France for one of the most rich fertilest and brauest Kingdomes of the World And since Spaine and France are but one Continent let vs passe the Pyrenean hils and take some obseruations there Spaine lyeth Southerly from France in Northerne latitude from 37. to 44. degrees or there about in the same heigth and paralell with the Azores Ilands It is farre hotter then Fraâ—â—e a very dry Country yet abounding in sweet Springs Riuers and all sorts of fruites Pasture there is little or none in respect of the great heat but infinitely furnished with Vineyards Oliue trees hauing Corne sufficient saue onely in the skirts of the Country which are mountainous hilly and barren yet abounding in Goates and other Cattell For victuals you shall finde it very scarce not that the Counttey affordeth not a sufficiency but that the people beingby coÌ„stitution hot dry are not able to digest heauy and more solid meat like vnto ours but rather chuse Fruits Sallets and sweet meates as Mermalade by them called Membrillada for membrillâ— is a Quince and conserues of all sorts for coolenesse and lightnesse of digestion The people are by nature generally proud and haughty but withall very ciuill faithfull to their friend and aboue all to their Prince for seldome or neuer haue any of that Nation bin known to haue bin Traitors their souldiers are infatigable resolute and obedient vnto their Commanders but withall lasciuiously giuen and too cruell in victory The Gentry affect not the Countrey but desire to liue in walled Townes altogether where they dedicate themselues either to some imployment of State or businesse of Warre saue such who are of the better sort dedicated to the Church of whom there is at the least a third part Their habite in apparell is all one for colour and fashion which hardly makes a distinction of parties onely they are discerned by their seruants in whom they obserue an excellent equipage their regelado horses Caâ—oches and horselitters The women are blacke and little but very well fauoured and for discourse admirable these haue a more eminent distinction of habit and are all discerned by their apparell of what qualitie they are they affect strangers much and are liberall in their conuerse with them The heart of the Countrey is very scarce of fish that which they haue are either Tons or Pilchards brought salted from Biscay on the one side and from Valencia on the other Yea the Church for want of fish is faine to giue a licence to cate the entrailes of beasts vpon fasting dayes All their meate fruits and bred are sold by the pound and not except before an Officer which they call Alcalda so that no stranger can be decâ—iued either in waight or price They treade their Corne out with Oxen in the fielde assoone as it is reaped their Mules and horses eating the Straw with Barley for Oates they are not so well acquainted with It is a Countrey for Trauaile very combersome in respect of lodging and dyet except when you come into the walled Townes where you shall according to their manner be accommodated well enough They trauaile all on Mules keeping their Horses for beautie and shew putting them to no vse saue onely to be led vp and downe Their Coines are the best of Europe â—ince all their neighbours make a gaine of them as a peece of eight reals or sixe pence of our money goeth in France for foure shillings sixe pence a doublon in gold that which is a Pistolet with them being thirteene shillings is in France and other places 29. reals which is 14. s. 6. pence of our money Most of the Coine that passeth for ordinaâ—y and triuiall things as Wine Bread Melons Peaches is of Brasse which they cal Quartas and Quartillias Of their Marauedies twenty make three pence Their buildings are faire and stately and the King though hee hath many goodly houses palaces as in Siuill Granado Toledo Cordoâ—a Valladolid c. yet the Escâ—rial seuen leagues from Madrid is the place where the King most resides and this exceedes all the buildings of Christendome for beauty and curiosity in contriuing to which iâ— adioyned one of the goodliest Monasteries of the world wherein are to be seene the rarest Water-workes that men can deuise Spaine being diuided into many Kingdomes or Prouinces you are allowed to carry about you onely but an hundred reals what you haue aboue it is forfeited and for that purpose at euery bridge or passage where the Countries part you are to be searched And I hope you haue heard so much of the Inquisition and the danger thereof that I shall not here need to giue you any caueat Naâ—arre affordeth by reason of the Mountaines a very hard passage Whereof Pampelâ—na is the chiefe Citie herein are the best Muttons and made the strongest Wines this Countrey is so abundant in Rosemary that they make it their ordinary fewell in heating their Ouens