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A42635	A brief discourse concerning the three chief principles of magnificent building viz., solidity, conveniency, and ornament / by Sr. Balthazar Gerbier D'ouvilly, Knight.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1662 (1662)	Wing G540; ESTC R7880	12,137	58

be the best for them to choose But I must freely advise all Builders in general never to begin to Build on a Ground before it be Purchased as the late Duke of Buckingham did at York-House where there hath been much daubing and breaking through old rotten decayed Walls first to make a Ladies Closet on the corner of a Wall where a Butteryses stood and which was taken away for the Closet intended only at first for a Closet of ease and to serve untill the Archbishop of York could be perswaded to accept as good a Seat as that was in liew of the same which could not be so soon compassed as the Duke of Buckingham had occasion to make use of Rooms to entertain according to the Dignity of a prime Minister of State forreign Princes and Embassadors so as on a suddain all the Butterises that upheld that rotten Wall were thrown down the Seelings of Roomes supported with Iron-bolts Belconies clapt up in the old Wall daubed over with finishing Morter and all this as a Toadestoole groweth in a night to serve untill a Model for a Solid Building to stand even with the Street were made and to be Built of such Stone as the Portico or Water-Gate at the River side is and this was done on a Moorish Ground whereon no New Building could stand any time without Proppings which was contrary to the main Principle of good Building I must proceed and conclude with my humble respects concerning Palaces of Sovereigne Princes which must differ as much from other Buildings as their quality and condition from that of their Subjects And in the first place as Solidity must be the first Principle in all good Building so much more ought it to be observed in that of Sovereigns unto whom the whole world hath access And as there must be spacious Ground before their Palaces their Inner-Court ample the Offices for their Retinue large and commodious and so placed as they may neither be an annoyance nor of ill aspect The first Stories ought rather to be vaulted than boarded to prevent such an accident as happened to Lewis 13th French King and his Queen at a Ball when the Floore of the Roome with all the Company fell down the King and Queen only remaining by a special Providence on the Hearth of the Chimney setting under the Cloath of State And as there is a necessary Magnificence to be exprest on the Front and inside of Princely Buildings answerable to their greatness so is it absolutely necessary that the Architect be possest with a Soul as great as the Player in the French Play called the Virionaries where he perswades himself to be Alexander and governs his Motions accordingly And the Lines and Strokes of the Architect must be Alexander-like his Figures and Statues Colosses his Pyramidis like those of Aegypt and the Vaults like that Rock wherein Alexander and Darius wrastle for Mastery in a Valley in Persia between Babylon and Espahan at a place called Carimonshahan where formerly was a great City six English Miles long in which Groto the Alexander-like mind of the Sculptor hath Hewn within the Rock besides Alexander on Horseback and a number of Huntsmen and Ladies the aforesaid Alexander and Darius wrastling to break a Ring between them Such a like mind Prince Thomas of Savoy Sonne to the Great Emanuel of Savoy infused into his Architect Sculptor and Caster in Brass who he imployed in the Designing and Building a Stable in Turin within all of Marble the Racks Manger and the upright Posts all of Copper Richly Wrought Conveyances of Water Pipes The Manger fourteen Inches wide at the bottom to contain a Pale for Water on all occasions The uppermost edge of the Manger three foote eight Inches high from the Ground to accustome the Neapolitan great Saddle-Horse to raise their Neck The Rack Poles three Inches asunder and upright that as the Frenchman saith Lapetit vienten mangeant the Horse may feed more chearfully the Hay and Dust may not fall on their Heads as it doth out of a Rack which stands shelving the under part of the Manger ought to be made up to keep in their Litters and no Boxes made there for Dogs as some not curious do where no Harnesses Saddles Coverings of Horses or any other Implements or Tooles are not to be seen about the Postern since those things do but impede the Accesse of a Cavallier to the Horses The disposing a Stable into a double Range hath been affected by some who would see all their Horses at once Others love only a single Range with a broad Walk and if they have a great number of Horses returne at the end into another Range if the Ground can afford the same so as a Wall makes the Partition between the Horses The Paving of such a Stable is very neat being of white or yellow twice burnt Flanders Bricks in Dutch called Clinkart farre beyond Planking of Stables for divers Reasons The Paviors after the Bricks are laid throw sharp Sand over them and twice a day they are Watered with a Gardeners Watering-Pot and Swept with a Broom which the Grooms are to continue sometimes because the Sand gets between the Joynts and makes the Paving very close and firm The Pavement at the Foot of the Manger must be raised at the least six Inches higher than at the Gutter where the Posts are placed which ought to be five Foot and an half distant one from the other which Ground so Paved is of double use first that the higher a House stands towards the Manger the better sight it is and especially when the Lights of the Stable strikes on the Horse their backs which is the better Light Secondly That a Horse its usual standing place being so much shelving accustomes the Horse reposing more on his hinder Feet than on the foremost to be more light and nimble in his Gate and Pace Thirdly That his Stall doth not remain under him and especially when its standing hath eight foot in length from the Manger to the Channel which for neatness ought to be above Ground the eight Foote in length being at full the space which the Horse doth possess when in the night time he lyeth stretcht on his Litter I must not omit by way of Queries to Write somewhat concerning the Kitchin of a Princely Pallace viz. whether there should not be as much curiosity if not more in the Kitchin than in the Stable since the Meat prepared in a Kitchin ought to be Drest with all Neatness and preferred before a fine Lace about the Master Cooks Towel Neither are the Vessels of Silver but in reference to the Neatness which ought to be observed in all Cookery The French-Mans Glasse is wrenched as often as he Drinks and why should not Cooks be more Curious and Neat in their Kitchins than Grooms in their Stables And as a Stable can have conveyances for the Horses Water so may Kitchins for Slabbering for Guts of Fowls and Deer Coles

