Chappel daily at the accustomed time of Divine Service The like shall be observed by the Schoolmaster Usher and poor Scholars of the Foundation upon every Sunday Holy-day and Vigil in the Afternoon And that there be a Sermon every Sunday at Morning Prayer either by him the said Preacher or some other deputed by him The Master and Preacher shall have in care and charge to see that the whole Houshold and those of the School of the Age of Sixteen years and upwards shall receive the Blessed Sacrament yearly at the three Solemn Feasts of Christmas Easter and Whitsontide unless they be satisfied by some lawful excuse and just cause of their failing otherwise the party denying or delaying shall be liable to the Masters Chastisement and the Governours further Censure The Master and Preacher shall have Superintendancy over the Chappel Clerk Organist and Sexton to see if each of them carefully perform the Duties of his place the one in Reading of Divine Service at the hours accustomed assisting the Preacher at the Communion and burying the Dead The second in teaching the poor Scholars to Sing and playing on the Organs at set times of Divine Service The third in keeping the Chappel in a cleanly comely and decent manner and carefully performing all other Services belonging to such a place otherwise they and every of them shall be subject to the Masters Punishment Preachers since the Foundation 1. Mr. Harsnet 2. Mr. Parker 3. Mr. Ford. 4. Mr. Percivall Burrell 5. Mr. William Middleton 6. Mr. Daniel Toughtevil 7. Mr. Foxely 8. Mr. Clark 9. Mr. William Adderly 10. Mr. George Griffith 11. Dr. Timothy Thirscross 12. Mr. Patrick The Physician HE shall be qualified with the Degree of a Doctor in that Profession and shall have his yearly Fee of twenty pounds confirmed unto him he shall make choice of his Apothecary and not exceed the Sum of Twenty pounds a year for Physick Bills according to the Rate set down in our Establishment otherwise the Governours reserve the power to themselves to make choice of another that will accept of these Conditions or to determine whether they will have any Physician in Ordinary Fee or not Physicians ever since the Foundation 1. Mr. Thomas Barker 2. Dr. Barker his Son 3. Dr. Laurence Wright 4. Dr. Bates 5. Dr. Gabriel Beavoir 6. Dr. Castel 7. Dr. Walter Needham The Register and Solicitor HE shall be lodged and dieted in the Hospital a Man of good Conversation well practised in following Law Causes a good Penman ready diligent and faithful in all such Imployments as the Governours or Master shall put him upon His Imployment shall be to Summon all Assemblies to Register their Orders and Decrees in the Assembly Book to draw all Patents and Leases make them ready for the Common Seal and enroll them in the Book of Entries to draw all Leases for the Gvernours and wait upon them for the signing and dispatch to attend the Hospital Council and take their Direction upon any occasion of Law business and having the Masters Warrant to follow the same withall dexterity and diligence to call in Arrearages of Rents and make seizure or re-entry for default of payment by Warrant of the Governours to take all Petitions and present them to the Table to take Bond for the teaching well using and maintenance of poor Scholars made Apprentices and by the Masters order and direction to put in suit the Bonds forfeited either for Non-payment of Debts not performance of Covenants or for any other cause whatsoever and to prosecute and answer all Suits in Law whatsoever for and concerning the said House and Hospital He shall not directly nor indirectly contract for the preferring of poor men or Boyes into the Hospital nor with any of the Tenants for renewing their Leases such business shall immediately be preferred by Petition to the Governours only and then presented by him to the Table and if he be a Transgressor herein he shall forfeit his place He shall not cancel or deface any Orders concluded at an Assembly and signed by the Governours there present upon peril of loosing his place He shall not presume to receive or meddle with any monies accrewing due to the Hospital by way of Fine Rent or Debt however Registers ever since the Foundation 1. Mr. Thomas Heyward 2. Mr. Samuel Martyn 3. Mr. John Yeomans 4. Mr. Brent 5. Mr. Cresset afterwards Master 6. Mr. John Holland 7. Mr. William Taylour 8. Mr. William Massey 9. Mr. Spelman 10. Mr. Lightfoot The Receiver HE shall not enter into the Execution of his Office before he give good Security by ten several Bonds of two hundred pounds a piece wherein himself with two sufficient Sureties in every Bond shall stand bound to the Governours for the faithful executing his Place and discharging his Accompt he shall deliver out no monies but only to the Manciple for Diet unless he have order and warrant from the Master He shall according to such Letters of Attorney as are or shall be made in that behalf make publique demand of Rents due by the Hospital Tenants upon the dayes expressed in the Conditions of