and for their other vses Aragon aboundeth in Wine and Corne which Portugall so wanteth that all the Corne in that Kingdome is not able to suffice Lisbone onely but they are faine to haue it of the Bretaigners Hollanders and from the Azores Ilands Last of all it is worthy the noting how that in their Vniuersities as Salamanca Alcala Câ—nimbra c. and other of their Colledges they care little for the Latine but dispute and keepe their exercises in Spanish or the Portugueze tongue yet haue they great Schollers in all professions Thus haue I onely giuen you a taste how and what especially to obserue in your trauaile I willingly omit to speake of Italie Germany and other Countries by reason they haue beene so exactlâ— described by Master Sands and others vnto whose ample discourses excepting your personall experience I referre you it being here mine onely intent but to giue you some few directions in generall and so I conclude wishing all happinesse to your selfe and prosperous successe to your studies FINIS Pindar in Neâ—sis Ode 3. Ioâ—â—es Monach in vita Alexandri Regum 1. cap. 3. ver 9. Ignatius lib. Epist. cap. 3. Cicero Arist. in Eâ—â—icis Syâ—â—â— in his Fairy Queene Nobilitie defined Aentas Siluius lib. 4. de geâ—â—is Alyhonsi Georg. Fâ—sâ—â—llus This happened at the Councell of Constance where the Doctors and Knights were about some serious businesse diuided into two seueral assemblies a Pertinax or stubborne so sir-named because he came from his Father who would haue made him a Scholler he choosing rather to be a Wood-monger Capitolinus â— See the Treasure of Times Ex Historia Loâ—â—â—bard The ingeâ—â—â—ous reply of Colonell Edmonds Plutarch in Lycurgi Numa comp Machiauell Hist. Florenâ—in lib. 7. a Described by Lucian to be aged bâ—ld wrinckled browne coloured clad with a Lioâ—s skin holding in his right hand a club in his left a bow with a Qâ—â—â—er at his back long small chaines of Gold and Amber fastned through little holes to the tip of his tongue drawing a multitude
a beautifull body Memorable as making to our purpose is that speech of Sigâ—smund the Emperoâ—r to a Doctor of the Ciuill Law who when he had receiued Knighthood at the Emperours hands left forthwith the societie of his fellow Doctors kept company altogether with the Knights which the Emperour well obseruing smilingly before the open assembly saide vnto him Foole who preferest Knighthood before Learning and thy degree I can make a thousand Knights in one day but cannot make a Doctor in a thousand yeares Now for as much as the Weale publique of euery Estate is preserued Armiâ— consilio this faire Tree by two maine branches disspreddeth her selfe into the Militarie Ciuil Discipline vnder the first I place Valor and Greatnesse of Spirit vnder the other Iustice knowledge of the Lawes which â— Consilij fons Magnificence and Eloquence For true Fortitude and greatnesse of Spirit were ennobled we reade Iphicrates that braue Athenian who ouerthrew in a set battaile the Lacedaemonians stopt the furie of Epaminondas and became Lieutenant Generall to Artaxerxes King of Persia yet but the sonne of a poore Cobler Eumenes one of the best Captaines for valour and aduice Alexander had was the sonne of an ordinarie Carter Dioclesian was the sonne of Scriuener or Book-binder Valentinian of a Rope-maker Maximinus of a Smith Pertinax of a Wood-monger Seruius Tullus sonne of a Bond-woman thence his name Seruius Tarquinius Priscus of a poore Merchant or rather Pedler in Corinth Hugh Capet the first of that name King of France the sonne of a Butcher in Paris who when Lewis the sixth sonne of Lothary was poisoned by Blanch his Wife for Adulterie being a stout fellow and of a resolute Spirit hauing gathered a company like himselfe and taking his aduantage of the time and distempered humour of the State carried himselfe and his businesse so that he got the Crowne from the true heire Charles the Vnckle of Lewis Lamusius the third King of the Lombards was the sonne of a common Strumpet found laid and couered with leaues in a ditch by King Agelmond who by chance riding that way and espying a thing stirre in the ditch touched it with the point of his Lance to see what it was which the Infant with the hand taking fast hold of the King amazed and imagining it as a presage of some good fortune toward the child caused it to be taken out of the ditch and to bee brought vp which after nursed in the lap of Fortune by many degrees of Honor got the Crowne of Lombardy Neither are the truly valorous or any way vertuous ashamed of their so meane Parentage but rather glorie in themselues that their merit hath aduanced them aboue so many thousands farre better descended And hence you shall many times heare them freely discourse of their beginning and plainely relate their bringing vp what