When he had put the matter out of Hazard he carefully procured a second Edition both of all the Acts and likewise of that Genealogie which without adding or taking away so much as a fyllable he reduced into an evident Scheme or Table From which it soon appeared that Wernerus Erle of Habsburg who died in the year 1096. had a Daughter named ITA de Tierstein or Homberg that is in the Language of the Genealogist who was married to Rudolphus of Tierstein or Homberg who bare Wernerus the Father of Albertus the Grandfather of Rudolphus the great Grandsire of another Albertus and the great Great-Grand-sire of another Rudolphus who was the first Emperor of that name and of the House of Austria And truly the sleight is wonderfull whereby both Franciscus Guillimanuus and Piespordius himself do in such manner dissemble that Wernerus was the Son of ITA as if he had been not Ita's but her Brothers Son of whose progeny neverthelesse there is no mention any where made as neither of Adelbert another Brother from whom the Habsburgian Succession did passe over to the family of Tierstein or Homberg But they were not ashamed to go contrary to the manifest truth of story and so to confound things that Guillimannus made Ita the Sister of Otto his Niece and Piespordius his Sister Wife Daughter in Law and Niece by the Sisters side from Wernerus of Tierstein And thus Peireskius rejoyced that he brake the neck of the designe of these flattering Genealogists and so much the more because Guillimannus said he gave great credit to those Acts of Muren aforesaid and Gaspar Scioppius two years after chose this same Guillimannus as his Author whom he would follow in that part of the Genealogie of the House of Autria I do not well remember whether it were for this or some other cause that he visited the Records of the Chapter at Rhemes the Canons being commanded by an order from the King to let him view all their Acts and Records and to shew him two peciall Instruments containing things of great moment I remember very well he was accounted most knowing in the French Histories of greatest Antiquity and that he gave a proof of his skill which I have heard both from himself and others For whereas in the moneth of March there happened a memorable fire in the Kings Court to the sight whereof he ran at midnight in the company of Jacobus Gillotus a most excellent Senatour he carried thither afterwards all the learned men well nigh in the City to contemplate the statues of the Kings the stumps whereof onely remained the rest being turned into ashes And when no body could tell whose statue that was which stood with a mangled face even before the fire happened he because of one place supernumerary argued that it was the statue of King Henry of England which Charles the seventh did onely mangle and not remove as unwilling that his own Statue should stand in the place of the Usurpers Nor was he content to undertake onely that particular labour against Piespordius and others but out of his love to the Kings Majesty and the glory of the French Nation he began from that time forwards to think of an Edition of all Authours especially those of that age who had written the Antiquities and History of France And because he knew that in divers Churches Monasteries and private Libraries many Books of that Argument were kept up unprinted he took care to search them out and because he himself was not then at leisure he acquainted Andreas Duchesnius a most diligent Historiographer with his designe who was at that time set upon the same undertaking He was then preparing an Edition of the Historians of Normandy wherefore Peireskius to testifie his sagacity and industry he sought and obtained of Sir Robert Cotton of England both a namelesse writer of the Acts of Emma Queen of England and likewise Wilhelmus Pictavinus whom he soon after annexed to his History and testified that by the mediation of Cambden They were sent to the Illustrious those are his words Nicolaus Fabricius de Petrisco Senatour in the Parliament at Aix one that is an advancer of learning and my most dearly beloved friend And because Fronto Ducaeus was at that time setting out a Greek Manuscript written with great letters containing a great part of the Bible and of so great antiquity that it was said to have been corrected by Origens own hand who averreo that it had been compared with the most ancient Tetraplus therefore Peireskius well remembering that the foresaid Cotton had a most precious Greek Manuscript written in the dayes of Theodosius in great letters likewise which cost King James a thousand Crowns therefore I say that this Edition might be more compleat he wrote and sent into England and passing his word and giving securitie that the Book should be forth coming he obtained the same and let Fronto Ducaeus have the use of it Moreover in Autumn the same year he was nominated by the King Abbot of Sancta Mariae Aquistriensis And the businesse which he had in that respect to transact at Rome was freely performed by divers Cardinals as Cobellutius Ursinius and he that was afterward Marquemontius but by none more carefully than by Maffaeus Barberinus who was afterward created and is yet living Pope For from that time forward they became acquainted and their acquaintance was strenghthened by letters frequently sent to and fro The occasion of their first acquaintance was a very elegant Ode composed by the Cardinall upon Mary Magdalex the beginning whereof was Innixa pennis versicoloribus For Peireskius having received a copy thereof from Aleander and being wonderfully delighted with it and all the learned men to whom he shewed it applauding the same he got leave by mediation of the said Aleander that it might be yet further published by printing The copies being all vended he was pleased to print the Poem again but in a larger form that it might be hung up at Sancta Balma a Rock and Hermitage famous for the penance of Saint Maudlen and other Churches and Chappels of Provence Yea and he thought good to print it the third time after he had won the said Cardinall to frame an Ode in favour of Saint Lewis King of France the beginning whereof is Objectu gemini maris and after he had made some other Odes that he could get by the stealth as it were of Aleander About the end of this year there appeared a famous Comet to the observation whereof he exhorted all the industrious men he was acquainted with Himself being destitute of fitting Instruments and not daring to trust himself in the air because of his sicklinesse made no other observation save that by the Perspective-Glasse he discerned the form of its head and hov it differed from the tail which he compared to the Sun-beams shining through a window But he was glad when he heard afterwards that such as dwelt not in
