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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00939	A memoriall of the famous monuments and charitable almesdeedes of the right worshipfull Maister William Lambe esquire somtime gentleman of the chappell, in the reigne of the most renowmed [sic] King Henrie the eight, &c. and late citizen of London, and free of the right worshipfull companie of clothworkers: deceased the 21. of April. An. 1580. Recorded in print, according to the various and trueth of his last will and testament by Abraham Fleming.	Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.	1580 (1580)	STC 11047; ESTC S116008	33,600	92

other more abhorred the one more followed as commendable the other more eschewed as condemnable What praise hath the proud Pharisie by his memoriall in the Gospell His hypocrisie turneth his glorie into shame What renowme the riche glutton what fame the thriftles seruant what aduancement the vnrepentant théefe The Publicane was iustified poore Lazarus glorified the trustie seruant rewarded the sorowfull théefe receiued and all this appeareth manifest in the volume of the Bible as monuments which no age no time no season shal consume Doe you not remember that the holie Ghost speaketh of a couetous miser a wretch a worldling one that very buisily occupied his head about inlarging his barnes that his soule might be more merrie in the middest of his abundance not mindfull in the meane space of the shortnes of his iournie Beléeue me this is written no more to his commendation than the pretended innocencie of Pilate in condemning Christe is noted to his honour And now to riche men I must direct the summe of all my spéech for hauing to deale with the distribution of riches how can I omit such a néedefull common place It is a sore saieng of S. Iames which he vseth to the wealthie of the world Go to now ye rich men weepe and howle for your miseries that shall come vpon you Your riches are corrupt and your garments are moth-eaten Your gold siluer is cankred and the rust of them shal be a witnes against you and shall eate your flesh as it were fire c. The place is knowne They are bitter wordes of S. Paule touching the same matter that Such as wil be rich fall into tentation and snares into many foolish noisome lustes which drowne men in perdition and destruction For the desire of monie is the roote of all euill which while some lusted after they erred from the faith and pearced themselues through with many sorrowes But a sharpe sentence against such is that of our Sauiour Christ vttered not with a naked and bare pronuntiation but confirmed with an oth Verely I say vnto you that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdome of heauen This is made more manifest by a comparison of impossibilitie in the wordes following It is easier for a camel or a cable rope to goe thorough the eie of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdome of God And therfore the good counsell of our Sauiour is to be taken in due and acceptable time To lay vp treasures for our selues in heauen where neither moth nor canker corrupteth and where theeues neither digge through nor steale And the example of the yong Gentleman mentioned in the Gospell being a rich heire and in possession of much land is no lesse to be marked who after he had béene instructed what to doe toward the attainement of eternall life was likewise exhorted if he would be perfect to sell all that he had to giue it to the poore But the hearing of this vnsauorie doctrine stoong him at the hart as loth to buy the ioies of heauen with the losse of his temporall treasures wherevpon he went away sorrowfull as vnwilling to make so harde a reckoning This is a thing not onely worthie rehersall but also remembrance and not only remembrance but also consideration And though they are but wordes yet they haue their weight they haue their trueth they haue their certeintie For heauen and earth shall passe but one worde of the Sonne of man shall not passe as our Sauiour testifieth of himselfe And therefore will rich men liue in Gods loue and die in his fauour Then let them be mercifull as their heauenly Father is mercifull Will rich men be at peace with God and his sonne Christ Then let them follow him who said that Except they forsake wife children kinred house landes and life they are not worthie to be his disciples Will riche men so die that they may liue in the Lorde Then let them be charitable and pitifull liberall and bountifull for the riches wherewith they are blessed though theirs in possession for the time of their life yet let them know that the Lorde will one day looke ouer his accounts call them to a reckoning God forbid that rich men should despaire of their saluation because they are rich Abraham was rich yet was he faithfull Lot rich yet righteous Tobie rich yet mercifull Iob rich yet innocent Zacheus rich yet bountifull And therefore as in former ages it hath pleased God with his blessings temporall to knit assured hope of life eternall in the hearts of his chosen so there is no cause of mistrust but that the Lord hath reserued vnto himselfe a remnant of rich men in these latter daies though daungerous whose light shining to the worlde and their good workes plentifully emploied to the benefite of the comfortlesse prouoketh euerie godly disposed person to glorifie our Father which is in Heauen A rare testimonie hereof may be séene in this famous Citie euen at this instant in a notable Gentleman whose good déedes bare witnes of his Christianitie in his life and shall continue the memorie of his charitie after death Of whome because it is a trauell purposely vndertaken I must speake that to his commendation which he deserueth And though I cannot applie my pen sufficiently to expresse his praise yet by the commemoration or recitall of his benefites euerie indifferent reader will soone gather what is due to such a singular Gentleman And first to touch the instrument of his aduancement learning I meane I will say no more than I haue laide before me in writing and maie boldely exemplifie that the knowledge vnderstanding wherewith the Lorde vouchsafed to replenish him remoued him from a mean estate to a worshipfull calling from the Countrie to the Court where being placed euen in the Chappell to serue his souereigne Lord King Henrie the eight of immortall memorie of whome he was well liked and béeloued he spent his time appointed in such séemelinesse as might be thought requisite for his degrée and person And remembring that learning bringeth preferment yea euen to them which are but basely borne as it pleased God to moue him by his good and gratious spirite he proued himselfe by testimonials of his doings a louer of learning and a fauourer of euerie honest profession For in the towne of Sutton Valens in Kent this worshipfull Gentleman at his owne costs and proper expences erected a Grammar schoole for the education of youth in the feare of God in good maners in knowledge and vnderstanding He also weieng with himselfe that The labourer ought of right to haue his hire And that No man goeth to warre of his owne proper charge besides other commodities which he thought méete necessarie hath allowed the Maister twentie pounds and the Vsher tenne pounds from time to time as either place shall be supplied by succession

