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A42641	Subsidium peregrinantibus, or, An assistance to a traveller in his convers with 1. Hollanders, 2. Germans, 3. Venetians, 4. Italians, 5. Spaniards, 6. French : directing him after the latest mode, to the greatest honour, pleasure, security, and advantage in his travells : written to a princely traveller for a vade mecum / by Balthazar Gerbier.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1665 (1665)	Wing G572; ESTC R25458	45,784	144

by a Servant of their Friend to prevent presents which their own servants might receive whereby their present should become chargeable unto the friend to whom it 's sent As for Titles which prove troublesome punctillos among many King Philip the 2d perceiving that the Nobility of Burgondy and of the Catholike Netherland Provinces would quarrell about them did publish in Print a Formulary whereby to a Duke Prime Minister of State Vice-Roy and Generall of an Army is given no more then Excellence So to their Ladies and no such abuse among them as in other parts where every thing crept out of Broome-staffs and Cole-mongers Bushels will be called Madam though but striplings and no such as Earles Daughters The French call good Rich Merchants Wives Madam but they joyne to it their Surname others they call Dame Anne without the Ma. To Men they give Sir Pierce or Sir John To the King Sir as a substantive they call all men Monsieur with the Adjective of their Sir name the Kings Brother Monsieur without any addition they give no Highnesse but to the Princes of the Blood no Damoiselle but to the Kings eldest Daughter all others called Damoiselle is with the addition of their Sirname and that is more then Madame Marie a Citizens Wife the Madame without any addition are Dame Damee beginning from the Presidents Ladies vous is spoken in English you to all men and women the Soveraign and the Princes of the Blood excepted and yet sometimes as the Marshalling of words will require a Vous is used to King and Queene in Spaine never the Vos being only for Inferiours vostra Merced to equalls and betters except to those whom as before said Excellency belongs unto The King of Spaine Philip the 2d never heard Vos to him save from the proud cruell Tyrant Due d' Alua who being on his Death-bed visited by the King said I go where thou wilt come the King going out of the roome said no more then I thought I should not escape without a Vos As for the old Castillan Maxime of State it is to stick to old pretences and though an Age was elaps'd if occasion did profer they were wont to begin a new on the Old score I shall not overburthen these Notations with the severall names of Kingdoms as Castill Leon Aragon Valentia c. Nor with the Names of Cities among which the maine ones are Valledolid Salamanca Sigotia where the Mint and staple of Cloath is Sivill the great and Rich Merchant Towne There are matters of lesse note which some Travelers observe as Steeples and Sun Dyalls as that of Stratsbourgh in Germany while those curious Table-book men do omit the main end of Travell the Interest of his Native Country in his improvement in the opening the Secrets of State to Ballance them dive into their Maximes their Strength or Weaknesse and having maintained the Interest of his Patria returne well fraughted with necessaries as m●y serve to Postetity It 's what the Venetians do mind by their Embassages yet is it not their Maxime to keep an Embassador above three years in one place for fear of Naturalization By Visits made to them it will be easy to come to the knowledge of all passages for they keep certain enterlopers who find out any thing though but too much Importune and Impertinent in their questioning what the Councill of the King and what His Majesty doth The Polans well accustomed to Pump those forraigne Inquisitors by setting close mouthed but all Eare and Memory Masters of Ceremonies on them such as are not given to scrape Trenchers at the Embassadors Table men that can handsomely afford matter of discourse and as the Scripture saith Sermo vester semper cum gratia sit sale conditus ut sciatis quomodo oporteat vos unicuique respondere Col. 4. v. 6. The Polans were wont to keep off Embassadors so many dayes as might serve to discover by the Master of the Ceremonies the particular humour and drifts of the Embassador as during the time of the King of Blessed memory by the keeping of Sir Peter Rubens and the Portugal Embassadors there was gotten this advantage that His Majesty was ascertained that the Infanta Isabella the Arch. Dutchesse of Brabant her Letter to the Queene was as it ought to be and the Portugall Embassador had time to get the King his Masters signature altered for the Letter of Credence was signed Yo el Rey as if written to a Subject the Embassador did put to it de Portugal which made all good Soveraigne Princes are best served by such Embassadors that can in case of necessity hit the mark that do not on all occasions draw the string of their Bowe to the uttermost and overdoe their part as some overpassionate Actors on a stage when they represent a King Princes whose heart the Soveraigne of Heaven and Earth doth