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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

ill grounded reports Furthermore you may gather out of this Treatise a Pozie pleasing to your scent and leave the gleanings which are most proper to Mechanicks concerned therein until a large work with Copper Plates shall have had time to be put forth wherein not only shall be represented in compleat measure the Forms of all Moulding of Orders Columns Ornaments for Doors and Windows Court Houses and Gardinggates and with all some Fronts and Dimensions of Houses both in a City and in the Country Churches Towns Houses and Steeples with all necessary Appurtenances thereunto belonging As also the charges a Builder may be at according unto the extent and height of a Building either made of Stone Brick or mixt You will have no just cause to infer that when the best Building is mentioned according to the Grecian and Roman manner that therefore English Labonrers shall need go with their Buckets to fill them at the Tiber less to the Scaene at Paris to temper their Morter well nor your Surveyors nor Master-Workmen to be vext with things ala-node if they will but observe Rules Dimensions and Forms which are not to be mended less contradicted And as for the number of Epistles which are put to this Manual Anthoni peres once Secretary of State to Philip the second King of Spain was a president for the putting of many Epistles to a Treaty which he Dedicated not onely to Eminent Persons in Spain but also in France and England 't was his Peregrino the main whereof represented a Demolisht Body The scope of this is contrary to that being about Building his was a personal interest this a Publick It 's therefore the more freely offered to a number of Persons who either themselves or friends may have occasion to make use of it It 's freely offered as to the upper so to the lower end of a Table like a fresh gathered Fruit and none of those who are pleased to accept it are craved to Patronize it it being held most unfit for any Authour to crave since no man is bound to answer for faults committed by another A Brief Discourse concerning the three chief Principles of Magnificent Building viz. Solidity Conveniency and Ornament WHereas Building is much minded in these times I thought fit to publish some Principles thereon which may stand the lovers of it instead Yet without spending time and Paper to Note how a Point Line Angle Demi-circle Cube Plint Baze Pedestal Colombe Head Architrave Frize Cornice or Frontispiece must be made and what Dimensions all those several parts a Point excepted must have since all Master-Workmen ought to remember as Schollars their Grammer and Arithmatitions their Table how every Particle must have its just proportion and that the height of Windowes and Doores must be double their breadth and also to be carefull to maintain the due esteem of their Art since its Dimensions and Rules came directly from Heaven when the great Architect and Surveyor of Heaven and Earth prescribed the Rules and particular Orders for the Building of a floating-Pallace Noahs Ark and the glorious matchlesse Temple of Solomon the perfect House of Prayer And therefore such Precedents may serve to convince those who say That a wise-man never ought to put his finger into Morter since there is a necessity for Building especially among Nations who do not or cannot live in Caves and hollow Trees or as the Wilde Indians who have no other Roofs but of Palmito-Leaves nor Wainscot but Bambouses as they call the Poles to which they tye a Woollen Hammac to lye in There are three Capitall Points to be observed by men who intend to Build well VIZ Solidity   Conveniency   Ornament Those who have Marshald the Orders of Colombs to make good the first Point have Ranged the Toscan to be the Supporter of a Building but such an Atlas must stand on a firm Ground not as ill Builders place Colombs either of Brick or Stone like things Patcht or glewed against a Wall and for the most part against the second Story of a Building contrary to the very Gothish Custome who at least did begin their Buttrises from the Ground as if their intent were that the weight of the Colombs should draw down the Wall on the heads of those that passe by Such Builders confound the first and essential point of Building to wit Solidity with Ornament and Conveniency They will make a shew of some thing but misse thereby as ill Bow-men the Mark They may perchance have heard of rare Buildings nay seen the Books of the Italian Architects have the Traditions of Vignola in their Pockets and have heard Lectures on the Art of Architecture which have laid before them the most necessary Rules as also the Origine of the severall Orders of Colombs and Discourses made thereon that the Toscan is as the Hercules so of the Jonic and Corinthian the first of the two to Resemble the Dressing of the Daughters of Jonio who had Twists of Hair on both sides of their Cheeks The Corinthian Heads to represent a Basket with Acante Leaves and the Guttered Colombs