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A42638	The first and second part of counsel and advice to all builders: for the choice of their surveyors, clerks of their works, bricklayers, masons, carpenters, and other workmen therein concerned. As also in respect of their works, materials, and rates thereof. Written by Sr. Balthazar Gerbier, knight.; Counsel and advice to all builders. Parts 1-2.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1664 (1664)	Wing G554; ESTC R213758	58,457	266

of Archimedes and the High German Lord George Agricola who hath left number of designes most compleatly Engraven that demonstrates how the great Element of water can be easily drawn an excessive and almost incredible height above its Centre so that Collonel Rushner and his assotiates in Holland their proposals concerning Waterworks were not to be questioned all which to you my Lord is so familiar as that whatsoever Art can be treated of cannot be amiss to your Test. It s therefore that this is offered to your hands it being as a little fragment of former exercises intended some years past in a royal Academy and might have succeeded had it not been attempted in a most destructive time when at one of the publick lectures which as all the other were gratis a world of People repaired to Bednal-Green to destroy to the very foundation of it partly on pretence that it was a receptacle of Royalists and partly that the string of an Apollonian-like Harp did not sound pleasing to their ears down with all Arts and Sciences and let but Paris in France Salamanca in Spain and Padua in Italy have such a prerogative In fine in case of like strugling against wind and stream a good swimmer though a second fabulous Leander who sinks for Love must give over thus an infinite number of eminent Verticosi have found to be true and no doubt your Lordship is of the number that judgeth by experience yet cannot be discouraged for Art and knowledge finds contentment in its self it being a constant good to all those who do profess it my profession my Lord shall be as long as breath in me to honour all those that follow what good is and consequently that with offer of this little present I am Your Lordships Zealous and most humble Servant B. Gerbier To the Right Honourable HENRY Lord Marquess OF DORCESTER One of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. HEre is Presented to Your Lordships View a Summary discourse wherein Men affecting Building are concerned it cannot be improper to his view who sheweth the effects of his liberal Heart as a second Gelia when he not onely did erect buildings for publick use gave privately and openly but kept Officers at the gates of the City to invite all in-commers to take refreshment in his Palace which did answer the truth of the saying That as knowledge in the hands of the Common is silver in those of a noble person it is gold And that he doth really possessits true and no imaginary powder of production That of Hermes Trisme gistos that Aurum Potabile which will serve to open Heavens gate And who can tell My Lord but that Ovid had more then human thoughts by a golden Shoare whereby a Divine bliss might make way to a pure soul To such a one My Lord who by a permitted comparison may be said to have healing under his wings is offered the production of a person that means well when a Mecenas to all vertues and so high born as directly descended from that Noble Stem of Shrewsbury will favourably cast his eyes on an humble sensitive Your Lordships Zealous and most humble Servant Falthazar Gerbier TO The Right Honourable The Earle of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold c. COnsidering that the Lord Chamberlain by daily experience findes what is most needfull in the Palace of a Soveraign that a Person so indued as your Lordship can best judge thereof that all men of parts endeavour the performing of their task the better under a good Commander who also is of Noble extraction whose Mildenesse accompanieth his Prudence which doth patiently passe by some Errors that may be committed by men who cannot challendge infallibility in this world I thought fit to pay this duty to your Lordship by presenting the Counsel and Advise to all Builders to your hands With the Zealous professions of an old known Royal Sworn Servant by two of your Lordships Predecessors and Your Lordships most Humble Zealous Servant B. Gerbier TO The Right Honourable The Earle of Northumberland One of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Councel c. DUring your Lordships being Admiral of the King of Blessed memory his Royal Fleet at Sea I did not fail from my publick Residency at Bruxels to present weekly to your Lordships view as to all others of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council what in duty bound in reference to the Royal Service and Respects to so great a Commander on the Ocean wherein the Brittain Kings their Jurisdiction extends as far as the deviding of the Seas neer Rochel From this deep Ocean my Vessel being withdrawn I do with a fraught of words concerning Materials steer to Petworth And if my little Treatise though like a Mouse gets no admittance up stairs it may to that famous Stable built as I hear as a magnificent one ought to be No Horse in a double row neither the passage too broad nor the Seeling too high since otherwayes that which is the main pleasing object the Horse is as to seek Your Lordship will finde in this Treatise what kinde of Stable Prince Thomas of Savoy did Build It s true where Marble