A DISPLAIE OF NEW HERALDRIE.

To All whom it may concern (and whom, indeed, at this Hoare concerneth it not ?) that do worthilie bear Armee or by bearing of them in the field be enfitulated to 'em in Perpetuitie : to the generous, painful, laborious and skilled of all Nurtures throughout all Nations, Dominions, States, Province*, Confederacies, Islands, Possessions, Plantations and Bodies Politique within the Circumference of our Empire, these Jannis Adumbrations upon a Noble Matter, are put forth and submitted with true love and (1 thank God !) a single heart, by

John Cuillem

Late Rouge Croix Pursuivant at Armes and formerlie of Braoenose College, Oxford. ---- (10ITRTEOUS READER,

kJ It bath been made manifest at all times, not only by all Collegia of Armes that follow and upheld the Science Royal of Heraldrie,

but by the sure instinct ab origin of mankind, that Arnies do evermore follow and conform themselves to atchievement in the field So then, in my poor judgement, appeareth that these present martial tempers and Habilitudes so burningly displaied and (as it were Phoenix) re-arisen among our Nations' Peoples and Armies, even in the uttermostly dispersed parts of Earth, do of themselves deserve at our Heralds hands (conformably to the Laws of the Science) yet more ample Dignification than heretofore bath been.

A GENERAL. CONSIDERATION .0.F0.vIe ARMIES, THEIR ATCHIEVE- .Ts For consider only in the largest the tale of those Nations and Bodies Politique within our Empire who, moved by loyalty sole, without hope of other than conscience reward, hare, at their own charges opposed, and do now by Blood and Sweat of their natural Bodies vehemently oppugn the Realme's enemies throughout Flanders, Artois, Picardy, over against the shores of the very Grecian Sea—in Afrique also and—oh, miracle!—even at the Gates of Hicnisalem herself. What, since her Makings, bath Earth seen comparable to these their battalia ? That boast of Roma " Quae regio in terns "etc., is, at this houre, sad truth in the mouths of all Englishmen.

Yet it is most sure, -since we be but children of the light-risen, soon-fallen dust, that, by the passage of but a few generations in the tract of time, these memorable Marvels must—lacking confir- mation and perpetual reminder—perish out from among our Pesten- ties. Against which Oblivion the liberal and learned Office of Heraldrie, by right and sure prevision, standeth guard : since it is as Lazarus Schwendi the Dutchman bath it :—

". By sigh! and not by sound

Men's souls are lewd or bound."

OF AMENDINO PRESENT COATE3.

Grant mo, I pray you, that the Armes of the greater part the Nations of our Empireconfederate with us are unlovelio conceived out of the emblems of crafts and trades--to wit, engines, chimneys, toothed wheels, salmon-fish, carts and the like. Yet, pith use and custom breed affection, it is not to be supposed that anie Nation will lightlie suffer change in her Coate-Armours, Banners or Flags as now exposed and established among mankind. Remains, then, to charge upon these Armes such augmentations and additions of Honour as Merit deservcth and our people's love desireth. To this end the Crowns Imperiall, being ensigns and token of service to the Crowns, is beyond question most honourable, and should be, in my poor judgement. displaied either in a canton or, better, as Crest additionall, upon the Armes of all our Nations, Provinces and Dominions that have borne part with us in this War.

OF THE AlloaizNTATION IMPERIALL.

Yet give me leave in humblenesse to present that such augmen- tation or honour—the Crowns Imperiall to wit—signifieth no more than a marks or remembrance of devoir or service in generall, and being borne alike, as I would have it borne, on all Armee of all our Nations, leaveth posteritie at loss to know in which especial], or particular quarter of Earth or upon what several] Campaigns, the said devoir was rendered and performed by the Soldiery of anie Nation. Denying not at all that the Crowns Imperiall should hold preheminence over all other charge or augmentation in all Armes Nationall or Provinciall, yet I would desire to mark by some plain charge, easie to be understood of the unlearned, upon each Nation's Armes, the very locus in quo of each devoir.

Here may I take leave to be particular ?

OF ORR ARMIES BEFORE HIERIISALEM.

