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Academies, 121-132;
in France, 121-123;
proposals for academies in England, 123-126;
objections to such academies, 128-132
Acworth, George, 62
Addison, Joseph, 181
Advice to Travellers, 4-5, 205;
Elizabethan, 21;
characteristics of Renaissance books of, 28-32;
admonitory side of, 55, 88-98;
for the country gentleman, 148;
guide-books of the 18th century, 196, 200
Agricola, Rudolf, 7
Alps, the, 192, 200
Ambassadors,
training for, 12-16, 43-47, 69;
troubles of, 83-85, 133
Amorphus, in Cynthia's Revels, xii
Amsterdam, 137
Art in Spain, 134;
attention to in 17th century, 168-169
Arundel, Earl of, see Howard
Ascham, Roger, 16, 18, 42, 52, 57, 65, 200
Bacon,
Lady Anne, 73-75
Anthony, 73-75
Francis, 36 note, 45:
Of Travel, 146
Sir Nicholas, 123
Barker, William, 62, 63
Bear-Leaders, the, 188
Becket, Thomas à, 7
Bedell, William, 76
Bedford, Earl of, see Russell
Bellay, Joachim Du, 16
Bembo, Pietro, 16
Berchtold, Leopold, Count, Essay to Direct and Extend the Inquiries of Patriotic Travellers, 195-198
Berneville, Marie Catherine Jumelle de, Comtesse D'Aunoy, 134
Bethune, Maximilien de, Duc de Sully, 115
Blotz, Hugo, 41
Bobadil, Captain, in Every Man in His Humour, 117
Bodley, Sir Thomas, 37
Boleyn, George, Viscount Rochford, 12, 15
Boorde, Andrew, 14
Borssele, Anne, Lady of Veer, 8
Bothwell, Earl of, see Hepburn
Bourdeille, Pierre de, Seigneur de Brantome, 117
Bourne, William, Treasure for Travellers, 35
Bowyer, Sir Henry, 113
Boyle, Richard, First Earl of Cork, and his sons Robert and Francis, 158-167
Brandon, Charles, Duke of Suffolk, 15
Brantome, see Bourdeille
Bras-de-Fer, see La Noue
Browne, Sir Thomas, 142, 193 note;
his son at Padua, 139
Bryan, Sir Francis, 15
Bucer, Martin, 17, 41
Buckingham, Duke of, see Villiers
Burghley, Lord, see Cecil
Camden, Thomas, History of England, 14
Carew, Sir Nicholas, 15
Carlton, Sir Dudley, 45
Cavendish,
Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, 144
William, Duke of Newcastle, 104
Cecil,
Anne, Countess of Oxford, 64, 66
Robert, Earl of Salisbury, 39, 76, 78, 150
Thomas, Earl of Exeter, 40, 57 note, 77, 145, 193 note
William, Baron of Burghley, l8, 37, 39, 40, 64-66, 73
William, Lord Cranbourne, 76, 160
William, Lord Roos, 76-78, 80
Chamberlain, John, 45, 113
Charles I., 114, 132
Charles II., 104, 131, 178
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 29
Chesterfield, Earls of, see Stanhope
Chichester, Bishop of, see Montague
Clarendon, Earl of, see Hyde
Clenardus, Nicolaus, 132
Cleves, Charles Frederick, Duke of, 25
Clothes, 68-70;
French, 15, 50, 51, 118, 179, 184, 189;
Italian, 57, 67
Colbert, Jean Baptiste, Marquis de Seignelay, 168
Colet, John, 10
Compostella, St James of, 3
Cork, Earl of, see Boyle
Cornwallis, Sir Charles, 83-85
Coryat, Thomas, 20, 28 note, 200
Cost, see Expense
Cottington, Sir Francis, 83
Cranbourne, Lord, see Cecil
Cranmer, George, 11, 17, 41
Creswell, Joseph, Jesuit, 84
Crichton, James, "The Admirable," 48
Curiosities, 138-139, 168
Customs (droit d'aubaine) in Spain, 133
Dallington, Sir Robert,
Method for Travell, 88-89, 108, 111-118, 155, 156;