is to be had at easy rate but where Coper is very dear That I may not abuse that which is due to a person of his Birth and condition I shall onely to the offer of this little Advice to Builders joyn the humble respects of Your Lordships Most humble Zealous Servant Balthazar Gerbier To the Right Honourable The Earle of BEDFORD HEre is an offering not improper to the most noble successor of the Author of the Piazza whereby this great Metropolitan of Albion is beautified as the firmament is by the Sun among the other Starrs Nor is your Lordships Alexander-like receptacle for all the generation of Bucefalls a less Ornament though inferiour to that of Prince Thomas of Savoy which was built of White Marble within the Pillars Copper Figures the Manger and Rack of the same Mettal to perpetuate his Name somewhat longer among Rationals then Brick could have done yet Arthemisia had more reason to prefer before a glorious Mosole her self for a receptacle of sacred Ashes which might remain longer in the memory of men and of that Sex which talkes most I shall My Lord endeavour to speak not onely in all the Languages which a true Master of Ceremonies ought to have but of that of the Heart your Lordships praise and that I am Your Lordships most humble Zealous Servant B. Gerbier TO The Right Honourable the Earle of LEICESTER c. It May be that at the first sight of an Epistle with Your Lordships name will be expected a Treatise concerning the most Sublime parts of the Methaphisicks in reference to your High Genius or a Treatise of State-Policy Embassages and Negotiations in the Courts of Foreign Princes wherein your Lordships carriage hath justly deserved the respects of those who in that time were particularly acquainted therewith

as My Lord I was being then honoured by the late King of blessed memory with a Publick imployment but My Lord it being my scope onely at this time in the putting forth this small discourse to leave some advice to Builders I must rather resolve to suffer in the opinion of those Great Men whose Capacity makes them write on matters answerable to their Great Parts and therewith to make Addresse to your Lordships then commit the paying this Duty to a Person who hath enricht with a Noble Building one part of this Metropolitan and thereby encreased the number of those who have endeavoured to Build better then those of past Ages may Your Lordship in this have all Satisfaction and Contentment according unto the wishes of Your Lordships most humble Zealous Servant B. Gerbier TO The Right Honourable THE Earle of Denbigh YOur Lordship who during the time of your extraordinary Embassage in Italy hath not only seen the best Buildings and knoweth how to order what is best convenient needs no advice since your Lordships experiences in Building hath already proved it yet my respects in the offering to your hands a little Manual for a Testimony that during my travels I did not attach my Eyes onely on the generality of Objects but did exactly consider some particulars worthy of note will not as I do humbly conceive be rejected as being contrary to the disposition of Persons of your high Descent that of Habsburgh who have not been abused in their Education though it happens but too much Neither is it natural to all those which are born under one Constellation to have like Influences since it hapned that when Charles the Fifth Emperour of Germany had his great genius elevated in Imperial thoughts at the same moment he was Crowned and a Baker his Nurses Son born in the very same moment as Charles the Emperour was who was observed only to be merry among his Friends at the same instant of the said Emperours Coronation Wherefore reflecting upon your Noble Birth My Lord my confidence to offer such a little and Inconsiderable Piece of Work cannot be lookt upon as unseasonable My Mark being Respect and the Effect my Duty and so I do humbly beseech you my Lord to let it pass for though to so great an experience as that of your Lordship it should signifie nothing New It may nevertheless by your Lordships Favour finde a place where things are made good and so may prove as pleasing as your Lordships Paradise-like-Garden at Neewnem where an Euphrates flows And truly my Lord a Ground without such Waters is as a fair Ladies Chamber without a large and clear Looking-Glasse With more I shall not presume to abuse your Lordships Patience since as the French say Ilfaut se lever de table avee bon apetit Mine shall never long more than receiving the Honour of your Lordships Commands as being my Lord. Your Lordships most humble Zealous Servant Balthazar Gerbier TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE the EARLE of BRISTOL YOur Lordship who hath seen both Spain Italy and France and therein observed what is worthy as a Person of that Great Judgement as makes a true distinction between things that are and are not will at the first view judge of this Counsel and Advice to all Builders who will not have just cause to dislike the Offer since the several Materials comprized therein are of the best Rate as any can be they are gratis and accompanied with the Zealous Respects to all as to Your Lordship in particular By Your Lordships most Humble Zealous Servant B. Gerbier TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARLE of NEUPORT MY Zeal and Respect to the Nation in general obligeth me in the Addresse of this Little Treatise to your Lordship to mention some things of old as true as some were groundlesse For as your Lordship in the Expedition for Rochell