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B07949	Out-port-customers accompt, of all his receipts, to a shilling, or a penny, without concealement or enstaulement of any; according to his oath at his first admission. Wherein he plainely sets downe, as well the motiues and occasions, as the method and style of all his former writings ...	Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627?	1627 (1627)	STC 17935; ESTC S123346	67,239	64

Licenses or other gracious fauor is afterwards transferd sold or put ouer from the first recieuer to a second and third hand for Money Simones Magi. Acts Cap. 8. verse 20. or vse them not themselues it is but Witchcraft Sorcery that all such entend as by Leases or Purchace for priuate gaine thinke SOVERAIGNES PREROGATIVES eyther vendible for Money or subiect to Exchange Such Impost Maisters Religion hath accurst their Money and themselues therefore without harty repentance must perish both together These Imposts or Impositions tearme them how you list as they are but Romish Peter-pence Italian Inuentions where their Princes Preheminence and for'st kinde of Dignities haue little other Subsistence being but eyther borrowed or obtruded vpon vs I past them slightly ouer and so sent them home againe for England beeing no waies obnoxious to Italy nor Vassall to Rome hath or else may haue beeing rightly vsed enough of her owne For our Vowels and our Consonants agree so well together that spelling all by Vnion and ending all in Peace they perfect all our Alphabet without the helpe of others though the placing of some CAPITALS in the world else-where abroad by their lewd and ill examples be a cause of some vnrest Whose Pride profane Presumption and Couetise besides by Equiuocating sounds makes words be so misconstrued that MAIESTY seemes ecclip'st and like to be out fa'st For R. P. that with honest auncient Romans was reade for Respublica is now Respriuata And P. P. for Principes or Pater Patriae now either by themselues or pla'st before A. in the stead and Rome of M. makes P AP A sometimes Pater stand and striue for MAIESTY before GOD and KINGS And C. crept vp to K. makes Cardinals challenge Kings without Crownes to be knowne by or Kingdomes of their owne so that as P AP A now spels ANTICHRIST so Cardinals ANTI-KINGS Whereby S. P. Q. R. sometimes the Armes and Honor of Rome for Senatus Populus Que Romanus may now as well bee read Stultus Populus Querit Romam to the great disgrace of Catholiques both in Church and Common-wealth But those two great words of Power PREHEMINENCE and PREROGATIVE beginning both with P. did most of all perplex me For seeing Iustice and Mercy in the height of al sublimitie attending heauenly MAIESTY so reuerently together and the same in earthly Attributes contesting each with other I knew not how to spell them For though they both contained the very selfe-same Letters that mine Alphabet did teach yet the first importing Iustice I durst not looke vpon for the sternnesse of her face and setled Seuerity and the second full of Mercy I could not but admire for her milde aspect and infinite Serenity In the first I could discerne but two of our Vowels e. and i. for Persons and Place but the second had them all a. e. i. o. and u. I meane u. and v. Sirs v. my Lords w. and all The one of greatest Power yet bounded in her Greatnesse KING and PRINCE Counsell and Common-wealth The other a very Hieroglifique aboue my reach and reason yet hearing still withal how at all hands daily PREHEMINENCE for PREROGATIVE and PREROGATIVE for PREHEMINENCE were strangely speld together I appeald vnto the Wisest in highest Authority to compound the distractions that the World was subiect to by the mis-vnderstanding of wordes of such importance as both for Matter Persons Place Order and End The important necessity of obseruing precisely the distinct vse and Ends of Preheminence and Prerogatiue in all words and Actions so neerly concern'd all our Liuings all our Liues all our Liberties all our Honours and all the Peace of our Land vnited so together And let all men in Gods Name that haue eyes to see will to learne or wit to vnderstand spell and distinguish the value of the Consonants and compasse of the Vowels these two wordes containe for they shew the difference and distinction betweene Soueraignty and Subiection and the height of Dignity both of Deity and Humanity the very right of GOD and KINGS Heere I say is worke indeed for Wisedome to consider and Power to reconcile both these two Attributes and wordes of like import For by their