their Parents were I remember when I was in the Low-Countries and liued with Sir Iohn Ogle at Virecht the reply of that valiant Gentleman Colonell Edmondes to a Countrey-man of his newly come out of Scotland went Currant who desiring entertainment of him told him My Lord his Father and such Knights and Gentle-men his Couzins and Kinsmen were in good health Quoth Colonell Edmondes Gentlemen to his friends by beleeue not one word hee sayes my Father is but a poore Baker of Edenbourgh and workes hard for his liuing whom this knaue would make a Lord to currie fauour with me and make ye beleeue I am a great man borne c. So that the valiant Souldier you see measureth out of the whole cloath his Honour with his sword and hence in ancient times came Rome Athens Carthage and of late the Ottoman Empire to their greatnesse Honor being then highly prized euery one aymed at Nobilitie and none refused the most desperate attempts for the good of his Countrey Thus the Decij Cato Marcellus with infinite others became ennobled and had their Altars Statues Columnes c. and were welnigh adored with as great respect as their Gods themselues From no lesse meanesse of birth and beginning we find many great and famous Bishops Ciuilians Orators Poets c. to haue attained to the greatest dignities both of Church and Common-wealth and to haue checked with their Fortunes euen Glorie her selfe Pope Iohn the two and twentieth was a poore Shooe-makers sonne Nicholas the fifth was sonne of a Poulter Sixtâ—â— the fift of a Hog-heard Alphenus but a Tailors Apprentice who running from his Master went to Rome and there studied the Ciuill Law and so profited that for his learning and wisedome he was after created Consull Vlpian but meanely borne yet Tutor to Alexander the Emperour Cicero was borne and brought vp at Arpinum a poore and obscure Village Virgil the sonne of a Potter Horace of a Trumpeter Theophrastus of a Botcher with infinite others I might alledge as well of ancient as moderne times For doing Iustice the Romanes of a priuate man and a stranger chose Numa for their King and on the contrary as Plutarch writeth comparing them together Lycurgus of a King for Iustice sake made himselfe a priuate man for A goodly thing saith Plutarch it is by doing iustly to obtaine a Kingdome and as glorious to prefer Iustice before a kingdome for the vertue of the one Numa made him so esteemed and honoured that he was of all thought worthy of it of the other so great that he scorned it In like manner for their good Lawes and doing Iustice were aduanced to their Thrones and goodly Tribunals Minos Rhadamantus though subiects of Poets fables Aratus Solon c. And how fairely beyond their Lawrels the name of Iust became Aristides Traiant Agesilaus with many others I leaue to Historie to report For Magnificence and obliging the places wherein they liued by great benefits were ennobled Tarquinius Priscus a stranger and a banished man and of later times Cosmo di Medici in Florence vpon whose vertues as vpon a faire prospect or some princely Palace giue me leaue a little as a traueller to breathe my selfe and shew you afarre off the faire Tutrets of his more then royall Magnificence being but a priuate man as I finde it recorded in his Historie by Machiauell This Cosmo saith he was the most esteemed and most famous Citizen being no man of warre that euer had beene in the memorie of man either in Florence or any other Citie because he did not onely excell all others of his time in Authoritis and Riches but also in Liberalitie and Wisedoms For among other qualities which aduanced him to be chiefe of his Countrey he was more then other men liberall and magnificent which liberalitie appeared much more after his death then before For his sonne Piero found by his Fathers Records that there was not any Citizen of estimation to whom Cosmo had not lent great summes of Money and many times also he did lend to those Gentlemen whom he knew
truer could be drawne hauing done smiling he gaue it to the Courâ—â—ier saying There is my draught The Courâ—ier imagining he had flouted him said is this all Giotto replyed it is all and more then enough When the Pope with others of iudgement saw it and heard the manner how carelesly he did it he admired and confessed he passed all men of his time in excellency it this being knowne it grew a prouerbe in Italy Mâ—re round then Giotto's Circle The Pope after this did him much honour and very liberally rewarded him Hee had painted vpon a certaine wall the picture of the Virgin Mary and when this wall was to be mended such care by reason of the excellency of his Art was had of this picture that it was cut square and taken downe whole out of the wall with a great deale of paine and cost He made in Mosaiâ—â—â— in the fore court of Saint Peter the ship