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soul_n	blood_n	body_n	bread_n	13,356	5	8.3577	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80410	Unum necessarium: or, The poore mans case: being an expedient to make provision of all poore people in the Kingdome. Humbly presented to the higher powers : begging some angelicall ordinance, for the speedy abating of the prises of corne, without which, the ruine of many thousands (in humane judgment) is inevitable. In all humility propounding, that the readiest way is a suppression or regulation of innes and ale-houses, where halfe the barley is wasted in excesse : proving them by law to be all in a præmunire, and the grand concernment, that none which have been notoriously disaffected, and enemies to common honesty and civility, should sell any wine, strong ale, or beere, but others to be licensed by a committee in every county, upon recommendation of the minister, and such of the inhabitants in every parish, where need requires, that have been faithfull to the publike. Wherein there is a hue-and-cry against drunkards, as the most dangerous antinomians : and against ingrossers, to make a dearth, and cruell misers, which are the caterpillars and bane of this kingdome. / By John Cooke, of Graies Inne, barrester.	Cook, John, d. 1660.	1648 (1648)	Wing C6027; Thomason E425_1; ESTC R204550	75,106	79

unthankfulnesse and after for hunger to teare him in pieces the Ape to shew that he that would imbrew his hands in his Fathers bloud had nothing of man in him but a humane figure like an Ape the Cocke that he might never sleep but be perpetually vexed and the Cock is an enemy to the Viper and that Saylors hearing the Cock might know the man the Viper a thing fearefull to men and obnoxious to the same offence coming to light by the Parents death what gre●ter ingratitude can there be that poore people should take all the pains to plough the ground and bring in the harvest and then miserable Hucksters should suffer them to be famished for want of bread a few Ingrossers may undo a whole Towne or Countrey but may not I doe with my owne what I list sayes the old Cormudgin No that thou maist not thou Devill in the the shape of a man a man may not be drunke with his own wine nor play the Glutton at his own table but it is none of thine thou art a Lyar thou miserable wretch truly miserable in soule and bodie thou hast no money the money hath thee it is none of thine it is the poore mans bread which thou lockest up in thy barnes when thou takest six shillings for a Bushell of Barley from him which thou maist well afford for three shillings thou squeezest too much bloud out of his veines and God will call thee to an account for it however the law of man may be defective if thou escape punishment here thy reservation is but a preservation to a greater miserie how many Ingrossers have had their Barns burnt and Corn consumed that would not sell at reasonable rates we have good bookes printed of Gods judgements against swearers and drunkards and Gods revenge against Murders I wish some able man would take the pains to make a collection of Gods revenge against Ingrossers and Usurers of Corn and covetous cruell men of all sorts who deserve to be kicked out of all honest mens companies for God abhorres them as being most contrary to his diffusive nature But what Law is there to punish such men all the reason in the world for it for the health of a sick man is the Physitians supreme Law Law must give place to necessity if there be such an inundation of waters that a man cannot passe in the ordinary road a man may justifie to go through the next Lands for the division of Lands was made with this condition reserving a liberty for everie man to passe in such a case of necessity and so every man must have a way through his neighbours ground to goe to his own Land for by the grant of the ground all things are granted to make it profitable and when the Magistrate inforces men to sell their Corne at reasonable rates Non est involuntaria venditio sed accommodatio proximi so as the poore may live by the rich this is not in judgement of Law an unvoluntary and inforced sale but an accommodation of ones neighbour in charity naturall equity and humanity according to the condition of the fields and nature of the place and society of men with whom we live Valde bonum à commodum Gen. 1.31 And God saw every thing that he made and it was very good the Caldeans read very profitable for man At Naples the great treasurer of corn being intrusted with many thousand quarters at 3. s. the bushell for the common-good finding an opportunity to sell it for 5. shillings the Bushell to forraigne Merchants inriched himselfe exceedingly thereby and Corne growing suddenly deare the Counsell called him to account for it who proffered to allow 3. shillings for it as it was delivered into his custody and hoped thereby to escape but for so great a breach of trust nothing would content the people but to have him hanged and though there was no positive Law for it to make it Treason yet it was resolved by the best Politicians that it was Treason to breake so great a trust by the fundamentall Constitution of the Kingdome which by all intrinsicall Rules of Government ought to preserve it selfe and that for so great an offence he ought to die that durst presume to inrich himselfe by that which might indanger the lives of so many Citizens for as society is naturall so Governours must of necessity and in all reason provide for the preservation and sustenance of the meanest member he that is but as the little toe of the Bodie Politique To speake a word how farre the Magistrate is to regulate and give a Law to the prizes of Commodities for the publike good I agree with Aristotle and all the Roman Authours against that erroneous opinion of Plato that Property and Divisions of Lands and Goods is by the Law of God and nature yet so as one man is not to feast and another be famish'd Contracts are by a naturall Law and right of all Nations yet so as Gods divine Law is the efficient cause of Contracts amongst men for we are bound to sell to one another by Gods Law else mankind could not continue for all things are made and created for mans sake as that Propheticall Psalmist David saies Omnia subjecisti sub pedibus ejus thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet the materiall cause of contracts are all things necessary for mans sustentation for if there were no meanes to buy those things we want or to exchange other things for them as formerly men when there was a little money exchanged Corne for Cattell we should teare and destroy one another like brute beasts Now the formall cause is the form and manner of buying and selling for money or by way of exchange if the owner will not sell then he may lend or pledge or hire the use of it as he pleaseth and the finall cause of every contract is that we may use and enjoy Gods good creatures honestly and profitably that one man be not grievous to another that so a commutative equality may keep the peace and peace may make the Kingdome happie wherein we are all as in the same ship therefore all Contracts must benefit our neighbours every wise man looks at the end when I sell a Bushell of Corne the Law saies I do thereby do good to my neighbour yet so as that he wants my Corne so I stand in need of his money which is a lesse principall end and consideration in the eye of Law for money is but artificiall a thing that is turned Trump by policy not by any naturall inherent vertue that there is in it in comparison of living creatures or the naturall fruits of the earth created for mans sustenance therefore I may take a moderate gaine for my Corn but not excessive let no man weakly object that for the Magistrate to set a price upon Corne or Cattell is against the Freedome and Liberty of the Subject as if the harmony of

