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<P><HI>LONDONS</HI> Charity inlarged, STILLING The Orphans <HI>CRY.</HI></P>
<P>BY The Liberality of the PARLIAMENT, in granting two Hou&s;es by Act, and giving a thou&s;and pound towards the work for the imploy|ment of the Poor, and education of poor children, who many of them are de&s;troyed in their youth for want of being under a good Government and education, whereby they may be made &s;erviceable for God, and the Commonwealth.</P>
<P><HI>ALSO</HI> This good work is much encouraged by the libe|rall Contributions of many well-affected Citizens of <HI>London,</HI> for the better carying it on for the glory of God, the honor of the Nation, and comfort of the helples Poor.</P>
<P><HI>WITH</HI> A Platform, how many Officers needfull to govern 100 children in a Work-hou&s;e, with Laws and Orders for the Schoolma&s;ter to read to the children once a day for a time, afterwards twice a month, whereby they may be kept under a godly and civill Government, to the great joy of good peopl.</P>
<P>With other Ob&s;ervations worthy the reading.</P>
<P>By <HI>S.H.</HI> a well-wi&s;her to the Nations pro&s;perity, and the Poors comfort.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>Matth. Symmons,</HI> and <HI>Robert Ibbit&s;on,</HI> 1650.</P>
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<HEAD>The Orphans Cry, We peri&s;h, we die.</HEAD>
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<L>As we you <HI>&s;ee</HI></L>
<L>So may yours <HI>bee</HI></L>
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<L>For the Lords &s;ake</L>
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<L>Lay not this &s;in to their charge</L>
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<HEAD>To the Right Honorable <HI>Thomas Foot,</HI> Lord Mayor of the City of <HI>London,</HI> with the Wor&s;hip|full Sheriffes, and to the Gentlemen of the Cor|poration for the <HI>Poor,</HI> both Aldermen and Com|mon-councell of the City of <HI>London; S.H.</HI> wi&s;heth your Lord&s;hip, and the re&s;t, happines in this life, and eternall con&s;olation by Chri&s;t Je&s;us in the life to come.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honorable, With the re&s;t of the Gentlemen:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I Hope this is the Year of Jubilee, or Joy to the Poor, and all Gods peopl, and that by your helps and a&s;&s;i&s;tance, concurring toge|ther, &s;uch a work of Reformation will bee &s;et on foot, and caried on for the good of the Poor, as well for their &s;ouls, as their bodies, as was never &s;o exactly performed in former ages in our Nation.</P>
<P>The work of the Poor con&s;i&s;ts in two things, <HI>viz.</HI>
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<ITEM><HI>Comfort, the hone&s;t helples Poor.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Reform, the ob&s;tinate ungodly Poor.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>And for your ground and Authority to cary you on in the performance of this good work, you hav
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<ITEM>1 The Law and Command of our God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 The Laws of our Land, and the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of Parlia|ment if you need</ITEM>
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<P N="1">1 The Law of God &s;aith, <HI>He that will not work, let him not eat:</HI> This would be a &s;ore &s;courge, and &s;mart whip for idle per&s;ons, if Gods Law were &s;o executed, that none &s;hould be &s;uffered to eat, till they had wrought for it (if they were able) this would torment &s;uch per&s;ons (both back and belly) more then ten la&s;hes a day, and &s;uch a re&s;traint from victuall, would in time drive them to works whether they would or no, tho never &s;o &s;tubborn; for if &s;uch
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&s;hould be made to fa&s;t that will not work, one or two dayes, before they eat, they will be glad to fall to his or her labour the third day; for hunger will tame the wilde&s;t Colt, and con&s;train him to come to hand for hey or &s;traw.</P>
<P N="2">2 The Laws of the Land &s;aith, <HI>He that is idle, and may work, and will not, let &s;uch be &s;ent to the hou&s;e of Correction, and there be imployed, and re&s;trained from a begging idle life.</HI></P>
<P>There are other good Laws made again&s;t incorrigible Rogues, which I will omit to &s;peak of, de&s;iring tho&s;e that would know more of them to &s;earch the Statutes of <HI>England,</HI> which are very good in &s;uppre&s;&s;ing the idle, and re|lieving the needy, onely if one thing might be added:</P>
<P>That no lu&s;ty per&s;on &s;hould have the benefit of a Pa&s;&s;e if he lived abov thirty miles from <HI>London;</HI> the rea&s;on why I &s;peak of the di&s;tance of thirty miles, it is becau&s;e the Cariers come two or three times a week, and a letter from the Corpora|tion to the Pari&s;h, and the &s;aid Carier that dwells neare&s;t to the Pari&s;h to cary it; and the Porter that is &s;ervant to the Carier, to cary the &s;aid letter to the Pari&s;h where the Begger &s;aith he was born, or la&s;t dwelled, and he to deli|ver it to the Con&s;table or Collectors for the poor, and they without delay upon a penalty to return an&s;wer by the fir&s;t or &s;econd return of the Carier, and their hands with the hands either of a Ju&s;tice or Mini&s;ter of the Pari&s;h, of the truth, whether ever any &s;uch per&s;on were born there, or inhabited among&s;t them; by this means you will &s;oon di&s;cover much fal&s;hood among&s;t beggers, and much care|le&s;&s;enes among Con&s;tables, in not guiding home the beg|gers to their Pari&s;h, a penalty on them will make them bee carefull; therefore if the Corporation do intend to do the work truly, faithfully, and with advantage to the Com|monwealth, they mu&s;t neither take the word of a wandring begger, nor the true &s;ervice of a careles Con&s;table, for they are both ill members to a well-governed Common|wealth, and will deceive; therefore two letters from the Corporation to the Pari&s;h where the Begger &s;aith he was born, or la&s;t abode will be very nece&s;&s;ary, <HI>viz.</HI> one to know the truth whether ever any &s;uch per&s;on belonged to them,
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by this means you &s;hall have a true account whether the Beggers report be true: The other letter is when the Beg|ger is &s;ent away with the Pa&s;&s;e, to know whether he be come to his Pari&s;h, if not, you &s;hall be &s;ure then to know what Con&s;table was in the fault, that the Begger was not conducted to his Pari&s;h, &s;uch Con&s;tables being fined, will make others beware, this will be little charge to the Cor|poration, and your work done very judiciou&s;ly with care &amp; prudence; for &s;ome Beggers may commit &s;ome mi&s;demeanor in their Country; therefore it is a &s;imple thing to take their word, for they will never tell truth; As for example,</P>
<P>Suppo&s;e a Con&s;table of <HI>London</HI> &s;hould take up a Begger in his Precinct or Pari&s;h, &amp; &s;hould ask him where he was born or la&s;t dwelt, the Begger &s;hould &s;ay, at <HI>York,</HI> or <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> when as peradventure he was neither born, nor inhabited in any of the fore&s;aid Cities, and it may be he was never in that Country in all his life, yet upon the bare word of the Begger the Con&s;table makes his Pa&s;&s;e, corrects him, and &s;ends him away to the place of his birth, or la&s;t abode, as he &s;aith, and when he comes thither, the inhabitants there will own no &s;uch per&s;on, and &s;o he mu&s;t be brought back again to the great trouble of the Country, according to this I will give you a pre&s;ident.</P>
