II. . The " Chymical Marriage " contains the following

passage : — " Hereupon I prepared myself for the way, put
on my white linnen coat, girded my loyns, with a blood-red
ribbon bound cross-ways over my shoulder : In my hat I
stuck four roses." Elsewhere, he describes himself as a
" brother of the Red-Rosie Cross," and a "Knight of the
Golden Stone " — eques aurei lapidis.

Now, the armorial bearings of the family of Andreas
contain a St Andrew's Cross with four roses, one in each of
. its angles, which interesting piece of internal evidence indi-
cates the authorship of this romance independently of the
autobiographical statement, and points irresistibly, it is said,
to the conclusion that the founder of the Rose-Cross Society
was the man whose heraldic device was also the Rose and
Cross.