[6] Vide p. 254. [7] Some curious specimens (for example) of this kind of history occur in the writings of John Rous of Warwick, temp. Edw. IV. His _History of England_ is compiled indiscriminately _from the Bible_ and from monastic writers. Moses, he tells us, does not mention all the cities founded before the deluge, but Barnard de Breydenback, dean of Mayence, does! With the same taste he acquaints us, that, though the book of Genesis says nothing of the matter, Giraldus Cambrensis writes, that Caphera or Cesera, Noah's niece, being apprehensive of the deluge, set out for Ireland, where, with three men and fifty women, she arrived safe with one ship, the rest perishing in the general destruction! Vide Walpole's Historic Doubts. [8] Morgan. Adam's Shield, p. 99. [9] Morgan. Adam's Shield, p. 100. [10] "God himselfe set a marke upon Cain. But you perhaps will say, that was Stigma, and not Digma, a brand, not an ornament." Bolton's Armories. [11] 'Three _rests_ gules.' A difference of opinion exists as to what this charge represents. Some blazon it a _horseman's rest_, and assert that it was the _rest_ in which the tilting-spear was fixed. Others contend that it was a wind instrument called the Clarion or Claricorde; while "Leigh and Boswell will have them to be _sufflues_, instruments which transmit the wind from the bellows to the organ." Lastly, Minsheu advises those who blazon them _rests_, to call them brackets or _organ-rests_; and this is evidently the sense implied by Morgan. [Illustration] [12] The correctness of these extracts, historically and etymologically considered, needs no comment. [13] Numb. ii. 2. "Every man shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of his father's house." [14] Gen. xlix. [15] He couched as a lion.... [16] Zebulon shall be for an haven of ships.... [17] Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens.... [18] Dan shall be a serpent by the way.... [19] He shall yield royal dainties.... [20] Naphtali is a hind let loose ... &c. &c. &c. [21] Sprinkled with drops of water. [22] Morgan gives the preamble of the Letters Patent of King David _for the warrant of a pedigree_. It commences with "Omnibus, &c. David, Dei gratiâ Rex Juda et Israel, universis et singulis," &c.!! [23] Leigh's Accedens of Armory. [24] Boke of St. Alb. It will be seen in this extract that the origin of arms is referred to other times than those mentioned in the former quotations. Several similar discrepancies occur in the work, proving it to have been a compilation from different and conflicting authorities. [25] Miscellaneous Collection. [26] See vignette at the head of this chapter.