is to be in his own House and to bear Sable and OR is to be in its Exaltation the one being most fair with reference to Truth which doth not love concealment and the other most Rich with reference to Nobility said to be nought else but ancient Riches which indeed is Occulta Qualitas in the Field of the first Day The Matter first God out of nothing drew And then adds Beauty to that Matter new Now the Seminal Form of all things lay round and contracted at first but spread when they bring any part of the Creation into Act as Drops of Rain spread when they are fallen to the Ground so that the first Charge that presents it self is that of Drops whereof some are of the nature of fire dissolved onely by the Calcination and Sublimation Others of that of Water viz. Distillation and Dissolution that which hath reference to Dissolution is those Drops which are of Water called Gutta de Eau of Colour White seu aqua in lucem condita It is of heavenly Extraction and signifieth Divine Grace for Rain saith one is the Pledge of Gods favours and Dew the Symbole of his Grace Behold hear the Anvil on which all other Shields are formed Haec est Mater universalis rerum omnium quippe in cujus ventre spermata rerum continentur videlicet Coelorum Astrorum Animalium Vegetabilium Gemmarum Metallorum Heaven and Earth having been in obscurity behold the Break of Day and those delightful Colours that play upon the Water a Day which having first received the Light gives glory and splendour to all Days Behold this first Figure divided after the manner of the immutable property of Light which is such that issuing from the Centre it carries together with it Rectitude So that it neither knows nor can diffuse it self any otherwise then by right Lines called Gyrony Seraphim Thrones Dominions Virtues Powers Principalities Archangells Angells Cherubims The Chromatism of Drops The Funeral Pile among the Romans was erected with Oke and Pitch Trees as most combustible materials according to the quality of the Person deceased according to Virgil they did struere ingentem pyrum as it were 4.3.2.1 lessening upward its Form whereas the Pile of Matter terminated in Point E NUBIBUS ETE MONTIBUS is Grace and Cooperation All Drops at first came down from above either in silver Dew or golden Rain The Cardinal of Turnon used for a sign or Symbol silver Drops to signifie Manna and thereby heavenly food expressing his desire thereby NON QUAE SVPER TERRAM And these Bearings of Drops as Guilâ—am denoteth doth well become a Souldier of that Christian Legion called Fulminatrix at whose Prayer in a great drought as Eusebius noteth as the Prayer of Eliah Heaven was opened So Sampson being hard bestead for marvellous thirst called on God and found Fons Invocationis Water issuing out of the jaw bone of an Ass wherewith before he had slain one thousand men so that by the way you may note that any thing whatever be it never so simple is capable of the grace of God and though Drops to the Vulgar may seem to be very mean yet therein is contained many miseries Drope sometimes Mayor of London bare Gutte and on a Chief a Lion to denote his Name as well as Fame in founding the Aquaduct in Cornhill communicating those Drops from his Well Head usually issuing from Lions mouths and this leads me to the other sort of Drop viz. that of Gold which are known by their weight PONDVS ABVNDIS Some Rivers abound with golden Sand each Drop whereof is Gutte de OR which is golden Rain and PENDENT ONVSTAE Gold being the most digested Metal therefore every Drop MATVRITATE INCLINANTVR and being understood to be molten PERFICITVRIGNE Golden Rain is a fine speculation in artificial Fire-works which IN TENEBRIS LVCET De stercore aurum colligere is the work of a prudent Preacher in the words of Jeremy PRETIOSVM A VILI It is made liquid by fire HVMOR ABIGNE and may signifie an anxious Lover whose passions are excellently expressed in these Verses Aspice quam variis distringar Vestia curis Uror heu nostro manat ab igne liquor Sum Nilus fumque Aetna simul restringuite flammam O lacrymae lacrymas ebibe flamma meas Which the Eclogue seems to construe in other Verses and is rendred in English by Ogilby thus Betwixt extremes is there no mean he says Love hath regard to no such things as these Not Love with tears FLETVS AERVMNAS LEVAT and are sometimes ease to a Martial mind which often feels the scorching Drops of Loves Flame according to which in the Argument of the 10. Eclogue of Virgil's Bucolicks The wise and valiant men oft feel the flames Of cruel Love and follow wanton Dames Jupiter descended on Danae in a golden showre the Amber Drops that were pressed from the Poplar Trees on the Shield of Thetis were Gutte de OR From these clear Dropping Trees Tears yearly flow Met. lib. 2. They hardned by the Sun to Amber grow Hence you may observe the usefulness and commendableness of Industry that makes the Gentleman Oyl gladdeth the heart of man and is the Symbol of Consecration prophetically spoken of our Saviour who was anointed with Oyl of Gladness above his Fellows So that to anoint Guttatim Drop-meal by the way of Distillation id est FOE CVNDITATEM INFVNDVNT The memory of Jacob's setting up the Stone he had rested on for a Pillar and pouring Oyl upon it and calling it Bethel was preserved under the anointing Stones which the Phoenicians from Bethel call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from whence came the anointing Stones among the Heathen which Arnobius calls Lubricatum Lapidem ex Olivae unguine sordidatum So that the anointing Stones then with Oyl was the Symbol of Consecration all Drops indeed signifying Persons set apart to several Works DE COELO EXPECTANS PLVVIAM Many Works better in cold night are done Or when the pearly Morning brings the Sun Night to mow Stubble and dry Meddows chuse Night not neglects to pay refreshing Dews Conclusion of this Chapter To Sir Thomas Player junior SIR AMong the Romans for ought that I have read there is but one Order of Knights as testifieth Sir Thomas Ridley and they are next in degree to the Senatours themselves as with us they are next to the Peers though indeed Cujacius following our Modern French Heraldry maketh three sorts one whereof he calleth Chevalliers the other Bannerets the third Bachilers but setteth down no proper difference of the one from the other though our Use doth demonstrate the same However it was
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