all things of this nature For I know that many fit downe in their wants having good meanes to many private Patrons onely for lacke of knowledge of the same Note that it is an vsuall thing in private Parons to graunt reversion and Advowson of such livings My selfe intended heretofore to collect all such Benefices with their Patrons into a certaine Callender for such direction as aforesayd and made some passage into it But the farther I went the more impossible I found it And I am now resolved that without the Bishops assistance it cannot be done And so much for the Ministerie The Lawes promotions follow By Civill Law and Common Law FOr breeding of your youth in the Civill Law there are two Colledges of especiall note in our Vniversities the one is Trinitie-hall in Cambridge the other is New-Colledge in Oxford I remember me not of any Free-Schoole in England that have any place appendant in Trinitie-hall in Cambridge But in new Colledge of Oxford the Free-Schoole of Winchester hath claime both of Schollerships and Fellowships the whole Colledge consisting of none other as I take it It is to be confest the charge of breeding a man to the Civill Law is more expensive and the way more painefull and the bookes of greater number and price than the Common Law requireth But after that the Civill Lawyer is once grown to Maturity His way of Advancement is more beneficiall more certaine and more easie to attaine than is the Common Lawyers and all because their number is lesse their learning more intricate And they admit few or no Sollicitors to trample betweene them and the Clyent So that the Fee comes to them immediately and with the more advantage The Preferments at which they may arrive are these Chancellor to the Byshop Archdeacon Commissarie where they have Commissarie Officiall Iudge and Surrogate Advocate for the King Mr. of the Chancerie The Kings Proctor Advocate and Proctor at large In these Courts viz. The High Commission The Delegates The Prerogative The Consistorie The Arches The Bishops Courts The Archdeacons Courts Chancellors Commissaries and Officials Cou. The Admiraltie Courts The Court of the Kings Requests In times past The countenance of some Byshop especially of the Lord Archbyshop upon a Civilian will much advance his practice as an Advocate and give him promotion as a Iudge There are under the greater officers aforenamed divers other inferiour Officers as Register Arctuarie Examiner The number of the Doctors though I finde them never to have been limited Yet it is certaine that the time was within memory of man when the house of their Commons did commonly give them all sufficient lodging and dyet And as for the number of Proctors they were of late times limited How it is now I know not For the Common Law FOr breeding of Students at the Common Law take directions for their method of studie out of that Tractate which Mr. Iustice Dodridge did in his time pen for the purpose Onely for my part I doe much commend the ancient custome of breeding of the younger Students First in the Innes of Chancery there to be the better prepared for the Innes of Court And this must needs be the better way seeing too much liberty at the first prooves very fatall to many of the younger sort I have observed and much commend also the breeding of some Common Lawyers in this kinde viz. That when they have beene admitted first into an Inne of the Chancerie they have beene withall entred as Clarkes in the office of some Prothonotarie of the Common-Pleas to adde the skill of the Practicke to their speculation And if a Student be thus bred by his foundation in the one and his experience in the other he shall with more facilitie than others who step into the Inne of Court at first attaine to an abilitie of practise Besides other ordinary requisite parts and Arts in a Common Lawyer Skill in the Records of all Courts of Record and in other antiquities of President With some Reading in the Civill Law also will much inable him The Common Lawyer is to be bred onely upon the purse The charge most at the first For after he hath spent some few yeares effectually He may attaine to the imployment of some private friends for advising with and instructing of greater Counsaile whereby he shall adde both to his meanes and knowledge It is true that I have knowne some Attorneyes and Sollicitors put on a Counsailors gowne without treading the same usuall path to the barre as aforesaid But indeed I never looke upon them but I thinke of the Taylor who in one of his Customers cast suites had thrust himselfe in amongst the Nobilitie at a Court Maske where pulling out his Handkercher hee let fall his Thimble and was so discovered and handled and dandled from hand to foote till the Guard delivered him at the great Chamber doore and cryed farewell good feeble If the Common Lawyer