<P>A Gentleman who is now one of the Corporation be|ing Con&s;table, a lu&s;ty Begger was begging in his Pari&s;h, he asked him where he was born, he &s;aid at <HI>Dover,</HI> he cau|&s;ed the Beadle to whip him, and made him his Pa&s;&s;e, and &s;ent him for <HI>Dover,</HI> when he came thither, the Inhabitants of <HI>Dover</HI> would not receive him, they had none &s;uch born there, they &s;ent him back again to <HI>London</HI> from whence he was &s;ent; when the Con&s;table &s;aw him, he admired that the Laws were &s;o defect; and he was &s;ory the Country was &s;o much troubled, by carying, and re-carying to no purpo&s;e; then he asked the Begger where he did ever dwell, he &s;aid at <HI>Bri&s;tol,</HI> the Con&s;table &s;ent him away for that place, and what became of him afterwards he could not tell.</P>
<P>Herein we find it is a trouble to a Commonwealth, that a Con&s;table hav no more proof concerning a wandering Rogues birth or abode, but onely his bare word, which
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may lye if he plea&s;e, as well as tell truth.</P>
<P>Con&s;ider in the next place how a careles' Con&s;table may prove an ill in&s;trument to the Commonwealth; for if a lu&s;ty Begger pa&s;&s;e through the hands of many Con&s;tables &s;afe as he is carying along the Country; yet if at la&s;t he fall into the hands of a careles Con&s;table he can make his e&s;cape and go into another part of our Nation, and continue &s;till a trouble and a danger to the Commonwealth, for &s;ome of them are very de&s;perate and envious; if a Farmer give not them an alms to their own mind, or a cro&s;&s;e-word, they care no more to &s;et his Barn and Ricks of corn on fire, then to light a pipe of Tobacco, &s;o de&s;perate many of them are to do a mi&s;chief by day or by night; wherefore in my ap|prehen&s;ion ther's no better way to guide Beggers to their homes then by way of the Carier, for &s;ome Cariers hav been complained of for bringing boyes and girles, and leave them at <HI>London</HI> upon the charge of this City.</P>
<P>I conceive a Carier or Wagoner are the fitte&s;t men to convey Beggers, that dwell about 30 miles from <HI>London,</HI> for Trunk; provided the Pari&s;h pay the Carier for his paines, and if the Carier or Wagoner do not perform their care for the good of the Commonwealth, let a penalty be laid up|on on them, by this means, the Con&s;table will be freed, and the Country ea&s;ed of &s;uch per&s;ons that are a pe&s;t and trouble to our Nation.</P>
<P>And if in ca&s;e a lu&s;ty vagrant &s;hould &s;ay he was born a hundred miles or more, not then to have a Pa&s;&s;e, but rather be kept to work either in the hou&s;e of Correction, or in the Gallies, or clen&s;ing of &s;treets, I mean little narrow places where carts &s;eldome come, with &s;uch like imployment, till &s;uch time they can be &s;ent to the Engli&s;h Plantations, un|le&s;&s;e &s;uch can procure good &s;ecurity to live orderly.</P>
<P>I have no more to &s;ay, but be&s;eech the Lord that your Lord&s;hip, with the re&s;t of the Corporation, may be tender fathers to the hone&s;t poor, and &s;evere to the ob&s;tinate, knowing, as I &s;aid before, you have the Law of God, and our Nation to &s;trengthen your hands, and the power of Parliament to countenance you. For which &s;hal be the daily prayer of him, who is <HI>Your humble &s;ervant,</HI> S.H.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Right Honorable His Excellency, <HI>Tho.</HI> Lord <HI>Fairfax,</HI> Generall of the Engli&s;h Army.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honourable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THat which &s;ets the chiefe&s;t Diadem upon great per&s;ons, is not &s;o much in their birth, and blood Royall, as in their Piety and Charity, &s;uch per&s;ons who&s;e hearts God hath &s;ea&s;oned with the graces of his holy Spirit, they are of a hyer bloud, then tho&s;e that are born from Emperors and great per|&s;ons, &s;uch as they are but born of the fle&s;h, they are not born of the the Spirit: And Chri&s;t tells us, <HI>If we are not born of the Spirit,</HI> that eternall Royall &s;eed, <HI>we &s;hall never enter into the Kingdom of God.</HI> By this we find <HI>(My Lord)</HI> that there is a nece&s;sity to &s;eek after this &s;econd birth, being of the Spirit, &amp; from the Spirit of God, as our fir&s;t birth is of the fle&s;h, and from the fle&s;h of men; the fir&s;t birth is a fading birth that &s;hall peri&s;h; the la&s;t birth is a la&s;ting birth that &s;hal never peri&s;h, it &s;hal never dye, as Chri&s;t &s;aith, <HI>viz.</HI> They &s;hall never dye in the &s;pirit, though they &s;uffer death in the fle&s;h, and our Saviour Chri&s;t bids his peopl, <HI>Not to fear them that can but kill the body, but are not able to de&s;troy the &s;oul.</HI></P>
<P><HI>My Lord,</HI> I hear many boa&s;t of their fir&s;t birth, which is but from &s;infull man at the be&s;t; but I hear but few in compari|&s;on of the other to boa&s;t or glory any thing in their &s;econd, which is from the highe&s;t birth Royall of all, ina&s;much as the is none greater then he, who is not only called King of Kings, but King of the Saints, that is King of Kings to overpower them, <HI>for they are in hands like Rivers of water,</HI> that have their tydes, who have their flowings and &s;wellings, eb|bings
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and fallings, as plea&s;eth the Lord; and he is al&s;o cal|led the King of Saints, becau&s;e he is their Governor and Protector; therefore he is not a&s;hamed to &s;ay, <HI>I will be your Father, and you &s;hall be my children;</HI> and Chri&s;t his dear Son, is not a&s;hamed to call them Brethren. By this we find that the Saints, whether rich or poor, noble or ignoble, are in great favour with God and Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>And the Apo&s;tle St. <HI>James</HI> &s;aith, <HI>God loves the poor that are rich in faith;</HI> and the poor &s;o qualified, through the grace of Je|&s;us Chri&s;t, are in a capacity to hav a right to the hy birth-right of the Royall bloud of Heaven, which is the hye&s;t birth and bloud of all: And truly, <HI>My Lord,</HI> whereas God and Chri&s;t loves the poor, I re|joyce when I &s;ee rich men, and great men love the poor that excell in vertue; And this I mu&s;t &s;peak to the Honor of your Excellency, that both your &s;elf, and the Officers of your Army, have been cordiall in propagating the cau&s;e of the poor, and their mi&s;eries, in that your Lord|&s;hip upon reque&s;t of &s;ome wel-affected, to &s;end two or three Letters, &s;ome of them to the Parliament, and one to the Lord Mayor of the City of <HI>London,</HI> late decea&s;t, that they would improve their power and in|tere&s;t for the carying on of this good work, That poor children that beg, may hav maintenance, imployment, and godly education; and all &s;orts of wandring poor kept under a daily government, whereby God may be glorified, and good peopl hav joy and comfort in it; 'tis a mercy to a Nation when great men are good men, &s;eeking to advance Piety and Charity more then their own honors, and we hav cau&s;e to bles God, that hath made you in&s;trumentall for the honor of God, and the good of the poor, and for the continuance of the&s;e mercies to the Nation: It &s;hall be my daily prayer, with the peopl of God, that Piety and Charity may never fail you to your dying day, and that you may then everla&s;tingly enjoy that heavenly birth-right, and by bloud Royall &s;poken of before.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Excellencies mo&s;t humble &s;ervant in the Lord. <HI>S. H.