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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

satisfaction and divertisement as any of the great successeful Builders ever had and may your Trustees therefore proceed according to the best Method since the well performing of a work contributes to the true content of the Builders and makes him the sooner forget both his Charge and Cares May likewise your Lordship in all your other Affairs both Publick and Domestick have entire satisfaction which are the zealous wishes of Your Lordships Zealous and most humble Servant Balthazar Gerbier TO The Right Honourable JOHN Lord ROBERTS Baron of Truro Lord Privy Seal THe Author of this Counsellor shall not be a second Anacharte for it meddles not with matter of State and though it were his approved profession thanks be to God he lives in an Age as the Knights de la Banda made by King Alphonso who were not only permitted but obliged to speak truth Nor doth it presume to offer to a Person so eminent and as learned in the Law as Iycurgus among the Lacedemonians a wax Light to the Sun it neither speaks in those learned Tongues which your Lordship hath in great Perfection Its Language being onely the Phrase of Mechanicks though some of them often presume to quote the words in Ecclesiasticus chap. 38. vers 32. 34. Without these cannot a City be inhabited c. But they will maintain the State of the World and all their desire is the work of their craft I will ever study the true meaning of a French saying viz la plus grande finesse est de w'en avoir point As in this offering I have no particular one since its duty to consider your Lordship as one of the Worthies who doth reflect on things as necessary to the Publick and to a Family as neat and convenient cloaths to a particular body and that I am confident your Lordship takes me to be a somebody and Your Lordships Zealous and most Humble Servant B. Gerbier To the Duke of BUCKINGHAM His Grace THE saying Vivat memoria Buckingamii could not be made good by me if this little Counsel and Advice did not pay its respects to your Grace whose matchless Aspect is that Glass which a French Author called Le miroir qui ne flatte point for what credence would Quintus Cursius his representing Alexander have had if he had mist his marke and what would have been believed of Ulysses without a true Homer of Alcibiades without Xenophon of Cirus without Chilo of Pyrrhus King of the Fpirotes without the Cronicles of Hermicles of the great Scipio Affricanus without the decades of Titus Livius of Trajanus without Plutarch of Nerva and Antoninus Pius without Phocion the Greek of the great courage of Julius Caesar and the Magnanimite of Pompey without Lucan and of the twelve Caesars without Suetonius Your Aspect My Lord speaks indeed that which no memory can fall short of And your Heroick minde affecting that which is the Purest speaks Buckingham in perfection your Grace can by a sublime quality separate Spiritual from Terrestrial and without venturing a stock to fetch Aurum Horisontalis from the East Indies or with me to the West the most concocted and most pure from el Dorado which if it had a speaking quality your Grace would hear its Hessian Alembick sing the Gold its joy for having approved it self the more pure by its often passing through a Furnace O that all well meaning creatures and branded by black Calumniators had like fortune and were put to the examen of men as Remon-Lue to el Dorado I would go without being inrolled among Heresiastick Seekers only in that Number who seek the Worthies to manifest unto them how much I am theirs and consequently Your Graces Zealous and most humble Servant B. Gerbier To the Duke of ALBEMARLE his Grace General of his Majestie Forces and Master of the Horse c. IT s true My Lord that to a person as Numa Pompilius who honoured the Church a Treatise concerning Divine matters were most proper To one as Marcellus who pitied those that were vanquisht of compassion To one as Caesar who forgave his Enemies of Clemency To one as Octavian beloved of the People of true Love To one as Alexander who gave to all of Liberality To one as Hector Valiant in War of Heroick feats And what more proper to one as Hercules of Thebes Ulysses of Greece Phyrrhus King of Epirots excellent in the invention of Warlike Works Catulus Titus Marcus Aurelius Croesus King of Lydia a just man true magnanimous tender couragious a Mecenas to wise men and the great enemy of those that were Ignorant But that malicious persons who cannot endure any but themselves should passe for persons endued with some usefull quality I do make therefore bold to present though a Treatise concerning Mechanicks to your Graces view with the Humble Tender of the respects due to a second Perseus who next to the Almighties arm hath delivered this Albion Andromeda from a Monster which deprived me also from a publick imployment during the space of seaventeen years Your Graces Zealous and most Humble Servant Balthazar Gerbier To the Right Honourable the Lord Marquess of Winchester YOur Henfield well seated Palace with a Wood at its back like a Mantle about a coat of Armes which doth defend it from the North west windes argueth that it is good to be there as it proves a daily ease to Travellers who by four miles at once shorten the tediousness of a too long journey for I doe perswade my self to heare many of them say good cheer it s but four miles to Henfield Seat and thence but so much more to a good Town to refresh and rest The present satisfaction of that seat no doubt My Lord diminisheth the grief of the losse of Basing and that Dolbier is no more not a Prince of the Air save the carcass of his head on a Pole drawing lines of circumvallation above your Seats but that there is now in stead of destroying powers a blessed Prince to whom may be justly applied Post Nubila Phaebus whose quickning rayes do now promise Peace and Plenty May there never more such dark clouds appear as might be able to cause stormes to fall and lay to the ground such an ornament to a Land as Basing was Yet if in any of your Lordships Seats works may be necessary this little forerunner of a more great one may be as acceptable as it is most respectfully tendred by me Your Lordships Zealous and most humble Servant Balthazar Gerbier To the Right Honourable the Lord Marquess of Worcester c. YOur known most Excellent parts in many wonderous opperations which a publick Genius can be capable of and which renders this Age more notorious than that wherein Pyrocles who Invented the Art of the fire-lock that of Prothee of compleat Armor that of Phaenice of the Helmet the Lacedemonians the Lance and sword the Combats at Sea and Land by the Africans and Thessalonians and what can be said

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