Example as the Masse would seeme the Eucharist and Vsury is cald Exchange so our Customes stand for Subsidies Subsidies for Impositions and Imposts nowe equiuocate both our Customes and Subsidies This is the fruit of Trauailers by wandring still to Rome England and Customers il beholden to such as trauailing for Experience thinke the Impositions of Italy a fit president for Pollicy or Gouernment when they come home That hunting for experience ride early and late To make the Imposts of Italy as soone as they come home A President of Gouernment as fit to guide our State Whereby as Maiesty stands eclip'st so Customers in disgrace are in nothing yet more wretchedlike then in their Names and Place for beeing borne happy bred happy and loosing themselues in seeking happinesse for others themselues cannot be happy But if Delicta sequnter Personas and greatest offences deserue greatest punishments that mine owne Faith to GOD-ward and obedience to my SOVERAIGNE declaring my Religion and ciuill conuersation may warrant mine Accompt both before GOD and KINGS Hauing thus far speld read by the help of Grace and Goodnesse I proceeded to my Creede and then my Ten-Commaundements By the Customers Beleefe note the true Religion taught and defended in Great-Brittaine whereby being taught to Cypher I came at last by telling 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. to set downe my Receipts and to cleere vp all my Reckonings without suspending any or enstaulement of a Penny For being to cast Accompts for my selfe and for others Customers are Accomptants euen for the sinnes of others I found that twelue Articles two Mysteries and ten great Commaundes The summe of true Religion consisting of twelue Articles two Sacraments Ten Commaundements containes all Christian Duties both to God and Kings made the summe of mine Alphabet iust foure and twenty Letters namely a. e. i. o. u. and b c. d. f. g. h. k. l. m. n. p. q. r. s t. w. x. y. z. And the number of all numbers The compasse and number of the Alphabet consisting of 24. Letters comprehend and teach all Religion and Iustice where perfection is confin'd both of Heauen Earth Ten. Three being Gods own number and perfection of Deity as GOD the Father GOD the Sonne and GOD the Holy-Ghost and seuen of Humanity in our first and free Election Creation Redemption Vocation Iustification Sanctification and Glorification by the meanes of CHRIST IESVS that is both GOD and MAN By this likewise I speld our owne Ten Courtes of Iustice By the ten Soueraigne Courts of fundamentall Iustice are pointed at and meant the Ten Commandements The Customers Grace His Prayers the perfection whereof distributiuely makes vs al so happy and for which as Grace made

their Goodnesse in which is that we call Bullion that the Essence of their Greatnesse aboue other Men that 's to say their Bounties that 's to say their Honour I meane that their Maiesties by their Faces and their Armes may be seene and their Soueraignties subsist in the Goodnesse of their Coyne as in a Myrroer all their Kingdomes through though their persons bee seen to sit vpright in their Throns or reside in their Seats of sanctified Iustice betweene Greatnesse and Decorum namely in their Courts of Equity Subalterne and Soueraigne for Meum and Tuum Distributiuely and Mints of Equalities and Staples of free Commerce Commutatiuely Whereby it now appeares how by all mens consent Gold and Siluer the Seats of fixed Goodnesse by the Name of Bullion become Ab Effectis as it were King and Queene of the world because these alone make Kinges in their Thrones powerfull to protect both their Subiects and their Friendes both by Sea and by Land Trafficke Lapis Philosophicus and dispose of Trafficke by their owne Elixars and Mines or Load-stones of price within their owne Dominions as God by Goodnesse their onely Iudge and Patterne both in Number Weight and Measure first made the World and still doth guide the same Each King in this respect being a liuely Idea euen of Deity it selfe so much excelling in Preheminency of Power for his Person and Place and Prerogatiue of Wisedome for Bounty and Grace by how much they endeuour to expresse in themselues and shew foorth to others the Characters of MAIESTY and Titles of their SOVERAIGNTY in the truth of their Coyne I meane by their Exchange And how Exchange alone becomes that Cordiall preseruatiue which easing all Greefes in sores Exchange Vniuersalis medicina suppling all sores in diseases and curing all diseases in particular Members holds the whole Bodies of Kingdomes