the Pleats of Daughter and Womens Cloaths That the Grecians in remembrance of their Victories did Range the Colombs in their Buildings to represent the number of Slaves which they had taken the Grains Beads Drops Pendants Garlands Enterlaced-Knots Fruitage and an infinite number of Ornaments which are put on the Frize to signifie the Spoiles which the Victors had brought away from their Enemies and to preserve the Memory thereof did place them on their Buildings that they might also serve for a true History But none of such Ornaments were ever impediments to the strength or convenience of a Building for they were so handsomly and well contrived as once the Dutchesse of Cheiveruse a French Lady said of the English Females that they had a singular grace to set their Ornaments right and handsomly The Babarians and naked Tapoyers Caripowis Alibis and several Charibdiens do place Pendants in their Nostrils which are proper for the Eares and these hinder not the use of the Lips which ought to be observed by all Builders And as for the inside of Fabricks Builders should in the first place set the Doors Chimnies and Windows as may be most convenient for use Builders ought to be not onely experimented in House-keeping but also good Naturalists to know before they spend time and Materials the required Property to every part of a Building A Doore to be so set as it may not convey the Wind toward the Chimny or Bedstead though opened never so little The Windows to be so placed as that the Fire made in the Chimney may not attract the Aire and Moysture and so prove the unwholesomest part of the Room for those that are near the Fire Which was the main reason why the great Isabella Infanta of Spain King Philip the Seconds Daughter who Governed the Provinces of Brabant Flanders Arthois and Haynault during her many years

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 LONDON Printed by Tho. Mabb for Tho. Heath at the Globe within Ludgate 1664. A Brief DISCOURSE Concerning the Three chief Principles OF Magnificent Building Viz. Solidity Conveniency and Ornament By Sr. Balthazar Gerbier Knight LONDON Printed by Tho. Mabb for Tho. Heath at the Globe within Ludgate 1664. TO THE KINGS MOST Excellent Majesty May it please yuor Sacred Majesty MY place of Master of the Ceremonies which the King your Royal Father of blessed memory confirmed unto me during my life by the Great Seale of England is to introduce Forreign Princes or their publick Representatives to your Sacred Presence And in regard the Place of Surveyor Generall was also intended to me after late Inigo Jones I doe make bold to introduce the three Capitall Principles of good Building to your Sacred Majesty who hath seen more stately Palaces and Buildings than all your Ancestors and may be a Pattern to all future Posterity by Building of your own Palace worthy your Self and placeing it as the Italians for their health delight and conviency as well as Solidity and Ornament La Matina alli Monti la Sera alli Fonti according to which the main body of your Royal Palace may be set on the side of Saint James's Park and the Gardens along the River If the Book affoards any thing worthy your Sacred Majesties further satisfaction I have obtained my end and done the Duty intended by Your Sacred Majesties Most humble most obedient most Loyal Subject and most zealous Servant Balthazar Gerbier D'ouvilly Knight TO THE LORDS AND COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT May it please your Honours IT being lately reported that your Honours have deliberated to have the Streets made clean to enlarge some of them and to Build a Sumptuous Gate at Temple-Barr I thought it my Duty to Present this small Discourse of the three Principals of good Building and withall a Printed Paper concerning the Cleaning of the Streets the Levelling the Valley at Fleet-Bridge with Fleet-Street and Cheapside and the makeing of a Sumptuous Gate at Temple-Barr whereof a Draught hath been presented to his Sacred Majesty and is ready also to be produced to your Honours upon Command with all the Devotion of Your Honours most humble and most obedient Servant B. Gerbier Douvilly Knight TO HIS Royal Highnesse the Duke of Yorke THe fore-runner of this Discourse was printed and dedicated to the King to the Parliament the Chief Builders of a State And though your Royal Highness hath not as yet thought good to Build it may be that when your Surintendents of Buildings shal though they should not need any of those Annotations nor the rates of Materials they will approve that Workmen may have this little Book in their Pockets that they may not be ignorant that their pay-masters will look to have works performed according to a good Method which besides the paying all duty and respects due to such an Eminent Royal Prince is the scope of Your Royal Highnesse Most humble most Obedient most Faithful and most Zealous Servant Balthazar Gerbier To his Highnesse Prince RUPERT Prince Palatine of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria and Duke of Cumberland c. YOur