be sufficiently able in his profession he shall want no practice if no practice no profit The time was that the younger Counsaile had some such helpe as To be a Favourite A Kindred To marry a Neece Cosin or a Chambermaide But those dayes be past and better supply their roomes As fellowes of Colledges in the Vniversities get pensions or Benefices to adde to their livelyhood So Barresters and Counsailors of the Innes of Court advance their meanes by keeping of Courts of Mannors Leets and Barrons Swanimootes of Forrests Stannaries Cinque Ports c. By places of Iudges of Inferiour Courts As London and other like Corporations The Virdge The Tower of London St. Katherines neare the Tower Borough of Southwarke The Clinke Wentworth and like Liberties By office of Recorder of some Corporate Towne Feoda rie of some Counties The Kings Councell in the Marches of Wales or at Yorke or Iudge or Counsayle of some Countie Pallatine The greater places of preferment for Common Lawyers are The Iudges at Westminster and elsewhere The next are all the severall Officers of the Courts of Westminster and elsewhere All which you shall finde set forth breifly in Smiths Common-wealth of England and part in mine owne Search of Records And all these together afford sufficent maintenance for thousands of persons who may bee here well prouided for Here I should and here I could for better direction of yonger brothers shew what meniall Clarkeships of large exhibition are vnder the great Officers of the Land the Iudges the Kings Councell and other Officers which are not elsewhere publisht And I know it would open a doore to many a proper mans preferment especially vnder the Lord Keeper as Secretaries for Chancerie businesse and Spirituall promotions the Commission of the Peace Iniunctions the Dockquets And other the like vnder the Lord Treasurer as Secretaries for the businesse of the Realme and the Custome-house besides the Inlets to so many preferments about the Customes and Escheators places vnder the Lord Treasurer vnder the Chauncellor of the
little of my Lampe in collection of these things and publish them to posterity Provided alwayes that I and mine may have the priviledge of imprinting the same for some fitting number of yeares to come The Navigator NExt to the man of Trade or rather equally with him I must give the Navigator his due for that his profession is as full of science as usefull to the Common wealth and as profitable to himselfe as any trade whatsoever If he attaine the skill of knowing and handling the tackle the certaine art of his Compasse the knowledge of languages and dispositions of forreigne Nations where he travailes and trades he may rise from a Squabler to a Master from a Master to be a Generall honestly and with good reputation in a short time The Nauigator his way of Advancement and imployment is by The Lords of his Maiesties privie Councell The High Admirall Commissioners for the Kings Navy Chiefe Officers of the Navyes of Societies incorporate Private Merchants and the like With the Trinitie house But if he get to be an Owner he may trade as free as bird in ayre as a man of warre or a man of trade and Commerce If he take heed that he intrench not vpon the incorporated Companies especially the minotaur He cannot do amisse with Gods assistnace He may liue merrily and contentedly be it but in trading as a meere Carryer of home cōmodities Imported from one port to another within the kingdome The Husbandman THe Husbandman may likewise for the happie content of the life and the honest gaine which it brings with it be worthy to inuite a right good mans sonne to vndergoe the profession Your sonne whom you intend for a Husbandman must be of a disposition part gentile and rusticke equally mixt together For if the Gentleman be predominant his running Nagge will out run the Constable His extraordinary strong Beere will be too headstrong in office of Church-Warden And his well mouthed dogges will make him out-mouth all the Vestrie But if the clowne be predominant he will smell all browne bread and garlicke Besides he must be of a hardier temper than the rest of his brethren because the vnhealthfullest corners of the Kingdome are the most profitable for Fermors He must especially aime at a Tenancie vnder the Crowne or some Bishops Sea Deane and Chapter some Colledge some Companie some Hospitall or some other bodie incorporate Wherein the Auditor or Receiver must be his best Intelligencer and Director Young vnthrifts acquaintance when they first arriue at the age of one and twentie And good old conscionable Landlords that hold it a deadly sinne to raise the rents of their Grandfathers or hope to be deliuered out of Purgatorie by their Tenants prayers will doe well These professions before mentioned be as it were the orbs to receiue all fixed starrs