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A44724	Instructions for forreine travell shewing by what cours, and in what compasse of time, one may take an exact survey of the kingdomes and states of christendome, and arrive to the practicall knowledge of the languages, to good purpose.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1642 (1642)	Wing H3082; ESTC R38986	47,384	246

have been strange insolencies committed of late I say when hee hath well observed all this he will sing as once I did to a Noble friend of mine from Denmarque in this Sapphique Dulcior fumus Patriae forensi Flāmula vino praeit unda terrae Herba Britānae mage trāsmarino Flore süavis SECT. XVIII HAving thus tasted of so many waters and beene Salted in the World abroad and being safely restored to the bosome of his owne Countrey his next cours should bee to settle himselfe awhile in one of the Innes of Court which hee may do and yet bee a Courtier besides to understand something of the Common Lawes of England which are the inheritance of every subject as also of the constitutions and Orders of the House of Parlament the most indifferent most wholesome and Noblest way of Government in the World both in respect of King and People It being the greatest glory of a King to be King of a free and well-crested people and the greatest glory of a People to bee under a Crown so embellished with Flowers and sparckling with such ancient and sacred gemmes of Royall Prerogatives Yet to bee under no Law but of their owne making to bee the Setters of the great Dyall of the Common-Wealth themselves To bee subject to no Ordinance to no Contribution or Taxe but what is granted in that great Epidemicall Counsell wherein every one from the Peere to the Plebeian hath an inclusive Vote And if every degree high and low both in Towne and Countrey is there represented by their Subsistutes it were a hard measure under correction I humbly speake it if the Levites the best of all professions who besides the holinesse of their function as having charge of the Nobler halfe of man of that which should guide and regulate the Understanding in making of all Lawes I meane the Conscience do make a considerable part of the People of the Kingdome should be thence excluded for though it be inconsistent with their calling to have hands to execute yet they may well have heads to consult in that great Nationall Senat It were a hard case I say if those great Lights which were used to shine with that brightnesse to the Envy not the reproach or Scandall of any that I know of of all other Reformed Churches should be now put in wooden Candlesticks That those Promotions Endowments and Honors which our well disposed Progenitors provided to nourish the Arts and serve as Spurres to Learning and Zeale should now be cut off as if they served only for Stirrops to Pride There being no professions but have certaine steps of rising up and degrees of Promotion for their encouragement to make men aemulari meliora And he who hath spent the vigor of his yeares and Intellectuals in the Lords Vineyard it may well become him having served as it were his yeare of Iubile to have his gray haires dignified with some Honor and Authority with reward and rest in his old age and by his long experience and paines to see that other painefull Labourers be put into the Vine-yard yet to have his hand often on the Plough himselfe If there bee a theefe in the Candle as wee use to say commonly there is a way to pull it out and not to put out the Candle by clapping an Extinguisher presently upon it If these Lights grow dim there is a Trienniall Snuffer for them If these Trees beare not good fruit or shoot forth any Luxuriant boughs they are sure to feele the Pruning iron once every three yeares In the name of God let these Lights be brought to move within the circumference of their own Orbes and be kept from irregular and eccentrique motions And I am confident it will render them lesse obnoxious to Envy and Scandall and draw upon them a greater opinion of Reverence There is a Castle in the grand Caire in Aegypt called the Nilescope where there stands a Pillar with certaine markes to observe the height of the River of Nile at her annuall inundation which fals out precisely about the Summer Solstice if the streame come to bee higher or lower than such markes it portends dearth but if at highest floud it rest about the middle it is an infallible presage of a plentifull yeare So we may say of these great Streames that are appointed to water the Lords Field they must not swell too high nor must they run in too low a Channell And as humility is the fairest gemme that can shine in a Prelats Miter so the greatest badge of a well devoted Soule is to reverence the Dispensers of the sacred Oracles of God the Ghostly Fathers and Governors of the Church which in analogy to the Triumphant in Heaven hath also her degrees of Hierarchy For besides Revenue there is a Veneration due to this holy function and it were no hard matter to produce a Gran Iury of examples both Humane and Divine that where this Reverence fayled it hath been a symptome and an infallible presage of a declining State or some approaching judgement But I hope I shall never live to see the day that the Noble English Nation who have been so renowned all the world over and cryed up for their exemplary Piety as well as Prowesse will undervalue themselves so farre and grow distrustfull or conscious of their owne judgements their owne wonted Worth and Ability so far as to thinke those Nations who have not meanes to make the Church shine with that lustre to be Wiser than they or to out go them in zeale as to receive laws for the Conscience and forme of serving God from those who have been far behind them both in the first Reception of Christianity and the Reformation thereof Proh pudor I will not say by what I heard muttered abroad it will be accounted a Nationall diminution but if it should fo fall out it is no hard matter to be a Prophet yea by what hath passed already to take a plaine prospect of those Anarchicall confusions and fearefull calamities which will inevitably ensue both in Church and State unlesse with the pious care which is already taken to hinder the great Beast to breake into the Vineyard there be also a speedy cours taken to fence Her from other Vermine and lesser Animals the belluam multorum capitum which begin to brouze her leaves to throw down her hedges and so lay her open to wast spoyle and scorne Vnlesse there bee a cours taken I say to suppresse those petty Sectaries which swarme so in every corner with that connivence to the amazement of all the world and disparagement of so well a policed Kingdome who by their capricious and various kind of gingling fancies in serving God do their best to bring in the opinion of the Pagan Philosopher Themistius delivered once to Valens the Emperor That as God Almighty had infused into his handmaid Nature a diversity of operations and that the beauty of the Universe consisted in a proportion