had the Command of Horse the French Mercury then had no just cause to write that there were five thousand English slain in that Expedition since at the return of the Army foure thousand five hundred men of those five thousand that went were Mustered at Plymouth The Retreat was as good as the Attempt by matchless Buckingham most Caesar-like Glorious And Richelieu had no just cause to assume unto himself the glory of the Conquest of Rochel since providence had onely permitted it for if the Town had held out till the Sea over-turned the Ditch and the Estacade neither had the unresistable work which I was commanded to build in three Ships according to the example of those of the Duke of Parma at the Seige of Antmerpe to blow up Ditches Estacades and Chandeliers been necessary nor the hazarding the life of men for the succour of that place In fine My Lord I should fail as I do humbly conceive as much in memory as in duty if in the offering this my little work to your Lordships hands I should not speak in a language differing from that of workmen as in reference to Building I might not omit this Addresse to your Lordship as to others since your Lordship hath been exemplary to better Building on that part of ground where your Palace is then the old Norman gotish Lime and Hair-like daubing custome out of which it hath been so hard to turn men too constant therein but my profession not being changeable I shall with more confidence stile my self Your Lordships Most humble Zealous Servant Balthazar Gerbier To the Right Honourable HENRY Earle of St. ALBANS Lord Chamberlain to her Gracious Majesty the Queen mother and of his Majesties most Honourable Privy COUNCIL THis little Treatise mentions the best way for Building of Habitations the Choice of Surveyours Clarks of the works Master-Work-men and Materials as likewise the Rates and Prizes of them and of the Works even the manner of the East Indians burning of Lime which could serve your Lordships Builders in St. James-fields if les Ardennes were near it to burn more Lime in twenty four hours time then would be necessary for morter to all that precinct As for the rest your Lordship hath seen abroad the fairest Palaces and most compleat habitations the best contrived Ground-plats and also most Paradiselike Gardens according unto the various fancies of their proprietors the one affecting Houses all of Glasse to have all men see them Others their Gardens most like an open field or like Adam and Eve when in their State of Innocency Others with Parters and Imbroderiers for exercise to Gardiners pair of sheers other covered Walks Labirinths open basins for Fountains others with grots as at Ruell and Liancour in France with such shades as that Nymphs may not be bereaved of a natural liberty nor Acteon seen with his curled brow Infine that Petrarca his saying per tanto variar Natura é bella might not become out of date nor may be extinguisht your memory Your Lordships most Humble Zealous Servant Balthazar Gerbier TO The Right Honourable VISCOUNT STAFFORD c.

minds as pleasing to God as that they by his blessing were led to that place which is effectively in rerum natura the Great Cathedralls of St. Paul and St. Peter in this Metropolitan City might be lined as Richly as the Temple of Solomon was And My Lord because things which Men do believe to be true makes them more confident to speak them I think that the Discourse is neither unseasonable nor the Counsel and Advise concerning the best manner of Building unpleasing unto your Lordship It being Written by him who professeth to be Your Lordships most Humble Zealous Servant B. Gerbier TO The Right Honourable VVILLIAM Lord CRAVEN Baron of Hamsted Marshal I Shall not in this Epistle commit the faults of those Authors who crave great Persons to Patronize their books as if Quality Credit and Affection could free a work from censure in the various Opinions of Men are more then the expressing the Name of Pelican or Phaenix in a sign when the Painter hath not represented them to the life Cooks cannot please all Pallats alike nor Orators the eares of all Men. My scope in this Epistle is to pay to your Lordship a small acknowledgement of the debt due to a Noble Person who affects Building and that all those whom your Lordship may think fit to imploy therein may know what good Builders have observed and that if they follow those Rules they will do their duty The study of mine and wishes for Your Lordships satisfaction in all things shall be as constant as I am Your Lordships most humble Zealous and Obliged Servant B. Gerbier TO The Right Honourable CHRISTOPHER Lord HATTON One of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. THis Epistle shall say somewhat more particular concerning Building in referrence to a Publick good then all the other which are put to this Treatise Viz. That if your Lordship were pleased to reflect on the Proverb Foeneratur Domino qui miseretur Pauperis Cap. 19. v. 4. Your Lordships Building might be very fit to serve for a Bank of Loane in that part of the Suburbs of this Great City and your Lordship would do no more then other Christian Eminent Persons in other Parts who have bestowed both Houses Lands and a stock of Money for such a Publick use whereby all necessitous persons are rescued from a perishing condition Trade Strengthned Encreased and many Bankrouts prevented In fine your Lordship will not take this Relation unkindly from a person who means well and who being past his Seventy two years of Age is ere long according unto the frailty