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A47628	Three diatribes or discourses first of travel, or a guide for travellers into forein [sic] parts, secondly, of money or coyns, thirdly, of measuring of the distance betwixt place and place / by Edward Leigh, Esq. ...; Three diatribes or discourses	Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.	1671 (1671)	Wing L1010; ESTC R12004	37,962	106

Breves which I have purchased from France Alexandre de Rhodes in the third part of his Voyages ch 13. Speaks of Monsieur de Boulaye which hath published Vn tres beau liure de ses voyages ou il faut voir ec autant de fidelite Yanaquillus Faber in his notes on the sixth book of Lucretius c. 1. saith Lambertus Massiliensis hath left a little Book De Peregrinatione Aegyptiaca printed at Paris which he undertook 1626. que de nettete d'esprit la Conduite qu' il a monstree sans des Royaumes si differents He hath travelled over saith he the greatest part of Europe Asia and Africa I have seen that French Book also There is Alex. Geraldini Itinerarium ad regiones sub Aquinoctiali in sixteen Books There are also Relations of Divers Curious Voyages by Monsieur Thevenot There are also the Republicks of several nations in little portable books in three Tomes and Relation Du voyage de l'Eveque de Breyte per la Turquie la Perse les Indes c. jusques au Royaume de Siam autres lieux par M. de Bourges Prestre c. Both mentioned in the Philosophical Transactions I have mustered up these several Itineraries and Voyages both because I have perused most if not all of them except the two last when I was about my great book of Geography though it be not yet printed And because I suppose Travellers may hereby furnish themselves with the best writers of those parts of the world whether they intend to go either to instruct them about those places before they go or to carry with them Who ever since the beginning of things and men hath been so often by royal imployment sent Embassador to so many Princes so distant in place so different in rites as Sir Robert Sherlie There are the three English Brothers and Sir Robert Sherley his Embassy into Poland both Printed See Finets Observat page 136 137. 172 173 174 to 177. Two Emperours Rodolph and Ferdinand two Popes Clement and Paul twice the King of Spain twice the Polonian the Muscovite also have given him Audience And twice also though not the least for a born subject to be Embassador to his Soveraign his Majesty hath heard his Embassage from the remote Persian Purchas his Pilgrims part 2. l. 10. c. 10. Dr. Nicholas Wotton Uncle to Sir Henry Wotton was Privy-Counceller to four successive Soveraignes Viz. King Henry the 8th Edward the 6th Queen Mary Queen Elizabeth He was nine times Embassadour for the Crown of England to the Emperour the Kings of France and Spain and other Princes Camdens Hist of Q. Elizabeth Some have instanced in several English Embassadours how well they have acquitted themselves but I shall single out one as very deserving The Appendix to the History of Mr. Medes life Sir Thomas Rowe after many Ambassages to almost all the Princes and States in Christendome all which were managed with admirable Dexterity Success and Satisfaction was last of all Ambassador Extraordinary to Ferdinand the third Emperour of Germany who gave him this Character I have met with many Gallant Persons of many Nations but I scarce ever met with an Ambassador till now Bishop Bedell was Chaplain to Sir Henry Wotton at Venice Dr. Featly to Sir Thomas Edmonds in France Dr. John Burgesse to Sir Horatio Vere in Germany Mr. Boyle in his Preface to his Experiments touching Cold commends Captain James his Voyages it being scarce and not to be met with in Purchas's Tomes having been written some years after they were finished and his Voyages published by the last Kings command He stiles him in his Book that Ingenuous Navigator He being bred in the University and acquainted with the Mathematicks He commends also Mr. Ligon of the Barbado's Neither of these two have I seen and stiles him ingenious Mr. Ligon But enough if not too much of this Geographers who write of the four parts of the Earth are as large in Europe as in the other three Asia Africa and America To which one part all learning seemeth now to be in a manner confined which within this hundred or two hundred years hath produced so many able men of all professions Divines Lawyers Physicians and Philosophers Papists and Protestants Bolton in his Nero Caesar c. 29. sect 1. speaking of ancient Rome saith The