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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14576	Orders enacted for orphans and for their portions within the citie of Excester with sundry other instructions incident to the same. Collected and set foorth by Iohn Vowell alias Hooker gentleman and chamberlaine of the same citie.	Hooker, John, 1526?-1601.	1575 (1575)	STC 24888; ESTC S102499	57,351	98

requisit therfore that he abooue all others be vvise sober gentle and pacient and free from those angry and furious dispositions that the cōmon vvelth be not by him hindered and that he himselfe non incidat in morositatem inutilem et odiosam so alltogether vnable to doo any good for the man fretized vvith anger and choked vvith choler dooth nothing vvel therfore saith Cicero absit ira procul cum qua nihil recte nihil considerate fieri potest For man in his anger can accomplish no good thing If therfore you vvil haue your counsails to take effect your good deuises to proceed your good gouernment to proceed your common vvelth to florish and increase take heed and bevvare that the hastie and soon vvarmed man be not priuie of your secrets nor sit in your counsailes for he vvil vvithout all faile be suche an Echineis or Remora that he vvil not onely stay the ship of the common vvelth from his due course but also put him in perril of subuersion and in the daunger of the rauening Leuiathan There be also sundry other vices vvhich proceed from an euell affected and a corrupt harte as adulteries thefts drunkēnes contēcions and such like vvhich do pollute and defile a man making him very vn apt and vnfit to haue gouernement For it is not inough for a magistrate to be patient and free from an angrie minde but he must also be othervvise honest good and vpright neque enim fat esse putes ab ira vna dun taxat liberum conseruare nisi etiam ab omni edacitate vinolentia nequitia duriositate inuidia alijsque malis affectibꝰ te purum atque integrum conserues VVherfore as vvhen the vveeds be rooted vp the hearbs doo grove vvhen the VVasp or bomel Bee is expulsed out of the hiue the Bees make good Honey and vvhen the Remora is remooued the Ship maketh his vvay So these naughty disposicions ones remoued the common vvelth rid from the same your good attempts vvil prosper your good deuices vvil proceed and your hospitall vvil be farthered For to them that doo looue God and doo all things vvel ▪ Omnia cooperantur in bonum All things shall go vvith them and vvhatsoeuer they take in hand it shall prosper And as you for your partes as good fathers and prudent gouernours haue been and yet are very careful and studious to doo vvhat in you lieth for the erecting of an hospitall a thing in respect of the poor destituted helples children necessary and expedient to be doon so am I in good hope of your like affection zeale and good vvill for and in the erecting and establishing of a free gramer school vvith in this citie a thing no more needful then moste necessary for the generall education of children of all sorts and degrees in learning But heer I vvil rather suppresse in silence then in vttering to prognosticat the euil euen● vvhich for vvant therof is in time like to ensue And yet the matter so serueth the time so requireth and necessitie so vrgeth that it is more thē high time the same vvere considered and vvherin I vvould gladly vse some speches sauing that I minde not and am very lothe to produce my speech vvherby to be tedious vnto you or offensiue vnto those to vvhose office duty and calling the same appertaineth But to my purpose as there appeereth an ernest zeale and good affection that the hospitallment might come to effect ▪ so dout you not but that euery honest and good citezen vvilbe as ready for his part porcion to doo the like For it is the parte and boūden dutie of euery good citesen omni studio atque prouidentia certare in curandis reip commodis et probe cōsultata recte perficiendi occasiones suppeditare atque in reip gloria atque vtilitate augenda magistratum adiunare euery good citisen vvil contend and striue the one vvith the other to help and further the common vvelth in all good and profitable things asvvel in giuing his aduice as also giue and contribute of his ovvne vvherby to help the magistrate in the furtheraunce of the proffit of the common vvelth And therfore for asmuch as you haue giuen the attempt in so good a cause some good hope is conceiued of your good continuaunce and forvvardnes therin ▪ distrust not but that GOD vvil send good successe For although your beginings be hard haue many Sisemies vvhich doo vvhat they may to hinder the same yet you knovv that of hard beginnings come good endīgs and good attempts haue good successe Experience teacheth you hovv that in this your ovvne Citie such things as doo cheefly aduaunce and maintaine your ovvne common vvelth vvere vvithstanded maligned and resisted at the begining And for asmuch as th' order for th' orphans alredy by your industrie meanes brought to passe dooth conserne and appertaine vnto all your citisens or the moste parte of thē and the same beeing a lavv to binde thē their ignoraūce cannot excuse them ●gnorantia iuris non excusat I haue thought it vnder your fauour very meet and expedient that the same should be so set foorth published that euery man might vnderstand and knovve the same VVherfore presently I haue collected and dravven out the vvhole order in as perfect manner as I can And first I haue begun vvith the charter and graunt made by the Queenes moste gracious maiestie that novv is Then folovveth the act of parlement confirming the same And after it all the orders and ordinaunces by you the Maior and common counsaile decreed ordained and established for the same And then the offices duties and fees of euery officer and all such other things as are incident to the said order And lastly the maner of all recognisances and other vvrits for processe cōcerning the court for Orphans VVhich my trauailes such as they ar I doo offer and present vnto you not to the end nor yet meaning to teach and instruct you but to remember you of your ovvne dooings and to teach and instruct the residevv of your citise●s vvhome the same specially do tovch and concerne and for vvhose children the same are doone and prouided And all be it I haue perhaps vsed heer in more vvoords then reasons more speeches then good sentences and more talke then becometh and so haue ouershot my selfe yet there vvanteth not in me a redy and a good vvil to doo the best Voluntas quidem prompta est facultas autem nulla aut Difficilis vvherfore I am to pray you to pardon my rudenes and to beare vvith my vvekenes For matter as me thought offered it self plēteously the time 〈◊〉 me the ●●eering pen vnvvares 〈…〉 The 〈…〉 in their counsailes 〈…〉 elders direct your counsailes ▪ guide your dooings and prosper your gouernmentes that as this auncient citie florishing vnder the good and prudent gouernment of your auncestors and predecessors vvas called Augusta that is