steere besides their Magnanimous inclinations take seldome things as the French say a la pointe de l'espeé as some Embassadors on the score of their being a Royall Representative which in a Comedy of Virionaries by the French is notably Acted by one who perswades himselfe to be an Alexander The example of the Marquis de Senneterr during his being Extraordinary Embassador to King Charles the First of Blessed memory may serve to prove the pernicious consequence of violent proceedings for that it did cause a rupture between the two Crownes of England and France the Embassador who was lodged in Durrham House caused his Bravos to accompany the English Roman Catholicks who had been at the Masse with swords drawn from the House to the street to expostula●e with the Church wardens and Constables who during the Parliament time were ordered to keep the Multitude from giving Scandall when as the Embassadors men offered violence to the Officers and beat them and all this on the pretence of the Embassadors standing on the too much stretch Le Roy mon Maistre who then was at Paris and not at Durham House So is it a great Impertinency in Embassadors to make their Domicilium a Sanctuary but to their domesticks there being great difference between them and the subjects of a Soveraigne who is Master in his own Land and whose Laws are to be observed To conclude this Treaty concerning Travellers it is certain that whether men Travell or Travell not whether they satisfy their curiosity or not whether they follow the Apostles prescription to try all or not they must all dye as well as the old man of Verona who did never go out of the sight of the smoak of his Chimney and so must the Baboons the Apes the Parrats the Crocodiles and an infinite number of Bruits for the which many hundred of Leagues of good fruitfull Land in America was not made nor those various gifts wherewith it is indued The Gold and Silver Mines the Womb for the production of Pearles fixt in that part of Gods Earth all Aromatick drugs to grow not for the Nostrils of Sea Divells so called by the Americans but for the use of Rationalls and that the best use made thereof might tend to the Glory of the Creator and the good of Man FINIS

Carmel 39 Of Alcantara 40 Of Avesiens 41 Of St George 42 S. Stephen Martyr 43 Of the Holy bloud 44 S. Mary Redemp 45 S. John Baptist. 46 The Theutonick 47 Of Salvator 48 S. John in Spain 49 Of Calatrava 50 Of Scama 51 Of La Calra 52 Of S. Andrew 53 The golden Fleece 54 Of Ciprus 55 Of S. Michael 56 Burgundy Crosse. 57 The Holy Ghost 58 The Round Table 59 Baronetts 60 Bannerets 61 Of the Garter 62 Of the Bath SECT 6. The Germans their love to all Arts and Sciences the Application and best use thereof SECT 7. 1. Concerning the Princely Traveller his course towards France the desent Coat and Quartering of Armes of the French Kings 2. The Civillity of the French towards strangers and esteeme of them 3. The Civilities by them much stood upon 4. What there is to be observed among them 5. The manner of their Visits 6. The liberty to be used therein SECT 8. 1. The best course for a Princely Traveller in his going from France into Italy by Savoy 2. The Gentility of the Court of Savoy at Turin in Piemont 3. The Nature and disposition of all Italians and the distinction they make between strangers who are not acquainted with their customes and humours and their own Countrymen 4. What discourse will be advantagious to a stranger who is not of the Roman profession 5. The reservednesse of an Italian in his discourse and speech 6. The difference between Present and Old Rome 7. The rarities to be seen in and without Rome 8. That strangers must not stumble at their Imagery and number of Pictures for as it is a Church Policy among those of the Roman profession so there is as yet an absolute necessity for the adorning their Churches with Images and Pictures 9. Naples a Cavallier like place 10. The Antiquities to be seen at Puteoli beyond Naples 11. Annotations concerning Loretta the difference between it and the Stable wherein our Saviour Jesus Christ was borne SECT 9. 1. The providence of God manifested in favour of the French and Spanish Nations by the scituation of those Kingdoms separated by the Pirenean Hills 2. The Confidence and high Disposition of the Spaniards 3. The Magnificence Riches and Greatness of St. Geromine en el Escurial 4. Concerning Madrid the pompe of Churches there that of Toledo its Revenue rarities at el Pardo 5. The great Attendance to the King of Spains prime Ministers of State the Audiences to Ladies of the Court and of that the late Duke of Buckingham had from the Countess of Olivares whereas malicious and ignorant men have vented falshoods 6. What is to be observed in the Visits made to Spaniards 7. Concerning their prescribed order for Titles settled by publick Act in King Philip the second his time 8. Concerning some Embassadors their Secretaries and Masters of Ceremonies 9. The Conclusion of the Vade Mecum on the point Whether men travel or stay at home A VADE MECUM FOR A Princely Traveller First Concerning reverence due to Religion PApirus a General of the Romanes having resolved to Fight their