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A07548	The custumers alphabet and primer Conteining, their creede or beliefe in the true doctrine of Christian religion. Their ten commandementes, or rules of ciuill life and conuersation, daily grace, generall confession, speciall supplication and forme of prayers. Togither with a pertinent answere to all such, as eyther in iest or in earnest, seeming doubtfull themselues, would faine perswade others, that, the bringing home of traffique must needes decay our shipping. All tending to the true and assured aduancement of his Maiesties customes, without possibility of fraude or couyn. Alwaies prouided, in reading read all, or nothing at al.	Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627?	1608 (1608)	STC 17927; ESTC S114606	45,944	46

of their SEALES makes Deity in nature to be generally adored and Industry in Art to be more or lesse admired to the speciall praise and profit of those Persons and Places that first or last affoord them These are our honest Sacristaines and sure friendes to Trafficke fit for our Altars of Vnity and Truth They haue 12 sworne men besides vnder officers that as Iudges examine each mans worke before it passe the Seales who being skilfull in all the Trades that belong to theyr Drapery are impartriall Censurets of all Defaults aswell in spinning weauing fulling and dying as working for the Buyers behoose euen to the mulct and recompence of a thred and a farthing whose religious affections to the practise of Iustice so blesse their Endeuours that all men admiring the Beautie and Bounty of their Industries and worke desire to possesse them before Gold Siluer to our Soueraignes great Honour and his Peoples speciall wealth These deale not with our Customes nor obtrude vppon our Subsidies but teaching the way how to find out the one and with allacritie how to pay the other attend on Honestum Vtile still together O that our Fleese-wooll were thus vndertaken our Broad-clothes but made and drest in this manner Lastly The Staples of Kent in E 1. E 2. Edward 3. time kept at Sandwich and Canterb where nowe they of the Duch Church dwell was remooued first for 15. yeres to Bridges after placed at Calice the losse wherof being now 50. yeeres since would draw on a speciall Discourse besides this PRIMER These I say and none but these for all theyr followers elswhere haue fayld in their Rules and crazd their credit are the childrens children of our former holy Priestes that first found out the Pit in this Desert of our Land wherein so long a goe the * Read the second of the Machab chap 1. Fire was hid that sanctified all our Tributes and with the muddy moysture onely that therein they found as our Sun did lately shine drew downe that heauenly heat which warmd our frozen Trafficke and would reuiue our Staples if WISDOME saw it good euen when the Pit was dry and to all mens knowledge the Fire was spent and gone But these Farming Vndertakers or vndertaking Farmers seeme men of other skill different professions An Antithesis between the former Vndertakers of Sandwich and those now of London Tritemiae Abbas de occulta philosophia Ioannes Baptista de Porta De furtiuis literarum Notis who drawing their Doctrine frō Tritemius Abbas Steganographia and de Portas learned workes of their priuate Experience haue altered all our Rules of Honestum and Vtile to Lucri bonus odor ex re qualibet and made an Art of Trafficke to purge her spirits by and refine her Tributes from all the vertuous vices vicious vertues of Leekes Onyons and Garlicke by a kind of distillation strange * Theyr new Booke of Rates Limbecke of their owne Now 1. how these men worke 2. What men they are 3. Frō whence their doctrine comes And 4. whereto it tendes are curious Questions and may be worth the spelling For if heauenly Goodnes be the life of Trafficke from whence as Trades doe swarue they turne againe to Nothing And Golde and Siluer our chosen Materialls by true proportions to fix this Goodnes in as we haue learnd to spell Then worke not these in Gods Name like plaine-meaning Men but as confident How they worke carelesse and therefore dangerous Empericks that shunne the Rules of Truth who finding our Trades all subiect to Monopolies and apt to be contracted bring all our Misteries to be pounded in one Morter and there so squeise the Braines of Trafficke and refine her Tributes that our Ports beeing once confounded as well as our Staples Honour might doe them Homage and publique Vtilitie become their priuate gaine If Currant Coyne the Soule of Trafficke and our Soueraignes onely Trade be those proportions of Number and Weight to buy sell by that makes Goodnes vendible for all our behoofes Then are these