and such dispositions as may be put into any certaine frame But for a more libertine disposition Fit it with the profession of a Courtier For an overflowing and Ranker disposition make him a Souldier But beyond this he is a lost man not worthy a fathers remembrance or prouidence The Courtiers wayes of advancement be these BY the generall and most ancient rule of Court if you would have him to be preferred unto the Kings service in the end And in the meane time to have sufficient meanes of maintenance Place him with one of the White Staves of the Houshold By the more particular rule if you can put him unto the Lord High Steward his Service who amongst the white Staves hath the chiefest hand in preferring to any office beneath stayres If the High Steward be full seeke to the Lord Chamberlaine who hath the chiefe power to preferre to the places above stayres and to the Wardrobe And if there be no entrance there then seek to the Treasurer of the Houshold and next to the Controllor The Master of the Houshold The Coferer and the rest of the greene Cloth The Master of the Horse preferres to the Avenanarie and other Clarkeships offices and places about the Stable The principall Secretary hath heretofore had a great hand in preferring to the Clarkeships in the office of the Signet and the Lord privie Seale into the privie Seale office The Master of the great Wardrobe into the Clarkeships and offices there The Master of the Robes The Master of the Iewell-house the Keeper of the privie Purse The Master of the Toyles and Tents with some other the like have whilome beene the meanes of preferring divers their followers into the service of the King in divers beneficiall places and Clarkeships in their severall offices respectively The Lord Treasurer without the house preferres to his Majesties service in most places in or about the Custome-houses in all the parts of England And besides these I sinde no meanes used of old for preferment into the Kings service for these kind of places The yeomen of the Guard were wont to come in for their personage and activitie by their Captaines allowance And the Bed-chamber mens servants ever were in way to be preferred for Pages of the privie Chamber or Groomes or placed at the back staires not of right but of custome For the Clarkes of the Houshold they were wont anciently to rise by certaine degrees according to the prescription of the Black Booke but how it is now I know not For your better satisfaction of Court Offices their order and Fee Search the Blacke Booke in the Exchequer and in the Court. And for all Offices whatsoever under the King throughout the whole Kingdome Either in Castle Parke Chase Court or house of the Kings royalty or place soever with the then Fees of the same I referre you to a booke Whereof many hundred Copies are extant which was collected by the Lord Treasurer Burleigh and by him delivered to the late Queene Elizabeth of famous memorie And so much for the Courtier The Souldier followes ANd the question is first Whether the better way of thriving is to be a Sea Soldier or a Land Soldier Questionlesse the better way of thriving is to be a Sea Soldier In this Kingdome of England being an Island for that he is more vsefull to his Country More learning is required to be a Sea Soldier than to be a Land Soldier A Sea Soldier is certaine of victuals and wages where the Land Soldiers pay will hardly find him sustenance A Sea Soldier may now and than chaunce to haue a snapp at a bootie or a price which may in an instant make him a fortune for ever where the Land Soldier may in an age come to the ransacking of a poore fisher Towne at the most More valour is required in a Sea Soldier than in a Land Soldier because the extremitie of the place requires it The Sea Captaine is exposed to as much danger during the whole fight as the poorest man in the Ship where the land Captaine vseth but to offer his men to the face of the enemy and than
they on the other side presume so much vpon the hope thereof that no profession will fit them To bee a Minister with them is to be but a Pedant A Lawyer a mercenarie fellow A Shop-keeper a man most subject to the most wonderfull Cracke and a creature whose welfare depends much vpon his Wives well bearing and faire carriage What is then to be done Surely it would be wished seeing God and nature hath provided for the eldest your younger sonnes and your daughters especially being worstable to shift should bee by you provided for in the first place while your Land is of virgin reputation while it is chast and vndishonested by committing of single fornication with Countrie Creditors that trade without sheets that is by Pole deed only for saving of costs or at least before it have defiled the bed of its reputation by prostituting to the adulterous imbracings of a Citie Scrivener