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A53112	The complaint of English subjects delivered in two parts. First part, is the complaint, of the poor, middle, and meanest sorts of subjects, concerning their bodily assistance. Second part, is the true Christians complaint, against vice, and wickedness, for the good of their soul's health. Also, werein is set forth, the late prodigious growth, of atheism, errors, and vice: with a call to repentance. As also, how needful it is, in these times, for every one of us, first of all, to look into our own hearts, and endeavour to amend what is their amiss. And lastly, a brief discourse, concerning our late unfruitful, and cold summers: as also, what is thought to be the real causes of it, by way of opposition, to the opinion of astrologers. By Richard Newnam of Tiverton in Devonshire.	Newnam, Richard.	1700 (1700)	Wing N935; ESTC R218651	71,890	130

Cheats Oppression Vices And now I say God who is the searcher of all Hearts doth know that in and by the setting forth of this whole Treatise in both parts I aim at nothing more than the glory of God the honour and safety of the King and the good and welfare of all good Subjects And according to the Apostle Paul his saying in his 16th Chapter of his Epistle to the Romans vers 19. To the best of my Capacity I can truly say that in the doing of this I have only endeavoured to be wise concerning what is good and I am simple in any thing that is or can be evil in the doing of it And therefore I hope all Men whatsoever will have so much Charity for me as to believe me in what I here say for the God of Heaven doth know that I speak the truth And now 2dly I say as to Preaching this Treatise of mine I think hath not in it in the least any thing of that nature that may any way properly be called Preaching for I dare not take upon me to mention any particular Scriptures only to raise other Discourses from them nor do I take on me to raise from them Doctrines or Observations but I only use them as supports to strengthen these my several Arguments and that only on such several occasions as their is as I think extraordinary occasion for it and that only to stir up the Hearts of men to do what is good for I think with my self this that tho' some men may not believe these my Arguments alone yet my hope is that when my Arguments are agreeable with God's Word that then Men may the sooner embrace them and believe in them But as for Preaching I dare not think my self any way qualified so to do yet nevertheless I think that this my Treatise may modestly deserve the Name or Title of a Friendly Admonition and for such a thing as that with all humble submission to better Judgments I presume so to offer it And in so doing I hope I have not done any way amiss in it for it is our Imcumbent Duty every one of us to advise and admonish one another and in so doing we ought to do it in Word and Deed with all our Hearts in the name of the Lord Jesus without respect of Persons as we may read it in the 3d. Chapter of the Epistle of Paul to the Colossions the 16 17 23 24 and 25. Verses And also to the same purpose you may read it in the second Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonins the third Chap. the 13 14 and 15 Verses And now I most humbly Beseech the Great God of Heaven to bestow his Blessings upon these my weak Endeavours and also to give you all a Right understanding of this my Poor Mean yet well intended Treatis now offered unto Your Greatneses with an Heart full of Integrity and true Loyalty both towards God the Protestant Religion my King and Country I am Your Majesty's Loyal Subject and the Honourable Parliament's devoted Servant Richard Newnam of Tiverton in Devonshire And now at Last With all Humble Submission and true Loyalty I here present unto Your Most Gratious Majesty and the Parliament the Abstract of my whole Treatise which I have endeavoured to set forth in these plain low stile following Verses whose Sound to the most Learned and Eloquent must needs be very uncouth yet are in their own simple Nature truly Cordial And if but rightly applyed as they are by me Innocently offered then I shall gain my desired end in hopes of which I farther say WE have of late found Nature out of frame The Stars lookt Blunt the Sun shin'd not the same To warm the Earth as did some Years ago Summer from Winter we did hardly know But by green Leaves which did to us appear To shew the Revolution of the Year But Grass Herbs Fruits came scant in their due Season What Star-gazar can give for this a Reason 'T was from disorder of the Heavenly Bodies But how or why past knowledge of such Noddies As took on them such Secrets to discover They fail'd in that as they do in the Weather As Gadbury in the late James's his Reign To him predicted Conquest all in vain And so Partridge the French King quite cry'd down And meant as if he needs must lose his Crown Which if he had then England might Rejoyce But more I le say now with a chearful Voice God grant our King by God protected be Not fear nor trust doubtful