Ashes and whatsoever else can cause Dirt and Nastiness and be freed from the annoyance of Smoak which many ill-placed Doors cause nor ought the Kitchin or other Offices and Selleridge as in some Palaces in France to be so placed as they may prove prejudiciall to the Court and if they are underneath a Palace they ought to be vaulted I must not forget that the Roof of a Palace should be covered either with Lead or blew Slates The Pantheon at Rome was covered with Brass which a Pope melted to cast Canons no such as only eat drink and sing No curious eye can well indure those Barn-like Roofs of many Noble Persons Palaces covered with red Tiles which break and rot away and then the Roof being mended and patcht seems to be a Beggars Mantel which I would not have the Nobles and Courtiers to be See the Roofs of Lester Newport Southampton and such like their Palaces whether they do not look as Barns for Hay and not Py-bald by their patched Tiles As for the main bulk of Palaces its true some have a greatness in plainness as that of Farners in Rome whereof Michael Angelo made the Architrave Frize and Cornish And as for Bigness and Solidity that of St Jeronimo and Escuriall in Spain for Ornament Munikch in Bavaria the Louver at Paris for Vastness Situation and Ornament by the imbossed Imagery on the Frontispiece variety of Orders of Colombs with the delight of the annexed Tuilleries wherein as especially in that of the Palace of the Duke of Orleance but above all in the Cardinals their Vignas in Rome is observed the form of a true Princely Garden consisting not only in much Air great plots of Grass low Borders large Gravell-Walks but for close Walks Fountains Groves and Statuaes to make good the Italian saying Per variar natura é bella And as for the imbossed carved Imagery on the Frontispiece of a Palace their Dimensions must be according unto their distance from the Ground which is a main point requisite to be observed also in Scheames wherein divers undertakers commit very great faults not only by the not reducing whatsoever is represented to the true Lines of Perspective but also by omitting the giving such Proportions to things as may satisfie the sight of all the Spectators at their severall distances for Excellency doth not consist in vastness nor in the quantity of Objects nor Shapes nor Colours The Sphear in an Angle of a great Chamber in St Pedro è Vaticano in Rome confirms this truth and every judicious Eye will be satisfied therewith Seas must not only be seen to have a naturall motion but heard to make a noise of breaking of their Waves on the shoar and against the Rocks Clouds must not only drive but be transparent Winds Thunder Lightning Rain Snow and Hail must be so heard seen and felt as that Spectators may think those sights to be naturall operations The Sun Moon and Stars no Past-board devices but so represented as that they may dazle the Eyes of Spectators And all the Motions of Sceanes and Mutations as insensible and no more to be discovered than that of the Hand of a Diall Neither can all great Rooms of Princely Palaces serve for this use except they be after the Moddell of such as the Italians have built as there is a good one at Florence in Italy with conveyances for Smoak and capacities for Ecchoes which Inigo Jones the late Surveyor experimentally found at Whitehall and by his built Banquetting House so as having found his own fault he was constrained to Build a Woodden House overthwart the Court of Whitehall The greatness of a Sovereign consists not in the quantity of Stone and Timber heapt together The Quarries possess more Stone and the Woods more Timber than a Banquet Room Let any good eye judge whether it be not true that the extream height of a Room takes not away the greatness of the company that is in the same and that all Hangings of Tapistery make no shew at all unless they reach to a proportionable height of a Room Since the greatness of a Nation consists not in a Husk but in it self and in its Sovereign nothing should be suffered to diminish the appearance of that greatness within or without Doores A Sovereign and his Retinue in a too vast Roome in height width and length doth appear like a company in a Valley near high Mountains Whenas a body standing on the brow of a Hill and seen from below seems to be a kind of Colosse which argueth that there must be a great discretion used in the making them fit and pleasing All which I do not Write to undervalue any Modern Works nor any of the Cavallier-like Operas every good Talent being commendable As I am confident there are some that live who will not deny that they have heard the King of blessed Memory graciously pleased to avouch he had seen in Anno 1628 close to the Gate of York-House in a Roome not above 35. Foot square as much as could be represented as to Sceans in the great Banquetting Room of Whitehall and that divers judicious persons will not deny that the excellency of the several Triumphall Arches Erected in the City of London consists not in their Bulk The Grecians and Romans who have shown their Master-ship in them did conform them to the respective places Things can be too great as well as too little too massie and too slender too gaudy and too plain and Colours placed together which agree not one with the other as blew and green God in his Rainbow having shewed us the best way of ordering Colours Nor is it the quantity of Timber or Stone that speaks love in an Arch but rather when it is composed of the hearts of Loyal Subjects which surpasseth all that can be made May therefore the oldest and most tottering House in the Land breath forth of its Windows what may answer that true love and in point of good Building wherewith this Discourse is begun next to the giving such a new Form to the Streets of London and the Suburbs as may in a manner equalize those in Holland in neatness if the Inhabitants will but take the right and onely course therein May his Sacred Majesty during his long prayed for and wished Raign see St. Pauls Church in that magnificency as the Metropolitan of the Houses of God in the chief City of Albion justly requires And his Royal Palace Built so as to answer the matchlesse greatnesse of him who all tongues of Loyal Subjects speaks to be Carolum Magnum Secundum Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regem Ecclesiae Legum Libertatis Populi Restauratorem Which shall ever be the dutifull Wishes of Balthazar Gerbier Douvily Knight Printed by A. M. and are to be sold by Richard Lowns at the White Lion in St Pauls Church-yard Thomos Heath at the Globe within Ludgate and Matthew Collins at the three Blackbirds in Canon-street at St Nicholas-lanes end Stationers 1662.