Highnesse like great Emperours of Germany and other Princes doth not onely affect all Arts and Science but is so eminent therein as to trace them throughly with his Princely hands and therefore needs no formal Crown thereon since they prove to be the Crown to all others which argueth the matchlesse capacity of your Highness who will not be displeased in the offer of this little Discourse on a grosse matter which notwithstanding if well made use of may serve to compose a Palace so charming as to hinder furious Mars himself to lay his destructive hands thereon since those that bear the name of Gotz were not permitted by great Gustavus Adolphus to touch Muniken though it was the habitation of the Duke of Bavaria no friend to le-bon party as it was then called But that I may not by too many lines entrench neither on your Highnesse precious time nor patience I shall end this duty with my zealous wishes for your Highnesses long Life and Prosperity being Your Highnesse Most humble and most Dutifull Servants B. Gerbier To the most Reverend Father in God WILLIAM Lord Arch Bishop of CANTERBURY his Grace Primate and Metropolitan over all England HAving observed that your Grace doth Rebuild what distracted times hath demolisht I thought it fit to present this little Treatise to your Graces view it doth proceed on the indisputable prescription according unto which Solomons Temple was Built and certainly My Lord it ought to pass for the best nor have the Heathens Grecians and Romans omitted the same in their compleatest Structures both for length width and height ordering each part thereof proper to its particular use shunning all improperties furthermore it is certain that many of them have affected to observe in the Dimentions of their Edifices the 60. Cubits in length 20. in breadth and 30. in height of Solomons Temple their windows accordingly allowing a convenient height unto them but most of their Magnificent Stair-cases with lights from above May the blessings thence continually attend your Grace that after his Building up of Terester Seats and the propagating of Temples in bodies of flesh Your Grace may appear as one of the Polilished corners of that Temple whereof that of Solomons Building Was a Tipe The wishes of Your Graces Zealous and most humble Servant Balthazar Gerbier To the Right Honourable EDWARD Earl of CLARENDEN Lord High Chancellour of England c. I Have thought it my duty to offer to your Lordship as I do to others a Counsel and Advice how your builders may produce according unto the nature of men and quality of materials to be had on the place without seeking in other parts at needlesse expence what with ease and satisfaction may be had at home if men can affect what is most proper and be minded to take the best out of that which Antient and Modern men skilful in building have practised according unto most infallible Rules mine shall ever be to observe the Worthies of the Age and consequently to make good that I am Your Lordships Zealous and most humble Servant B. Gerbier TO The Right Honourable the Earle of Southampton Lord High Treasurer of England c. SHould not an advice to all Builders be laid at your Lordships Threshold It were a matter to impose as a charge upon the Author of such a Treatise though he were blinde if he had but heard that your Lordship as Trajan the Emperor leads the way not onely to particular but to Publique Builders May your Lordship have therein as much

be Purchased as the late Duke of Buckingham did at York-House where there hath been much daubing and breaking through old rotten decayed Walls first to make a Ladies Closet on the corner of a Wall where a Butteryses stood and which was taken away for the Closet intended only at first for a Closet of case and to serve untill the Archbishop of York could be perswaded to accept as good a Seat as that was in lieu● of the same which could not be so so●● compassed as the Duke of Buckingham had occasion to make use of Rooms to entertain according to the Dignity of a prime Minister of State forreign Princes and Embassadors so as on a suddain all the Butterises that upheld that rotten Wall were thrown down the Seeling of Roomes supported with Iron-bolts Belconses clapt up in the old Wall daubed over with finishing Morter and all this as a Toadestoole growethin a night to serve untill a Model for a Solid Building to stand even with the Street were made and to be Built or such Stone as the Portico or Water Gate at the River side is and this was done on a Morish Ground whereon no New Building could stand any time without Proppings which was contrary to the main Principle of good Building I must proceed and conclude with my humble respects concerning Palaces of Soveraigne Princes which must differ as much from other Buildings as their quality and condition from that of their Subjects And in the first place as Solidity must be the first Principle in all good Building so much more ought it to be observed in that of Soveraigns unto whom the whole world hath accesse And as there must be spacious Ground