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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

and those Places that first affoord them According to these grounds of the three things in Trafficke before layd downe as Money for the Matter a Weight of greatest worth and for the Forme a worke of royall esteeme So Exchange a Measure of rarest perfection and Mystery of heauenlie skill fitting none but Soueraigne States and Kings must stint the values and guide the proportions of Goodnes in all Materialls besides But all Goodnes is needfull Exchange therefore as the Spirit in the Soule to perfect our Trafficke by the Fountaines of 1 Staples Bullion and store of Princes 2 Mynts Coyne in respect of the vse thereof ought to be generall Forasmuch as the good intended thereby is so due to all as cannot be disturbed or restrained to anie without disorder and confusion for Omne Bonum est sui diffusinum This I say then is that treble-twisted thred twyned by louing and loyall Ariadne to guide our fatall THESEVS by thorowe all the Muces and Mazes of that Labyrinth of Errors Marchandizing Exchange to free and redeeme the Bodies of Men and Soules of Christians from the yeerely monthly and daily deuouring Iawes of that Monster of Creete and Bawde of Bankers Vsury to the raysing againe and perfect vniting of Religion Iustice that Mercy and Truth among Men may sit kindly together and Righteousnes and Peace may kisse each other Thus all things in Nature doe tend to perfection by the Rules of Order and degrees of Goodnes but the vse makes all For Quò mihi Fortuna si non conceditur vti The vse of Mettalls both Gold and Siluer as cheefest materialls for Princes Coyne is in this respect so vrgently needfull that where Nature fayles Art must make good in which regard the want of Mynes in this Kingdome hath beene euer supplyed by forraine Bullion and auncient Customes The want of Coyne in the Princes Treasurie shewes defect of Naturall Mynes or neglect of artificiall Supplyes whereof Bullion is chiefest Neither is it enough fit nor conuenient that beeing prouided or brought to the Mynt Cudendae monetae Ius proprium est Principis et inde publicae fiunt the publicke pulse and hart of Trafficke priuate Subiects presume to coyne it for themselues least thereby Kings become seruaunts to their owne Vassalls and constrained to borrow that should be apt to lend A course in Nature both miserable and preposterous For what harder condition then to see Clothiers compeld to worke out other mens Wooll for a shred in the end of the selfe-same cloth Yet this is worse For where all Trades are valued by and vented for Money this makes Coyne both disvalue sell it selfe O hysteron proteron ground of all Disorder If KINGS aboue themselues haue none but GOD that only makes homage ioyne honor to their Crownes and seeing their seruice doth yeelde them reward all others below them beeing prostrate at their feete the names of Wages and Fees is too base for Soueraignes from beneath them to receiue and for Subiects to offer preposterous persumptuous and euery way prophane Constantinus Magnus ne aliter quam sanctè et legitimè hoc regale vterctur effigiem suam nummu sic inseulpi voluit vt hominis Deū flexis genibus invocantis prae se ferret Moneta autē dicta quod moneat ne quid frandis in Materia signo vel pondere fiat If then the Type of Princes be their Thrones and Dignitie if the Obiect of their Actions next the glory of that Deitie whom they represent be their owne greatnes honour if Marchants buy and sell Goodnes but for theyr owne auaile what greater gaine then for Subiects to attaine to their Soueraignes Dignitie And what harder estate then to see Kings set a worke and waged by their Seruants If the Law pronounce it death and that most worthilie to counterfet Princes Coynes by what meanes soeuer vvhat can expiat that sinne of Presumption that as it were with their owne Hands and Stampes vsurpe their Preheminence and disturbe their Exchange In a word let the hart by the lyuer receiue his tinctured Chylus by his owne mouth and stomacke and the blood with the Spirits shall fill all the vaines And if Nature haue taught all men to affect the generall Good by particular Trades and appoynted each Trade his proper Materialls by the helpe and vse of Money leaue Bullion for Princes and the World can vvant no Coyne the easie course and recourse of whose Exchange shall set all things in tune and serue all Mens turnes But to compare things by contraries will best illustrate either Wee all cry out of Couetyse and Priuate-gaine as good reason for GOD himselfe hath pronounced it the roote of all Euill and the loue of Money to be flat Idolatry Which being bad in Subiects must needes be worst in Kings How great then must our happines appeare to haue