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INTRODUCTIO N.

Penes meC. W.

* J?age I 24,Cent. vi. Lon-don, 1635.

•}■ Trifolium.

J In MS. pe-nes Collecto-rem.

Of the most ancient Crest and Mottos of the Coat-armorial of

the Wrens.

The Lord Verulam , in his * Natural History, observes," that some os the Ancients, and likewise divers of the modern" Writers, who have laboured in natural Magick, have noted" a Sympathy between Sun, Moon, and some principal Stars," and certain Herbs and Plants; and so they have denomi-" nated some Herbs solar, and some lunar, and they

" make it a Piece os Wonder, that -s Garden Claver will hide" the Stalk, when the Sun sheweth bright, which is nothing" but a full Expansion of the Leaves.”

Upon this Passage Dr. Christopher Wren Dean of Windsor y(in his % Experimental Observations, and Additions, to the saidnoble Author) has the following Note. Viz. " Of the Claver" it is no Wonder, that in the hot Sun it will hide the Stalk," by Expansion of the Leaves ; the greater Wonder is, that" ever before stormy Weather, the Flower and Leaves will" shrink up close to the Stalk, as if it were to hide itself: the" Causes of this Opening and Closing are, as the Effects them-" selves, contrary ; for as the Opening proceeds from the Sun’s" benign Heat, so the Shutting from a natural Horror of the" approaching Storm; which Shrinking is the more admirable," because it comes near to the natural Power of Presage in the" superior Order os the sensible Creatures, the Ravens, Crows," Cocks, and perhaps more eminently in those little Birds the" Wrens ; for which Reason, the Ancestors of our Family [of" the Wrens ] some os them, over the paternal Coat of Arms," had for the Crest a Wren proper, holding in his Foot a Tre-" foil , with this Motto-

'Turbinihus super cœlo duce prœfcius.

<c This Emblem, together with the Motto and Coat, stood in" the South-window of that Lodging which stands at the" North-west Corner of the inner Cloyster at Windsor College," in the Year 1643 ; having stood there full 116 Years, viz.“ from April 1527, in which Year and Month Geoffry Wren" died, after he had been Canon of the said Chapel twelve Years;

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