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A67127	Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art : also additional letters to several persons, not before printed / by the curious pencil of the ever memorable Sir Henry Wottan ...	Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639.	1672 (1672)	Wing W3650; ESTC R34765	338,317	678

Malherb in the County of Kent then I wish to be laid in that Parish Church as near as may be to the Sepulchre of my good Father expecting a joyful Resurrection with him in the day of Christ. After this account of his Faith and this Surrender of his Soul to that God that inspir'd it and this direction for the disposal of his body he proceeded to appoint that his Executors should lay over his grave a Marble stone plain and not costly●… And considering that time moulders even 〈◊〉 to dust for Monuments themselves must die Therefore did he waving the common way think fit rather to preserve his name to which the Son of 〈◊〉 adviseth all men by an useful Apothegm then by a large enumeration of his descent or merits of boath which he might justly have boasted but he was content to forget them and did chuse only this prudent pious Sentence to discover his Disposition and preserve his Memory 'T was directed by him to be thus inscribed Hic jacet hujus Sententia primus Author DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES Nomen aliàs quaere Which may be Englished thus Here lies the first Author of this Sentence THE ITCH OF DISPUTATION WILL PROVE THE SCAB OF THE CHURCH Inquire his name elsewhere And if any shall object as I think some have That Sir Henry Wotton was not the first Author of this Sentence but that this or a Sentence like it was long before his time To him I answer that Solomon sayes Nothing can be spoken that hath not been spoken for there is no new thing under the Sun But grant that in his various reading he had met with this or a like Sentence yet reason mixt with Charity should perswade all Readers to believe That Sir Henry Wotton's mind was then so fix'd on that part of the Communion of Saints which is above that an holy Lethorgy did surprize his Memory For doubtless if he had not believed himself to be the first Author of what he said he was too prudent first to own and then expose it to the publick view and censure of every Critick And questionless 't will be charity in all Readers to think his mind was then so fix'd on Heaven that a holy zeal did transport him and that in this Sacred Extasie his thoughts were then only of the Church Triumphant into which he daily expected his admission And that Almighty God was then pleased to make him a Prophet to tell the Church Militant and particularly that part of it in this Nation where the weeds of controversie grow to be daily both more numerous and more destructive to humble Piety and where men have Consciences that boggle at Ceremonies and yet scruple not to speak and act such sins as the ancient humble Christians believed to be a sin to think and whereas our Reverend Hooker sayes former Simplicity and softness of Spirit is not now to be found because Zeal ha●… drowned Charity and Skill Meekness It will be good to think that these sad changes have proved this Epitaph to be a useful Caution unto us of thi●… Nation and the sad effects thereof in Germa●… have prov'd it to be a mournful Truth This by way of Observation concerning h●… Epitaph The rest of his Will followes in his ow●… words Further I the said Henry Wotton do constitut●… and ordain to be joynt Executors of this my last Will 〈◊〉 Testament my two Grand-Nephews Albert Morton second son to Sir Robert Morton Knight late deceased and Thomas Bargrave eldest son to Dr. Bargrave Dean of Canterbury Husband to my Rig●… Vertuous and only Neece And I do pray the foresaid Dr. Bargrave and Mr. Nicholas Pey my most faith●… and chosen friends together with Mr. John Harriso●… one of the Fellows of Eaton Colledge best acquaint●… with my Books and Pictures and other Utenfils to 〈◊〉 Supervisors of this my last Will and Testament A●… I do pray the foresaid Dr. Bargrave and Mr. Nichol●… Pey to be Solicitors for such Arrearages as shall app●… due unto me from his Majesties Exchequer at the ti●… of mydeath and to assist my fore-named Executors 〈◊〉 some reasonable and conscientious satisfaction of my Cr●… ditors and discharge of my Legacies now specified 〈◊〉 that shall be hereafter added unto this my Testament 〈◊〉 any Codicil or Schedule or left in the hands or in 〈◊〉 Memorial with the aforesaid Mr. John Harrison A●… first To my most dear Soveraign and Master of inco●… parable Goodness in whose gracious