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A42641	Subsidium peregrinantibus, or, An assistance to a traveller in his convers with 1. Hollanders, 2. Germans, 3. Venetians, 4. Italians, 5. Spaniards, 6. French : directing him after the latest mode, to the greatest honour, pleasure, security, and advantage in his travells : written to a princely traveller for a vade mecum / by Balthazar Gerbier.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1665 (1665)	Wing G572; ESTC R25458	45,784	144

yet be Amicus unius inimicus nullius It will prove a good maxime in them with that Nation which hath nothing more rife on its tongue then No ti fidare not to trust as to fix their speculations on that which without any offence or perill of tell-tales may please their sight to wit the rare carved Statues and Pictures placed in and about the well built Palaces and Churches First as for Pictures to view them in order those of Perin del Vago in Castel St Angelo then proceed towards the plaine on the which the famous St Peters Church is built observe there the great Piramide on the left side of that plain and in the Church the Pictures of the Cavalier Balioni Pormarancio Passignani Del Castello The Pieté in Marble of Michael Angelo the day of Judgement by the same Angelo painted in the Popes Chappel the Altar and Sepulcher of St Sicilia all of Jaspis and other rare stone in the Popes Chambers the matchles pictures of Raphael d' Urbin thence make towards A Bel Vidor there see the Lauconte the Apollo Cleopatra Lantino and a Marble called el Toiso Then making his circuit to go out of the great St Spirito repaire to St Pietro Monto●● there see the Picture on the great Altar painted by Raphael d'Urbin and the Figure of Christ in the pillar drawn by Frar Bastiano a picture of Georgio Vassari in the Sacresti one of Michael Angelo Then go to the Capitol there see Marc Aurelius on Horse-back In the great room of the Capitol the Battail painted in Fresco by Josepin Then to Monte Cavalo there see the two Alexanders with the Bucephalus one made by Phidias the other by Parxitiles Then to Porta-pia there see the Tombe of Bacchus of Porphyr stone of an extreme bignes and entire peece Then repaire to the Toure of Dioclesian To the vigna of Cardinal del Monte see there a great number of Statues Pictures and Limnings of Don Julio Clovio Then go to see il Col●sso and the Triumphal Arch of Constantin The Theater of Marcel at the Cardinal-Saveli The Palace of Farnese see there the rare Statues called the Hercules the Gladiator the Flora the ancient Torro with divers figures in one piece in the Gallery above staires the rare painting in white and black of Hannibal Carasa and diverse rarities in the Cabinet a most rare book limned by Don Giulio Clovio Thence go to Piazza Colonia see the Colomn of Anthonio Pio thence in the palace called Pietro see there the Colomne of Trajan the Emperour all graven with figures about it then see the famous Pantheca of Marc Agrippa the great Market place called Navona see there the Church called Minerva and therein the figure of Christ carved by Michael Angelo then go to the place Fiametta there see a Pallace with rare pictures of Polydor thence to the Palace of Cardinall Bourgesi to see a great number of Statues and pictures as also very rare draughts then to Cardinal Oldebrandini where there are likewise an infinite number of Statues and pictures then crosse over the way to the Palace of Guisi there see the rare pictures of Raphael then to Monte Giordano to the Ursins and see there the works o Bronsino and many other rarities then go to Cardinal Cresentio where are many rare works of Holbein and Michael Angelo then the Garden of pleasure of the Cardinal Borgesi all beset with rare antick statues and within garnisht with many rare pictures You shall see in the prime Churches first in that of Scala a very rare picture of Gerardo of Pomerantio in the Church la Consolation pictures of Durante del Borgio and Tadeo Sucari in that of St Laurenzo in Domo the picture of St Laurence of Frederico Sucaro of Grosepi in the Church of St Silvester on Monte Cavalo one of Palma in the Church called la Madona del Populo two pictures of Michael Angelo Carravagio of Hannibal and Frobastian del Piombo in the Church la Trinita di monti two rare pictures of Daniel di Voltera some pictures in Fresco on the Walls of Perin del Vago and Tadeo in the Chesa nova of Berossi of Giosepino of Scipion Gaetano the Figure of Christ of Michael Angelo of St Marco of Frederigo and of Raphael da Regio in St Gregorio martyro di Sancti of Guirlo Ren at St Giovane di fiorentino of Pasignani In the Roman Colledge an Annunciation in fresco of Frederigo Sucari in the Church called de Lanema of Julio Romano and Carlo Venetian at the Church la Place the Sybills of Raphael of Baldesar di Siena an Anunciation of Marcelo Giosepino Mutiano Albano the Cieling of Frabrastiano at Sancta Elizabetha of Guido at the Madona de la consolation of Pomerantio at St Augustin a Virgin Mary with two Pilgrims of Michel Angelo di Caravagio a St Augustin of Raphael c. And let