Bounty it selfe come dwell among vs And what hartie remorse ought it to moue to some him and his abridged or depriued of the principall meanes to practise theyr vertues Great therefore greater and greatest of all must theyr Accounts be to GOD and Nature that preposterously peruerting his proper Materialls turne his best helps for Bullion to their priuate aduantage to the intollerable disturbance both of Court Country and almost vnrecouerable wrong to the King and his Crowne Wherein Customers wanting wordes to set out theyr griefes haue made signes with their * The second Reply or Treatise of Exchange c. pennes And yet cease not by Prayer to groane in this manner O that our Tongues or Pennes could but expresse Or had the gist to make Men vnderstand Th●●● great Effects of sacred happines Exchange alone would worke by Prince and Counsells hand Religious Iustice should then so blesse our Land That Men on Earth might see by this Idea made What Heauen it selfe doth boade in this our Kingly Trade So farre off are Customers from guilt in this behalfe Now see but what is past so put all together to heare what words they spell That Goodnes whose Standerd is DEITIE Kaloca ' gathia id est Aequum et Bonum Honestum et Vtile Beauty and Bountie Profit Pleasure applyed to the actiue perfections of Commutaliue Right by the rules of our Booke and scope of our Lesson is a beautifull aspect and beneficiall influence of Heauenly Beatitude in the operations of Nature Art which in Greeke is vnderstoode by Calocagathia Sanctifying and assuring the formall Essence of all happy Beings And GOD sawe that all hee had made was exceeding Good For Bono suo consta●● Omnia That Bullion or Billion is a worde of Art giuen to the elementall perfections of purenes and finenes in the solide Commodities of Gold and Siluer Deprehensum a peritioribus est in Mundi creatione principē Deum Arithmetica esse vsum Geometria 〈…〉 Musica siquidē Arithmetica ratio●●●●●●pacta connexaqu● creduntur Elementa Geometria vero Figuras effinxit

third time though ONCE for all Whom onelie to know is euerlasting Life and Ioy but to heare and make mention of his Name beeing a law to himselfe of his owne Perfection doth likewise perfect all he wills or doth His Goodnes beeing the Forme of all thinges from which to swarue is to returne to Nothing and which in him as the Fountaine we must admire most affect and desire in our selues GOODNES then is the glorious center of DEITIE it selfe frō whence all Circumferences both in Heauen and Earth deriue not onely Essence but happines in Beeing From hence it is that out of Learning and Zeale to Religious Rights some godly-disposed haue seemed to obserue a kind of Trafficke and free Commerce betweene the Throne of Heauen and the Church vpon Earth by Doctrine Prayer for the vse of Goodnes All heauenly Inspirings downeward and all holie Desires vpwards beeing as Angels or Marchants betweene GOD and vs. That as his Doctrine doth teach vs our supreame Truth so our Prayers might confesse him our soueraigne Good But this height and depth of Goodnes we leaue to Diuines The length breadth thereof must lay forth our Lesson by giuing GOD his Honour and our Soueraigne KING his Right For Caelum Caelorum sibi ipsi assumens Terram dedit silijs hominum As therefore at first we prayde God for our speede So now in Goodnes God graunt we proceede Tu mihi summe Opifex rerum Cor fingitio purum Et Recti inspira renouatum pectore amorem Os mihi tute aperi Tu dirige labra loquentis Vt Tibi promeritae persoluant laudis honores ¶ We haue speld already how our Customes and Subsidies liue die with Trafficke as Effects that follow theyr Efficient Cause In which respect first Trades and Tradesmen must be sought for made of and at all hands nourisht Then Marchants of all sorts must be kindly entreated and by freedome encouraged in euery Common-wealth All Trafficke is either Outward and Inward of Things bredde at home or set from abroad and three things there are that by the Spirit of Goodnes giues it three degrees of lyfe and thrice-happy beeing Viz. Commodities Money and Exchange The first as the BODY vphelde the World in the infancie of Trafficke by bartering Good-things for Good-things Commodities to supply Necessities till Fraude came in The second Money as the SOVLE in the Body Olim. Cum non esset Monetae vsus nec aliud Merx aliud pretium dicereter pro temporū rerumque ratione vtilia vtilibus permutabant bomines Sed ob difficultatem contrabentium electa est Materia cuius publica et perpetua estimatio premutationum difficultatibus aequabilitate quantitatis subueniret beeing a weight of supreame woorth to maintaine Equalitie and preuent Aduantage by cōsent or Nations first made Good-thinges vendible The third as the SPIRIT in the Soule Exchange is seated