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To the Reader,</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Chri&s;tian Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_PICTURS of mi&s;ery, mooves the hearts of mercifull peopl to greev, the condition of the poor is like the pi|cturs in the begining of the Book, decypher'd out; &s;ome Crying, &s;ome Dying in the Streets, if thou de&s;ire&s;t to remedy the&s;e mi&s;eries, by thy liberall contributions, according to that portion God hath given thee, thou do&s;t like a good Steward; and God and Chri&s;t who is the Father and Saviour of the poor, who are rich in faith, will Crowne thee with mer|cies here, and with glory and life Eternall in Heaven hereafter; but if thou ha&s;t this Worlds good, and yet are mi&s;erable and hard hearted, and regarde&s;t not to advance &s;o good a worke, as imploying the poor, take heed thy condition be not like his that <HI>Solomon</HI> &s;peaks of, &s;aying, <HI>He that withholdeth Corne in the time of Famine, the Poor &s;hall cur&s;e him:</HI> I de&s;ire of God, that thy coveteou&s;ne&s;&s;e may not abound &s;o much upon thee, that the Cur&s;e of God and the cur&s;e of the Poor &s;hould fall upon thee. Remember how much <HI>Dives</HI> Doggs were kinder to poor <HI>Laza|rus</HI> then their Ma&s;ter, for they came and licked <HI>Lazarus</HI> Soars, when as their Ma&s;ter would not give a Penny towards the poor mans Cure, &s;o farr in love with his money was he. <HI>But what was the end of his cruelty?</HI> Perpetuall woe and mi&s;ery, as the Scripture &s;aith; and becau&s;e he had not a favour to the poor man, he lo&s;t the favour of God. Thou know|e&s;t not what a third Warr will produce, for, rumours are abroad, there|fore I councel thee to be liberall to advance this good work of the Poor, while thou ha&s;t it, that God may &s;hew mercy upon thy Soul and Body, and pre&s;erve the re&s;t of thy Riches from forreign Plunderers, and doubt not, but God will favour thy life and E&s;tate, when thou favoure&s;t the Poor.</P>
<P>The advance of this worke we hope will produce great joy to the Na|tion, and we hope that the Parliament will to their utmo&s;t &s;tand for the honour of God, and the good of the peopl, which con&s;i&s;ts in piety and charity; that is, by advancing the Go&s;pell of Chri&s;t, and &s;eeking the peace of the Nation, for &s;o in &s;everall Ordinances they have declared to doe.</P>
<P N="1">1. They have declared they will provide maintainance for Preaching Mini&s;ters in <HI>England,</HI> tho yet many places therof are in darkne&s;&s;e, want|ing, as al&s;o for other Countreys beyond the Seas belonging to this Nati|no that the word of the Lord may have its free cour&s;e and be glorified a|mong&s;t them as it is with us in this Citty of <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P N="2"><PB N="8" REF="6">2. They will endeavour that the releife and imployment of the poor may be &s;ettled in all Citties and Market Townes of the Nation, as in <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. They will endeavour the relea&s;ment of poor Pri&s;oners that are not able to pay their hard hearted Creditors, and yet lye in Pri&s;on for a &s;mall Debt; and as for &s;uch that lye in Pri&s;on and are able to pay, and will not doe it, being the undoing of many a poor man and his Family, which doth occa&s;ion great poverty upon the Nation.</P>
<P N="3">3. They will endeavour to appoint Friend-makers in all great Pa|ri&s;hes of the Nation, that the mighty may not oppre&s;&s;e the poor; this is a worke of great concernment, and will prevent much poverty in the Nation, and bring glory to God, and honour to the Parliament: God is angry with oppre&s;&s;ors, as he was with King <HI>Pharaoh,</HI> and it was his end throuwe, and God &s;aith, they that oppre&s;&s;e the Widdow, the Fa|therle&s;&s;e, the Stranger, the poor, he will take away their Oppre&s;&s;ors with hornes, and fi&s;h-hooks, he will not heare their cry in di&s;tre&s;&s;e, but will Scatter them among all Nations, a fearfull judgement will fall on &s;uch as neglect to &s;ettle a &s;hort and &s;peedy way to right the poor again&s;t their oppre&s;&s;ors; therefore it was a good &s;aying of one, <HI>That quick Ju&s;tice makes quiet Kingdomes,</HI> but <HI>Forma pauperis</HI> are oft times tedious to the undoing of many a poore man, and al&s;o many actions ari&s;ing more from malice then matter, are a meanes to impoveri&s;h many a poor body. And truly I mu&s;t &s;peak plainly, it &s;tands upon the Parliam<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t, to di&s;patch the&s;e high and publick things out of hand, for the peace and pro&s;perity of the Common-wealth, for the hone&s;t rich, and mercifull &amp; comfortles poor, whither Pri&s;oners or others, wait for a reformation, as the thir&s;ty ground for raine, and indeed I mu&s;t &s;ay, there is as great need for the Parlia|ment to find out ways and means to pre&s;erve peopl from poverty, by Oppre&s;&s;ors or otherwi&s;e, as it &s;tands upon them to keep peopl from &s;tar|ving when they are poor.</P>
<P>And now Chri&s;tian Reader, thou that art cordiall for a godly refor|mation, and de&s;ire&s;t not onely that &s;wearing, Sabboath-breaking and drunkennes may be pull'd downe, but al&s;o oppre&s;&s;ion, which is like a vi|olent &s;torme, and &s;weeping raine, as <HI>Solomon</HI> &s;ayth, but al&s;o de&s;ire&s;t, that good things may be planted throughout the Nation for the glory of God, and the peace and pro&s;perity of it.</P>
<P>Wherefore I pray thee be not impatient or unbeleeving, but pray, and wayt, and thou &s;halt &s;ee the Parliament will act &s;uddenly, according to the hearts de&s;ire of the godly, and mercifull, rich and the oppre&s;&s;ed poor, for the fini&s;hing and perfecting of all which, &s;hall be the dayly prayer of him, who de&s;ires to be,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thine in the Lord Chri&s;t, <HI>S. H</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>LONDONS</HI> Charity Inlarged, Stilling the Orphans Cry.</HEAD>
<P>_THE Corporation appointed by Authority of Parliament for the well ordering of the Poor within the Citty of <HI>London,</HI> and the Liberties, that the hone&s;t poor who are willing to worke, may be countenanced, and the idle &s;uppre&s;&s;ed; and the &s;aid Corporation I hope doth de&s;ire to acquaint all well affected peopl that are willing to advance this pious and charitable worke by their liberall contributions what their intents and purpo&s;es are (by Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance) to carry on the fore&s;aid good worke: And,</P>
<P>Therefore to take off all jealou&s;ies that none may have the lea&s;t &s;u&s;pi|tion of their fidelity, as well in relation to the pre&s;erving of the &s;tock as al&s;o in performing the good worke &s;o long de&s;ired by many good peopl, &s;hall be declared as a well wi&s;her to them in the&s;e particulars en&s;uing.</P>
<P N="1">1. They will endeavour that the Lord Mayor may be moved to &s;end his precepts to the Mar&s;halls and Con&s;tables, and Beadles of the Citty of <HI>London,</HI> to bring all idle per&s;ons to Bridewell and the Workhou&s;es, and to allow &s;omthing to the Officers for every one they &s;hall bring to the afore&s;aid places; that the Corporation may know how the better to di&s;po&s;e of them, either for Sea or Land.</P>
<P N="2">2. I hope they de&s;ire an unanimous conjunction with the Governours of Bridewell, <HI>London,</HI> that they may a&s;&s;i&s;t each other by taking up, and imploying to worke all the lu&s;ty poor they find begging.</P>
<P N="3">3. I hope they will endeavour that the &s;aid lu&s;ty poor be kept hard to worke, and not to depart thence at lea&s;t, till he or &s;hee have beene there a Moneth, unle&s;&s;e they can give &s;ufficient &s;ecurity to the Corporation and Governours of Bridewell that they will behave them&s;elves civilly and orderly, leaving off the trade of a begging idle life.</P>
<P N="4"><PB N="10" REF="7">4. I hope they will indeavour that all &s;uch as are acquitted for petty Fellony may not be &s;et at liberty, as formerly they have been, for within a Moneth or le&s;&s;e they have fallen to their old cour&s;e of &s;tealing, and brought to Pri&s;on againe: therefore that &s;uch upon the di&s;charge out of Pri&s;on, may be brought to the Hou&s;es of Correction, whether it be <HI>Lon|don, We&s;tmin&s;ter, Middle&s;ex,</HI> or <HI>Surrey,</HI> where the party lived, or the the&s;e committed, or el&s;e imployed in the Shipps and Bu&s;&s;es for the fi&s;hing Trade, the better to make them &s;erviceable to the Common-wealth, by reforming their ungodly life.</P>
