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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30476	Dr. Burnet's travels, or Letters containing an account of what seemed most remarkable in Switzerland, Italy, France, and Germany, &c written by Gilbert Burnet ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1687 (1687)	Wing B5934; ESTC R9984	167,242	250

from the necessities as well as the aspirings of younger Brothers or their Families whose blood qualifies them to pretend as well as their pride and necessities push them on to acquire first a reputation and then a fortune But all this is a mystery to the Venetians who apprehend so much from the active Spirits of a necessitous Nobility that to lay those to sleep they incourage them in all those things that may blunt and depress their minds and youth nat●rally hates Letters as much as it loves pleasure when it is so far from being restrained that it is rather pushed on to all the licentiousness of unlimited disorders Yet I must add one thing that though Venice is the place in the whole World where pleasure is most studied and where the youth have both the greatest Wealth and the most leisure to pursue it yet it is the place that I ever saw where true and innocent pleasure is the least understood in which I will make a little digression that perhaps will not be unpleasant As for the pleasures of friendship or marriage they are strangers to them for the horrible distrust in which they all live of one another makes that it is very rare to find a friend in Italy but most of all in Venice and though we have been told of several stories of celebrated friendships there yet these are now very rare As for their Wives they are bred to so much ignorance they converse so little that they know nothing but the dull superstition on Holy-days in which they stay in the Churches as long as they can and so prolong the little liberty they have of going abroad on those days as Children do their hours of play They are not imployed in their domestick affairs and generally they understand no sort of work so that I was told that they were the insipidest creatures imaginable they are perhaps as vitious as in other places but it is among them down-right lewdness for they are not drawn into it by the intranglements of amour that inveigle and lead many persons much farther than they imagined or intended at first but in them the first step without any preamble or preparative is down-right beastliness And an Italian that knew the World well said upon this matter a very lively thing to me he said their jealousie made them restrain their Daughters and their Wives so much that they could have none of those domestick entertainments of Wit Conversation and Friendship that the French or English have at home It is true those he said hazard a little the honour of their Families by that liberty but the Italians by their excessive caution made that they had none of the true delights of a Married State and notwithstanding all their uneasie jealousie they were still in danger of a contraband Nobility therefore he thought they would do much better to hazard a little when it would produce a certain satisfaction then to watch so anxiously and thereby have an insipid companion instead of a lively Friend though she might perhaps have some ill moments As for their houses they have nothing convenient at Venice for the Architecture is almost all the same one stair-case a Hall that runs along the body of the house and chambers on both hands but there are no apartments no Closets or Back-stairs so that in houses that are of an excessive wealth they have yet no sort of convenience Their Bedsteads are of Iron because of the Vermin that their moisture produces the bottoms are of boards upon which they lay so many quilts that it is a huge step to get up to them their great Chairs are all upright without a stop in the back hard in the bottom and the wood of the arms is not covered they mix water with their wine in their Hogsheads so that for above half the year the wine is either dead or sour they do not leaven their Bread so that it is extream heavy and the Oven is too much heated so that the crum is as Dough when the crust is hard as a stone in all Inns they boil Meat first before it is roasted and thus as indeed they make it tender so it is quite tastless and insipid And as for their Land-carriage all Lombardy over it is extream inconvenient for their Coaches are fastned to the pearch which makes them as uneasie as a Cart It it true they begin to have at Rome and Naples Coaches that are fastned to a sort of double pearch that runs round the bottom of the Coach of both sides which are thin that they ply to the motion of the Coach and are extream easie but those are not known in Lombardy and besides this their Caleshes are open so that one is exposed to the Sun and dust in Summer and to the Weather in Winter But though they are covered as ours are on the other side of the Appenins yet I saw none that were covered in Lombardy And thus by an enumeration of many of the innocent pleasures and conveniences of life it appears that the Venetians pursue so violently forbidden pleasures that they know not how to find out that which is allowable Their constant practices in the Broglio is their chief business where those that are necessitous are pursuing for Employments of advantage and those that are full of wealth take a sort of pleasure in crossing their pretentions and in embroiling matters The walk in which the Nobility tread is left to them for no others dare walk among them and they change the side of the square of St. Mark as the Sun and the Weather directs them Perhaps a derivation that Mr. Patin gave me of Brolio from the Greek Peribolâion a little corrupted is not forced and since they make all their parties and manage all their intreague in those Walks I am apt to think that broils brovillons and imbroilments are derived from the agitations that are managed in those walks As for the last created Nobility of Venice I came to know some particulars that I have not yet seen in any books which I suppose will not be unacceptable to you It is certain that if the Venetians could have foreseen at the beginning of the War of Candy the vast expence in which the length of it engaged them they would have abandoned the Isle rather than have wasted their Treasure and debased their Nobility This last was extream sensible to them for as the dignity of the rank they hold is so much the more eminent as it is restrained to a small number so all the best Imployments and Honours of the State belonging to this body the admitting such a number into it as must rise out of Seventy Eight Families was in effect the sharing their Inheritance among so many adopted Brothers This had been less Infamous if they had communicated that Honour only to the ancient Citizens of Venice or to the Nobility of those States that they have subdued in the Terra firma for as there