Enemies Engaged on apparent hope of a notorious advantagious Victory yet had omitted the consulting of the Oracle then being certain Hens to whom the Hen-Priests were to cast meat whereupon they kept a great pudder because the Hens to whom the meat was cast would not take it which moved Papirus to say That if they would not eat they might be thrown into the Sea to drink whereupon Papirus his best Friends in the Senat sent him word That though a Victorious General was commonly honoured with a Triumphant Reception all they could procure in his Favour for his Victory was to keep his Head where it stood so great the crime of neglecting the Religion in esteem with the people was held though never so absurd in it self as that was to consult Hens Antiochus King of Syria a barbarian who had besieged Gier●solima being sought by the Inhabitants for a Truce of seven dayes to celebrate the Feast of the Tabernacles did not only grant this Request but sent them a fat Bull with gilded Horns and sundry golden Vessels full of Incense Camilus having taken the City Veienti and made a vow to offer the tenth part of the spoyls to the Temple of Apollo seeing that the People and the Nobles were at such a variance as if Rome were to be turned up-side down said That he did not wonder at it since vowes to God Apollo had not been performed Marcellus being desirons after the taking of Syracusa to offer to two Gods to wit Honour and Vertue it was opposed by the general voice That there ought more respect to be born to the Gods than to sacrifice to two of them at once and in one place Concerning reverence due to the Christian Profession and to Priests Constantine the Emperour had the Priests in so great esteem that being in the Council of Calcedonie presented with a bundle of complaints against Church-men he put them in his bosom and being with drawn threw them into the fire Alban Armer being in the year 1499 taken by the Turks suffered himself to be sawn through rather than forsake the Christian Profession Marin who by the Emperour Valeria was honoured by a Military Command being discovered to be a Christian and put to the choice of life or Death having but three hours given him to recant a naked Sword and a Bible laid before him he choose the Sword to stick to the Bible Hormisda and Suenes noble persons in the Court of Ildegerdes a Persian King made good their constancy to the Christian Profession notwithstanding the first though of the Royal blood was degraded stript naked and sent to attend the Mules in the Persian Camp Suenes was not only deprived of all his Means they were not only given to his Servant who had betrayed him but Suenes his Wife was given to that Servant and Suenes a slave to them both Concerning Humility When the People of Jerusalem offered to Crown Godsery de Boullon he refused both the Title of King and the Crown of Gold as being unfit a sinner should bear that Name and a Crown of Gold the King of Kings having had one of Thorns Tiberius a Roman Emperour would never suffer the Attendance of Senators about his Litter and being once a foot met by a Citizen of Rome who profered to cast himself at his feet retired himself in such haste as he fell on the ground Frederick Count of Urbin was so humble of Heart and so free to his Subjects that going by the streets he would ask to all those of his Acquaintance and Vassals who he met How they did How their Father and Friends did Whether they did prosper in their Vocation And to the Young-men Maidens and Widows When they would Marry And speaking to every man with his Hat in his hand Those of Nova Hispania affect so much Humility that whensoever they are to Crown their King

of Gold and Copper to hold 24 Wax lights on the gate two great figures in the shape of Angells of copper and Gold holding two Scroules wherein is carved the words Natura me Occidit Spes me Elevat There is a vaulted place in the coming forth of this Pantheon wherein are the Tombes of the Princes and Princesses of Spaine covered with red Velvet richly embroydered with gold and Silver There are 36 Altars in the Church to which appertains all the Ornaments of change for every day in the yeare There are many pictures of an inestimable value a true originall of King David There are 36 crosses of Gold set with precious stones and an infinite number of Silver Lamps and Candlesticks there are in the main body of the Escuriall twelve thousand Windows and Dores the least of the Dores having cost one hundred pound sterling There are 17 Cloisters and 17 Courts and 85 Fountains there are 300 Religious men of the Order of St Jerome all Gentlemen the Annuall Revenue is foure hundred thousand Crownes There is in the Escuriall one of the Earthen vessels wherein as the Spaniards say was the miraculous Wine of the Wedding in Cana. As for Madrid it hath ever since the Court of the former Kings was kept at Valledolit bin the place of the King of Spaine his constant aboade The great Feast and Sport of the Torros is that which the Spaniard affects so much as he cannot leave it for the Popes Excommunication against such as may come to a fatall end in that sport The Pompe of the Roman Catholick Church sheweth it