opinion I h●… ever had some portion as far as the interest of a p●… honest man I leave four Pictures at large of those Dukes of Venice in whose time I was there imployed with their Names written on the back-side which hang in my great ordinary Dining-room done after the Life by Edoardo Fialetto Likewise a Table of the Venetian Colledge where Ambassadors had their Audience hanging over the Mantle of the Chimney in the said Room done by the same hand which containeth a draught in lit●…le well resembling the famous D. Leonardo Donato in a time which needed a wise and constant man It ' The Picture of a Duke of Venice hanging over against the door done either by Titiano or some other principal hand long before my time Most humbly beseeching his Majesty that the said Pieces may remain in some corner of any of his Houses for a poor Memorial of his most humble vassal It ' I leave his said Majesty all the Papers and Negotiations of Sir Nich. Throgmorton Knight during his famous imployment under Queen Elizabeth in Scotland and in France which contain divers secrets of State that perchance his Majesty will think fit to be pre●…rved in his Paper-Office after they have been perused ●…d sorted by Mr. Secretary Windebanck with whom I ●…ive heretofore as I remember conferred about them They were committed to my disposal by Sir Arthur ●…hrogmorton his Son to whose worthy memory I can●…t better discharge my faith then by assigning them to ●…e highest place of trust It ' I leave to our most Gracious 〈◊〉 Vertuous Queen Mary Dioscorides with the ●…nts naturally coloured and the Text translated by ●…tthiolo in the best Language of Tuscany whence 〈◊〉 said Majesty is lineally desconded for a poor token of 〈◊〉 thankefull devotion for the honour she was once pleas●… do my private study with her presence I leave to the ●…t hopefull Prince the Picture of the elected and crowned Queen of Bohemia his Aunt of clear and resplen dent vertues through the clouds of her Fortune To 〈◊〉 Lords Grace of Canterbury now being I leave my Picture of Divine Love rarely copied from one in the King●… Galleries of my presentation to his Majesty beseechi●… him to receive it as a pledge of my humble reverence to 〈◊〉 great Wisdome And to the most worthy Lord Bishop of London Lord High Treasurer of England 〈◊〉 true admiration of his Christian simplicity and conte●… of earthly pomp I leave a Picture of

enough to graduate a Master of this Art yet let me before I pass to other matter prevent a familiar Objection It will perchance be said that all this Doctrine touching the five Orders were fitter for the Quarries of Asia which yielded 127 Columnes of 60 Foot high to the Ephesian Temple or for Numidia where Marbles abound then for the Spirits of England who must be contented with more ignoble Materials To which I answer That this need not discourage us For I have often at Venice viewed with much pleasure an Atrium Graecum we may translate it an Anti porch after the Greek manner raised by Andraea Palladio upon eight Columnes of the compounded Order The Bases of Stone without Pedistals The Shafts or Bodies of meer Brick three Foot and an half thick in the Diameter below and consequently thirty five Foot high as himself hath described them in his second Book Then which mine Eye hath never yet beheld any Columnes more stately of Stone or Marble For the Bricks having first been formed in a circular Moula and then cut before their burning into four Quarters or more the sides afterwards joyn so closely and the points concenter so exactly that the Pillars appear one entire Peece which short description●… could not omit that thereby may appear how in truth we want rather Art then Stuff to satisfie our greatest Fancies After Pillars the next in my distribution are Pilasters mentioned by Vitruvius lib. 5. cap. 1. and scant any where else under the name of Parastates as Philander conceiveth which Grammatical point though perchance not very clear I am contented to examine no further Alwayes what we mean by the thing it self is plain enough in our own vulgar Touching which I will briefly collect the most considerable Notes Pylasters must not be too tall and slender lest they resemble Pillars nor too Dwarfish and gross lest they imitate the Piles or Peers of Bridges Smoothness doth not so naturally become them as a Rustick Superficies for they aim more at State and Strength then Elegancy In private Buildings they ought not to be narrower then one Third nor broader then two parts of the whole Vacuity between Pylaster and Pylaster but to those that stand at the Corners may be allowed a little more Latitude by