their Leases and shall take witness thereof that such further course may be taken for satisfaction as shall seem good to the Governours At Michaelmas every year when his Accompt shall be given up he shall have two hundred pounds imprested to him by the Master out of the Surplus remaining that year or out of the House Stock which imprest shall be for expence for Dyet and other Charges till Michaelmas Rent come in repaying the said mony into the Iron Chest of the Hospital Stock at or before the end of November then next coming Receivers ever since the Foundation 1. Mr. Smith 2. Mr. David Lewis 3. Mr. John Clark 4. Mr. Andrew Hill 5. Mr. Alexander Lawson 6. Sir John Payn. 7. Mr. Payn. The Manciple HE shall put in Bond of One hundred pounds with one sufficient Surety for discharging himself by a just and allowed Accompt of all such Sums of mony as the Receiver shall from time to time imprest unto him upon the Masters warrant for the Affairs of the Hospital He shall attend his Service in the Kitchin till all the Tables be served and taken away and then he shall take his Meals with the inferior Officers and Grooms at their accustomed Table and Rate established in these our Ordinances following He shall keep a Book of the weekly expence in Dyet carry it to the Auditors to be examined he shall within four days after the week is expired bring it to the Master to be perused and signed by him and whom else he will call He shall not disburse or lay out any Sum or Sums of mony for any Provisions for the Hospital save only the Provision of Dyet without the Masters warrant wherein also he shall not exceed the Rates set down in our Establishment ensuing nor shall he buy any such Provisions in the Market or elsewhere but with
are less capable of Learning and sittest to be put to Trades He and the Usher shall be diligent in the daily attendance on their Charge and shall not Journey into the Country without the Masters leave Nor shall they take into their Tuition above Sixty other Scholars unless they entertain another under Usher out of their own Means and to be dyeted and lodged out of the Hospital Nor shall they receive for teaching those of the Foundation any Fee or Wages from their Friends They shall be careful and discreet to observe the Nature and Ingeny of their Scholars and accordingly instruct and correct them In Correction they shall be moderate in Instruction diligent Correcting according to the quality of the Fault in matter of Manners and according to the capacity of the Fault in matter of Learning All other Duties of their place they shall faithfully perform namely to see that the Scholars be of modest and mannerly behaviour well and decently clothed orderly and seasonably dyeted cleanly and wholesomly lodged And that the Matron Butler Taylor and Groom perform their duties to these purposes otherwise their Tutors to be censured by Us the Governours and their Servants to be punished by the Master of the Hospital Schoolmasters 1. Mr. Nicholas Grey 2. Mr. Robert Grey his Brother 3. Mr. William Middleton 4. Mr. Robert Brooks 5. Mr. Samuel Wilson 6. Mr. John Bonchee 7. Mr. Norris Wood. 8. Mr. Thomas Watson Vshers 1. Mr. Bagley 2. Mr. Robert Grey 3. Mr. Middleton 4. Mr Brooks 5. Mr. Anthony Andrews 6. Mr. John Byrch 7. Mr. Samuel Wilson 8. Mr. John Martyn 9. Mr. Norris Wood. 10. Mr. John Stephens 11. Mr. Edmund Sly 12. Mr. Thomas Watson 13. Mr. Rowland Buckeridge 14. Mr. Thomas Walker Officers of the Revenues Steward of Courts NO Steward of Courts shall take any greater Fee than Five shillings for his Copy and entring it into the Roll unless it express uses made over by Will in which Case his Fee shall be Ten Shillings All Stewards of Courts shall bring or send into the Charter-house within three months after the Court holden the Roll thereof fairly written in Parchment with the Fine set down in the Margent and signed with his own hand They shall also deliver the Tenant his Copy within forty days after the Court holden if the Tenant demand it and pay for it according to the Rate aforesaid Stewards 1. Mr. John Mocket 2. Mr. Joseph Ward 3. Mr. Abell Allen. This Office is now turned into the Manciple's Auditor HE Shall quarterly examine the Receivers Book of Receipts of the Revenues and Disbursments for the Hospital to see if the one agree with the Rental and the other be disbursed by the Masters warrant and upon proof by Examination under his hand of every particular the Book shall be signed by the Master He shall weekly examine the Manciple's Book of Disbursments for Dyets and what else he lays out to see if the one agree with the Establishment and the other be done by warrant and upon due Examination to approve them under his hand before they be signed by the Master Upon Balancing all Accompts of Receipts and Disbursment at the years end he shall draw the Declaration by us formerly enjoyed in these our Orders that at the Assembly in Decemb. a perfect and yearly view may be taken of the state of the Hospital Auditors 1. Mr. John Wotton 