euery where in the Soueraignes owne bosome to direct and controll by iust proportions of length and breadth weight content the truth worth and vse of Goodnes both in Money and all Things els Kata panta Regula Veritatis The first whilst Goodnes in plaine dealing lay open to all like knew not the Titles of Kings nor Kingdomes Kat ' auto Regula Iustitiae The second is the right hand of Iustice which crowning Kings first layde the foundation of that preheminent Dignitie that shewes the difference and distinction of Soueraignes and Subiects Ius monetae proprium est Principis et inter Regalia Magna censetur Kath ' olou Proton Regula sapientiae vel ordinis The third is that forme of Maiestie and transcendent Power that of Mortall-Men makes Gods on Earth Thus in Trafficke Commodities both Barterable and Vendible by Trades and Mysteries are layd out for Subiects Post ipsam Legem nil aeque vtile est ac necessariū Reipub vt Nūmorū vsus Proinde Grecis Nomos merito appellatur Quasi dicas gubernandi Regula Vel gubernaculum Money as the weight to value the woorth and Exchange the Measure to sette forth the vse of Goodnes by belongs onely to PRINCES the sacred Ministers of heauenly Iustice Each supporting other by mutuall supplyes for Reciprocke Endes The PRINCE graciously beholding the prosperity and wealth of his loyall Subiects as the onely Mirror of his owne Greatnes and Honor. And the Subiects religiously admiring the Maiestie of their Soueraigne as the glorious Obiect of their Welfare and Good And thus it appeares by the course of our spelling set poynts of our Lesson lynes of this our Primer That our Kings Trade is Coyning and his Mysterie is Exchange His * The KINGS Proprium and peculiar Right Right therefore vni soli et semper By the rules of all Truth all Iustice and all Order must be Gold and Siluer Materialls of Bullion ¶ The motyue of this worke was a naturall defence of poore despised and contemned Customers The motyue of this ALPHABET and mayne dryft of this PRIMER by whose disgrace the King receiues such losse and the State more wrong But the mayne dryft Scope of all is an orderly aduancing of our Soueraignes Reuenewes in his duties of Customes that so many haue vndertaken and so few haue set forward Wherein all that hath beene said might passe but for conceit and contemplatiue discourse without the hand of some Ministeriall function Customes therefore beeing Effects of that great Cause vvhose Actions are conuersant about no meaner Obiects then the Soueraignes Honour and Subiects happinesse requires Collectors of choyse respect and absolute trust Men truly Religious and honest in deede as Customers are euery way entended to be And such were they some-times reputed till Neglect in theyr Choyce and Contempt of theyr Persons made Ielousie begin to suspect their endeuours whilst Ignorance and Impudencie in countenaunce and maintenaunce supplanted their Credites First by Controllers then Superuisors and lastly by Farmers and Vndertakers besides Searchers and Wayters God knowes how many I come therefore now to speake of that Function which vnderlying the charge of so great a trust none should obtrude on at aduenture or vndertake in iest but such as Nature hath fitted Authoritie admitted in lawfull manner For how-soeuer the Name of Customers seeme now out of fauour as the Obiects of Disgrace and publique Slaunder the curious eye of the Lawe still constant in his choyce The Customers onely knowne to the Lawe call them kindly by their Names and culls them all as curiously forth as Shriefes in their Shieres from among the best and most sufficient that Wisedome can find The intention of the Lawe in choosing Customers or choyce affoord as men most fit to attend vpon Trafficke and in collecting Customes most likely of all others To deals iustly betweene the Prince and People Giue therefore cheerefully collect vprightly and aunswere truly as vnto GOD himselfe all his due honour in Oblations and Tythes so

to our KING all his due homages in the Rights of his Customes and loyall Supplyes Deale I say iustly betweene the Prince and the People HOC OPVS HIC LABOR EST. This is the Dyapazon of all our Musicke and full compasse of that Song wherein each must hold apart heere therefore pause a while that all may sing together For great hath beene the care from time to time the inuentions sundry that haue beene vndertaken for the aduauncing collecting true aunswering of all such duties as grow in this kind But as in the State of a naturall Body those diseases proue of most dangerous consequence that are of longest breeding furthest from cure whose pulse is neuer felt nor Symptoma knowne so hath it long fared with this Argument of Customes Wherein sometimes about the Cause it selfe Trafficke vvhether free-borne or no then