wherein Peter and the Apostles were in danger of drowning their actions and gestures full of feare the sailes full of wind with the behauiour of Fishermen in such extremitie At Avagâ—â—â— hee wrought for Pope Cleâ—â—â—â— the fift in many other places of France his workes are yet remaining Anno 1316. he was at last sent for by Robert king of Naples for whom there in the Church of the Cloyster of Saint Clare he made many histories both of the old and new Testament with the whole historie of the Reuelation it is said that herein his invention was admirable and that he was much holpen by his deare and ingenious friend Danâ—es the Poet. The King was not onely pleased with the excellencie of his hand but with his many witty answers and conceipts wherefore sometime he would sit by him halfe a day together to see him worke Once the King said vnto him Giotto I will make thee the foremost man of my Court I beleeue it quoth Giotto and that I thinke is the reason why I am lodged in the Porters lodge at your Court gate Another time also the King said thus vnto him Giotto if I were as thou the weather is so exceeding hot I would giue ouer Painting for a while whereunto Giotto replyed Indeed Sir if I were as you I would let it rest indeed Another time being at worke in the great Hall of the Court the King merily requested him to paint him out his kingdome Giotto made no more adoe but presently painted an Affe with a Saddle on his backe and smelling at another new saddle that lay before him at his feet as if he had had a mind to that rather then the other vpon his backe and vpon each saddle a crowne and a Scepter the King demanded what he meant thereby Giotto replyed Such is your Kingdome and Subiects for they desire new Lords daily In his returning to Flâ—rence he made very many rare peeces by the way deuised many excellent Models for building beside other his workes in Caruing Plaistique c. The Citie of Florence not onely Roially rewarded him but gaue him and his posteritie a Pension of an hundred crownes a yeare which was a great summe in those times He died to the griefe of many in the yeare 1336. and was buried at Florence vpon whom Angelus Politianus wrote this Epitaph worthy so excellent a man Ille ego sum per quem pictura extincta reâ—ixis Cui quam recta manuâ— â—am fuit facilis Natura decrat nostra quad defuit arti Plus licuit nulli pingere necmeliâ—â— Miraris â—turriâ— egregiam sacre are sonantem Hac quâ—que de module creâ—it ad astra 〈◊〉 Denique sum Iottus quid opus suit illareferre Hoc nomen lengi carminis instar erit Stephano Fiorentino This Stephano beeing Giotto's scholler what with his masters furtherance and his owne industry became not onely equall to his master but in some respects excelled him as many of his works doe manifest namely the Virgin Mary in the Church called Campâ— Sante at Pisa which to say truth excelled that of his Masters in the Cloister of Santâ— Spiritâ— in Florence He painted the transfiguration of our blessed Sauiour in the Mount with Moses and Elias where the light was seene to shine downe vpon the Apostles who with such a faire action lay so wrapped in their mantles that ye might perceiue all the foldings vpon the ioints and made the nakednes to shine through their thinne cloathes which was neuer seene before or vsedby Giotto In another Chappell he made the fall of Luciâ—er wherein hee shewed many excellent foreshortnings of bodies armes and legges wherefore by the Artists of his time He was named Occhiâ— di Natura the eye of nature he wrought at Rome Milane and many other places Many excellent pieces of his are yet to bee seene in Florence which for breuity I omit the dyed Anno 1350. Petro Laurati of Siena Petro Laurati was famous in his time especially for making of Glories wherein he surpassed all others before him At Arezze with excellent skill hee painted vpon a â—eeling Angels dancing as in a ring about Mary seeming to sing and play on instruments where in their eyes and countenances you may see expressed a true godly ioy another troope of Angels with various and delicate action carrying her vp into heauen He dyed 1350. Bâ—namicâ— Buffalmacco Buffalmacco was scholler to Taffi and as excellent in his profession so was he merry and of pleasant conceit wherefore hee was familiar with Brunâ— and Calandrinâ— rare Artists and of his owne humour many of whose iestes are recorded by Boccace Buffalmacco being a young youth while he dwelt with Taffi was called vp by his master by two or three of the clocke in winter mornings to his worke grinding of colours or the like which grieued him much and bethinking himselfe how to make his master keepe his bed he got vp in the fields some thirty or forty Dorres or Beetles and a little before his master should rise fastning little waxe candles vpon their backs