Survey of Tuscany, 108, 111;
View of France, 108, 109
Dancing, 113-115
Dangers of Travel, 30, 47-49, 56, 94-98, 198
D'Aunoy, see Berneville
Davison,
Francis, 39-41, 146, 155
William, 35, 154
Delahaute, Antoine, 168
De Peregrinatione, 23, 29-32, 55
Derby, Earl of, see Stanley
Descartes, René, 137
Deschamps, Eustache, 107
Devereux,
Robert, Second Earl of Essex, 35, 36, 42
Robert, Third Earl of Essex, 38
Drake, Sir Francis, 27
Dudley, Sir Robert, 102
Dyer, Sir Edward, 21
Education, 103-108;
see also Academies, Universities, Scholars, Ambassadors, Governors, Humanism
Edward VI., 16, 17
Einstein, Lewis, Italian Renaissance in England, 9
Ellis, Sir Henry, 4
Englishmen,
their special reason for travelling, 22;
peculiarities, 120;
Italianate, 55;
prejudices against foreigners, 67-69, 178-181
Erasmus, Desiderius, 6, 8, 9
Essex, Earls of, see Devereux
Evelyn, John, 138, 141, 144, 157, 169
Expenses of travel, 66, 154-157
Fairfax, Colonel Thomas, 152
Faubert, Mons., 125
Fencing, 117
Ferrar, Nicholas, 140
Fielding, Henry, 199
Finch, Sir John, 139
Fitzroy, Henry, Duke of Richmond, 15
Fleetwood, William, Recorder of London, 58, 62
Flemming, Robert, 9
Florio, John, Second Frutes, 21
Flutter, Sir Fopling, 179
Food, 48, 110-111
Foote, Samuel, The Englishman in Paris, 180
Forbes, James, 151-152
Foreigners, English prejudice against, 67-71, 178-181
Fox, Richard, Bishop of Winchester, 10
France,
academies in, 101, 121-132;
affectations learned in, 15, 50, 51, 179, 183-186;
arbiter of fashion, 118, 119, 141;
gentlemen of, 105, 107, 118, 119;
attraction for tourists, 102-103;
loses some of its charm, 177
Francis I., 14
Free, John, 9
Gailhard J., 167
Gardiner, Stephen, Bishop of Winchester, 41
George I., 190
Gerbier, Balthazar, 124-125;
Subsidium Peregrinantibus, 169
Germans,
energetic travellers, 22;
Fynes Moryson's preference for, 93;
slow to learn languages, 113 note
Germany,
attraction of, 17;
women of, 40;
manners of, 48, 172;
Ascham's Report of Germany, 200
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 123
Gloucester, Duke of, see Henry
Governors, 24-25, 145-154, 167, 170, 186-189
Grand Tour, the, Origin of the term, 143-145
Gray, Thomas, 191-192
Greek, 7, 10, 18, 105
Greene, Robert, 55, 70;
Greene's Mourning Garment, 21;
Quip for an Upstart Courtier, 70
Greville, Fulke, Lord Brooke, 21, 36
Grey, William, 9
Grimani, Dominic, the Cardinal, 9
Grocyn, William, 10
Grosvenor, Sir Thomas, 168
Guide-books, see Advice to travellers
Gunthorpe, John, 9
Hall,
Arthur, 57-62
Edward, 15
Joseph, 87, 98
Harington, Sir John, 38, 39, 79
Harrison, William, 68
Harvey, Gabriel, 67
Hatton, Sir Christopher, 21
Henri III., 113
Henri IV., 109-110
Henry VI., 3
Henry VIII., 6, 7, 11, 13, 67, 103
Henry, Prince of Wales, son of James I., 38, 79 note, 114, 124
Henry, Duke of Gloucester, son of Charles I., 131
Hepburn, Francis Stewart, Earl of Bothwell, 102
Hertford, Earl of, see Seymour
Hoby, Sir Thomas, 16, 53-55, 62
Holland, 136-139, 197
Horace, 8, 27
Howard,
Thomas, Fourth Duke of Norfolk, 63
Thomas, Second Earl of Arundel, 102
Howell, James, 118-120, 136, 156, 192;
Instructions for Forreine Travell, 108, 118-120, 132;