But especially before it grow so impudent as to lie downe in the Market place and to suffer everie pettie Clarke to bring its good name vpon Record and charge it that it was taken in the very fact betweene other mens sheets As in this Statute or in that Iudgment Take heed of that by any meanes And bee sure to match your eldest sonne when your credit is cryed vp to the highest while your heire is yet in your power to dispose and will bend to your will before his blood begin to feele the heate of any affections kindling about him or before he can tell what difference is betwixt a blacke wrought Wastcoate with a white apron a loose bodied gowne without an apron Put him of in his best clothes I meane in the assurance of your lands fell him at the highest rate Then dicotomize the whole portion of his wife into severall shares betwixt your other children Not share and share like but to every each one the more according to their defects Let impotencie decreptnes ilfavourdnes and incapacitie rob the other of so much money as they have done them of comlinesse activitie beautie and wit Put them not into any course of living according to any prescript order or method of your owne election But according to their inclination and addition seeing that every one by instinct of nature delighteth in that wherein he is like to bee most excellent And delight and pride in any thing undertaken makes all obstacles in the way of attaining to perfection of no difficulty Now in the next place take heed that you put off those your sonnes whom you finde fit and addicted to be bred in the Ministerie or made up to the law or to be apprentized betimes and before they take the taynt of too much liberty at home And when they be put forth call them not home speedily to revisit their fathers house no not so much as Hospitably by any meanes In the first place take your direction for the SCHOLLER His Education His Maintenance His Advancement FOr his Education The Free-Schooles generally afford the best breeding in good letters So many of them also afford some reasonable meanes in ayde of young Schollers for their diet lodging and teaching given to them by the Founders or Benefactors of such Schooles Some of them be of the foundation of some Kings and Queenes of this Land and they are commonly in the gift of the King or his Provost or Substitute in that behalfe Others be of the foundation of some Bodies or Societies incorporate And they are commonly in the gift of such Masters Wardens Presidents and their Senior fellowes such chiefe officers of any other title or such Master Wardens and Assistants or such Opposers Visitants or Committees of such bodies respectively as be appointed thereunto Others be of the foundation of some private persons And they are for the most part in the gift of the Executor Heire or Feoffees of such Donor according to the purport of his Will or Grant or both Of every of which severall kindes respectively are Eaton Westminster Winchester The Merchantaylors Schoole London The Skynners at Tunbridge Sutton's Hospitall St. Bartholomews And very many other the like Briefly few or no Counties of this Kingdome are unfurnisht of such Scholes And some have so many that it is disputable whether the Vniversities with the Innes of Court and Chancerie have where to receive them or no. Some of such free-Schooles againe have Schollerships appendant unto them in the one of the Vniversities or both To which upon Election yearely they are removeable As. From Eaton to Kings Colledge Cambridge From Westminster to Trinity Colledge Cambridge or Christchurch Oxon From Winchester to New Colledge Oxon. From the Merchantaylors to St. Iohn's Oxon. And the like from many the like Some other Free-Schooles have pensions for preferment of their Schollers and for their maintenance in the Vniversitie Some Companies Incorporate especially of London having no such pensions in certaine doe usually out of the Stocke of their Hall allow maintenance in this kinde Besides that there be many other private persons upon my knowledge who doe voluntarily allow yearely exhibition of this nature Now if you would know how to finde what is given to any such Free-Schooles and in whose disposing they now be Search In the Tower of London till the end of Rich. the 3. For Grants and for License of Mortmaine inde And in the Chappell of the Rolles From thence till the present And for the like In the Register of the Prerogative Court for such things devised by Will by King Quéene or Subiect For such Grants given by Will And sometimes you shall finde such things both in the Tower and the Prerogative and in the Rolls and Prerogative respectively For the time since our reformed Church of England began here Search Doctor Willets Synopsis For all from the King or from any other Search In divers of our