puts them in lighted one by one into his masters chamber who seeing the lights moouing vp and downe began to quake for feare committing himselfe to God with hattie prayer and couered himselfe ouer head and eares in his bed hauing no mind to worke or awake Buffalmacco In the morning â—ee asked Buffalmacco if hee had not seene a thousand Diuels as he had who answered no for he was asleepe and wondered he called him not Called saide Taffi I had other things to thinke of then to paint I am fully resolued to goe dwell in another house The night following though Buffalmacco had put in but onely three lights into his chamber yet could he not sleep for feare al that night it was no sooner day but Taffi left his house with inteÌ„t neuer to come into it againe Buffalmacco hereupon went to the priest of the parish to desire his aduice telling him that in his conscience the Diuell next vnto God hated none more then painters
augmentation to the Armories of the Palsgraue of the Râ—ine in regard of Vienna so brauely defended by Phillip Earle Palatine together with the Count Solmas against the furie of Solyman who laid siedge to it with aboue 300000. men yet glad at the rumour of the Emperour Charles his comming to shew his backe For Solyman as himselfe was wont to say seared not Charles as he was Emperour of Germany but that good fortune which euer attended him in his greatest enterprises And no doubt but the blessing of God was vpon him as being one of the most religious iust and worthiest Princes that euer liued The family of the Haies in Scotland bare Arg. three Escotcheons Gules vpon this occasion At what time the Danes inuaded Scotland and in a set batraile had put the Scots to the worst one Hay with his two sonnes being at plow not farre off and seeing his Countrey-men flying froÌ„ their enemies to come vp a narrow Lane walled with stone on both sides towards him with their Plowbeames in their hands meeting them at the lanes end in despite beate them backe to charge their enemies afresh reuiling their cowardize that now hazarded the whole kingdome whereupon with a stout resolution they put themselues againe into array and returning backe vpon the Danes who were both disordered and in a feare lest a new supply had come downe to the Scots succour ouerthrew them vtterly and regained a most memorable victory Heâ—eupon Hay was by the King ennobled and had giuen him for his bearing in a field Siluer three Escotcheons Gules the rest a Plow-man with his Plow-beame on his shoulder and withall for his maintenance as much Land as a Faulcon put off from hand could sly ouer erc she did alight which Land in Scotland is to this day called Hay his Land and the Faulcon alighting vpon a stone about seuen miles off gaue it the name of the Falcons stone euen to this day Armes againe are sometimes taken from professions and those meanes by which the bearers haue raised themselues to honourable place as the Dukes of Florence for that they are descended from the family Di Medicâ— or Phisitians bare in a field Azure sixe Lozenges Sometimes they are wonne in the field from Infidels for no Christian may directly beare anothers Coate by his sword as was the Coate of Millan from a Saraceâ— it being an Infant naisant or issuing from the mouth of a Serpent And after the winning of Granadâ— from the Moores in the times of Ferdin 〈◊〉 and Isâ—bell Kings of Castile the Pomgranate the Armes of that kingdome was placed in the bast of the Escotcheon Royall and in regard it was gained principally by the meanes of Archerie the Bow and Quiuer of Arrowes was stamped vpon the Spanish sixpence which remaineth at this day to be seene Coates sometimes are by stealth purchased shuffled into Records and Monuments by Painters Glasiers Caruers and such But I trust so good an order hath beene lately established by the Right Honorable the late CoÌ„missioners for the Office of the Earle Marshalship carefull respect of the Heralds with vs that all hope of sinister dealing in that kind is quite cut off from such mercenary abusers of Nobilitie Many times gained at a cheaper rate by bearing as the Boores in Germany and the Netherlands what they list themselues neither can their owne Inuentions content them but into what land or place soeuer they trauaile if they espy a fairer Coate then their owne for they esteeme Coates faire or good as our Naturals according to the varietie of colours after their returne they set it vp in Glasse for them and their heires with the Crest and open Beauer as if they were all Princes as at Wodrichom or Worcom hard by Louestein I found ouer a Tradesman Coate no worse Crest then the three Feathers in the Crown and in many other places whole Coates of the French Nobilitie Heereof examples in those parts are so frequent that I must say Inopem me copia