Exempli gratin. For such Nations whose Force, or at least part of 'em, bath battailed before Hierusalem, -both ancient report and the Honours of that Hello Place should allow—unless for some good reason within Herald's knowledge—a remembrance that sole most glorious Shield which beareth metal upon metal—which is the Shield of Hierusalem. I would not grant to anie, no matter how great their desert, all five crosses of that sacred Shield, but rather a simulacrum or shadow of the same. To my mind, a Cross argent (more medal if it were a cross on degrees or steps) would show seendie upon a field or.

And so much for Hierusalem and our Armies thereagainst.

OF EGPIIRAT AND TIGERS.

For those that fought on Euphrat and her sister Tigres, it were an evil! jests to typify the Four Rivers of Paradise in their Armes: seeing that that land is creditablie reported of Nature and Aspect to be more like unto Hell. Therefore, I would grant some fair simple device of a bend wavy or dancette ; or it might be, bendlets azure, wavy or dancette, upon a field or (sith it is questionlease our Realme bath expended on those deserts gold beyond count). And, should we reckon the generous blood there spilled, the bends should be gales. Should these not serve, it lieth in the authoritie of the College of Armes to order a Fountains Mcsopotame—id est a Fountaine gales and or in place of azure and argent as till now all Fountaines are blazoned—to be borne for perpetual remembrance by such our Dominions etc., as have sent forces thitherward.

And so much for Mesopotame.

OF GALLIPOLI AND HELLES.

Touching Gallipoli, where we had honoure but small victoria, I would even bring back and restore, as most indubitablic lieth in the power of the Heraldes their College, that sad murrey or sanguine tinct which hath so long, as it were, been exploded from cote- armour, and is now all but unknowen in blazon ; even as was our cad withdrawal from that sheer Coast unknowen (till then) in our land's Historic. So I would part this Shield palcwise, murreg and sable, and thereon a naval crowne and beneath it a mural crowne of gold : the first erowne for our good ships that bare off our hosts at the end, and the second for tribute and memorial, such as brave Men fear not to render to an inveterate and moat stubborn Foe.

OF SALONIQUE.

For Salonique, I would no more than sow Greek crosses (argent) upon a field sable ; for there we have had manic crosses, and the sable is in remembrance of King Constantine his cross-dealings and treacheries.

OF EGYPT.

This, questionless°, is the Sphinx of what tinct you shall please, or, if that be challenged because so manic our Armie's battalia already bear her for Crest, then I would have some simple device of Father Nilus--such as the Y-cross, azure upon argent—blew upon white—for the White and the Blue Niles.

OF FRANCE AND FLANDERS.

As touching these, the very navel and backbone of our laborious enterprises, our primunt mobile and source of strength, I am, to confease truth, all at a stand. For here Honour and Atehievement lie thick--ohou!—as our dead. What Charges shall fitlie mark not one battle but a soore which in olde days had shaken all Earth and changed her Fortunes in totalitic ? And for Endurance and Patience which axe honourable evenlie with the work of battle itselfe, what honour can equal that Faith beyond Belief which our Armies have ehowen and most piouslie embraced from the first ?

But not, as Flaccus saith, to talk Kings and Tetrarchs, let us borne and confine ourselves to the limits of mere shields and devices. What augmentation or Dignitie, then, shall we chose for the Western Wars OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE.

How if, Courteous Reader, we take over and armoriallie repossess nothing less than that very Order of the Golden Fleece that good Duke of Burgundie, Philip, in the town of Bruges herselfe, did found upon his Wedding-day with Isabella of Portugal our most ancient Ally. Imprimis, that Order was dedicate to the Virgin and to St. Andrew—which is as much as to say to the Catholique Faith and to those other Religions which we do now agree to call non-conforming —whereof the Scots have several' sorte and, I believe, the English yet more. Burgundie indeed lieth not within the actual] compass or under the tread of anie our Armies, but to the eastward and south of them, yet, upon one time, it approached close over against Artois, where we now leaguer. Seeundo, so long as the Spaniards held rule in the Low Countries and before the false Austrians set. up their own Bastard Order, the Heart of that Order of the Golden Fleece and the Place of its Governance, as I understand it, lay ever at Bruges or at Bruxelles which two towns our Armies by God's Grace purpose now to deliver out of their so long captivities So then by Time, which is Historic, and by Place, and by all reasoning symbolique wo are. justified to resume and put forward for honourable augmentation non the Armes of all our Nations confederate with us in our Western War; this same Golden Fleece which typifieth not only Meeknease and Suffering—such as Belgium bath borne—in the similitude of a Lamb but equallie the cloth and Wool of Flanders which was bought and sold in the Cloth Hall, now ruinate, of Ypres. Yet more, if we consider the high or fire-stones set in the Chain of the said Order, these well prefigure that sullen Spark and deep. seated Fire which, needing only hard Knocks to awake it, abideth ever in the hearts of the Englishry. And lastlie, the very steels in the Chain on which the flints or fire-stones are stricken to eonflagrate them, they are laced and entertwined in the Shape of the letter B— which covereth alike Belgium, Bruges and Bruxelles as well as, for the vulgar, if they chuse, Roche. In every Aspect this quadrateth exactlie with Honour and Atchievetnent

