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A47628	Three diatribes or discourses first of travel, or a guide for travellers into forein [sic] parts, secondly, of money or coyns, thirdly, of measuring of the distance betwixt place and place / by Edward Leigh, Esq. ...; Three diatribes or discourses	Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.	1671 (1671)	Wing L1010; ESTC R12004	37,962	106

Breves which I have purchased from France Alexandre de Rhodes in the third part of his Voyages ch 13. Speaks of Monsieur de Boulaye which hath published Vn tres beau liure de ses voyages ou il faut voir ec autant de fidelite Yanaquillus Faber in his notes on the sixth book of Lucretius c. 1. saith Lambertus Massiliensis hath left a little Book De Peregrinatione Aegyptiaca printed at Paris which he undertook 1626. que de nettete d'esprit la Conduite qu' il a monstree sans des Royaumes si differents He hath travelled over saith he the greatest part of Europe Asia and Africa I have seen that French Book also There is Alex. Geraldini Itinerarium ad regiones sub Aquinoctiali in sixteen Books There are also Relations of Divers Curious Voyages by Monsieur Thevenot There are also the Republicks of several nations in little portable books in three Tomes and Relation Du voyage de l'Eveque de Breyte per la Turquie la Perse les Indes c. jusques au Royaume de Siam autres lieux par M. de Bourges Prestre c. Both mentioned in the Philosophical Transactions I have mustered up these several Itineraries and Voyages both because I have perused most if not all of them except the two last when I was about my great book of Geography though it be not yet printed And because I suppose Travellers may hereby furnish themselves with the best writers of those parts of the world whether they intend to go either to instruct them about those places before they go or to carry with them Who ever since the beginning of things and men hath been so often by royal imployment sent Embassador to so many Princes so distant in place so different in rites as Sir Robert Sherlie There are the three English Brothers and Sir Robert Sherley his Embassy into Poland both Printed See Finets Observat page 136 137. 172 173 174 to 177. Two Emperours Rodolph and Ferdinand two Popes Clement and Paul twice the King of Spain twice the Polonian the Muscovite also have given him Audience And twice also though not the least for a born subject to be Embassador to his Soveraign his Majesty hath heard his Embassage from the remote Persian Purchas his Pilgrims part 2. l. 10. c. 10. Dr. Nicholas Wotton Uncle to Sir Henry Wotton was Privy-Counceller to four successive Soveraignes Viz. King Henry the 8th Edward the 6th Queen Mary Queen Elizabeth He was nine times Embassadour for the Crown of England to the Emperour the Kings of France and Spain and other Princes Camdens Hist of Q. Elizabeth Some have instanced in several English Embassadours how well they have acquitted themselves but I shall single out one as very deserving The Appendix to the History of Mr. Medes life Sir Thomas Rowe after many Ambassages to almost all the Princes and States in Christendome all which were managed with admirable Dexterity Success and Satisfaction was last of all Ambassador Extraordinary to Ferdinand the third Emperour of Germany who gave him this Character I have met with many Gallant Persons of many Nations but I scarce ever met with an Ambassador till now Bishop Bedell was Chaplain to Sir Henry Wotton at Venice Dr. Featly to Sir Thomas Edmonds in France Dr. John Burgesse to Sir Horatio Vere in Germany Mr. Boyle in his Preface to his Experiments touching Cold commends Captain James his Voyages it being scarce and not to be met with in Purchas's Tomes having been written some years after they were finished and his Voyages published by the last Kings command He stiles him in his Book that Ingenuous Navigator He being bred in the University and acquainted with the Mathematicks He commends also Mr. Ligon of the Barbado's Neither of these two have I seen and stiles him ingenious Mr. Ligon But enough if not too much of this Geographers who write of the four parts of the Earth are as large in Europe as in the other three Asia Africa and America To which one part all learning seemeth now to be in a manner confined which within this hundred or two hundred years hath produced so many able men of all professions Divines Lawyers Physicians and Philosophers Papists and Protestants Bolton in his Nero Caesar c. 29. sect 