<P N="5">5. They will endeavour that &s;uch as are incouragable to have po|wer from the Parliament to &s;end them to the Plantations belonging to the Engli&s;h, beyond the Seas, to &s;ee whither God will be plea&s;ed to turne them.</P>
<P N="6">6. I hope they will take care that poore Children may be taught to write and read two houres in a day, &s;o that by that time the Boys come to the age of 12.14. or 16. they will be able to read and write, fit for Apprentices, but &s;uch as are quick witted to make Schollars, and accomp|tants, or what they delight in, either for Sea or Land.</P>
<P>And I hope al&s;o, they will endeavour that &s;uch poor that are willing to worke at home with their Children, that they may have <HI>Hempe, Flax, Cotten-wool,</HI> &amp; other materials to work upon at their own dwellings, they leaving a pawn, or bringing a friend for their &s;ecurity to returne &s;uch ma|terialls againe to the Steward of the Corporation, and not to &s;ell it, or pawne it away for Ale and &s;trong Beere, as &s;ome poor have done their Ma&s;ters worke.</P>
<P N="7">7. I hope they will indeavour to u&s;e all meanes (&s;ome of them being Ju&s;tices of the Peace) to prevent &s;uch Familys from poverty, who are made poor by common drunken Husbands, &s;uch drunkards bring mi&s;e|ry and poverty in the Common-wealth in three relations.</P>
<P N="1">1. By it, they make their Familys poor.</P>
<P N="2">2. By it, they are apt to charge and burthen their Pari&s;hes.</P>
<P N="3">3. By it, they impoveri&s;h the plenty of the Nation, by &s;pending the plenty of it wa&s;tfully, and &s;o threaten a Famine upon us; for two drun|kards will &s;pend more in drunkenne&s;&s;e in one night, then will &s;erve two moderate men halfe a weeke.</P>
<P N="8">8. I could wi&s;h, for the better &s;anctifying of the Lords Day, for &s;o I call it, e&s;pecially from Chri&s;ts Re&s;urrection, becau&s;e then our enemy death was overcome, and our full redemption wrought, that the School|ma&s;ter on every &s;uch Sabboath, keepe the Children and others belong|ing to the Work-hou&s;e, from wandring the Streets and Feilds in Ser|mon
<PB N="11" REF="7">
time by exerci&s;ing his gifts of Prayer, reading of Chapters, &s;inging of P&s;almes, Catechi&s;ing them in &s;uch a Catheci&s;me appoynted by Autho|rity; that Children may be prevented from errors, e&s;pecially that of Free-will, for a man is not &s;aved by his owne works, but the chiefe&s;t hopes &amp; a&s;&s;urancet of his Salvation &s;tandeth upon the&s;e helps en&s;uing.</P>
<P N="1">1. By the free grace of God that pardoneth a &s;inner of his &s;ins; as a mercifull Creditor forgiveth a poor man a Debt, when he hath nothing to pay, as Chri&s;t makes the compari&s;on of the Creditor and the two Debtors, that when they had nothing to pay, the Creditor forgave them, <HI>Luke</HI> 7.4. Meaning God the Creditor, and the two Debtors were <HI>Jew</HI> and <HI>Gentile,</HI> the <HI>Gentile</HI> was the greate&s;t Debtor, for he was for a time a Prodigall, yea without God in the World, having no feare of God be|fore his eyes, but now the worke of grace by Chri&s;t Je&s;us, hath wrought a great reformation in many a poor <HI>Gentiles</HI> &s;oul.</P>
<P N="2">2. As God is the forgiver of &s;in, &s;o he is the giver of power again&s;t &s;in, that is, by his holy and good &s;pirit in converting a &s;inner, which makes the Saints to rejoyce and wonder when the &s;trong holds of Satan in a &s;inner are throwne downe.</P>
<P N="3">3. Means we are &s;aved by faith, that is, beleiving that Chri&s;t Je&s;us was the be&s;t Sacrifice that ever was offered to take away &s;in from &s;inners, therefore Chri&s;t hath gotten him this honour, that he is called the un|&s;potted Lambe of God that taketh away the &s;ins of the World, that who&s;oever beleiveth on him &s;hould never peri&s;h but have everla&s;ting life.</P>
<P N="4">4. Meanes of Salvation is a mans works, where God hath given him &s;ome mea&s;ure of his &s;pirit, for to act. Therefore a man mu&s;t be carefull not to deny his &s;pirit by de&s;pi&s;ing it; nor he mu&s;t not greive the &s;pirit, nor quench the &s;pirit, if any doe, God will be angry with &s;uch, for he hath made man a rationall Creature: therefore the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, we are the workman&s;hip of God, created unto good works; yet we are to know, that without Chri&s;t we can doe nothing that is good, no more then a body can live, when the &s;pirit of life is departed from him; the&s;e are &s;peciall things for a School-ma&s;ter to in&s;truct, and &s;ea&s;on Children with, on Sabboath-days. Al&s;o the reading of good Sermons are very profitable, which I de&s;ire may con&s;i&s;t of the&s;e heads.</P>
<P N="1">1. A Sermon concerning the holy Trinity, in their offices and attri|butes, needfull to be knowne in the&s;e erring times, for &s;ome deny a Tri|nity, &s;ome deny Chri&s;t, and &s;ome deny a unity or &s;pirituall union.</P>
<P N="2">2. Sermon of faith.</P>
<P N="3">3. Of Love.</P>
<P N="4">4. Humblene&s;&s;e of mind in the&s;e proud times.</P>
<P N="5"><PB N="12" REF="8">5. Of &s;obriety and cha&s;tity, in the&s;e drunken and uncha&s;t dayes.</P>
<P N="6">6. Self-denyall, that is, denying ungodline&s;&s;e and Worldly lu&s;ts, we may live righteou&s;ly and &s;oberly, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="7">7. Of the excellency of patience that makes a man intire.</P>
<P N="8">8. Of contentedne&s;&s;e in a low condition, and affl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ction; for godly|ne&s;&s;e with content is great gaine.</P>
<P N="9">9. Of the excellency of truth, which will ca&s;t out of a man, lying and &s;tealing.</P>
<P N="10">10. Of the excellent Joys of Heaven, and chiefly wherein, <HI>Viz.</HI> In be|holding the beauty of God and Chri&s;t, as a Bridegroome delights in the faire beauty of his Bride, above all her riches.</P>
<P N="11">11. The horror of Hell, and chiefly wherein, <HI>Viz.</HI> The lo&s;&s;e of the glorious pre&s;ence of God, and his love and favour; this is a hell beyond the unquenchable fire. The Lord deliver us from it.</P>
<P N="12">12. A Sermon not to be idle, but labour with our hands for the good of the Common-wealth.</P>
<P>T<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e Sermons being read, and the ble&s;&s;ing of Gods &s;pirit carrying on young and old to the practi&s;e of it, who can tell but this may be a meanes to beget abundance of the poorer &s;ort of people, and their Chil|dren to a holy knowledge and obedience to God, in life and conver&s;a|tion, and con&s;ider if any &s;hall &s;cruple at the reading of the&s;e things? I An&s;wer it is ordained of God, as well as preaching. See the&s;e places in Scripture which doe confirme it. <HI>Deut.</HI> 31.11. <HI>Jo&s;h.</HI> 8.34, 35. <HI>Jer.</HI> 36.6. <HI>Dan.</HI> 3.16.17. <HI>Luk.</HI> 4.16. <HI>Act.</HI> 8.30, 31. <HI>Act.</HI> 13.27. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 1.13. <HI>Collo&s;.</HI> 4.16. 1 <HI>The&s;&s;.</HI> 5.27. <HI>Rev.</HI> 5.4.</P>
<P N="9">9. Is in relation to their imployment.</P>
<P N="1">1. Upon the fi&s;hing Trade, this will not onely imploy many thou&s;ands, but al&s;o be a meanes to bring in food for the great releife of the poore. There is a Booke lately come forth very u&s;efull to imploy hou&s;ands of peopl for the advance of Fi&s;hing, and are &s;old at the <HI>Grey|bound</HI> in <HI>Little-brittaine.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. The Children &s;hall be imployed to &s;pinning, knitting, and &s;owing, and &s;uch other imployment as con&s;i&s;ts to the making of their owne Cloathes, therefore to have a Weaver to weave the Cloath, and a Taylor to make and mend their Cloathes; other imployments in time may be found out, which may be very a&s;&s;i&s;tfull to Handycraft-Trade&s;|men, and the good of the Marchant.</P>