Chronicles For the like Next adde certaine helpes for discovery and attayning thereof FIrst if it may be procure a sight of the Liedger Bookes of such as in whom the disposition of such things resteth which they keepe for their owne use Next be acquainted with some of the Disposers themselves Next take the directions of the Master or Teacher of such Free-Schooles Especially to be interessed in the Clarkes or Registers of such Societies as have the disposing of any such things Also to use meanes by Letters of persons powerfull and usefull to such disposers For indeed it is not the sound of a great mans name to a Letter in these dayes wherein they are growne so common and familiar to our Societies of London especially can prevaile so soone as the Letter subscribed by the Lord Maior or other eminent Officer of the Citie to whose commandement they be immediately subjugate Lastly if you use the meanes least seene most used and best allowed together with these For discoverie and attaining of any such thing it will not be besides the purpose as I take it Now suppose your sonne is
brought to the Vniversitie by Election or as Pensioner THe first thing you must take to your care is In case he come not by election but as a Pensioner to live for the present upon your owne charge how to procure him a Schollership in the Colledge where you bestow him Or in case he come elected into one how to procure a farther addition of maintenance to him To bring him into a Schollership place him with a Senior fellow of the house as Tutor though you allow to some Iunior fellow somewhat yearely for reading unto him This Senior fellow if the number of places voide will beare it may nominate your sonne for one in his owne right if it will not beare it he may call to his ayd some and so many suffrages of the rest as with the speaking merit of your sonne may worke your desire Then how to procure a pension for addytament of meanes The chiefe skill is to finde it out being eyther in the gift of some body Incorporate Or of some private person Wherein the discovery is to bee made as aforesaid If you sue to a Company consisting of many persons Tradesmen you must enquire who bee the most potent Patritians and best reputed Vestrie wits amongst them such as carry their gloves in their hands not on their hands Amongst an Assistance of many onely two or three strike the stroke and hold the rest in a wonderfull admiration of their extraordinary endowments And how to speake sensibly to these two or three is no Mysterie You know they are faithfull fiduciaries in the election And therefore you must not presume to offer any thing by any meanes Onely you may desire them to accept this poore peece of plate with your name and Armes upon it and binde you unto their love in keeping the memory of you hereafter Doe but try them in this kinde and attend the successe I tell you this with a Bucke at the Renter Wardens feast may come somewhat neere to the matter But for the pension to be obtained of a private person the way is not the same It proceedeth of the givers meere charity and must be taken by the hand of a desertfull receiver Though withall it may sometimes fall out that merit is made by mediation especially of some such reverend Divine as he doth most respect and frequent For other letters can little prevaile with such persons The best note to discover a man inclinable to allow such a pension is to examine how wealth and charitie are equally and temporately mingled in him And be sure withall that he be a man of some reasonable understanding in what he doth in this kinde For a Fooles pension is like a new fashion eagerly pursued at the beginning but as scurvily left off in the proceeding Your next care is in his due time to put on a fellowship when he shall put off his Schollership seeing the Schollership keepes him company no farther than to the degree of Master of Arts and a quarter of a yeare after in those Colledges where Schollerships are longest lived And in some not so long In some Colledges The Fellowship followes the Schollership of course and as the one leaveth him the other entertaines him But in the most it is not so but comes by Election Which Election passeth by the Master and Senior Fellowes whereof every one doth name one if the number to be Elected will beare it or if not then they passe by most voyces Where note that the Master hath a double voyce and in some places hee hath the nomination of one if there be two places voyd yea if there be but one at sometimes In Colledges the letters of great persons especiof the Lords grace of Canterburie and the Vniversitie Chancellor have beene of great prevailance But it is not so now in these dayes There bee beneficiall gradations of preferment likewise for Fellowes in their Colledges as Lecturer Deane Bowser Vice-master and Master