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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

HEVREVX QVI EN DIEV SE CONFIE D. Balthazar ' Gerberius Eques Auratus b. d. Ao. 1653 A Brief DISCOURSE Concerning the Three chief Principles OF Magnificent Building VIZ. Solidity Conveniency and Ornament By Sr Balthazar Gerbier D'ouvilly Knight LONDON Printed in the Year 1662. TO THE KINGS MOST Excellent Majesty May it please your Sacred Majesty MY place of Master of the Ceremonies which the King your Royal Father of blessed memory confirmed unto me during my life by the Great Seale of England is to introduce Forreign Princes or their publick Representatives to your Sacred Presence And in regard the Place of Surveyor Generall was also intended to me after late Inigo Jones I doe make bold to introduce the three Capitall Principles of good Building to your Sacred Majesty who hath seen morestately Palaces and Buildings than all your Ancestors and may be a Pattern to all future Posterity by Building of your own Palace worthy your Self and placeing it as the Italians for their health delight and conviency as well as Solidity and Ornament La Matina alli Monti la Sera alli Fonti according to which the main body of your Royal Palace may be set on the side of Saints James's Park and the Gardens along the River If the Book affoards any thing worthy your Sacred Majesties further satisfaction I have obtained my end and done the Duty intended by Your Sacred Majesties Most humble most obedient most Loyal Subject and most zealous Servant Balthazar Gerbier D'ouvilly Knight TO THE LORDS AND COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT May it please your Honours IT being lately reported that your Honours have deliberated to have the Streets made clean to enlarge some of them and to Build a Sumptuous Gate at Temple-Barr I thought it my Duty to Present this small Discourse of the three Principles of good Building and withall a Printed Paper concerning the Cleaning of the Streets the Levelling the Valley at Fleet-Bridge with Fleet-Street and Cheapside add the makeing of a Sumptuous Gate at Temple-Barr whereof a Draught hath been presented to his Sacred Majesty and is ready also to be produced to your Honours upon Command with all the Devotion of Your Honours Most humble and most obedient Servant B. Gerbier Douvilly Knight A Brief Discourse concerning the three chief Principles of Magnificent Building viz. Solidity Conveniency and Ornament WHereas Building is much minded in these times I thought fit to publish some Principles thereon which may stand the lovers of it instead Yet without spending time and Paper to Note how a Point Line Angle Demi-circle Cube Plint Baze Pedestal Colombe Head Architrave Frize Cornice or Frontispiece must be made and what Dimensions all those several parts a Point excepted must have since all Master-Workmen ought to remember as Schollars their Grammer and Arithmaticians their Table how every Particle must have its just proportion and that the height of Windowes and Doores must be double their breadth and also to be carefull to maintain the due esteem of their Art since its Dimensions and Rules came directly from Heaven when the great Architect and Surveyor of Heaven and Earth prescribed the Rules and particular Orders for the Building of a floating-Pallace Noahs Ark and the glorious matchlesse Temple of Solomon the perfect House of Prayer And therefore such Precedents may serve to convince those who say That a wise-man never ought to put his finger into Morter since there is a necessity for Building especially among Nations who do not or cannot live in Caves and hollow Trees or as the Wilde Indians who have no other Roofs but of Palmito-Leaves nor Wainscot but Bambouses as they call the Poles to which they tye a Woollen Hammac to lye in There are three Capital Points to be observed by men who intend to Build well VIZ Solidity Conveniency Ornament Those who have Marshald the Orders of Colombs to make good the first Point have Ranged the Toscan to be the Supporter of a Building but such an Atlas must stand on a firm Ground not as ill Builders place Colombs either of Brick or Stone like things Patcht or glewed against a Wall and for the most part against the second Story of a Building contrary to the very Gothish Custome who at least did begin their Buttrises from the Ground as if their intent were that the weight of the Colombs should draw down the Wall on the heads of those that passe by Such Builders confound the first and essential point of Building to wit Solidity with Ornament and Conveniency They will make a shew of some thing but misse thereby as ill Bow-men the Mark They may perchance have heard of rare Buildings nay seen the Books of the Italian Architects have the Traditions of Vignola in their Pockets and have heard Lectures on the Art of Architecture which have laid before them the most necessary Rules as also the Origine of the several Orders of Colombs and Discourses made thereon that the Toscan is as the Hercules so of the Jonic and Corinthian the first of the two to Resemble the Dressing of the Daughters of Jonio who had Twists of Hair on both sides of their Cheeks The Corinthian Heads to represent a Basket with Acante Leaves and the Guttered Colombs the Pleats of Daughter and Womens Cloaths That the Grecians in remembrance of their Victories did Range the Colombs in their Buildings to represent the number of Slaves which they had taken the Grains Beads Drops Pendants Garlands Enterlaced-Knots Fruitage and an infinite number of Ornaments which are put on the Frize to signifie the Spoiles which the Victors had brought away from their Enemies and to preserve the Memory thereof did place them on their Buildings that they might also serve for a true History But none of such Ornaments were ever impediments to the strength or convenience of a Building for they were so handsomly and well contrived as once the Dutchesse of Cheiveruse a French Lady said of the English Females that they had a singular grace to set their Ornaments right and handsomly The Barbarians and naked Tapoyers Caripowis Alibis and several Charibdiens do place Pendants in their Nostrils which are proper for the Eares and these hinder not the use of the Lips which ought to be observed by all Builders And as for the inside of Fabricks Builders should in the first place set the Doores Chimnies and Windows as may be most convenient for use Builders ought to be not onely experimented in House-keeping but also good Naturalists to know before they spend time and Materials the required Property to every part of a Building A Doore to be so set as it may not convey the Wind toward the Chimney or Bedstead though opened never so little The Windows to be so placed as that the Fire made in the Chimney may not attract the Aire and Moysture and so prove the unwholesomest part of the Room for those that are near the Fire Which was the main reason why the great Isabella