in health the sacred Rules whereof as no profane Couetise could euer comprehend nor confident Empericke attaine to practise so none of priuate difcretion or partiall affection may presume to alter or any way controle as beeing a Doctrine peculiar vnto none but the Grauest and Wisest in highest Authority and Soueraignes themselues Bullion therefore Catexochen that 's to say all kinde of Golde and Siluer not Coyn'd or made currant for euen Coynes that are not currant may be taken for Bullion by generall consent as the Sunne in the highest Globe of Glory and Money beeing the Beames Exchange becomes the light that makes the world to see And as Bullion beeing the Pylot Money is the Sterne and Exchange the Compasse that guides all courses right nay as Bullion being the Chylus Money is the Blood Exchange becomes the Spirit that quickens all the Body In a word Bullion being the Body and very Blood of KINGS Money is the Medium betweene Subiects and their Kings and Exchange the very Cyment that glewes them both together O that my Tongue or Pen were able to expresse Or had the guift to make Men vnderstand Those great and graund effects of Sacred Happinesse Exchange alone would worke by Kings and Counsels hand Religious Iustice would then so blesse our Land That Men on Earth might see by this Idea made What Heauen it selfe doth boad by this our Kingly Trade Seeing then that Bullion or Gold Siluer Coynd is the Bodie and Blood of Kings not as Men but as Gods truely represented to the comfort of their Subiects through all their Dominions by the stampes of their Money though their Persons keepe their Thrones And Exchange that Spirit of Traffique and Mysticall Cyment that glewes so fast together the communion and coniuction of Soueraignes and Subiects by Reciproke Loue Grace as Religion and Iustice both teach vs to beleeue Let 's all cry out of Rome wherein first was hatcht the Doctrine that enchants and transubstantiates our Eucharisticke Sacraments of the Body and Blood of CHRIST represented euery where within his Church Militant as liuely as in a Glasse till his comming againe though his Person be in Heauen by blessed Bread and Wine into Idolatrous Masses and our Christian Exchange into Iewish Vsury I speake therefore with confidence to all that seeke for Happinesse and loue their owne Saluation not bewitcht as it were or void of sence and reason be wary still of Italy as Aeneas with his Misselto when he traueld towards Hell and let all come home from Rome for feare of the cursse that by Iustice hangs vpon her For if He alone whose absolute Power could work so wel that all he made became still like himselfe exceeding Good to his own eternall Glory and Mans immortall blisse GOD I say the Father GOD I meane the Son and GOD the third time the Spirit though once for all The Trinity in Vnity and Vnity in Trinity whom onely to know is euerlasting Life and ioy but to heare and make mention of his Name be that spring or Fountaine of Goodnesse Truth and Wisedome from whence all streames besides both in Heauen and Earth deriue not onlie Essence but Happinesse in being and whence to swarue is to turne againe to nothing Quia vidit Deus quod omnia quae fecerat erant valde bona What greater bane then Sinne Sinne. Pride What greater sinne then Pride What greater Pride then the height of all Presumption in one sinfull Man that vsurping on the Powers both of Heauen and Earth Darkenesse Freewill Profanenesse to drowne Light in Darkenesse both in Goodnesse and Truth of his owne meere Freewil giues Lawes vnto Iustice and profanes all Religion the Rules of Truth and Goodnes both in God and Kings If heauenly Goodnesse and Truth in all Perfections both of Nature and Art be those beautifull aspects and beneficiall influences of heauenly beatitudes which the Grecians do describe by their Calocogathia to make al things happy Chaos Euill Quia Bono suo diffusiue verè constant omnia What Euill so infectious What infection so poysonous and what Poyson so accursed as that Chaos of Doctrine that by Pride and Presumption Presumption Merits Equiuocation profaning Goodnesse turnes Grace into Merits and Equiuocating Truth turnes Truth into Lyes in all the Contractes both of GOD and Men If Gold and Siluer of all the sollide Bodies which Nature presents at the Standart of Truth Truth be fittest and surest by generall consent to fixe Goodnesse in for easier extention in vendible Commerce by the Name of Bullion Quia omne Bonum Bullion being sui diffusiuum quantò communius eò melius infunditur semper secundum meritum materiae Fraude Wrong Priuate-Gaine Couetise Deceipt What fraud like publique wrong What wrong like priuate gaine And what gain more deceiptfull then couetously to hoard or sophisticate the purenesse and finenesse which Nature weighes in Bullion for the generall vse of Goodnesse by Traffique among Men If Money or Coyne bee those figured proportions of Goodnesse more or lesse for Number and Waight Money by