not my Princely Traveller think it strange that the Italians will extoll these Statues and Pictures and so affect them as if nothing more glorious and more worth of admiration the first reason is that as the Roman Church makes it a Church policy the second that those Statues and Pictures before mentioned have been made by the rarest hands of men as ever lived since the memory of Bezaleel of the Tribe of Juda and Alolia of the Tribe of Dan as also Hiram of the Tribe of N●phtali to work in Sculpture in Solomons Temple by what spirit these Romans wrought since the Gospel was preached I do leave to those whose vocation it is to treat of hidden Mysteries only I shall make bold to say that if my Princely Traveller observes the day of Judgement painted against the Cieling of the Cathedral at Munster he will see the Divell represented in a red velvet Chaire with a Crown on his head and a Scepter in his hand whom the Painter sitting one day on his sc●ffold alone busy painting the Divell was as the story runs constrained to paint in that manner being otherwise threatned to have his neck broak and that thereon it may be thought the painter was not inspired with the spirit of God except the said representation was to serve for an Embleme that the black spirit hath an Empire over Legions of men But with what spirit the Painters of our age do represent at the belly of a Lyon Rampant which as the Unicorne is one of the supporters of the Kings Armes a red thing exposed to the full view of many Virgins and chast mothers of Children who cannot well behold such an aspect without a blush I leave to loose Christians to expound I wish others would commānd I mean the Church wardens the painter to spare his red colour and forbeare the forestalling that offensive needles distinction of male and female in such a place wherein those who by the Anglican Church are called Idolatrous do not put any thing but what may move the people to a devotion The Italians indeed excell

Subsidium Peregrinantibus OR An Assistance to a Traveller in His Convers with 1. Hollanders 2. Germans 3. Venetians 4. Italians 5. Spaniards 6. French Directing him after the latest Mode to the greatest Honour Pleasure Security and Advantage in his TRAVELLS WRITTEN To a Princely Traveller for a VADE MECUM By Balthazar Gerbier Kt Master of the Ceremonies to King CHARLES the First OXFORD Printed for ROBERT GASCOIGNE Anno Dom. 1665. To the High Puissant and most Noble PRINCE JAMES Duke of Monmouth Earle of Doncaster Baron of Tindall and Knight of the most Honourable Order of the GARTER May it Please Your Grace I Do humbly offer to Your view a little Vade mecum for a Princely Traveller by whose example other Travellers may conforme themselves in their Journeys as many endeavour to imitate Eminent Persons like men who set their Watches at the grand Sun-Dyall especially such who like Your Grace possesse Noble Bloud and Heroick Cardinall Virtues for the which Your Grace needs not to Travell nor to be set but by the Grand Soveraign Sun-Dyall of these three Nations in which consideration this little Offer may be said to be needles did not my disinteressed Zeale Respect and Duty move me to make use of some thing though but by heard-say of Your intent so Travell May therefore the matter treated of in this Vade mecum prove as an acceptable Posy presented by a poor Gardiner who presumes not to offer flowers to be compared by the Imperialls the Nonpareilles and such others as are most a la Mode or please the Eye the searcher of Hearts seeing farther hath taught me to offer for the long and prosperous life the sincere wishes of Your Graces Most Humble Obedient and most Zealous Servant Balthazar Gerbier K. To Judicious Courteous READERS THough a Dedicatory Epistle appropriates a Treaty to a prime Reader yet it being past the Presse it cannot escape diverse who according to Old custome look for some addresse to them to be called Judicious and Courteous when it happens with Books as with Buildings scarce seen by any man but dislikt in one thing or other for that all mens fancies differ and therefore it was no wonder a very Judicious Noble Person of this Nation said he would not for five Hundred pound hove put forth a Book for that some are considered but for their outside and only the Title lookt on or some two or three leaves turned and if but one word therein not sutable to their fancy it is thrown in a corner and the Author laught at and censured but since I let this Vade Mecum go and Dedicatory Epistles are required I thought fit to tell you that my scope is not to say peradventure what might stop some Lazy bones at their Fathers Chimney corner as those who would not trouble themselves to see things so they had but the list and then pretend as a fond Mother at Delfe in Holland that her Son could speak Italian because he was once minded to go for Venice And how many great Orators in their Books presume to speak a high Language to Caesars and even to Alexanders when as admitted to their Presence either remain Mute or Stutter In a word the scope of this Vade Mecum in the few particulars