others both strong and lustie went away As for the time that was to spare before the Sermon began he spent the same in reading some part of the holie Bible And séene at little Saint Bartholomewes deuoutly following that godly exercise he hath not had his eies occupied in gazing about the Church but his minde meditating vpon heauenlie mysteries he hath béene noted zealous and earnest in praier Againe if the quiet and peaceable departing of a man out of this life be a blessing of God and an argument of his loue and that the course of a mans cōuersation be tried by the day of his death if a quiet conscience if desire to forsake this world if stedfast beliefe in Christ Iesus and other fruites of Christianitie may be taken for the testimonials of a mans religion then not mine but the report of reuerend learned graue and wife Preachers shall be sufficient confirmations in this behalfe and to their iudgement and knowledge I appeale Touching his departure out of this worlde it was godlie euen as his conuersation was honest and as he fell to the Lorde so no doubt hée shall rise to the Lord at the last day and receiue his rewarde with the faithfull and trustie seruant in the Gospell to whom it was said Come and enter into thy Maisters ioy c. He made no reckoning of his merits he harped not vppon the good déedes which he had done he pleaded not his owne iustification by works but by faith in the bloud of Christ he excluded all such extraordinarie meanes to come vnto God and dieng in hope to inherite heauen and heauenly ioyes nay assured in spirit that his portion was there reposed he surrendred his soule to the Lord that gaue it and so ended the daies of his pilgrimage here on earth in the yere of his age fourescore and fiue Of whose last will and Testament Sir William Cordell Maister of the Rolles and Sir Rowland Hayward Iustice of Peace and Quorum two verie wise wealthie ●ight worshipfull in all respectes sufficient Gentlemen are Executours Hauing thus runne his race and fought a good fight to his no small commendation his soule I hope reposed in Abrahams bosome a place of peace rest quietnes tranquillitie his bodie intumbed laid asléepe in a faire large vawte in S. Faithes vnder Powles I will drawe to an ende of this discourse recording neuerthelesse vnto you an Epitaph which I finde grauen in Brasse or Copper vpon the stone of his Sepulchre which bearing no date I cannot directly set downe how long it hath continued but by probable coniectures it may be thought that it hath béene there any day this fourtéene or fiftéene yeares for so long at least his almes hath béene giuen in that parish Church in maner and forme aforesaide But first you shall heare a remembrance of his person grauen also in metall and fastened in the wall the tenour whereof followeth in thrée seuens William Lambe so sometime was my name Whiles I aliue did runne my mortall race Seruing a Prince of most immortall fame The eight Henrie who of his princelie grace In his Chappell allowed me a place By whose fauour from Gentleman t' Esquire I was preferd with worship for mine hire With wiues three I ioyned wedlocke bande Which all aliue true louers were to mee Ione Alce and Ione for so they came to hande What needeth praise regarding their degree In wi●elie truth none stedfast more could bee Who● though in earth deaths force did once disseuer Heauen yet I trust shall ioyne vs all for euer O Lamb of God which sinne didst take away And as a Lamb wast offered vp for sinne Where I poore Lamb went from thy flocke astray Yet thou good Lord vouchsafe thy Lamb to winne Home to thy fold and hold thy Lamb therein That at the day when Lambs and Goates shal seuer Of thy choice Lambs Lamb may be one for euer Vnder which remembrance I find two verses more added conteining a petition with an iniunction of dutie to the poore who wéekely receiued their allowance at the handes of the worshipful Stationers to whom he bearing great affection and hauing also no small affiance made them his disposers or stewardes in that behalfe The verses are these I pray you all that receiue breade and pence To say the Lordes praier before ye go hence The Epitaph enigmaticall which I find grauen vpon the stone of his Tumbe are short swéete pithie and worthie to be considered For they conteine a lesson which the wisest may learne and a meaning for most men to marke It is a spéech Prosopopoicall as if he personally spake vnto vs aliue to put vs in mind by his example of our transitorie state The verses are these As I was so are ye As I am you shall be That I had that I gaue That I gaue that I haue Thus I end all my cost That I left that I lost And thus hauing said what I can but not so much as I might I leaue this right worshipfull Gentleman as I found him a Lambe of the Lords fold his soule féeding I doubt not vpon the Manna of immortalitie wherof our good shepherd Christ make vs all partakers and send vs more such louing Lambes not in name but in qualitie and lessen the number of rauening wolues for with such the world doth swarme To knit all vp therfore in a short conclusion I commend to the rich of this world this Gentlemans memoriall as a mirror or looking glasse of a right bountifull almoner Hée made not his monie his God but some part thereof in his life some after his death he appointed to be distributed in such sort as you haue heard reported for the maintenance of learning for the profite of trades and occupations for the benefite of the Commonwealth for the reléefe of the distressed for the comfort of poore prisoners c. which almesdéeds of his are put vp together in a pursse and shal be repaid him with millians of increase To God therfore let vs giue glory who of his goodnes hath wrought so many good works by the hands of his seruant and we beséech him of his mercie to reforme the hearts of the wealthie that they séeing a patterne before their eies may endeuor to doe as he hath done knowing that they haue not in this life a continuing citie but that there is an houre set and limitted they knowe not how soone when they shal be sent for vpon a souden and so of necessitie carieng nothing away with them must leaue all that they are worth to the possession of others Godlines is great riches if a man can be content with that he hath I say no more but the Lord make vs poore in spirit so shall we be sure to die rich at our departure and to rise rich at our resurrection which hée grant for his sonnes sake the price of our