selfe very much in that of la Madona de la Totche wherein the Dominicans have an Altar of Massie Silver of an extraordinary bignes with a Madona of Silver fix foot high with a Sun of Massie Gold about the head set with precious stones the Railes about the Chappell of Massie Silver there are one hundred Silver Lamps the least whereof cost 400 Crowns some cost 12 thousand Crowns That of Toledo is of the forme of St Peter in Rome the Bishop hath 400 thousand Crownes revenue per annum the Treasure of that Church is of an unestimable value At the Pardo some miles distant from Madrid there is in a massy Silver Tombe a Figure representing Christ for the which King Philip the 2d did pay one hundred thousand Crownes it is of wood but so rarely carved as never Eyes beheld the like I have begun with Sepulchers proceeded with Churches Monasteries and described their riches more facil to the King of Spaine to compasse since he possesseth the Gold and silver Mynes and hath in his Dominions all the most pretious productions of Nature As for Madrid it is situated under a most pure Clime The greatest Palace would not yeeld so much Chimney mony as a little House of ten pound per annum in England since by the number of seaven Chimneys the greatest Palace of Madrid is wont to be described they use Silver Brazeros in all their romes of State and Bedchambers That which is remarkable in the King of Spaines Court is the attendance to his prime Minister of State now the Duke Medina de las Torros successor to Don Louis d' Arro who succeeded the Conde Duca d' Olivares prime Minister of State when Charles Prince of Great Britain was in that Court Anno 1625. The Nobles affect no other clothes then Black Freize all Winter long plain Taffaty in the Summer time The Ladies at Court admit Audiences when demanded it is in the presence of the King and Queene The Ladies stand on a row if the Cavalleros who have demanded Audience of them are Grandees they cover themselves The late Duke of Buckingham the Match les of all the Subjects in the World and who attended the Prince of Great Pritain had particular Audiences with the Conde Duca d' Olivares his Lady on the score of his being Embassador Extraordinary the Plenipotentiary for the Treaty of the Match and her being Camarera-Major with whom it was necessary to confer during the Treaty of an intended Match by King James of Blessed memory and the Prince with the Infanta Maria sister to King Philip the 4th But very loose impertinent and ill grounded discourses have been made in England concerning the Duke of Buckinghams correspondency with the said Countes as if she had been a strumpet of Greece and of those young silly Court sooles who are charmed by kind words who see Babies in all mens Eyes that look on them and perswade themselves that they must not resist those first glowings of Cypres coles except they would smother those Babies in their temporary Lovers eyes and loose their Maiden head in a dreame for nothing when as they pretend by answering their palpable Narcissus to have something more then imagination in the Bargain The Duke of Buckingham had other Fish to Frie then to make Love to himselfe with an old Woman the good successe of a Treatie for an intended Match by which Gondomar had promised the re-restitution of a Palatinate was the golden fleece for which this Matchlesse Jason exposed himselfe I do not say among Monsters of Africa but among Juglers Interlopers and no lesse then such Embassadors who with the Character of honest men do but too often Lye abroad to make good State Policy exposed himselfe into the attendance of that Matchlesse Prince in whose preservation three Great Nations besides all his friends abroad were interessed And when the Duke of Buckingham did find where the Remora was fixt partly in the calot humour of the Sexe which is the most tardy to admit reason because the Sex is the most passionate and that after long parleys with the slow resolving Spanish Councils of State the Match was still in statu quo it was then time as the French say either Faire bonne mine en manvais jeu put a good Face on an ill businesse or to try the uttermost a Camarero Major could or would do laying aside words Bull-begger like damned Hereticks whereby the zelot Romans do distinguish the true Christian Catholicks others in the Match of Matchlesse most precious Infanta Maria who certainly was a Princesse fit to be an Empresse of all the World as Shee afterwards became the Empresse of Germany As for visits to the Spanish it is not their custome to exchange words or complements before parties are set in Chaires with Armes They leave the visitor in possession of their House when the conversation is ended and for that go before attending him in his Coach they are succinct and grave in their Complements use to speak Proverbs if to passe Complements on great Holy-dayes as Christmas and Easter they only say three words Las buenas Pasquas they are very carefull to send complements to those of their friends and acquaintances who have been let blood and ever accompany their complement with a present which they call la Sangria They endeavour as much as they can to send their present