of Nature to turn his back upon the World and is obliged ere that last moment to leave all what possible may be to its Publick good as I shall at all times attend your commands in what may concern the approving me to be Your Lordships most humble Zealous Servant B. Gerbier TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE DENZIL Lord HOLLIS One of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council IF during your Lordships absence any of your Habitations require their over-seers and Officers to be well and friendly advised this little Discourse concerning that matter may be as useful to them as it is zealously sent to your Lordship who hath seen several good Ones and whose Judgement as good as your Nature makes a true distinction between those that are so and are not which admirable quality in your Lordship will favourably dain the acceptance of this Epistle though it s but on the Subject of the well ordering of materialls for the Building of Habitations when your Lordships great and blessed Genius conjoyntly with the other true Zealous in the Council of a Sacred Soveraign doth cooperate to the rebuilding of a peaceable flourishing Government wherein your Lordship as all those of the same quality may have successe answerable to the Zealous wishes of Your Lordships Zealous and most humble Servant B. Gerbier TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Anthony Lord Ashley Chancellor of the Exchequer and one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council THe Nation in reference to a lively Image of the Supream sacred by an assembly of Representatives takes notice of your Lordships great Genius in representing Solomons Temple-like Foundations of a State to free it from the fate of the Hebrews Assyrians Persians Lacedemonians Medes Greeks Affricans Romans and even the Gots who were sent packing by the Mores whereof but too many as black in mind are left and therefore though a poor small thing which treats but of Surveyors Clarks of Works Master Workmen Materials and their Prizes be not of a sublime nor of State matter yet since from the least that lives to the greatest Building is a main necessary either for one conveniency or other My Lord this apparent Demonstration of Zeal and Respect is humbly offered by Your Lordships most humble Zealous Servant Balthazar Gerbier TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sr. John Robinson Kt. LORD MAYOR of the most Famous City of LONDON AS what 's alleadged in the Epistle to the Reader of the Counsel and Advise to Builders doth infer that the water of Thames or of any Spring in the Country may serve to temper Morter in England so the observation of true Rules waving all quickchaws-like-devices to Build as well as other Nations It will not be necessary to say thereon any more to the Chief of the Senate of this Great and Famous City nor will the Presentation of these printed leaves require any more Circumstances but my Zealous wishes that next to the well Building of Publick Houses of Prayer whereof all Nations have been carefull those of its Inhabitants may be so well ordered that other Nations may have just cause to send their Surveyours and Workmen to take patterns and passe their Apprentiship in London or Westminster where St. Paul may be rendred as Famous as St. Peter at Rome As King Henry the Seventh's Chappel in St. Peter at Westminster who quarrels not on the point of Precedency is Famous over all Europe and Esteemed by all good Builders and that all may answer the same is the Zealous wishes of Honourable Lord Mayor Your most Humble Servant B. Gerbier TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Henry Howard Esq YOu that know what good Building is both by a Genius which through a Golden Channel sprung from the great Duke of Norfolke was infused into your Spirit like by your particular applications to all things answerable thereunto would condemn this Messenger if he should not deliver his Erant at your Palace where he calls neither on Porter nor Butler to draw him in as an Erasmus was at the Lord Chancellour Moores to drink in Hell as he said out of a Leather Jack He desires only to hear the words Ben Venuto and its Author to pass for Honourable Sir Your most humble Servant B. Gerbier TO Mr. HARBERT ESQUIRE Heir Apparent to the RIGHT HONOURABLE the Lord POWIS Honourable Sir THe Ensuing Discourse is not presented to your view as a shape seen on the brow of

a Hill which faceth the Valley of Essen It 's true that cannot as this fall that cannot by the carelesness of Grooms be set on fire and therefore on that matter to a Person of your Noble Birth and Retinue one who considereth your merits is obliged to recommend to such who may be entrusted with your Building that Stables and even Kitchens ought to be separated from the main body of a Palace the Stable without any question in particular Mansion-Houses the Kitchens may be so well disposed as that they may be at hand and yet not be an anoyance which made the Great Henry the Fourth the French King say in a double sense to some of his Courtiers who did accompany his Royal Person to see a good Seat in the Country and found fault with the compactnesse of the Kitchen Ventre St. Gris cest le bon menagement de la Cuisine qui a fait la grande Mayson Furthermore Honoured Sir you will see in a former Printed Discourse concerning the three Chief Principles of Magnificent Buildings what you may perchance finde seasonable and whereon I shall explaine my self somewhat more at the end of the leaves bearing the