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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

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

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

they put two Mantles on his shoulders the one blew the other black this covered with dead bones to put to his remembrance by the blew the Heavens to be above him by the black Mortallity So likewise when the great Cam of Cattay succeeded to the Empire his Counsellors put him with his Chair on a black Felt telling him That he must look on the glorious light of the Sun and on the obscurity of his Seat that God is above the Sun without whose mercy he cannot promise to himself the possessing in this world the worth of that black Felt whereon they have put him Of Charity King Amade of Savoy being sought by certain Embassadors who did take great delight in Hunting and Hawking to see his Kennel of Hounds conveyed the Embassadors into a Gallery wherein he shewed them a great number of poor People whom he did daily feed and told the Embassadors That he had no other Kennel but did hope by them to purchase perpetual joyes Sophia Wife to the Emperour Justinian caused diligent enquiries to be made after the particular places where the poor people did pawn their Clothes which she then redeemed and sent them back to the Proprietors to make use of them Of Meekness Benignity and Clemency Eustorgus Salmin King of Cyprus was of such a meek Disposition and so good that Histories mention he never gave any just cause of offence The Emperour Charles the Fift having been advertised That a desperate man had resolved an attempt on his person called the man to him and without making any shew of being advertised or telling him any thing gave him five thousand Ducats for a portion to his Daughter Quintus Fabricius Maximus being advertised that Marso a man valiant at arms would betray him caused him also to be called and did ask him How long he would suffer him to be his Debtor gave him Horses Arms and Money Caius Claudius Caligula Emperour of Rome caused all the Accusations made during the Raign of Tiberius to be burnt on the publick Market-place nor could any man perswade him to take any particular notice of the Contents of them nor to know any of the Names of the Conjurators Lewis Duke of Orleance who succeeded Charles the Eight and was then called Lewis the Twelfth being put in remembrance of the Injuries Recorded during the time of his being Duke of Orleance answered That it would not become a French King to resent them Henry of Bourbon a French King was so full of Clemency as among thousands of testimonies which he gave of it would have saved the Duke de Biron who had conspired against his Royal person if Biron would have relyed on his mercy As for daily marks of his matchless Clemency to wave all Resents against all ill-disposed persons he made no other reply to a Libel which had been thrown on his way coming from Amiens to Paris save The man hath said all and hath forgotten nothing save his Name Queen Catharine de Medicis Mother to Charles the Ninth the French King being advertised that a great Libellist was penning a Book against her sent for him presented him with a Bag with one thousand Pistols and took no notice of the man's malice against her Of Justice Artaserste being by his High Chancellor ingaged in a Promise but finding the Boon could not be in Justice he made in lieu of it a Present to the value of the granted Boon saying The Gift could not make him poor but the Boon would have made him unjust Ribera Vice-roy of Naples having pardoned a Crime worthy of death and being petitioned in behalf of the party for another heinous offence said the first was the offendors the second would be his if Justice had not its course The Vicar of Naples having condemned a man that had wounded another and being Petitioned in favour of the Offendor whose Friends would make him pass for a Mad man answered That Justice tends not to punish the Wise but the Mad. Trajan the Emperour in his glorious departure from Rome being implored by a woman to do her Justice stopt lighted from his Horse heard her Cause did her right The strict observance of Justice was notorious in a Count of Holland who having constrained a Nobleman to espouse a Lady who the said Nobleman had ravished caused him immediately after the Ladies Honour was repaired to be beheaded The Grecian Emperours were the first cause of the saying Audite alteram Partem being accustomed to stop one of their Eares while they heard the Plaintiff and it s a good saying That those who are accustomed to buy Justice are apparently apt to sell it Of Prudence King Alphonze the wise said That a prudent man consults long with wise friends is vigorous and quick in putting the case resolved on in practice never forgets the absent nor hold the maintaining the Innocent and the overcoming of Passion as an indifferent matter The Emperour Maximilian said That an Italian thinks long on a business The French executes his thoughts at the same time as he thinks but that the Germains do and think on it afterwards which is no Prudence Of Liberality This quality in Emanuel the Great Duke of Savoy made Marini the Italian a second Pettarca write of that Duke his hands Mani che si stringano al ferro é siaprane perdar Oro in English Hands clinging to the Iron and opening to give Gold George Villiers late Duke of Buckingham having observed that the French Chevallier de Jarr exiled from France in England was in want and cold not ask invited him to play at Tennis caused two Bags each of one thousand pounds in Gold to be laid under the Rope and to have line marks given to the French Cavallier to lay against the ready Money because he had invited him to the Tennis Court without any forewarning to disguise the better his design to lose the Money and to make the French Cavallier play the more freely the Duke plaid false stroaks yet so dexteriously disguised as that the Spectators could not perceive the Duke's intention nor did the French Cavallier ever know it Of ancient examples of Liberality besides that of Alexander the Great that of Gellia is notorious for he was so generously liberal of Heart as he made his Palace a publick receptacle of all men in want builded for publick uses assisted in private gave portions to virtuous Widows and Virgins kept men at the City Gates to invite strangers at his Table and gave them Presents Of Compassion and Grief When Alexander the Great did see Darius dead Julius Caesar the Head of Pompo Marc Marcellus Syracuse inflames and Scipio Numaricia they could not with hold their Tears though they were their mortal Enemies Justinian the Emperor seeing Glimmer King of the Vandals after many Victories by him fought brought before him Glimmer having been so hard put to it by Belisary as that at last he begged from him but one loaf of bread a Gitar to play