wisdom of one Priuy Counsel crying all the kingdome thorough Beati Pacifi● and God saue King Iames and his Posterity O the vnity or vnion aliâs Happinesse of GREAT-BRITAINE if Iustice Commutatiue aliâs Traffique had her Staples for Order as Distributiue hath her Courts for Equity and Religion he● Temples for Piety and Deuotion For her Home-borne Staples turnd to Mart-Townes beyond Seas makes her at discor● within her selfe and a By-word to the world But who beleeues Truth from the mouth of a Customer What would'st thou doe or say He is honourable and louing and expecting nought but Reciproke Loue and Thankes vouchsafes to respect thee of his owne meere Natiue Grace Shouldst not thou be likewise Loyall and honest at the least and with Duty Fear and Reuerence respect his Honour when thou see'st it in his Picture or beholdst it as his Face and in no wise to abuse it And as He by free guift or his owne first Exchange did value ir vnto thee by the worth of Himselfe and receiues it so again so thou vnto another beeing stampt for his Honour and thy mutuall Good Can any be so mad then or foolish at the best I speake to sense and reason let Iesuites alwaies goe Rumpantur ilia Codro as to say beleeue or thinke that this KINGS Royall Person in Body Blood or Bone is any way within it when hee sees or heares or knowes him to bee sitting in his Throne or residing else-where Yet such is the Witch-craft wherewith Iesuites in Popery enchanting the Worlde seduce poore Catholikes by the Masse in this kind and damnable Doctrine of Free-will and Merits Now thinke but ere thou speake and then speake but as thou think'st as thy conscience doth aduise thee without equiuocation Had not I then reason out of Duty Feare Zeale to the Honour of sacred KINGS and Good of all Catholiques not yet voyde of Conscience by the Spirit of Adoption to cry out as I did against the Witch-craft of Popery aliâs Vsury and that Man od Sinne and Monster of Rome in these verses following Au Loup pourtant Subiects Monarches tous et Roys Ça Chrestiens Catholiques Estats trestous en somme Ça Ça tous Princes libres Defenseurs de la Foy Venez tous a la chasse du Loup-Garou de Rome Heere therefore Subiects all heere Kings and Monarkes eyther Heere heere you Princes free and States both all and some Heere Christian Kings and Catholiques come now ioyne hands together Defend with vs the Christian Faith and rowse this Wolfe of Rome In a word Ab Ioue principium REGES Iouis omnia plena And to giue GOD thankes withall for the blessed Memories of our Princes and Peeres that heeretofore with-stood him and thrice blessed learned hand of our SOVERAIGNES late Endeuours that so constantly pursues him For as CHRIST now puts down Anti-Christ make Cardinals crooch to KINGS that would seeme Anti-Kinges and as the Masse giues way to the Eucharist so make Vsury know Exchange and Popery is ouerthrowne therefore I say again Ab Ioue principiū REGES Ignorance Ab Ioue Principium REGES What meanes this Repetition and why call yee so on KINGS Customer That MAIESTY may be seene and SOVERAIGNTY might subsist as in GOD so now in KINGES for GOD forgets not his part let Kings performe their owne Ignorance As howe Customer By their Bullion and Exchange for if Coyning and Creating be meerely Synonimas and mean but one thing what creating is to GOD the same is Coyning vnto Kings least Subiects should be Coyners Ignorance How shall Kings and Soueraignes be so able to Create that Subiectes bee no Coyners Customer By their Standarts and their Bullion For as a steady Standart and store of Bullion to Coyne at will by meanes of their Exchange makes all thinges good cheape holds Subiects to their Trades and Trades in request whereby Kings become Powerfull and Subiectes Wealthy So if Standarts bee vncertaine and Kings want Bullion as Coyne growes engrost into priuate Mens hands all things waxe deare Kings beeome weake and Subiectes poore whilst Coyne it selfe by Vsurie which Marchants call Exchange eates out Industry in Trades and Marchants by Monopolies seeke to strangle Traffique Ignorance What meane you by Standarts Customer I meane Vnity and Truth in Weights Numbers