Astrologie But now again to my intended Theme We yet may feel what God by this doth mean Mens wickedness God's Blessings do withstand And bring sore Evil's on a fruitful Land (a) Read the 5th Chap. of Jeremiah more particularly the 25th vers O England leave thy Swearing Cursing Damning (b) Matthew 5.34 Thy monstrous Pride thy Drunkenness and thy Whoring (c) 1 Cor. 6. Chap. 9.10 Jer. 5.8 Thy Cheating Thieving Filching and False Coining Thy Undermining Falshood and Purloining (d) Amos 5.12 Dost thou not Fawn Flatter Lye Bribe and Juggle Such Evil Deeds may bring on thee much trouble (e) Read Amos 8. the whole chapter Stop now in time God's Eye looks on thy score (f) Amos 9.8 1 Pet. 3. Chap. 12. When it is full he 'll visit thee therefore (g) Jer. 5.29 More Dearth great Want more Troubls not less one jot May fall on thee if thou Repent thee not (h) Amos 4. the whole chapter Be thou now wise to play the surest Game Serve God in Heart and not only in Name (i) Prov. 23.26 Deut. 5.29 Deut. 6.5 Be Faithful Just Upright in every thing (k) Amos 5.24 Give the poor Subject right so give the King Give God his due the like give unto Caesar (l) Luke 20.25 Take thy own due do right unto thy Neighbour (m) Luke 6.31 Luke 10.27 28. Prov. 22. Chap 22 23. Fear thou God honour the King wish all men health Relieve the Poor love thy Neighbour as thy self (n) 1 Pet 2. Chap. ●7 Men rule on Earth but God doth rule in Heaven Expecting Men to act both plain and even (o) Rom. 13. the whole chapter AND now may 't please Your Gracious Majesty My Muse prompts me to sing another alay For with my Soul in love I write to You And now will say no more than I think True (p) Prov. 14.25 If You have Foes whose hatred You may dread It s now high time poor Subjects to regard In your defence by Foes they 'l not be Branded If Poverty don't make them too weak-handed But pinching pineing starving Misery (q) Prov 14. Chap. 18. and 28. Hereafter may drive some from Loyalty Some Men there be that have abus'd Your Trust Which makes the Poor within them take disgust Your Laws are just Your Taxes just but then Unjustly laid on some by Unjust Men. (r) Prov. 14.34 The

Commodites with it for they Poor Miserable and sad Distressed Souls then wanted it to buy Bread and therefore they poor Creatures instead of buying of Commodities they were forced to sell their Money and for their Shilling each of them could then have but six pence or seven pence for it if it were of the smaller sort and but eight pence nine pence or ten pence for the very largest Shillings after the time was over that such Old Money would not pass And now I could descend into particulars had I time and room to let Your Most Gratious Majesty and the Parliament know how many times these poor Souls then sold their small and larger sorts of Money from time to time and over and over again it did then come round to their Hands and that by means of such wicked and clandestine ways as they the Grocers Mercers and other Money-buyers then did use only to gratifie their own base covetous Desires And thus were the Poor then at that time most grievously opprest for always as often as ever this Money came to their Hands tho' round round and round again yet still they the said Poor were then forced to put it off by a losing way for then at that time for every Shilling they then did twelve or fourteen penny-worth of Work for it before they had it And then again they must fell this Shilling for six pence or seven pence if it were a small Shilling and the Half Crowns then yielded them but sixteen pence eighteenpence or twenty pence And thus the Poor then sold their Money to the then Money-buyers which same Money-buyers did then constantly supply those Searge-makers with Money who kept those poor People on work and that in and by this way and manner as I shall herein presently endeavour to set forth And first of all I say the Serage-makers by trade they then by reason of the scarcity of Broad Money were then forced to take Bills instead of Money for their Searges and then they those Searge-makers did then exchange such Bills with the Shop-keepers as Grocers Mercers and other Trades-men who did then supply the Searge-makers with Money and that in and by this way and manner as followeth When they the Searge-makers or any of them had occasion to exchange a Bill either of ten pounds twenty pounds or thirty pounds value then the Searge-maker went to one of those Grocers Mercers or other Trades-men and gives in his Bill present in Hand to be paid in Twenty Thirty or Forty Shillings a Week Week after Week until the full value of his Bill be paid him But now note this Bill so given by the Searg-maker was then presently good to the Grocer Mercer or any other Trades-man as any Currant ready Money in their Pocket tho' he the said Grocer Mercer or any other Trades-man then paid the value of this Bill to the Searge-maker but by Twenty Thirty or Forty Shillings by the Week But now again here lyeth the mean Query of the matter In and with what sort of Coin did those then Mercers Grocers or others then