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whole face thereof so suddenly changed so that the wals which because of the Funeral being hung all with black did testifie sorrow were presently being hung a fresh with red because of the aproach of the Guest made to expresse the greatest chearfulnesse possible Moreover as soon as he was saluted by Parliament and all the other orders of the City the Tables were so furnished that a more magnificent provision could not be imagined Eight dineing rooms were served at one and the same time without any confusion and the high courage of Peireskius was to be admired whose Providence was not disturbed by the sadnesse following his Fathers death When all was taken away the Legat desired also to view his Study and to passe over some sweet houres in familiar discourse and in viewing the rarities This Viasius harpt upon in his Panegyric to Urbanus Octavus in these verses among the rest So did we see him in his way from France 1625. Unto Peiresk his noble House advance That House renown'd for Vertue and the Praise Of ancient Gentrie and the Muses Baies Where all that 's left of Athens and old Rome Inshrined lies as in a sacred Tombe When at his departure he brought him on his way he was forced to go to Riants where upon pretence of his Fathers Death the Tenants began to make some stir where composing things as well as he could and the contrariety of the wind holding the Legat still at the Port of Tolon he went to him again thither and presented him with a couple of Goats with long ears hanging down so low that if their heads be a little bowed down they touch the ground The Cardinal having finished this legation soon after began another For he went Legate into Spain but by force of weather he was divers times stayed upon the Coasts of Provence But his chief stop was at the Tower of Buquia which stands at the ingress of the Martigian Coast or the Sea Colony so that Peireskius could hear of him and come to him Which was doubtlesse a great solace to the Legat for besides his most delightful company some daies enjoyed Books were also brought him with the reading whereof the tediousness of the time was abated Among the rest there were certain observations touching the ebbing and flowing of the Seas which Peireskius had not long before caused to be collected by Antonius Natalis a Physician of Provence who dwelt in Bretagne which because they exceedingly pleased the Legat he promised to do his endeavour 1626 to procure more of them Also he further promised him That he would acquaint him with whatever he met with temarkable in that Legation and particularly that he would procure which Peireskius chiefly desired the Epitaphs to be written out and Pictures to be taken of the Earls of Barcellone especially of Alphonsus sirnamed the Chast Moreover Peireskius returned home troubled with an exceeding great Rheum besides pains in his Kidneys and other disorders contracted by reason of his Fathers sickness which would not let him sleep a nights nor suffer him to rest so much as in his Bed Amongst other refreshments books were not the least for he received divers from sundry his friends some of which made mention of him as one for example called Glossarium Archaeologicum containing an Exposition of Barbarous Latine words whose Author was Sir Henry Spelman of England who in the Preface to his Work If I should speak of persons quoth he beyond the Seas I was in no small measure incited from France by the most noble Nicolaus Fabricius Peireskius his Majesties Counsellour in the Parliament of Aix Hieronymus Bignonus c. Where you must observe that Bignonus and those other persons whom he there mentions were set on by Peireskius to sollicite Spelman to set out his Book Also the notes of Pignorius upon the Book of Vincentius Cartarus of the Images of the Gods also his symbolical Epistles in the 29 whereof Pignorius recites to Peireskius an Epistle of Marsilius Ficinus touching the occasion of the friendship between him and Bembus both born on one and the same day out of a Book which was in the study of Pinellus which you and I quoth he knew in its flourishing condition Also he was very inquisitive after divers Monuments of Antiquity which he would have brought to Aix A principal was a Marble Tomb of most elegant fabrick which being dug up near Brignolle he sent a Cart on purpose and twenty industrious chosen men to fetch the same This Monument verily he esteemed so highly of that when afterwards Rubens was to go into Spain he could not tell what better Argument to use to intice him thither then to tell him of the sight thereof and when he observed therein some Images which either through Age or bad usage were defaced he would needs have from Rome a Model in plaister of another in which he had observed the like figures that after the example thereof he might cause them to be repaired Also he was comforted by one Barbleus of Colen an industrious young man and skilled in Physick who made him paper spheres of all sorts that is to say according to the Hypotheses of Ptolomy Copernicus Ticho and others Nor must I forget how he was exceedingly refreshed with the exceeding courteous society of Jacobus Lorinus a Jesuite who had commented upon the Psalms who when he first returned from Rome came to him at Avenion and bestowed upon him a treatise of Bellarmines written with his own hand Finally to divert himself he read at that time a Book termed Arelatense Pontificium made by Petrus Saxius a Canon of Arles But he took it very ill that he I know not out of what respect did affect to set up the Rights of our Kings and did not only not oppose what might justly be opposed but went about unjustly to weaken the same wherefore he rested not till by a decree of Parliament the Book was prehibited Peireskius was now a little better when after divers Letters both from the Cardinal Legate and Putean the Knight and others dated at Madrid he was informed that the Cardinal was to return and would passe through Marseilles in the beginning of September Thither therefore he went though not perfectly recovered and expected the Cardinals arrival certain dayes But he lost his labour because he having a good wind sailed by and stayed only a little while at Tolon whence he sent some of the rarest things he brought with him out of Spain to Aix and excused himself Which when Peireskins received he returned thanks by Letters in some of which he carefully recommended Christophorus Puteanus a Carthusian whose learning and innocent conditions did sufficiently testifie that he was Brother to the Puteans of Paris I stand not to relate how well the Cardinal took the said Recommendation for Putean himself wrote that he was unable to express what good will and civility he had found Only I think it more pertinent to say