spending that riotously that would refresh a wearied family Drunkennesse by the Turks Law is punished with death for the second offence and whether he that steales a strike of Corne this deer yeare or he that shall consume 20. strike more then he needs which is but in effect robbing of the poore better deserves death let every sober man seriously consider For my owne part I thinke it would be a most excellent Law as the case stands to make drunkennesse for the first offence imprisonment three daies and to live with bread and water for when a poor man is drunk to make him pay 5. shillings is but to punish and adde affliction to the innocent and afflicted wife and children for the guilty husband I wish such penall Lawes were reformed and more proper punishments inflicted for the second offence a fine to the poore to the full value of so much as according to the discretion of a good Judge and Jury he hath consumed and wasted in excessive drinking as for example if a man have been a common frequenter of Tavernes or Ale-houses or a great drinker in private houses for the space of twenty yeares it is probable he hath spent in that space a Crowne a week at the least in excessive drinking more then would have preserved health and increased strength the only lawfull ends of eating and drinking which amounts to above 200. l. it is justice to make him pay it if he be able if not let him be whipped or burnt in the hand The third offence to be Fellony yet so as onely to beare the shame and reproach of it by holding up his hand and tried for his life but to be saved by somthing equivalent to Clergie as a matter of form and for the fourth offence to sustaine the paine of death as unworthy to live in a well-governed Kingdome a Drunkard being the greatest robber of poore people which are readie to famish for want of bread a rebell against divine and humane authority and a sworne enemy to all humanity what lies and inventions are daily hatched and contrived in these ungodly Seminaries how are honest men disgraced and scandalized godlinesse scoffed at and honesty traduced by these vermin and Catterpillars of the Common-wealth All the lies calumnies and falsities that have been contrived invented and fabricated against the Parliament Army and all the godly honest men in the Kingdome what have they been but the ebullitions of some tipsey Taverne or frothy Ale-bench and if the most godly men are exceeding privy to their daily failings and infirmities which breake forth in the first motions and risings of the heart against the deliberate bent of their wills and yet are sins against the last Commandement how guilty is the Drunkard that is a Masse of himselfe and makes it his daily trade to break the whole Law of God which is holy just and good so that the Drunkard is the grand Antinomian against whom the Parliament Army and all honest men are by the Lawes of God and Nature to shoot all the arrowes of their deepest displeasures If Sack were but at six pence a quart and Barley but at twelve pence a bushell but now that Barley is at five shillings and in probability will be ten if this drinking continue but I trust our noble Worthies in Parliament will speedily take a severe course to restraine it when one is drunke they use to say he hath got a Fox and so make but a jest of it but he deserves to be hunted as a Fox these are the Foxes that spoile the vines that drinke the poor mans bloud and are guilty of the death of every poore man woman and child that shall be famished to death for want of bread as it is greatly to be feared many will be there was a Law of Wolfehead in this Kingdome he that had killed a Wolfe had so much for his pains and we reward him who kills Moles Hedge-hogs or such noxious creatures I remember that a late Favorite in Dublin had a project to get a Patent for all the foxed groats in that City that every one that was drunk over night should pay him a groat in the morning conceiving upon good grounds it would have been worth many hundreds a yeare though that succeeded not yet really I would now have a Law of Foxhead every man that can find out a Drunkard to be well rewarded not to kill him because the Magistrate must have a care of his soule in such a case and if he should die drunk then one great Drunkard was afraid that he should rise drunk at the Resurrection but to bring him into the gates of the City the Courts of publike Justice that the poor people may throw dirt in his face and say this is that monster in nature that drinks as much in a week in wine and strong drinks as would relieve many of our hungry souls he surfeits and vomits it up again and our little cruse is almost spent we must this night sit downe and eat the last bread and die for there is no more corn to be had this Rascall that hath a Devill in his belly that devoures as much strong drink as the Idoll Bell did for he had but 6. pots of wine every day which sufficed Bells Priests being 70. in number besides their wives and children which was not two barrels a day is there not as much spent in many drinking-houses in this Kingdom let us have justice upon him or we will stone him or rather hang him upon a Gallows and starve him to death a proper end for all Cormorants and devouring Gluttons the Eagle that King of birds dies for hunger the upper beake so inclasping the other that it cannot eat Oh that these mysticall Foxes five times more dangerous then Wolves which prey upon sheep might be hunted into the Sea that delight so much in liquid elements that they might be abjured the Realm and sent beyond sea whence they first came and goe chin deep in water every day untill they find a convenient passage these Serpents sting poor people to death I hope there will be a present Hue-and-Cry after all these excessive drinkers let them be inquired after with Eagles eyes some honest sober men in every Parish appointed to bring them to condigne punishment Quest But the doubt is who shall be said to be drunk which makes the Statutes against drunkennesse to be of little use because it is so hard a thing to prove a man drunk for penall Lawes are to be construed strictly Resp Tradition saies that he is not drunke that can creep out of the cart way from the danger of the cart-wheel like that of killing a Swan that it must be hanged up by the head and the killer or stealer must cover it over with wheat which must goe to the owner I find no such case in Law but something to that purpose of a hog rooting in another mans ground Dominus porci tenetur