wonder of the feat did not grow from the greatness only but from the innumerable ornaments of publick and private works erected for use delight and glory dispersed over all the fourteen wards or regions thereof Temples Forums Libraries Therms Aquaducts Theaters Amphitheaters Circi Porticus Arches Columns Statues Palaces and the rest whose bare names scarce remaining do fill up Volums with their inventories The best Circuit a Traveller can take is to go through Holland towards Germany thereby to satisfie his curiosity by degrees for Germany will afford more satisfaction than the Low-Countries France more then Germany Italy more then France Gerbiers subsidium Peregrinantibus Paris Rome and Constantinople are the Court of the World Venice Geneva and Lisbon the City Provence Andaluzia and Italy the Garden Africk and America the Desart and Wilderness Flecknoes Relation of twenty years Travels Letter 22. Johnson in his Relation of the most famous Kingdoms l. 1. of Travel adviseth a Traveller to take heed of the Pride of Spain Dr. Hall thinks Italy a dangerous place for Youth Vrsin in a Gratulatory Epistle to a friend returned out of Italy addes Ex cloaca diabolorum Necesse est peregri●aturam habere duos saccos patientiae unum pecuniae alterum Commenii Praxis Senicae par 5. Actus 4. S●ena 1. the Poyson of Italy the Treason of France and the drink of Flanders Those who have a desire to travel to Jerusalem should take heed to themselves that they make no Shipwrack of Conscience for if they come not well commended or well monyed or both there is no being for them except they partake with them in their Idolatrous Services Purchas his Pilgrimage part 2. l. 8. ch 9. Lud. Bartema Relates that they that Travel over the Desarts of Arabia which are all covered with light and fleeting Sands so that no Track can ever be found do make certain boxes of wood which they place on Camels backs and shut themselves in them to keep them from the Sands and by the help of the Load-stone like the Marriners Compass they steer their Course over the vast and uncouth Desarts The Latine the French the Sclavonick and the Arabian Tongue are known in many places For Africa Leo * Leo Af●● in rebus Africanis fere instar omnium esse potest Hosmanni mantica Leo Africanus A man of no small credit among them who are well versed in the History of the World Dr. Casaubon of Credulity and Incredulity part 1. Some say Golnitz is the best Itinerary for France le Voiageur Irancois Jodocus Sincerus his Itinerarium Gallia is well liked is

the best for the Levant Blunt is a good book to take with thee thither and some others I have before-named for Italie Scotti Capugnani Itinerarium Italiae Raimunds Mercurio Italico will be useful for France Dallingtons View of France and Mr. Evelins little book for the Polity or Government for Holland Colnitzius for Germany Zeiler Sir Benjamin Ruddierd whose discourse and speeches were full of Apothegmes was wont to say France was a good Country to ride through Let Italy glory in this that it is for pleasure the Garden of the World It may be truly said of great Britain that it is the Court and presence Chamber of the great King Esa 8.8 Ezek. 48.35 Surely few parts of all the Earth are like England for the Showers of Heaven and the Riches of the precious Ordinances of God Mr. Baxters Direct to the Converted for their Establishment Italy a good Country to look upon Spain a good Country to understand but England a good Country to live in So wishing the Traveller a prosperous Voyage There cast Anchor A Diatribe OF MONY OR COYN Printed in the Year MDCLXXI A DIATRIBE OF MONY Or COYN COyn seemeth to come from the French Coin a Corner because the ancientest sort of Coyn was cornered and not round Cowells Intepreter Coyning of Money is a special right and Prerogative of Soveraigne * Freherus in his Diatribe or Exposition of Constantines Silver Coyn saith the Roman Princes in cunenda moneta non minimam majestatis suae partem posuerunt and that Constantine the Emperour first ingraved the Crosse upon his Coyn which his successors after observed as we may see among Antiquaries Majesty Mony is as the sinews and strength of a state so the life and soul of Commerce Mony Commonly is the mean for all Commodities and answereth to all Eccles 10.19 Yet the Spaniards Coming into the West-Indies had many Commodities of the Country which they needed brought unto them by the Inhabitants to whom when they offered them Money goodly pieces of Gold Coyn the Indians taking the Mony would put it into their Mouths and