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

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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 Rid∣ley) and they are next in degree to the Senatours themselves; as with us they are next to the Peers, though indeed Cujacius fol∣lowing 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 en∣titled 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 admo∣nish, when the Field of your Nativity shall be obscured in Sable Weeds, to be raised up to that pitch of fortitude as the noble Ro∣mans were in preferring their own Countrey before their Lives. And this is the use of your Arms, the Ensigns of Gentility.