But for my part I better like and commend those who when they find themselves fit to put forth into the world take the first preferment that is offered unto them rather than such who live cloystered like Votaries who have Sacraments to fill up their places be it but to keepe out others such as use no exercise but wiping the dust off their bookes and have an excellent activity in handling the fox tayle such as hold no honour like to Supplicat reverentijs vestris And to be head Bowsier of the Colledge as good as to be Chiefe Butler of England These preferments of the Colledge all but that of the Master comes of course by order and antiquity Therefore no meanes but patient abiding needs for the acquiring of them in their due time I hasten to send your sonne out of the Cloyster into the Common-wealth and to shew you how many wayes of Advancement are open unto him abroad with the meanes to discover and attaine And first for the Ministrie First for his ease let him looke no farther then next to hand and enquire what benefices belong to their owne Colledge and are in the guift of their Master and Senior fellowes as most Colledges have divers such and amongst them which are void at the present or whose Incumbent is not like to live long And if he find out any such than if he know not after so long cotinuance among them to speake in his Seniors owne Dilect let him never travaile beyond Trumpington for me More indigitly For attaining of such a Benefice let him enquire where the Mattens are read with Spectacles or where the good old man is lifted vp into the pulpit or the like and make a way for Succession accordingly Where note that many times a fellow of the house may hold such a Benefice together with his fellowship or a Pension for increment of livelyhood And such tyes as these are commonly the bond of matrimony whereby they are so wedded to the Colledge Next he must clime vp to the maine top of Speculation and there looke about him to discover what Benefices are emptie abroad where the Incumbent lives only vpon the Almes of Confectio Alchermis Or where one is ready to take his rise out of Sierge into Sattin out of Parsonage and a Prebendarie into a Deanarie and a Donative let him not be slow of footmanship in that case by any meanes For Benefices abroad Benefices a broad are in the gift of The King imediately Or the Lord Keeper for the King Some Lord Bishop Some Deane and Chapter Some Bodie incorporate Some Parish Some Private Patron You shall find in the Tower a collection of the Patent Rolls gathered of all Presentations made by the King in those dayes to any Church Prebendarie or Chappell In right of the Crowne or otherwayes from 1. of Edward the first till the midst of Edward the third The King himselfe only and immediately presenteth in his owne right to such Benefices as belong to him and are aboue twenty pounds
value in the first Fruits Bookes For attayning of any which I can advice you of no better course than to learne the way to the backe stayres The Lord Keeper presents for the King to all such benefices as belong to his Majestie and are under twenty pounds value in the bookes Now to know which of these are full and who are Incumbents in any of these Search The first Fruits Office The Clarke who hath the writing of the Presentations The Lord Keepers Secretarie being Where note that the King hath used very seldome to grant any such living in Reversion And the Lord Keeper now being His care is so great in this as in all cases of common good to provide for mans merit and cherish industrie in the growing plants that no one can offer unto him a repuest of this kinde without trespasse to his good disposition In the next place concerning Benefices in the Presentation of any of the Lords Bishops Note that most Bishopricks in England have presentation to divers Benefices belonging to their Seas For the number and present estate of these Search Their owne Leidgers Their Registers Enquire of Their Auditors Their Stewards of their Courts And sometimes you shall light upon some of theyr bookes of this kind in the hands of the heyres or Executors of such as have borne such offices under them He that is Chaplaine to such a Lord Bishop hath for the most part the best meanes accesse and opportunity to ataine to such a Benefice The commendations of such a great personage as to whom this Patron oweth greatest respect especially for his affairing in Court may doe some good in the matter The like wayes of discovery and the like meanes of attaining any Benefice in the Presentation of any Deane and Chapter are to be used with them respectively as with the Bishops With every Deane and Chapter are likewise divers Prebendaries to be obtained of their gift after the same manner and by the same meanes also The other bodies Incorporate besides those of