held forth is the Travelers interest That he may set forth with such an Opinion of those Nations which he shall do well to visit and such parts which he may see as may give him the more desire to enquire in person after all those things for the which Travell is to serve better then Reading since Objects seen and matters experimented are seldome blotted out of remembrance This Vade Mecum therefore leaves to those that will not or cannot Travell the reading of such copious compleat and excellent descriptions as are extant in their mother tongue and especially penned by men who did not care to carp as severall men make their profession both at Religion and State Maxims or particular passions and inclinations Farthermore the Traveller will find good and bad as well in his own native Country as in Forraigne parts wheresoever he steers that Sola ratio Hominem à Brutis animalibus saeparat That without the putting knowledge in practise it will be with him both at home and abroad according unto the saying Theoria absque praxi Idem est quod pharmacopaeis herbarum scientia absque applicationis cognitione servit He will find in what condition Time Malice or Fate may reduce him that Scientia est Summum bonum quod nec Naufragiis nec Latronum spoliis subjectum est And that there is nothing more certain then the saying Scientia adhaeret in extremo vitae suspirio that Eruditio arma sunt ve rae Nobilitatis gradus and Justitia Pietas sunt Illustrissima heroicorum Imperatorum specula Finally that sola virtus dulcissimum Animae solamen est may all Travellers and those that stay at home find it to be so The Contents of this VADE MECUM 1. Concerning reverence to Religion 2. Respect and Constancy due to Christian profession 3. Of Humility 4. Of Charity 5. Of Meeknesse benignity and Clemency 6. Of Justice 7. Of Prudence 8. Of Liberality 9. Of Compassion and griefe SECT 2. 1. Of Learned Princes and those that taught them 2. List of Heathen false gods wherewith Nations have been abused 3. The best advice to Princely Travellers 4. Questions made by French Germanes Spanish Venetians Genovese I●●●ians in generall and Low Dutch concerning Travellers 5. The best Circuit for a Princely Traveller in his Journey 6. The naturall disposition of the Low Country 7. The two main points stood upon by Germains and wherein a Princely Traveller may doe himselfe right to discourse among them SECT 3. Concerning Coats of Armes ever before and since Marius SECT 4. 1. Concerning the Originall of Warrs and the right way of Fortification according unto the best principles 2. Wherein the strength and compleatnesse of all Fortresses doth consist 3. That there is no Fortresse Impregnable 4. That it is more honour to defend a place then to sight a Battell 5. The most Blessed defence SECT 5. Concerning all the Orders of Knighthood as have been made from the beginning untill this present time 1. Of the Gray hound 2. The Gennet 3. The Starre 4. The Porc-espie 5. The Thistle 6. The Ermine 7. The Broom flower 8. The Sea shell 9. Dame Blanche 10 The Lilly 11 The Tesuphers 12 Jesus Christ 13 The Swan 14 The Montese 15 The white Rue 16 The Elephant 17 The Boare 18 S. Hubert 19 The Fooles 20 S. James 21 The Dove 22 the Christian War 23 The Drake 24 The Tussin 25 Of Hungary 26 Of Suede 27 The Sword bearer 28 Of the halfe Moon 29 The Banda 30 The Sepulchre 31 Of St Lazarus 32 Of St John Dacon 33 Of St Catharina 34 Of Montoy 35 Of the sword of Livonien 36 Of Gens d'armes 37 Of Mary glorious 38 Of Mont

time past the Magistrate of Amsterdam by the mistake of Judges put a man to death who was innocent of a Murder for the which they had no other ground but that a bloudy Knife was found in a mans pocket who lay drunk asleep under a sttall near the place where the man laid murthered I shall spare the over-burdening of this Vade Mecum with their manner of Government the meeting of their City and Town Magistrates their Provincial in the generallity of States nor with any other Governments in the several parts whereunto my Princely Traveller may turn himself since entire volumns are extant the reon he will manage his time so passing through those Low Dutch Territories as may satisfie his sight by those Towns of Traffick and find observing with what thrift those people do go through stitch in their Affairs that Henry the Fourth the French King had reason to say of them as upon occasion seeing a fair Palace in the Country when his Nobles found fault with the small though compact Kitchin Venue St. gu's c'est la petite Cuisinne qui à fait la grand Mayson St. Gray belli it is the compact kitching which hath made the great house And as before-said my Princely Traveller will meet their men who stand on the performing of their word So in Germany a Nation by right called the Honest whose Gentry do make it their study to excel in the warlike profession in all Arts and Sciences and noble Exercises where every Gentleman hath his stam-Stam-book and his Study with Manuscripts concerning the aforesaid Military Art Fortifications and all warlike Engins besides very notable Collections of Proverbs