before their Palaces their Inner-Court ample the Offices for their Retinue large and commodious and so placed as they may neither be an aunoyance nor of ill aspect The first Stories ought rather to be vaulted than boarded to prevent such an accident as happened to Lewis 13th French King and his Queen at a Ball when the Floore of the Roome with all the Company fell down the King and Queen only remaining by a special Providence on the Hearth of the Chimny setting under the Cloath of State And as there is a necessary Magnificence to be exprest on the Front and inside of Princely Buildings answerable to their greatnesse so is it absolutely necessary that the Architect be possest with a Soul as great as the Player in the French Play called the Virionaries where he perswades himself to be Alexander and governs his Motions accordingly And the Lines and Strokes of the Architect must be Alexander-like his Figures and Statues Colosses his Pyrimidis like those of Aegypt and the Vaults like that Rock wherein Alexander and Darius wrastle for Mastery in a Valley in Persia between Babylon and Espahan at a place called Carimonshahan where formerly was a great City six English Miles long in which Groto the Alexander-like mind of the Sculptor hath Hewn within the Rock besides Alexander on Horseback and a number of Huntsmen and Ladies the aforesaid Alexander and Darius wrastling to break a Ring between them Such a like mind Prince Thomas of Savoy Sonne to the Great Emanuel of Savoy infused into his Architect Sculptor and Caster in Brasse who he imployed in the Designing and Building a Stable in Turin within all of Marble the Racks Manger and the upright Posts all of Copper Richly Wrought Conveyances of Water Pipes The Manger fourteen Inches wide at the bottom to contain a Pale for Water on all occasions The upper most edge of the Manger three foote eight Inches high from the Ground to accustom the Neapolitan great Saddle-Horse to raise their Neck The Rack Poles three Inches asunder and upright that as the Frenchman saith L'appetit vient en mangeant the Horse may feed more chearfully the Hay and Dust may not fall on their Heads as it doth out of a Rack which stands shelving the under part of the Manger ought to be made up to keep in their Litrers and no Boxes made there for Dogs as some not curious do where no Harnesses Saddles Coverings of Horses or any other Implements or Tooles are not to seen about the Postern since those things do but impede the Accesse of a Cavallier to the Horses The disposing a Stable into a double Range hath been affected by some who would see all their Horses at once Others love only a single Range whith a broad Walk and if they have a great number of Horses returne at the end into another Range if the Ground can afford the same so as a Wall makes the Partition between the Horses The Paving of such a Stable is very neat being of white or yellow twice burnt Flanders Bricks in Dutch called Clinkart farre beyond Planking of Stables for divers Reasons The Paviors after the Bricks are laid throw sharp Sand over them and twice a day they are Watered with a Gardeners Watering-Pot and Swept with a Broom which the Grooms are to continue sometimes because the Sand gets between the Joynts and makes the Paving very close and firm The Pavement at the Foot of the Manger must be raised at the least six Inches higher than at the Gutter where the Posts are placed which ought to be five Foot and an half distant one from the other which Ground so Paved is of double use first that the higher a Horse stands towards the Manger the better sight it is and especially when the Lights of the Stable strikes on the Horse their backs which is the better Light Secondly That a Horse its usual standing place being so much shelving accustomes the Horse reposing more on his hinder Feet than on the foremost to be more light and nimble in his Gate and Pace Thirdly That his Stall doth not remain under him and especially when its standing hath eight foot in length from the Manger to the Channel which for neatnesse ought to be above Ground the eight Foot in length being at full the space which the Horse doth possess when in the night time he lyeth stretcht on his Litter I must not omit by way of Queries to Write somewhat concerning the Kitchin of a Princely Pallace viz. Whether there should not be as much curiosity if not more in the Kitchin than in the Stable since the Meat prepared in a Kitchin ought to be Drest with all Neatnesse and preferred before a fine Lace about the Master Cooks Towel Neither are the Vessels of Silver but in reference to the Neatnesse which ought to be observed in all Cookery The French-Mans Glasse is wrenched as often as he Drinks and why should not Cooks be more Curious and Neat in their Kitchins than Grooms in their Stables And as a Stable can have conveyances for the Horses Water so may Kitchins for Slabbering for Guts of Fowls and Deer Coles Ashes and whatsoever else can cause Dirt and Nastiness and be freed from the annoyance of Smoak which ill-placed Doors may cause