2. Mr. Henry Wotton 3. Mr. Henry Playford 4. Mr. Spour Bailiffs NO Bailiff shall be chosen of any Mannor or Mannors unless he dwell there or within five miles distance at the farthest All Bailiffs shall put in Bond of Two hundred pounds apiece with two Sureties for paying in the monies by them levied either for free Rents or Profits of Courts and they shall not meddle with the Receipt of any Farm-rents upon pain of forfeiting their Bond. All Bailiffs shall bring in all free and customary Rents within forty days after the Quarter day also all Profits and Perquisits of Courts within the said time of forty days after the day assigned by the Steward for payment thereof Leases UPon a Lease hereafter to be granted no Tenant shall have respit for payment of his Rent above Forty days after the Quarter-day wherein he ought to pay it by his Lease All Lease Rents shall be paid by Tenants at the Charter-house so shall all free and customary Rents with Profits and Perquisits of Courts be there likewise paid by the Bailiffs All Lessees shall be tied by Covenant to dwell upon their Farms and not to put them over but to Wife and Children without Licence procured by Petition at the Table and signed by the Major part of the Governours there present and no Licence shall be granted them but for the remainder of years limited by the former Lease and at the same Rent and enjoyning the under Tenants to dwell thereupon In every Lease hereafter to be granted of any of the Hospital Lands or Tenements in any Mannor where a Court Baron is used to be kept there shall be comprised in every such Lease a Covenant on the Lessees part To do suit of Court there and to be obedient to the Orders therein to be made touching or by reason of the Lands and Tenements No Lease shall be made till within Three years before the expiration of the old Lease unless it be upon surrender of the old Lease Nor shall it be granted for Lives or longer time than One and twenty years No Fine shall be taken upon letting or renewing any Lease but such an Improvement of Rent as shall seem best to the Governours and for the good of the Hospital Surveys THere shall be two Surveys made of all such Lands belonging to the Hospital as are not already surveyed and the same shall be faithfully transcribed into a Book expressing the yearly Rent now paid and the yearly value by Survey which Book shall be brought to the Table at every Asssembly that upon the expiring or renewing of Leases the Governours may increase or abate the Rents as to their Wisdoms shall seem best for the good of the Hospital An Establishment for the Dyets Liveries Stipends Wages and other Charges and Expences of the Hospital of King JAMES founded in Charter-house in the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only costs and charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire to be strictly observed and not any way exceeded viz. For weekly Dyet  l. s. d. EIght at the Master's Table allowed for Bread Beer Dyet and Detriments iiii   Fourscore at the Brothers Table allowed for Bread Beer Dyet and Detriments vii xiii iiii Forty two at the Scholars Table allowed for Bread Beer Dyet and Detriments vi xviii iii. ob Ten at the Manciples Table allowed for Bread Beer Dyet and Detrements  xliiii ii Two of the Kitchin and one Porter  xiii  Five Attendants for the Masters Table for Bread and Beer  v. x. For weakly Beavors  l. s. d. Eight
your memorial both eternal and blessed or if you had rather the whole Common-wealth But now I find my self too hold and too busie in thus looking to particularities God shall direct you and if you follow him shall Crown you Howsoever if good be done and that betimes He hath what he desired and your Soul shall have more than you can desire The Success of my weak yet hearty Counsel shall make me as rich as God hath made you with all your abundance God bless it to you and make both our Reckonings cheerful in the Day of our Common Audit Never man received Advice more kindly than Mr. Sutton and blessed God for the return of his Prayers in the Garden He never was inclinable to Dr. Willet's former Proposal upon these accounts he understood the Patrons of Chelsey Colledge were few nor was his design to be an additional Benefactor but a Founder Besides he plainly saw those Enemies to the work who thought they lay in secret and what was more he perceived it was look't upon with a jealous Eye by the Universities as a disparagement to them Then other Divines and Churchmen thought they were undervalued because the Fellows of this Foundation were likely to gain Priviledges prejudicial to them And lastly the Politick States-men did dislike the Project suspecting Court Divinity and History from a Colledge This is supposed to be the place meant by the Incomparable Cowley in his excellent Instructions towards the Institution of a Colledge Nor to add a City-Hospital could he be induced though much solicited the poor of those places being likely to be well provided for by the daily Legacies of such