[617] 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.
[618] List in Watt's Bibliographia Britannia, 1824 (heading Education); and in Cambridge History of English Literature, ix. ch. xv. (Bibliography).
[619] Method for Travell, 1598, and View of France, 1604.
[620] The constant warnings against mixing with Englishmen abroad show how numerous the latter must have been. "He that beyond seas frequents his own countrymen forgets the principal part of his errand—language," wrote Francis Osborne in his Advice to a Son (1656).
[621] As did Lord Lincoln, who "sees no English, rails at England, and admires France."
[622] Itinerary, 1617.
[623] Bacon, Essay on Travel, 1625.
[624] Gailhard, op. cit. p. 48.
[625] S. Penton. New Instructions to the Guardian, 1694, p. 104.
[626] Cp. Entries of passports to France in the Calendar of State Papers.