Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	common_a	lord_n	prayer_n	2,904	5	6.1819	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46912	Ludgate, what it is, not what it was, or, A full and clear discovery and description of ... that prison also, an exact catalogue of the legacies now belonging to the said prison, the names of the several donors, and the persons appointed to pay them ... / humbly presented to the Right Honorable Thomas Allen, Lord Mayor of this honorable city by M. Johnson ...	Johnson, Marmaduke, d. 1674.	1659 (1659)	Wing J784A; ESTC R10540	21,741	85

come to the places aforesaid which God forbid that then the M●ster and Wardens of the said Company shall repair to the Chamber of London where the grand Instruments are kept and to consult with the Lord Major Court of Aldermen and Chamberlain for the finding out some other way for the supply thereof It is set down more largely in the Company of Grocers Journal-Book to which I referre the Inquisitive II. As touching the Government of the said prison it will appear best in the Description of the Offices holden in the House which I shall endeavour to make perspicuous as well by the Orders by which they are Elected as by some Explanatory Additions wherein there shall be occasion therein discovering the government of the present from that of the primitive Institution And so as to this second ●ivision I shall onely say this That the Political Orders by which it is governed by its own Officers are derivative from the power of the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London many of whose Orders I have seen the Originalls of and if so be that I could procure Copies of them they would prove neither much useful nor profitable to me or the Reader to publish The persons intrusted with the Government of the Prison and the Execution of the said Orders are the Master-Keeper the two Stewards and the seven Assistants for the time being who likewise have made and do still make as occasion is offered several and respective Orders touching the decent and quiet Government of the Prison the ordering and civillizing of the Prisoners and the punishment of misdemeanors and offences therin committed I shall now pass from this and come III. To the several Offices therein holden and to decypher as near as I can their Duties and proper Imployments viz. 1. A Reader of Divine Service 2. The Upper-Steward called The Master of the Box 3. The Under-Steward 4. Seven Assistants that is one for every day of the week 5 A Running-Assistant 6. Two Churchwardens 7. A Scavenger 8. A Chamberlain 9. A Running-Post 10. The Cryers at the Grate which are commonly six in number I. Of the Office of the Reader BEcause I finde the Office of Reader first set down in the publique Orders of the House I therefore will in the first place exhibit his Duty and manner of choosing And the Orders by which he was appointed his Office and Imployment I finde to be made in the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth for before her time I suppose their Service was the Mass and to be nominated and chosen thereunto by the Master-Keeper Stewards and Assistants for the time being successively and not by common Vote at Elections as other Officers are appertaining to the appointment and injunction of whose duty I finde two or three Orders which I must be content onely to give the sum of being denied the perusal of those kept privately so as to take a transcript those which are publick and commonly exposed being so obliterated that from them I could not But his duty was To ring the Bell twice every day to Prayers which is now fallen to the Officer called A Running-Assistant for what reason I shall afterwards shew which indeed is all the alteration which I finde in this Office from the primitive Institution thereof which said Running Assistant now ringing the Bell at ten in the Morning and eight at Night the people having likewise notice by the Church-warden to repair to the Chappel the Reader goeth into the Pew or Desk provided in the Chappel for the same purpose joyning to the Pulpit where he readeth such Prayers Confessions Psalmes Chapters and singing Psalms as are appointed in a certain Book therefore given for you must know that the Common prayer is not there used now according to the Appointment of the Instituters of the said Office by reason of a prohibition by Sir R. T. when he was Lord Mayor who took away or caused to be taken the said Book of Common-prayer formerly given and belonging thereunto For the performance of which he hath the allowance of two Shillings eight Pence per moneth one peny of every prisoner at his first coming if he payeth Sixteen pence for his Table-money and a dish of Meat out of the Lord Mayors basket when it comes in which by reason of a fault that lies in I know not well who but yet I guess proved often a very empty one There hath formerly been a custome to ring a bell for the space of a quarter of an hour at nine of the clock at night for all strangers to depart the prison which did belong to the Reader to do but that bell hath been long down and strangers are now warned to depart by him that is called the Chamberlain of which hereafter II. Of the Upper-Steward or Master of the Box THe authority of him that is Master of the Box is by the prisoners esteemed almost Equal to the Master-Keeper and by all the House respected with a respect befitting him whose care and Courtesies to and for all men to my own knowledge hath exceeded and doth far exceed any with whom I have had yet to deal The Order by which he and the Under-steward are chosen saith that they shall choose that is the ●risoners at such election two ●onest and discreet persons the ●ne to be called The Master of the ●ox the other The Under-steward c. To the Charge of which Master of the Box is committed the keeping of the several Orders of the House as well as all Accompts of Moneys received upon Legacies given for the relief of poor prisoners As for those given for their Release I shall afterwards point 〈…〉 at that Scylla or Carybdis upon or in which they miscarry before they come to the appointed haven where the Donors intended their unlading also the distribution of all bread or other provision sent in by the right honorable the Lord Major or by any other private persons And which is the chief and most material the Money which is begg'd at the Grates by the Cryers with the Garnishes or Table money as it is commonly called payd by every prisoner at his Entrance which i● sixteen pence and is bestowe● weekly for bread Candles and other necessary Charges belonging to the House except what is paid out of it for Officers Salaries as is and shall be shewed in their proper places He hath also a List or Roll of all prisoners as well those that are upon the Charity as those that are not to whom with the assistance of the Assistant for the day he giveth their proportion and allowance of bread or other provisions according as by Order and custom of the House is appointed The Gifts likewise of Market people Burchers Fishmongers or any other benevolent or charitable person which is taken by the Clerk of the Market and brought in by him who is the Poste is delivered to him or the Under Steward for which they