who were not in any capacity to do so great things as himself Being thus solicited by others to perform that which he had long since resolved within himself and having observed how many hopeful Youths miscarried for want of competent Means for their Education and how many ancient Gentlemen having the same tender Breeding with their Elder Brothers yet have but the slender Fortunes of a Younger Brother that they were too generous to begg not made for work whose ingenuous Natures were most sensible of want and least able to relieve it but were cast away and brought to misery for want of a comfortable Subsistence in their Old Age Therefore he resolved to prevent by his memorable Charity as far as he could these growing inconveniences The blind Devotion of former Ages had so abused the ends and designs of Charitable Works that King Edward the First as well as Theodosius the Emperour made a Law of Mortmain whereby it is made unlawful for any man to bestow Land of such a value to any Religious or Charitable use without licence from the King of Mortmain in Parliament This Law of Amortization in the Emperor's time much grieved many good men For St. Jerome thus complains to Nepotian I am ashamed to say it the Priests of Idols Stage-players and Common Harlots are made capable of Inheritance and receiving Legacies only Ministers of the Gospel are barred by the Law thus to do and that not by Persecutors but Christian Princes neither do I complain of the Law but am sorry we have deserved it To the same purpose is that of St. Ambrose Ep. 31. deploring the State of the Clergy Upon the account of this Law Mr. Sutton was forced to petition his Majesty K. James and the Parliament March 10. 1609. for leave and licence to erect and endow an Hospital in the Town of Hallingbury Bouchers in the County of Essex An Act of Parliament granted to Thomas Sutton Esq to erect an Hospital at Hallingbury in Essex c. HVmbly beseecheth your Majesty your loyal and dutiful Subject Thomas Sutton of Balsham in the County of Cambridge Esquire That it may please your most excellent Majesty and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled to enact ordain and establish And be it enacted ordained and established by the Authority aforesaid That in the Town of Hallingbury otherwise called Hallingbury Bouchers in the County of Essex there may be builded and erected at the costs and charges of your Suppliant one meet fit and convenient House Buildings and Rooms for the abiding and dwelling of such a number of poor people men and children as your Suppliant shall name limit and appoint to be lodged harboured abide and be relieved there And for the abiding dwelling and necessary use of one Schoolmaster and Vsher to instruct the sâ—m children in reading writing and Latin and Greek Grammar and of one Divine and godly Preacher to instruct and reach all the rest of the same House in the knowledge of God and his Word And of one Master to govern all these persons of in or belonging to the same House And that the same shall and may be called and named the Hospital of King James founded in Hallingbury in the County of Essex at the humble petition and at the only costs and charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire And that the right reverend Father in God Richard now Archbishop of Canterbury and his Successors Archbishops there Thomas Lord Ellesmere Lord Chancellor of England and such as after him shall succeed to be Lord Chancellors or Lord Keepers of the great Seal of England for and during the time they shall so continue or be in the same office Robert Earl of Salisbury Lord High Treasurer of England and such as after him shall succeed to be Lord Treasurers of England for and during the time they shall continue or be in the same Office The Reverend Father in God Launcelot Bishop of Ely and his Successors Bishops there Richard Bishop of Rochester and Dean of the Cathedral Church of Westminster and his Successors of and in the same Deanery of Westminster Sir Thomas Foster Knight one of the Iustices of your Majesties Court of Common Pleas usually holden at Westminster Sir Henry Hobart Knight your Majesties Attorney General John Overall Doctor of Divinity Dean of the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul in London and his Successors Deans there Henry Thursby Esquire one of the Masters of your Majesties Court of Chancery Thomas Fortescue Thomas Paget Geffrey Nightingale and Richard Sutton Esquires John Lawe and Thomas Browne Gentlemen and such others as shall be from time to time for ever hereafter chosen and nominated in and to the places and steads of such of them as shall decease by your Suppliant during his life And after his decease by the most part of them which then shall be Governors of the said Hospital to be and succeed in and to the place and places of him and them deceasing shall and may be the Governors of the said Hospital and of the Members Goods Lands Revenues and Hereditaments of the same at all times hereafter for ever And that the same Governors and Hospital shall for ever hereafter stand and be incorporated established and founded in name and in deed a body politique and corporate to have