and Measures But in passing thus by Standarts my minde becomes transported and cannot but admire the Wisedome both of GOD and powerfulnesse of Kings For when I read the BYBLE ô read it Kings and Counsels and finde therein commaunded but Vnum Pondus and Vna Mensura I resolue thus with my selfe Surelie if Truth be tyed to Goodnesse as Goodnesse is to God and Kinges themselues be Gods then whereby can their Goodnesse that 's to say their Bounty that 's to say their Greatnesse be more sensibly discerned then in their Standarts As where withall alone by the Power of their Preemption and Quitrents of their Customes being potentially possest of all the Lands Goods their kingdomes doe containe though they leaue notwithstanding to each of their Subiects his Meum and Tuum and full vse of his owne they may raise and pull down the prices and worth of euery Mans wealth at their owne wils and pleasure by means of their Exchange Ignorance And why not so by Vsurie Customer Because Exchange eyther louingly giues or else by buying and selling makes Meum to be Tuum and Tuum to be M●um by altering the propriety for Reciproke Good whereas Vsury neither giues out of Loue nor lends out of Charity nor so buyes or sels as alters any propriety but for the 〈◊〉 ●o●ed of Money contracts for priuate-gaine Discretion ●ut a●mit al this at home might wel be performd between Soueraignes and Subiects within their owne Dominions How shall Kinges with Kinges maintaine their Standarts and keepe Subiects from Coyning Customer By their Treaties of Enter-course and Mutuall Contracts to maintaine Equity preuent aduantage and keepe fraud from shelter For if GOD haue commaunded in so strict words and tearmes but Vnum Pondus and Vna Mensura as Himselfe is but One and KINGS but his LIEVTENANTS to whom DEVS omnibus Idem by what warrant or Commission can they iustifie their Coynage but by their Standarts the speciall charge of KINGS to giue thereby as well true worth and content as true length and breadth to all proportions for Proportions shewe Perfection whose vses being Vnion and Endes being Peace bring all at last to Happinesse by Identity of Standart and Mutuall Exchange For look how Exchange of the selfe-same Truth and Goodnesse in Gold and Siluer fixt by the Name of Bullion way'd out in Coyne and warranted for vse by the name of Money shewes Men to be Kings by generall consent and Kings to be Gods by infusiue Grace And how Gold and Siluer becomes in this respect the very Body and Blood of Kings for without the Power of coynage euen Kinges are but Men and without their materials how can they

and Water-tight in the breaches and wants of Commutatiue Right had Traffick but her Staples as Religion hath her Temples we would soone make Verses in praise and commendation of our Prelats and our Nobles of our Prince and our Peeres and sing all Alleluiah to the great KING of Heauen Aux Chicanneurs l'honneur n'ha poynt de lieu Car sans argent vous parlez en Hebrieu But this part of Iustice being most out of frame and disturbing all the rest Commutatiuely keepes downe our voyces which now falling out and fitted for my Lesson I must by my Letters goe spell out the wordes that belong to the Titles of my Soueraignes Tributes Wherein being thus farre proceeded by the helpe of Grace and Goodnesse and Religion with Iustice being both on my side I resolu'd by the Medium to dig on and delue for Truth the Foundation of Felicity and so become happy For since the Oxe is not muzled that treads out the Corne by the Rules of Religion and Iustice allowes to each labourer his hire I saw no right nor reason why seruing at the Altar I might not hope at least at last to liue thereby though I held my peace For Assai demanda encor che mai non grida chi ben seruendo tace And why treading out the path of happinesse for others I should be put by Therefore hauing now learnde all my Letters and CHRISTS Crosse being my speed and the Holy-Ghost lowly setting forward I thus began to fly ¶ Habet Musca splenem formicae sua bilis inest The PRIMER Yet far be it from Customers to value themselues by way of reuenge or disgracing of others But since al men euen by Nature desire to be happy by the rules of Right and Reason and Religion bids Reason haue an eye still to Nature and be next her selfe of all worldly happinesse if the meanest be but Wealth and reputation cheefest Honour being held a recompence for all our losse besides If all quit their Liuings for their Liberties to worke Nature giues no priuiledge for any to be idle If all forgoe their Liberties