1. speaking of ancient Rome saith The wonder of the feat did not grow from the greatness only but from the innumerable ornaments of publick and private works erected for use delight and glory dispersed over all the fourteen wards or regions thereof Temples Forums Libraries Therms Aquaducts Theaters Amphitheaters Circi Porticus Arches Columns Statues Palaces and the rest whose bare names scarce remaining do fill up Volums with their inventories The best Circuit a Traveller can take is to go through Holland towards Germany thereby to satisfie his curiosity by degrees for Germany will afford more satisfaction than the Low-Countries France more then Germany Italy more then France Gerbiers subsidium Peregrinantibus Paris Rome and Constantinople are the Court of the World Venice Geneva and Lisbon the City Provence Andaluzia and Italy the Garden Africk and America the Desart and Wilderness Flecknoes Relation of twenty years Travels Letter 22. Johnson in his Relation of the most famous Kingdoms l. 1. of Travel adviseth a Traveller to take heed of the Pride of Spain Dr. Hall thinks Italy a dangerous place for Youth Vrsin in a Gratulatory Epistle to a friend returned out of Italy addes Ex cloaca diabolorum Necesse est peregri●aturam habere duos saccos patientiae unum pecuniae alterum Commenii Praxis Senicae par 5. Actus 4. S●ena 1. the Poyson of Italy the Treason of France and the drink of Flanders Those who have a desire to travel to Jerusalem should take heed to themselves that they make no Shipwrack of Conscience for if they come not well commended or well monyed or both there is no being for them except they partake with them in their Idolatrous Services Purchas his Pilgrimage part 2. l. 8. ch 9. Lud. Bartema Relates that they that Travel over the Desarts of Arabia which are all covered with light and fleeting Sands so that no Track can ever be found do make certain boxes of wood which they place on Camels backs and shut themselves in them to keep them from the Sands and by the help of the Load-stone like the Marriners Compass they steer their Course over the vast and uncouth Desarts The Latine the French the Sclavonick and the Arabian Tongue are known in many places For Africa Leo * Leo Af●● in rebus Africanis fere instar omnium esse potest Hosmanni mantica Leo Africanus A man of no small credit among them who are well versed in the History of the World Dr. Casaubon of Credulity and Incredulity part 1. Some say Golnitz is the best Itinerary for France le Voiageur Irancois Jodocus Sincerus his Itinerarium Gallia is well liked is

for which she gave them money of the purest silver such as passed commonly by the name of Easterling or Sterling money Esterlingus Sterlingus apad Matthaum Parisium atque alios praecipue Anglicanos scriptores legas Nec tamen eo rejiciendum quando hoc nihilo deterius est quam vulgata illa vocabula daleri ducati floreni ac similia Nam peouniae novitas nova exigebat vocabula Notat ea vox Anglis denarium vox Sterling est ex eo inqu it Watsius quia stellae figura in ea compareret Vossius de Vitiis Sermonis l. 2. c. 5 since which time no base money hath been Coyned in England but only of pure Gold and Silver to pass for current in the same save that of late times in relation to the Necessity of poor people a permission hath been given to the Coyning of Farthings which no man can be forced to accept in satisfaction of a Rent or Debt In all other States of the Christian World there are several sorts of Copper money as current with them for publick uses as the purest metal Queen Elizabeth supplyed the King of Navarre in his straits with twenty two thousand pounds of English money in Gold a sum of Gold Coyn so great as he professed he had never seen together before and sent him Arms and four thousand men under the Command of Peregrine Lord Willoughbey Camdens Annals of Queen Elizabeth 4th Book Anno 1589. the 32d of her Reign Sterlings are used in England Scotland and Ireland That name of Sterling began in time of Hen. II. and had its original of name from some Esterling making that kind of money which hath its Essence in particular weight and fineness not of the Starling Bird as some nor of Sterling in Scotland under Edw. 1. as others absurdly for in Records much more ancient I have read the express name Sterlingorum Mr. Selden on the 17th song of Draytons Poly-olbion Sterling is a proper Epithete for money currant within the Realm Occurrit Esterlingus interdum simpliciter pro ipso denario interdum ad distinguendam monetam probam