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nOSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS : JOHN HEYDON. 367
placed for him, with a table and carpet before it. Over the
chaire is a slate, made round or ovall, and it is of an ivie
somewhat whiter than ours, like the leaf of a silver aspe,
but more shining, for it is green all winter. The slate is
curiously wrought of silver and silk of divers colours,
broyding or binding in the ivie. It is the work of some of
the daughters of the family, and is vailed over at the top
with a fine net of silk and silver, but the substance of it is
true ivie, whereof, after it is taken down,
family are desirous to have some leaf to keep.
the friends of the
The Tirsan
commeth forth with all his generation or linage, the males
before him and the females following him, and if there be a
mother from whose body the whole linage is descended, there
is a traverse placed in a loft above, on the right hand of the
chaire, with a privie doore and a carved window of glass,
leaded with gold and blew, where she sitteth but is not
seen. When the Tirsan is come forth, he sitteth down in
the chaire, and all the linage place themselves against the
wall, both at his back and upon the return of the hall, in
order of their yeares, without difference of sex, and stand
upon their feet. When he is set, the roome being alwayes
full of company, but without disorder, after some pause
there commeth in from the lower end of the room a Taratan,
or herald, and on either side of him two young lads, whereof
one carrieth a scrowle of their shining yellow parchment,
and the other a cluster of grapes of gold, with a long foot
or stalke. The heralds and children are cloathed with
mantles of sea-water green sattin, but the herald's mantle
is streamed with gold and hath a traine. Then the herald
with three curtsies, or rather inclinations, commeth up as
far as the half-pace, and taketh into his hand the scrowle.
This is the King's charter, containing gifts
of revenue and