his Noble and Magnificent Benefaction Edv. 3. Anno 11o. He was sent Ambassadour to the French King which was no mean Imployment for him either as he was a Gentleman or a Stranger In this Voyage he couragiously lands his men on the Isle of Agnes on purpose to revenge the Death of some English men who not long before were slain by the Inhabitants when they came for fresh water Here he made a general slaughter and takes the Earl of Flanders his Brother Captain of the Island Prisoner His next martial performance was in company of Henry Earl of Derby Duke of Lancaster into Gascoign and Guyen where these two only attended with Five hundred men at Arms and some few Archers did mighty things vanquisht the Enemy and recover'd many walled Towns and Castles It chanced that the Countess of Montfort Sister to Louis Earl of Flanders like an undaunted Virago put on Armour and leads and encourages her People to repell the common Foe She desires aid of the King of England and hath it granted under the conduct of no less a man than the Lord Walter de Manny Not long after the King himself fighting with the French that he might not be known in Person puts himself and the Prince under the Colours and Defence of the same Invincible Warriour This may suffice for a small description of his Strength and Valour I shall now proceed to the occasion of this singular Instance of his Piety and Beneficence He lived in an Age wherein all things seemed as wonderful as himself Ann. 1345. on the Conversion of St. Paul a great Earthquake shook Germany wherewith many Villages and Castles fell down likewise Stones mixt with Rain fell out of the Air Moreover the same day many publick and private Houses fell at Venice afterwards the Earth was shaken more or less fifteen days whereof it hapned that almost all Women with Child were delivered before their time And after this a noysom Pestilence called Inguinaria invaded the People the venom of the Disease was so deadly that scarce one in an hundred escaped alive It began first in Scythia there raged along the Coasts of the Sea Pontus and Hellespont at length through Greece and Illyria it came into Italy 1346. A great Vapour coming from the North-part to the great fear of the Beholders was seen in the Air and fell on the Earth And the same year certain small Beasts in great number fell from the Element in the East through whose corruption and stench there ensued a great Plague which for three years reigned over the whole World First creeping into Asia from India was vehement in England Florence Germany and all Europe The Jews were thought guilty of it by poisoning Fountains and therefore they were burned every where 1349. The Eighth of the Calends of Febr in Noricum on that side it is joyned with Pannonia Illyrium Dalmatia Carinthia and Istria there was a great Earthquake in the Evening which lasted forty days Six Cities and Castles were overthrown and swallowed up In London the Plague was so vehement that in a place called Charter-house-yard were buried of the better sort of People Sixty thousand says Cambden in his Britannia Middlesex p. 311. Ibi floruit opulenta Carthusianorum aedes à Gualtero Manny Hannonio posita Qui summa cum laude sub Edv. 3. bello Gallico meruit Celeberrimúmque fuit eo loco ante Caemeterium in quo grassante peste 1349. Londino sepulta fuerunt plusquam quinquaginta hominum millia quod inscriptione ibi in aere pâ—steris fuit testatum In this dismal time it pleased God to stir â—p the heart of this Noble Knight to have respect to the danger that might fall in the time of this Pestilence then begun in England if the Churches and Church-yards in London might not suffice to bury the multitude Wherefore he purchased a piece of ground near St. John's street called Spittle-Croft without the Barrs in West-Smithfield of the Master and Brethren of St. Bartholomew Spittle containing Thirteen Acres and a Rod and caused the same to be Enclosed and Consecrated by Ralph Stratford Bishop of London at his own proper Cost and Charges In which place in the year following Stow reports were buried more than Fifty thousand Persons as is affirmed by the King's Charter and by this following Inscription which he read upon a Stone Cross sometime standing in the Charter-house-yard An. Dom. M. CCC XL. IX Regnante magna Pestilentiâ consecratum fuit hoc coemeterium In quo infra septa praesentis Monasterii sepulta fuerunt mortuorum corpora plusquam quinquaginta millia praeter alia multa abhinc usque ad praesens Quorum animabus propitietur Deus Amen Here not long after he caused a Chappel to be built wherein Offerings were made and Masses said for the Souls of so many Christians departed And afterwards Ann. 1371. he founded an House of Carthusian Monks which he built in Honour of the Salutation of the Mother of God as may be seen at large in the King's Charter