for the purchase of their Liues If Liuings Liberties Liues and All seeme nothing to our Credits And if GOD so prise his holy Name that he is Ielous of his Glory to shew how his LIEVTENANTS should be curious of their Honour I came at last to see and therewithall to wonder that the Names euen of KINGES GODS immediat Lieutenants nay of GOD himselfe through Ignorance and her Fellowes are subiect to disgrace as well as Customers But as Quaedam sunt non videntur and Quaedam videntur non sunt omnino So Plus quandoque valet in Rebus promouendes opinio Ignorantium quàm Rei veritat Which made me to consider that though Piety and Equity were the Arts of Felicity yet as euery Text had his Glosse and euery Art her Mystery so Religion beeing the Rule for Apprentises of Piety to learne the way to Glory shew'd the Eucharist for Mystery And the setled Art of Equity that raiseth all to Honour by the rules of honest Iustice for her Mystery had Exchange The first being wholly heauenly and fastned to Diuinity is taught by Diuines and I am but a Customer yet a faithfull Christian Catholique and a Loyall Kentish Man But the other from Humanity more fit for sence and reason with dim eyes and trembling handes to show the best endeuour of a feeble wit and weaker braines I gaue my selfe to spell and directly to discouer An Argument I confesse of a higher pitch and farre greater compasse then I did or could imagine when I tooke it first in hand wherein hazzard euen at first did very much discourage me in respect of the times In the midst by Friends I was many waies disswaded in regard of the paines and I had giuen it ouer for I wrought all alone but for the Enthusiasme and Spirit of Adoption still sounding in mine eares Religion takes thy part and Iustice on thy side Ton Ame ne doibt ta flamme estant diuine Rien ayme ny seruir si'l n'est egual aux Dieux Thy Soule is so beset by Vowes that are Diuine Thou shalt not tread amisse let not thy heart decline By whose perswasion when I had but once begon my conscience thrust me forward and thus preuaild at last Ie veulx quùn bel ozer honore ma ruyne Et si'l fault que Ie tombe Ie l'ay voulu des cieulx Then danger stand aside quoth I since Goodnesse cals me to it If ought doe put me by t is Wisedomes hand shall doe it My stayes besides were these As Goodnesse cal'd me forward so Truth was still my Ground which as Time did suggest Experience still supplide My Pen Oportet made and was euer apt to mend beeing sworne to doe my best Order gaue the Forme but the Stile I still suspected and sawe some cause to doubt till Prayer in conclusion vndertooke to perfect or perswade the best so that if the Phrase for the plainenesse might passe without offence I was sure the Matter for importance might deserue a double and treble reading Now the Matter indeede was Traffique I meane our owne Free-borne Trafficke that honest Nurce of Iustice that so kindly feedes vs all and handled Ab effectis containes those selfe-same Customes for which the poor Schollers in the Out-Schooles of Tributes haue so long time bin subiect to bayting and beating and for which my selfe was so gratiously chidden Thus searching after Truth that onely of it selfe makes all in all happy though it be my hard fortune to worke still alone Quo fato nescio sed non sine Numine As my hope and comfort is yet following still mine ALPHABET and Lines of my PRYMER I came at last to spell those very ACROAMATA of Piety and Equity The Motiue and occasion of the ACROAMATA so fitly ioyn'd together by Religion and Iustice that leades all to Truth and so to Happinesse as made me read out plainely and write distinctly thus The Method and Stile of the ACROAMATA ¶ All Men by Nature are desirous to be Happy as well as Customers and ayme at Perfection by rules of Order and degrees of Goodnesse But Ignorance beeing euery way the Mother of Errors and Grandame of Mischeefes begotte with all those Inconueniences which pretend indeede Order but lead all to Discord Disorder and Confusion Is ought then out of Order and fit to bee reformed Consult but with Wisedome and wee neede not dispaire For Priuatio semper presupponit habitum Sicknesse it selfe showes a habit first of Health and the disproportion'd Disposition of any Function high or low doth argue an Intention and possibility of Order Nay Ignorance her selfe knowes and tels it all ouer that ERRORS haue no Being but in absence of Truth and vnawares to her selfe doth teach Reformation how in seeking after Truth the best rule of Order in finding her to wander is still to looke