. The art of making devises : treating of hieroglyphicks, symboles, emblemes, aenigma's, sentences, parables, reverses of medals, armes, blazons, cimiers, cyphers and rebus . To the Reader. \Aving in the frccedent Trcatife exhibitedttntojou^ the model and rules obfervahle inthe making Devises, and jhervn^ that(for thefuhtilty of their invention^ they arefub\eBs for the bejl of wits^ and are^ fortheir ufe^the Infignia of Generals and Com-manders in the time of war^ and of Princes^ Nobility andGentry in the times of Peace y I have in the enftting Cata-logue collected ftich and fo many Coronet-De
. The art of making devises : treating of hieroglyphicks, symboles, emblemes, aenigma's, sentences, parables, reverses of medals, armes, blazons, cimiers, cyphers and rebus . To the Reader. \Aving in the frccedent Trcatife exhibitedttntojou^ the model and rules obfervahle inthe making Devises, and jhervn^ that(for thefuhtilty of their invention^ they arefub\eBs for the bejl of wits^ and are^ fortheir ufe^the Infignia of Generals and Com-manders in the time of war^ and of Princes^ Nobility andGentry in the times of Peace y I have in the enftting Cata-logue collected ftich and fo many Coronet-Devisesboth on the Km^fide and the Parliaments in the late tvar^as I could with greateft diligence meet with • wherein,by thejvay I may obferve^ that the Commanders on His (JHaj&-flies part (having no fuch Metropolis as London to re-fort unto) were forced to make the befl jhift they could fortheir Coronet-Devices infeverall Country Townsy no re-cord being kept of many of them; So that ofthofe (whichI have caufe to believe were the happeftfor invention) Icould not collet fo many^ as I deftred. On the Parliaments/^r^, by the help of the Heralds, andHerald-painters,
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