<P N="10">10. Is in relation to Rayment and Food for the Children.</P>
<P N="1">1. For their Rayment, a c<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ur&s;e Woollen &s;uite for winter, and a Can|is or &s;uch like for &s;ummer, as for their food, I will &s;peake of it after|wards.</P>
<P N="11"><PB N="13" REF="8">11. Is in relation to their Recreation.</P>
<P N="1">1. Sometime warlike excerci&s;e, which many Children take much de|light in, this recreation will be comodious to the Common-wealth, by bringing them up, &s;ome for the Drum, and Pipe, &s;ome for the Trumpet, and all will be &s;kil'd with Warlike termes and po&s;tures, which they will not forget when they come to be Men.</P>
<P>This excerci&s;e to be performed by each VVork hou&s;e at home once a weeke, or fortnight, and once a moneth in &s;ummer time in &s;ome conve|nient place, then, and there all the Children of ability of body, in the VVork hou&s;es to meete together, to excerci&s;e their &s;kill and valour.</P>
<P>Other Recreations may be u&s;ed in winter time, as the Children of Chri&s;ts Church doe, for the &s;harpening of their wits, reviving their &s;pi|rits, and preventing them from Scurvyes, and drop&s;ies, and &s;uch like.</P>
<P>This u&s;age of Children &s;erves to confute the thoughts of &s;ome, that thought the Corporation would not be &s;o kinde, and tender-hearted un|to poor Children; and therefore to take off all jeal<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;ies, I &s;hall be bold to &s;ay this of the Corporation, I verily beleive that &s;uch Children whom God doth endue with grace, and towardlyne&s;&s;e of carriage, they will be willing to prefer to the be&s;t &s;ervices and hone&s;t Ma&s;ters they can get for them, for the better joy and comfort of &s;uch poor that live orderly.</P>
<P N="12">12. I hope the Corporation will endeavour that all &s;uch well minded peopl, whom God hath inriched with this Worlds good, and having their hearts inlarged to the poor, by giving them Bread and other food, one day in the VV<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ek<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, or more, to as many as come to their Doores, as to my knowledge &s;ome rich Bakers of <HI>London</HI> do, that &s;uch bread or any other provi&s;ion as they, or any el&s;e, that &s;hall give, may be fetched from their Hou&s;es by the Beadle or the like Officers, for the releife of the poor in the VVorkhou&s;es, which will be a con&s;iderable thing to up|hold the &s;tock, becau&s;e much of the &s;tock will be &s;pent towards feeding &amp; cloathing the young Children, and that the Beadle or other officer be carefull for the receiving of it, having two or three of the people of the VVork-hou&s;es to goe with him in gathering it, and they to deliver it to the cooke or Sutler, for the u&s;e of the Poor. This al&s;o will be a great &s;uccor to &s;uch VVomen that beg with little Children in their armes and hands, for bread, and broth, and beere, are the chiefe&s;t things that Children feede upon, all which will be had with little charge to the Corporation: onely the Beadle or Officer for his paines, and I beleive &s;ome men will, from a charitable di&s;po&s;ition, doe it for little gaines, becau&s;e it is for the honour of God, and the good of the poor.</P>
<P N="13"><PB N="14" REF="9">13. And la&s;tly, I hope they will endeavoor that the&s;e en&s;uing Lawes may once or twice a weeke for a time, be publi&s;hed to the Children by the School-ma&s;ter, for the better regulating them in the feare of God.</P>
<P N="1">1. THat none young nor old in the Work-hou&s;e &s;hall &s;weare, neither by the name of God, nor the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2. That none eyther young or old give their tongues to lying, rayling, filthy talking, or &s;inging ribbauld Songs.</P>
<P N="3">3. That none &s;coff at any man or Womans per&s;on, being Deformed, &s;eeing it is the Workman&s;hip of God, who might have layd it upon thee that &s;coffe&s;t; nor to &s;coff at any mans profe&s;&s;ion being never &s;o low and mean in the World, if needfull in the Common-wealth.</P>
<P N="4">4. That none have any cur&s;ed wi&s;hes in their tongues to any, neyther in the Work-hou&s;e nor abroad.</P>
<P N="5">5. That none give their hands to &s;tealing, or imbezel|ing any of the goods of the Corporation, or any of their Fellows goods belonging to them in the Work-hou&s;e.</P>
<P>And if any refu&s;e to obey the&s;e, or the like whol&s;ome Lawes, and Orders of the Work-hou&s;e and de&s;pi&s;eth to be under the Government and Correction of &s;uch puni&s;h|ment as the Corporation &s;hall thinke meete for &s;uch of|fences, greater or le&s;&s;er, that then they be &s;ent to Bridewell or hou&s;e of Correction, to receive further puni&s;hment for de&s;erts. Con&s;ider that the&s;e Lawes and Orders being read by the afore&s;aid School-ma&s;ter, upon &s;uch dayes as the Corporation &s;hall appoint, and the puni&s;hment executed upon the Offendors, young or old, will be a meanes to make many of them affraid to offend; as it appeares by <HI>Solomons</HI> words, <HI>Prov.</HI> 22.15. <HI>Fooli&s;hne&s;&s;e is bound in the heart of a Child, but the rod of correction &s;hall drive it farr from him.</HI></P>
<P><PB REF="9">Here followeth to be con&s;idered the charge and the gain of imploying the poor in the&s;e particulars en&s;uing:</P>
<P N="1">1 How many officers needfull to govern 100 children.</P>
<P N="2">2 The wages of officers to govern the children from 5 or 6 year old, to 14 or 15.</P>
<P N="3">3 The charge of dyet for &s;uch children who&s;e Parents are dead, or very poor.</P>
<P N="4">4 What profit will ari&s;e out of their labour towards this charge.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, how many officers needfull to order 100 children in each Work-hou&s;e?</P>
<P N="1">1 A Steward. 2 A Schoolma&s;ter. 3 A Cook, or Sutler. 4 A Botcher. 5 A Cobler. 6 A Barber. 7 Five women teachers, to order the &s;aid hundred children in &s;pinning, knit|ing, or the like; in all, there will be need of the&s;e 11 officers.</P>
<P N="2">2 What wages each officer to have yeerly in a competent mea&s;ure for the better pre&s;ervation of the Stock, and a hopefull carying on of this good work.</P>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL><ABBR><HI>li.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
<CELL><ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
<CELL><ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>1 The Stewards Salary, be&s;ides his lodging,</CELL>
<CELL>50</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>2 The Schoolma&s;ters Salary, with his loding,</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>And if this be thought too little, allow him &s;o much Serge as will make him a Suit and Cloak of the childrens &s;pinning, which will be a good help to him.</P>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL><ABBR><HI>li.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
<CELL><ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
<CELL><ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>3 The Cook or Sutler his Salary,</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>And the benefit of &s;elling bread and beer to the work-peopl, &amp;c.</P>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL><ABBR><HI>li.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
<CELL><ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
<CELL><ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>4 The Botcher his Salary</CELL>