should be the center to which Travell should tend Moreover one should evertuate himselfe to bring something home that may accrue to the publique benefit and ad vantage of his Countrey and not to draw water to his own Mill only For of those three that the Orator saith challenge a share in our Nativity our Countrey is the first and our selfs last Therefore he should pry into the Policy and municipall Lawes of other States and Cities and be able to render an accompt of their government and by collation thereof with that of his own Examine well whether any wholesome constitution or custome may be applyable to the frame of his owne Countrey It is recorded in an ancicient Greek Author that the famous Ptolomey he who conversed and Travelled so much amongst Heavenly bodies culled out a select number of his pregnantest young Nobles and Gentlemen to go to Greece Italy Carthage and other Region● and the prime Instruction they had in charge was to observe 〈◊〉 Government as they Travelled along bring back 〈◊〉 of the wholesomest Lawes out of every Countrey Being returned they related that in the Roman Republique a most singular veneration was had of the Temples a punctuall obed●ence to Governors and unavoydable punishments inflicted upon malefactors In Carthage the Senat commanded the Nobles executed and the People obeyed In Athens the Rich were not suffered to be Extortioners the Poore idle nor the Magistrates ignorant In Rhodes Old men were Venerable Young men modest and Women solitary and silent In Thebes the Nobles did fight the Plebeians labour and Philosophers teach In Sicily Iustice was entirely administred Commerce was honestly exercised and all enjoyed equall priviledges and interest in the State Among the Sicionians there were admitted neither Physitians to hinder the operations of Nature nor Strangers to introduce innovations nor Lawyers to multiply Contentions These men it seemes di● not go out to see feathers fly in the Ayre or Reeds shaken with the wind they did not go to get Complements or Cringes or Cariage of bodies or new Modes of cloathing or to tip the tongue with a little Language only but they searchd into the solidest and usefullest part of humane Wisdome which is policy And doubtlesse that rare wise King made excellent use of their observations and rewarded them accordingly And one of the happiest advantages to a Monarchy is to have a discerning and bountifull King when occasion requires for Subjects are accordingly active or idle as they find their Prince able to judge of their merit and endeavours and so emp●oy them for in the Common-wealth of Letters and speculative Orbe of Vertue the benigne aspect and iufluence of the Prince is as Apollo was to the Muses it gives a kind of comfortable heate and illumination whereby they are cherished and made vigorous The most materiall use therefore of Forraine Travel is to find out something that may bee applyable to the publique utility of one's own Countrey as a Noble Personage of late yeares did who observing the uniforme and ●regular way of stone structure up and down Italy hath introduced that forme of building to London and Westminster and else where which though d●stastfull at first as all innovations are For they seeme like Bug-beares or Gorgons heads to the vulgar yet they find now the commodity firmenesse and beauty therof the three maine principles of Architecture Another seeing their Dikes and draynings in the Netherlands hath been a cause that much hath beene added to lengthen the skirts of this Island Another in imitation of their aqueducts and sluces and cōveyance of waters abroad brought Ware-water through London streets And it had been wished so great and renowned a City had not forgot Him so soon considering what infinite advantages redounds to her thereby for in other Countreys I have seene Statues erected to persons in the most eminentest places to eternize their memories by way of gratitude for Inventions of farre lesser consequence to the encouragement of others for it is an old Rule of State and will be in date to the Worlds end that Honor nourisheth Arts and is the golden sp●rre of Vertue and industry SECT. XVII AMongst many other fruits of Forraine Travell besides the delightfull ideas and a thousand various thoughts and selfe contentments and selfe contentments and inward solaces it raiseth in the memory of things past this is one That when one hath seene the Tally and taillage of France the Milstone of Spaine the Assise of Holland the Gabels of Italy where one cannot bring an Egge or roote to the market but the Prince his part lyes therinna When he hath felt the excesse of heat the dangerous Serains the Poverty of soyle in many places the Homelinesse and incommodity of lodging the course cloathing of the best sort of Peasants their wooden shooes and straw hats their Canvas breeches and Buckram petticoates their meager fare feeding commonly upon Grasse Hearbs and Roots and drinking Water neere the condition of brute animals who find the cloth always ready layed the buttry open When hee hath observed what a hard shift some make to hewe out a dwelling in the holes of the Rocks others to dig one under the Sea when he feeles how in some Climes the Heaven is as Brasse in others as a dropping Sponge in others as a great Bellowes most part of the yeare how the Earth in many places is ever and anone sick of a fit of the Palsie When hee sees the same Sun which only cherisheth and gently warmes his Countrey men halfe parboyle and tanne other people and those rayes which scorch the adusted soyles of Calabria and Spaine only varnish and guild the green hony-suckled plaines and hillocks of England When he hath observed what hard shifts some make to rub out in this world in divers Countreys What speed Nature makes to finish her cours in them How their best sort of women after forty are presently superannuated and looke like another Charing-Crosse or Carackes that have passed the Line in three voyages to the Indies When hee hath observed all this At his returne home hee will blesse God and love England better ever after both for the Equality of the Temper in the Clime where there is no where the like take all the Seasons of the yeare together though some would wish She might bee pushed a little nearer the Sun For the free condition of the subject and equall participation of the Wealth of the Land for the unparallelled accommodation of lodging and security of Travell for the admirable hospitality for the variety and plenty of all sorts of firme food for attendance and cleanlinesse for the rare fertility of Shoare and Sea of Ayre Earth and Water for the longevity well favourednesse and innated honesty of the people And above all for the moderation and decency in celebrating the true service of God being farre from Superstition one way and from Prophanesse the other way though with a quaking heart I speake it there