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SCARCE TRACTS, WITIT EXTRACTS, AND ANALYSES OF 
SCARCE BOOKS. 
It is proposed in future to devote a few Pages of the Monthly Magazine to the 
Insertion of such Scarce Tracts as are of an interesting Nature, with the Use 
of which we may be favoured by our Correspondents; and under the same Head te 
intreduce also the Analysis of scarce and curious Books. 
a 
*€ Subsidium Peregrinantibus, or an Assist~ 
ance toa Traveller in his Convers with 
4. Hollanders: 4. Italians. 
2. Germans, 5. Spaniards. 
3. Venetians. 6. French. 
directing him, after the latest Mode, to 
the greatest Honour, Pleasure, Securi- 
ty, and Advantage, in his Travels. 
Written to a Princely Traveller for « 
Vade Mecum. By Balthazar Ger- 
bier, Knight, Master of the Cerenronies 
to King Charles the First.” 12° Ox- 
ford, 1665. 
HE first section of this curious 
little work, is Glled with examples 
of the Christian virtues, in the form of 
short anecdotes, principally of different 
kings. The second section relates to 
learned princes. The third “ to Coats 
of Arms.” The fourth to the “ Originall 
of Warrs,” and the perfection of For- 
tification: and the fifth section, occupy- 
ing as large a space as the four former, 
to a ** Recital and: Annotations of all 
the most known Orders of Knighthood.” 
‘The following list, of such as were ex- 
isting in the time of Charles the Second, 
wili probably be-deemed curious, 
i. The Grayhound. 
2. The Gennet. 
S. The Starre. 
4. The Porc-espie. 
5. The Thistle. 
6. The Ermine. 
7. The Broom-flower, 
8. The Sea-shell. 
9, Dame Blanche. 
10. The Lilly. 
11. The Tesuphers. 
i2. Jesus Christ. 
13. The Swan. 
14. The Montese. 
15. The White Rue. 
16. The Elephant. 
17. The Boare. 
18. S. Hubert. 
19. The Fooles. 
20. S. James. 
21. The Dove. 
92. The Christian Warr. 
23. The Drake. , 
24. The Tussin. 
25. Of Hungary. 
26, Of Suede. 
27. The Sword Bearer. 
26. Of the Halfe Moos 
29. The Banda. 
. The Sepulchre. 
S51. Of St. Lazarus. 
52. Of St. John Dacons 
33. Of St. Catharine. 
. Of Montoy. 
35. Of the Sword of Livoniens 
36. Of Gens d’Armes. 
357. Of Mary Glorious. 
358. Of Mont Carmel. 
59. Of Alcantara. 
40. Of Avesiens. 
41. Of St. George. 
42. S. Stephen Martyr. 
43. Of the Holy Bloud. 
44. S. Mary Redemp. 
45. S. John Baptist. 
46. The Theutonick. 
47. Of Salvator. 
48. S. John in Spain. is 
49. Of Calatrava. 
Of Scama. 
51. Of La Calra. 
52. Of S. Andrew. 
3. The Golden Fleece. 
.. Of Ciprus. ans 
55. Of S. Michael. 
56. Burgandy Crosse. 
57. The Holy Ghost. 
58. The Round Table. 
59. Baronets. 
60. Bannerets. 
61. Of the Garter. 
62. Of the Bath. 
In the sixth section, the love which the 
Germans, in our author's time, evinced 
to the arts and sciences, is particularly 
noticed; and in one passage, we have the 
author’s own notions on Perspective. 
““ By Perspective, (he says) is given 
true proportion in distances, and short- 
ning of objects, and of the shadows, 
which the sun (by shining on a body,) 
doth cause on the opposite part, for that 
the Lines and Rules of Perspective do 
proceed from equall distances, and tend 
to a fixt poynt. 
“ The light and shadows which the 
beams of the sun do give to a body, 
having their infallible measures, because 
such bodies, on which the sun-beams 
extend themseives, have a proportion, 
& 
. which doth not change by the beams of 
the light, neither by the faculties of our 
-sight ; so that the light which spreads it- 
selfe on those bodies, gives a form to the 
shadow, 