Vndertaking-Farmers Marchants that Tradelesse themselues liue by buying and selling and so by buying to sell againe that raysing all their profits from others Trades and paynes What men they are are bound to pay their homage before they passe our Ports with purpose to transport our Goodnes crosse the Seas And therefore made by Name incapable and incompatible to vndertake our Functions or deale with our Tributes As men specially forbidden by the Statute-lawes and wisdome of our Land 14 R 2. No Marchants that deale with straights of Shyppes or haue Shyps of theyr owne or keepe any Whatses c. shall haue to do with the receipt of Customes c. Item 20 H 6. Cap 5. to obtrude vpon our Customes much lesse our Subsidies of Tonnage and Pondage least Marchants farming Marchants so goe free themselues presume to be like Kings or Princes fellowes to whom alone such Rights are due and therefore to none other as beeing the onely knots to tye Maiestie and Loyaltie so fast and sure together Now who striues to out-runne the Lawes makes hast but to confusion But such it seemes are these by the course of their proceedings And therfore no maruell if turning all our freedoms into their bondage and all our birth-rights into their Farme or purchase from all the Goodnes Trafficke hath and all the Loue our Marchants beare to our Patrons happie being they gaine a masse of priuate wealth by doing a world of harme If Exchange of Goodnes by Gold Siluer the Body Blood of Kings and Kingdoms represented to vs in currant Coyne be the Spirit of Trafficke and mysticall Cyment that glewes so fast together the mutuall coniunction betweene Soueraignes Subiects Whence theyr Doctrine comes by Loue and Grace as religious Iustice hath taught vs to beleeue Vsury first practised in Rome by the Bancks of Iewes there and in other Christian Countries to draw home the Popes Peter-pens and other exactions vpon the Nations kingdoms that obeyd their Religion Then drawe these Vndertakers their Methods all from ROME where first was taught the doctrine that enchaunts and transubstantiates our Eucharisticke Sacraments representing to vs the Body and Blood of CHRIST by Bread and Wine to Idolatrous Masses and our Christian Exchange into Iewish Vsury Lastly if the KING be our Honour the PRINCE our Sun Trafficke the Chariot and Shypping the wheeles that beare our glorious Lights These beeing but the Horses that so proudly set forward to vndertake our Goodnes and drawe vs all in tryumph Foreseeing as I did my standing made mee see my seeing mooud my Conscience not to hold my peace both the loosenes of their raynes their byt within theyr teeth and danders of their course ouer Hills and Dales bawkes and many by-wayes and all without a Coach-man or Guyde that I would spy They commaunding all Whereto their Doctrine

in nothing but euerie way willing and desirous for to learne our harmelesse dispositions are scornd and despised The mylde discretion of Customers to aduaunce Subsidies by despised our Truth is held for Errour our Vertue Vice And for crying but ADSIT REGVLA wee are dingd so like Barnes that we dare not greit And thus with the grounds of our former Disorders began the degrees of all our Disgraces which the sequell now shall shewe ¶ As in all other Functions so in this of Customers three things there are to warrant the Calling but without the fourth none can subsist For beside the authoritie of our first Institution that giues vs power to be dooing in this kind The Ports and Places allotted for Boundes that lymit our seruice And the diligent performance which in this respect the greatnes of our trust doth exact and import There is Countenaunce maintenaunce to be fitted to our Charge which in this regarde we deserue may require For the Oxe is not muzeled that treadeth out the Corne. Religion sayes And Iustice hath appointed that the daily Labourer be truly payd his hyre But Nos non nobis indificamus Aues We serue at the Altar both daily hourely and yet are held vnworthy to breathe or liue thereby For besides the penurie of such Fees and Rewards as our Functions deserue and our charges require our fare beeing slender and our drinke very skant we dip but our dishes in our Neighbors Cesternes to quench our thirst and at Noone in his garden crop a few of his Leekes with his owne consent to keepe vs frō starving And this addes oyle to the fire of our Furnace heere lies the gall of all our bitternesse Our breathes are saide to infect with their sent and poyson the ayre This is our horrrrible Sinne our Sacriledge or Burglarie at least As if We heereby none but Wee had spoyld the Kings Staples stolne away his Bullion conceald his Customes and at Midnight robd a Church Of all this Ignorance but accusing our