<CELL>6</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>5 The Cobler his Salary,</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>6 The Barber his Salary,</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>7 The 5 women 5 <ABBR><HI>li.</HI></ABBR> a peece Salary, comes to</CELL>
<CELL>25</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="total">120</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="total">0</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="total">0</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>Be&s;ides, if every woman may be allowed a peny out of every &s;hilling the children earn by &s;pining, kniting, or other work, this will not onely be a means to &s;tir up the children, to make them quick-handed, but al&s;o the Teachers, and the Corpora|tion will both gain by it, for the better pre&s;erving the &s;tock for the good of the City; as for example, The five women having 20 children a peece to govern, If each woman after a while, can by her indu&s;try and care, bring her 20 children to earn 12<ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR>
<PB REF="10">
a week a peece, this will bring to the Teacher 20 <ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR> <HI>per</HI> week, but when the children come to earn 18<ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR> <HI>per</HI> week, then it wil be 2 <ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR> 6 <ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR> <HI>per</HI> week, which amounts unto yearly 6 <ABBR><HI>li.</HI></ABBR> 10 <ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR></P>
<P>So that with the allowance of the Corporation 5 <ABBR><HI>li.</HI></ABBR> <HI>per an|num,</HI> with her own care and indu&s;try to forward the children, will amount yeerly to 11 <ABBR><HI>li.</HI></ABBR> 10 <ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR></P>
<P>Con&s;ider, if the Corporation allow a competent mainte|nance to every Officer, they &s;hal be &s;ure not to want an officers or Teacher, when any dye or be removed, for peopl wil &s;ue for an office in the Work-hou&s;e, as Parents &s;ue yearly to get their children in Chri&s;t-church Ho&s;pitall; be&s;ides, after a few years, the Corporation wil hav Teachers of their own trayning up, to &s;erve their occa&s;ion when ever they need.</P>
<P>Having &s;hewn the totall of all the Salaries, for all the Offi|cers amounting to yeerly 120 <ABBR><HI>li.</HI></ABBR></P>
<P N="3">3 I come now to &s;peak of the charg of dyet for the 100 children, this will be a thing uncertain, becau&s;e all the whole 100 children may not be at the charge of the Corporation for thee meals a day, whether they be &s;trangers or inhabitants, for that were to bring a va&s;t charge upon the Corporation and City; and if the Corporation &s;hould entertain all that come Ea&s;t, We&s;t, North, and South, they &s;hould have ten &s;tran|gers for one Pari&s;hioner, I beleev it is not &s;o intended by them, but rather the livelihood they appoint, is for &s;uch children that are in the Pari&s;h wher the Work-hou&s;e is, or &s;uch Pari&s;hes adjoyning near, or about the Work-hou&s;e, <HI>viz.</HI> &s;uch chil|dren who have neither Father, nor friend; but the Pari&s;hes, and they ought to be the Fathers to them to provide for them, and &s;uch children mu&s;t have three meals a day, and lodging with it.</P>
<P>Another &s;ort of poor children there are, who are the chil|dren of poor widows, or poor Parents, who are &s;o poor they are not abl to pay for their childrens Schooling 3 <ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR> or 4 <ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR> <HI>per</HI> week, much les to find them victels, but are inforc'd to &s;end them, to beg bread, and pottage, or what they can for their livelihood, &s;uch as the&s;e al&s;o to have &s;ome allowance three times a day, except on publick fa&s;t dayes, they going home to their Parents for lodging.</P>
<P>There is another &s;ort of poor children, who&s;e Parents are very poor, yet they &s;end not their children a begging, yet they fare very hard, &s;carce eat a peece of meat throughout the year, who&s;e fare for the mo&s;t part is bread and pottage, and roots
<PB REF="10">
in Winter, and herbs in Summer, or Raddi&s;hes, and Salt, with a peece of bread, without Butter or Chee&s;e, and their drink for the mo&s;t part, fair water from the Pump, and yet ble&s;&s;ed be God, tho the fare be mean, yet they are long livers and healthy.</P>
<P>The&s;e poor peopl if their children might be allowed one meal a day, and their childrens teaching, they would ac|knowledg it a mercy from God, &s;o to put it into the hearts of good peopl, to provide for poor children, and others.</P>
<P>I come now to &s;peak of the allowance of three meals a day, and the charg of it, begining with the Winter &s;ea&s;on, becau&s;e then provi&s;ion is deerer then Summer.</P>
<P N="1">1 For breakfa&s;t in Winter 3 ounces of hou&s;hold bread, a me&s;s of pottage, and half a pinte of drink.</P>
<P>The charg of this meal is about a <HI>ob.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2 For Dinner, 5 ounces of bread, a pint of beer, a me&s;s of pottage, made &s;ometimes of meat, &s;ometimes of milk, and &s;ometimes water-grewel, one herring, or that quantity in other fi&s;h, with a Turnip with it, to qualify the &s;altne&s;s of it.</P>
<P>The charg of this meal will be about 1 <ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR> <HI>ob.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3 For Supper, 4 ounces of bread, half a pint of beer, one Hering with a Turnip, and &s;omtimes broth in cold weather.</P>
<P>The charg of this is about <HI>ob. <ABBR>q</ABBR></HI></P>
<P>By this we find, that the charg of three meals a day, amounts to 2 <ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR> <HI>ob. <ABBR>q</ABBR></HI> this will be the mo&s;t, if the&s;e three things be con|&s;idered, for the improvement of dyet.</P>
<P N="1">1 If the Fi&s;hing trade for the City of <HI>London</HI> be caried on by the Parliament and the City, &s;ome pious per&s;ons with 600 <ABBR><HI>l.</HI></ABBR> &s;tock, will undertake to bring from Sea, fi&s;h monthly for the relief of the poor at the Work-hou&s;e, which will much ea&s;e the Corporation, and the charg will not be &s;o great as to buy all at <HI>London.</HI> Furthermore if a quantity of <HI>London</HI> Bu&s;&s;es may be &s;et out by the Parliament and City, the rich and poor in and about <HI>London</HI> would fare the better by it.</P>
<P N="2">2 If we may buy one time with another ordinary wheat at 6 <ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR> <HI>per</HI> Bu&s;hel, we may allow a child 12 ounces of bread for a peny that is 3 for breakfa&s;t, 5 for dinner, and 4 for &s;upper, with other things with it, all which amounts unto each day ex|cept publick Fa&s;tdayes <TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>2 <ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ob.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">o.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>By the week it amounts to</CELL>
<CELL>1 <ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
<CELL>7<ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
<CELL><HI>q.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>By the yeer about</CELL>
<CELL>4 <ABBR><HI>li.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
<CELL>3<ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
<CELL>6<ABBR><HI>d</HI></ABBR></CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P N="3"><PB REF="11">3 Som yeers we may buy Wheat for 3 <ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR> and 4 <ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR> <HI>per</HI> Bu&s;hel, which now worth 7<ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR> or 8<ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR> <HI>per</HI> Bu&s;hel, &s;o that when 'tis a cheap year of Corn, and our own indu&s;try and labor (all hands working) for carying on the fi&s;hing trade, we &s;hal be abl by Gods ble&s;&s;ing to find our children food at a cheaper rate then I hav &s;et down.</P>