about the Matter without difference or distinction of Art or Nature Outward or Inward Abundance or Want Dutie or Free-will And lastly about the Forme of theyr orderly directing collecting and true answering how to stoppe the course of Errors and currant of Abuses is become the greatest pretended care at least and most serious Question For information and Reformation whereof how-soeuer the Conscience of my Calling vnder his sacred Maiestie speciall dutie besides as his Highnesse sworne Seruaunt haue singled me forth and prest me still forward by one occasion or other Quo fato nescio sed non sine Numine as my hope and comfort is first by 1 Against Informers of all sorts A Generall Apollogie thē a second 2 Against priuate Societies Replyes 3 A Treatise worth the reading The true vse of Port Bands lastly A Priuate 4 The Satisfaction of the offence conceiued against that Caution was the occasion of casting all the rest into this new Mowld called 5 The Customers ALPHABET PRIMER Caution against the Farming out of Subsidies vnder the name of Customes to presume thus with my penne but to wish and further I euer concluded that none but the Grauest and Wisest in highest Authoritie might promise and performe it Before whom now beeing so lately commaunded to speake I may not I cannot I dare not hold my peace All humble respect of Dutie therefore prostrate Reuerence premised I proceede with my Lesson and build on our Defence vpon my first Religious and reasonable grounds RELIGION and IVSTICE are the fundamentall stayes of all States and Kingdoms the one by sanctifying the other by assuring the perpetuities of all tranquilitie of Minds and earthly Honours Iustice beeing Distributiue and Commutatiue the Commutatiue part includeth Trafficke There was a time when the Christian world was all set on fire deuided by Disputes and distracted in Opinions The true Catholick and Christian Religion as soundly taught as freely professed in England Scotland and Ireland at this day as in any priuate or publicke part of the World about the Catholicke-Church and some poynts of Truth in the doctrine of Religion But the GOD of Heauen be praised it hath found the best footing in these our dayes Kingdoms that the world doth affoord and his hand in our Soueraigne and his foreuer vphold it Vppon the compounding of the Discordes in the Netherlands The like seemes now I say euen now to offer it selfe about the Vse Ends of our free-borne Trafficke that Nurse of Iustice which feedes vs All. The priuate peruerting of whose generall Intention to publicke Good hath much disturbed our speciall Blisse and giues occasion of this ALPHABETOR PRIMER Trafficke then beeing the hand that layes out all men theyr Worke prouides all men theyr Foode and payes all men theyr Fees ought at all handes to be seriously supported that so supports vs all and her willing Disturbers and witting Peruerters held as Enemies to Order that is to say to God and Nature And since in all Actions the safest path to walke in and surest rule to guide our selues by is to follow Nature the patterne layd out by the GOD of Order the way from Error to Truth from Confusion to Perfection must be by proportions vntill we come to that End which is able and sufficient to perfect and preserue all our worldly happines Measure therefore must sit at the Sterne and by steddy proportions cunne and steere this our Shippe of Trafficke thorow all the stormes of Extremities and dangers of Shyfts to our long-desired Port. As the beauty of Nature is Order so the way to Order is Number more or lesse to auoyde the Rocks and Sands of Excesse and Defect Exchange therefore without all exceptions must lay the foundation and absolute ground of all our Endeuours to this intended Redresse The Writer heereof alluding to his owne trouble for the Caution hee wrote against the Farming out of Subsidies vnder the name of Custome sets forth withall a true Idea of Trafficke by fayning a Shyppe called the Harry-Bonaduenture fraught with pitch tarre mastes salt and oyle and good store of Bullion that after a long voyage in her returne homewards to the Iland of Exchange meetes with a dangerous storme in the Narrow-Seas and doubting the Geodyn-sands falls in with the Forelands casts Ankor in the Downes and there ryding all Windes to death puts in at last to Sandwich-Hauen Where finding neither Staple nor Staple-wares sometimes held there and sithence at Canterbury adioyning of Fleece-wooll Broad-clothes Tyn Lead nor Leather c barters her Commodities for Bayes Sayes and other Duch newe Drapery there And in Exchange for her Bullion bespeakes Kentish Broade-clothes against her next returne Prouided they be made warranted by the Rules of Sandwich Bayes and Seale of that Towne onely and none other Exchange haue we spyde out