Huishers bynde vs hand and foote and Iealoufie torments vs with a kinde of Controller Whose skill can no wayes helpe vs for his Letters are those Characters that wee would spell to read and Actum agere the scope of all his Lesson This Man at the first seemes doubly diligent till Experience makes him wise beeing proude of his Name CONTROLERS and content with the ease of his Place and credite but his belly wanting eares he betakes him boldly to a Bed of Onyons and spares our Neighbours Leekes Now Leekes and Onyons thus meeting together All mens errors and faults still layd on the Customers Quonsque tandē andebunt dicere quicquam vtile quod non sit honestū nullam enim pestē maiorem dixerim vita et societati hominum posse contingere quam corum opinio qui ista distraxerint Offic Lib 3. and increasing the smel to our further disgrace and onely blame made an easie way to our late Supervisors and theyr Factions Retinewe Whose rules of Extremity in hunting for Profit and reforming our Schooles disorder and Abuses so perfumed our Ports by eating Garlicke that Honor and Honestie became both amazed and remooud theyr Seates These at the first made a glorious shewe like the Moone at full yet proou'd but Commets The 4. Supervisors that vndertake to correct Magnificat in the Out-Ports for men to gaze on as they hung in the Ayre and their greatest Letters but Cyphers in August when they came to the spelling For stuffing our Houses vvith swarmes of such Instruments as loue our Tributs but as Rats doe loue Cheese so bewitchd poore Trafficke by Sorcerie Trafficke first bewitcht And and shyfts that as our Ports became abandoned like places infected or haunted with Spirits All our Free-will offerings The Out-Porti first abandoned effectes of Loyaltie the true loue-knots knit betweene Subiects Prince and tokens of affection religiously moou'd in mindes admyring the glorious Obiect of their welfare and good from the harts of Marchants humbly presented to Soueraigne Dignitie and to man els due The Subsidies of Tonnage Pondage farmed out Au plus offrant beeing set to sale were thrust at last into Huxters handling These some call particular Farmers some Farmers generall some Vndertakers with Farmers not so much of Customes as they would pretend as of the Subsidies afore said called Tonnage and Pondage Qui male agunt oderunt Lucem Farmers Vndertakers The first sort of these may be seene and knowne The latter neither seene nor knowne in publique sort as Publicans be haue yet their meetings and appointments together And possessing the body vndertake by meanes to purge the blood and purifie the Spirits of our weake diseased and distracted Trafficke some by Tabacco and some by a worse and viler thing Cuìus Camarinam I dare not stirre without pardon and reuerence first humbly sought and duly promised Ne nauceam ciem It is strange I confesse for men to behold what Art dooth can doe with the meanest materialls that nature affords when she vndertakes to worke The Refiners of Gold and Siluer in London for I haue sometimes seene good and pure Bullion both drawne and refined from the durt and dust whereon the workemen stood but these clense by water and then purge by fire and their working may be seene Nay I haue often admired and with ioy beheld the store of currant coyne in fine siluer and pure gold that sometimes was drawne frō the shorlings of our Fells The Duch new Drapery of Bayes Sayes c first deuised in Sandwich and from thence learned and set vp elswhere within the Realme no we the refuse of our woolles and sweepings of our Staples by the industry of Art and helpe of fire and water But these Vndertakers are Artists indeed that attend vpon theyr Trades and concurre in their labour theyr dooings are seene The only Patterne of a free Staple their Persons knowne their worke squard out by the Standard of Truth and their Wares made vendible onely by degrees of Goodnes Lex Veritatis These Artists worke in Gods Name whose Elixar Goodnes by the misterie of their Trades turnes their worke unto Mettalls and their Mettalls into Bullion to serue our publique Myntes that Marchants at their Ports may haue to pay their Tributes before they passe the Seas in ready currant Coyne Lex Iusticiae by the rules of Iustice These are our skilfull Workmen Lex Sapientie et ordinis Besides the Kings townes Seales they haue 3. Seales to distinguish the worth of euery mans wates and worke and that which deserues not the worst Seale is cut into peeces or put by to be amended as being no wayes vendible at home nor abroade whose orderly proceedings for the vse of Goodnes by the waights of Iustice and skales of Truth giuing euery man his Right to Good Better and Best in the value of his worke by the warrant