discretion for strength of the Angles In Theaters and Amphi theaters and such weighty Works Palladio observeth them to have been as broad as the half and now and then as the whole Vacuity He noteth likewise and others consent with him that their true Proportion should be an exact Square But for lestening of expence and inlarging of room they are commonly narrower in Flank then in Front Their principal Grace doth consist in half or whole Pillars ' applied unto them in which case it is well noted by Authors that the Columnes may be allowed somewhat above their ordinary length because they lean unto so good Supporters And thus much shall suffice touching Pylasters which is a cheap and a strong and a noble kind of Structure Now because they are oftner both for Beauty and Majesty found arched then otherwise I am here orderly led to speak of Arches and under the same head of Vaults for an Arch is nothing indeed but a contracted Vault and a Vault is but a dilated Arch Therefore to handle this Piece both compendiously and fundamentally I will resolve the whole business into a few Theorems Theorem 1. All solid Materials free from impediment do descend perpendicularly downwards because Ponderosity is a natural inclination to the Center of the World and Nature performeth her Motions by the shortest lines Theorem 2. Bricks moulded in their ordinary Rectangular form if they shall be laid one by another in a level row between any Supporters sustaining the two ends then all the pieces between will necessarily sink even by their own natural Gravity and much more if they suffer any depression by other weight above them because their sides being parallel they have room to descend perpendicularly without impeachment according to the former Theorem Therefore to make them stand we must either change their Posture or their Figure or both Theorem 3. If Bricks moulded or Stones squared Cuneatim that is Wedge-wise broader above then below shall be laid in a Row-level with their ends supported as in the precedent Theorem pointing all to one Center then none of the pieces between can sink till the Supporters give way because they want room in that Figuration to descend perpendicularly But this is yet a weak piece of Structure because the Supporters are subject to much impulsion especially if the Line be long for which reason this Form is seldome used but over Windowes or narrow Doors Therefore to fortifie the Work as in this third Theorem we have supposed the Figure of all the Materials different from those in the second So likewise we must now change the Posture as will appear in the Theorem following Theorem 4. If the Materials figured as before Wedge-wise shall not be disposed levelly but in form of some Arch or portion of a Circle pointing all to the same Center In this case neither the pieces of the said Arch can sink downwards through want of room to descend perpendicularly Nor the Supporters or Butments as they are termed of the said Arch can suffer so much violence as in the precedent flat posture for the roundness will alwayes make the incumbent weight rather to rest upon the Supporters then to shove them whence may be drawn an evident Corolary that the safest of all Arches is the Semi-circular and of all Vaults the Hemisphere though not absolutely exempted from some natural weakness † as Bernardino Baldi Abbot of Guastalla in his Commentary upon Aristotles Mechanicks doth very well prove where let me note by the way that when any thing is Mathematically demonstrated weak it is much more Mechanically weak Errours ever occurring more easily in the management of Gross Materials then Lineal Designes Theorem 5. As Semi-circular Arches or Hemispherical Vaults being raised upon the total Diameter be of all other the roundest and consequently the securest by the precedent Theoreme So those are the gracefullest which keeping precisely the same height shall yet be distended one fourteenth part longer then the said entire Diameter which addition of distent will confer much to their Beauty and detract but little from their Strength This Observation I find in Leon-Batista Alberti But the practice how to preserve the same height and yet distend the Arms or Ends of the Arch is in Albert Durers Geometry who taught the Italians many an excellent Line of great use in this Art Upon these five Theoremes all the skill of Arching and Vaulting is grounded As for those Arches which our Artizans call of the third and fourth point And the Tuscan Writers di terzo and d●… quarto accuto because they alwayes concurre in an acute Angle and do spring from division of the Diameter into three four