fecit Now being acquainted with your colours the points and euery place of the Escotchcon which the Accidence of Armorie of Master Guillims Display will at large instruct you in begin to practise the Blazon of those Coats which consist of bare and simple lines without charge as that ancient Coate of Waldgraâ—â— who beareth onely party per pale Arg. and Gules and the Citie of Virecht partie per bend of the same Then your fields equally compounded of moe lines as Quarterly Bâ—ndey Barrey Gyronned Checkey Masculie c. Withall know the names and vse of all manner of your crooked lines as Endemed Embatâ—elled Nebulè or Vndeè Danncéâ—â—â—è c. Know then those Honorable and prime places or Ordinaries with their Species as the cheese so called of Chef in French that of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because it possesseth the head or vpper third part of the Escotcheon The Fesse holding the middle third part of the shield containeth vnder it the Barre Barrulet Coste Barresgemells c. The Bend the Bendlet single and double Cotize Next know the Furres Counterchangings Bordures Tressures Orles Frets all formes of Crosses differences of Brothers Roundles of euery kind as Beasanâ—s Plaâ—es Pommices c. Then proceede to the blazon of all vegetable things as Flowers Trees c. Then to all quicke and liuing things as Beasts Birds Fishes Serpents and the like When you haue done know Honorable additaments whether they be by way of augmentation or markes and differences of alliance Coates of augmentation as those of Queene Katherine Parre Queene Katherine Howard and Queene Iane Seymor conferred by King Henry the eight By Cantons as Ferdinand King of Spaine honoured Sir Henry Guilford with a Canton of Granado and King Iames Molinâ— the Vâ—neâ—ian Embassadour with a Canton of the Rose of England and Thistle of Scotland empaled Then ensue differences of alliance by Bordures Labels Bends Quarterings and the like By the Bordure no where more frequent then in the Soueraignes Coate when the blood Roiall was deriued into so many veines to the distemper of the whole body vnder the dissention of Yorke and Lancaster Thomas of Woodstocke as also Humphrey Duke of Glocester who lyeth buried in the Abbey of S. Albanes vpon the South-side of the Quire and not in Paules bare the Soueraigne Coate within a Bordure Argent Richard Plantagenet sonne and heire of Richard Earle of Cambridge Duke of Yorke and father to Edward the fourth bare quarterly France and England within a Bordure Argent charged with Lionceeaux purpure Edmund of Hadham sonne of Owen Tuder by Queene Katherine the Soueraigne Coat within a Bordure Azure with Martlets and Flower-de-luces Or. Iohn Beaufort sonne of Iohn of Gaunt and his posteritie the same within a bordure Componeè Argent and Azure Charles the seuenth King of France in the yeare 1436. gaue leaue vnto Nicholas Duke of Ferrara to beare the Armes of France in a
and varietie their vainnesse and leuitie for euery two yeere their fashion altereth Their exercises are for the most part Tennise play Pallemaile shooting in the Crosse-bow or Peece and Dancing Concerning their dyet it is nothing so good or plentifull as ours they contenting themselues many times with meane viandesâ— onely in the solemne feasts and banquets of entertainment they are bountifull enough yea farre exceede vs as for the poore paisant he is faine oftentimes to make vp his meale with a mushrome or his grenoilles in English frogs the which are in Paris and many other places commonly sold in the market Concerning their building is it very magnificent and I know not whether in all Europe any buildings may for Maiesty and State be compared with those of France though they haue beene miserably spoiled by the last ciuill wars they being the best Architects of the world vpon the view of some of which as breathing on a faire hill I will detaine you a while And first wee will begin with the Lovure in Paris The Lovure is the royall seate of the kings of France famous throughout all Europe situate neere to the towne walles on the West side by which ruâ—neth the riuer of Seâ—â—e which in old time serued rather for a fortresse then a Kings house and herein was a tower wherein were kept the kingâ— reuenues and treasure Which after by King Francis the first was pulled downe and in this place was begun the building of the front which is of Masonry so enriched with pillars frizes architrâ—â—es and all sort of architecture with such excellent symmetry and beauty that throughout all Europe you shall hardly finde the like It was begunne by Francis the first finished by Henry his sonne vnder the appointment of the Lord of Clagny and afterwards encreased by Francis the second Charles the 9. Last of all made the wonder of all other workes by that beautifull Gallery the worke