OF THE GERMAN FOWLS.

Or if this seem all too curioualie conceived—which should never be in the Science—then would I for the sole augmentation of the Western Wars, take merely that vile and splitten Fowle the German

eagle as he appeareth on their barbarous shields and debruize or confine him behind a Fret or lattice of Silver, typifying the Sword or white weapon to which he appealed in the clays of his strength and which bath proven his Destruction. Nola. This debruized Fowls. being also degraded and therefore beyond the termes of the Science. the Charm would read thus: " Upon a red field a black eagle de- bruised by a fret argent." This fret or lattice being honourable and imposed eh extern° in no way partaketh of the bird's Disgrace. So we write "argent."

OF MARSHALLING ALL THIS.

And for the sectulie displaie and marshalling of these Dignities and augmentations, here is my Schemata or Design. For example, Australie, to name but one among manie valorous Confederacies. Australia I say, bath adventured her Battalia in five several' Front& Thus then would I deal with her. I would charge upon her proper Armes an Escocheon, or Shield of Pretence bordured blew of the sea and sown, the ',ordure I mean, with as manic Lymphads or little Ships as he Nations of our Empire. Upon this Shield I would displaie quarterlie as the Science directs the several' four Charges I have denominated riz. Callipoli, Mesopotame, Hierusalem and Egypt. This saute Shield would I charge with yet a second Shield bearing the augmentation for France and Flanders—the Fowls, is wit debruized by the Fret—and crowned -or surmounted by the Crowne Imperial' for sign as it were and seal of true service re- splendentlie performed. So then, say you, we have the Armes of Australia charged with double Escocheons of Pretence ? Seeing that her Forces, as the others, have been oft our multiplied Shield and Defence, why should we spare to heap Escocheon on Escocheon 7 It is no more than to hang worthie Fruit on Fame's all worthis Tree. Thus, Courteous Reader, you arc answered. And I would deal semblablie with the Other our Nations, Dominions etc., charging always the crowned Escocheon or Shield Imperial' upon the Shield displaying their atchievements in the Four Fronts ; and these twa Shields laid over or superimposed upon their proper ancient Armee. If by chance, anie Nation bath fought upon more than four Fronts (the Flanders Front not reckoned, for that is covered by the Fowl. and the Fret) or, which I conceive scarce possible, upon less than four Fronts (again not reckoning our Front in Flanders) then the first Shield to be charged accordinglie. Notandum eel. The second or crowned Shield is charged ever the same over all, and varieth not. No more the bordure, with lympharls, of the first Shield. But it aisle shall present that the Crowne Imperial" should surmount the first or quartered Shield and not the second, it is, I say, a matter to be thought upon with a large Mind. •

THE CONCLUSION.

And no with all else, gonerall or in special', which" have set forth: for I am not so blind-fond of this my rude Digest but I shall willinglie defer to Anie more expert and of greater sufficiencie in the generous Profession of Heraldrie, who may be moved by my present Lucubra- tion to bestir themselves towards the fuller Contemporation and Coneorporation of these desiderated Armes.

For needs mast Armes be or memorie perisheth.

Yea, whatever the Issue to my Enterprise, my Labour herein may not be altogether fruitlesse if I shall have broken the Ice and made way to some after-comer of greater Gifts and riper Judgement, that may give fairer Bodie to thin my delineated rough draft or shadow of a new-formed Method of Armes. And so, Courteous Reader.