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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

nor ought the Kitchin or other Offices and Selleridge as in some Palaces in France to be so placed as they may prove prejudiciall to the Court and if they are underneath a Palace they ought to be vaulted I must not forget that the Roof of a Palace should be covered either with Lead or blew Slates The Pantheon at Rome was covered with Brass which a Pope melted to cast Canons no such as only eat drink and sing No curious eye can well indure those Barn-like Roofs of many Noble Persons Palaces covered with red Tiles which break and rot away and then the Roof being mended and patcht seems to be a Beggars Mantell which I would not have the Nobles and Courtiers to be See the Roofs of Lester Newport Southampton and such like their Palaces whether they do not look as Barns for Hay and not Py-bald by their patched Tiles As for the main bulk of Palaces its true some have a greatnesse in plainnesse as that of Farners in Rome whereof Michael Ang elo made the Arcitrave Frize and Cornish And as for Bignesse and Solidty that of St. Jeronimo and Escuriall in Spain for Ornament Munikch in Bavaria the Louver at Paris for Vastnesse Situation and Ornament by the imbossed Imagery on the Frontispiece variety of Orders of Colombs with the delight of the annexed Tuilleries wherein as especially in that of the Palace of the Duke of Orleance but above all in the Cardinals their Vignas in Rome is observed the form of a true Princely Garden consisting not only in much Air great plots of Grass low Borders large Gravell-Walks but for close Walks Fountains Groves and Statuaes to make good the Italian saying Per variar natura é bella And as for the imbossed carved Imagery on the Frontispiece of a Palace their Dimensions must be according unto their distance from the Ground which is the main point requisite to be observed also in Scheames wherein divers undertakers commit very great faults not only by the not reducing whatsoever is represented to the true Lines of Perspective but also by omitting the giving such Proportions to things as may satisfie the sight of all the Spectators at their severall distances for Excellency doth not consist in vastnesse nor in the quantity of Objects nor Shapes nor Colours The Sphear in an Angle of a great Chamber in St Pedro èVaticano in Rome confirms this truth and every judicious Eye will be satisfied therewith Seas must not only be seen to have a naturall motion but heard to make a noise of breaking of their Waves on the shore and against the Rocks Cloudes must not only drive but be transparent Winds Thunder Lightning Rain Snow and Hail must be so heard seen and felt as that Spectators may think those sights to be naturall operations The Sun Moon and Stars no Past-board devices but so represented as that they may dazle the Eyes of Spectators And all the Motions of Sceans and Mutations as insensible and no more to be discovered than that of the Hand of a Diall Neither can all great Rooms of Princely Palaces serve for this use except they be after the Moddell of such as the Italians have built as there is a good one at Florence in Italy with conveyances sor Smoak and capacities for Ecchoes which Inigo Jones the late Surveyor experimentally found at Whitehall and by his built Banquetting House so as having found his own fault he was constrained to Build a Wooden House overthwart the Court of Whitehall The greatness of a Soveraign confists not in the quantity of Stone and Timber heapt together The Quarries possess more Stone and the Woods more Timber than a Banquet Room Let anygood eye judge whether it be not true that the extream height of a Room takes not away the greatness of the company that is in the same and that all Hangings of Tapistery make no shew at all unless they reach to a proportionable height of a Room Since the greatness of a Nation consists not in a Husk but in it self and in its Soveraign nothing should be suffered to diminish the appearance of that greatness within or without Doors A Soveraign and his Retinue in a too vast Roome in height width and length doth appear like a company in a Valley near high Mountains Whenas a body standing on the brow of a Hill and seen from below seems to be a kind of Colosse which argueth that there must be a great discretion used in the making them fit and pleasing All which I do not Write to undervalue any Modern Works nor any of the Cavallier-like Operas every good Talent being commendable As I am confident there are some that live who will not deny that they have heard the King of blessed Memory graciously pleased to avouch he had seen in Anno 1648 close to the Gate of York-House in a Roome not above 35. Foot square as much as could be represented as to Sceans in the great Banquetting Room of Whitehall and that divers judicious persons will not deny that the excellency of the several Triumphall Arches erected in the City of London consists not in their Bulk The Grecians and Romans who have shown their Master-ship in them did conform them to the respective places Things can be too great as well as too little too massie and too slender too gaudy and too plain and Colours placed together which agree not one with the other as blew and green God in his Rainbow having shewed us the best way of ordering Colours Nor is it the quantity of Timber or Stone that speaks love in an Arch but rather when it is composed of the hearts of Loyal Subjects which surpasseth all that can be made May therefore the oldest and most tottering House in the Land breath forth of its Windows what may answer that true love and in point of good Building wherewith this Discourse is begun next to the giving such a new Form to the Streets of London and the Suburbs as may in a manner equalize those in Holland in neatness if the Inhabitants will but take the right and onely course therein May his Sacred Majesty during his long prayed for and wished Raign see St. Pauls Church in that magnificency as the Motropolitan of the Houses of God in the chief City of Albion justly requires And his Royal Palace Built so as to answer the matchlesse greatnesse of him who all tongues of Loyal Subjects speaks to be Carolum Magnum Secundum Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regem Ecclefiae Legum Libertatis Populi Restauratorem Which shall ever be the dutifull Wishes of Balthazar Gerbier Douvily Knight TO THE KINGS MOST Excellent Majesty May it please your 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 Seal of England is to introduce Foreign Princes or their publick Representatives to your Sacred Presence And in regard