of Henry the 4. The Tuilleries sometime belonged to the Suburbes of Saint Honorè in Paris by the side of the Lovure and was indeed a place wherein they made tiles and by reason there were many faire Gardens about it the Queene mother drawing the plot her selfe seeing it a pleasant and fit place began first to build here It is a roiall worke all of free stone The portall or entrance is very stately of marble pillars and Iasper Fontainebleaâ— is scituate in the forrest of Biere in a plaine encompassed with great woods and was in olde time a retiring place for the kings of France Francis the first who loued to build tooke great pleasure in this seate and builded here the house as we see it at this present the base Court hereof is esteemed the fairest of all Francâ—â— in the second Court there is the purest and fairest fountaine esteemed in the world wherefore it was called Bellâ—â—auâ— and so Fontaine Belle 〈◊〉 R. Francis loued this place so well that he spent most of his time here beautifying it while hee liued with all sorts of commodities goodly galleries Stoâ—es c. and caused the râ—rest Masters of Europâ— in painting tobe sent for for the beautifying it with all manner of Histories Also heere he placed the rarest Antiquities he could get In briefe whatsoeuer he could wrap or wring he thought too little for this place it is about 1. 4. leagues from Paris Blâ—is is an ancient Castle 〈◊〉 from the Riuer of Loâ—â—e vpon an hill Here the old Kings of France were wont to reside especially Louis the twelfth tooke delight in this place who was called Pater patriâ— It hath belonging vnto it two goodly forrests one on this side the riner the other on the other Going forth of the gardens of the house you passe into the forrest vnder foure rowes of elmes at the least 12. hundred paces this is rather remarkeable for the antiquity then the beauty The towne standeth beneath about the which are these faire places within 2. or 3. leagues Bury Bâ—â—â—â—â—gard Ville-sansm Chindâ—ny and some others Amboise is one of the principall buildings of France it also standeth vpon the Loire vpon a high Seaâ—â— at the foote hereof is the towne and neere that a goodly Forrest this castle is seene a great way off both by the hill and the valley yeelding so goodly a prospect as I neuer beheld a better for from the terrasses that enuiron the Castle you may easily discerne Tours and the Abbay of Marâ—â—â—stier seauen leagues off the Castle standeth vpon a Rocke at the foote whereof there is a Cloister This house is in Picardiâ— vpon the way from Paris to Soissons distant from Paris 16. leagues 5. from Soissâ—nâ— it standeth close vpon the forrest of Retâ—â— it is of very great receipt as may appeare by the enclosure of the parâ—e Here King Francis whose onely delight was in building for many yeares together set Masonâ— a workâ— the rather because it adioyned vnto the greatest â—orrest of all France himselfe louing hunting exceedingly Here are the goodliest walkes in Europe for the treâ—s themselues are placed in curious knots as we vse to set our herâ—â—s in gardens Charleval is in Normandy vpon the way from Paris to Râ—vâ—n neere to the village of Flâ—â—ry It was built by Charles the 9. at the instance of the Lord of 〈◊〉 it standeth in a valley enclosed with mountaines aboue which is the Forrest of Lyons among â—hose Mountaines are many goodly prospects one within another it is 3. leagues by a pleasant valley easily discerned to the riuer Seimeâ— had it beene quite finished it had beenâ— the chiefe building of France This Castle or Royal house is called Bâ—is de Vinâ—â—â—â— it is scituate within one league of Paris and two of Saint Denuis the place of buriall of the French Kings so that these three stand in a manner in a triangle It is a very sumptuous worke and of admirable Art it was begun by Charles Countie of Valeis brother to Philiy the faire and finished a good while after by Charles the fift This house hath many faire Courts in it withall about it a Parke containing in circuit 16 or 17. thousand paceâ— which amount to two leagues and an halfe stretching on the South euen vnto the riuer of Sâ—ine and by North vnto the riuer of Marâ—â— which ioyning at the village of Constuenâ—â— so called of their meeting neere Chareâ—â—â—â—â— fall downe vnto Paris This in ancient times was the vsuall Court and abode of the French Kings but now little freequented and falling in a manner to ruine But I omit farther to speake as well of the Royall houses and those of the Noblesse being indeed the beauty of France Whereof there are many other as S. Maâ—â— Chenâ—ncean Chambâ—â—rg Boulâ—guâ— Creil Coussie Folembray Montargis S. Germain and la Muâ—tlâ— which are all the Kings houses and worthy your view and regard if you happen to finde them in your way In briefe hold