Exchange Then haile Maisters Marriners and Mates at all hands Call vp our loyall Marchants true Patriots Enterlopers and all and be of good cheere Belay well the Bowlyne keepe your tacklins tight and sure Aloofe aloofe with the Maine for feare of the Goodwines I seeme to see our Ilande for the Fore-lands appeare CASTOR and POLLVX cōming both together did boade vs good-lucke Our Barke is strong enough to beare out her leakes Our Loade-stone proues good and our Compasse is true therefore aloofe I say with the Maine by this Cape of Good-hope to the Harbor of Safetie and Hauen of all our Rest For Reliquis tantum Sinus est et Statio malefida Carinis Now all thinges consist of Matter and Forme et Forma dat esse rei the Matter beeing Weight and Measure the Forme are fitted and esteemed by their End and Obiect GOODNES All Goodnes is eyther by Nature or by Art And as in Goodnes there is a proportion to fit with the Matter wherein it consisteth Omnis Forma infunditur secundum meritum Materiae So in Trades the blessing of GOD by Nature and the benefit of Industry by Art is more or lesse admired to the speciall reputation profit of those Persons

haue done the things we ought not to doe and there is no health in vs. But thou O Lord haue mercie vpon vs miserable offenders spare thou vs O Lorde which confesse our saultes and restore them that are penitent according to thy promises declared vnto mankind in Christ Iesu our Lord and graunt O most mercifull Father for his sake that wee may héereafter liue a godly a righteous and a sober life to the glory of thy holy Name ¶ A Prayer for the Kings Maiestie O Lord our heauenly Father high and mightie King of Kings Lord of Lords the onely Ruler of Princes Customers daily and Christian Prayers which doost from thy Throne behold all the dwellers vpon Earth wée humbly beséech thee with fauour to behold our most gracious and Soueraigne Lord King IAMES per se and so replenish him with the grace of thy holy Spirit that hee may alwaies encline to thy will and walke in thy way Endue him plentifully with heauenly gyfts graunt him in health and wealth long to liue that finally after this life he may attaine to euerlasting ioy and felicitie through Iesus Christ our Lord. ¶ A Prayer for the Queene and Prince and other the King and Queenes Children ALmighty God which hast promised to be a Father of thine Elect and of their séede wee humbly beseech thee to blesse and preserue our gracious Queene ANNE Prince HENRIE and all the King and Queenes royall Progenie Endue them with thy holy Spirit enrich thē with thy heauenly Grace prosper them with all happines and bring them to thine euerlasting kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord and onely Sauiour A Prayer for the Clergie Lords of the Counsaile all Magistrates all Nations and the Common-People ALmighty euerlasting God we most humbly beséech thée to illuminat all Bishops Pastors Ministers of the Church with the true knowledge and vnderstanding of thy Word and that both by their preaching and liuing they may set it foorth and shew it accordingly To endue the Lords of his Maiesties most honorable PREVY-COVNSELL all the Nobility with grace Con per se wisedome and vnderstanding To blesse and keepe our Magistrates giuing them grace to execute Iustice and mainetaine Truth To giue all Nations Vnitie Peace and Concord And finally to giue vs an hart to loue and dread thée and diligently to liue after thy Commandements Grant this O Lord for the honour of our Aduocate onely Mediator Christ Iesus THe Customers of the Out-Ports prostrate Petition to the KING our Soueraigne for his Sonne the PRINCES sake to be made but as able as they are euery way willing to do their Duties that eating the Bread of good Conscience daily and freed from temptations of Obloquy and shyfts his Kingdome beeing come may still continue and his Will performed in all Places alike Forgiuing all as they would be forgiuen Conclude this their PRIMER with the sanctified words and enclude their Petition within the compasse of that effectuall Prayer which our Lord Sauiour the Sonne of GOD hath cōmaunded and taught saying OUr Father which art in heauen hallowed be thy Name thy Kingdome come thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heauen Giue vs this day our daily Bread and forgiue vs our Trespasses as we forgiue them that trespasse against vs Let vs not be led into temptation but deliuer vs from euill For thine is the KINGDOME Tittle tittle tittle Est Amen the POVVER and the GLORIE for euer and euer SO BE IT Amen ¶ The Publicans humble Confession and priuate Prayer Nil sum nulla miser novi solatia Massam Humanam nisi quod tu quoque CHRISTE geris Tume sustenta fragilem tu CHRISTE guberna Fac vt sim Massae surculus Ipse tuae Magna Magnus perficit DEVS