Properties belonging to all noble Arts and most noble parts of the Mathematicks and Metaphysicks And as on the first they will make known their good Memory whereby they can relate on what ground Noble persons do quote their Arms it will not be amiss to endeavour to be before-hand with them on that score Sect. 3. ANd in the first place to manifest that my Princely Traveller is of the old Count of Egmonds opinion That there are no Arms more gaudy and inpertinent than those which many ignoble fantastick Mechanicks do hold forth Secondly That the true original of Arms was the Heroick Acts of a Nation and Victory fought by them when to perpetuate the memory thereof Trophes and Coats were made representing the vanquish'd party for if they in the day of Battel had covered their Heads with Lyons Leopards or Tygers skins the Conqueror would Coat them as the most notorious marks to have vanquisht that party What Coat of Arms Antraphel the first King and Moses the first Duke had is not ascertained some Heralds give to Joshua a Thunder-bolt Gule with wings Azur and for Crest a Dragon Azur to King David a Sling Azur Field Argent for Crest a Lions head signifying his Victory on the Philistins by the Sling and that against a Lion by the Crest Joseph's Brothers had no honorable nor civil cause to coat a bloody sprinckled Coat which they shewed to their good old Father Jacob Cain had less just honourable cause than they to coat Abel's Altar and pleasing Sacrifice to God The World before its eighteen hundred years of age knew of no pitch'd Battel fought The Romans before Marius did only pitch a bundle of Hay on the top of a Lance to signifie thereby their Husband-like profession they put likewise a bundle of green Leaves as of a bunch of Turnips on a like Standard whereupon they fixt a Banner with the Letters S. P. E. R. but they soon changed those homely signs into a commanding Hand then to a Dragon as a thing that could bite and called the Standard-bearer Draconarius which they seconded with inflamed Altars and then with an Eagle whereon Marius put a Crown and doubtless their Rams heads in their Trophes if they as Cromwel could have spoke would have askt and will you not Crown us also since Leopards as well as Eagles have had that honour In the Arms of Merove the first of the three sources of the French Kings was put a Lion Gule holding in his paw an Imperial Eagle signifying that he had ceised on part of the Roman Empire he Raigned ten years in Germany and in Gaule from whence the Romans could not force his retreat The Fluer de Lis in the French King's Arms since Clovis and the Thoads since Pharamond his predecessor the first Christian French King had their original not from Fabels who supposed the Fluer de Lis to be come down from Heaven with the words Ex omnibus floribus eligi mihi Lilium presented by an Angel and an Hermite of Jurnal but from Fields wherein great number of them did grow and wherein Clovis fought a Victory in remembrance whereof he did Coat them as on like occasion Pharamond did coat the Toades And this may serve for a Princely Traveller to discourse with the German Noblemen concerning the first cause of Coating of Arms And as for the Military profession full of craft old as the Devil who began it to the general destruction of Mankind My Princely Traveller cannot do amiss to Discourse on the Principles following concerning the same Sect. 4. MArolois Fritach Errard and de Ville are four Authors who have treated very pertinently and Methodically on the Military Art and maintained how Military-men are to be Armed what spare Arms are requisite what Ammunitions of War what provisions of Victuals what care a Governor ought to have both in regular and irregular places how faults are to be mended how to judge wherein the perfection and imperfection of all Fortifications consists to wit That all the parts of a Forteress must be flanked that is to say seen side-wayes which is mutually to be defended and that defence is to be made by all such aims as may contribute to a defence at a distance as by Canon or Musket whence ariseth the question Whether that part which is to be defended ought to be either within Canon or Musket shot of that part which defends it The most common and best opinions are That it ought to be within Musket reach which argueth that all Fortresses must be so constructed as that all their parts must be defended by ordinary Muskets which do carry one hundred and twenty paces which is of the meaner sort Now as the said Defences may be formed several wayes as by half Bastions and the like the question may be Which of all them is the best way of Fortification which hath been generally resolved on as followeth That such Bastions as are composed of Flanks Gorges Faces and Angles have proved the best Fortresses especially such as had a competent space left betwixt each Bastions termed a Curtin which is the determination of all true Mathematicians in their constructions but they never as yet agreed how the quantities of the several parts were to be proportioned and hence the several and various constructions of