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Gate house
36. He beareth a Gate house with Battlements, the Port or gates displaid, or open, haueing a Pyramid roof Leaded, with a Ball and pinacle: conioyned to two Towers masoned. Se cha.13. n.5. [If] this haue a roofe [it] is called [a] Gate house, else it were noe other than a wall with a sally port in it.
Wall with port open
37. He beareth a wall with a Port open, conioyned to two Towers, each haueing neere the top a Barbacon, or a little rome proiecting, or jetting out and couered.
Plain wall with tower
38. He beareth a plaine wall (or a wall cristed) with a tower vpon it Battled, with chambers conioyned therevnto, after the maner of shourings between two plaine towers, with ouer seiling roofs.
Round tower
39. He beareth on a Basis, a Round Tower Masoned, in the doore a woman standing. Roofed with a Ball on the top.
Church
41. He beareth a Church with a square steeple, spired and faned, haueing two windows on the side between 3 Buttrasses, and a larg east window.
Pillars
42. He beareth on a Basis, 4 pillars, with their pedestalls and capitalls; supporting of a cornish or Moulding, whereon is fixed a gable end, and the top Bottony.
In the Roman antiquities this is termed Jupiters Temple, for vpon one of the Medalls of Augustus Caesar, there is the like Impress, with a naked man standing in the middle of the pillars holding a Thunder bolt in the right hand and a speare in the left with this writing Jovi Tonanti, which as Suetonius cap. 29 saith that Augustus being deliuered out of some eminent danger did dedicate or consecrate a Temple to his service.
Temple of Vesta
43. He beareth the Temple of Vesta.
Altar grate
44. He beareth a square Grate with a flame of fire out of it.
Mortar
45. He beareth a Morter with rings on the midle and sides. This may be termed a Morter with a Broad brim and bottom, with 4 rings in ears pendant, though three of them can but be seen.
Table
46. He beareth a foure footed table with an vrne vpon it.
Tripod
47 He beareth a Tripude, or Tripode ... used by the Roman priests in their sacrifices.
Sacrificial pot
48. He beareth a Sacrificial Pot.
This is by the Latines called a capid deriued from the word capido, which is a vessell of great esteem and valew, to hold their holy oyle in, which they used anciently in the Roman sacrifices: so Hemelarius, in his tables 37. 44. 8. of the Roman coines calls it a capeduncula, a little vessell, as if it were of an inferiour use. Jac. Gutherus termes it a simpulum, a cup used in sacrifices. pa. 41., of some called a Patera, a Broad Cup or Goblet.
Tripod
49. He beareth a Tripod, or rather a Glob-Tripod. This is another kind of Three footed stoole or Table, and such were in use in the temple of Apollo at Delphus.
Roman chair of state
50. He beareth the Roman chair of state; with an Imbrauthered cloth or carpett cast over the midle of it.
Popes cap
51. He beareth a Popes cap with two labells. This is termed a Papal Insula with Labells and Tassells, where note, that being plaine is onely termed an Insula, but being garnished and Adorned, especially haueing labells and tassells, it is to be accounted honourable and blazoned a Papal cap, or Insula, which is sufficient to express all other things belonging to it.
Maunch
52. He beareth an old fashioned Maunche. This I haue cause to be set here as being contrary to all the other Maunches both ancient and moderne set downe in cha.2. numb. 8. to 16, and cha.5. numb.126 to 139.
Boot
53. He beareth an old fashion Boot, with the straps erected.
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