by a Servant of their Friend to prevent presents which their own servants might receive whereby their present should become chargeable unto the friend to whom it 's sent As for Titles which prove troublesome punctillos among many King Philip the 2d perceiving that the Nobility of Burgondy and of the Catholike Netherland Provinces would quarrell about them did publish in Print a Formulary whereby to a Duke Prime Minister of State Vice-Roy and Generall of an Army is given no more then Excellence So to their Ladies and no such abuse among them as in other parts where every thing crept out of Broome-staffs and Cole-mongers Bushels will be called Madam though but striplings and no such as Earles Daughters The French call good Rich Merchants Wives Madam but they joyne to it their Surname others they call Dame Anne without the Ma. To Men they give Sir Pierce or Sir John To the King Sir as a substantive they call all men Monsieur with the Adjective of their Sir name the Kings Brother Monsieur without any addition they give no Highnesse but to the Princes of the Blood no Damoiselle but to the Kings eldest Daughter all others called Damoiselle is with the addition of their Sirname and that is more then Madame Marie a Citizens Wife the Madame without any addition are Dame Damee beginning from the Presidents Ladies vous is spoken in English you to all men and women the Soveraign and the Princes of the Blood excepted and yet sometimes as the Marshalling of words will require a Vous is used to King and Queene in Spaine never the Vos being only for Inferiours vostra Merced to equalls and betters except to those whom as before said Excellency belongs unto The King of Spaine Philip the 2d never heard Vos to him save from the proud cruell Tyrant Due d' Alua who being on his Death-bed visited by the King said I go where thou wilt come the King going out of the roome said no more then I thought I should not escape without a Vos As for the old Castillan Maxime of State it is to stick to old pretences and though an Age was elaps'd if occasion did profer they were wont to begin a new on the Old score I shall not overburthen these Notations with the severall names of Kingdoms as Castill Leon Aragon Valentia c. Nor with the Names of Cities among which the maine ones are Valledolid Salamanca Sigotia where the Mint and staple of Cloath is Sivill the great and Rich Merchant Towne There are matters of lesse note which some Travelers observe as Steeples and Sun Dyalls as that of Stratsbourgh in Germany while those curious table-Table-book men do omit the main end of Travell the Interest of his Native Country in his improvement in the opening the Secrets of State to Ballance them dive into their Maximes their Strength or Weaknesse and having maintained the Interest of his Patria returne well fraughted with necessaries as m●y serve to Postetity It 's what the Venetians do mind by their Embassages yet is it not their Maxime to keep an Embassador above three years in one place for fear of Naturalization By Visits made to them it will be easy to come to the knowledge of all passages for they keep certain enterlopers who find out any thing though but too much Importune and Impertinent in their questioning what the Councill of the King and what His Majesty doth The Polans well accustomed to Pump those forraigne Inquisitors by setting close mouthed but all Eare and Memory Masters of Ceremonies on them such as are not given to scrape Trenchers at the Embassadors Table men that can handsomely afford matter of discourse and as the Scripture saith Sermo vester semper cum gratia sit sale conditus ut sciatis quomodo oporteat vos unicuique respondere Col. 4. v. 6. The Polans were wont to keep off Embassadors so many dayes as might serve to discover by the Master of the Ceremonies the particular humour and drifts of the Embassador as during the time of the King of Blessed memory by the keeping of Sir Peter Rubens and the Portugal Embassadors there was gotten this advantage that His Majesty was ascertained that the Infanta Isabella the Arch. Dutchesse of Brabant her Letter to the Queene was as it ought to be and the Portugall Embassador had time to get the King his Masters signature altered for the Letter of Credence was signed Yo el Rey as if written to a Subject the Embassador did put to it de Portugal which made all good Soveraigne Princes are best served by such Embassadors that can in case of necessity hit the mark that do not on all occasions draw the string of their Bowe to the uttermost and overdoe their part as some overpassionate Actors on a stage when they represent a King Princes whose heart the Soveraigne of Heaven and Earth doth steere besides their Magnanimous inclinations take seldome things as the French say a la pointe de l'espeé as some Embassadors on the score of their being a Royall Representative which in a Comedy of Virionaries by the French is notably Acted by one who perswades himselfe to be an Alexander The example of the Marquis de Senneterr during his being Extraordinary Embassador to King Charles the First of Blessed memory may serve to prove the pernicious consequence of violent proceedings for that it did cause a rupture between the two Crownes of England and France the Embassador who was lodged in Durrham House caused his Bravos to accompany the English Roman Catholicks who had been at the Masse with swords drawn from the House to the street to expostula●e with the Church wardens and Constables who during the Parliament time were ordered to keep the Multitude from giving Scandall when as the Embassadors men offered violence to the Officers and beat them and all this on the pretence of the Embassadors standing on the too much stretch Le Roy mon Maistre who then was at Paris and not at Durham House So is it a great Impertinency in Embassadors to make their Domicilium a Sanctuary but to their domesticks there being great difference between them and the subjects of a Soveraigne who is Master in his own Land and whose Laws are to be observed To conclude this Treaty concerning Travellers it is certain that whether men Travell or Travell not whether they satisfy their curiosity or not whether they follow the Apostles prescription to try all or not they must all dye as well as the old man of Verona who did never go out of the sight of the smoak of his Chimney and so must the Baboons the Apes the Parrats the Crocodiles and an infinite number of Bruits for the which many hundred of Leagues of good fruitfull Land in America was not made nor those various gifts wherewith it is indued The Gold and Silver Mines the Womb for the production of Pearles fixt in that part of Gods Earth all Aromatick drugs to grow not for the Nostrils of Sea Divells so called by the Americans but for the use of Rationalls and that the best use made thereof might tend to the Glory of the Creator and the good of Man FINIS