Perambulations of Spain, 135
Humanists, their sociability, 41, 43
Humanism, 7
Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon, 128, 135, 183-186;
Dialogue of the Want of Respect Due to Age, 184
Il Cortegiano, 23
Informacon for Pylgrymes unto the Holy Land, 4-5
Inns, 30, 47, 48, 197-199
Inquisition, 75-79 passim
Instructions for travellers, see Advice
Insurance, 95
Italianate Englishmen, 51-58 passim, 62-63, 70
Italy,
attraction of, 7-9, 11, 17, 52, 54, 73;
evils of, 49, 51, 55, 101-102;
universities of, 7-9, 52-54
Jaffa, port, 3, 5
James I., 114, 135, 150
Jerusalem, 6
Jesuits, 75-85 passim
Johnson, Samuel, 182
Jones, Philip, 27
Jonson, Ben, 150;
Cynthia's Revels, xii;
Preface to Coryat's Crudities, 20;
Every Man out of his Humour, 95 note;
Volpone, or the Fox, 96-97
Journals, 38-40, 196
Jusserand, J.J., 130
Killigrew, Sir Thomas, 164-165
Kinaston, Sir Francis, 124
Kirchnerus, Hermannus, 28;
Oration in Praise of Travel, 28, 30, 31, 201
Langton, Thomas, Bishop of Winchester, 11
Languages, 15-16, 73, 112-113, 190
La Noue, François de, 107
Lassels, Richard, 145, 157;
The Voyage of Italy, 148-149, 194
Latimer, William, 10
Leicester's, the Earl of, son, see Dudley
Leigh, Edward, 167
Lewknor, Thomas, 100
Licences for Travel, 86-87
Lichefield, Edward, 79
Lily,
William, 10
George, 11
Linacre, Thomas, 10
Lipsius, Justus, 26, 41, 42, 55
Lister, Martin, 139
Locke, John, 137, 186-187
Lodgings,
with an ambassador, 43-46;
with a bookseller, 43;
with a scholar, 41;
in Spain, 133-134;
see also Inns
Lorkin, Thomas, 122
Louis XIII., 121, 126
Louis XIV., 177
Loysius, Georgius, Pervigilium Mercurii, 27-28
Lupset, Thomas, 11
Machiavelli, Niccolo, 23, 56
Maidwell, Lewis, 126
Mallerie, Melchisedech, 59-62
Manners, Edward, Third Earl of Rutland, 37, 39, 63
Manutius, Aldus, 9
Mason, Sir John, 13
Mathew, Sir Tobie, 86 note
Meierus, Albertus, Methodus describendi regiones, 27
Milton, John, 97, 101
Misson, Maximilian, 194, 197;
A New Voyage to Italy, 194
Mole, John, 77-79
Montagu, Richard, Bishop of Chichester, 104
Morison, Sir Richard, 11
Moryson, Fynes, 20, 90;
Precepts for Travellers, 90-95
Murder, 48, 198 note
Nash, Thomas, 50
Newcastle, Duchess and Earl of, see Cavendish
Norfolk, Duke of, see Howard
North, Dudley, Third Lord North, 48
Nuove Inventioni di Balli, 114
Osborn, Francis, 143, 154
Oxford, Earls of, see Vere
Pace, Richard, 11
Padua,
Pole's household at, 11;
University of, 52-55, 139, 140
Palmer,
Sir Thomas, "The Traveller," died 1626, 35
Sir Thomas, died in Spain 1605, 81
Paris,
life of Englishmen at, 174-176;
medical students at, 139;
see also France
Passports, see Licences
Paulet, Sir Amias, 44
Peacham, Henry, 105, 132
Peregrine, in Volpone, or the Fox, xii
Peter Martyr, see Vermigli
Pighius, Stephanus Vinandus, 25
Pignatelli, 121
Pilgrimages, 3-7
Pirates, 47, 49
Plague, 24 note, 49
Plantin, Christophe, 25
Plato, 31, 112
Plegsis, Armand du, Cardinal Richelieu, 121
Pluvinel, Antoine, 121, 126, 128
Pole, Reginald, Cardinal, 11-12
Politian (Angelo Ambrogini), 15, 72
Politick-Would-Be in Volpone, or the Fox, xii, 96
Pretender, the, 173
Pugliano, John Pietro, 127