<P>Con&s;ider if one childs dinner co&s;t 1<ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR> <HI>ob.</HI> which is for the whole week 10<ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR> <HI>ob.</HI> as well Sabbath days as others, for &s;o I hope the Corporation do intend to do, that &s;o all boys and girls that come to School or work, may be kept under go|vernment on the Sabbath days, as I &s;aid before, from rambling abroad.</P>
<P>Reckon then if one child co&s;t for one meal a day by the week</P>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>10<ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ob</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>What will the charg be for the yeer</CELL>
<CELL>2<ABBR><HI>li.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
<CELL>5<ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
<CELL>6<ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Then reckon for 50 children a yeer is</CELL>
<CELL>113<ABBR><HI>li</HI></ABBR></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>15<ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Con&s;ider then, 50 children 3 meals <HI>per</HI> day, amounts to by the yeer about</CELL>
<CELL>227 <ABBR><HI>li</HI></ABBR></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>10<ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>Now reckon the charg of 100 childrens diet, as well tho&s;e 50 that are to hav but one meal a day, as tho&s;e that are to hav 3 meals a day, and &s;ee what the whole charg amounts unto.</P>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>Their charg of diet amounts unto yeerly about</CELL>
<CELL>341 <ABBR><HI>li.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
<CELL>5 <ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Officers Salary amounts to yeerly</CELL>
<CELL>120 <ABBR><HI>li.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>In all it comes to</CELL>
<CELL>461 <ABBR><HI>li.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
<CELL>5<ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>Here is the whole charg laid down in as low a maner as may be in Chri&s;tian charity, as well for the &s;malne&s;s of the wages for the officers, as the littlenes of the meals for the children; and tho the allowance be &s;mall, yet it will be a great refre&s;h|ment to many a poor child, for nature is content with littl, and grace with le&s;s. Al&s;o the contributors to this good work may &s;ee the care of the Corporation is &s;o much for the good of the City, that they would competently refre&s;h the poor, and not wa&s;t and lavi&s;h the &s;tock; but that this charitabl work may be held up for ages, by Gods ble&s;&s;ing, and good mens endeavor.</P>
<P>Upon the pro&s;perity of the fi&s;hing trade, for the better ea&s;e of the charg of diet, if children eat fi&s;h 4 times a Week; that is, on Mundays, Wedne&s;days, Fridays, and Saturdays, and meat on Sabbath days, and Thur&s;days. A quarter of a pound of Beef for a child is the allowance of Chri&s;ts Church Ho&s;pitall to their children; and on Tue&s;days a little dumpling or pudding, a
<PB REF="11">
fare that mo&s;t children delight in; and this note, if children be refre&s;ht in Winter with 7 meals for 10<ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR> <HI>ob.</HI> in Summer, pro|vi&s;ion is cheaper.</P>
<P N="4">4 Particular, What profit the&s;e 100 children will bring in weekly by their labour towards this great charg.</P>
<P>Suppo&s;e after 2 or 3 months teaching, by the care of the Teachers, the children may be brought to earn 12 <ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR> <HI>per</HI> week a child, one with the other, <HI>viz.</HI> &s;om children, tho in 2 or 3 months teaching cannot earn 12 <ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR> <HI>per</HI> week, by rea&s;on they are dull, and heavy handed, yet others being quick-witted, and nimble-handed, may earn above 12 <ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR> <HI>per</HI> week, &s;o that one with the other, they may earn 12 <ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR> <HI>per</HI> week or more.</P>
<P>Reckon if 100 children by their labour, earn 12 <ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR> <HI>per</HI> week one with the other, it amounts to <HI>per</HI> week, 5<ABBR><HI>li.</HI></ABBR> and 5<ABBR><HI>li.</HI></ABBR> <HI>per</HI> week, by the yeer amounts to 260 <ABBR><HI>li.</HI></ABBR></P>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>The charg of Officers, and diet, being yeerly</CELL>
<CELL>461<ABBR><HI>li.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
<CELL>5<ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The lo&s;s is yeerly</CELL>
<CELL>201 <ABBR><HI>li.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
<CELL>5<ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR></CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>Con&s;ider then, when the children come to earn 18<ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR> <HI>per</HI> week or more, the lo&s;s will not be &s;o great; but put the ea&s;e the Corporation &s;hould lo&s;e 200 <ABBR><HI>li.</HI></ABBR> yeer, yet the Church of God, and the Commonwealth will gain by it, but he that &s;eeks his own intere&s;t above the honor of God and the Com|monwealth, &s;hews him&s;elf to be no true friend to God, nor the Commonwealth; therefore I coun&s;ell all peopl hy and low to their uttermo&s;t, advance the honor of God, and the good of the Commonwealth, le&s;t they fall and peri&s;h, as many great men have done of late; for 'tis dangerous when God and a Commonwealth, eys a man as no friend to them.</P>
<P>The work of well-ordering the poor is a rare work, and by it three excellent things will be produced, toward a good Re|formation.</P>
<P N="1">1 Gods honor will be &s;et up, when that that is good is ad|vanced.</P>
<P N="2">2 The peopl of God will rejoyce, when &s;in in children and others is beat down.</P>
<P N="3">3 The poor children will have a benefit by it, becau&s;e thereby they are like to be made &s;erviceabl for the Commonwealth; o|therwi&s;e, they wil be as thorns in the &s;ids of the Nation; wher|fore I rejoyce when I &s;ee great men in hy places to have pious hearts, and publick &s;pirits, &s;uch per&s;ons God, and a Nation
<PB REF="12">
will &s;tand for, again&s;t all their enemies, and he will make their enemies to be at peace with them.</P>
<P>But as for &s;uch that are enemies to this good work, either by oppo&s;ing it in their words, and works, or by &s;tarving it with their poor and &s;mall charitys, I fear God hath a cur&s;e for them here, or a wo for them hereafter, <HI>When Chri&s;t &s;hall &s;ay, Go ye cur&s;ed into everla&s;ting fire prepared for the Devill, and it is angels:</HI> And Chri&s;t will &s;ay to &s;uch, <HI>Ina&s;much as ye have not don it to the poor, ye have not don it to me:</HI> Such oppo&s;ers of charitabl good works, when they &s;hall com upon their death-beds, they will then wi&s;h they had given half their e&s;tates with <HI>Zacheus,</HI> that they could then ob|tain the love of a Chri&s;t, and the happine&s;s of a <HI>Zacheus,</HI> that &s;alvation might com unto their hou&s;e, as it did unto his; ther|fore I wi&s;h all rich men that de&s;ire to obtain the love of a Chri&s;t, to make their hands and their eys, their fir&s;t executors, becau&s;e their la&s;t executors may deceive them, as &s;om have don.</P>