a re proba pro numo legali ingenere Spelmanni Glossarium vide plura ibid. A certain pure Coyn stamped first of all by the Esterlings here in England Cowells Interpreter Esterling money now called Sterling not from Striveling in Scotland nor from a Star which some dreamed to be Coyned thereon Camdens Remains That denomination came from the Germans of their Easterly dwelling termed by English men Esterlings whom John King of England first sent to reduce the silver to the due fineness and purity Camdens Britain in Scotland There is one Thomas Hylles that put out the Art of Vulgar arithmetick 1600. who hath p. 262. A Table of the names and values of the most usual Gold Coyns in Christendome and begins with our own Country Gold He mentions the Rose Noble or Royal Half Rose Noble Old Noble Half Old Noble George Noble Half George Noble Angel Half Angel Old Crown K. H. Base Crown K. H. Half Crown Soveraigne of K. H. other Sou. of all sorts Double Soveraign Great Soveraign Half Soveraigne Unicorn of Scotland Scottish Crown There is for † The English Gold being at a higher value beyond the Seas then in our own Nation it is a great Cause of the transportation of it Peachams Worth of a Peny Gold The Carolus or Piece 20 s And the Ginie Pieces 22 s The Angel 10 11 s And Crown 5 s. 5 s. 6 d. and 2 s. 9 d. For Silver The Crown 5 s. Half Crown 2 s. 6 d. Thirteen pence half penny   Half and quarter that and 4 d. ob Shilling 12 d.   9 d.   6 d. Groat 4 d. Three Pence 3 d. Two Pence 2 d. Penny † There are so many kinds of Pence as there are several Countries or Nations Our English Penny is a Scottish Shilling See more there Ibid. 1 d. Half-Penny ob Here in England that which was sold about an hundred years agone for ten Groats which then weighed and ounce now since the discovery of the Indies can hardly be bought for ten shillings of our current Money or two ounces of the same goodness and weight Sir Henry Savill on a Place in Polybius In the Low-Countries and Germany the usual Coyns in Gold are Duckats and double Duckats the Duckats are called Hungars at Venice and are worth nine shillings English In the Low-Countries the usual silver pieces are Ducatoons equal to ten Dutch shillings or sixty stivers Paracoons equal forty eight stivers or eight Dutch shillings Shillings equal to six stivers But the States money is a little under this value stiver in brass the fourth part of stivers pieces In Germany the most Common pieces in silver are Dollars Copsticks and half Copsticks equal just to our shillings and six-pences Tafiletta the great Emperour of Barbary allows to every Horseman sixteen Dollars a Month and to every Footman eight so that his men are not chargeable to the Countrey Relation of some part of his life and there is abundance of our shillings and sixpences which pass under that name This word Copstick comes from Caput as the Italian Teston from Testa Kreutzers so called from the Mark of the Cross Weiss-penny equal to two Kreutzers Grasse equal to three Kreutzers ten Weiss-pennies are equal to five Copsticks Guilders equal to three Copsticks and half Guilders a Weiss-penny a White Penny in Dutch these lesser peices are of a mixt metal The German Dollars furnisht all the Mints of Europe The German silver Dollar called Rix Dollar in England is worth 4 s. 6 d. or as some say 4 s. 8 d. before the Mines of Mexico and Potosi were discovered in America There were the Latine Attick and Greek pounds Libra Numaria or pound Spelmanni Glossarium See Ezra 2.69 took its name from the weight because it weighed in times past a Trojane pound that is twelve Ounces Thence the Saxon punde and the English pound The pound sterling in Britain saith Angelo Crator De Monetis c. 1. is esteemed ten Brabantine Florenes or four Spanish Dollars In Spain for Gold † The Spanish Pistoll is about seven pence better than the Italian The value of Money in Spain is very often varied according to the wills and Interests of the Princes Pistolls and half Pistolls and double Pistolls In Silver the common pieces there are a piece of eight a half piece of eight a quarter piece of eight a half quarter piece of eight and a piece that is but a sixteenth part of a piece of the Royal eight In France for Gold the common pieces are the Lewis equal not many years since to eleven Livers the half Lewis half so much The Escud ' or now about six Livers For Silver the Escue equal to three Livers the thirty fifteen and five Sous pieces The Quart D'Escu because the fourth part of the Escud ' or equal