and the Pope's Bull which I have annexed This Pestilent Disease continued in one place or another till the Year 1357. at which cessation the Bishop of Norwich the Earl of Northampton Earl of Stafford Sir Richard Talbot and Sir Walter de Manny sailed over into France to make a Peace which they did for a year only But after many long and happy years when the Prince of Wales eldest Son to Edward the Third dy'd at Bourdeaux the Prince with his Wife and other Son Richard came over into England then in the year 1371. dy'd our worthy Heroe at London and was buried in the Monastery of the Chartreux which he had built leaving behind him only one Daughter married to John Earl of Pembroke Thus departed the generous Soul of this pious Founder thus he desired to sleep in peace among his Carthusians in the Fields as 〈◊〉 M. ss terms them in the Cott. Libr. and left such a Monument of his Bounty to Posterity that I suppose it no Crime to make this Honourable mention of Him For at the Dissolution of Religious Houses this was valued at Six hundred forty two pounds four pence half penny If any person be offended at what is said because he lived in a dark and gloomy Age I refer him to the Preface of that great Man Cambden in his Britannia Sunt ut audio qui Monasteria eorum Fundatores à me memorari indignantur dolentuâ— audio sed cum bonâ illorum gratiâ dixerim iidem indignentur imo forsan oblivisci vèlint majores nostros Christianos fuisse nos esse cum non alia Christianae eor um pietatis in Deum devotionis certiora illustriora uspiam extiterint monumenta nec alia fuere plantaria unde Christiana Religio bonae literae apud nos propagentur utcunque saeculo corrupto averruncanda filix in illis plus nimio succreverit CHAP. V. Of their Fabulous Miracles AS we
starch't or curious neither careless or nice These were not so properly the Comforts of his Soul as the Sweetness of his Life hence proceeded health of Body clean Strength a good Complexion and a graceful and treatable Disposition As a Master he was careful and diligent to enquire how his Servants performed their Labours for the dust of the Master's Shoos is the compost to improve the Soyl and his Love appeared to his Servants by making a comfortable provision for them for at this day many of the Tenants to the House are descended from those who were Servants to the Founder and the common Reason they give of their good Bargains is That they hold them as Rewards of their Ancestors Service Yet it lies in the power of the Governors to advance the Rent which in some places has been done though with great moderation and this rather to quicken than dishearten the Tenants It is not intended by this Character of Mr. Sutton that he should be free from all blemish that he should be another Bonaventure in whom some affirm Adam did not sin All things have a mixture of corruption here below nay it is riveted in our very Nature The fairest Figure must have some flaws and the most beautiful Image some unhappy strokes therefore he as all other men was subject to the like Passions Whatever were his failings common Charity should endeavour to hide his Infirmities who was content to spread his Garments over so great a multitude After a numerous train of Worthy and Religious Actions in a good old Age within One of 80 years he dy'd at Hackney in the County of Middlesex Decemb. 12. Ann. Dom. 1611. He had for some time laboured under a Feverish Distemper which wasted him away and brought him into a lingring Consumption this attended with frequent and sharp fits of the Stone and violent assaults of the Colick made him Surrender up his Soul to that God on whose power the Life of all Depends From Hackney he was removed Decemb 16. to Dr. Law 's House one of the Executors mentioned in his Will in Pater-noster Row and from thence was conveighed to his Grave with all the Pomp and Solemnity which might become the Funeral of so great a Man Six thousand people attended his Corps through the City whose passage lasted six hours until they came to Christ-Church where his Body lay till his Foundation at the Charter-house was finished which was about Three years Ann. Dom. 1614. from whence he was in a decent manner removed Decemb. 12. in the aforesaid year Upon which day is duly kept an Anniversary Commemoration a Sermon is appointed with a Gratuity to the Preacher The first who preached on that Occasion was Mr. Percival Burrell Minister of the House upon Luke 7.5 He hath built us a Synagogue The Sermon was primed Ann. Dom. 1629. After Sermon the Auditors repair to the Publique Hall where the Bounty and Magnificence of our Noble Founder is gracefully set forth in a Latin Oration by a Youth of the Foundation whom Sutton has taught to speak Thus have we brought our Founder to his place of Rest where in the Chappel on the North side is a Noble Monument Erected by his Overseers with this following Inscription on a fair Marble-stone in Golden Letters Sacred to the Glory of God In grateful Memory of Thomas Sutton Esquire late of Castle-Camps in the County of Cambridge at whose only Cost and Charges this Hospital was Founded and Endowed with large Possessions for the Relief of poor Men and Children He was Born at Knaith in the County of Lincoln of Worthy and Honoured Parentage He lived to the Age of 79 Years and Deceased Decemb. 