Rates of Materials necessary to the Works and conclude this with my humble Respects to your self as being Honourable Sir Your most humble Servant B. Gerbier To the Honourable Sir Kenelm Dighby Knight Chancellour to Her Gracious Majesty the QUEEN MOTHER THe Greatest Practisers of Musick who live at Lisbon in all the Algarves are reported to repair A las Orillas de la Mar to sing as loud as possibly they can to hear whether it sounds well To you whose deep judgment could not suffer your Eyes to fix on slight objects as too many Travellers have done to you whose fame to my experimental knowledge caused the greatest Vertuosi to busie their admiration as eminent as the true successour of Thales who found the North for Navigation the Division of Years the Proportion of the Sun and Moon that Souls are Immortal who answered the Question what God is viz. To be the eldest of all Antiquities the World the most beautifull Object Place the biggest Time most knowing God Virtue and Truth the strongest To you as to other Worthies of the Age is offered this liule Counsel and Advise concerning Building for you have seen the various rarieties of Frescati Caprarola Vigna Lodowizi and all what is rare throughout all Italy and other parts of Europe and therefore as you can judge right of this matter so recommend the Advise given concerning the same to your friends which may be a benefit unto them and this is all that is aimed at by me Honourable Sir Your most Humble Servant B. Gerbier TO Sr. Edward Walker Knight Guarter Principal King of Armes and one of the Clarks of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council MEn that study nought but to carp at all will perchance pretend that I should not Present a Discourse concerning Building to a King of Arms but rather a Treaty concerning the Antiquity and Origine of Herauldry That the Romans before Marius had in their Banners to distinguish them in Romulus time from other Nations no more then a bundle of Hay to which succeeded a Hand and a bundle of leaves with the Motto on their Banner S. P. Q. R. Godefrey de Bullon put on the Coat or Mantle which he did wear over his defensive Armour three white Eagles shot through with an Arrow the Motto Soit Dieu soit le hazard and said That he would wear no Crown of Gold because the Saviour of the World had but one of Thorns But to return to the first Romans that Constantine the great did Coat a double-headed-Eagle for having made a Seat at Constantinople and kept also that at Rome that the Coat was afterwards changed because the Empire was divided into two And as for the French that they reckon their descent from Francion second Son to Hector who did Coat a Lion gul field Or. That the black Toades were taken up by Marcomir second King of the Sicambres who had vanquisht a Walon King whose Coat was three Toades Sable field Or. That Clovis who became a Christian did Coat number of Flour-de-lis because as the fable saith an Angel by the hand of an Hermite of Journal did give them Others that he had obtained a Victory in a Field wherein great quantity of yellow Lilies did grow and that finally Charles the Sixth the fifty fourth French King did reduce them to three on the perswasion of his Herauld who had told him Qui plus a moins porte But should Time and Paper be spent to relate what is so well and particularly known by you it would savour of Vanity and therefore I shall say no more but that if you or your friends do affect Building this Counsel and Advise may perhaps be seasonable neither will so discreet a person by all men highly praised and beloved for his Integrity and real good disposition to oblige all men misconster the respects of him who professeth to be Honoured Sir Your most humble Servant B. Gerbier TO Sr. PETER KILLEGREW KNIGHT DUring your Journeys to Spain objects of note could not escape your particular Observations as St. Jeronimo called the Escurial which hath almost as many Courts as some Palaces Roomes and is a Body Solid like a Rock Nor will the Magnificent Seilings and Carved Doors of the Palace at Sigovia have mist your Annotations So that this Treatise of Building cannot likewise but be acceptable to you as directed to a Person who can with more conveniency acquaint his Grace the Duke of Albemarle of what use it may prove to those that will not spend time money nor materials in vain which is also one of the causes of producing it unto you Sir By your most Affectionate Humble Servant B. Gerbier TO Sr. THOMAS WINDEBANK KNIGHT One of the Clarks of the SIGNET AMong such as know by experience what demolishing is Counsel and Advise to Re-build may be welcome but I cannot pass the remembrance of a Fable that several Nations having craved it might for six weeks time rain good Noses The Grecians the readiest at hand had their choice the Romans the next but the silly Black-Moores living in remote parts were the last and therefore constrained to gather such Noses as had been trod on Of those Blacks the Generation still are in esse and there are certain malicious spirits who make men black though they be never so white and though their Noses are as straight as an Arrow they will strive to perswade people they were crooked But now an Apollo-like Prince who casts his most benigne influence on men is accessible its time as the old saying to make Hay Re-build therefore as fast as others what a destroying Age hath demolisht and if in your Building you want instructions for your Clark pray let him make use of this Manual heartily Offered by Sir Your Affectionate Humble