Note 617 — Chapter VII
Reading edition
The versatile master of the ceremonies to Charles I., Sir Balthazar Gerbier, wrote his Subsidium Peregrinantibus or an Assistance to a Traveller in his convers with—1. Hollanders. 2. Germans. 3. Venetians. 4. Italians. 5. Spaniards. 6. French (1665), in the first place as a vade mecum for a princely traveller, the unfortunate Duke of Monmouth. It claimed to give directions for travel, "after the latest mode." Cp. also A direction for travailers taken by Sir J. S. (Sir John Stradling) out of (the Epistola de Peregrinatione Italica of) J. Lipsius, etc., London. 1592.