spit it out to the Spaniards again signifying that they could not eat it or make use of it and therefore would not part with their Commodities for Money unless they had such other Commodities as would serve their use That Money hath been anciently used in a way of Commerce we may see Gen. 33.19 And the most ancient was the purest Gold Medals are certain pieces of Money dispersed at the Coronation of Kings They call them commonly Medallias in the Italian Spanish and French Languages saith Antoninus Augustinus De veterum numismatum Antiquitate from the Latine word Metalla since those three Languages had their Original from the Latine Pope Gregory the 13th after he had received tidings in the Consistory of the Massacres in France So in France Medals were made in remembrance of the Massacres the Image of Charles the ninth siting in his royal Throne and in one side Virtus in Rebelles and on the reverse of it the Arms of France Pietas excitavit Justitiam Horae subcesivae On some of Vespatians Coyn the State of Judea is Deciphered in form of a Captive Woman with a ruefull Aspect sitting under a Palm-Tree one thousand five hundred and seventy two went to the Church that night to give thanks made Bonfires and gloried in the bloody feats of those Emissaries having a Coyn with his own Face on one side and an Angel on the other with a Cross in one hand and a Sword in the other with this Motto Hugonothorum Strages Lewis the 12th of France a moderate Prince when his Realm was interdicted by Pope Julius the second caused Coyn to be stamped with his own image Id. Ibid. with this superscription See the Expositors on Act. 19.24 Perdam Nomen Babylonis In Athens the Tower excelled Mr. Selden before the English Historians Printed by Mr. Bee Citeth Ludovicus Paruta his Originale de Yet Mr. Selden in h●s notes on Eadmerus saith Caeterum ad vetustum Archiepiscoparum in Cantuaria jus spectat etiam forsan priscunumisma cujus pars altra Plegmundi Archiepiscopi altera Eicmundi cusoris nomine signata est vide plura Ibid. in which there was a Temple to Minerva Juleus Pollux writes that the Attick tetradrachme was stamped with the face of Minerva and he might have added with the Noctua on the reverse Mr. Greaves of the Denarius Hugh Broughton said it was portended by his Arms that he should be a Grecian for he gave the house Athens There is a Medal in Oxford made upon the sinking of the Spanish ships in 88. Goltzius is the most copious best writer about Medals with a Navy on one side and a Rock on the other See Cambdens Annals The Lydians first invented Gold and Silver Money Janus Brass Money Gutherius * De Officio Domus Augustae l. 3. c. 1. Bonitas Monetae est intriuseca vel extrinseca Intrinseca consistit in preciositate materiae in pondere Extrinseca bonitas consistit in aestimatione publica vel voluntariam Contrahentium Angelocrator De Monetas c. 2. out of Isidore saith three things are required in Money the Metal the Figure and the Weight Gold is the most excellent of all Metals saith Georgius Agricola Gold hath Greatness of Weight Closeness of Parts Fixation Pliantness or Softness Immunity from Rust Colour or Tincture of Yellow Sir Francis Bacon's Natural History Centuary 4. Experiment 328. Martiall calls Gold Yellow Mony The pureness and fineness of the Coyns and the weight for the intrinsick and the outward form or Character and inscription of the Prince or State for the Extrinsick of Coyns is observed by knowing bankers Mr Greaves of the Denarius Has nisi de flaxa loculos implere moneta Non decet argentum vilia ligna ferant Silver is next to it it is not consumed in the fire It is more ductile than any other metal except Gold It s white colour is delightful Yet Budaeus De Contemptu Rerum Fortuitorum l. 3. saith well At Vsu sublato quid tandem aurum argentum aliis praestat metallis Diligent inquiring into Coyns Felix sine diphthongo Consensus librorum nummorum Fecundus sine diphthongo Eadem monum enta antiqua Dilherri Apparatus Philologiae Vide Vossii Etymologicon Linguae Latinae Melius scribitur hoc nomen cum aspiratione Hadrianus nam ita nummi lapides Constanter Casaub notae in Aelii Spartiani Hadrianum Scilicet ex statuis numis atibusque cognoscere licet qualis fuerit vultus habitusque clarorum virorum faeminarumque illustrium quorum nos actiones auditae delectant qua forma fuerint Dii de aeque Heroes prisci cum suis illis insignibus Cujusmodi fuerint sive ornamenta sive instrumenta religionum bellornm magistratuum Coronae Curras triumphi sed ilia inumeraquc id genus alia Vide Gassendii