12. 1611. Let us now consider what particular Motives were apply'd to perswade and mould the mind of this good Man to design this Great Benefaction as also what Objections and Inconveniences were proposed to hinder the Progress of the Work Dr. Willet who lived at Barkway not far from Mr. Sutton and was much consulted by him would often say That his Thoughts had eaten his Bowels had he not unbosom'd some of them to his Friends The Doctor advised him to be a Benefactor to Chelsey Colledge a Place intended for the convenience and maintenance of Learned Divines who should study and write Controversies against the Papists Erected Ann. Dom. 1610. Dr. Sutcliff Dean of Exceter was the first Master Mr. William Gambden Clarencieux and Mr. John Heywood Dr. in Law Historians were fellows of the Colledge The Reversion of some Lands in Chelsey held in Lease by the Earl of Nottingham was all the Encouragement this Colledge found whose Endowment Dr. Willet proposed to Mr. Sutton or the erection of a new Colledge to that purpose of his own Another Proposition of the Doctors was taken out of King James his Letter to the Arch-Bishop for the digging of a Trench out of the River Lee to erect Engins and Water-works to conveigh Water in close Pipes under ground unto the City of London and the Suburbs thereof by an Act of Parliament 7. Jacobi But both these proved ineffectual Then Mr. Hall Minister of Waltham in Essex afterwards made Bishop of Exeter sent him this following Letter Sir I Trouble you not with reasons of my writing or with excuses if I do ill no plea can warrant me if well I cannot be discouraged with any Censures I crave not your pardon but your acceptation It is no presumption to give good Counsel and Presents of Love fear not to be ill taken of Strangers my Pen and your Substance are both given us for one end to do good these are our Talents how happy are we if we can improve them well suffer me to do you good with the one that with the other you may do good to many and most to your self you cannot but know that your full hand and worthy purposes have possessed the World with much expectation What speak I of the World whose honest and reasonable claims yet cannot be contemned with honour nor disappointed with dishonour The God of Heaven hath lent you this abundance and given you these gracious thoughts of Charity of Piety looks long for the Issue of both and will easily complain of too little or too late your Wealth and your Will are both good but the first is only made good by the second for if your hand were full and your heart empty we who now applaud you should justly pity you you might have Riches not Goods not Blessings your Burden should be greater than your Estate and you should be richer in sorrows than in metals For if we look to no other world what gain is it to be keeper of the best Earth that which is the common Coffer of all the rich Mines we do but tread upon and account it vile because it doth but hold and hide those Treasures whereas the skilfullest Metallist that findeth and refineth those precious Veines for Publique use is rewarded is honoured the very basest
Alderman as a Debt due unto him upon the Bonds of John Dudley and Thomas Dudley I protest before God that I paid the whole three hundred pounds to the said Sir John Popham in this sort to be paid over to the said Sir Rowland Heyward viz. Two hundred pounds by my Servant John Fishborne and One hundred pounds by one Henry Best Scrivener near Temple bar There was a demand made by Alderman Duckets Executors for Four hundred pounds owing to the said Alderman upon the Bonds of John Dudley and Thomas Dudley for Copper for the use of the Earl of Leicester which the said Earl transported into Spain which Debt was paid to the said Alderman For I my self was a Messenger from the said Earl to the said Alderman to let him understand that Mr. Bainham my Lords special Officer and Receiver should discharge them presently after it was discharged the said Alderman demanded interest for the forbearing of the 400 l. which as I remember Thomas Dudley discharged Mr. Justice Owen as I remember who had the doing in the Testament of Ald. Ducket promised to deliver in the said Bond to Sir John Popham then being Attorney which I do believe he did And whereas Mr. John Gardiner brother to my late wife by his last Will and Testament did give unto Anne Dudley now wife to Sir Francis Popham one hundred pounds to be paid to her at the day of her marriage the same hundred pounds was and is paid by me at or before the day of her marriage viz. In a Chain of Gold being fourscore and seventeen pounds ten shillings in Gold and for the fashion paid to Master Padmore Goldsmith in London fifty shillings which