Manuscript Bibles at Basle where he printed his Edition of St. Jerom's Works In the old Manuscript Bible of Geneva that seems to be above seven hundred Years old both the Preface and the Passage are extant but with this difference from the common Editions that the common Editions set the Verse concerning the Father the Word and the Spirit before that of the Water the Blood and the Spirit which comes after it in this Copy And that I may in this place end all the Readings I found of this Passage in my Travels there is a Manuscript in St. Mark 's Library in Venice in three Languages Greek Latin and Arabick that seems not above four hundred Years old in which this Passage is not in the Greek but it is in the Latin set after the other three with a sicut to joyn it to what goes before And in a Manuscript Latin Bible in the Library of St. Laurence at Florence both St. Jerom's Preface and this Passage are extant but this Passage comes after the other and is pinned to it with a sicut as is that of Venice yet sicut is not in the Geneva Manuscript There are two Greek Ma●uscripts of the Epistles at Basle that seem to be about five hundred years old in neither of which this Passage is to found they have also an ancient Latin Bible which is about eight hundred years old in which tho' St. Jerom's Prologue is inserted yet this Passage is wanting At Strasburg I saw four very ancient Manuscripts of the New Testament in Latin three of these seemed to be about the time of Charles the Great but the fourth seemed to be much ancienter and may belong to the seventh Century in it neither the Prologue nor the Place is extant but it is added at the foot of the Page with another hand In two of the other the Prologue is extant but the Place is not only in one of them it is added on the Margent In the fourth as the Prologue is extrant so is the Place likewise but it comes after the Verse of the other three and is joyned to it thus Sicut tres sunt in coelo It seem'd st●ange to me and it is almost incredible that in the Vatican Library there are no ancient Latin Bibles where above all other places they ought to be lookt for but I saw none above four hundred years old There is indeed the famous Greek Manuscript of great value which the Chanoine Shelstrat that was Library-Keeper asserted to be One thousand four hundred years old and proved it by the great similitude of the Characters with those that are upon St. Hippolite's Statue which is so evident that if his Statue was made about his time the Antiquity of this Manuscript is not to be disputed If the Characters are not so fair and have not all the marks of Antiquity that appears in the King's Manuscript at St. James's yet this has been much better preserved and is much more entire The Passage that has led me into this Digression is not to be found in the Vatican Manuscript no more than it is in the Ki●g's Manuscript And with this I will finish my Account of Zurich The publick Library is very noble the Hall in which it is placed is large and well contr●ved there is a very handsome Cabinet of Medals and so I will break off But when I have gone so much farther that I have gathered materials for another Letter of this Volume you may look for a second Entertainment such as it is from Your c. POSTSCRIPT I told you that in Bern the Bailiages are given by a sort of a Ballot which is so managed that no mans Vote is known but I must now add th●t since I was first there they have made a considerable Regulation in the way of voting when Offices are to be given which approaches much nearer the Venetian method and which exposes the Competitors more to chance and by consequence may put an end to the Intrigues that are so much in use for obtaining those Imployments There is a number of Balls put into a Box equal to the number of those that have right to Vote and that are present of these the third part is gilt and two parts are only silvered so every one takes out a Ball but none can vote except those who have the gilt Balls so that hereafter a man may have more than two thirds sure and yet be cast in a Competition There is one thing for which the Switzers in particular those of Bern cannot be enough commended they have ever since the Persecution began fi●st in France opened a Sanctuary to such as have retired thither in so generous and so Christian a manner that it deserves all the honourable Remembrances that can be made of it such Ministers and others that were at first condemned in France for the Affair of the Cevennes have not only found a kind Reception here but all the Support that could be expe●●ed and indeed much more than could have been in ●ea●on expected For they have assigned the French Mi●●sters a Pension of five Crowns a month if they were unmarried and have increased it to such as had Wife and Children so that some h●d abov● ten Crowns a month pension They dispersed them over all the Pais de Vaud but the greatest number s●ai● at Lau●anne and Ve●●● In order t● the supporting of this Ch●rge the Charities of Zu●ich and the other neighbouring Protestant States were brought hither Not only the Protestant Can●ons but the Grisons and some small Stares that are under the protection of the Cantons such as Neufchastel S. Gall and some others that have sent in their Charities to Bern who dispence them with great discretion and bear what further charge this relief brings upon them and in this last total and deplorable dispersion of those Churches the whole Country has been animated with such a Spirit of Charity and Compassion that ●very Mans house and purse has been opened to the Refugi●s that have passed thither in such numbers that sometimes there have been above Two thousand in Lausanne alone and of these there were at one time near Two hundred Ministers and they all met with a kindness and free-heartedness that lookt more like somewhat of the Primitive Age reviv'd than the degeneracy of the A●e in which we live I shall Conclude this Postscript which is already swell'd to the bigness of a Letter with a sad Instance of the Anger and Heat that rises among Divines concerning matters of very small consequence The middle way that Amirald Daillè and some others in France took in the matters that were disputed in Holland concerning the Divine Decrees and the extent of the death of Christ as it came to be generally followed in France so it had some assertors both in Geneva and Switzerland who denied the imputation of Adam's Sin and asserted the Universality of Christ's death to●ether with a sufficient Grace given to all men