pay the Searge-makers for their Bills so given to them To this I Answer They the then Grocers Mercers or others did then pay such Bills to the then Searge-makers all in such Money as they or any of them then bought from the Poor Hourly Daily and Weekly which Moneys did not cost they the said Grocers Mercers or other buyers of Money above eight pence nine pence or ten pence the Shilling and yet they the said Grocers Mercers and other such Buyers of Money had then that little Conscience within themselves as to pay back again from time to time to the Searg-makers in their Weekly payments for their Bills the same Money which they then bought up at such cheap Rates Hourly Daily and Weekly from the Poor from time to time I say the same Money they the said Grocers Mercers and other such then buyers of Money did then pay it unto the Searg-makers in its full value as it was first coined for which same Money the then Searg-makers were forced then to pay it unto their Poor Labouring Servants also in its full value as it was Coined for and that because they the then Searg-makers so received it for their Bills in their Weekly payments from those said Grocers Mercers and other such Money-buyers as are before mentioned in my foregoing Discourses But now again here comes the Tradegy of the matter at last for 't was the Poor Labouring Servants that then were the greatest Losers all the while for they Poor Souls every Week had some of the same Money came round to them a-again which Moneys they aways bought very dear and yet then were forced always to fell it very cheap for then when it circulated round to the said Grocers Mercers and other Shop-keepers hands again then they would give the aforesaid Poor for their such Moneys but barely their old Prices for it which was but eight pence nine pence or ten pence for their Shilling and thus by such ways and means as I have herein described such Moneys as aforesaid consequently and constantly came round and round and round a-again and again to the sore loss and damage of Poor distressed Labours as I have herein described whose Gauled Backs have yet on them putrified Sores to this very day by means of such most grievous Burthens as were then laid upon them And thus by such Clandestine ways and means as I have herein described then did many Rich covetous Cormorants with their Devilish Wheels of Craft then break the Poor to pieces O most abominable Wretches that had then in them no more Charity for their then Poor Starving fellow-Creatures And are not such Actions as aforesaid grand Oppressions and such Profits and Gains are they not most abominable Extortions or are not such things absolute Grindings of the Faces of the Poor And yet notwithstanding all this such Oppressors and Grinders of the Faces of the Poor think themselves safe because they think within themselves that no Law can Reach them to punish them for it But however the Just God of Heaven will at last give them and all such as them are their due Rewards But yet again I say I cannot otherwise but admire at the Impudence of such vile Miscreants that have done such things and yet at the same time have then profest themselves to be precise Christians and true Protestants and also devout Loyal Men But let any Judicious Man or Men judge what Principles such Men then were of or may now or hereafter be of as to matters of Religion and as to their Loyalty they then were and low are and I believe hereafter will be pure Subjects indeed even such as will turn any way that either the Wind or Tide of their own base Interest will most easily drive them But again during the whole time of the scarcity of Money amongst such poor People as aforesaid yet Corn and all other

the Name of Your Majesty's poor middle and meanest sorts of true Loyal Subjects then any way concern'd in these before-mentioned most horrid and wicked Actions But they who were then concern'd in such aforesaid wicked Actions were Men of ●ther Ranks and Degrees and Qualifications in ●heir Minds as well as in their then such Actions And in their Estates they many of them then were and now are considerably Rich tho' not so very Rich as some in the World are but I mean some of them then were and now are such a sort of Rich Men as we poor Country-Folks here amongst us do call them rich topping towering Men and such Men as have all of them taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and they do say all of them that they will fight for Your Majesty and the Protestant Religion and the good of their Country But who can believe them if those Reasons which I shall here now offer be but well and duly considered And now I say 't is visibly seen and by their Actions too notoriuosly known that such Evil-minded Men as aforesaid have always had from time to time base wretched and Self-intrested Hearts and to save their own Money they will do almost any thing in the world and also in and by a base Hypocritical Undermining and Clandestine Way they will use all manner of Fraud that their most Wicked Hearts can invent to get Riches altho' at the