Pyrckmair, Hilarious, 24-25
Raleigh's, Sir Walter, son, 150
Ramus, Peter, 26
Réaux, Tallemant des, 115, 128
Religion, changes in, due to travel, 51, 56, 72-73, 75-86 passim, 88, 98
Renaissance, enthusiasm for travel, sources of, 18, 201;
quest of virtù, 29
Richelieu, Cardinal and Duc de, see Plessis
Riding, 120;
the Great Horse, 121, 126-130 passim, 142, 186
Robbers, 30, 47, 90, 91, 133, 198
Rochford, Viscount, see Boleyn
Rome, 25, 76, 86, 91, 94, 173
Ronsard, Pierre de, 16
Roos, Lord, see Cecil
Russell, Edward, Third Earl of Bedford, 42
Rutland, Earl of, see Manners
St John's College, Cambridge, 17, 18
St Lieger, Sir Anthony, 12
Salisbury, Earl of, see Cecil
Scholars, 7-11, 17, 18, 41-43, 65
Schottus, Franciscus, Itinerarium Italiæ, 193
Seignelay, Marquis de, see Colbert
Selling, William, 10, 72
Seymour, Edward, Earl of Hertford, 21, 41
Shakespeare, William,
Two Gentlemen of Verona, xii;
Taming of the Shrew, 20
Sharp, Sam, 198;
Letters from Italy, 198
Sickness, 24, 48, 160, 197, 199
Sidney,
Sir Philip, 35, 43, 46, 127
Robert, Earl of Leicester, 41, 66, 154
"Sights," 143, 193
Smith,
Richard, 40, 48
Sir Thomas, 14, 46
Smollett, Tobias, 199;
Peregrine Pickle, 181
Spain,
gentlemen of, 119, 135;
discomforts of, 132-136
Stanhope,
Philip, Second Earl of Chesterfield, 131-132, 140
Philip Dormer, Third Earl of Chesterfield, 170-177, 182-183
Stanley, William, Ninth Earl of Derby, 151-153
Starkey, Thomas, 11
Stradling, Sir John, 26, 42
Students, see Universities
Sturmius, Joannes, 17, 65
Sully, Duc de, see Bethune
Talbot, Gilbert, Seventh Earl of Shrewsbury, 21, 39, 63
Taylor, John, The Water Poet, 200
Temple, Sir William, 137
Tennis, 115-116
Thomas, William,
The Historie of Italie, 53;
The Pilgrim, 110
Throgmorton, Michael, 11
Tiptoft, John, Earl of Worcester, 9
Transportation, 4-5, 54, 142, 189, 197, 200
Tunstall, Cuthbert, 10
Turlerus, Hieronymus, 23, 24, 26;
De Peregrinatione, 23, 29-32 passim, 55
Tutors, see Governors
Ulysses, 27, 31
Universities,
of Italy, 7-9, 52-55, 139;
of Spain, 84, 85;
of England, 53, 105, 170, 171, 175, 183, 190
Unton, Sir Edward, 40, 56
Ursinus, Zacharias, 43
Valladolid, conversions at, 81, 84
Veer, Lady of, see Borssele
Venice,
charm of, 52, 54, 55;
clothes from, 50:
inns at, 197
Vere, Edward de, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, 63-67
Vermigli,
John de, Twelfth Earl of Oxford, 4
Peter, Martyr, 17
Verney, Edmund, 131
Villiers, George, Duke of Buckingham, 102, 114, 133
Wallis, John, 129
Walpole,
Horace, Fourth Earl of Orford, 177, 191-192
Richard, Jesuit, 81, 84
Walsingham,
Sir Francis, 46
Our Lady of, 7
Wentworth, Thomas, Fourth Baron Wentworth, 78-80
Williamson, Sir Joseph, 147
Wilson, Thomas, Arte of Rhetoric, 24
Windebanke, Sir Thomas, 145
Wingfield,
Sir Richard, 12
Sir Robert, 12
Winsor, Sir Edward, 49
Winter, Thomas, 11
Women, 28, 34, 55
Wood, Anthony à, ix, 124
Worde, Wynkin de, 4
Wotton,
Sir Edward, 10, 127
Sir Henry, 41, 78-80, 95-98, 155
Sir Nicholas, 12
Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 12
Zouche, Edward la, Eleventh Baron Zouche of Harringworth, 38, 60, 87
Zwingerus, Theodor, 24, 26;
Methodus Apodemica, 24, 33