compleats the hundred pounds for the which amongst other things which I delivered in trust I have no acquittance Item I give to Mr. Jeffery Nightingale Esquire the Sum of Forty pounds of lawful mony of England Also I give to my Cosen William Stapleton Son of Sir Richard Stapleton Knight One hundred Marks Item I give unto the Children of Sir Francis Willoughby Knight One hundred pounds of lawful mony of England to be equally distributed amongst them Item I give unto John Law one of the Procurators of the Arches London Two hundred pounds And to Mr. Tbomas Brown Ten pounds to make him a Ring Item I give to the Wife and Children of John Gardiner my late Wifes Nephew if they be living after my decease being the Mother and two Sons Two hundred Marks to be equally divided amongst them Item I give to the poor people of Hadstock to be distributed amongst them by the Churchwardens and Constables there for the time being Twenty pounds Item I give to the poor people of Littlebury and to the poor people of Balsham to be distributed as afore to either Town Twenty pounds Item I give to the Parson and Church-wardens of Balsham aforesaid for the time being to buy a Bell withal to be hanged up in the Steeple to amend the Ring there Twenty pounds Item To the poor of Southminster Twenty pounds Item To the poor of Little Hallingbury Twenty pounds Item To the poor of Dunsby in the County of Lincoln Twenty pounds Item I give to Robert Wright Poulterer of Little Hallingbury Five pounds Item I give to Widow Aske late Wife of Robert Aske of London Goldsmith Twenty pounds which she oweth me Item My will and meaning is that there shall no Interest or Increase for mony be taken after my decease so as he or they by whom any Sums of mony are or shall be owing do pay the principal Debt within one half year next after my decease Item I give and bequeath to the poor Prisoners within the Prisons of Ludgate New-gate the two Compters in London the Kings Bench and the Marshalsea the Sum of two hundred pounds to be paid and divided among the same Prisoners by even and equal portions Item I give to Susan Price at the day of her marriage Forty pounds Item I give to one Collins of the Town of Cursal in Essex Five pounds Item I give to my good friends Mrs. Heyward and Mrs. Low either of them Ten pounds Item I give to Margaret Woodhal my God-daughter the Sum of Twenty pounds Item I give to all other my God-children Five pounds a piece Item I give and bequeath to the Master and Fellows as the Corporation of Jesus Colledge in Cambridge the Sum of Five hundred Marks of lawful mony of England to be imployed used and bestowed for or in some perpetuity for and to the use benefit and behalf of the said Colledge Master Fellows and Scholars in such sort manner and form as by the discretion of the Bishop of Ely for the time being the Vice-chancellor of Cambridge for the time being the Master and Fellows of the said Colledge for the time being and my Executors hereafter named or the Survivor or Survivors of them if they be living when the bestowing of the said Sum shall come in question shall be thought best and most convenient Item I give and bequeath the Master and Fellows as thâ—â—â—…oration of Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge the Sum of Five hundred pounds to be imployed used or bestowed for or in some perpetuity for and to the use benefit and behalf of the said Colledge Master and Fellows and Scholars there in such sort manner and form as by the discretion privity and consent of the Vicechancellor in Cambridge for the time being the Master of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge for the time being and the Master and Fellows of the said Magdalen Colledge for the time being shall be thought best and most convenient And I will that my great Chain of Gold and all my Jewels of what kind soever they be shall be sold by mine Executors and Supervisors hereafter named towards the better and speedier payment of my Legacies and performance of this my last Will and Testament And my will and meaning is that all the Legacies by me in this my Testament and last Will given and bequeathed and for the payment of much whereof there is no certain time set down shall be paid within Two years next after my decease at the furthest Also I give for and towards the building of mine intended Hospital Chappel and School-house the Sum of Five thousand pounds if I do not live to see it performed in my life time And I desire in the Name of God my Feoffees and my Executor or Executors within two years after my decease or sooner if they may conveniently if it please not God I live to see and cause the same my determination to be performed and accomplished to see and cause the same to be performed and accomplished Also I give the residue of the years which I shall have at the time of my decease in one Close called the Withies lying within the Town and Fields of Cottingham in the County of York to the Maior and Aldermen of Beverly or to the Governour of the same Town and