same time in their own Hearts they must then needs be sensible that such Actions are the ready ways and means to pull down true Religion and overthrow the King and ruin our Country And therefore I say can any Soul believe that such Men as will for the Love of Money deceive our King and ruin our Country that they will ever fight for the Protestant Religion and King and Country no no for I am apt to believe that they will rather every man of them forsake the Protestant Religion and leave our King and Country to the mercy of an Enemy than fight for any Religion King or Country whatsoever And therefore I think it not safe for any one to put to much Trust in any such Men that at the best are but like great Sticks that are so much rotten as that no man may dare venture the weight of his whole Body upon them unless he be so careless of himself as that he doth not value a Fall to the Ground by them But however amongst such men some of them perhaps will fight with a Thief in the Night rather than they will lose all their Money and that only because such men adore and love their Money more than they do love God or Religion the King or Country for such men seldom regard any one's good but their own Nay in fine I say if all things are but well and duly considered such men do not at all by doing such Actions truly love themselves And thus I end the second part of my Discourse But 3dly There is one other fore Grievance which of late hath and now doth continually damnifie all Your Majesty's Poor Middle Meanest sorts of Subjects and that is the loss of Trade for ever since the time that that most cursed Trade of Buying and Selling of Money was first set up all other honest Trades have ever since been decaying But if such vile Miscreants had then been such good Men as to have then Imploy'd all their Stocks in a way of honest Trading to keep the Poor then on Work than for ought I know Trading might have continued good to this Day or if they had then at that time but so Imploy'd their Wits in making all manner of honest shifts to keep the Poor on work as they then did in studying out all manner of knavish Ways that ever their base covetous Hearts could then think on to make a meer prey on the Poor only to gratifie their own unsatiable desires that they then had after their filthy Lucre and most unconcionable Gain Then certainly their would never have been such miserable Times as then were and now are to this very day For when Mens Actions do please God then his Blessings do commonly attend such mens undertakings But when Men under pretence of doing all manner of Good ●o then all manner of Evil what then can such Men expect from the Hands of God otherwise than his Wrath to follow them until it hath overtaken them And therefore I now advise all such Men as have so done forth with to repent them of their Evil doings and also to make speedy Restitution in the best way and manner that they now can make lest the Cries of the Poor do at last ascend up into Heaven and from thence bring down Vengeance on Earth and on the Heads of such Men as have thus from time to time so opprest the Poor for they certainly did by their cursed Money-trade destroy all other Trades And therefore at their Doors it ought to be laid tho' the sad effects of it doth yet still remain on the now living Poor to this very day But again such covetous Rich Men as aforesaid did then so act as if they had then been wholly bent to bring future Poverty upon our whole Nation for they then took all advantage for their own Profit on all sorts of People but more especially on the Poor Middle and Meanest sorts of People and that because they could more easily then make a Prey of them than of others and as if Sorrow had been then on purposs added to their Afflictions So then those great Losses came on the Poor Midle and Meanest sorts of People in the very time of their greatest Need for Taxes then were very high and hore heavy on them and then it was in that very nick of time that those vile Men made their Market on them and a Prey of them And besides all this sad times it was then for the Poor because then they had not half so much work as they could do nor scarce half the worth of their Hire for it when they had done it for then most of the Poor of our said Town of Tiverton in Devonshire wrought by way of Truck and instead of Money for Work they had then most of them only Commodities as Kersie Drugget Serge and Linnen-Cloath or the like of other Commodities But then after they had received such Commodities for their Work in leu of Money then after that they spent much of their time in going abroad to Sell such Commodities And then when they had Sold them many times they had for them but little more than half the Value of them and then with this little Money they did buy Bread after the rate of Ten and Eleven Shillings the Bushel for Wheat and Four or Five Shillings the Bushel for Barley And now judge you Great Sirs were not those ●●es meer Starving times Yes God knows to many poor Souls then found them so who are now in their Graves and hard