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

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