INTRODUCTION. 
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upon the escutcheon in his seal a human 
heart proper, pierced with five nails, in allu¬ 
sion both to the “ quinque vulnera” and his 
own surname. 
We have been too much amused by Pea- 
cham’s account of the rebuses that were in¬ 
vented during the reign of Charles the First, 
to withhold them from our readers. This au¬ 
thor says “ Excellent have beene the conceipt 
of some citizens, who wanting armes, have 
coined themselves certaine devices as neere 
as may be alluding to their names, which we 
call rebus. Master Jugge the printer, (as you 
may see in many of his bookes,) tooke, to ex- 
presse his name, a nightingale sitting in a 
bush with a scrowle in her mouth, wherein 
was written Jugge, Jugge , Jugge.” 
“ One Foxe-crafte caused to be painted in 
his hall and parlour a foxe, counterfeiting 
himselfe dead upon the ice, among a company 
of ducks and goslings.” 