Colledges and Deanes and Chapters have many of them especially of London and some subordinate Societies thereof right of the presentation to divers Benefices Also some Parishes by prescription doe present to their owne perochiall Benefices And many Patrons are content to present according to the approbation of the Parishioners upon their hearing and allowing and due exclamation of the integrity of the life of such suitors and no otherwise divers governors and gradations of the lands of divers Hospitals and Mesons de dien have like right of presentation to Benefices as have other bodies Incorporate And the meanes of discovery and attaining are likewise the like In Parishes and Companies of Tradesmen Incorporate some very few rule the roast Your Alderman of the Ward his Deputie your Common Councell-man Yea sometime that petty Epitomie of Wardemote Enquerst that little busie morsell of Iustice the Beadle of the Ward will make a strong partie in the election if he be put to it The Probotory Sermon that must be made upon such tryall before such an Auditorie would be according to the capacitie in generall But more esespecially according to the humor and addiction of those whose wits the rest have in singular reverence As Mr. Francis Fiat a good vnderstanding Fishmonger I assure you you may give the stile of right worshipfull to them though the best man of the company be but a Wine Cooper and his iudgement better in Claret then in Contioclerum a great deale If your sonne vpon his tryall can but fit their pallats smoothly which is hard to doe In regard that they are so hallow mouthed let him be sure though he misse the Benefice for want of preperation yet tenne to one but they will straine themselues to bring him in as a Lecturer which is a thing they reverence farre beyond the Parson of the Parish by many degrees Lastly for private Patrons and the Benefices in their guifts Search The Bishops Register for Iustitution and Presentation The Archdeacons Register for the Induction The Archbishops Register if it be a Peculiar It was my chaunce lately to see a booke of all the Benefices within the Diocesse of Canterbury with the manner of their tything in every each one respectiuely In which I find that there are or should be with the Register of every Lord Bishop seaven Bookes kept for Entrie of the matters and busines of their Diocesse of which this of Benefices is the cheife The like I saw formerly of the Diocesse of St. Davids which confirmes mee in the institution and custome of keeping the said bookes also in other Diocesse And seeing that severall privare Patrons are of severall dispositions some more Lucrative and Covetous Others more charitable and religious I can give you no other rule of attaining the Benefice than this viz. That your sonne bring with him abilitie of learning Integritie of life and conformitie of behaviour according to the order of the Church establisht amongst vs and these shall make his way with the good and generous Patron But for the other patron it makes no matter at all for learning and a very little for manners or whether he be a man conformable or no. Truely he is indifferent for his part very indifferent To such a patron your sonne must present himselfe thus if he meane to be presented according to present necessitie He must both speake and prove himselfe a man indued with good gifts For he shall have to deale with a Patron of a quicke Capacitie more dexterous in apprehension than your sonne or you can be in deliverie Be this Patron what he will your comfortis the Benefice must be filld and that within a limited time howsoever it is dangerous to attend the ending of the day in this case For seldome doth the Clarke of the market get any thing by their standing too long and above their accostomed houre Lapse by reason of Simony and Lapse for not presenting in due time Both offer advancement to learning But the first is at hand to discover as a witch And the second as rare to find out as a faithfull fiduciarie or a fast Freind The degrees of rising in the Ministrie are not easier knowne then practized by the industrious man Breifly if all Church livings in England were equally distributed There is noe one of the Ministry if he want not learning or good manners needs want maintenance or good Livelyhood Here I could wish to God That it might please the right reuerend Fathers of the Church the Lord Bishops That they would once in every of their times cause a true Catalogue of all the Benefices within their severall Diocesse with the names of the Patrons thereof according to the last presentation to be sent into the office of the first fruits for the better information of all such as deserue and would gladly attaine to some meanes of maintenance which they may the better doe by hauing recourse thither there to take notice of