<P>Con&s;ider, if children are kept under government and imploy|ment, they are the fitter for Trade&s;men, &amp; others, and &s;o therby, made &s;erviceabl to the Commonwealth, &s;o that the lo&s;s of 200<ABBR><HI>l.</HI></ABBR> is the pre&s;erving of 100 children from ruin: therefore we conclude, if the City of <HI>London</HI> &s;hould lo&s;e 1000<ABBR><HI>l.</HI></ABBR> <HI>per annum</HI> in this work, yet they would gain by it, in the pre&s;ervation of 500 children, and more; for if children are not kept under a government, they will in time grow to a generation of ungod|ly wretches, having no fear of God before their eys, and &s;o be|come a di&s;honor to God, and a burden to the Commonwealth.</P>
<P>Therefore let us judge &s;eriou&s;ly, which will be the greate&s;t lo&s;s, either mony or peopl to a Commonwealth? <HI>viz.</HI> whether 500 children &s;hould peri&s;h yeerly, rather then the City of <HI>Lon|don</HI> &s;hould lo&s;e 1000 <ABBR><HI>l.</HI></ABBR> over and above their other common charity?</P>
<P>If ungodly, uncharitable muck-worms &s;hould &s;ay, we had rather &s;ee 500 children beg and &s;tarve yeerly, rather then the City of <HI>London</HI> &s;hould lo&s;e 1000 <ABBR><HI>l.</HI></ABBR> yeerly towards poor chil|drens education and relief; I would &s;ay to &s;uch unchri&s;tian like peopl, as St. <HI>Peter</HI> &s;aid to <HI>Simon Magus,</HI> thy mony peri&s;h with thee; &s;o &s;ay I, let their mony peri&s;h with them, rather then poor &s;ouls &s;hould peri&s;h for the want of &s;o &s;mall a portion of food for a meal, as I have &s;et down before.</P>
<P><PB REF="12">And whereas the lo&s;&s;e of 200<ABBR><HI>li.</HI></ABBR> ari&s;eth in the dyeting of 100 children, if the&s;e in&s;uing helps may be gained; the lo&s;&s;e wil then be very little, which is by way of gathering from Bakers and others, who give bread one or two days a week con&s;tantly to the poor at their doors, but if the poor of the work-hou&s;es might have it, they would rather give it there. For I under&s;tand there are many ho|nourable and rich per&s;ons in and about <HI>London</HI> are re&s;olved to give no more at their doors, &s;ince they have heard of a Corporation ap|pointed to regulate the poor by work, and other good govern|ment, therefore as Chri&s;t &s;aid. <HI>Take up the fragments that nothing be lo&s;t.</HI> I beleeve the practi&s;e of this wil &s;ave the City of <HI>London,</HI> 500<ABBR><HI>l.</HI></ABBR> <HI>per annum</HI> or more, otherwi&s;e it wil be lo&s;t.</P>
<P>As I have &s;poken of the officers and their &s;alleries, &s;o I de&s;ire to &s;hew what is the cheife worke of a Steward to do, and what the School-ma&s;ters work is, and the Cook or Suttlers is,</P>
<P N="1">1 The Stewards work is, to keep books of accounts, one book is, what he receives from the Trea&s;urer, either monys, or materials received from the publick &s;tore hou&s;e, appointed by the Corpora|tion, for the laying in of wool, hemp, flax, &amp;c.</P>
<P>The &s;econd Book is, what commodities are delivered out, to work-people in the hou&s;e, or abroad.</P>
<P N="3">3 Book is, for the commodities received when tis wrought.</P>
<P N="4">4 Book is, to take notice of what lo&s;&s;e was in any pounds of wool, hemp, flax, or cotten wool, as well in weight as tale, this will be a means to prevent &s;tealing and carele&s;nes, &s;uch lo&s;&s;es the workers to make good, be&s;ides the allowance, &s;ome ma&s;ters al|low one ounce in the pound lo&s;&s;e in childrens work.</P>
<P N="2">2 His care is to &s;ee to the hou&s;e, that it be &s;wept and wa&s;ht, and kept clean and whol&s;om, when the Corporation or &s;trangers come into it, to &s;ee the people at work.</P>
<P N="3">3 His care to &s;ee the In&s;truments belonging to the work peo|ple, that they be pre&s;erved, and if any hap to be brok, or out of or|der to &s;ee them repaired, and to buy &s;uch things as the Corporati|on &s;hall appoint.</P>
<P>The&s;e are the cheife&s;t things the Steward is to perform, for the honour of the worke.</P>
<P><LIST>
<HEAD>The office of the Schoole-Ma&s;ter is,</HEAD>
<ITEM>1 To pray with the people once a day at lea&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 To teach the children to read &amp; write, 2 hours in a day, one in the forenoon, the other in the afternoon, the re&s;t of the day to work</ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="13">3 To read the lawes and orders at certain times to the children, to the end they may know how to walk before God and men, for the law read, is a terrour to mild children, and &s;uch will reproov others that are more &s;tuborn, &s;aying I will tel my Ma&s;ter, becau&s;e you did &s;wear, or you did this or that evill, contrary to the Laws of the work-hou&s;e, the&s;e words falling from the child will daunt the reprooved.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 To exerci&s;e tho&s;e gifts, God hath given him, on the Sabbath days, by prayer, reading of Chapters, and Sermons, as afore-mentioned, and catechizing the children, by this meanes the &s;treets and fields will bee cleared of many idle children who now &s;pend their days in wickedne&s;&s;e, to the di&s;honor of God, and the di&s;grace of this City, and Common wealth.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>When God &s;hall be plea&s;ed to bring this Government, then rich and poore, affected with goodne&s;&s;e &s;hal &s;ay, <HI>Happy art thou O</HI> England <HI>in this thy Reformation, and ble&s;&s;ed be thy God for it.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3 The office of the Cook or Sutler, to provide &s;uch provi&s;ion for the chil|dren as the Corporation &s;hall appoint.</P>
<P N="1">1 By taking care, that all &s;uch provi&s;ion that &s;hall be given weekly by well di&s;po&s;ed people, for the comfort of poor children, whether it bee Bread from Bakers, Beer and Broth from Taverns Innes, &amp; others, or what el&s;e any &s;hall provide, for the maintenance and upholding this good worke.</P>
<P N="2">2 For his better livelyhood, that he provide Bread and Beer, and &s;uch like for the comfort of poor people that work in the hou&s;e, for they will be glad to have it nigh them, that they may not be hindred of their work: be&s;ides, the having of it by &s;mall quantities, farthings and halfe penny worths, as they have need.</P>
<P>The&s;e are the cheife&s;t things, that the&s;e three officers are to act, for the glory of God, the honour of the Corporation, and the comfort of the poor, that none may peri&s;h for want of bread, as many have done of late; witne&s;&s;e &s;ome about <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> that lived upon Dogs and Cats the&s;e deer and hard times; others upon Bea&s;ts blood and Brewers graines boyled together, and the poor woman that killed her child, and dyed for it the la&s;t Se&s;&s;ions 1649. upon her exami|nation, &s;he confe&s;t extream need and feare of famine occa&s;ioned it.</P>
<P>To conclude, for the better releife of the poor, it was well ob&s;erved of one, who &s;aid, that <HI>England</HI> had many hundred of Acres of waft and barren lands, and many thou&s;ands of idle hands, if both the&s;e might be improved, <HI>Eng|land</HI> by Gods ble&s;&s;ing would grow to be a richer Nation then it is now by far.</P>
<P>A Parliament power would do much towards this work, to make it generall throughout the Nation, by cau&s;ing all planting of Tobacco to be thrown down in <HI>England,</HI> which is a hinderance to the poor Engli&s;hmen beyond the Seas, and a wrong to the cu&s;tom, if they &s;ell it in other Countries for want of vent here, that &s;uch lands may be imployed in &s;owing Hemp, and Flax, and Roots, and planting of trees for fruit and fuel, all which would be a great &s;uccour to the poor, as well to imploy them, as releive them; the Parliament have intentions to make this good worke of imploying and releiving the poor, generally throughout the Nation. The great God of heaven is able to make them to act and perform it for a generall good.</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
<BACK>
<DIV1 TYPE="imprimatur">
<P>April 12. 1650. Imprimatur, <HI>Iohn Downam.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
</BACK>
</TEXT>
</EEBO>
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